So, you're thinking about joining Monkey Bar for 2018 and cannot imagine a greater burn experience? You want to become a part of that history making micro-community. Becoming a part of a theme camp is something that requires commitment and engagement with your fellow campers that is not limited to a few days in the Black Rock Desert. As a theme camp we are essentially providing a space of engagement for OTHER citizens of Black Rock City. This is a production, that for some of us, goes on year round with a lot of work. This is going to be our 6th year on playa as a placed camp and we plan on continuing to do it as right as possible.
Before asking to join our camp, is this right for you? Do you even need a theme camp and if so why? If you are doing this then stand ready to commit a little time each day doing something for the camp to make sure our front of house and back of house is ready for the services and guests we will be entertaining. THE CAMP APPLICATION will appear in the footer of this page.
Join the secret Facebook Group for camp discussion, attend meetings, volunteer and be engaged with this community….
attend meetings if at all possible OR catch up on the posted video and send lead the password from the video indicating you participated.
engage people on the private Facebook Group (you will get a link upon completion of your application; we have a new one for 2018).
participate in the mission we are engaged in and volunteer to help out as much as you can within reason (there is that word again).
Failure to meet even basic standards could result in your denial to join Monkey Bar. The deadline for canceling out and getting a camp fee is July 1st (PERIOD). This camp is a space where everyone should feel safe and shielded from anyone or any thing that might be a danger. If that threat comes from within camp that threat will be removed with no refund. You will be asked to leave or you may be removed by officials.
You are becoming a member of the Monkey Bar Theme Camp for 2018 and have completed the application and agreed to all the things that are included in that. This goes to commitment, presence and participation. It is up to you to make sure you can answer questions about the 10 principles and more. You will get a message from a lead with a link to the private Facebook Group (Monkey Bar 2018) and there will be several links at the top of that group that you need to visit.
You will look up the volunteer signup sheet and choose 1 item per day to do in camp. If you are a BRC Ranger or are Gate, Placement or any other official of Burning Man you may be exempt from this on days you are committed elsewhere unless you choose otherwise.
Burgins need not worry about losing out on the event, because everyone doing their part makes these jobs really easy and takes little time.
Choosing a meal slot: There is a slot on the volunteer page for you to choose a date/meal that everyone in camp will be required to select. You must meet the standards for these meals that are listed below and use the calculator provided to estimate your purchasing requirements. In some cases people will be allowed to team up or work with a partner. This is all detailed in the section on MEALS.
Monkey Car may become the newest facet to our camp with an animated art car featuring The Monkey King. It is taking shape and we are raising funds for it right now. There is a Phase 1 Immediate Funding we are running for the first parts of the project. Phase 2 will start almost immediately after.
Be present. Help make this project awesome for you and everyone camping with you.


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Pete North Politics Blog
Friends of the Earth are no friend of democracy
You know I hate fisking so I'll make this quick. Writing in the Independent, Samuel Lowe argues that Brexit doesn't mean we can protect ourselves from TTIP. I'll have to make this a fisk piece to set the context properly. Firstly Lowe starts out with the usual preamble.
Much of the pro-Brexit camp is promising victory parties lit by bonfires of so called 'red tape'. For many of them, the EU's high environmental and consumer standards have long been seen as a drag on competitiveness, and an explicit reason to leave. (Remember: all that matters is that companies are allowed to produce products cheaply. Your desire to breath clean air, drink clean water and consume safe products is irrelevant.) In this context, we should be under no illusion that maintaining and enforcing environmental, health and social protection would remain a priority without EU guidance and enforcement. The UK has long been one of the biggest drivers of deregulation within the EU. Those who use TTIP to justify leaving should be careful what they wish for.
This is usual greenie leftie fluff. Big bad spooky corporates can't wait for Brexit so they can reroute all their toxic waste pipes into the sea. All those fat white mean in pinstripe suits smoking cigars will be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of Brexit.
Meh. This is actually why I find most greens utterly risible. There are a few things to take issue with here. One of the main reasons there is such infighting within the leave camps is that there are those who do want to see a slash and burn of regulation and then there are those of us who live on planet Earth. Deregulation is just not going to happen. If we want to export to the world we have to conform to global standards and that is the minimum required for the export of goods and services to the EU.
It will therefore be in nobody's business interests to seek divergence. It is a fantasy of the "free market" Hannanite right that Brexit means deregulation. It's land of the dinosaurs stuff. More to the point, the chances of them having their way are next to nil since there is virtually zero likelihood that we will be leaving the single market as well as the EU. It's difficult to achieve and not even our Tory government wants it. There are few, if any advantages.
Secondly, to take shipping as an example, there is a massive industry oversupply in the container sector, and what better way, if you are the owner of nice spangly new ships with the very latest compliant engines, to shaft your competition than to demand that your base level of compliance becomes the law?
In this Maersk Line have been very vocal in the regulatory process, demanding all those old and dirty ships be gradually phased out. In this they won't be lobbying the EU. They will be in at the top tables working with the UNEP and the IMO. It's only really the peripheral variables and the time-scales that are set by the EU and if Maersk and the likes do any lobbying in Brussels it will be for a faster uptake of the new global rules. However, other shipping associations will also be lobbying influential national governments to lodge their veto. In most instances, the big boys win out.
As to being drivers of deregulation, very little is ever deregulated per se. We get tinkering with the variables such as to parts per million of pollutants - which is largely all decided at the global level with only consultative involvement of the EU. So really, British membership of the EU is neither here nor there. Lowe can produce examples where thresholds have been lowered and I can play that same cherry-picking game too, but the point is, the EU middleman is not where the action happens - and that is the future trend. Lowe continues.
Some of the more enlightened Brexiteers acknowledge that it would still be in the UK's best interest to remain part of the European Single Market. Colloquially known as the 'Norway option', this would involve the UK continuing to apply many of the rules of the EU while accepting a much reduced ability to shape and steer them. Under this scenario, the UK would still have to implement all of the changes in EU legislation that derive from TTIP. Yet, we would have a much reduced ability to influence its negotiation.
Yep. You guessed it. The "fax democracy" meme. Leaving aside that Efta states do have a veto that EU member states do not, Norway is a huge participant on all the global regulatory and standards bodies - Codex and the IMO especially. They play a large part in shaping the conventions and regulations before they are handed down to the EU - and no, they don't adopt most of the rules.
The reason that's important is because TTIP, at the very centre is less a case of establishing new conventions and regulations as it is hammering our agreements on regulatory convergence using existing global conventions. In this, Norway and New Zealand and other non-EU states have a direct line to the various committees where member states do not. I would rather have Norway's influence than our own when it comes to regulation since we are depressingly obliged to go through the EU middleman that often blocks our access or refuses our agenda.
But then it's in Lowe's written submission to the EU, exalting the virtues of the Habitats Directive and the Bathing Water Directive do we really see what Lowe's problem is.
EU membership has had a profound impact on UK environmental policy. In the 1970s and 80s the UK earned the unattractive reputation for being the 'Dirty Man of Europe'. We had the highest sulphur emissions in the EU and our seas were characterised as open sewers. The policies pursued by environmentally progressive countries such as Germany and Denmark have driven up standards in the EU as well as acting to prevent the weakening of environmental policies by less progressive states, such as the UK. Today, many of the most important UK environmental policies and priorities are those that have emerged via the EU.
Now this is fascinating. Because not only are both sides of the Brexit debate trapped the past, and with Labour recently regressing into 1980's politics, we also see the FoE is stuck in a timewarp too. We're not in the 1970's anymore. There is no going back. We are a much more environmentally aware country now.
Those ghastly hippie chicks I remember from my student days with traces of ketamine caked round their noises at Brigton psy-trance events all now hold various environmental degrees and work of many of these global NGOs and lobby groups. Britain has had a cultural revolution that makes us one of the most environmentally progressive nations on earth.
More to the point, Lowe does his own organisation down in that FoE UK has been influential for as long as I can remember. To say that the British did not lobby for beach clean ups themselves is patronising and historically inaccurate.
Moreover, the main reason our seas have cleaned up is largely due to the complete obliteration of heavy industry in the UK. We don't mine coal, we don't build ships, we don't make steel, the UK oil industry in most respects is cleaner than it's ever been and is under unprecedented scrutiny.
But let's not forget that stricter environmental regulations also come at a great environmental and human cost. We used to break our own ships in the UK. Now we don't because it's costly and the methodical disposal of hazardous materials makes the economic of recovering raw materials scarcely worth the effort. Consequently we now send ships to Bangladesh and elsewhere to be beached - where there is little enforcement of spartan regulations and zero health and safety along with no workers rights. Slow clap for the Greenies!
It is only in recent years we have seen a global effort to ban the practice of beaching, paying much closer attention to the rights of workers in the industry. In fact, the new regulatory codes are developed by the ILO and the IMO, with the original proposal coming from... ...Norway. They who "have no influence". And let's not get into that whole Ballast Water Management initiative.
Moreover, when it comes to clean air is very much a major agenda item of UNECE, not least in driving vehicle emissions standards. In this we see global efforts to drive harmonisation, where agreements happen not between blocs and nations but between regulators and standards bodies - as we have outlined several instances of.
Now I'm not going to say the EU has not added value in the drive for EU standards, but as previously demonstrated EU enforcement is often found wanting and as much as the EU is gradually becoming ever more of a law taker, the international bodies are increasingly becoming regulatory larcenists themselves, incorporating EU standards into global regulations. We get them in or out of the EU.
What ultimately does more for the environment is liberal democracy where we see a more educated population who make stronger demands for progressive policies. Were there to be this fictional scenario of deregulation we would see outrage from dog walkers, surfers and the likes who would cause outrage. Put simply, there's no going back to where we were and to suggest that the EU underpins it all is offensive.
Moreover, on balance with the EU's CFP that has seen species driven to the brink of extinction (with little prospect of reform) and dodgy trade policies decimating the seas of West Africa, the EUs own reputation is not quite as green fingered as our Mr Lowe would have it.
In the final analysis, I'm actually a lot less bothered about TTIP than I was this time last year. We have seen it stall many times, with more and more measures dropped until what is finally delivered will be far less invasive and impressive than that which was originally proposed. If anything, TTIP is a decoy that distracts us from the much larger nexus of regulation which is far more pivotal to the substance of TTIP than any of the bickering that goes on between EU officials and their US counterparts.
So it really comes down to your own estimation of the bigger picture. Lowe has it that the EU is pretty much the be all and end all of environmental regulation, and that the EU can take the credit for the UK's current standards. I don't think that's true, and nor do I share the pessimistic miserablism that without the EU we could or necessarily would see our standards slide.
It speaks to a paternalistic authoritarianism that so typifies the left in assuming that Britain will not uphold standards unless the EU boot is on our face. We have already seen this pathology extends to other areas of policy, where the left wing message is "If we leave the EU, the Tories might...". In this we find that wooing the left on matters of democracy is largely fruitless because those on the left who understand what it is, despise it.
The fact of the matter is that the stronger our environmental regulations, the greater the displacement of pollution, which is partially why China is polluting itself into oblivion. In this we should be seeking to improve and democratise the global rule-making nexus, and increasing the UK's participation in it, not least as a means to hold the corporates to account, who presently abuse the standards making processes to steer regulations for their own ends, in ways that even the EU has not fully comprehended.
It comes down to whether you believe the Brits are progressive, environmentally minded, conscientious global citizens who will assert themselves n the global stage, working with all partners (including Friends of the Earth) to drive better environmental standards, and will lead by example. I think we are. I believe that, like Norway, we are better served by having greater access to the global bodies and by having more democratic control over the laws we incorporate.
I reject the little Europe mentality and I utterly reject the pessimistic miserablism of nannying authoritarians. I place my faith in people and democracy. More to the point, if we do not have democracy then, I don't care about the environment. States where people are not free make for a passive, politically disengaged public which has consequences of its own, ultimately leading to a breakdown in civil functions and ultimately war - which is not known for being kind to anyone's environment. In all such estimations, people have to come first. That's why when it comes to the referendum, I'll be telling these bunny huggers to get lost.
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Picus woodpeckers. Red and yellow breasted woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus) and scaled woodpecker (Picus squamatus). This watercolour is plate 35 from 'Neilgherry Birds and Miscellaneous' (1858) by the Indian-born British artist and amateur ornithologist Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). This book consists mostly of her illustrations of the flora and fauna of the Nilgiri Hills (then known as the Neilgherry Hills) in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India.


How I really feel about online dating.
Listen to the unexpected poem that recently became my online dating profile. I never thought I'd share this on my podcast but hey, this episode kinda happened whilst I was learning how to be a better podcaster.
Part 1 – I read the poem for the first time during a radio training session at a local community station. You'll hear some of my lovely classmates' reactions too. Our theme for the session was 'Hero' and we discuss this topic a bit.
Part 2 (Time stamp 8:16) – how the studio recording happened, how I once fell for a guy with bullet points in his profile and why I think writing a dating profile teaches you unexpected things about yourself.
Why a poem about a hero?
I'm part of a radio training group and I'm learning how to create stories for radio. As part of our training, my classmates and I were asked to write a 1-minute and 3-minute story with the theme 'Hero'.
I thought writing about my father as my hero would be too predictable and I struggled to come up with a story. Then just before class I remembered the poem I had on my dating profile and I took a gamble and shared it.
Thank you to my teachers and friends at PBS Radio, especially Ardavan, Allison, and Ghina who gave their kind feedback.
So, how does one write a good dating profile?
I wish I had the answer! I could try explain with my technical writer hat on, but then that feels too serious. All I know is that you'll never have a perfect online dating profile, so don't be too hard on yourself.
Also, how you write your profile will change over time as your life experiences change. It's quite funny to look back at ones I've written in the past – they're great stand-up comedy fodder!
I just recommend being as honest and creative as possible. I also recommend using photos that reflect interesting parts of your world that might be tricky to write or explain in words.


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Q: Processing class giving NullPointException (Beginner) Im trying to make a basic frogger game. All I am trying to do it make a class for my frog image, and then I want it have it shown under void draw(); Except I keep getting NullPointException, can anyone help me figure out why?
This is the code I've been playing with to try and figure out the issue.
PImage img; // frog image

Frog froggy;
Car[] c1;

class Car {
  float xpos;
  int ypos;
  int sizel;
  int sizew;
  float yspeed;
  color c;

   Car(){
    xpos = 0;
    ypos = (int)random(120,480);
    sizel = (int)random(20,30);
    sizew = 15;
    yspeed = (float)random(1,3);
    c= color(random(255), random(255), random(255));

  }

  void carShape() {
    rectMode(CENTER);
    fill(c);
   rect(xpos,ypos,sizel,sizew);
   fill(0);
   rect(xpos-5, ypos-8, 8,5);
   rect(xpos+5, ypos-8, 8,5);
   rect(xpos-5, ypos+8, 8,5);
   rect(xpos+5, ypos+8, 8,5);

  }

 void moveCar () {
   xpos = xpos + yspeed;
    if (xpos > width) {
      xpos = 0;
      ypos = (int)random(120,480);

    }

 }
}

class Frog {
  int frogx;
  int frogy;

 Frog(){
    frogx = width/2-20;
    frogy = 527;
 }

  void drawFrog() {
    image(img,frogx,frogy);

 }
}

void setup() {
  size(800,600);
   img = loadImage("frog.png");

c1 = new Car[20];

  for(int i=0; i<20; i++) {
    c1[i] = new Car();
  }
}

  void draw() {
    background(100);

     froggy.drawFrog();

    for(int i=0; i<20; i++) {
    c1[i].carShape();
    c1[i].moveCar();
    }

  }

Heres the error
Exception in thread "Animation Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at snowflakecarexample.draw(snowflakecarexample.java:97)
    at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(PApplet.java:2120)
    at processing.core.PGraphicsJava2D.requestDraw(PGraphicsJava2D.java:197)
    at processing.core.PApplet.run(PApplet.java:1998)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

A: you din't initialize Frog object.
try
   Frog froggy = new Frog();
   froggy.drawfrog();

A: Whatever froggy should be, it must be initialized:
Frog froggy;
... (Froggy is null)
froggy.drawFrog();

perhaps you want to call a constructor somewhere? Like:
Frog froggy = new Frog();

A: In the moveCar() function you are checking if (xpos > width), but I don't see width declared anywhere.  Unless it is declared and not in the snippet you have posted, this could be the issue.
You also use width in the Frog() function.

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Q: Max-min inequality It is known that
$\underset{x}{\max} \underset{y}{\min} f(x,y) \leq \underset{y}{\min}  \underset{x}{\max} f(x,y)$ .
When does equality hold in this expression?

A: Let $\max_x \min_y f(x, y) = \max_x g(x) = g(a)$ and $\min_y \max_x f(x, y) = \min_y h(y) = h(b)$.  We have
$$\max_x \min_y f(x, y)= g(a) \le f(a, b) \le h(b) = \min_y \max_x f(x, y)$$
So for equality, we need an element $(a, b)$ to exist s.t. $\min_y f(a, y) = f(a, b) = \max_x f(x, b)$.

A: The inequality is the "weak duality inequality" and when it is equality it is called strong duality equality, see this for more detail.
The strong duality holds for convex functions (which their domain has non-empty interior)

A: Equality holds if $f(w,z)$ is convex in w and concave in $z$ (or convex in $z$ and concave in $w$)


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package cgeo.geocaching.brouter;

public class BRouterConstants {
    public static final String BROUTER_LOOKUPS_FILENAME = "lookups.dat";

    public static final String BROUTER_PROFILE_FILEEXTENSION = ".brf";
    public static final String BROUTER_PROFILE_WALK_DEFAULT = "shortest.brf";
    public static final String BROUTER_PROFILE_BIKE_DEFAULT = "trekking.brf";
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    public static final String BROUTER_TILE_FILEEXTENSION = ".rd5";

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    private BRouterConstants() {
        // utility class
    }
}

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Historic Homes "Into The Woods" Tour
April 28 - April 29, 2018 — Austin, TX
April 28 - April 29, 2018
HISTORIC BROWNING HANGAR
https://www.texasmonthly.com/event/historic-homes-woods-tour/
Preservation Austin
Preservation Austin has announced its highly-anticipated 2018 homes tour in Cherrywood, Delwood, and Wilshire Wood on Saturday, April 28. "Into The Woods" will showcase the postwar cottages and midcentury ranch homes of these East Austin neighborhoods. The tour will celebrate house histories and contemporary renovations, but also tell the stories of landmarks such as Maplewood Elementary and the funky Duplex Nation.
Preservation Austin's Homes Tour is the organization's biggest fundraiser, sustaining efforts to protect out city's historic places for generations to come.
Tickets are $25 for Preservation Austin Members and $35 for non-members. Tickets and sponsorships may be purchase at www.preservationaustin.org. Bike Austin will provide bike racks and a route for cyclists.
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package com.perforce.p4java.impl.generic.admin;

import java.util.List;

import com.perforce.p4java.admin.IProtectionEntry;
import com.perforce.p4java.admin.IProtectionsTable;

/**
 * Default IProtectionsTable implementation class.
 */
public class ProtectionsTable implements IProtectionsTable {

	/**
	 * List of protection entries
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	private List<IProtectionEntry> entries = null;

	/**
	 * Default constructor.
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	public ProtectionsTable() {
	}

	/**
	 * Explicit-value constructor.
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	public ProtectionsTable(List<IProtectionEntry> entries) {
		this.entries = entries;
	}

	/**
	 * @see com.perforce.p4java.admin.IProtectionTable#getEntries()
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	public List<IProtectionEntry> getEntries() {
		return this.entries;
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Sliding into a cool new era
China's skeleton pilots, bobsledders getting a boost
With homegrown athletes catching up to the rest of the world and a world-class track taking shape, bobsled and skeleton are making big strides in China-and the boss of the sports' world governing body is taking notice.
As president of the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, retired Italian bobsledder Ivo Ferriani is no stranger to the complexity of developing the highly-technical sports, guiding the French national team to multiple world championships in the 1990s and serving as event manager for all sliding disciplines at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.
"We are fully involved in creating a legacy plan because we need China on board with us longer than the 2022 Games," Ferriani told China Daily on Thursday at a forum regarding the Olympics and city development.
"We believe after the Games the Chinese have a chance to be one of the best teams in our sports," the 59-year-old added on the sidelines of the forum at west Beijing's Shougang Industrial Park.
The forum is part of the China International Fair for Trade in Services, which runs until Saturday.
The remarkable breakthroughs made by China's cross-sport pilots coupled with the legacy plans developing around a new sliding center in northwest Beijing's Yanqing district for the 2022 Games offer convincing proof the nation is serious about embracing the events, said Ferriani.
After making its Olympics debut in bobsled and skeleton at last year's Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, China is drafting athletes from other sports and hosting domestic championships at overseas tracks in hopes of reaching the podium on home soil in 2022.
Ferriani believes the host has the potential to win medals in men's skeleton and women's monobobsled, one of seven new events that will debut at the Beijing Games.
Skeleton involves a pilot hurtling head-first down a frozen track on a thin sled, hitting a top speed of 140 kilometers per hour. Monobobsled requires just one pilot, compared to the traditional two-and four-person versions.
Impressive gains by China's national sliding sports program in the 2018-19 season include a gold medal for the under-23 four-man bobsled team at the junior world championships in Germany in February and two golds on the IBSF's European Cup and North America Cup, skeleton's secondary circuits.
They were won by former long jumpers Geng Wenqiang and Yan Wengang in November and January, respectively.
All participants in China's national sliding program are products of an ambitious cross-sports talent search launched in 2015 to find skeleton and bobsled athletes with transferable speed and power from summer sports.
With construction of the track for the 2022 Winter Olympics slated to be completed by the end of this year, Chinese sliders will have the advantage of training onsite as often as needed.
Ferriani, who has visited the Yanqing area multiple times as a member of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for Beijing 2022, said the construction is on schedule to deliver a unique track.
"We try to create a new concept of tracks where we can combine the demanding and the interesting parts. The Yanqing track will be special in that regard," said Ferriani.
According to the Yanqing operation center, the sliding center, being built on a 60,000-square-meter site, features a 1.9-km competition track with a vertical drop of 120 meters between the starting gate and the finishing area.
The highlight of the track is a 360-degree loop that has never before been seen anywhere in the world. The first test run will take place in March.
"Technically, the track will be difficult to drive, but it will be interesting for the spectators to see who will be the best pilot pulling through that challenge," said Ferriani.
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Be sure to check out her class Sizing Knitwear Patterns on Craftsy.com.
You can find Faina here and here on Ravelry.
I would say that I do not have one definite source of my inspiration. I always loved fashion, so when I see beautifully made clothes (sewn or knitted) either in a fashion magazine, a movie, or just on a street, it catches my interest and makes me happy. I also love architecture and different shapes (I guess my engineering and math backgrounds comes through here). I take many pictures of buildings when I travel and sometimes my inspiration comes from it. Other times, it could be just the color of the yarn or it's fiber content. It is almost like the yarn is talking to you and tells you what it wants to be. So, all of the above inspires me.
There are many. I love texture of all kinds. It could be brioche, cables, slip-stitch techniques, or knit and purl combinations. I also like lace and combination of lace and texture.
This depends on many factors. When I begin any new design, I do not think about it. I basically go from size 30 to size 64 with 2-inch increments. If the stitch-pattern repeat is small enough, it is actually possible to stay with almost as many sizes. If a stitch-pattern repeat is 8 sts and more, it makes it hard to grade for sizes and preserve the integrity of the design. In this case, I have to eliminate some of the sizes that are not possible to leave without drastically changing the design.
Another factor is publication's requirements. When I design for my own line of patterns FGDesigns (http://www.ravelry.com/designers/faina-goberstein), I make my own decisions and offer a good number of sizes. If I design for a magazine or a book, the space for a single pattern is a huge issue. In this case, I do what is required within the constraints that I mentioned before.
I always look and admire other designer's work. This is our industry and we need to know each other's work. I have a very strong sense of what I like and want in my design, so I am not afraid to be influenced by someone's design.
There are many stitch patterns, constructions, and shapes of collars, pockets, sleeves, and cuffs. None of them is a copyright issue. How you use it in one design is where it becomes an issue. This is exactly what I like in design: choosing out of all possible shapes the one that fits and flatters the body when it is put together with a certain texture and stitch pattern placement. That is what allows us to create a unique design.
I think that we should have patterns for all levels of knitters.
Like in any craft, we have people who are eager to know more and more about knitting or crochet, so we should teach them by offering challenging patterns where they can learn a new technique, construction, and how to read charts. We should not "dumb down" these patterns because we will not serve this group of people and our designs will not be what they are. At the same time if person wants to stay with what they know and they do not get bored with it, they should be provided with enough patterns to do just that. If they do get bored, there is always the next level to reach.
I think as designers, we choose our knitter and design for her/him, so I do not see this issue as a controversy since we have so many patterns out there.
Until recently, I always made my own samples. I think about 3 years ago I started to contract sample knitters when I am overwhelmed with deadlines. I still knit many projects myself, but a good knitter can help to produce more designs… I have one very skillful knitter Irina whom I trust completely and, since she has spoiled me, it is not easy to find a match. I am looking, though.
No, I was not that formal about my business until recently. Now I am thinking that I should be more businesslike. A few months ago I took a good look at what I do and what is available for a designer/teacher/author in our industry. It is not possible to do everything in our very diverse field. My plan is in my head at the moment, but I am very confident in what my business should look like. This helps tremendously to say no to things that are not fitting into this plan. I would recommend to anyone who is new to this business to make this plan as soon as they get a good feel for what they want to do.
Huge impact. It is my most valuable marketing tool. I have my website (http://fainasknittingmode.blogspot.com) where I also interview designers on my The Designer's Studio page (http://fainasdesignersstudio.blogspot.com) and do reviews of the books and products, and I use Ravelry (http://www.ravelry.com/designers/faina-goberstein), Facebook (Faina Goberstein), and Twitter (inasilver).
Absolutely. I do grade for sizes myself and try to write good patterns, but as we all know, we do not see our own mistakes. I would never publish a pattern without a check by a tech editor. It is a must for me.
Could you tell us a little about your book, The Art of Seamless Knitting?
Sure. My friend and co-author Simona Merchant-Dest and I see it partially as a reference book that can be viewed as a step-up from or a complement to a book on how to knit seamlessly. The book's emphasis is on the adaptation and application of such stitch pattern families as Cables, Lace, and Texture for some popular and less known seamless (or nearly-seamless) garment constructions. In the book you will find many tips and suggestions for a custom fit, an existing pattern adaptation, or an original design. We offer a nice collection of 11 elegant and timeless designs. We hope that these designs alone make it worth buying this book.
The next three photos are of garments created by Faina's co-author Simona Merchant-Dest.
At the same time, we use these designs as a teaching tool for explaining various techniques as a project is worked in one of the seamless constructions. In this book you will find topics such as placement of stitch patterns, combining different techniques, invisible decreases within the stitch pattern, a perfect fit, couture finishing techniques, choosing a cast-on and a bind-off, adapting a pattern to make it yours and many more.
We both like seamless constructions and want to share with our readers our acquired knowledge. It would make us very happy to know that we helped people to master these constructions. Here are photos of our designs from this book.
It was never hard for me to maintain this balance. I am very lucky that my husband is a creative person himself. We do a lot of things together, but respect each other's space. Our son and daughter saw us working full-time at the college changing parenting shifts. Our family live was always integrated with day work and other interests. Now our children are grown we have more time to do what we love.
I am a professional and welcome any constructive criticism that can better the outcome in my work. At the same time, I learned long time ago that I couldn't please everybody. If I see that the criticism is of some value, I would take it in consideration. Otherwise, I respect any person's opinion and do not get frustrated. I always know myself if I did a good job.
If you are asking about my knitting career, I still can't support myself doing just that. This is my supplemental income. I have a MS in mechanical engineering and first worked as a design engineer. Later I began to teach math at the college. My designing was always my creative outlet and I never thought of that as a main income.
I would strongly recommend coming to TNNA, even if it feels that you are spending your money, but did not earn it yet. It is the best investment you could make. That's where you get to know people in the industry, make contacts, and get prospective jobs.
Really informative. Please give more interviews with designers like Faina!


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My 3 Addictions
by Elastic No-No Band
© Copyright - Justin Remer / Weemayk Music (656605819020)
A quirky acoustic-pop concept album about 3 things: food, movies, and women. Some songs are funny, some are serious, and some are a little of both.
Genre: Rock: Acoustic
1. My 3 Addictions
2. Part 1: Food
3. Cheese Fries [studio version]
4. Coffee Den
5. Sundaes on a Sunday Afternoon
6. Part 2: Movies
7. Woody Allen Surrogate (Kenneth Branagh's Blues)
8. The Guy Who Dies
9. I Am Klaus Kinski (And This Is My Song) [studio version]
10. Part 3: Girls Who...
11. (Everywhere I Look) I See Your Face [studio version]
12. I'm in Lust (featuring Sammy Shuster)
13. A Modest Proposal (For Laura Cantrell) [studio version]
14. My 3 Addictions (postlude reprise)
15. Nobody's Wife (You're The One) (featuring Sammy Shuster)
"It's music which often recalls, in its content (the song "Cheese Fries") and quirkiness, a more polished and pop version of the unforgettable early Ween." --The Deli (NYC)
"The new Elastic No-No Band album is fantastic! ... The production is tighter than Steely Dan's asshole." --Toby Goodshank (The Moldy Peaches, Huggabroomstik)
MY 3 ADDICTIONS is a 3-part exploration of very important topics: Food, Movies, and Women. It is also the best concept album made since Pete Townshend stopped being relevant.
If you want to know more about the album, you should visit this blog, which has been set up with info, anecdotes, and bonus free downloads:
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Originario di Osaka, il nome Kengyō corrisponde a un titolo onorario riconosciuto all'epoca ai musicisti ciechi particolarmente abili.
Yatsuhashi era inizialmente un suonatore di shamisen ma imparò poi a suonare il koto da un musicista della corte imperiale. Grazie a lui questo strumento uscì fuori dalla corte e venne suonato anche in pubblico.

Oltre ad aver composto o contribuito a diffondere dei brani musicali per il koto, Yatsuhashi è noto principalmente per aver modificato la struttura di questo strumento, allo scopo di renderlo maggiormente accessibile presso la popolazione e aumentarne la diffusione. A tale scopo si deve a lui la creazione della scala Hirajōshi.

I suoi brani più importanti sono Rokudan e Midare.

Ogni anno, le geisha più famose di Kyōto si esibiscono per commemorarlo in varie danze nel tempio buddhista di Hōnen-in.

Collegamenti esterni

Nati in Giappone

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Seeking to address an increased demand for health care services, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System plans to spend $41 million on construction and renovation projects at several facilities in the Baltimore area this summer.
The project includes a renovation to the atrium of the system's downtown location and construction of a linear accelerator for cancer treatment. Linear accelerators generate high-energy electrons and X-rays. A new rehabilitation and robotics center and an extensive addition to an existing building are planned at the system's location off Loch Raven Road in Baltimore.
The upgrades are part of a statewide renovation project for the health care system that includes three inpatient facilities and six outpatient clinics throughout the state.
The system offers medical, surgical, rehabilitative, mental health, and outpatient care to more than 52,000 veterans annually in Maryland.
The construction projects will also add new clinical programs to benefit Veteran patients and increase clinical and administrative space, says chief of public and community relations at the VA Maryland Healthcare System, R. David Edwards.
At the Baltimore VA Medical Center at 10 N. Greene St., construction and renovations are planned to improve patient access and expand clinical programs. The new space will be used by 400 patients each week, officials say.
Construction is ongoing on the linear accelerator suite that will be central to the center's new radiation oncology program. Officials expect construction to be completed by next summer.
Additional administrative and clinical space at the center will be created through a 20,000 square-foot addition to the center's front atrium and a 20,000 square-foot renovation to existing space. A robotics space and a modern media center will be added and is projected to be completed by early fall.
Construction is underway at the Loch Raven VA Outpatient Clinic in north Baltimore which is the site for a new,15,000-square-foot rehabilitation research center. Designed to better serve Maryland veterans who are stroke survivors or in need of physical rehabilitation, the $8.1 million center will include specialized equipment and gym spaces.
At the Loch Raven VA Community Living and Rehabilitation Center, a 23,000 square-foot addition to the facility currently underway will add multi-purpose rooms and expand hospice and therapy areas.
A rise in military enrollments following the 9/11 attacks and conflicts in the Middle East has precipitated a rise in demand for post-service health care services. The VA is also responding to the increasing numbers of women veterans now coming into the system, officials say.
A recent report from the Associated Press says 45 percent of American's newest veterans, those from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, file for disability benefits for injuries they say are service-related.
Source: R. David Edwards, chief of Public and Community Relations at the VA Maryland Health Care System, Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System.
Writer: Alexandra Wilding, [email protected]
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I like it! Very nice stuff, Ray!
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Can you post a link to the card that you purchased? I just browsed through the available cards on Newegg and I don't see any that have the core clock listed at 850 MHz.
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They actually did cat launch propeller driven aircraft that were heavily laden with ordnance. I've got some pictures of Corsairs being cat launched during the Korean War.
Also, padlock needs to be enabled on the server side. I thought I might mention that... it's always the little things that get you... lol.
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I don't know... it's missing something from a narration perspective... LOL!
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Medicine: Dispute over "orphan drugs" against rare diseases – health
The construction is original and was intended as a treat for the pharmaceutical industry. Since it is economically risky to develop drugs to treat rare diseases, the incentive has been increased: In 2011, the benefit assessment that is customary for other drugs was no longer applied to these drugs. With the approval of the "orphan drugs" (from English orphan, "the orphan") at European level, an "additional benefit" compared to the previously available drugs was automatically assumed – without corresponding data or comparative studies having to be submitted. A regular benefit assessment is only necessary when the drug exceeds annual sales of 50 million euros. To this end, the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) prepares reports, and the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) decides on this basis whether there is any benefit at all and, if so, to what extent.
An analysis by IQWiG now shows that the "fictitious" additional benefit of orphan drugs assumed upon market entry is not confirmed in more than half of the cases. For all orphan drugs that have undergone a regular benefit assessment process since 2011 because they have reached the sales threshold, the Cologne Institute evaluated whether the additional benefit actually existed.
A total of 41 assessments were examined for which the classification as orphan drug had been carried out since 2011 – as well as a regular benefit assessment later. These 41 ratings are spread across 20 orphan drug substances, as some drugs have been approved for multiple indications. These included drugs against cancer, metabolic disorders and hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis. With 22 evaluations – this corresponds to 54 percent – the regular benefit assessment showed that the additional benefit attested with the approval could not be derived from the previous data.
"This has consequences for the quality of patient care," says Thomas Kaiser, who heads drug evaluation at IQWiG. "New drugs are given preference in these cases without a database. Patients then place great hope in a new drug for which it becomes clear only years later that there is no evidence that it is superior to an existing treatment option."
The evaluations by IQWiG also show that the previously granted privilege of additional benefit is often only corrected after years – or not at all: It took an average of three years until the benefit assessment was made due to the turnover threshold of 50 million euros – in some cases it took it nine years. In 66 percent of the cases, the pharmaceutical companies did not provide any new data during this time to support the alleged benefits. And in some cases the predicate of additional benefit was not withdrawn at all because the drug did not achieve sales and the regular benefit assessment was never carried out.
The total number of people affected is high, even if little is known about the individual diseases
In order to end the imbalance, politicians are called upon: "It is time to abolish the privilege of additional benefits for orphan drugs," says Jürgen Windeler, head of IQWiG. "Orphan drugs should also undergo a regular early benefit assessment versus the ACT when they enter the market." After all, the 98-page IQWiG analysis showed "a mismanagement of orphan drugs". It would not be possible that in a good half of the cases the stated additional benefit is not confirmed and, on the other hand, orphan drugs that represent real added value are not recognized as such from the start. "In this way, drugs remain in the supply and are privileged, of which one does not know whether they have an additional benefit," complains Windeler. "Then we don't know which ones are good and which ones are bad – and other tried-and-tested drugs that are already on the market are discredited and put on hold by the approval of orphan drugs."
While the term "rare diseases" sounds like a niche phenomenon, the dimension is substantial. A disease is considered rare if it affects no more than five in 10,000 people. Extrapolated to the almost 450 million inhabitants of the EU that would be up to 225,000 people affected per illness, in Germany up to 40,000. But since there are more than 6,000 different "rare illnesses", the total number of people affected is high, even if the individual Diseases are not so well known. According to the Ministry of Health, an estimated four million people live with a rare disease in Germany alone, and up to 30 million in the EU.
In view of such dimensions, the mismanagement of orphan drugs not only has a detrimental effect on patient care, but also on drug spending. Orphan drugs for rare types of cancer are major cost drivers for statutory health insurance. The prices may be justified for agents that bring real additional benefit to patients – not for those with no additional benefit. "Carefully differentiating here is therefore overdue for several reasons," says Windeler.
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Beer – Veltins reports record sales – economy
Gräfelfing – creative sports offers – district of Munich
Triple battle: Ampfing, Mühldorf and Erharting celebrate – Bavaria
Guillaume Désanges becomes director of the Palais de Tokyo – Culture
DFB-Pokal: St. Pauli vs. Dortmund and Bochum vs. Mainz live


USA Today | The busy summer travel season is not even upon us yet and Delta Air Lines and its major SkyTeam partners—Air France, KLM and Alitalia—announced trans-Atlantic capacity cuts today for this fall.
Capacity will decline by 7% to 9% over the same time period in 2010, according to these airlines, which operate with antitrust immunity in the trans-Atlantic market, allowing them to legally coordinate schedules and collude on prices.
The airlines say that the capacity cuts are due to "fluctuations in seasonal demand," but it is also likely that the airline industry is bracing for a decline in international travel after the usually busy summer vacation season due to the inflated price of oil, which has been hovering in the $100 per barrel range for some time.


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1930. Lidl & Schwarz KG is founded in Neckarsulm, Germany, as a wholesale grocery store. The international Lidl headquarters are still in Neckarsulm today.
A discounter (pseudo-anglicism of English discount 'price discount', 'discount'), in Austria also discounter, also discount stores or discount trade, is the name given to companies in the stationary retail trade, which tend to be characterized by a relatively narrow and flat range of goods, simple product presentation, often …
For the meaning of the name, the Old Norse name is broken down into its components. There would be aen (alone) and rikr (the ruler). In a figurative sense, Erika is then referred to as "the sole ruler".
Erika's name day is April 18.
Name variants Erika and Erica The first name Erica is a variant of the name Erika. In German-speaking countries, however, Erika is the more common version of the name, so in recent years the first name Erika has been given more frequently than the name Erica.
This popularity lasted until the 1970s, but then declined sharply. "Elke" means "the noble, the noble" and is derived from the Frisian name "Adelheid". Thus "Elke" is the short form of "Adelheid", which changed to "Adelke" and then led to "Elke".
The name Elke has an Old High German origin and is the short form of Adelheid. Elke goes back to the Old High German words "adal" and "heit", which translated mean "noble" and "the kind". The name is usually translated as "of noble character".
Elke is a feminine given name.
In the Middle Ages, at baptism (usually on the day after birth), the baptized person was often given the name of the saint of the day. The date of baptism, which is also the name day, was then entered in the church register. Martin Luther, born November 10, 1483, baptized November 11, 1483
Congratulations on your name day! May your name always remind you that you are never alone: God's light shines over you at all times and illuminates every darkness. Happy name day! I wish you a sunny, warm, happy, friendly and unforgettable name day!
In Greek it means: chronia polla. ( na cherese to onoma su. ) in German you can simply wish her a happy name day.
The name day is January 10th in memory of Saint Leonie Aviat, co-founder of the Congregation of Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales, who sees her main task in the education of children and young people.
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Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltan Bathory Says the Band Has "Probably the Worst Fucking Name"
June 14th, 2019 at 11:40am
Five Finger Death Punch are currently in the studio making their new album (well aren't we lucky), and they've been releasing regular studio updates online, as bands are wont to do, and in the latest one, guitarist Zoltan Bathory says the following:
"The name of the band has to have some kind of effect. It doesn't have to be positive; it doesn't have to be, like, 'That's the greatest name in the world!'
"It can be, 'Oh my god, that's the dumbest fucking shit I ever heard!' – equally good, because it got a reaction.
"I mean, I don't think you can beat 'Five Finger Death Punch.' That's probably the worst fucking name. In fact, we almost changed it, but then Ivan [Moody, vocals] came in and said, 'That's the best name ever, they're gonna fucking hate it! Keep it! That's fucking ridiculous!'"
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Zoltan is… absolutely correct. Five Finger Death Punch is a dumb name, and it is a memorable name. The first time I heard the name, in fact, I recall being intrigued (until I heard the music — I think the song was "The Bleeding"). You can't guarantee that anyone will like your band — all you can do is get them to at least give your material a listen. An interesting name, be it good or bad, will definitely do that. Of course, there are names that are far more attention-grabbing than Five Finger Death Punch — Anal Cunt, Pissgrave, Shitfucker, Fuckhammer, and, of course, Pig Destroyer all come to mind — but then, if FFDP had gone such an extreme route, they likely would not be the arena rawk megastars they are today.
So, there ya go. That was the time I said something nice about Zoltan Bathory, sort of.
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"সুজলা, সুফলা, শস্য-শ্যামলা" (Abundant with water and crops, green, and fertile) — that is how Bangladesh has been portrayed traditionally by its poets. That is also BEN's vision of Bangladesh.
The flag of Bangladesh consists of a red circle in a green background. While the red signifies the blood of the martyrs through whose sacrifice the independent Bangladesh was achieved, the green represents the country's environment.
Bangladesh is mostly a deltaic country, formed by the three mighty river systems, namely the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna. It is crisscrossed by the tributaries and distributaries of these rivers. The land is therefore green, full of water bodies, fertile, and abundant with crops. Even the hilly parts of the east are covered with forests. At least, that is how Bangladesh was until a few decades ago.
Unfortunately, As Bangladesh industrializes, its environment has witnessed serious deterioration. Its rivers and other surface water bodies are getting encroached and polluted. Its forests are shrinking. Its land is getting toxic. Bio-diversity is disappearing and open spaces are vanishing. Its once pristine villages are getting polluted and its cities are becoming inhabitable.
BEN sees a future Bangladesh where the processes of environmental deterioration have been stopped; the damage that has been done has been repaired, and the green Bangladesh with robust rivers and waterbodies has been restored. It wants to see a Bangladesh where the forests have been restored and cover about 25 percent of its area – as they should and once did. It wants to see a Bangladesh full of bio-diversity – both aquatic and land-based. It wants to see the rich cornucopia of the traditional varieties of Bangladesh's crops and fish stock thriving again. It wants to see a healthy river system restored, offering its manifold benefits. It wants to see the connection between river channels and the floodplains restored, expanded, and deepened. It wants to see Bangladesh that has abandoned the current, wrong-headed Cordon Approach to rivers and has adopted the Open Approach – an approach that agrees with the terrain and tradition of the country.
BEN wants to see a Bangladesh where industrialization has been achieved not at the cost of environment but in harmony with the environment; where the material standard of living has improved without pollution spreading all around; where open spaces have been preserved; where people are educated, healthy, technologically advanced, and prosperous, yet cohabiting peacefully with other species of the nature; where land, water, and people have struck a right balance.
BEN wants to see a Bangladesh that would make the poet Jibanananda happy, if he could return to this land, as he longed to do so in his poems of the Rupashi Bangla (Bengal, the beautiful!). It wants to see a Bangladesh where the poet Rabindranath would again like to live and travel in a boat, day after day, and week after week, as he once did when he was supervising the Shilaidaha, Shahjadpur, and Patisar parts of his family's zamindari. BEN would like to see a Bangladesh that would again inspire the poet Nazrul to compose songs addressing the waves of the River Padma under a starry night awash with moonlight!
That is BEN's vision of Bangladesh of the future!
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Let�s assume that you are the administrator of a team blog that has multiple guest authors. The revenue sharing arrangement is such that all writers get to keep a fixed percentage of the actual AdSense revenue generated from articles that they have written.
This arrangement, from the perspective of team members, maybe better than dividing AdSense revenue based on pageviews because the author is getting exactly what he earned. You can have less number of pageviews but if the CPM of your niche is high, it kind of balances out.
Say your blog (hosted on WordPress or Blogger) has three authors � Sam, Peter and Matt. Go to your AdSense dashboard and create three separate custom channels � give each channel a name that matches with the name of author.
Now create three different ad units (of the same format) but assign a different channel to each of them. You can follow a naming convention like Leaderboard_Peter, Leaderboard_Sam, etc.
Get the AdSense code corresponding to the AdSense channel you just created and it will look something like this.
The code will be exactly similar for all other ad units (per author) with one exception � the value of google_ad_slot will vary depending on the author and this is something that will help us determine the exact AdSense earnings of different authors.
When the payment cycles is near, group the AdSense report by channels and there you�ve the exact earning data per author.
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Observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," sharing many characteristics of the rocky, terrestrial planets like Earth. Ceres' mantle, which wraps around the asteroid's core, may even be composed of water ice. The observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope also show that the asteroid has a nearly round shape like Earth's and may have a rocky inner core and a thin, dusty outer crust. Astronomers enhanced the sharpness in these images to bring out features on Ceres' surface, including brighter amd darker regions that could be asteroid impact features. The observations were made in visible and ultraviolet light between December 2003 and January 2004.


The LaFerrari is really the halo of the Ferrari range, with 500 coupes being built and 210 Aperta (convertible) models it's not exactly common too. It's powered by a 6.3l V12 that's mated to an electric system for 963hp in total from the hybrid powertrain. With the mid-rear mounted engine, the sound doesn't have far to travel before it's singing from the exhaust tips - but now, things have got even crazier!
The LaFerrari is one of the cars in @shinmikeyin's garage: http://instagram.com/shinmikeyin - alongside the Pagani Huayra BC, Koenigsegg Agera R and Mansory Aventador Roadster. Getting started, we can take a full walkaround of the car and explore it inside and out, before MIke gives us a demonstration of a completely cold start of the engine.
Next up it's out onto the roads; Mike first, before he allowed me the opportunity to see what it's like and to experience the thrill of that soundtrack. Upon return, who doesn't want to hear some crazy revs in the garage?!


Paddywhack puts in long hours and has great knowledge of the game. He is popular in the clubhouse.
06/15/2023 Joined the Angband College Blackbirds.
01/01/2024 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 27 (81); Movement: 43 (77); Control: 18 (86).
05/08/2024 Strikes out 15 against the Calmindon College Reapers.
05/20/2024 Strikes out 15 against the Lockholes College Bravery.
07/05/2024 Wins the 2024 SGCBLCOL2 CA Outstanding Pitcher Award.
01/01/2025 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 38 (86); Movement: 43 (73); Control: 23 (86).
04/11/2025 Pitches a 4-hit shutout against the Longbottom College Train with 10 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
04/21/2025 Pitches a 4-hit shutout against the Overhill College Doctors with 9 strikeouts and 2 BB allowed!
05/01/2025 Wins the SGCBLCOL2 CA Pitcher of the Month Award.
07/08/2025 Wins the 2025 SGCBLCOL2 CA Outstanding Pitcher Award.
01/01/2026 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 44 (86); Movement: 47 (73); Control: 23 (86).
01/01/2027 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 53 (92); Movement: 46 (70); Control: 28 (86).
06/15/2027 Released by the Angband College Blackbirds.
06/15/2027 Drafted in the 2027 first-year player draft (Round 1, Pick 1, 1st overall pick) by the Numenor Kings.
01/01/2028 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 69 (92); Movement: 55 (69); Control: 38 (86).
01/01/2029 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 79 (92); Movement: 62 (68); Control: 38 (86).
04/25/2029 Pitches a 3-hit shutout against the Lake Town Archers with 9 strikeouts and 2 BB allowed!
05/18/2029 Injured (sore elbow), day-to-day for 4 days.
01/01/2030 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 84 (92); Movement: 67 (67); Control: 58 (86).
01/01/2031 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 90 (92); Movement: 67 (67); Control: 67 (86).
06/13/2031 Pitches a 6-hit shutout against the Dunharrow Devils with 8 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
06/29/2031 Pitches a 4-hit shutout against the Dead Marshes Uruk-hai with 13 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
07/01/2031 Wins the SGCBL MC Pitcher of the Month Award.
11/28/2031 Received a 1-year contract worth a total of $4,246,500 through arbitration.
01/01/2032 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 93 (93); Movement: 66 (66); Control: 85 (86).
08/26/2032 Pitches a 3-hit shutout against the Isengard Raiders with 10 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
09/12/2032 Strikes out 15 against the Ravenhill Darkwings.
11/28/2032 Received a 1-year contract worth a total of $5,364,000 through arbitration.
01/01/2033 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 73 (73); Movement: 47 (47); Control: 82 (82).
04/04/2033 Pitches a 5-hit shutout against the Grey Havens Stars with 6 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
06/18/2033 Pitches a 2-hit shutout against the Lothlorien Lumberjacks with 11 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
09/06/2033 Strikes out 15 against the Lothlorien Lumberjacks.
12/06/2033 Received a 1-year contract worth a total of $8,242,500 through arbitration.
01/01/2034 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 75 (75); Movement: 43 (43); Control: 81 (81).
04/03/2034 Strikes out 15 against the Ravenhill Darkwings.
04/03/2034 Strikes out 16 against the Dol Guldur Dragons.
04/24/2034 Pitches a 5-hit shutout against the Bywater Bounders with 14 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
05/26/2034 Strikes out 15 against the Lothlorien Lumberjacks.
07/09/2034 Pitches a 5-hit shutout against the Dead Marshes Uruk-hai with 10 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
12/03/2034 Received a 1-year contract worth a total of $11,305,000 through arbitration.
01/01/2035 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 75 (75); Movement: 49 (49); Control: 78 (79).
02/26/2035 Strikes out 16 against the Ravenhill Darkwings.
09/18/2035 Pitches a 6-hit shutout against the Dagorlad Disaster with 12 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
12/17/2035 Signed a 6-year contract worth a total of $162,000,000 with the Lake Town Archers organization.
01/01/2036 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 73 (73); Movement: 49 (49); Control: 77 (78).
04/19/2036 Pitches a 7-hit shutout against the Carrock Bears with 11 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
05/01/2036 Wins the SGCBL SC Pitcher of the Month Award.
05/04/2036 Injured (Mild hamstring strain), day-to-day for 1-2 weeks.
06/27/2036 Collects his 2000th career Tolkien Baseball strikeout!
10/02/2036 Injured (Sore thumb), day-to-day for 2 days.
01/01/2037 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 74 (75); Movement: 52 (52); Control: 81 (81).
03/07/2037 Injured (Heat exhaustion), day-to-day for 3 days.
06/09/2037 Injured (Mild oblique strain), day-to-day for 5 days.
06/26/2037 Pitches a 4-hit shutout against the Bree Cheese with 3 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
07/06/2037 Pitches a 4-hit shutout against the Carrock Bears with 9 strikeouts and 2 BB allowed!
08/08/2037 Pitches a 6-hit shutout against the Mirkwood Sylvan with 10 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
10/01/2037 Wins the SGCBL SC Pitcher of the Month Award.
11/28/2037 Finished 3rd in 2037 SGCBL SC Gandalf Pitcher Award voting.
01/01/2038 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 86 (87); Movement: 60 (60); Control: 88 (88).
05/14/2038 Collects his 2500th career Tolkien Baseball strikeout!
08/01/2038 Pitches a 5-hit shutout against the Erebor Eagles with 11 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
08/12/2038 Pitches a 8-hit shutout against the Grey Havens Stars with 9 strikeouts and 1 BB allowed!
10/07/2038 Pitches a 1-hit shutout against the Bree Cheese with 10 strikeouts and 0 BB allowed!
10/11/2038 Wins the 2038 SGCBL SC Hobbit Series MVP Award.
11/19/2038 Exercised his contract opt-out.
01/01/2039 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Stuff: 87 (88); Movement: 62 (62); Control: 86 (86).
02/08/2039 Signed a 4-year contract worth a total of $112,000,000 with the Old Forest Merry Fellows organization.
02/28/2039 Injured (Partially torn labrum), out for 4 months.


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An Israeli ophthalmologist has developed an eye drop capable of repairing the cornea and improving near- and far-sightedness.
Dr. David Smadja said the eye drops could be used to treat myopia, hyperopia, and other refractory conditions, and could even replace multifocal lenses which allow people to see objects from different distances.
The project involved analyzing pigs' eyes for refractive errors before and after installation of these "nanodrops" filled with various concentrations of synthetic nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are microscopic particles that act as a bridge between bulk materials and molecular structures, and they make up a large body of scientific research due to the wide variety of potential applications.
Nanodrops work by modifying the corneal refractive index. Refractive errors occur when light isn't focused correctly onto the retina due to the eye shape. The nanodrop technology uses a laser to stamp an optical pattern onto the outer layer of the cornea based upon the required correction.
Laser stamping takes only a few seconds and the stamped shape varies to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or loss of accommodation ability. Together with the nanodrops, the stamping changes the refractive index and modifies the trajectory of light passing through the cornea.
If the results prove successful in humans, applications could include using a smartphone app to scan the eyes, measuring the refraction, creating a laser pattern, and then stamping that optical pattern onto the corneal surface of the eyes.
The app would "stamp" numerous adjacent pulses onto the cornea in a quick and painless manner. The tiny corneal spots created by the stamp allow the synthetic nanoparticles to enter the eye and modify the optical power at the desired correction. Smadja compared the process to "writing" something on the ground using fuel. Once the fuel dries, if you throw a flame onto the ground, the fire would take the shape of the writing.
It isn't clear yet how humans would respond to the nanodrops, or whether they might prove toxic to humans. Additionally, it's not clear how often the drops need to be applied or how much of the solution is required in order to produce results. In pigs, the correction lasted about two hours. Because the new treatment is noninvasive and does not remove tissue, it suits most eyes, and it will expand the scope of patients who benefit from the treatment.
The National Eye Institute reports that both children and adults suffer from nearsightedness or farsightedness. While farsightedness — the condition in which close objects are blurry but far objects are normal — occurs in about 10 percent of Americans, nearsightedness affects about 42 percent of Americans.
Related research in London studied the possibility of loading nanoparticles with the age-related macular degeneration drug Avastin to treat patients without injecting drugs into the eyes.
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Bay of Plenty Earthquakes
Residents of the Bay of Plenty have reported slightly more earthquakes than normal in recent weeks, with 15 quakes being felt at several towns and settlements. The earthquakes have struck at four distinctly separate locations in the area, all at shallow depths.
The Matata earthquake swarms have continued at a steady rate during February, with 9 events being felt. The earthquakes with magnitudes between 2.5 and 3.7, are occuring at three locations "" 10 km north, 10 km north-east and within 5 km of the town.
Four earthquakes were reported by residents of Whakatane on the 25th and 26th. The quakes, which ranged in magnitude between 2.5 and 3.7, were located 10 km north of Whakatane at depths of 5 km.
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake at a depth of 5 km was reported felt in Atiamuri, south of Rotorua yesterday.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake at a depth of 5 km struck 10 km north-east of White Island on February 12th. It was felt at Te Kaha.
[Compiled from data supplied by Geonet and its contributing agencies, and Hazardwatch.]
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The Edgecumbe Earthquake, 20 years ago in 3 days time was preceded by a number of small earthquakes in Matata and Thornton…it just makes you wonder if things aren't gearing up for another shake in that area.
With the volume of earthquakes in the Matata and Eastern Bay of Plenty over the past few months, many of those becoming shallower recently, it certainly would appear that something is happening…
Maybe a red herring….maybe not.


Hi there, I'm right now commiting/merging into the JBoss Drools trunk (5.2.0.SNAPSHOT) the new version of the Drools Grid module. The idea of this module and all its submodules is to provide the ability to execute distributed knowledge session across distributed grid of machines/nodes.
As you can imagine, these interfaces needs to be implemented in order to provide the functionality. That's why we have different modules that provides different implementations for these services.
Let's take a look at the different different environment types and the sub-modules that we need to use in each of them.
Inside this project you will find the local implementation of the services that will included inside the Execution Nodes and Directory Nodes. Note that we didn't include the HumanTask node here because we don't have a local implementation for the Human Task service.
Salaboy, how about reliability? Can one node take over the work of another failed node?
Sounds interesting - I wondered what the projects in trunk represented. I am however unsure whether this is a distributed RETE network, distributed execution environments (load balancing and failover) or distributed Fusion. Can you please enlighten me?
@Greoffrey: hmm good question. The idea behind Drools Grid is to manage sessions across the grid (different nodes/machines), so it changes a little bit the way that you think about distribution.
@mantis and @Greoffrey: this is not a distributed RETE implementation. This will let you distribute and execute (different) knowledge assets in a simple way.
I was thinking a lot about planning problems, or more specifically how to improve the grid topology using planner.
@dienaya: yes you can do that. Remember that stateful sessions maintain status, so you can create an active-active environment easily.
@Abdel: we have almost 80% of an implementation using hornetQ for remote interactions, so you will get the same features that you have right now in your implementation using drools-grid-services.
@all: you can check my personal blog for more up-to-date posts. I'm planning to put all the links here when I can complete a set of related posts that I'm working on.


In December, exports fell to CHF 15.6 billion, but grew 1.6 percent compared to a year earlier. Imports fell 5.3 percent year-on-year to CHF 13.6 billion.
Switzerland posted an all-time high trade surplus in 2011, helped by strong trade in chemicals and chemical products, the Federal Customs Administration said Thursday.
The trade balance resulted in a surplus of CHF 23.8 billion in 2011, which is 22 percent higher than 2010. Chemical industry was the largest contributor to the favorable outcome with a trade balance of CHF 37 billion.
In 2011, exports climbed 2.1 percent, slower than 7.2 percent surge in 2010. Imports, meanwhile, fell 0.1 percent after 8.6 percent increase in the previous month.
Separately, the Federation of Swiss Watch Industry FH said that watch exports climbed 21 percent year-on-year in December, taking the total value of watch exports in 2011 to CHF 19.3 billion. This was 19.2 percent higher than a year earlier.


The hallways seemed eerily quiet. There were no huddles of small talk happening in the commons or people walking around with headphones. Everyone was on high alert.
On Monday, January 28 at 12pm, Sticker Tag began.
Screams were heard throughout the classrooms as contestants were tagged unexpectedly by their hunters. There was running—but not in the hallways, of course. There were tears. There were victorious fist-pumps.
Robin Chan, a second year and self-proclaimed professional sticker tagger, was on a high after making two tags in under two minutes on the first day of the game.
"I thought I was going to win. With such a great start, how could you not be a bit confident?" Chan recounts, wiping away tears.
But sadly, later that same day, Chan was playing a game of Jenga in the Rec Center when Emily Bootsma, one of his own peers, came up to him and slapped a sticker on his back.
"The realization hit me in the face that I would have to wait another year to claim victory. I was devastated," he comments.
Day by day, more and more contestants were losing their chance at the prize of $150 as two players, Jeremy Thudian and Kennan Benjamins, pulled ahead.
Jeremy Thudian, a third year at Redeemer, is currently the leader in individual tags—with eight of them—as of Thursday, January 31.
"Predator or prey, the most valuable asset one can possess is an ally. Our dorm mates were in constant communication with each other, which gave us eyes and ears everywhere," Thudian explains. The goal for Dorm 29, Thudian's dorm, is to win both the prize for most individual tags and the prize for most tags as a dorm.
"The battle's turning point was when Ryan [a member of Jeremy's dorm] managed to obtain Jeremy's name from another contender, ensuring Jeremy's safety and allowing him to go fully offensive," a member of dorm 29 states.
Kennan Benjamins, Thudian's co-RA, is currently placed second for individual tags with seven tags. At this point, victory seems out of reach for anyone who is not in Dorm 29, as the members of the dorm continue to dominate the game with over twenty-five tags.
But who will win? Come to the commons on Friday, February 1 to witness a showdown like no other.