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Quinn Will Have to Wait, Frye Named Browns Starter for Now
August 20th, 2007 Matt Loede Posted in Cleveland Browns
For Browns super rookie Brady Quinn, a start at QB will just have to wait. Head coach Romeo Crennel has named his starting quarterback for the teams third preseason game on Saturday night in Denver, and instead of going with the hot-hand in Quinn, instead Crennel went with Charlie Frye. "I think not knowing began to wear on them a bit," Crennel said. "I think they feel better knowing who the starter is and not having that hanging over their heads." Quinn, who led the Browns with two TD's in the 4th quarter of their 23-20 loss to the Lions at Browns Stadium, will "have chances" said Crennel, and will most likely get more playing time earlier on Saturday.
Frye and fellow QB Derek Anderson shared reps in the Browns loss on Saturday night, and neither was all that effective, as the Browns fell behind 23-0 before Quinn and co. led the team back with 20 late points to make it interesting. Nevertheless, Crennel seems bent on making the rookie pay his dues, and giving Frye and Anderson every shot to become the teams starter opening day vs the Steelers at home. "In choosing Frye, a lot of it has to do with game experience," Crennel said. "I feel like we've been equal with the guys in the reps and series that they get."
Crennel did not commit to Frye being the opening day starter, only to say that "It means Charlie is the starter this week," Crennel said. There has been speculation that once the Browns do decide on a starter between Frye and Anderson, the odd man out will get traded or released, leaving the door open for Quinn to be the number two QB, and Ken Dorsey as the emergency QB to help groom Quinn. Crennel did finally give some credit to Quinn for showing poise and leading the team vs the Lions. "The young kid, we're going to keep working with him, keep bringing him along," Crennel said. "I thought he showed enough poise and execution in the game to bring him along. He still has a lot of work to do so we're not going to rush him into a game because he looked good at the end of a game.
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Landscapers: Olivia Colman to Star in HBO's New Crime Drama Miniseries
According to Deadline. Academy Award-wining actress Olivia Colman (Fleabag, The Crown) has officially signed on for the lead role in HBO and Sky's forthcoming crime drama series titled Landscapers, which will be inspired by a real-life murder case that happened in the U.K. The series is written by Colman's husband Ed Sinclair, who will also serve as an executive producer alongside Colman through recently established production company South of the River Pictures.
"I love Ed's scripts, which is just as well as he cooks many of my meals. No, the truth is it's quite rare to be desperate to play a part on the first reading of a script, but that was the case here. The writing is brave, but subtle and tender too – a joy for any actor." Colman said in statement.
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Based on real events, Landscapers will be a four-part limited series that tells the story of killers Susan and Christopher Edwards. The pair, a mild-mannered couple from Mansfield in the UK, killed Susan's parents and buried them in their back garden. The crime remained undiscovered for over a decade. The series is a blackly comic true-crime drama based on extensive research, hours of interviews and direct access to the accused, who have always protested their innocence of murder.
In 1998, Patricia and William Wycherley were shot dead by their daughter Susan and her husband Christopher in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Following their murders, Susan and Christopher spent years spending the murdered couple's money while also faking letters and stories to their relatives in order to keep up with the lie that Susan's parents were still alive. After 15 years, their crime has finally been revealed and the guilty couple was both sentenced to a minimum of 25 years of imprisonment.
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The series will be directed by Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways) from a screenplay by Ed Sinclair. It is a co-production between HBO and Sky which will mark their latest collaboration producing the critically-acclaimed disaster drama Chernobyl. It will also be produced by Sister along with Sky UK's Zai Bennett, Sky Studios' Cameron Roach and Katie Carpernter. Landscapers will be executive produced by Serena Thompson of Sky, Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry and Payne.
"Ed's scripts are a riveting and sensitive exploration of what could drive such an ordinary couple to commit murder and I'm delighted that Olivia Colman will bring Susan to life in what promises to be a compelling series. And after the success of the multi award-winning Chernobyl, we're pleased to be working with Sister on another original drama inspired by true events." Roach said.
The miniseries is expected to begin its production sometime next year.
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Tennessee Promise registration deadline Saturday
Tennessee high school seniors seeking free college tuition and those adults wanting to help them through their first year of higher education have until Saturday to register for the Tennessee Promise program.
The program pays tuition for two years for students who enroll at a state community college or technical college.
So far, Maury County has recruited 132 mentors, which is over the 80 they were originally seeking, according tnAchieves Executive Director Krissy DeAlejandro.
State officials said about two-thirds of Tennessee's graduating seniors have applied. The program also calls for adult volunteers to help groups of high school seniors through the school application process and meeting deadlines.
Speaking in Chattanooga earlier this week, Gov. Bill Haslam said the 43,000 high school seniors who've signed up for the scholarship program is more than double the original estimate of 20,000 students.
The governor said the scholarship program is critical to the state's manufacturers.
"If you talk to manufacturers, they love everything about Tennessee, but they're concerned about the depth of talent that's here long term," Haslam said.
In his presentation, the governor told the Tennessee Association of Manufacturers that there's quite a bit of empty space in the state's community colleges since attendance has dropped as the economy improved.
He said the state's community colleges are prepared to handle the much higher-than-expected number of Tennessee Promise applicants, but there may be challenges at the program level.
"If we're having a lot of people sign up for welding classes, we need to make sure that's what we're increasing our capacity for — or nursing classes or whatever it is," he said in Chattanooga.
But, he said, the state needs to ensure there's space to meet demand in particular academic or technical programs.
Haslam said in a decade, 55 percent of all jobs will require a two- or four-year degree or technical certificate. Now, only about a third of Tennessee adults have the needed education.
"That's why we rolled out Tennessee Promise," Haslam said. "It really can be a game-changer for our state."
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The former employee is appearing before Parliament as British lawmakers discuss the possibility of adopting the Online Safety Bill, a proposed law that... 18.10.2021, Sputnik International
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Sputnik is live from London, where Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, is testifying in the House of Commons about Facebook's struggle with online misinformation.According to Zhang, she was fired from the corporation for speaking up about its failure to fight election interference, as well as against the spreading of hate and fake news. The whistleblower also reported "potential criminal violations" by Facebook to the authorities.Her testimony comes just weeks after another whistleblower, Frances Haugen, testified before a US Senate panel urging American authorities to intervene in the "crisis" created by the company and saying that Facebook is unable to address harmful content online.Follow Sputnik's Live Feed to Find Out More!
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Sputnik is live from London, where Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, is testifying in the House of Commons about Facebook's struggle with online misinformation.
According to Zhang, she was fired from the corporation for speaking up about its failure to fight election interference, as well as against the spreading of hate and fake news. The whistleblower also reported "potential criminal violations" by Facebook to the authorities.
Her testimony comes just weeks after another whistleblower, Frances Haugen, testified before a US Senate panel urging American authorities to intervene in the "crisis" created by the company and saying that Facebook is unable to address harmful content online.
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Barack and Bibi: starting the clock
May 20th, 2009 by MESH
From Alan Dowty
The meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu has triggered a stampede of soothsayers. Every aspect of their encounter is scrutinized for clues to their personal chemistry and, by extension, the future course of U.S.-Israeli relations. But these relations are rooted in forces more fundamental than personalities, intriguing as these two iconic figures may be.
Predictably, the meeting produced no crisis and no breakthrough. It marked the beginning of a new phase in the relationship, one that will take time to play out. Two clocks have been started: one marks the passage of time before Iran unveils its first nuclear weapon, and the other measures progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations before the next explosion on that front. Indications are that Netanyahu has succeeded in gaining priority for the first clock, not because of any cleverness on his part but because of the simple fact the Iranian issue has a time-urgency that, in Samuel Johnson's words, "doth wonderfully concentrate the mind."
The Israeli estimate of the Iranian nuclear timeline was revealed two weeks ago by Gen. Michael Herzog, chief of staff to the defense minister, speaking at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (surely the timing was not accidental). The estimate is that Iran now has about 1,000 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, which is about two-thirds of what would be needed for a first nuclear explosive, following further enrichment to bomb-grade level. There are various opinions about how long this further enrichment would take, and presumably it could not be done in the Natanz enrichment facility without attracting the notice of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. Israel, according to Herzog, disagrees with the U.S. assessment that Iran has suspended weaponization efforts for now. Consequently, he projects completion of the first Iranian nuclear device by late 2010 or early 2011.
The dominant view in Israel, clearly shared by Netanyahu and all elements of the current government, is that an Iranian bomb would be an existential threat to Israel and accordingly must be prevented by all possible means. Diplomacy and sanctions would be preferred if they work, and U.S. military action would be preferable to an Israeli military operation. But there is readiness for Israeli action as a last resort, the main hesitation being its military feasibility. There is recognition that such an attack would exact a high price in Iranian retaliation on a number of fronts, and that it would at best delay the Iranian program by a few years, but that it might still be a necessary choice. A delay of a few years proved to be enough in the Iraqi case.
This is the message that Netanyahu undoubtedly delivered in Washington, but it is the same message that any Israeli Prime Minister would have delivered, whatever the "personal chemistry" of the interlocutors. Israel will allow time for the new U.S. approach, of diplomacy combined with (intensified) sanctions, to be tried, in hopes of avoiding harder choices. To give this approach the best chance of success, any Israeli government will try to make a last-resort attack look as inevitable as possible, whatever its ultimate intentions. This is reflected in the series of signals sent by the Israeli government before Netanyahu assumed office: air exercises in the Mediterranean, attacks in Syria and Sudan, requests for particularly relevant munitions.
Netanyahu obviously pressed for a deadline in the diplomatic channel. Obama's public response was to reject the idea of a precise deadline, but to indicate that there should be a clear sense of success or failure by the end of the year. The clock will probably run, then, until sometime in mid-2010. By this time it will be clear whether Iran's enrichment program has been contained, and in particular whether any of the low-enriched uranium has been upgraded or not (one possible outcome is that Iran would remain in possession of low-enriched uranium, which is not illegal in itself and which fits the Iranian fiction that it is destined for use as fuel). If there is evidence of production of high-enriched uranium or active weaponization efforts, there would still be time before the first usable device could be tested. And, as it happens, the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense, against short-range rockets, is also scheduled for first deployment in mid-2010.
This, and not the Palestinian issue, is the more likely source of crisis in the U.S.-Israel relationship. It appears extremely unlikely that the United States would use military force, at least within this time frame—although recent statements by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and President Shimon Peres, minimizing the likelihood of Israeli action, seem to be part of an effort to encourage U.S. action. It is also clear from recent statements by Vice President Joseph Biden and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the United States currently opposes Israeli action. As in the 1981 bombing of the Iraqi reactor, an Israeli attack would probably evoke condemnation from all sides, including the United States, even though many would privately welcome the action—even more than in 1981.
The Palestinian clock, on the other hand, moves at a less harried pace and is much less likely to rock U.S.-Israeli relations. The Palestinian question, after all, has been "urgent" for decades. The central reality is that there is no Palestinian partner able and willing to conclude and implement a two-state solution in both the West Bank and Gaza. It is doubtful that the Palestinian Authority (PA) could even implement an agreement limited to the West Bank.
Once again, the fact that Israel is represented by Netanyahu is less critical than imagined. Even a left-wing Israeli government, continuously chanting the mantra of a two-state solution, would not be able under current conditions to achieve a final settlement, despite hyperactive support from the United States and moderate Arab regimes. Thus negotiators during the post-Annapolis round of talks floated the novel notion of a "shelf agreement" that would be negotiated then but implemented only at an undetermined future date.
Netanyahu's visit was marked by much unintentional comedy over the question of whether or not he would utter the two magic syllables "two-state." But clearly he will not speak these words and upset many members of his own Likud party, when there is no serious negotiation in the offing and thus nothing to be gained. On the other hand, it is clear that an overwhelming majority of Israelis are willing to accept a two-state solution in principle: 74 percent in one poll, 78 percent in another. Even the platform of Likud in the recent election did not explicitly reject—nor endorse—the two-state formula, while Likud's right-wing governing partner, Yisrael Beitenu, not only leaves room for a Palestinian state but would even add Arab-inhabited areas of Israel proper to it. In fact only two small parties on the right, which between them won a total of seven seats, explicitly rejected the idea of a Palestinian state.
If a two-state solution becomes a realistic possibility at any point, any Israeli government will either sit at the table or be replaced. For that matter, during his first term of office Netanyahu himself negotiated the Hebron and Wye agreements in the framework of the Oslo process, which was clearly (if not explicitly) premised on creation of a Palestinian state. As Netanyahu said in his joint press conference Monday, if satisfactory conditions for Palestinian self-government could be worked out, "the terminology will take care of itself."
The major source of friction on the Palestinian track is likely to be the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, to which Obama added a new emphasis in his own remarks. The issue of a freeze on settlements could become contentious, given that Israeli governments have frozen the creation of new settlements but not the expansion of existing ones. Pressure to freeze all settlement growth would add a new dimension to the latent U.S.-Israeli disagreement (going back to 1967) on this issue.
In the meantime, is it possible that frustration over lack of progress toward two states will generate emergence of a "three-state" solution? Given the deadlock between Hamas and Fatah in talks to reunify Palestinian territories, will there be a move to focus on nation-building in the West Bank with the prospect of a settlement limited to that area? Is this any less realistic than other options on the table? Time will tell.
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Adventures by Disney has added an adults-only, food-and-wine themed sailing on the Rhine River to its 2017 lineup of river cruises.
The eight-day cruise will depart from Basel, Switzerland, on Oct. 21, 2017, and sail through Switzerland, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
On the cruise, passengers will learn about wines during vineyard tours and onboard seminars hosted by sommelier Brian Koziol. They will also engage in culinary demonstrations and workshops with John State, Disneyland's culinary director.
The cruise will also include a gastronomic walking tour of Riquewihr, France; local beer and wine pairings and a French patisserie class in Strasbourg, France; visits to German vineyards and pubs; and a tour of the Heineken factory and a waffle demonstration in Amsterdam.
The Rhine cruise is the latest expansion of Adventures by Disney's river cruise program, which launched this year as a family-focused product. Disney has scheduled 15 sailings on the Danube and Rhine rivers for 2017.
Disney's river cruise partner is AmaWaterways. Those who book the adults-only cruise will sail aboard the 158-passenger AmaKristina, a ship being custom-built by AmaWaterways for Disney. It will be christened next year.


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Russia looks to sever economic ties with Turkey
November 27, 2015 6:38 am in World by Rebecca Dakin
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is looking to sever economic ties with Turkey, after Turkey shot down Russian fighter jet near the Syria border.
Less than a year ago, the Russian and Turkish leaders Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan set aside their differences over foreign policy, signing a series of major trade and energy deals in the Turkish capital.
Now, amid the row following Turkey's shooting down of a Russian jet, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is to "seriously reconsider" its relations with Ankara.
The impact of this move would have a serious affect on Turkey's economy; Russian tourists are the second-highest group visiting Turkey after German holidaymakers. In 2014 there were 4.4 million Russian visitors, mainly tourists.
In addition, Russia is Turkey's main gas supplier, is among its top suppliers of oil. Turkey is the joint largest buyer of Russian wheat.
Last year four percent of Turkish exports, mainly textiles and food, went to Russia – although they fell by 40 percent between January and September this year.
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Along with the NHL, a new hockey team - the Islanders – came to Long Island. They had to pay $4 million as territorial fee to the long entrenched New York team – the Rangers. Since then, both the teams have been long standing rivals.
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Charity asks members of the public: What should be done about begging in Glasgow city centre?
Community Safety Glasgow have launched an online survey asking the people of Glasgow about their views on begging and how they react to beggars.
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An online survey has been launched asking the people of Glasgow about their experiences of beggars in the city centre and what needs to be done to tackle the issue.
The survey which has been created by Glasgow City Council and Police Scotland's charity, Community Safety Glasgow, will run until May 20 and aims to ask people who live, work, shop and socialise in Glasgow for their views on begging and how they react to beggars.
In addition to gathering opinions of the public, CSG are also asking people if they have experienced or witnessed aggressive begging or other problems, such as antisocial behaviour related to begging.
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Staff from CSG are currently conducting on-street interviews with visitors to the city centre as part of the survey, and are hoping the information taken from the questionnaire will help shape future strategies to assist those involved in begging.
A spokesman for Community Safety Glasgow said: "The results of the survey will help us build up a clear, up-to-date picture of the nature and extent of begging in the city centre, the type of people involved and the problems they have. It will also tell us how people feel about begging and offer them an opportunity to contribute their ideas on how it might be addressed."
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Let us rediscover Lewis Carroll's reference work, Alice's adventures in Wonderland, while remaining faithful to her original universe: that of a professor from Oxford, that of "nursery rhymes", of Anglo-Saxon humor and the opiate strolls of this 19th century England ... An Alice plunged between two worlds who leaves her childhood to go to adolescence, like the Wendy of Peter Pan of Barrie. It is transformed, rubs against prohibitions, the absurd, the nonsense and which transports the viewer... Read more
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The Moapa Valley Water District was created as a political subdivision of the State of Nevada on July 23, 1983. Prior to that, there were two water companies in the valley. The Moapa Valley Water Company and the Overton Water District.
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Early History of Moapa Valley Water District
A major element in the history of any settlement in the desert Southwest is water. In the hot, rocky landscape of the Mojave Desert, human settlement would be impossible without an adequate water supply. This is certainly true of the Moapa Valley. The green ribbon of marshes which lies on either side of the Muddy River as it stretches across the arid desert has been a welcome site to human settlers for centuries.
The source of water for the Moapa Valley is the network of artesian springs which bubble up from a deep underground source onto the green grasslands in the upper area of the valley known as Warm Springs. This spring water runs down the valley through the Muddy River until it eventually flows into Lake Mead and there joins the Colorado River system.
The early pioneer settlers to the area developed a complex system of irrigation ditches to bring water from the river to water their crops. These settlers also used the water from these irrigation ditches for culinary purposes. They stored water in barrels near their homes or in large underground concrete cisterns.
Ditchwater, however, was probably not the best for drinking. So around 1930, the Union Pacific Railroad began allowing local farmers in the Logandale area to fill cans of water from a tank brought in by train for the railroad section crew. Folks would go to the Logandale Section House located at the west end of Liston Avenue to fill up their containers with drinking water. This practice continued for about twenty years.
During these early days, rudimentary household water delivery systems were developed in the Moapa Valley. In 1929 the first concrete settling tank was constructed in Overton followed by a second settling tank being constructed in Logandale around 1937. Water was pumped from irrigation ditches into these tanks. After the particulate matter was allowed to settle, the water flowed out through low-pressure lines to the various homes in the communities.
Organizations were eventually formed to manage and improve these systems. The Overton Water District was established in 1954. It's founding board members were Mack Lyon, Bob Waymire, Wallace Jones and Sy Porter; with Secretary, Wayne Robertson.
A second organization was formed a couple of years later to service the communities north of the Overton District. This organization was called the Moapa Valley Water Company. Its founding board members were Reuben Whipple, Mac McCormick, Grant Bowler, Dell Robison and Edwin Wells; with Elaine Whipple as secretary.
In 1960 a joint agreement was made between these two entities to contract, operate and maintain a valley-wide culinary water system. This system would bring water from Warm Springs all the way through the valley to all the households in the community.
A small spring on a hillside at Taylor's Ranch in Warm Springs was selected as the source of water for the system. Local resident, Francis Taylor was very interested in this project. He deeded the one acre of land where the spring was located to the joint operating entities. Surveys were done and plans were made for a seventeen mile flow line to be constructed from that site throughout the valley.
Almost immediately there were problems with the new line. The low-pressure line was built out of 8" thin-wall plastic pipe. Breaks in the line began to occur even before the system was put into service.
Then, only a month later, disaster struck. On November 6, 1960, before the system had even been fully placed in operation, a flood destroyed 4200 feet of the line above Wells Siding north of Logandale. This set the project back for a couple of years. Additional funding had to be secured and large portions of the pipeline had to be replaced with better quality pipe.
In 1961, Logandale resident and Moapa Valley native Jay Whipple was hired as the general manager of the two water companies.
During the ensuing years, Jay oversaw the replacement, update and repair of much of the old system. A new, larger pipeline was eventually constructed from Warm Springs. In the mid-1970s, the portion of the water line that passed through the Muddy River narrows above Logandale was rerouted out of the riverbed and up over the hill along the power lines. This prevented the line from being washed out again by floods. Also a back-up water supply was developed from a well on Wells Avenue in Logandale. The well water was considered too hard to drink, but it was used as a backup when service went down in the main line from Warm Springs.
The Moapa Valley Water company started with about 175-180 customers. The Overton Water District had around 200 customers.
The Moapa Valley Water District (MVWD) was established under the Nevada Revised Statutes on July 22, 1983. By that time, culinary water management in the Moapa Valley had become a more established operation than it had been in the early days


Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by Hoang Vuong, Oct 26, 2018.
I have centos 7 on my physical server machine and want to make another machine or virtual machine with same setting data and everything from the old one to keep it in case i got server crash or at least to make virtual copy of it .
i read about make vmware convert but it needs Vspher to do it when i dont have . so is there any better way to resnyc or anythingto get all runing service and installed application in both ?
one more thing is centos i have now installed on 3TB hd but the used is less than 100gb so i can make the virtual copy with the only used space or i have to make it for the same hd size ?
Use Clonezilla to make a disk image of your server. Get another server and use Clonezilla to read the disk image there. Then you have to physical servers with same data. They also have same IP-number and hostname, so you have to deal with that. And figure out something to keep them in sync.


I was in Johor Bahru for the weekend with my hubby and little girl and we stayed one night at the Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru which is located in the heart of to prime commercial and shopping malls. It is this strategic position makes the Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru the perfect choice for business travelers.
The hotel is also very conveniently located right next to Holiday Plaza and Parkson!!
The Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru offers spacious rooms and suites. Each of these rooms comes with amenities, catering to the needs of business travelers.
The rooms are equipped with individually controlled air-conditioning, television, telephone, wardrobe, personal electronic safe, sensor touch bedside control panel, essential toiletries and coffee and tea making facilities.
There are 110 unit of superior rooms and 153 unit of deluxe room offered at Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru.
My room was the deluxe room which came with 2 queen sized beds and came with a bathtub - an essential for my little girl- and showers with generous amount of supply of essential toiletries.
My stay at the Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru was also inclusive of complimentary breakfast for two adults and since I had my little girl along, I had to pay an additional RM25 for her breakfast which was pretty much quite worth it.
The Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru does seem a little run down on the exterior, but inside, the luxurious 5 star facilities still ensure guests have a relaxing and comfortable stay.
There are a few section of places to eat, unwind and indulge here. The Seri Mutiara Restaurant which is a 24 hours restaurant at the Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru is located at the lobby area offers local and continental fare serve ala carte of buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Then there is the Capri Italian Sidewalk Café at the Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru which serves pretty yummy though slightly pricey Italian cuisine. My husband, daughter and I indulged ourselves in a home-made pizza and spaghetti because it was pouring cats and dogs and we could not go out on the evening we stayed there. We were also serenaded by the guest singer there... while the rained poured on outside the hotel.
I understand there is also a Meisan Szechuan Restaurant in Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru. serving the finest Szechuan cuisine and seafood here.
The Mutiara Terrace & Deli is a brasserie style café restaurant that adopts an all-day casual dining. Items on the menu include a wide range of pastries and cakes and an assortment of mouth watering savories that will not fail your taste buds.
Guests can also head on to the Polo Lounge at the Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru for live entertainment.
There is also an outdoor swimming pool, indoor squash court, Jacuzzi and a gymnasium.
The Mutiara Hotel in Johor Bahru is strategically located in the Johor Bahru city centre. The Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru is only 40 minutes drive from the Sultan Ismail Airport and 10 minutes from Singapore via Causeway.
My stay here at the Mutiara Hotel in Johor Bahru was sponsored by Tradewinds Travels and Tours Sdn Bhd.
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Q: how to create controls that requires properties in other controls? I was just creating a Windows form that uses a ToolTip control and it occurred to me that this control (or component to be right on the terminology) provides design time properties for every other control on the form.
How can I achieve this for a control of my design?

A: That bit of magic is created by inheriting and implementing the IExtenderProvider interface.   It is pretty easy to do, the designer is doing all the heavy lifting.  There's a very good How To in this MSDN Library article.

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U.S. coal exports have second best year ever, as strong demand attracts buyers
US thermal coal exports to India up 53% in 2018
US coal exports totaled 104.9 million mt in 2018, up 19.3% from 2017 and the second highest total on record, according to US Census data out Wednesday.
The 2018 total was second only to the 114.2 million mt exported in 2012.
US producers benefited in 2018 from strong international markets, which helped increase demand. US thermal coal typically trades at a discount to global benchmarks because of higher sulfur content, while US metallurgical coal is particularly valued for its coking properties. In addition, a number of US thermal coal producers benefited from a partial petcoke ban in India, which also stoked demand.
For comparison, the S&P Global Platts CIF ARA assessment, for thermal coal (basis 6,000 kcal/kg) delivered into Northern Europe averaged $91.69/mt in 2018 compared with $84.78/mt in 2017, while the Platts assessment for Premium Low Vol met coal FOB Australia averaged $207.11/mt in 2018 compared with $187.99/mt in 2017.
US met coal exports for the year totaled 55.8 million mt, up 11.3% from last year, and the highest total since 2014, when 57.2 million mt were exported. Met coal exports peaked in 2012 at 63.4 million mt.
The top three export destinations for US met coal in 2018 were Brazil, at 7.6 million mt, up 14.9% from 2017; the Netherlands, at 5.6 million mt, up 82.5% from last year; and Japan, at 5.4 million mt, up 20.4%.
The top three Census districts for US met coal exports in 2018 were Norfolk, at 31.8 million mt, up 19.2% from 2017; Mobile, at 9.7 million mt, up 9.5% from last year; and Baltimore, at 9.4 million mt, down 2.3%.
THERMAL EXPORTS
US thermal coal exports in 2018 totaled 49.1 million mt in 2018, up 29.8% from last year. It was the highest total since 2012, when thermal exports peaked at 50.8 million mt.
The top three export destinations for US thermal coal in 2018 were India, at 10.5 million mt, up 53% from 2017; South Korean, at 5.8 million mt, up 9.6% from last year; and the Netherlands, at 5.6 million mt, up 3.2%.
The top three Census districts for US thermal coal exports in 2018 were New Orleans, at 17.6 million mt, up 75% from last year; Baltimore, at 10.1 million mt, up 9.5% from 2017; and Seattle, at 6 million mt, up 10.6%.
— Andrew Moore, andrew.moore@spglobal.com
— Edited by Jeffrey McDonald, newsdesk@spglobal.com
Five coal ships load at U.S.' Dominion Terminal in week ending Friday, one more at pier


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It's an image now synonymous with mods, but this Target Clock by Cute Clocks would work in pretty much any '60s-inspired space.
It's also good for adding something a pop art twist to any room with its bold imagery – and for not a great deal of cash. That's perhaps because of its simplicity – it is made of a lightweight white PVC derivative with a laminated matt graphic, a German quartz movement with a silent tick and coordinating hands which are 'specially sprayed' to match the clock.
Sized at 28cm across, it sells for £28.


Classes for all S1, S3, S5 & S7 will resume only on 30th July 2018. S1/S2 (FE) exam will be conducted as per schedule. Willing students can apply for internships during these holidays. College office will be functioning on all these days.


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How old is your dad?
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Where is the best place you have ever vacationed.
What does the word "kind" mean?
What does the word share mean?
What's your favorite part of school?
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If you could live in any house, how many bedrooms would there be?
What would the rooms be for?
-One for me and one for my brother.
Where would your mom and dad sleep?
If you could meet anyone who would you meet?
Do you want any other pets?
What would you name your chicken if you had one?
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Gunflint chert
Microfossils of microbes similar to cyanobacteria, Gunflint Formation, north shore of Lake Superior, 1.9 billion years old
The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga[1]) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior. The black layers in the sequence contain microfossils that are 1.9 to 2.3 billion years in age. Stromatolite colonies of cyanobacteria that have converted to jasper are found in Ontario. The banded ironstone formation consists of alternating strata of iron oxide-rich layers interbedded with silica-rich zones. The iron oxides are typically hematite or magnetite with ilmenite, while the silicates are predominantly cryptocrystalline quartz as chert or jasper, along with some minor silicate minerals.
Stanley A. Tyler examined the area in 1953 and noted the red-colored stromatolites. He also sampled a jet-black chert layer which, when observed petrographically, revealed some lifelike small spheres, rods and filaments less than 10 micrometres in size. Elso Barghoorn, a paleobotanist at Harvard, subsequently looked at these same samples and concluded that "they were indeed structurally preserved unicellular organisms."[2] In 1965 the two scientists published their finding, and named a variety of the Gunflint flora.[3] This created an academic "stampede" to explore Precambrian microfossils from similar Proterozoic environments.
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^ Fralick, P., David, D. W. and Kissin, Stephen A. (2002). "The age of the Gunflint Formation, Ontario, Canada: single zircon U–Pb age determinations". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 39 (7): 1085–1091. doi:10.1139/E02-028. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Past lives: Chronicles of Canadian Paleontology "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-06-12. Retrieved 2005-06-12. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Barghoorn, E. S. and Tyler, S. A., 1965: Microorganisms from the Gunflint Chert. Science, vol. 147, p. 563–577.
Schopf, J.W., 1999: Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils. Princeton University Press, 336 p. ISBN 0-691-00230-4
Superior type Banded Iron Formation
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Retired Marine "Captain Randy Cramer" Claims To Have Spent Over 15 Years On Mars
According to claims by retired officer Randy Cramer, initially known under the pseudonym Captain Kaye, not only have humans reached Mars in the past, but we have developed a secret space program and a flotilla that operates in space.
A close up image of an astronaut on Mars kneeling and looking at a rocket in the distance. The spaceman or spacewoman is dressed in full space suit viewed from behind, kneeling on rocks and looking into the distance where a space rocket is at rest on the flat terrain.
There seem to be two versions filtering out to society when it comes to Space, Mars, and the classified files linking the two.
The first is that we haven't been to Mars, that there is a lot of work to be done, and that our technology is still very limited. The other is exactly the opposite, a version that has been endorsed by various individuals over the last decade.
The question here is, who is telling the truth? And would it be ridiculous to think that we have reached Mars and colonized the red planet thanks to secret space programs?
According to "Captain Kaye", who is a former US Marine, he was stationed on the red planet for years and his mission was to protect the five human colonies from the indigenous life forms of Mars.
Not only did he spend years on Mars, but he also served aboard a giant space aircraft carrier for three years.
According to the former US Marine, he worked for the Mars Defense Force (MDF), which is owned by the Mars Colonies Corporation (MCC), which is basically a conglomerate of financial, government, and tech companies.
Cramer and his team were part of a special section of the United States Marines with a highly classified mission: to protect and secure the existence of five newly established colonies on the surface of the red planet.
The Earth Defense Force, another secret military branch, has military recruits from countries like the United States, China, and Russia.
Furthermore, Cramer claims that his training took place on the Moon, within a secret base called LOC or Lunar Operations Command, on Saturn's Moon Titan, and even in deep space. Not only do we have technology to reach Saturn and outer space, Mars is a planet teeming with life according to the statements of the former Marine.
According to Randy Cramer, the space fleet has technology far superior to what exists on Earth. The different ships have different propulsion systems that allow the space fleet to reach the borders of our solar system with ease.
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The fact that Mars is a planet capable of supporting life has been supported by several researchers, including Dr. Brandenburg, who even claims that extraterrestrial beings waged a Nuclear War on the red planet and that today we can find evidence of it.
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Dark Knight Razzing
So, first off, I like Batman. I like Batman a lot. He is one of my favorite superheroes of all time. I also like Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Prestige are some of my favorite movies. You know what I didn't like, though?
Dark Knight Rising Rises (sorry, didn't like the movie enough to remember its precise title). Ugh.
Okay, I'm going to rant a bit here, and massive quantities of spoilers below, if you still care. I feel like I'm the last person to see this movie, so I doubt it matters, but still…
Before I get into tearing this mostly ridiculous movie apart, let's go over the stuff that was honestly good. First on the list is Anne Hathaway as Selena Kyle – very well done, good character arc, good one-liners, etc.. Second is the character arc of Bruce Wayne himself, which was a fitting conclusion to the series as a whole. I also loved Joseph Gordon-Leavitt in this flick, and I would totally go see a Nightwing movie with him in it.
There we go. Positives done with. Let's go through the problems, one-by-one, starting with:
#1: Batman is Such an Idiot
Batman is supposed to be smart. He's supposed to be the world's greatest detective. He's supposed to have a plan for everything. So why, then, is he caught so flat-footed by Kyle's betrayal in the sewers? How on earth is this surprising to him? She's a crook and a con-artist and he's going to follow her into the base of the guy she's been working for and he doesn't have a back-up plan? Seriously? This is where the movie, which was holding on until this point, starts to go downhill.
When Batman fights Bane, apparently his only plan is 'punch Bane until he falls down.' Then, when he doesn't fall down, Batman's plan is 'punch Bane more.' Errr…maybe a change in tactics is in order? Haven't you got a taser or something? Knock-out gas? Something?
Then, Bane charters the private jet to Central Asia that, you know, he has just lying around to shuttle himself and Bruce Wayne to that prison in the middle of nowhere. For giggles, you know? To show how he 'grew up in darkness' (despite this being the sunniest prison I've ever seen, but whatever) and to torture Batman with cable news networks on satellite TV forever. Mwa-hahahahaha! Oh yes, so evil. Sunny prisons with their own private climbing wall, no apparent guards, and free reign of the facility sound awful.
Now, while I generally like the 'Bruce Wayne clawing his way out of the pit of despair' thing, I do have to question the man's intelligence again. Indeed, I think that perhaps this entire prison is designed to capture the irrevocably stupid rather than the wicked. Take a look at the picture to the right here. Look at it long and hard.
Am I the only person who sees the rope?
What the hell, guys? They have a pulley system set up to belay. It appears to go to the top of the pit. Hasn't anyone in this ridiculous prison figured out that they could just hoist a guy to the top with the stupid belaying line and then he can climb out? Even if the pulley doesn't go all the way up, it goes higher than that jump nobody can make. Has anyone considered, I don't know, swinging from the rope for a while to cross the gap? I mean, of all people, shouldn't Batman be able to figure something like this out? Jeez…
#2: Meanwhile, Back in Gotham…
Bane hatches his evil plot. His evil plot involves manipulating the entire Gotham PD to go into the sewers. At this point in the film, my wife (who works in disaster management, homeland security, and interfaces with numerous police departments) starting laughing uncontrollably at the television. So, a couple things here:
Why the hell would you send every cop you had into the sewers? You need cops to do other things all the time like, for instance, work security at a professional football game happening simultaneously.
Are we to believe that every cop in the Gotham PD was put on duty? Yeah, that makes sense. All the cops on duty at once, sure. See what the police union has to say about that.
Major cities have more than one police department in them. Boston, for instance, has the BPD, the State Police, around three to four university police departments, Transit Police, the Sheriff's Department/Correctional Officers, and so on. A much bigger city like New York Gotham would probably have even more.
So, we're to believe that all of the cops went into the sewers and then Bane blew up all of the entrances to the sewers? Sure, whatever guys.
Machine-gun toting thugs or not, this dude would start throwing shit.
Then, in order to show Gothamites that they are 'liberated', he blows up their football team. Because, you know, the best way to get John Q Public to do what you want is to blow up his favorite professional football team. Good plan, Bane. Yes, obviously you and your dozen mercenaries are going to be able to restrain tens of thousands of angry, half-drunk football nuts, especially since you say you have a nuclear bomb. Obviously. People are reasonable like that. They are going to listen to your 'you are my hostages now, congratulations! Oh, and by the way, I have no demands!' and say 'the man makes a good argument. Plus the bums had a 5-6 record, so screw them.'
I'm not going to stray into the whole 'what would people really do' argument too far here, but lets just say this: in the five months that Gotham is under martial law, the only people who seem to actually live in Gotham are the half-dozen cops who weren't in the sewers, the two dozen or so of Bane's thugs, and Catwoman and her roommate. Everybody else stays home, I guess, for the entire five months. Patently ridiculous, of course, but let's not get into it. Still…
#3: I Have Some Logistical Concerns
How many dudes does Bane employ, anyway? I ask because they seem to be freaking everywhere. Again, drawing on my wife's expertise, she estimates it would take about 10,000 personnel to lock down a city like Boston (population 600,000). If Gotham is Manhattan-sized, it's much bigger than that. Now, granted it's an island, so let's give Bane the benefit of the doubt and say he needed 15,000 men to keep Gotham under wraps. Fifteen thousand seems an unrealistically high number of guys for him to possibly employ. I mean, sure, he's been collecting disaffected youth in the sewers for a while, but how the hell does he even feed all those guys? What are they paid? Are we seriously expecting all of them to be that loyal to him? Really? The dude in the wolfman-mask is scary, yeah, but wouldn't most of those juvenile delinquents prefer playing Xbox on a stolen television in some dumpy basement apartment? Like, where's the upside working for Bane? What does he promise them, exactly, and why do they believe him?
Okay, okay, I'll stop. He's got upteen-billion fanatical followers, sure. Whatever. I just can't quite figure out how the hell this is supposed to work. There'd be so many holes in this 'blockade' it would be ridiculous. People would be leaving (and entering) via little boats every night. The forces surrounding the city would be engaged in some serious planning to isolate the bomb, negotiate with the terrorists, and play hardball whenever they can, nuke or no nuke. Fine, though, I get it – Batman has to save the city. I know, know. So let's to it:
#4: Batman Saves The City with Punching
So, Bruce Wayne, broke, penniless, and a fugitive from prison, manages to effortlessly walk out of whatever central Asian territory he'd been imprisoned and hops a flight home, easily bypassing the blockade (along with, I presume, innumerable others).
He then busts the cops out of the sewers (seriously, guys? Five months?) and they come out, looking unusually healthy for guys who've been in the cold and dark for that long. They all then muster up somewhere (I'm guessing the park) and, deciding it's the 18th century, march in ranks against the assembled ranks of Bane's thugs (who also seem to have gotten the memo that today was going to be a big fight at city hall). The Thugs, who also seem to think it's the 18th century, fire their machine guns once, and then charge in for fisticuffs. At this point in the film, my wife and I started singing "When
What's that? The mask he wears all the time is important? No!
You're a Jet, You're a Jet" from West Side Story. Seemed appropriate.
Then comes the climatic battle between Bane and Batman; they begin fighting, taking turns punching each other. At last, as though struck by a bolt of lightning, Batman has a revelation: Oh! I should punch Bane in the face! Ah-ha!
So then Batman loosens a tube on Bane's face mask which, apparently, is really important. Bane has trouble breathing, Batman wins. Sort of. Some girl stabs him, but that turns out to not be that important, since stabbing action heroes in the stomach is a mild disadvantage, at best. The stomach, you see, is for eating, and since Batman isn't eating, he should be fine. Plenty of time to see a doctor. Seriously. Blood loss isn't really a thing. Neither is sepsis. Chill out everybody, it's Batman.
Naturally, after all that, Batman picks up the nuke and flies it out to sea, since we all know that nuclear weapons that explode over the ocean aren't dangerous. I'm sure there will be no ill effects. We're all saved. Hooray Batman!
In retrospect, I am forced to wonder what other endgame did Bane and company have in mind. I mean, he clearly didn't cause much of a panic. He basically gave the children of Gotham a five-month snow day, more or less. I mean, if he wanted to nuke the city, couldn't he have just nuked the city? Isn't the idea to destroy the city, after all? Oh, right – he wanted Gotham to suffer. But they didn't suffer, did they? Like, maybe a little, but if they did, we didn't really see it. Some rich folks got their houses looted. They made some people drown. They blew up the football team. It seems, though, that for the most part everybody just stayed home, watched On Demand, and waited for Batman to show up and do something about it. So, yeah, dumb plan, Bane.
And I'm not even getting started on the terrible editing, the overbearing soundtrack, or the absolute ridiculosity that is Christian Bale's Batman Voice. Wow, silly. Michael Cane hasn't done a sillier movie since Jaws 4, honestly. I hope, at least, that the house this one bought is equally as fabulous.
Posted on December 10, 2012, in Critiques, Theories, and Random Thoughts and tagged Batman, critique, Dark Knight Rising, humor, movies, rant, superheroes. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
KatieHal | December 10, 2012 at 11:16 am
…yeaaaahh.
A few details I think you had off, for sake of putting them out there. They don't change much, but *shrug*. I think it was only 3 months that Gotham was in lockdown (but still), and apparently the prison was somewhere in Central or South America – not that you'd have ANY way of knowing this from the movie, but I guess there were other sources that said this.
The movie had a lot of holes. A LOT. Taking Batman out of Gotham was a bad move, IMO. Not showing how he got back in was also a bad move. I would much rather have seen him IN Gotham the whole time but forced to watch it suffer, or see more of his interactions with the supporting cast of Blake, Selena, and even Miranda.
Also, note to self, if I ever have a city-wide disaster as a plot in a book or game, talk to to Deirdre! 🙂
aahabershaw | December 10, 2012 at 11:49 am
For a South American prison, they sure do dress a lot like Central Asians. And what the hell was with that castle? Am I supposed to think that's somewhere in Bolivia? Hmph.
As for 5 months, no – it was five months. The bomb was set to blow up by itself in five months, and that's exactly what it did.
KatieHal | December 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Ah, okay. Between seeing it and now, I for some reason thought it was 3.
smashingthroughlife | December 10, 2012 at 11:37 am
Didn't feel the need to catch this one in theatres, eh? Even though there were some glaring holes in the plot, I still enjoyed getting out there to see it. Although given what happened in Colorado, it seems like a lot of people choose to forego it.
Ah, point #1. It pains me to admit it, but Batman was an idiot. In The Dark Knight he was so crafty in hijacking Fox's cell phone sonar device to get a location on the joker. And here he can't even figure out how to use the rope… I found that really disappointing too.
The other thing that doesn't make sense is why is Batman a total cripple in the beginning of the movie??? (I don't know how familiar you are with the comics) but in Knightfall it makes sense that Batman is weary and worn down when he finally faces off against Bane because he's been so busy trying to catch everyone that Bane busted out of Arkham. I know he hasn't been as active in the past 8 years since the whole Harvey Dent thing… but come on, he's freaking Batman! His body isn't going to fall into disrepair THAT badly from not fighting crime every night.
I initially wanted to comment and say great post. But then I got kind of sidetracked thinking about the movie, lol.
Sorry for the novel of a comment! Great post 🙂
Thanks! I actually bought the disrepair thing, since most of the damage was to things like cartilage and complications from scar-tissue; totally realistic, that. What I didn't like was that, after introducing it, they decided to ignore that stuff for the rest of the movie. I mean, if you're going to make it a thing, don't just toss it away!
Josh Pritchard | December 10, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Another thing – which speaks to the math nerd in me – is that this movie does what every other movie does when there is a bomb with a timer. They ignore the timer. Only about 60 seconds are on the clock when Batman hooks it up to The Bat (not Batwing, just … The Bat) and then has to :
– get out of the city
– get far enough past the city limits to be outside the bomb's 6-mile explosion radius
– get far enough past THAT distance to avoid nasty things like fall-out
Meaning that The Bat had to traverse AT MINIMUM 6 miles (let's assume, for argument sake that point 1 and 3 don't exist. The truck crashed right at the edge of the city and that the bomb is a super-clean nuke that has no fall-out) in less than 60 seconds. And we know he's not going top speed the entire time since he is slowly dragging the bomb for the dramatic "can he even lift it" moment … so The Bat has to have been going 400-500 miles an hour as he passes JGL on the bridge, slightly over 1/2 the speed of sound.
I know, I know … dramatic timing, cinematic experience … but stuff like that makes my math OCD just start shivering in my brain.
aahabershaw | December 10, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Yeah, I skipped that part as it falls under the 'It's a Superhero Movie' excuse. Maybe the Bat has some kind of superthruster or something.
Of course, then he bails out over the ocean going 500mph while suffering from a stab wound…and lives. Hmmmm…
amandalovesmovies | December 10, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Agree about Hathaway and Gordon-Levitt. Although different plotholes pinged me. So many to choose from. Check out my review http://amandalovesmovies.com/2012/08/17/the-dark-knight-rises/
aahabershaw | December 11, 2012 at 9:14 am
I agree about Thalia. As you say, it was a plot twist for the sake of a plot twist, and it made hardly any difference to the movie, in my opinion. It had already sold itself up the river at that point, and I'd pretty much stopped caring.
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