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Michael's Choice (Part 2 to The Gift)
by Barbara Avon
***Michael Rossi is back! *** After the death of Ottawa's first serial killer, things in the city are just getting back to normal. The city's imposed curfew has been lifted, the nervous energy in the air has started to dissipate and demolition has begun on Hayden's Amusement Park. After suffering at the hand of Stevie Phelps, and putting the pieces of their lives back together, Michael and Nicole Rossi are living the dream. Business at Michael's Place is booming, their daughter, Maria, i... more
The Penderghast Puzzle Protectors
by Julie Seedorf
The Brilliant Brothers founded Brilliant Minnesota, and then they disappeared. The residents of Brilliant didn't know the brothers left a puzzle needing to be solved. A chain of unexpected present-day events shakes up the Penderghast neighborhood of Brilliant: Mr. Warbler hanging between floors after stepping through a hole cut in his floor by a floornapper, then a dead body in Annabelle Avery's empty house. To the dismay of Police Chief Hank Hardy, Jezabelle Jingle and her quirky neighbors form... more
Murder in the Museum: An Edmund Decleryk Mystery
by Karen Shughart
Early one gray November morning, retired Lighthouse Cove,NY police chief, Edmund DeCleryk, finds Emily Bradford's body at the base of the bluff where the museum and historical society stands. At the same time, a break-in has been reported in the museum, and Emily's coat and purse are found hanging on a peg in the museum's gift shop. Was her death the result of a burglary gone bad or something more sinister? When the police chief is called out of town for a family emergency, he hires Ed, now work... more
Critical Cover-Up
by Margie Miklas
Allison Jamison abandoned a lucrative real estate career to become a nurse and be able to impact others' lives during their most vulnerable times. When she accepts a job in a critical care unit at a prominent Florida hospital, corruptive practices threaten to shatter her illusions. An element of evil lurks just beneath the surface and around corners in a place typically known for saving lives. The murder of a popular surgeon, a fatal mistake in a critical care unit, and anonymous threats chall... more
The Mystery of Ruby's Port
by Rose Donovan
Spring in the Caribbean, 1935. Cruising to disaster, Ruby Dove and Fina Aubrey-Havelock face down a murderer who is slowly crossing names off the passenger list. As the SS Sanguine sets sail from the Bahamas, Ruby and Fina eagerly await the excitement promised once they dock in Trinidad. Ruby pays her way as an apprentice to a French designer and Fina tags along as a governess to a wealthy widow's son. Ruby's brother has also asked them to find a secret contact on board. Which passengers a... more
The Mystery of Ruby's Sugar
Christmas, 1934. The snow lies heavy around Pauncefort Hall. Dress designers Ruby Dove and Fina Aubrey-Havelock leave behind their Oxford exams to rescue Lady Charlotte's wardrobe. But what Lady Charlotte doesn't know is that Ruby is on a mission—a mission to avenge her family and bring down an empire. As the weather worsens, Ruby and Fina are drawn into the intrigues of Lady Charlotte's other guests, who include a princess, a furiously left-wing don, a West End starlet—and, it seems, a m... more
The Mind Reader
by david singer
What would you do if you could read minds? Dr Finker had no idea, but he is about to find out! The retired dentist wasn't looking for these amazing abilities. He was simply looking for a cure for a hand tremor that drove him out of his profession. After a Brazilian healer cures his ailment. Finker discovers that the ritual has given him powerful psychic abilities. Dr Finker wants to use them to advance peace and justice, but sinister operators might force him into using his powers to cause ch... more
by Tony Faggioli
A priest dying of cancer and guilt, about to make his final stand against evil. A detective, at war with himself, about to learn that the past is no place to fight your battles. A gangster, out of jail and free at last, about to find out that the greatest prison of all is a broken heart. Three men. Each about to discover that the veil between this world and the next is razor thin.
Darkness and Blood
A former American spy, now in hiding, and his former CIA handler are on the run in Europe from governments, after they unearth damaging, top-secret information. A thriller set against a backdrop of paranoia, surveillance-infested London, whistle blowing, and high-level backstabbing at MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency.
Feral Phantom
by Brooke De Lira
The fast-paced worlds of parkour and capoeira are Nanda's only escape from the animal emotions that haunt her every hour. When she wakes up on a dark hillside with the past three days wiped from her memory, everything changes. Her weak parkour skills -- gone. This is the new Nanda, and she can leap over rooftops like an urban ninja. Searching for answers, she stumbles on a wildlife trafficking empire that hides a menacing secret. Nanda is determined to finally save the animals who call to he... more
SCABLAND
When Melissa Cohen was 18 a cruel attack ruined her dream of becoming a psychiatrist. Ever since, she's been unwilling to commit to any relationship or career. She's been a soldier in the Israeli army, an Israeli federal agent, a Miami police officer and a forensic photographer. Now 38, she's a successful paparazzi photographer. For 20 years Melissa assumed her attackers didn't know her identity. But one does. Dying from the mysterious Burning-Heart Virus, he confesses... more
To Conquer Heaven
by Felix Long
Jeremy Wang, still smarting from his fall from grace at the urging of his college roommate Brett East, has found a clue. A clue to the location of the lost Tomb of the First Emperor of China. A legendary lost treasure more amazing than King Tutankhamun's tomb. And he needs Brett's help to find it. There's just one problem ... the First Emperor was a powerful Taoist sorceror obsessed with discovering the Elixir of Life ... and he is not ... quite ... dead.
If I Scream: A mystery novel (The Ward Trilogy Book 2)
by W.H. Clark
When a malnourished woman is involved in a fatal car crash Ward's attempts to identify her falter. Suspecting the woman to be the victim of an abduction, the detective races against time to try to uncover what happened to her. And then the brutal murders start.
An End to a Silence (The Ward Trilogy Book 1)
A twisty, fast-paced crime mystery set in small town Montana. On the brink of retirement, Newton, a detective broken by his failure to find a missing boy twenty-five years earlier, gets one last chance for redemption. With the help of his replacement, a city-hardened Texan detective called Ward, can Newton finally break the silence? Can Ward conquer his own demons?
Belfast Central
by A.K. Amherst
Belfast 1993: A nocturnal ambulance service at the Belfast Central Station almost turns deadly for the young paramedic Ryan. In the crosshairs of the IRA, he is badly wounded and wakes up in the hospital with muddled memories. The police close the case fast, leaving too many burning questions unanswered. Most importantly, who was that old man who appeared at the scene out of nowhere and saved Ryan's life? Not fully recovered yet, Ryan begins searching for the mysterious man, only to get dragged ... more
Billy Jean the Cloud and Bill the Hawksbill Turtle: Billy Jean the Cloud and Bill the Hawksbill Turtle Save Endangered Animals
by Hyacinth Paul
Billy Jean the Cloud and Bill the Hawksbill Turtle go around the world and find endangered animals in all parts of the world. These animals are close to extinction and are classified as critically endangered. Billy Jean and Bill decide to tell the world to save these animals from extinction and live happily ever after because they are confident all the boys and girls and mamas and papas of the world will make a change.


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And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow; (Matthew 13:3)
and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. (Matthew 13:4)
"Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil. (Matthew 13:5)
"But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. (Matthew 13:6)
"Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out. (Matthew 13:7)
"And others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. (Matthew 13:8)
"He who has ears, let him hear." (Matthew 13:9)
"Hear then the parable of the sower. (Matthew 13:18)
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"The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; (Matthew 13:20)
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"And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. (Matthew 13:22)
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SPREAD-A-BALE
Last winter, the machine helped us to make 30% straw savings – we needed 100 fewer bales, amounting to 50t less straw which worked out at over £7,000 in cost savings.
On top of that is massive labour saving. It used to take two men spending a total of 12 hours each week to bed up the youngstock. Nowadays it's taking one man approximately one hour a week.
The machine is reliable and makes for a safer environment. I no longer have to get in the pens to manually shake out the straw with a fork. And unlike other machines that shred straw, it creates minimal dust and the risk of flying stones has been eliminated.
We invested in a Maxi Spread-a-Bale four years ago; it's a good bit of kit. It would be taking me most of the day to bed up 600 head of beef cattle plus a further 200 dairy cows, whereas nowadays it's taking us just under two hours a day to spread 14 Heston bales; and we're working in some tight spaces which I don't think other machines could manoeuvre around.
Josh Wilson, Parkinson Partners, Atherstone: 200 dairy cows, 600 beef cattle
We're bedding up three times a week and we used to manually roll out four bales each time. Since we invested in Spread-a-Bale it's saving us a lot of effort and time – up to 90 minutes each time we bed up. It's also made the job a lot safer since we no longer have to get in with the stock.
Andrew Tucker, Farm Manager, Bradford-on-Avon: 250 head beef inc 100 suckler cows
Since we swapped spreading straw manually for a Spread-a-Bale, the machine is saving us a lot of time – up to three hours a day.
Spread-a-Bale creates a nice deep bed for the calves and they love getting under it. The machine doesn't chop the straw so there's minimal dust during spreading which makes for better health and welfare, and another bonus – no flying stones or missiles
Joanne Pile, Bradford-on-Avon: 500 head calf rearing unit
Spread-a-Bale is absolutely brilliant.
We had a machine on demonstration back in 2005, and we never gave it back; whilst the investment seems a lot of money at the time, it's the best thing I've ever bought – the payback has been tremendous in terms of saving straw and time.
We've still got that same machine, it's been in continual operation during the housing period, and it still works like new. We have a miscellany of accommodation in various shapes, sizes and locations, and it ducks and dives from tight calving pens to full telescopic use in the finishing sheds.
Also, we're contractors as well as farmers and we like to keep a minimum number of passes around the yard. Being self-loading from the stack, Spread-a-Bale helps towards our goal
Laurence Owen, Churchstoke: 170 suckler cows plus finishers.
I've used a number of straw bedding machines over more years than I care to remember and have always disliked the amount of dust produced during spreading and even less appreciated unblocking them on a regular basis.
We have a number of straw yards with less than ideal designs, and have a high standard of bedding being a university farm which in turn means a significant amount of straw is used annually. The straw bill for 2018 was around £30,000 which is about twice the average spend for this size of farm based on Promar costings.
Using Spread-a-Bale, we have halved our straw useage, which means that the machine will have paid for itself in 12 months. It's easy to use and rarely blocks, but its rotors and bed can be put in to reverse if its does, and it leaves a fluffy bed for the animals to nest in.
John Cameron, farm manager, Woodpark Farm, The University of Liverpool School of Veterinary Science; 220 cow


Allie Reynolds, who tossed a pair of no-hitters for the New York Yankees in 1951, was born 99 years ago today.
The Bethany, Oklahoma, native threw both of his no-hitters in a 2½-month span during the 1951 season, in which he posted a 17-8 record. He improved on that for 1952, going 20-8 with an American League-leading 2.06 ERA. He retired with a 182–107 record and 3.30 ERA.


Haberkip	Invalid driving licences, high roaming charges, limited freedom of travel: The government in London has listed problems in the event of an EU exit without an agreement.
Invalid driving licences, high roaming charges, limited freedom of travel: The government in London has listed problems in the event of an EU exit without an agreement.
The British government has updated its guide to a possible hard Brexit. The London ministry, which is responsible for EU exit, published a furr 28 recommendations for citizens, should negotiations with European Union fail. Both EU and United Kingdom have been preparing for this no-deal scenario for months. They do not have much time left: In a short half year, Britain wants to leave, an agreement is currently considered unlikely.
At end of August British government had already published a first part of guide for a hard Brexit. This guide will be completed by end of September with a total of around 80 recommendations for private and business people. The new recommendations relate, among or things, to validity of British driving licences, mobile tariffs, emission rules and import and export of goods.
The British authorities are warning, for example, that British driving licences may not be valid on continent in future. Their owners would have to obtain eir a school or an international driving licence. Conversely, EU citizens can continue ir national driving licence on island. British people are also threatened with high mobile phone costs when travelling. While EU citizens do not have to pay roaming charges in EU, it could become expensive again after Brexit for British. This could be a particular nuisance for frontier ended Norrn Ireland if your local provider sends a weaker signal than an EU foreign provider.
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The president of CBI Business association, Carolyn Fairbairn, said that recommendations were proof of "extent of disruption" that citizens and businesses would expect. She asked all sides to reach an agreement and to avoid a hard Brexit.
The government in London must conclude negotiations with EU representatives until EU summit in October. Thereafter, only a few months remain for ratification of exit Treaty by parliaments of both sides. The withdrawal is scheduled for March 29, 2019. In case of a hard Brexit, i.e. an exit without agreement with EU, United Kingdom will be subject to usual rules of World Trade Organisation from this date, including numerous border and customs restrictions on trading with EU.


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Not to be confused with Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī (Persian: محمد بن محمد بن حسن طوسی 24 February 1201 – 26 June 1274), better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi (Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی; or simply Tusi /ˈtuːsi/ in the West), was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian. He established trigonometry as an independent branch of mathematics. He was a Twelver Shia Muslim. Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) claimed Tusi was the greatest of the later Persian scholars.
Al-Tūsī was born in the city of Tus, Khorasan (now in northeastern Iran) in the year 1201 and began his studies at an early age. In Hamadan and Tus he studied the Quran, hadith, Ja'fari jurisprudence, logic, philosophy, mathematics, medicine and astronomy.
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In Mosul al-Tūsī studied mathematics and astronomy with Kamal al-Din Yunus (d. AH 639 / AD 1242), a pupil of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. Later he corresponded with Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, the son-in-law of Ibn Arabi, and it seems that the mysticism of the Sufi masters of his time, did not appeal to him. However he composed his own manual of philosophical Sufism in the form of a small booklet entitled Awsaf al-Ashraf "The Attributes of the Illustrious".
As the armies of Genghis Khan swept across his homeland, al-Tūsī was employed by the Nizari Ismaili state. His most important contributions to science were made while he moved from one stronghold to another. He was captured after the invasion of Alamut Castle by the Mongol forces.
While in Nishapur, al-Tūsī established a reputation for scholarship. He composed over 150 prose works, and his diwan (collected works) is one of the largest by any Muslim author. Writing in Arabic and Persian, Nasir al-Din Tusi treats religious ("Islamic") and secular subjects ("the ancient sciences"). He translated the works of Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Autolycus, and Theodosius of Bithynia into Arabic.
The Astronomical Observatory of Nasir al-Dīn Tusi.
When al-Tūsī convinced the Mongol conqueror Hulegu Khan to build an observatory for purpose of producing accurate astronomical tables, it was the most technically advanced in the world. Astronomical charts were used in astrological predictions and to calculate the dates of religious festivals, in addition to many other civil, military and navigational applications. Begun in 1259, the Rasad Khaneh observatory was constructed in Azarbaijan, south of the river Aras and west of Maragheh, the capital of the Ilkhanate Empire.
Using the sophisticated measurements taken at the observatory Al-Tusi's highly accurate astronomical tables of planetary movements are depicted in his book Zij-i ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables). His tables calculating the positions of the planets and the names of the stars and his model for the planetary system, the most scientifically advanced of its time, were in use until the development of the heliocentric model in the time of Nicolaus Copernicus. Between Ptolemy and Copernicus, he is considered one of the most eminent astronomers. His famous student Shams ad-Din Al-Bukhari  taught the Byzantine scholar Gregory Chioniadis, who had in turn trained the astronomer Manuel Bryennios  about 1300 in Constantinople.
The Tusi-couple is a geometrical technique invented by al-Ṭūsī to generate linear motion from the sum of two circular motions and is used in his planetary models. The technique replaced Ptolemy's problematic equant for many planets, but was unable to find a solution to Mercury, which was solved later by Ibn al-Shatir as well as Ali Qushji. The Tusi couple was later employed in Ibn al-Shatir's geocentric model and Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric Copernican model. He also calculated the value for the annual precession of the equinoxes and contributed to the construction and usage of some astronomical instruments including the astrolabe.
Al-Ṭūsī noted that Ptolemy's observations for the Earth's being at rest, were not evidence of proof. However while he too believed in a fixed earth, as did his 16th-century commentator al-Bīrjandī, he insisted only the physical principles based on natural philosophy could be relied upon. Tusi's criticisms of Ptolemy were similar to the arguments later used by Copernicus in 1543 to defend the Earth's rotation.
On the real essence of the Milky Way, Ṭūsī in his Tadhkira writes: "The Milky Way, i.e. the galaxy, is made up of a very large number of small, tightly-clustered stars, which, on account of their concentration and smallness, seem to be cloudy patches. because of this, it was likened to milk in color."  Three centuries later the proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it is really composed of a huge number of faint stars.
"What spurred him to this was that in the assertoric syllogistic Aristotle and others sometimes used contradictories of absolute propositions on the assumption that they are absolute; and that was why so many decided that absolutes did contradict absolutes. When Avicenna had shown this to be wrong, he wanted to develop a method of construing those examples from Aristotle."
Al-Tusi's extensive exposition Treatise on the Quadrilateral, distinguish spherical trigonometry from astronomy. It was in the works of Al-Tusi that trigonometry achieved the status of an independent branch of pure mathematics distinct from astronomy, to which it had been linked for so long.
He created a list of six cases for the right triangle in spherical trigonometry.
His discoveries in spherical trigonometry followed the tradition of earlier Greek mathematicians such as Menelaus of Alexandria, who wrote Sphaerica, and the Muslim mathematicians Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī and Al-Jayyani.
In his Akhlaq-i Nasiri, Tusi wrote about several biological topics. He defended a version of Aristotle's scala naturae, in which he placed man above animals, plants, minerals, and the elements. He described "grasses which grow without sowing or cultivation, by the mere mingling of elements," as closest to minerals. Among plants, he considered the date-palm as the most highly developed, since "it only lacks one thing further to reach (the stage of) an animal: to tear itself loose from the soil and to move away in the quest for nourishment."
"The noblest of the species is that one whose sagacity and perception is such that it accepts discipline and instruction: thus there accrues to it the perfection not originally created in it. Such are the schooled horse and the trained falcon. The greater this faculty grows in it, the more surpassing its rank, until a point is reached where the (mere) observation of action suffices as instruction: thus, when they see a thing, they perform the like of it by mimicry, without training [...]. This is the utmost of the animal degrees, and the first of the degrees of Man in contiguous therewith."
Al-Tusi's biological writings have been interpreted as a kind of proto-evolutionary theory. However, Tusi did not state explicitly that he believed species to change over time.
Al-Tusi's main contribution to chemistry, is his formulation of an early law of conservation of mass.
A 60-km diameter lunar crater located on the southern hemisphere of the moon is named after him as "Nasireddin". A minor planet 10269 Tusi discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him. The K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Iran and Observatory of Shamakhy in the Republic of Azerbaijan are also named after him. In February 2013, Google celebrated his 812th birthday with a doodle, which was accessible in its websites with Arabic language calling him al-farsi (the Persian).
Of about 150 works al-Tusi wrote, 25 were in Persian, the remaining in Arabic, and one treatise in Persian, Arabic and Turkish.
Al-Tadhkirah fi'ilm al-hay'ah – A memoir on the science of astronomy. Many commentaries were written about this work called Sharh al-Tadhkirah (A Commentary on al-Tadhkirah) - Commentaries were written by Abd al-Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Birjandi and by Nazzam Nishapuri.
Talkhis al-Muhassal (summary of summaries).
Maʾkhūdhāt mansūba ilā Arshimīdis (مأخوذات منسوبة إلى أَ ْرشَمِيْدس); a Latin-English translation by John Greaves titled Lemmata Archimidis e vetusto codice manuscripto Arabico (London, 1659) introduced the work into Europe.
makes the steed of intelligence leap over the vault of heaven.
can bring his lame little donkey to the destination nonetheless.
is stuck forever in double ignorance.
^ Bennison, Amira K. (2009). The great caliphs : the golden age of the 'Abbasid Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-300-15227-2. Hulegu killed the last 'Abbasid caliph but also patronized the foundation of a new observatory at Maragha in Azerbayjan at the instigation of the Persian Shi'i polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi.
^ Seyyed Hossein Nasr (2006). Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy. State University of New York Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-7914-6800-5. In fact it was common among Persian Islamic philosophers to write few quatrains on the side often in the spirit of some of the poems of Khayyam singing about the impermanence of the world and its transience and similar themes. One needs to only recall the names of Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Nasir al-Din Tusi and Mulla Sadra, who wrote poems along with extensive prose works.
^ Laet, Sigfried J. de (1994). History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. UNESCO. p. 908. ISBN 978-92-3-102813-7. the Persian astronomer and philosopher Nasir al-Din Tusi.
^ electricpulp.com. "ṬUSI, NAṢIR-AL-DIN i. Biography – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2018-08-05. His greatest contribution to mathematics (Nasr, 1996, pp. 208-14) was establishing a new discipline of trigonometry. He developed spherical trigonometry and the six fundamental formulas for the solution of spherical right-angled triangles.
^ a b c H. Daiber, F.J. Ragep, "Tusi" in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007. Brill Online. Quote: "Tusi's prose writings, which number over 150 works, represent one of the largest collections by a single Islamic author. Writing in both Arabic and Persian, Nasir al-Din dealt with both religious ("Islamic") topics and non-religious or secular subjects ("the ancient sciences")."
^ Morris Rossabi (28 November 2014). From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia: The Writings of Morris Rossabi. BRILL. pp. 281–. ISBN 978-90-04-28529-3.
^ Ragep, F. Jamil (2001), "Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science", Osiris, 16, 2nd ser.: 49–64, Bibcode:2001Osir...16...49R, doi:10.1086/649338, JSTOR 301979 , at p. 60.
^ F. Jamil Ragep (2001), "Tusi and Copernicus: The Earth's Motion in Context", Science in Context 14 (1-2), p. 145–163. Cambridge University Press.
^ O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. (November 2002). "Galileo Galilei". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
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^ * Katz, Victor J. (1993). A History of Mathematics: An Introduction, p259. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-673-38039-4.
^ Bosworth, Clifford E.; Asimov (2003). History of civilizations of Central Asia. 4. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 190. ISBN 81-208-1596-3.
^ Hayes, John R.; Badeau, John S. (1983). The genius of Arab civilization : source of Renaissance (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 156. ISBN 0-262-08136-9.
^ a b Berggren, J. Lennart (2007). "Mathematics in Medieval Islam". The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook. Princeton University Press. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-691-11485-9.
^ a b Nasir ad-Din Tusi (1964) The Nasirean Ethics (translator: G.M. Wickens). London: Allen & Unwin, p. 44.
^ Nasir ad-Din Tusi (1964) The Nasirean Ethics (translator: G.M. Wickens). London: Allen & Unwin, p. 45.
^ Nasir ad-Din Tusi (1964) The Nasirean Ethics (translator: G.M. Wickens). London: Allen & Unwin, p. 45f.
^ Nasir ad-Din Tusi (1964) The Nasirean Ethics (translator: G.M. Wickens). London: Allen & Unwin, p. 42 (emphasis added).
^ Alakbarli, Farid (Summer 2001). "A 13th-Century Darwin? Tusi's Views on Evolution". Azerbaijan International. 9 (2): 48–49.
^ Shoja, M.M.; Tubbs, R.S. (2007). "The history of anatomy in Persia". Journal of Anatomy. 210: 359–378. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00711.x. PMC 2100290.
^ Alakbarli, Farid (2001). "A 13th-Century Darwin? Tusi's Views on Evolution". Azerbaijan International. 9 (2 (Summer 2001)): 48–49. Retrieved 27 January 2018. While this reasoning may seem backward to today's Western mind, some of Tusi's theories did have merit. For instance, Tusi believed that a body of matter is able to change, but is not able to entirely disappear. He wrote: 'A body of matter cannot disappear completely. It only changes its form, condition, composition, color and other properties and turns into a different complex or elementary matter'.
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PI insurer obstructs AFS case
A professional indemnity insurance provider has been accused of instructing the former directors of AFS Group from providing information to a dispute resolution scheme.
A lawyer representing a former client of an AFS adviser received a letter from the Credit Ombudsman Service Limited (COSL), an ADR scheme, yesterday explaining a claim filed against AFS had been thrown out due to a lack of co-operation with the relevant PI insurer.
"We are unable to deal with your complaint further and have now closed our file," said the letter obtained by ifa and signed by COSL case co-ordinator Mairead Murphy.
The letter explained that AFS Group does not have to resources to pay claims of unsecured creditors and that therefore co-operation from AFS's insurance provider is necessary to proceed with the claim.
However, "the insurer has declined to provide any further information and instructed AFS not to disclose any further information".
The lawyer, speaking to ifa on condition of anonymity, said the former directors of AFS are not to blame for the obstruction of the claim, pointing the finger squarely at the insurance provider – whose identity has been supressed in all documentation available to the lawyer or seen by ifa.
"The insurers have had a win here; it is pretty murky waters," the lawyer said. "They are fighting on every stage to try and stop people pursuing their claims."
The lawyer said he filed the claim prior to AFS entering administration in April, meaning the insurer should be held to account as AFS's PI cover was still valid.
"There is a deficiency in the system and that's that claims that are made when an insurance policy is current should be dealt with and now the insurers have found a way to frustrate the process by refusing to hand over information," he said.
The lawyer said similar tactics have been utilised by the same insurer in two separate disputes involving claims against AFS in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
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JESUS SAVES: William Henry Stanford (dark shirt) and his brother Jerry Stanford, install a new sign atop Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in 1979. More than 100 years earlier, their uncle helped build the church.
Photo: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
William Stanford, 73: Builder refurbished iconic 'Jesus Saves' sign
Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
William Henry Stanford was able to pack a lot into his 73 years.
He was in the United States U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War.
He was one of Decatur's first black police officers.
He was a private investigator for a while.
But it was his work as the owner of a construction company that he might be most proud of.
In 1979, he and a brother were hired to completely refurbish one of Atlanta's most recognizable and enduring landmarks – the JESUS SAVES sign that sits atop the steeple of Big Bethel A.M.E. Church as a comforting symbol of hope.
"When I was younger, I would say my daddy put that sign up," said Stanford's youngest son, Jerrol Stanford. "Even today, it gives me comfort to drive past it."
William Henry Stanford died of kidney failure Dec. 31, 2018, in Atlanta. He was 73.
His funeral will be Friday at 1 p.m. at the Murray Brothers Funeral Home, 1199 Utoy Springs Road in Atlanta. He will be buried at Westview Cemetery, 1680 Westview Dr. in Atlanta.
Known as "Big Mike," William Henry Stanford served in Vietnam, was a police officer and a private detective before starting his own construction company with his brother in 1973.
Stanford was born Sept. 21, 1945, to Lucile and Elmer Elmore Stanford in Atlanta.
"Big Mike," as he was called in school, along with his brothers grew up in the Old Fourth Ward. At the old David T. Howard High School, he was active as a member of the student government association, president's cabinet and Squires Club.
After graduating in 1963, he joined the United States Navy as an underwater demolition technician. He served for four years, receiving an honorable discharge and a National Defense Service medal.
On May 4, 1968, he married Dorothy McKisic and had three sons, William II, Michael and Jerrol.
"He taught us all hard work," Jerrol Stanford said. "We were around him a lot and he made me who I am today."
Stanford used his military training to work briefly as a prison guard in Buford, before becoming a police officer for the city of Decatur from 1969 until 1973.
With his brother, Jerry, who also had a law-enforcement background, the two started an upstart private detective business. When that got too dicey, they opened their own construction company, Stanford, Stanford & Stanford Construction, along with a third brother.
They had been doing a lot of residential and commercial general contracting when officials at Big Bethel called them to replace the JESUS SAVES sign at the oldest black church in Atlanta, whose roots date back to 1847.
"And it meant a lot to us, because we had an uncle who put the original stones in the church in 1865," Jerry Stanford said.
A version of the iconic sign had been a mainstay at Big Bethel since 1922, when the church was refurbished after a fire. Jerry Stanford said by the time they got to it in 1979, the sign was rotting and birds had broken most of the warm neon bulbs.
The brothers got a cousin to make the letters, and a sign company to make the neon bulbs. They then hoisted themselves up the 200-foot tall steeple with rope to install it.
The blue-neon "Jesus Saves" sign on the steeple can be seen for miles.
"We had a reputation for doing difficult projects, so they gave us the challenge of restoring it," Jerry Stanford said. "It meant a lot to us. He was somebody that I could always depend on. We were like twins."
ATLANTA, GA — The 'Jesus Saves' sign on the steeple of Big Bethel AME Church on Auburn Avenue has been unlit for a decade. The church is throwing a celebration for the relighting of the sign. (DWIGHT ROSS, JR./AJC staff)
Aside from his wife, three sons and younger brother, Stanford is survived by six grandchildren; and another brother, Richard Stanford.
He was a member of Fellowship of Faith Church International in East Point.


In recent weeks, our newsfeeds have filled afresh with hatred, conflict, and deadly violence. The horrific terror attacks in Christchurch, which killed 50 Muslims, captured global attention. But sadly this wasn't the only heartbreaking headline.
In southern Ethiopia, a humanitarian disaster is growing in the wake of conflict between Christians from rival tribes. A senior Christian leader from the region told me in an email that 135 churches have been burned to the ground and a million people driven from their homes. Much of this violence has been fueled by Christians who probably go to church on Sundays and declare, "Jesus is Lord." The Guardian warns that a "shadow" is falling over Ethiopia.
These stories confront us with an urgent question: What should we do when others hate us and/or we hate them? How should we treat our enemies?
Jesus taught an unprecedented, counter-cultural answer to this life-and-death question. But his teaching is even more powerful when we see it in its larger historical context.
In the ancient world, King David represents the dominant response to enemies: take revenge and bring them "down to the grave in blood" (see 1 Kings 2:5-9). But there were also a few options in wider culture for practicing kindness or at least nonviolence toward enemies.
Moral Superiority: The Roman philosopher Seneca (4BC–65AD), who was also a contemporary with Jesus, advocated ignoring enemies. This response proves your moral superiority and apathy toward them, like an elephant disregards a barking dog. Seneca asserted, "The most contemptuous form of revenge is not to deem one's adversary worth taking vengeance upon" (On Anger 2:32).
Evangelism and Advantage: Aristeas, a Jew living in Egypt a few generations before Jesus, thought that showing "generosity" toward opponents might "win them over to what is right and to what is advantageous to us" (Aristeas 227). His idea is that benevolence toward enemies has an evangelistic and strategic purpose: it helps you earn God's favor and gain access to power. This idea is reflected in other Jewish writings at the time, which makes sense in light of Jews' minority status in hostile societies.
What is striking about each of these responses is that none of them has any real concern for the enemy or their wellbeing. The first option openly hates the enemy and eagerly looks forward to their destruction but defers it to the future. The second option belittles the enemy and is driven by prideful moral superiority. The third option is about expanding your religion and protecting access to power.
These were the options on the wider cultural menu for responding to your enemies, aside from the main course of naked revenge and brutal violence.
First, Jesus was the first person in history to put these three words in the same sentence: "Love your enemies." It's hard for us today to appreciate just how strange these words would have sounded together. Jesus was boldly calling people to imagine and embrace an idea that they had never heard before: the right response to enemies is to love them.
Second, Jesus's reasoning for this love wasn't a deferred revenge or moral superiority or even conversion and cultural power. Jesus's reasoning was entirely theological: God is generous to "the evil" and "the unrighteous" and "kind to the ungrateful and wicked." God is an Enemy-Lover. So if God is like that, we must embrace God's heart and actively desire the wellbeing of our enemies. End of story.
Third, Jesus doesn't leave his command to love enemies ambiguous or aspirational. He names four practical pathways for loving our enemies: praying for them, doing good to them, blessing them, and giving to them. Look at each briefly.
Pray: When we pray for – not against! – someone, we ask God to be with them, to help them, to heal them. This prayer shifts our consciousness away from bitterness and revenge to compassion and care. Rather than seeing the other as hopelessly cut off from God, which leads to demonizing them, we should bring them to God and intercede for their welfare. Bonhoeffer described this kind of prayer as a "cleansing bath" that washes away the stain of hatred. Prayer is the premeditation of peace.
Do Good: But Jesus doesn't leave us with "thoughts and prayers." He tells us to move our bodies and actively "do good" for those who hate us. Doing good requires creative action that helps others. When we do good, we go out of our way to make sure that people have what they need to be well. Jesus says that we should do that for our enemies.
Bless: In the Bible, "blessing" is the word for divine happiness and favor. The ultimate prayer in ancient Israel was a prayer for God to "bless" Israel (Numbers 6:24). Blessing is often associated with joy, fruitfulness, abundance, and peace (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). So Jesus calls us to desire and declare divine flourishing for our enemies. This takes us from simply praying for them to wanting them to be at their very best and fullest.
We often speak about how parents and their children have a "family resemblance" in their facial features or personalities. For Jesus, these counter-cultural practices of enemy-love are the "family resemblance" between God and God's children. When you pray, do good, bless, and give to your enemies, you embody the birthmarks of God's unnatural family.
Jesus doesn't say, "Ask me into your heart, and then see if you can work your way toward loving your enemies. But I understand if you can't." Jesus makes enemy-love a prerequisite for being born again. If you aren't working on loving your enemies, you aren't part of God's family.
This teaching is extra challenging, because Jesus wasn't speaking to Seneca and other Greco-Roman elites who saw themselves as proud elephants ignoring barking dogs. Jesus was speaking to oppressed people in the heartland of an occupied territory (Matthew 4:23-25; Luke 6:17-18). And still Jesus commanded them to love their enemies.
It's no wonder, then, that Jesus launched his message with the word "Metanoieta!" – completely change how you think (Matthew 4:17). Jesus was calling for a worldview overhaul, a total conversion.
It's also no wonder that the crowds who heard Jesus's teaching were "amazed" by his "authority" (Matthew 7:28). They were literally the first people in history to hear this unprecedented description of God's character and command, and they found it awe-inspiring.
Any leader of a team knows how important it is to stay crystal clear about your mission. "Mission drift" is all too easy.
The same is true for those of us who want to follow Jesus. If we're not careful, we'll misunderstand and derail the actual mission that Jesus has given us.
At its heart, then, Jesus's Great Commission was really a call to imbed his unprecedented vision of God's enemy-loving character and command in culture all around the world. That's the mission: teaching and obedience to what Jesus actually commanded.
By Jesus's own standard, entire countries can identify as "Christian," go to church, and shout, "Jesus is Lord!" But if enemy-love hasn't transformed their ideas, attitudes, and actions, Jesus's mission remains a failed project and we've missed the point.
So how should we treat our enemies in our time of hatred, conflict, and deadly violence around the world?
Jesus's answer remains counter-cultural and clear: we should love our enemies. And this love looks like praying for them, doing good to them, blessing them, and making personal sacrifices for their flourishing.
May we be ambassadors of Jesus's global mission wherever we find ourselves today.
If you want to learn more about Jesus's ethics of enemy-love and its evolution to the present, check out my new course Neighbor-Love: A Revolutionary Idea that Could Save Our World.


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Department of Measurement and Information Systems
The MP3 file format has several years past, and it's still a dominant compressing method for digital audio nowadays. Lots of softwares have been made, both for coding and decoding MP3 files, and special integrated circuits are available for this purpose; in addition a former thesis has analysed that, with proper hardware support, a processor based system - made by configurable logic - would be capable of running a real-time decoder.
After selecting the decoder software, the most time consuming function has been made on the hardware, using configurable logical blocks, however it wasn't enough to achieve real-time operation. The aim of my thesis is to develop a new system, based on the previous thesis' proposal for further developments, where the new and existing hardware components can work together to reach real-time decoding.
At first, I present the MP3 file format, then comes the demonstration of the processor based system, and the useage of the decoding software. After that I introduce further hardware acceleration for real-time operation, and I prepare the system for stereo decoding. The samples will be hopefully shaped into a hearable form, by the help of a D/A converter and an amplifier circuit. Finally I will rate the achieved results, and make a proposal for further developments.
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Welcome To Punching Robots Club
My name is Rob and I write about videogames for human beings and I also write videogames for human beings. Some people know me better as the custodian of the now defunct apart from forums Retro Remakes site but these days, I'm mainly that old dude who makes games with fishes and lasers and moans a bit on Twitter.
I've been writing about games, life in games and about understanding the world around games as well as making the things (not entirely) by myself for close to 15 years now and I'm still not bored of it. I've made games that have been played by thousands, games that have been played by ten people and contributed in parts to some great games other people made. I'm currently working on something for PSN/Steam that I'm hoping to have out at some point in 2017 in conjunction with a few good friends.
I've given talks on accessibility and how to ease people into making games, been called "The Godzilla Of Grumbling" by Develop mag, "Defiantly Indie" by Edge and "An effusive individual" by The Guardian. I am OK with all these descriptions. I also once drew a rude picture on stage during a panel for RockPaperShotgun because they asked nicely.
I rarely get chance to attend events in recent years due to a combination of having a family and not being in the best of health but I'm glad that recently, we've managed to move away from business, business, business days out and squeezing in stuff for the love of games instead. Much more like it.
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Yarmouth's Camden Miller looks for running room during the Clippers' 21-19 loss at Oak Hill in Saturday's season opener.
Freeport goalie Katelyn Rouleau robs Greely's Maddy Perfetti during the Falcons' 5-2 victory in last week's regular season opener.
North Yarmouth Academy's Chris Hamblett runs in last week's season-opening cross country meet at last week's four-team home meet. Hamblett placed eighth individually and the Panthers were fourth as a team.
Freeport's football team was the lone Forecaster Country squad to begin the season in the win column.
The Falcons played for the first time on their new turf field and had no trouble with visiting Boothbay/Wiscasset, prevailing, 41-8. Freeport went up, 12-0, after one quarter, extended its lead to 28-8 at halftime and was up, 41-8, after three periods. The Falcons visit 0-1 Poland Friday in their next outing.
Falmouth, a regional finalist in 2017, dropped a hard-fought 27-25 decision at Brunswick in its first test. The Yachtsmen trailed, 6-0, at halftime and 13-3 after a 29-yard field goal from Sam Pausman, but they kept rallying in the fourth quarter. Coleman Allen scored on a 2-yard run, quarterback Nick Mancini found the end zone from 4-yards out and Mancini hit Brady Douglas from 12-yards out late, but Falmouth couldn't recover the ensuing on-sides kick and fell just short, dropping its opener for the first time since 2012.
Allen and Riley Reed each rushed for 63 yards and Mancini completed 9-of-12 passes for 74 yards and a score.
Falmouth seeks its first win of the year Friday when its hosts 0-1 Brewer.
Greely started with a 14-0 loss at Noble. The Rangers are home Friday versus 1-0 Mt. Blue.
Yarmouth began with a 21-19 loss at Oak Hill. The Clippers got two rushing touchdowns from Noah Eckersley-Ray (2-yards and 23-yards) and another from Jack Ricciardi (33-yards), but they couldn't hold a 19-7 lead as the Raiders scored two fourth quarter TDs to prevail.
Yarmouth is home with 1-0 Leavitt Friday night.
Yarmouth's four-time defending Class B state champion boys' soccer team took a 24-game win streak and a 31-game unbeaten run into Tuesday night's home showdown versus Cape Elizabeth (see theforecaster.net for game story). The Clippers opened the season Friday with a 4-1 victory at York. Yarmouth fell behind early, but drew even on a goal from John Clinton just before halftime. The Clippers controlled play in the second half, getting tallies from Jack Jones, Eric LaBrie and Liam Ireland. Yarmouth goes to Greely Saturday and is home versus Freeport Tuesday of next week.
Freeport opened the Bob Strong Era with a 4-1 win at Gray-New Gloucester. Will Winter scored a pair of first half goals and Jake Dumont and Wes Goodwin added second half tallies. The Falcons host Greely Wednesday, go to Lake Region Saturday and visit Yarmouth Tuesday of next week.
Greely played host Cape Elizabeth to a scoreless tie in its first game. New goalkeeper Schuyler Wetmore made seven saves. The Rangers go to Freeport Wednesday and welcome Yarmouth Saturday (see theforecaster.net for game story).
North Yarmouth Academy started with a 5-0 home win over Poland. Ryan Baker scored twice and Cam Goodrich, Xander Kostelnik and Alasdair Swett each added one goal. The Panthers welcomed St. Dom's Tuesday and go to Traip Academy Thursday and Sacopee Valley Saturday.
Falmouth began its season Tuesday at Cheverus (see theforecaster.net for game story). The Yachtsmen host Noble Saturday and go to Portland Tuesday of next week.
Yarmouth's two-time defending Class B girls' soccer state champion opened with a 1-0 loss at York, as its 23-game win streak came to a close. The Clippers visited preseason favorite Cape Elizabeth Tuesday, travel to Greely Saturday (see theforecaster.net for game story) and play at Freeport Tuesday of next week.
Freeport, under new coach David Intraversato, began with a 5-2 home win over Gray-New Gloucester in its first game on its new home turf surface. Catriona Gould scored three times and Tara Migliaccio and Hannah Spaulding added one goal apiece.
"There was a lot of excitement tonight, it was great to be out here," Freeport Coach Dave Intraversato said.
The Falcons were at Greely in a playoff rematch Tuesday, welcome Lake Region Friday and play host to Yarmouth Tuesday of next week.
Greely dropped a 2-1 home decision to Cape Elizabeth in its first game. The Rangers sought to get in the win column Tuesday at home versus Freeport. Greely visits York Thursday, welcomes Yarmouth Saturday and plays host to Poland Tuesday of next week.
Falmouth opened with a 1-0 home loss to Scarborough Saturday. The Yachtsmen got 14 saves from freshman goalkeeper Jordan Wolf, but gave up a second half goal to the defending regional champions.
The Yachtsmen went to Sanford Wednesday and host Noble Wednesday of next week.
NYA had its way at Old Orchard Beach in its opener, prevailing, 5-1. Natalie Farrell had two goals, while Catherine Reid, Jasmine Huntsman and Emma Sharp scored once apiece. The Panthers were at St. Dom's Tuesday, host Sacopee Valley Saturday and welcome Rangeley Tuesday of next week.
Freeport's field hockey team got off to a fast start last Thursday with an impressive 5-2 victory at Greely. Natalie Anderson scored three first half goals, Kerry Lefebvre and Ally Randall had one apiece and Katelyn Rouleau stopped 14 shots.
The Falcons hosted Fryeburg Academy Tuesday, visit Lake Region in a playoff rematch Thursday, play at Cape Elizabeth Saturday and go to Gray-New Gloucester Tuesday of next week.
Greely got goals from Wren Payne and Hannah Perfetti in its loss to Freeport.
Greely was at Gray-New Gloucester Tuesday, hosts Cape Elizabeth Thursday (see theforecaster.net for game story) and goes to Yarmouth Wednesday of next week.
Yarmouth started the season by earning a measure of revenge from last year's playoff ouster with a 3-1 victory at Poland. Lydia Guay had all three goals and goalie Cayte Tillotson stopped a dozen shots in coach Tracy Quimby's debut. The Clippers were home with defending regional champion York Tuesday, visit Fryeburg Academy Friday, host Lake Region Monday and Greely Wednesday of next week.
Falmouth began its year with a 4-0 victory at Windham, then settled for a 1-1 home tie against defending Class A South champion Westbrook. Emma Cohen scored twice in the victory, then gave the Yachtsmen the lead against the Blue Blazes in the second half, but Westbrook rallied to force overtime. Caitlyn Bull made 12 saves.
The Yachtsmen were at Scarborough in a playoff rematch Wednesday, host Deering Saturday and go to Noble Tuesday of next week.
NYA started with a 3-0 loss at York. Kylie Rogers made 37 saves in a phenomenal effort in defeat. The Panthers are home versus Sacopee Valley Thursday, go to Traip Academy Monday and visit defending Class C champion St. Dom's Wednesday of next week.
Falmouth's volleyball team dispatched Greely in straight sets (25-9, 25-15, 25-13) to start the season. Katie Phillips had 15 assists and Annika Hester added 11 kills. After hosting Cony Tuesday, the Yachtsmen visit South Portland Tuesday of next week.
Greely sought its first win Tuesday at Kennebunk. The Rangers host Biddeford Thursday.
Yarmouth won at York in its first match, 3-0 (25-14, 25-16, 25-15). The Clippers were at Brunswick Tuesday and visit South Portland Thursday.
NYA begins its season Thursday at Wells. After a home match versus Brunswick Friday, the Panthers host Wells Monday.
Falmouth's cross country team hosted Bonny Eagle, Portland and Sanford in its first meet. The boys were first behind John Auer, who won the race in 16 minutes, 51.66 seconds. The girls were second to Bonny Eagle, but Sofie Matson was first individually in 19:14.19.
Greely and Maine Coast Waldorf joined Lake Region at Poland. The Rangers boys were first and MCW placed second. Greely's Matthew Todd was the top individual (17:36). MCW was led by Aiden Kusche (ninth, 19:22). In the girls' meet, MCW was first and Greely placed second. MCW's Olivia Reynolds was the top individual (20:48). The Rangers were paced by Marin Provencher (second, 21:04).
NYA hosted Freeport, Cape Elizabeth and Gray-New Gloucester. The Falcons girls placed second to the Capers. Lily Horne was second individually in 19:52. The Panthers didn't score as a team. Emma Collins was 23rd individually in 25:09. In the boys' meet, also won by Cape Elizabeth, Freeport came in second and NYA was fourth. Martin Horne paced the Falcons by coming in third individually in 17:43. The Panthers were led by Chris Hamblett (eighth, 18:49).
Yarmouth joined Fryeburg Academy and St. Dom's at Sacopee Valley. The boys were first. Ben Cox-Faxon was the top individual (third, 17:11). The girls also came in first. Maddie Marston was first individually (19:49.30).
Falmouth's golf team split its first two matches, beating South Portland, 11.5-1.5 (Brady Pierson was the medalist with a nine-hole score of 39), then losing to Scarborough, 7.5-5.5 (Jack Stowell had a team-low score of 40). The Yachtsmen went to Deering Tuesday, visit Cheverus Thursday and play at Portland Tuesday of next week.
Greely handled Gorham (11-2) and Bonny Eagle (13-0) in its first two matches. Rachel Smith had a team-best score of 40 against the Rams. In the win over the Scots, Smith shot a 38. The Rangers were home with Windham Tuesday, go to Westbrook Thursday and visit Thornton Academy Tuesday of next week.
Freeport opened with a 5-1 win over NYA and settled for a 3.5-3.5 tie against Yarmouth. TJ Whelan shot a 42 in both matches. The Falcons were at York Tuesday, host Wells Thursday and go to St. Dom's Tuesday of next week.
Yarmouth was led by Ethan Haag (36) in the tie against the Falcons. The Clippers also defeated NYA, 7-0 (Haag shot 36). Yarmouth was at Fryeburg Academy Tuesday, go to defending state champion Cape Elizabeth Thursday and welcomes York Tuesday of next week.
NYA started with losses to Freeport (5-1) and Yarmouth (7-0). The Panthers were led by Reed Silvers (41) against the Falcons. Silvers and Jared Buckner each shot a 42 against the Clippers. NYA was at Cape Elizabeth Tuesday, goes to Old Orchard Beach Thursday and visits Lake Region Tuesday of next week.
Press Herald staff writer Glenn Jordan, Times Record staff writer Eric Maxim and Kennebec Journal staff writer Drew Bonifant contributed to this story.


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Coming to Ilocos, I promised myself to see the bangui windmills by hook or by crook, hahaha. And not from the viewdeck either. I'm happy to write i was not disappointed. All four of us, Sherwin, his siblings, Rose and Arlene, were all totally awed by the sight of this iron giants. The gusts of winds from the bay would make the huge propellers make this massive whooshing sound. Like a small kid, I was racing through the grass and sand ahead of the car to go nearer the windmills. In a word: awesome!
wow! parang ikaw may ari ng windmill! :-) hehe..
great pictures! the blue boat with the seahorses is especially cute.


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Home » Boston » Beacon Hill
Manholes explode in Charles Circle; Red Line is bypassing Charles/MGH
By adamg on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 3:28pm
Melissa reports that shortly after 3 p.m., a manhole in Cambridge Street between the Charles/MGH Red Line station and MGH itself exploded.
At least one other manhole also blew up.
The MBTA evacuated the station and then halted service on both side of the Red Line as a precaution. The T scrounged up some buses to run shuttles between Park and Kendall, although BFD gave its OK to run trains through Charles/MGH, just without stopping.
Black-smoke belcher. Photo by Lee Dykxhoorn:
The Liberty Hotel lost power.
Lindsey O'Donnell Welch reported:
Just heard the explosions from Revere St.... saw smoke near MGH.
Cambridge Street
Charles Circle
Charles/MGH
By MrsButch on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 3:49pm.
That's no good
Is "not scrounging up buses" a typo?
By mg on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 3:52pm.
or is the T not getting alternative transportation?
Yeah, stupid typo, sorry
By adamg on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 3:59pm.
Should have read "now scrounging up."
That's a big typo
By anon on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 6:21pm.
Because sometimes the T doesn't even bother to provide replacement buses anymore. Once recently when the Green Line was down at Lechmere I was told by an employee "it's only a 15 minute walk to North Station, you're lucky it's a nice day". I'm absolutely not kidding. Another time the Blue Line inbound was out at Maverick and we were told to take the train one stop back to Airport and take the Silver Line. You ever try to take the Silver Line from Airport to South Station or wherever the heck it goes from Airport? It takes hours and hours and hours. Considering I was planning to take the Blue Line one stop from Maverick to Aquarium which should be a three minute trip it was very frustrating. You can't even walk that one unless you can walk on water.
It's not that they don't
By anon on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 1:25am.
It's not that they don't bother to run buses. The problem is there aren't dozens of spare buses and drivers waiting right around the block from your station. The buses are on their regular routes, full of passengers, stuck in traffic, far away from the multiple stations where you and thousands of other people are stuck.
Even if buses are available, it takes a lot of them to carry one trainload of people. And then the trip takes way longer than the train would. That's why the trains exist in the first place.
If they tell you it's a 15 minute walk to another line, they're doing you a favor.
Considering how difficult
By DrewD on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 3:56pm.
Considering how difficult things have been lately, I'm glad that the MBTA is making an effort to keep things consistent. I feel a little comforted to know that the T is messed up even when I'm not there to be inconvenienced by it.
I have tons of love for the T, but I love complaining about it even more!
I don't think it is the T's
I don't think it is the T's manhole though.
By SamWack on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 5:20pm.
She's such a card. You go high, she goes low. "You think it's all plagues and pandemics? How about an exploding manhole? Ha! Bet you didn't expect that one!"
Tragedy is at its best when leavened with a little farce. In King Lear, the Fool gets some of the best lines.
Not seeing it
By perruptor on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 5:58pm.
I can't see how exploding manholes are acts of Nature.
The whole goddam machinery
Everything that happens is an act of Nature. The Ideal Gas Law is a law of Nature. We like to think we're outside of Nature, but that's nonsense. This is especially obvious when Nature treats us to random shit like exploding manholes.
Robert Frost once pointed out that when the Lake Poets talked about Nature, they meant Pretty Scenery, but when Lucretius talked about it, he meant The Whole Goddam Machinery.
Oookaaay
By perruptor on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 9:36am.
Manhole fires
By jessica brown on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 6:41am.
Mgh didn't even notify some workers what was going on until last min and we was force to stay inside and didnt even tell us when it was alright to leave..
Fiber cable severed
By Deedle on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 10:11pm.
This explosion took out a Lightower/Crown Castle fiber optic trunk that provided internet service to many Boston metro residents. Here in Cambridge we are still down over a day later, and I'm told the utility companies are only starting to assess the damage.
In other Beacon Hill news
Ecofriendly rodent control on Beacon Hill
Alleged Cambridge Street bank robber made two mistakes: He didn't check his loot for a tracker and he tried escaping on the Red Line
Storrowing on actual Storrow Drive averted by inches
Citizen complaint of the day: Mean hissing rats training for the Olympics on Beacon Hill
We may not be having much of a winter, but at least we're getting some good sunsets
What the Embrace means to Boston


RHYTHM OF THE NEEDLES: Watermelon Socks - F. O.
Ooh, love them. So fun!
Ditto, those ARE fun socks.
Those are awesome. Mine have hit a snag, too. This is my first pair of socks and I think I didn't cast on enough stitches for my fat feet.


Is your bag beach ready?
The sun is mostly out, that feeling of summer is here, or just about. What could be better than taking time out and getting off to the beach for a relaxing day? When I go to the beach, I like to take with me all the stuff I'm going to need. Without even considering myself, the needs of three children and a husband are enough to fill at least two of the kind of bags you get at the supermarket (reusable shopping bags). What I'd like to have is a bag big enough, and yet funky enough, to carry almost all I need. Hillary's was offering a metre square of fabric to make in to anything the imagination would take you, so I set about creating my very own beach bag! The easy bit was deciding on the dimensions and cutting the fabric to size. I simply quartered the metre square, so I had four 50 centimetre squares. Then halved two of these again, one so I had two pieces with the print going up, and two pieces with the print going long ways. These created the sides and the base, and for the fourth long way print I kept for a pocket.
I then decorated the front section (50x50cm) with pieces of sea glass and shells. I sewed the sea glass on as you would a mirror, and used metallic thread to attach the shells simply. I used brightly coloured embroidery threads to sew the sea glass in place.
Next I cut out lining fabric according to the same sizes, except for the pocket.
For the piece of fabric I'd kept for the pocket (25x50cm), I folded this in two, right sides together and stitched together, leaving a small gap to allow me to turn it the right way round. Once turned the right way, and pressed to flatten the seam, I closed up the gap, and stitched all the way round the rectangle, 5mm from the edge. This just neatened off the edges and kept the piece flat. I then attached the pocket to the centre of the back section of the bag, by sewing round three sides, leaving the top open for the pocket itself.
I then sewed together the front, back and sides of both the outer fabric and the lining, to form a long rectangle shape. And the bottom of the bag on to one side of the front.
Next was sewing together the outer fabric to the lining. Right sides together, then stitched along the top only. With the fabric still inside out, I sewed together the ends of the bag to form a large tube. Doing the lining and the outer fabric separately. Again, still with fabric on the wrong side, I attached the bottom sides to the walls of the bag, doing the lining first. When I did this with the outer fabric, I left a small section to be able to turn the bag the right way round, before closing the gap once all was pulled in to place. I now had the bag shape, with the lining inside.
I made the handle by plaiting together several strands of wool in three different colours.
I then simply attached this to either side of the bag, and secured with many stitches. The handle is adjustable by simply knotting it. It's long enough to have as a shoulder bag, or knotted as a carry bag.
The last part was to add decoration with colourful flowers. I attached these to the upper edge of the front section.
And there we have it. A simple and effective beach bag. Big enough for towels, drinks, sun lotion, book, and even a bucket and spade.
Hillarys provided me with one metre square of Rayna Apple fabric for this project.


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A change of mission approaches
Scott Sadler Contributor
April 26, 2010 12:00 AM ET
Even as al-Qaida continues their last-ditch efforts at thwarting the ongoing progress in Iraq, and the election fiasco continues, our military involvement is slowly winding up. The U.S. military says that by Sept. 1, 50,000 U.S. Soldiers will remain at 96 bases throughout Iraq. "Operation New Dawn" will commence.
There is also speculation that the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, will leave at that time. He has lead the military effort in Iraq since September of 2008 and "will stay here as long as the president wants me to stay. It's an honor to serve with these young men and women here in Iraq every day," Gen. Odierno recently told Fox News. Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is most talked about as his replacement.
Even amid the sporadic attacks that Iraq now experiences, good things are happening. Gen. Odierno called the deaths of two top al-Qaida leaders killed in a raid in Iraq last week "the most significant blow to Al-Qaeda in Iraq since the beginning of the insurgency." On Sunday, for the first time in two decades, Iraqi Airways flew between Baghdad and London. As The Guardian Newspaper (UK) reported on Saturday, "who would have believed in 2006, at the height of Iraq's civil unrest, when 3,000 of its citizens were dying each month, that we would soon see Iraqi tailfins dip over London's skyline?"
As he delivered English-Arabic books to Iraqi schools this week, Sgt. Alexander Hudson could see the changes taking place. "I was here when the war started and for the first elections. We used to have improvised explosive devices popping off all the time … you really don't see that stuff as much here in Baghdad." Sgt. Jason Vangundy told Stars and Stripes that "to know that my friends didn't die in vain, that's a satisfying turning point for me. That's what we fought for — to get to this bridge and cross it."
There are those desperately trying to re-ignite old wounds in the recent attacks that have occurred but for the most part, Iraqis aren't buying it this time. They are looking to the future with hope and they are waiting … waiting on a new government, seven weeks after the elections.
Scott Sadler is an experienced communicator with an in-depth expertise with crisis communications who has served in senior level positions in the federal government, Capitol Hill, and in a military theater of operation.
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Q: Execute a .exe file from Excel I am trying to create a macro enabled Excel file, in which, upon hitting the button, the Excel gets saved to data.csv into the same folder and an .exe file is to be invoked (which is again in same folder) which will access the data.csv for its inputs.
I prepared this, it created the .csv file, however, when the .exe runs, it is unable to access the .csv file (refer screenshot captured while the macro was initiated). The directory shown in that screenshot is the directory in which the .exe was created originally - this has nothing to do with current working directory. The code is shown below. I tried running the .exe file separately and it ran seamless, read the .csv file properly, so no issue with exe/csv files. it is just that while running from macro, the .exe is not searching the .csv in the correct folder.
Public Sub Save_CSV()
    Dim MyPATH As String
    Dim FileNAME As String
    Dim FilePath As String
    Dim OldPath As String
    Dim RetVal As Variant
    Dim stat As Integer
    '*
    FilePath = ActiveWorkbook.path & "\dynjackup.exe"
    OldPath = CurDir
    MyPATH = ActiveWorkbook.path
    FileNAME = ActiveWorkbook.Name
    FileNAME = Left(FileNAME, Len(FileNAME) - 4) ' REMOVE XLS EXTENSION
    'FileNAME = FileNAME & "csv" ' ADD CSV EXTENSION
    FileNAME = "data.csv" ' any name can be set here
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False ' REMOVE DISPLAY MESSAGE: PREVIOUS FILE WILL BE ERASED
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs FileNAME:= _
      MyPATH & "\" & FileNAME, FileFormat:=xlCSV, _
      CreateBackup:=False

    '
    OldPath = CurDir
    '
    ' Call ChangeCurrentDir(ActiveWorkbook.path, stat)
    RetVal = Shell(FilePath, vbNormalFocus)
    'Call ChangeCurrentDir(OldPath, stat)
    'ActiveWindow.Close
    'Application.DisplayAlerts = True ' Restore DISPLAY MESSAGE
End Sub

Error:

A: Probably the most stable solution would be modifying dvnjackup.exe so it takes the complete absolute filename of the desired data file as a parameter. You could then pass this path in your Shell() call.
RetVal = Shell("""C:\dvnjackup.exe"" ""C:\Full\Path to\data.csv""", vbNormalFocus)

Note that I escaped both paths using quotes (the literal "" in the string gives you a " in the result).
If you can't modify dvnjackup.exe you can try explicitly setting the working directory. But it seems you uncommented some code that does this (see the ChangeCurrentDir calls).
Anyways, you can change the current working directory like this:
ChDir "C:\Path\To New Working\Directory"
' No need to enclose paths containing spaces here

Hope this helps! :)

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Anne Treisman was born in 1935 in Yorkshire, England. She was interested in science early on, but at her father's wish that she become a "cultured" person, she switched to French, Latin, and history for her last three years of high school. Upon receiving a B.A. in modern and medieval languages at the University of Cambridge, she was offered a research fellowship to work toward a doctoral degree in French literature. This time she decided to follow her interest in science and used the fellowship funds (with permission) to obtain a one-year undergraduate degree in psychology instead. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1962, where her thesis, "Selective Attention and Speech Perception," presaged her major contributions to our understanding of attention and perception.
Anne joined the Princeton faculty in 1993, following university appointments at Oxford, the University of British Columbia, and the University of California–Berkeley. Her academic honors include election as a fellow of the Royal Society, London (1989), American Philosophical Society (2005), National Academy of Sciences (1994), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995), honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia and University College London (2004, 2006), the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1990), and the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2009), which recognizes outstanding ideas in psychology. Her work has appeared in 29 book chapters and more than 80 journal articles and is heavily cited in the psychological literature, as well as prominently included in both introductory and advanced textbooks. She was named the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology in 1995.
Her early work focused on how attention can filter perceptual input, allowing only potentially relevant information to reach consciousness.
In the 1970s, Anne's research interests turned from audition to vision, and to the feature integration, or binding, problem. Anne began with two observations: (1) perceptual features, such as shape, color, and motion are processed by different subsystems of the brain; (2) nonetheless, we experience multi-featured objects as integrated wholes. For example, when we look at a red ball rolling on the floor, we do not see redness, roundness, and motion as separate percepts. Instead, we see a moving red ball. How is this accomplished? Anne proposed that there is a "spotlight" of attention that serially moves around in the representations of space in the brain, perhaps as often as 25 time a second. The features of an object are bound together when the spotlight of attention lands on the location of that object. In a sense, this suggests that we need to know where an object is before we can know what it is—i.e., before its features are bound together.
This idea is quite counterintuitive. People are not aware of either the serial scan, or of the binding process. Anne's genius in examining this idea was in developing striking predictions of her feature integration theory and testing those predictions empirically. One such prediction is that one process is involved in detecting that a particular feature is present somewhere in a visual scene (e.g., there is something red in the scene), and a different process in detecting a conjunction of features (e.g., there is a red X on the left side of a scene). Key evidence for this prediction came from the results of visual search tasks. People are asked to look for a target item among some number of other items. The time to find a target defined by a single basic feature (e.g., a red target among green distractors) was independent of the number of distractor items. This implicates a parallel search process. If a target was not distinguished by a single basic feature (e.g., a letter among various other letters), then the time required to find the target increased as a linear function of the number of distracting items, suggesting a serial process of binding one item at a time.
The theory predicted a phenomenon heretofore not observed—the phenomenon of illusory conjunctions. When people cannot focus their attention, they may misperceive objects by combining features from other objects, e.g., see a red T when the actual objects are a red O and a blue T. It's often said that there is nothing as practical as a good theory, and in Anne's case her Feature Integration Theory (FIT) was good indeed. The theory helped to explain a puzzling symptom in patients with parietal lobe damage—known as Balints' patients. These people have lost their ability to localize objects visually. According to FIT, if an object cannot be localized, then the selective attention cannot be deployed to that object, making binding of features difficult, if not impossible. Anne found that these patients had a major binding problem. Even when presented with just two objects, say a red X and a blue T, the patients would often see a blue X or a red T, even if they were given unrestricted observation time to make their judgments. This result was a striking confirmation of the counter-intuitive notion that we need to know where an object is to know what it is—what features must be bound together. And, because these patients could not attend selectively to different object locations, they display simultanagnosia (their inability to see more than one object at a time).
The theory also raises important questions. For example, if people must bind objects one at a time, how can we have immediate impressions of the detailed scenes that we encounter on a daily basis? Anne contrasted the operation of binding in order to individuate objects with a different mode of attentional deployment that processes sets of similar objects (e.g., a flock of geese) and even whole scenes. These latter attentional processes provide information about the global properties of scenes, general spatial layouts and gists of scenes, without the need to bind features of individual objects. Together, focused and global attention allow people to combine accurate identification of a few objects with quick apprehension of the gist of a scene.
The impact of Anne's work on theory and practice has been enormous. Her original 1980 paper on FIT is the most cited paper in the last 12 years in the main cognitive psychology journals. Her papers on attention have been cited more than 8,200 times. Her theory was instrumental in bringing together the behavioral phenomena of focused and global attention with what neuroscientists have discovered about the functions of the various pathways involved in representing locations and actions. And her work has been used by applied psychologists who work to improve the discriminability of such things as railway and traffic signals, or the search for weapons by baggage inspectors in airports. With luck, the people who design training regimens for airport security personnel may well be able to use her work to speed up the process without loss of accuracy.
Rounding out this brief summary of Anne's stellar career, her contributions extend to her training of graduate and undergraduate students, her unstinting participation in both journal and book reviewing, in grant review processes, and in University service. Binding all of her features together, we have enjoyed the friendship and collegiality of a complete academic.


On March 14, 2007, the National Park Service's California Mediterranian Research Learning Center and Cabrillo National Monument, in partnership with HPWREN and the San Diego State University's Field Stations Program, hosted a booth at the 2007 San Diego Science Alliance High Technology Fair in Del Mar. Susan Teel, Director at the California Mediterranean Research Learning Center provided a summary which can be found at http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/20070325/images/High_Tech_Fair_summary.pdf.
Cabrillo National Monument Ranger Patricia Heusner is demonstrating Live Interactive Virtual Exploration technologies to attendees of the 2007 San Diego Science Alliance High Technology Fair.