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Forty-Four Mouth-Watering Facts About Curry.
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I've done 'peanut butter' and 'chocolate' and 'coffee' in other posts. Today it is another fasab food favorite, the curry.
A curry, properly made, has to be one of the most delicious foods in the world.
I have spent many happy evenings with friends enjoying this delicacy in one form or another. Personally I like it with some naan bread or sometimes with rice. Either way is socially acceptable and extremely tasty.
Mouth watering already?
Very good, let's get straight to the facts.
The word curry comes from a Tamil word 'kari' or 'karil', meaning spices or sautéd vegetables.
The meaning changed when Portuguese traders used it for the sauces with which rice was served.
Essentially, the term curry was invented by the English administrators of the East Indian Trading Co. and later continued by British government employees.
The British army in India further changed the meaning as its liking for hot sauces introduced the modern idea of curries being hot.
Surprisingly, the term 'curry' isn't used very much in India. There are many types of curry-style dishes, which have their own characteristic regional variations.
Curry Powder is a mix of spices, rather than a spice in its own right. It usually consists of turmeric, coriander, cardamom, cumin, sweet basil, and red pepper.
Some of the most common types of curry are 'Korma', 'Massala', 'Dhansak', 'Phall', 'Rogan Josh', 'Dopiaza', 'Madras' and 'Vindaloo'.
Curry is said to have a number of valuable health benefits, including the prevention of cancer, protection against heart disease, reducing Alzheimer's disease symptoms, easing pain and inflammation, boosting bone health, protecting the immune system from bacterial infections, and increasing the liver's ability to remove toxins from the body.
In addition to being an established and firm favorite in Britain. and increasing popular throughout Europe and the United States, curry forms a major element of the diets of several Asian countries including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Maldives, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan and Fiji.
Chili (or Chilli) is the most popular spice in the world and can help combat heart attacks and strokes and extends blood coagulation times preventing harmful blood clots.
Contrary to common western belief, curries are not always 'hot', they can be mild, medium and hot.
The earliest known curry was made in Mesopotamia in around 1700 BC, the recipe for meat in a spicy sauce appearing on tablets found near Babylon.
The Scoville scale is the measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy foods.
The 'Bhut Jolokia Chilli Pepper' (also known as the 'Naga Jolokia'), is the hottest pepper in the world, accompanied with its own health warning! This pepper is also known as the 'Ghost Chilli' or 'Ghost Pepper', and is grown in the Indian states of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.
The first commercial curry powder appeared in about 1780.
In Britain Indian food now surpasses Chinese food in popularity, with Indian restaurants outnumbering Chinese restaurants by two to one.
The word 'balti' means bucket. Balti is more a style of cooking than one particular curry.
In specialist 'Balti Houses' the balti is a meal in itself which contains both meat and vegetables and is eaten straight from the karahi using curled up pieces of naan bread. In standard Indian restaurants the balti is more of a stir-fried curry containing plenty of fried green peppers and fresh cilantro (also known as coriander).
South Indian food is more spicy than North Indian food.
The first curry recipe in English appeared in Hannah Glasse's 'The Art Of Cookery' in 1747.
The world's biggest ever curry was a 13 tonne Biryani, including 187lb of chilies and 6600lb of rice. It took 60 chefs to make in New Delhi in June 2008. And required three cranes to move the container and a 3ft high furnace to cook it!
In Western Europe and the U K, curry powders available contain more turmeric than anything else, and tend to be toned down to palates used to bland food.
The tallest poppadom stack in the world stands at a massive 282 poppadoms. The record was set by a chef from the Jali Indian Restaurant in Blackpool.
In 2008, Bath and North East Somerset Council advised a man to sprinkle curry powder on his wife's grave to keep squirrels and deer away.
Tim Stobbs, aged 42 years, currently holds the world record for munching an impressive 15 poppadoms in 5 minutes! The annual World Championships, in aid of Cancer Research UK Scotland, is held every year at St Andrews University.
There are about 10,000 Indian restaurants serving curry in the UK, the vast majority of which are run by people from Bangladesh, not India.
To make a 'hot' curry mild, just add some coconut milk.
The word 'masala' means spice mix.
In 1846, William Makepeace Thackeray wrote 'A Poem To Curry', as part of his Kitchen Melodies.
Britain's first curry house, called the Hindustani Coffee House and located in London's Portman Square, opened in 1809. Now there are more curry houses in London, England than in Mumbai, India.
Chili can help combat heart attacks and strokes.
One of the hottest curry dishes ever made is known as the Bit Spicy 3 Chili Phall which is even hotter than the infamous 'Chicken Naga', made with a high volume of Naga pepper seeds. More than 100 times hotter than jalapeño peppers!
People crave a curry because the spices arouse and stimulate the taste buds.
Vindaloo was originally a Portuguese dish which took its name from the two main ingredients which were 'vinho', wine/wine vinegar, and 'alhos', garlic. Over time it was spiced up, hotted up and otherwise changed by the indigenous peoples of the ex-Portuguese colony of Goa.
The 'Big Jim', a large chili hailing from New Mexico, currently holds the world record for the largest chili ever grown. This plant frequently produces chilies that are over a foot in length, which is hugely impressive considering that the plant itself never grows more than two feet!
The town of North Curry is in Somerset while West Curry is in Cornwall.
Madras and pathia are both hot and sour dishes. Kashmiri a more subtle and creamy dish usually made with lychees or bananas – or both.
Scientists at Nottingham Trent University have discovered that people begin to crave for a curry because the spices arouse and stimulate the taste buds.
One in seven curries sold in the UK is a chicken tikka masala, making it the most popular Indian restaurant dish in the UK. It is thought to have originated in Britain after an enterprising Indian chef had the idea of adding a tomato and onion paste to the grilled chicken to satisfy the British preference for food that isn't dry.
The largest naan bread ever made was a whopping 2.75m in diameter and contained meat dumplings – the equivalent of 167 normal sized naan breads. The bread took over ten hours to finish and required twelve chefs, 30kg mutton, 125kg flour, 16kg onion and 90kg of water to cook it.
Southeastern Asian cultures have always mixed a number of spices to flavor their dishes, usually according to recipes handed down from generation to generation.
A common way to categorize Thai curry is by the color of the curry paste used to make the curry dish. Green and red curry paste are the most typical. Yellow and sour curries (also sometimes known as orange curry, gaeng sohm) are also well known. Each has its own particular combination of herbs and spices to make up the curry paste that makes it unique.
'Panang' and 'masaman' curry are probably the most popular Thai curries in the West, because of their rich tastes.
Finally, if you are eating a curry which is just too hot for you, don't drink water, that only makes it hotter!
It's Friday 13th!!!
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There is a lot of nonsense surrounding Friday 13th.
Many superstitious people consider it to be unlucky. So much so in fact that they spend most, if not all, of that day in their homes, afraid to venture out into the great world beyond in case something bad happens to them.
In fact it has been estimated that around a billion dollars are lost every Friday the 13th because people are scared to work and travel on this date.
The really unfortunate thing is that sometimes circumstances play right into their hands, which only serves to reinforce their superstitions.
You can find some of them below along with other facts about Friday 13th that I hope you enjoy reading.
Every month has a 13th but no single year
has more than three Friday the 13th's
and on average there are two.
Months with a Friday the 13th
always begin on a Sunday.
Folklore remedies for triskaidekaphobia
include climbing to the top of a mountain
or skyscraper and burning all the socks you own
that have holes in them.
Another is to stand on your head
and eat a piece of gristle.
It is from the Norse goddess Frigg, or Freyja,
that we get Frigg's Day, or Freyja's Day
which became the English Friday.
On Friday 13 2006,
36 inches of snow fell on upstate New York.
The ensuing chaos claimed three lives
and caused $130 million worth of damage.
On a Friday 13th in 1307.
thousands of soldier monks of the powerful
Knights Templar were massacred
by French king Louis IV.
Many people believe this is where
our fear of the date springs from.
Friday 13 January, 1939
in Australia is known as Black Friday
because on that date bushfires
decimated 20,000 km² of land,
killing 71 people and
destroying several towns entirely.
Retired bus conductor Bob Renphrey of North Wales
decided to spend every Friday 13 in bed
after a run of bad luck on the
fateful day during the early 1990s.
Among other misfortunes
he wrote off four cars,
got made redundant,
fell into a river,
crashed a motorcycle
and walked through a plate glass door.
When Bob died of cancer in 1998,
his widow Betty, who on previous Friday 13ths
had fallen downstairs,
been hit by falling guttering
and been hospitalized
after Bob hit her in the face
with a stick he was throwing to a dog,
decided to book his funeral for
Friday 13 March as a final tribute.
Alas, all Rhyl's undertakers were too busy.
"Bob would have seen the funny side,"
said Mrs Renphrey.
On Friday 13 July, 1951
in Kansas 'The Great Flood'
left 2 million acres of land underwater,
causing $760 million and killing 24 people.
Friday 13 August, 1976
was particularly unlucky
for New York man Daz Baxter.
Having elected to stay in bed
to ward off bad luck,
the floor of his apartment block collapsed
and he fell six storeys to his death.
Black Sabbath's self-titled first album
was released in the UK on
Friday, February 13, 1970.
It wasn't unlucky for them.
Michelle and Gary Docherty had a
memorable wedding on Friday 13 August 2004.
First, a swarm of wasps attacked guests
at East Kilbride Registry Office, Lanarkshire,
as they waited for Michelle's arrival.
Her aunt Mary Strachan
smashed an expensive digital camera
trying to swat one of the pests,
and when Michelle finally did turn up,
an insect flew up her dress,
triggering a panic attack.
After the ceremony,
two minibuses booked to transport guests
to the reception failed to turn up
and the couple lost their wedding video.
On Friday November 13, 1970
a monster South Asian storm hit Bangladesh
killing 300,000 people in Chittagong
and creating floods that killed one million people
living on the Ganges Delta.
Women drivers have a 64% increased chance
of death when driving on Friday the 13th.
Friday 13 February, 1998
was simply business as usual for Manchester man,
John Sheridan, dubbed Britain's unluckiest man
after once having his car stolen five times in one day,
making 16 trips to casualty in two years,
seeing eight TVs explode in six months
and losing out on a £4000 lottery win when he
put the ticket in the washing machine with his jeans.
John's big day began when his Saab ran out of petrol.
He hitched a lift with a sympathetic policeman,
whose car broke down at the garage.
John returned to his car with a can of petrol,
got it started but lost a wheel as he turned a corner.
He returned home on a bus, which broke down.
Completing his journey on foot,
he realized he'd left his keys inside the car
and had to return in case in was stolen.
Friday, October 13th, 1989,
the stock exchange suffered a serious crash,
the second most damaging in market history at the time
(this was in the pre-recession era).
Brokers were in a state of shock,
as the Dow Jones Industrial Average
was down 190.58 points.
In Britain a deadly virus crashed IBM computers,
terrifying people and deleting lots of data
that could not be recovered.
This was before backup systems were used.
A full moon on Friday February 13 1987
drove troubled Robert Bullard, 21,
to attempt suicide by putting his head in a gas oven.
Not only was his methodology flawed,
suicide by natural gassing is virtually impossible
since Britain moved from lethal coke gas
to less dangerous natural gas,
but a flicked light switch caused an explosion
which injured his mother and a policeman
and caused £35,000 of damage.
Robert was unharmed.
On Friday the 13th, 2012,
the cruise ship Costa Concordia partially sank
killing more than 30 people.
Friday 13 October 1972 was the date
a plane carrying Uruguayan rugby team
Montevideo Old Christians crashed
on its way from Montevideo to Santiago, Chile.
When rescuers finally found the fourteen
survivors two months later,
it emerged that they had survived
by eating human flesh from some of the
thirty-one crew and passengers
who had perished in the crash.
In 1992, the story was filmed as
Alive, starring Ethan Hawke.
On the same day, Friday October 13, 1972,
an Aeroflot Il-62 airplane carrying 176 people
took off from Paris on a commuter flight
bound for Leningrad and Moscow.
The plane landed at Leningrad
and then took off for Sheremetyevo airport,
located just outside Moscow.
The weather was bad with rain and poor visibility.
The pilots were told to descend on approach to
the airport, but for unknown reasons,
they attempted and failed to land twice.
On the third attempt to land,
the plane crashed into a large pond
about 4 miles short of the airport.
No cause of the accident was ever established.
At the time, the crash resulted in one of the worst
loss of life incidents for a single plane crash, in history.
It remains the 44th worse loss of life in
an airplane crash in aviation history.
On Friday the 13th August, 2010
at 13 minutes after the 13th hour (1 PM),
a 13 year old boy was struck by lightning
as he was watching an air show
at Lowestoft, England.
The Hollywood sign above Los Angeles, California,
was first unveiled by the owner
of the Los Angeles Times newspaper,
Harry Chandler,
on Friday the 13th of July, 1923.
According to at least one interpretation
of the Mayan calendar the world will end
on 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0
or in the Gregorian calendar,
Friday, October 13, 4772.
But before then,
on Friday the 13th in 2029,
Asteroid 99942 Apophis
is forecast to pass earth at a
closer distance than any of our satellites.
Crikey!
The Last Post – Of 2013.
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31st December has rolled round again and so it's time to bring 2013 to a close.
This is always an appropriate time to reflect on what has happened during the previous twelve months.
These are just some of the things I remember about 2013. It's a personal choice and you may have thought of other things that could have been mentioned, but, in spite of the fact that the time seems to fly, a lot happens in the space of a year so only so much can be included.
As good a place as any to start since the weather is a constant topic of conversation at all times of the year.
Statistically 2013 appears to have been a year where major weather events were at a minimum. Not much comfort to those at the extreme end of that distribution curve and who suffered hardship and discomfort as the result of extreme weather.
But here are some of what I think are the most memorable weather events of 2013.
In January Malaysia, Indonesia and South-East Africa saw major flooding events caused by monsoon and other heavy rainstorms. It also saw Australia's hottest month on record.
February saw the largest snowfall from a single storm ever recorded in the North-eastern United States. Major winter storms also affected central US states and even the Texas panhandle.
In March New Zealand saw its worst drought in more than 30 years. China had its second warmest recorded March temperature, while in usually sunny Spain they had their wettest March on record with three times the average for the previous three decades.
Contrast was the name of the game in the US in April with California experiencing drought conditions while in the Central US there was widespread flooding.
May was the wettest ever seen in China for forty years. Indeed it was a month of extremes with more than 1 million people evacuated from their homes as Tropical Cyclone Mahasan struck Bangladesh, while in the US the widest ever observed tornado hit Oklahoma bringing more than 20 deaths and widespread devastation.
June was the hottest ever, Portugal, China, Hungary, Finland, and Britain, all recorded heat-waves, and the temperature in Death Valley, California hit 129.2F (54.0C), the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth during June.
In July in the US 19 firefighters were killed trying to contain wildfires in Prescot Arizona.
More contrasts later in the year with the 2013 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season being one of the weakest recorded in 50 years, with no major hurricanes in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic basin. Only Ingrid and Humberto out of the 13 named storms reached hurricane strength.
In the western-north Pacific on the other hand, 30 major storms had been recorded by early November, 13 of them typhoon-strength. The biggest was typhoon Haiyan, possibly the most powerful tropical cyclone to make landfall in recorded history, which smashed into the southern Philippines, killing at least 6,000 people and wreaking massive damage.
The end of the year saw the focus change to Europe, where a major depression moved eastwards from northwest Scotland to southern Sweden bringing strong winds of up to 142 mph and a massive tidal surge that affected coastal areas around the North Sea. In the UK thousands of people had to evacuate their homes along the east coast, where the coastal surge was the worst since 1953 with local flooding and some houses being washed into the sea as cliffs gave way. At least six people died by the time the winds moved finally down over northeast Europe.
2013 has been noted as a great year for scandal and corruption. Here are some of the highlights (or low lights perhaps?).
In the food industry we had the Aflatoxin scandal, where throughout much of Europe contaminated milk and other food products were found to be 'infested' with this toxin.
Major supermarket retailers were the subject of another major scandal in the UK when they were found to be selling meat products labeled "100% beef" which were actually horse meat.
In sport several Major League Baseball players were accused of obtaining performance-enhancing drugs, specifically human growth hormone, from the now-defunct rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America.
However, undoubtedly the biggest scandal of 2013 was perpetrated by the US Government.
It was discovered during 2013, as the result of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden, that US Government agencies, in particular the NSA, had been guilty of a widespread snooping and spying campaign, even on its own citizens.
It was reminiscent of the old Soviet Union and the KGB, but it was happening in the "Land of the Free". The snooping projects included "PRISM", a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program that collects stored Internet communications based on demands made to Internet companies such as Google; "Dropmire", a secret surveillance program of surveillance of foreign embassies and diplomatic staff, including those of NATO allies; "Fairview", a secret mass surveillance program used to collect phone, internet and e-mail data in bulk from the computers and mobile telephones of foreign countries' citizens; "Hemisphere", a mass surveillance program conducted by US telephone company AT&T and paid for by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration; "MUSCULAR", a surveillance program jointly operated by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the NSA that was used to secretly break into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world; and "XKeyscore", a formerly secret computer system used by the United States National Security Agency for searching and analyzing Internet data about foreign nationals across the world.
In 2013, the United States Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder, also came under scrutiny from the media and some members of Congress for subpoenaing phone records from the Associated Press and naming Fox News reporter, James Rosen, a "criminal co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act of 1917 in order to gain access to his personal emails and phone records.
And the IRS was also condemned when it was revealed that it had targeted political groups applying for tax-exempt status for closer scrutiny based on their names or political themes.
All in all a bad year for the reputation and standing of the US Government.
In other countries perhaps the worst scandal of 2013 was "Danielgate", a political scandal in which Mohammed VI, the King of Morocco, issued a pardon for a Spanish convicted serial child-rapist named Daniel Galván who was serving a 30 years prison sentence for the rape of at least 11 Moroccan children in Kenitra—a city where he had been living in since 2004.
The Pardon sparked unprecedented popular outrage in Morocco where several protests were held denouncing the monarch's decision.
It was revealed later that this wasn't the first time Mohammed VI had pardoned a convicted foreign paedophile, having pardoned Hervé Le Gloannec, a French citizen convicted of child rape and child pornography in 2006.
In India a Ponzi scheme operated by the Saradha Group financial Group, a consortium of Indian companies that was believed to be running a wide variety of collective investment schemes, collapsed causing an estimated loss of INR 200–300 billion (US$4–6 billion) to over 1.7 million depositors.
In politics there was the usual sex and drugs scandals during 2013. In May videos were exposed that showed Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine and commenting on political issues. Rob Ford consistently denied the existence of the video, and denied that he uses crack cocaine, remaining Mayor despite calls for him to step down. On November 5, 2013, Ford eventually admitted to smoking crack cocaine "probably in one of my drunken stupors", and to hiding his drug abuse from his family, his staff and the people of Toronto, but pledged to continue on as Mayor.
Back in the US former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York City, Anthony Weiner, was involved in another sexual scandal relating to sexting, or sending explicit sexual material by cell phone. First caught in the Weinergate scandal in 2011 that led to his resignation as a congressman, this idiot has learned nothing. During his attempt to return to politics as candidate for mayor of New York City, Weiner admitted having sexted again, after more explicit pictures were published in July 2013.
As every year, 2013 saw many departures. Here are some of the better known faces that passed on during the year.
Astronauts, C. Gordon Fullerton and Scott Carpenter.
From politics, Ed Koch, U.S. Representative from New York (1969–1977) and Mayor of New York City (1978–1989), later a television judge in "The People's Court".
Margaret Thatcher aka "The Iron Lady", daughter of a greengrocer who became the first woman Prime Minister of the UK.
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan politician and military officer and President since 1999.
Television and the movies also lost many well known characters including,
Conrad Bain, Canadian born and usually cast as the erudite gent, advice-spouting father or uptight, pompous neighbor, included roles in "Diff'rent Strokes".
Michael Winner a director best known for dramatic and violent movies like "Death Wish" starring Charles Bronson.
Richard Briers, television comedy actor well known on British sitcoms such as "The Good Life" and "Ever Decreasing Circles".
Dale Robertson who, after service during WWII in North Africa and Europe, became an actor and made his name in television Westerns in the 1950s and '60s.
Richard Griffiths, a British character actor who came from radio and the classical stage.
Steve Forrest began his screen career as a small part contract player with MGM and made his name as an action man in the 1960's and 70's. He is a brother of star Dana Andrews.
New Jersey-born James Gandolfini began acting in the New York theater, making his Broadway debut was in the 1992 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. James' breakthrough role was his portrayal of Virgil the hitman in Tony Scott's "True Romance", but the role that made him a household name was as Tony Soprano in the award winning television series "The Sopranos".
Gary David Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York but moved to Hollywood to try to make it as a writer. He was responsible for the hit series "Spin City".
Although Dennis Farina did not start acting until he was 37 years old, he achieved success as a character actor, often being cast as a cop or gangster.
Eileen Brennan was a supremely gifted, versatile player who could reach dramatic depths, as exemplified in her weary-eyed, good-hearted waitress in "The Last Picture Show", or comedy heights, as in her sadistic drill captain in "Private Benjamin". Perhaps one of her best remembered performances was in the hit movie "The Sting" with Paul Newman and Roberts Redford and Shaw.
Lisa Robin Kelly first made her acting debut, at age 21, in a 1992 episode of "Married with Children", and went on to guest-star in many popular television shows, such as "Murphy Brown", "The X Files", "Sisters and Silk Stalkings". She got her biggest break in "Days Of Our Lives".
David Frost achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic, first in the UK and then in America. He is most remembered for his political interviews, particularly those with former US President Richard Nixon.
In a film career that has extended for over four decades, Ed Lauter has starred in a plethora of film and television productions since making his big screen debut in the western "Dirty Little Billy".
Hal Needham was the highest paid stuntman in the world. In the course of his career suffered many injuries breaking 56 bones, including his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director. He wrote and directed some of the most financially successful action comedy films.
Robin Sachs, 61, was an English actor who made it into American television series such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Galaxy Quest" and "Babylon 5".
Frank Thornton, was a British actor best remembered fot his role as "Captain Peacock" in the long running sitcom "Are You Being Served?". He also appeared in "Last of the Summer Wine" and "Gosford Park".
Bryan Forbes, was another Briton and an accomplished actor ("The League of Gentlemen"), director ("The Stepford Wives") and screenwriter ("Chaplin")
Lewis Collins, was most famous and best loved for his role as action man "Bodie" in the television series "The Professionals". He also starred in the terrorist hostage movie "Who Dares Wins" loosely based on the dramatic Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980.
Paul William Walker who was killed in a car accident was an American actor and the founder of Reach Out Worldwide. He became famous in 1999 after his role in the hit film "Varsity Blues", but later garnered fame as "Brian O'Conner" in "The Fast and the Furious" film series. His other well known works are "Eight Below", "Running Scared", "The Lazarus Project", "Into the Blue", "Joy Ride", "She's All That", "Takers", and "Hours".
Peter O'Toole, was a British-Irish actor with a reputation as a bit of a hell-raiser. Among his movie credits he starred in "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Lion in Winter", "Becket", and "Troy".
The music scene too has lost a few well known names during 2013. They include,
Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler) toured the US in the late 1940s with Jimmy Joy, and notably sang with the Benny Goodman band in Chicago.
Patty Andrews and her sisters, Maxene and Laverne, were "The Andrews Sisters", an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. They accumulated 19 gold records and sales of nearly 100 million copies.
Lou Reed formed the group "The Velvet Underground" with Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, second guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker in New York in 1965. The group soon became a part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene, which housed a great number of experimental artists at the time.
Never as famous as his namesake Elvis, Reg Presley was a British singer and songwriter. His group was called "The Troggs" and among many other hits, he composed "Love Is All Around" which was first a hit for the Troggs but made real fame by the group "Wet Wet Wet" when it featured in the movie "Four Weddings And A Funeral" and spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK charts in 1994.
Sports best known departure during 2013 was former WBC world heavyweight champion boxer Ken Norton, remembered for his trilogy of fights with Muhammad Ali. He defeated Ali in their first bout by a fifteen round split-decision, a fight in which Norton famously broke Ali's jaw. Norton also fought a classic battle with Larry Holmes over fifteen brutal rounds in 1978, a fight which ranks as one of the greatest heavyweight contests in boxing history.
The world of Pubishing & Books saw several famous departures during 2013.
Tom Clancy whose fiction works, "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger", and "The Sum of All Fears", have been turned into commercially successful movies with actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck as Clancy's most famous fictional character "Jack Ryan".
Robert Kee, British writer, journalist and broadcaster best known for his historical works on World War II and Ireland.
Steven Utley, was an American writer of poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, but best known for his science fiction stories.
Dave Hunt was a Christian Evangelist speaker, radio commentator and author, in full-time ministry from 1973 until his death. He wrote numerous books on theology, prophecy, cults, and other religions, including critiques of Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism, among others.
Richard Matheson, was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. Known best as the author of "I Am Legend", a 1954 horror novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, five more of his novels or short stories have also been adapted as major motion pictures, namely "The Shrinking Man", "Hell House", "What Dreams May Come", "Bid Time Return" (filmed as "Somewhere in Time"), "A Stir of Echoes" and "Button, Button". Matheson also wrote numerous television episodes of "The Twilight Zone" for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". He later adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay which was promptly directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television movie of the same name.
William Stevenson, was a British-born Canadian writer, whose 1976 book "A Man Called Intrepid" was a best-seller and made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven. Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled "Intrepid's Last Case". He published his autobiography in 2012. Stevenson is also noted for having set a record with another 1976 book, "90 Minutes at Entebbe", about Operation Entebbe where Israeli commandos secretly landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. The remarkable record is that in the pre-internet age Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.
Other notable people who died during 2013 include,
Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Russian arms designer responsible for the AK-47 rifle, millions of which have been produced.
Roy Brown Jr., an American car design engineer responsible for designs such as the Edsel, and the much more successful Ford Consul and Ford Cortina


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Driver in Israel crash that killed 24 Russians jailed for 8 years
The driver of a tour bus that crashed in Israel in 2008 was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The driver of a tour bus that crashed in Israel in 2008, killing 24 Russian travel agents, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Sunday, the Justice Ministry said.
The accident occurred near the southern Red Sea resort of Eilat, when the bus, carrying 49 passengers, veered off a desert road and plunged down a ravine. It was one of the worst crashes in Israel.
The Russian travel agents had just arrived in Israel and were en route to Eilat. Fifteen of them were badly injured in the accident.
The driver was convicted in September of manslaughter and was found to have been driving recklessly, when he entered a sharp curve at high speed while trying to overtake another bus, according to a court document provided by the Justice Ministry.
New Jordanian government wins confidence vote
Iran launches missile drill amid tensions
Opposition leader Navalny to return to Russia
25 killed as Israel launches attacks in eastern Syria

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FORT BRAGG, NC (WTVD) -- It was hard to describe the joy at Fort Bragg Monday evening.
"Like something that I have been thinking about for the last 11 months. I can't describe it," said Corporal Samantha Knatzer.
A group of soldiers from the 1st Theater Sustainment Command returned from the Middle East. Some had been deployed for 9 months and others for even longer.
They supply everything from beans to bullets for American troops in the Middle East, including transportation, supplies, and medical support.
"We enable the ground fighters to do their jobs by supplying them. Without supplies, they are limited to what they can do, so we are there to expand their abilities to do their jobs," explained Colonel Dan Rossi.
To 4-year-old Jackson Knatzer, 11 months without mom can seem like a lifetime. This first deployment was tough on dad too.
"We just say Mommie is in the desert doing work and she is doing work, but she will be coming home soon," said husband and father Kris Knatzer.
This was Major Curtis Perkins' sixth deployment, and he said it doesn't get any easier.
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The Hunters
Synopsis: An Iraq war veteran, Le Saint, has just started working as a police officer in a small town where many unexplained disappearances of persons have occurred within the last two years. He wants to investigate the cases, but his hot-tempered chief charges him with with the escort of a turn state's evidence. Against his chief's orders, Le Saint relocates the meeting spot to the abandoned Fort Goben in the woods. What he doesn't know is that the fort also serves as a secret meeting point for a group of ruthless hunters - whose prey aren't animals.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director(s): Chris Briant
Actors: Steven Waddington, Tony Becker, Dianna Agron, Chris Briant
Production: Magnolia Pictures
Let's go.
Jesus. Look at this.
She leaves all her shit
in the back of the car.
She can come out here
and look for 'em!
What's up, Oliver?
Take it easy, man.
You're not working tomorrow, are you?
Yeah yeah.
Yeah, I am working tomorrow.
Yeah, that boss
of mine gives me
a 6:
00 AM wake-up call
on a Sunday.
40 PCs and printers
to hook up to a network.
A Sunday...
it's rough, but it's not
that big a deal.
I'm sure it'll go by real fast.
I'm sorry, man.
I shouldn't take it out
on Beth either.
It's not cool.
It's not her fault.
She does her best.
she... she's probably sick
of my horseshit anyway,
She's been throwing
some fits and it's...
the married life, my friend...
it's not exactly
what they say it is.
But I tell myself
I'm a lucky man,
And I am, really.
You know, I mean...
...if it weren't
for Beth...
she's a great woman.
I don't regret it.
And the whole thing with...
Ronny, what's the matter?
No, Ronny.
Hear what?
It's, uh...
it's nothing.
It's... it's nothing.
- It's... it's gone.
- F*ck you.
It's probably the kids.
- Hey, here they are.
- Yeah, man.
It's, like... the last time
there was this fag
at the Borny Tae club,
you know, man?
The jerk thinks
he's a Mike Tyson.
He jumps into the fucking ring
and the motherfucker tried
these weak-ass judo kicks,
but I smashed his head to pulp.
Pow! You know?
He tries to defend himself,
but I'm just like...
Pow! Pow!
I cracked his skull
and then, two seconds later,
he was history.
- Yeah.
- Fucking K.O.
You're just like Freddy, man.
- Yeah?
- I gotta introduce him to you.
- Yeah, man, do that.
- Last time, man,
we had a bust-up
with these punks in Queen's.
- And there was this one fag,
- the youngest...
- You fucking beat his ass?
We caught him in the alley,
just behind the Queen's.
you unload your weapon?
Oh shoot.
Good job, kid.
You did good this weekend.
- Good boy.
- Thanks.
Ronny, what's your deal?
- You gonna hang out this weekend?
- I don't think so.
- You know, I gotta work on Sunday too.
Homework to grade, got the school party
in two weeks' time.
- Stop it.
- I mean the school party for Christ's sakes.
Like, f*ck.
- Here's to Sunday.
- Sunday.
Come on, man.
Hey, let's go.
You've got to get to work.
- You'll be late.
- Will, looks like you're ridin' with me.
- Yeah, I'll call you later.
- No doubt.
- See ya later, guys.
- See ya, Steve.
- Le Saint.
- The chief wants to see you.
- I'm Le Saint.
- The army guy.
- Oh yeah, the new guy.
Wait a second.
I gotta check.
Sir?
There's a guy here... Saint.
He's waiting at the door.
You got a meeting
with the boss?
Watch out...
he's no pussycat.
All right, send him in.
You know, half the time
I don't even know what it's gonna be
until they put it
on the desk in front of me.
So at this point
I can't make any predictions.
The best thing for me to do
is wait till I see a copy of it.
We'll talk about it, all right?
All right?
Phoebe, procedures.
- The arresting officer will restrain the sus...
- I'm Le Saint, sir.
Sit down, sit down.
-- Will restrain the suspect.
until his partner has
a chance to read him his rights.
Let's leave the rest
of that until tomorrow, okay?
Would you get us
a cup of coffee?
- Sure.
- All right. Okay.
So, Le Saint, huh?
- What is that, French?
Yeah. Actually,
my father was...
That's right, that's right.
Your father. That's right.
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#PurpleLightUp marks International Day Of People With Disabilities
Amelia Irvine 1 December 2021
To mark International Day Of People With Disabilities, (Friday 3 December) people across Bradford District and Craven are being encouraged to wear something purple and buildings across the district will also be lit up to celebrate the day.
This year's theme for the international campaign is fighting for right in the post COVID-19 era. This year the focus is on the barriers and opportunities for people who live with disabilities, in the context of a global pandemic. Locally the health and care system is coming together – under the Act as One health and care partnership – to mark the day and recognise the contribution that people living with a disability make.
Events planned include a disability café for staff organised by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust's Disability Inclusion Group, the Beacon Staff Network is encouraging colleagues at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust to dress in purple on the day and the equality and inclusion council at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has organised internal events to mark the day.
Buildings being lit up include Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke's Hospital and Lynfield Mount. The local #PurpleLightUp is a way to celebrate and connect with disabled people worldwide as part of a global effort to demonstrate commitment to disability inclusion. City Hall, Margaret McMillan Tower and Forster Square Arches will also be lit up in purple from 3 Dec for the weekend.
Dr James Thomas, GP and Clinical Chair for NHS Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group, said: "Our health and care partnership for Bradford District and Craven – through our Act as One ethos – recognises that the pandemic continues to impact on people's lives. We want to acknowledge and recognise that some population groups have been affected disproportionately more than others.
"Evidence shows this includes people with a disability and we must commit to redressing the balance. #PurpleLightUp helps us to shed a light on the challenges and barriers people with a disability face, reminds us of our responsibility to be inclusive as employers and service providers and shows the importance of understanding people's lived experience so we can achieve sustainable change."
Cllr Sarah Ferriby, Bradford Council's Executive Member for Healthy People and Places said: "The journey to being an inclusive society means we must take action now and accept that this will take commitment from everyone. As a local health and care system we understand that there is a lot more to do to create inclusive workplaces, services and communities that create opportunities for people who live with disabilities to feel supported, listened to and drive the change we need to see."
To find out more about the International Day Of People With Disabilities please visit https://idpwd.org/ and to take part in #PurpleLightUp visit https://www.purplespace.org/purple-light-up/get-involved
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On 5 March 1997, the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, informed the political parties and social partners about the report drawn up by the "Commission for macroeconomic compatibility of social expenditure", a committee of experts established by the Government and chaired by Professor Paolo Onofri. The proposals for reform deal with all the key elements of public spending: healthcare, public assistance, and, of particular interest for the industrial relations system, pensions and labour market policies. This document drew critical reactions from the trade union confederations, while the evaluation from the Confindustria employers' confederation was fairly positive.
The Italian public social expenditure system differs from those of other European countries, not so much because of the amount of expenditure in relation to GDP, but because of its composition. In fact, social expenditure as a whole accounts for about one-quarter of GDP, a percentage similar to the average recorded by the EU in 1994 (according to Il Sole 24 Ore, 5 March 1997). In Italy, however, 61.5% of such expenditure is constituted by pensions, against the average of 45.3% for the EU. By contrast, other items - such as expenditure for protection against the risks of unemployment, or aid to families and maternity leave - amount to much less than in other EU countries (18.4% against 31.9%). The reform strategy drawn up by the "Commission for macroeconomic compatibility of social expenditure" (the "Onofri Commission") basically foresees a social expenditure structure comparable to the European model; this would entail reducing the resources allocated to pensions and increasing expenditure to develop "social shock-absorbers" and active labour market policies in order to sustain employment mobility and to protect against the risk of poverty.
The Commission's key proposals
Pensions system. The Commission basically confirms the validity of the social security system reform negotiated in 1995 by the trade unions with the Government led by Lamberto Dini. The Onofri Commission underlines, above all, the need to pursue the objectives defined by the previous reform in a shorter time than that originally stipulated.
Expenditure for labour market"outsiders". The most important new proposal in this area is the introduction of a new benefit (referred to as "vital minimum") aimed at facilitating the reintegration of outsiders - such as young unemployed people, or those in the clandestine economy - into the labour market. This benefit would be subject to an assessment of family conditions of real need and should be temporary.
The healthcare system. The Commission stresses the need to pursue full implementation of the reorganisation of the national healthcare system, decided in 1992, along the lines of a strong decentralisation of the system, by delegating authority for the definition of hospital activities to the Regions .
Labour market policies. The main point of this chapter concerns revision of the present system of "social shock-absorbers". This proposal foresees the institution of a three-tier system of benefits:
benefits in the event of temporary lay-offs, where the employment relationship is preserved. These benefits should replace the present ordinary Wages Guarantee Fund and be based on an insurance-type financing scheme;
unemployment benefits for workers who lose their jobs. The current forms of unemployment compensation - the "special" Wages Guarantee Fund (Cassa Integrazione Straordinari) and compensation for "external mobility" - should all be included in this policy;
"vital minimum" benefits (see point 2 above), when a person no longer qualifies for the previous types of benefit.
The report also foresees that the abovementioned three types of benefit should be integrated with active labour market policies, by strengthening vocational training and especially further training. Furthermore, labour market policies should be backed up by an efficient employment services system. An employment services reform is proposed which would end the public monopoly in employment services, and specialise and diversify its activity by introducing information, orientation and counselling services.
The reactions of the social partners
The most innovative points of the document are its proposals on expenditure for labour market "outsiders" and on labour market policies. The debate has only just begun, but the initial reactions of the social partners have revolved around these themes. The trade union confederations expressed extremely critical evaluations on the Commission's proposals. Although taking slightly different stances in relation to the individual themes, the unions demonstrated that they do not share the basic ideas of the reform proposals, emphasising, above all, the cutbacks in social expenditure, which they judge to be unacceptable. By contrast, Confindustria, in the statements made by director Innocenzo Cipolletta (reported in Il Sole 24 Ore, 5 March 1997), expressed a generally positive opinion about the spirit of the reform proposals, though expressing some doubts on the implementation of the "vital minimum".
The Onofri Commission's proposals could change radically the way in which the Italian labour market functions. The labour market has always been characterised by bureaucratic and inefficient public intervention, by scarce investment in training and by a clear-cut division between one group of workers who are well protected and another almost completely devoid of protection in the event of job loss.
The most innovative aspect of the proposals is the elimination of two peculiarities of the Italian system: the special Wages Guarantee Fund, which has assured the relatively few workers in large industries long periods of protection; and the unemployment compensation for all workers which is, by contrast, extremely modest and short-term. The objective should therefore be to introduce income support on a universal basis and divided into two phases - the former of an "insurance" type and the latter of a "welfare" type ( the "vital minimum"). Furthermore, according to the Commission, income support should be connected to vocational reskilling activities and aimed at reintegration into the workforce. Finally, for the first time in a government document (though drafted by external experts), the issue of employment services is dealt with not only at an institutional level, but also by taking into account the human resources needed to implement the new activities. (Simonetta Carpo, IRES Lombardia)
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The recovery of the oldest available text of the New Testament continues to occupy the attention of biblical scholars. Because the early printed editions were based on late and incorrect texts, scholars had to study the materials to find older forms of the text. We now know that to study the text of the New Testament and to recover the oldest forms of it, scholars have available over 5,500 Greek manuscripts, translations into early languages, including especially important ones in Syriac, Latin, and Coptic, and quotations in early Christian writers. The task of examining these witnesses, and collecting from them the relevant data, has occupied scholars for over three hundred years.
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A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage and the life that surrounds it, in good times and bad.
The Year of Magical Thinking is a masterpiece in two genres: memoir and investigative journalism. The subject of the memoir is the year after the sudden death of the writer's husband. The target of the investigation, though, is the nature of folly and time. The writer attends to details, assembles a chronology, and asks hard questions of the witnesses, most notably herself. But she imagines that the story she tells can be revised, the world righted, her husband returned, alive. What she offers is an unflinching journey into intimacy and grief.


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Where Did the Police Term "No Human Involved" first originate?
Submitted by jsavage16 on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 5:34pm
law enforcement terms
I could not find any definitive answers, but the following articles offer some context on how the term might have started.
An essay called "The Endless Dream Game of Death", by Luis Rodriguez states that the LAPD began using the term during the 1980's, to dismiss victims of gang violence.
In "NHI-No Humans Involved," UCSD faculty member Elizabeth Sisco, traces the use of the term to the San Diego area during the 1980's and 1990's, by San Diego police, to address a series of murders and sexual assaults against women. Sisco wrote that the head of the task force assigned to investigate the murders claimed that the use of "NHI" is fictionalized by old detective novels, but another San Diego officer confirmed the use of the "NHI" term in a Sacramento Bee article to describe these murders.
Rodriguez, Luis J. and D. Cesare (1995). Endless Dream Game of Death. Grand Street, No. 52, Games. pp. 61-77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25007852. Access December 6, 2009 from Jstor database through San Jose State University.
Sisco, Elizabeth. (1993) NHI-No Humans Involved. NHI-No Humans Involved. Accessed December 6, 2009.
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Why Paulo Dybala's Tottenham transfer collapsed on deadline day
By Jake Bacon
9th August 2019, 1:06 pm
Paulo Dybala's move to Tottenham fell through due to his wage demands, reports claim.
The Juventus forward appeared to be on his way to north London after the two clubs had agreed a £64.4million fee.
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It looked like Dybala was set to become a Tottenham player
But according to various reports, agreeing personal terms with Dybala and his agent – in particular an issue regarding image rights – scuppered any potential deal.
Dybala's image rights are owned by a third-party and not by Juventus. They were sold to Star Image Company in Malta, which is owned by his former agent Pierpaolo Triulzi.
And it would have been very expensive to buy back the player's image rights, something which put Tottenham off from going ahead with the transfer.
Juventus have been trying to offload the Argentina international throughout the summer and were interested in a swap deal with Manchester United for Romelu Lukaku.
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However, the Red Devils withdrew their interest because of Dybala's alleged lack of interest in moving to Old Trafford and his excessive wage demands.
United chiefs believed the 25-year-old wanted to come to England for the wrong reasons.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side now are a striker short after Lukaku left for Inter in a £72million deal on Thursday.
With the transfer window open for other European clubs until the start of next month, Dybala could still quit Juventus.
But he will not be donning a Tottenham or Manchester United shirt for the opening-day games of the Premier League season this weekend.
Despite failing to land Dybala, Tottenham had a productive transfer deadline day after signing long-term targets Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon from Real Betis and Fulham, respectively.
Lo Celso joined on a season-long loan with an option, but Spurs have an option to buy at the end of the season, while Sessegnon arrived in a £25million deal.
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Radical 45 or radical sprout () is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

 is also the 55th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Literature

External links

Unihan Database - U+5C6E

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The forms required for Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders are provided to our Court by the Supreme Court of Ohio. It is required by law that certain documents be filed when petitioning the Court for a Domestic Violence Civil Protection Order. If you are representing yourself during the filing process you will be held to the same standards as an attorney. It will be expected that you follow all Civil, Local, and Court rules and procedures. Court Staff and Advocates cannot provide you with legal advice so it is important that you read all forms and instructions carefully. All forms must be completed fully and accurately. Once a document is filed with the Clerk of Court's Office the document cannot be changed. If you cannot obtain legal counsel prior to filing you can prepare the intake form and a statement to the court describing the acts of domestic violence that the Respondent has engaged in. You may attach additional pages to your statement if needed. You will then bring the intake form and statement to the Domestic Violence Department in room 48 and they will be utilized when you prepare your documents.
If you are an attorney filing on behalf of a client please bring only the original documents for review, court staff can provide you with necessary copies. In the "Additional Forms and Instructions" section you can find a checklist to ensure you have completed all of the documents.


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Renaud Marion's Air Drive At MB&F M.A.D.Gallery
Our stroll through the MB&F M.A.D.Gallery this week propelled us into different times, in every sense of the word. From quirky time measuring devices to human scale modern pendulums, right up to French artist Renaud Marion's retro-futuristic vision of transportation. His most recent work Air Drive, a photographic series of flying cars placed in city contexts, sees wheel-less, vintage classics including Chevrolets, Mercedes, Jaguars and Aston Martins serenely levitating above the ground in different urban settings. Inspiration for the exhibition came from Renaud's childhood imagination and sci-fi films and artists, an imagination and cinema liking he shares with Maximilian Büsser, Founder and Creator of MB&F M.A.D.Gallery.
Growing up in the 80s, Marion thought that by the end of the 20th Century, people would be piloting flying cars, like the landspeeder from Star Wars. "As a child, I imagined the new millennium with flying cars, spaceships, parallel worlds, extra-terrestrials living with us on earth and time travel," he said. Büsser saw sense in that futuristic vision in the movie Gattaca -a movie I've always been intrigued by too- where people living in a dystopian, advanced society drive vintage cars: "Air Drive teleported me somewhere between my early years and the film Gattaca. There is incredible poetry and whimsy in Renaud Marion and his creations. I loved his world at first sight."
And while Marion's dream of floating vehicles being an every-day norm has not yet materialized, the futuristic imaginings of those iconic cars looks quite attractive to us. A celebration of the glory days of automobile production, seen as the future of that same industry. The artist developed his unique Air Drive series by first finding the subjects and locations of the shoots -he shot his first automobiles, a Chevrolet El Camino; Mercedes 300 SL Roadster and Jaguar XK120 at the end of 2012 in Geneva, with a borrowed Leica S. The second step involved the equipment. To achieve a "flying" car look, Renaud had to apply a digital assembly technique removing the tires and wheel wells from the classic beauties and merge the cars onto different backgrounds, eventually settling on the right scene for each futuristic portrayal.
Casually dressed in jeans and a polo shirt, Marion is approachable and eager to talk about his art. When I ask if he had considered using contemporary cars, he explains he had tried but the effect was not there at all. "Classic cars were drawn by hand, like a piece of art; today's cars are computer designed and most look the same. It just did not work." Imagining a modern car hovering above the ground in front of architecture dating from the 70s such as those in the artwork, I understood his perspective. The outcome would not have been the same. From his side, Max Büsser, in a very down to earth and friendly attitude, passionately tells me about the gallery: "It is like an orphanage. We host new and upcoming artists aiming at promoting their work." Both Renaud and Maximilian seem to share very similar passions and views of art, and it was refreshing to see such ardor towards art. Marion spoke of a project he's working on involving "beings from the sky"; we'll be keeping an eye out for that!
Nine images in limited edition prints compose the "Air Drive" photo series, and some of the pieces are exhibited at the M.A.D.Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, until September 10.
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Yamaha's TRBX600 series of bass guitars are designed to offer players a perfectly balanced instrument that blends maximum playability, with high-quality electronics, and boutique looks. With their slim neck, 3-band active/passive preamp, and a flamed maple wood top over the 3D sculpted alder body, the TRBX600 delivers in every aspect of their design ethos, and would make a welcome addition to any bass players collection.
With the TRBX604FM-NS you get yourself a stunning 4-string electric bass, with a supremely comfortable neck and body shape, sporting a Natural Satin finish. Featuring two YGD designed H5 pickups, an audiophile-grade active/passive circuit and 3-band EQ, and Yamaha's thinnest bass neck to date (just 38mm wide at the nut!) you'd be pushed to find a more versatile and finely-crafted bass within the same price bracket.
H5 pickups (as designed by YGD) are renowned for their clean, open tone that works perfectly with the flexibility of the TRBX604's active/passive preamp design. Featuring a quad-polepiece design, and alnico magnet construction, these powerful pickups drive the active circuit with ease, whilst still managing to retain the sensitivity and subtlety required to pick up each and ever nuance of your playing in passive mode.
In addition to the Active/Passive switchable nature of the on-board EQ, the TRBX604 also grants you total tonal control via the Treble, Mid, and Bass Boost/Cut controls (when in Passive mode the Treble control reverts to being a master passive Tone control). Constructed using high-quality gold-plated parts on key signal chain contacts, the circuitry within the TRBX604 operates with an increased amount of conductivity and reliability than other preamps, and there's even a battery alert LED installed on the back panel, which indicates when the battery is running low on power.
Yamaha have designed the TRBX604 to offer the optimum balance between tone and comfort. Its 3D sculpted body sits comfortably against you when you play, ensuring a supremely comfortable playing experience, and is coupled with a fast, ultra-comfortable profiled neck that is constructed to offer both outstanding stability and excellent tone.
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COLTS NECK – Mary Ann Miano believes in combining a good number of her talents and hobbies and taking advantage of all the resources she has at hand.
The result is two delightful columns in every issue of the Colts Neck Journal, a free distribution magazine in western Monmouth County, and an opportunity for readers to try their hand at both simple and exotic menus culled from the Catherine Henning Cook Book Collection which is the pride of the township.
The Holmdel resident and mother of two grown sons is also the senior library assistant at the Colts Neck Branch of the Monmouth County Library. As such, she is intimately familiar with, and appreciative of, the cookbook collection that was willed to the Library after the death of Colts Neck resident Catherine Henning, a former resident who traveled extensively and sought out cook and recipe books from all the corners of the earth.
Now in the downstairs storeroom at the library, the books are brought up for display and use throughout the year and are also always available for loan from any of the other branches or the Headquarters library in Manalapan by request. As one of her duties, Miano coordinates displays at the Colts Neck branch, so she incorporates books from this special collection that expand the particular ongoing subjects or activities. For instance, during August, when a Bread Baking Class by blue ribbon winner Flora Higgins was one of the morning activities in the lower level kitchen, Miano's book display upstairs included dozens of titles from the Catherine Henning collection containing recipes for everything from bread and muffins to yeast rolls and biscuits.
Then, in her free time, the avid reader/writer writes her two columns for The Journal, one culling information from the Catherine Henning collection, the other enabling her to indulge in research which she also enjoys.
For Books for Cooks, Miano selects a recipe from the collection, then goes into some interesting facts about the book she is referencing, perhaps something about the author, perhaps some of the other intriguing characteristics about the book itself. She said she makes her selections of which books and recipes to write about depending on a number of criteria…the season, holidays, or an event that might be going on that would correlate with a particular recipe. She concludes it with the book and author's name, the date it was printed and even the page from which she took the recipe.
The column always includes the history of whatever her recipe of the month is, along with the dietary information and health benefits.
Following a successful career in the business world upon graduation from the Berkeley Business School in Manhattan, Miano earned a second degree in humanities with a major in English. Now, content to spend time with her husband, Joe, and sons, Joey and Mike, who lives at home, the librarian believes she's got the best of all worlds with a rewarding position at the library, an ability to pursue an avocation she loves, and the ability to combine both her vocation and her avocation while still enjoying the beauty and tranquility of living life in Monmouth County.


Ron Fream of Golfplan laid out the course here at Pantai Mentiri Golf Club in 1983 and he would return again to Brunei before the decade was over to design and construct the Royal Brunei course, on the other side of the nation's international airport.
The layout plays to a par of 72 with water hazards involved at many of the holes on the card. The outward half, the Bakau nine, extends to 3,006 metres from the back markers – it's considered to be the "easier" nine – whilst the inward Membangan nine measures slightly longer at 3,099 metres.
The course at Pantai Mentiri has held many leading amateur and professional tournaments with perhaps its finest hour arriving in 1999 when it gained regional prominence by hosting the golfing element of the 20th South East Asia Games.


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3ft shark attacks surfer off Devon coast
The attack is thought to be the first of its kind in British waters.
by Jess Gray 8th June 2017
A surfer has become the first person to suffer a shark attack in UK waters while he was surfing off Bantham beach in Devon. Secondary school teacher Rich Thomson, 30, suffered a bruised leg and cuts to his hands after battling the shark away.
Thomson told reporters that the shark "grabbed me on the leg".
I turned around and saw this little shark was on my thigh and wriggling its head side to side. I hit it on the head and it swam off. My hand was cut to pieces.
Thomson estimated the shark was about 1m (3ft) long, and experts believe it could have been a smooth hound. Smooth hounds are often found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and also in the Mediterranean Sea. They can grow up to two metres and primarily live on a diet of crustaceans, shellfish and molluscs. Because of this, rather than the typical sharp shark-like teeth, the smooth-hound has blunt but powerful crushing plates.
Smooth Hound Shark spotted in Tenerife. Photo: Amarilla Divers Tenerife / Facebook
They are a relatively common species around the south and west of England and favour relatively shallow water. Only two years ago, 50 smooth hounds were spotted swarming together in shallow waters just off the Medmerry nature reserve near Chichester in West Sussex.
However, no other incident of this type has happened in UK waters before. Luckily, Thomson was wearing a thick winter wetsuit, which probably protected him from further injury. He still suffered a sizeable bruise "about three inches across" around his leg though.
It won't stop me going back in the water and it shouldn't stop anyone, I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Featured image of a surfer at Croyde Beach, Devon. Photo: Miles Wolstenholme
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The report, conducted by Carbon Tracker, concludes that by 2030 it will be cheaper to build new wind or solar capacity than continue operating coal in all markets.
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package net.groboclown.p4.server.api.messagebus;

import com.intellij.openapi.Disposable;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.ApplicationManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Disposer;
import com.intellij.util.messages.MessageBusConnection;
import com.intellij.util.messages.Topic;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

public class MessageBusClient {
    public static class ProjectClient {
        private final MessageBusConnection connection;
        private ProjectClient(MessageBusConnection connection) {
            this.connection = connection;
        }

        public <L> void add(@NotNull Topic<L> topic, @NotNull L listener) {
            connection.subscribe(topic, listener);
        }

        void close() {
            connection.disconnect();
        }
    }

    public static class ApplicationClient {
        private final MessageBusConnection connection;
        private ApplicationClient(MessageBusConnection connection) {
            this.connection = connection;
        }

        public <L> void add(@NotNull Topic<L> topic, @NotNull L listener) {
            connection.subscribe(topic, listener);
        }

        void close() {
            connection.disconnect();
        }
    }

    @NotNull
    public static ProjectClient forProject(@NotNull Project project, @NotNull Disposable owner) {
        ProjectClient ret = new ProjectClient(project.getMessageBus().connect(owner));
        // Just to be sure...
        Disposer.register(owner, ret::close);
        return ret;
    }

    @NotNull
    public static ApplicationClient forApplication(@NotNull Disposable owner) {
        ApplicationClient ret =
                new ApplicationClient(ApplicationManager.getApplication().getMessageBus().connect(owner));
        // Just to be sure...
        Disposer.register(owner, ret::close);
        return ret;
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Boil chicken breast in water until cooked through, cool and dice. Combine next 5 ingredients, heat and set aside. Place tortillas on plate and microwave 1 min to soften. Fill middle of each tortilla with chicken and cheeses. Fold short ends in and roll up. Place open side down in a 9×13 pan. Pour heated mixture over all of tortillas and use rest of cheese to sprinkle on top. Bake at 350 for 30 mins then turn broiler on and broil until lightly browned (appx 5 mins). MMmmmm….


Arrested Motion and Stephen Webster announce a group exhibition. City of Fire explores the idea of ambition and personal accomplishment within the context of a town internationally synonymous with success, fame, and affluence. The works in City of Fire embodies something decidedly intimate to each particular artist. It could be a personal ambition or motivation that they try for and achieve progress with daily. Or it could be an initiative that was taught and nurtured within them, but ultimately rejected. It also may be beliefs that they continually attempt to grasp, but so far have eluded them.
Artists in the exhibition include: Cyrcle., Thomas Doyle, Ron English, James Jean, Kid Zoom, Dave Kinsey, Mars-1, Patrick Martinez, Pedro Matos, REVOK, Rostarr, SABER, Andrew Schoultz, Jeff Soto, Judith Supine, TrustoCorp, Mark Dean Veca, Nick Walker, and Adam Wallacavage.


Last week I wrote about the curious common denominators in my three favorite activities: riding, running, and writing. There is, however, one important difference: the future.
Riding and running are of the moment. Whether I'm strapping on the helmet or lacing up the sneakers, there's the expectation of joy – tangible, physical, sensory experience that lasts as long as the activity (with lingering sense of achievement and a few muscle aches). Writing is equally a tangible, physical, sensory experience, but it has a long-lasting virtue that goes beyond my own individual involvement.
Admittedly, a trillion dollars is stunningly tangible, but Mr. Slyngstad's words, I feel, also apply to creative endeavors in general and, in my case, to writing novels and screenplays. Take, for example, the longevity of stories told in the Bible and Greek mythology, or the still best-selling Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. And there is King Lear, a stage play William Shakespeare wrote in 1606, which has been performed, viewed, and read by every generation since then, most recently adapted for modern viewers in a 2018 film staring Anthony Hopkins as the title character – which in a way makes our generation's most beloved actor 402 years old!
Clearly, people love good stories and keep telling them, one generation to the next. Admittedly, reading books these days has taken a second seat to watching actors on screens, fueled by the advent of limitless video streaming of lifelike action. (At the same time, the technological revolution also created a terrific market for electronic books, which endowed the joy of reading with immediate delivery, quality ratings, and endless choices. My novels, in fact, sell in e-book format 90% of the time.) The next phase, which is already taking hold, allows for active viewer participation in stories weaved into video games and virtual reality technology, which promises an ever-rising sensory immersion and active participation.
Notwithstanding the medium of delivery, a good story (like a good actor) will always find a passionate audience. That's why I believe Mr. Slyngstad's words apply to all good stories – the classics and those written today – as they are another form of "wealth that we should protect for our grandchildren and their grandchildren." Perhaps I'm being presumptuous, but this idea motivates me to go on writing novels, empowered by the aspiration to stimulate my current and future readers, viewers, players, and whatever new medium comes around to reenergize the art and joy of storytelling for future generations.


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This Old Town
In "Ad Astra," Off-World Colonies Are Crumbling Strip Malls
Applebee's on the Moon. Feral dogs on Mars. Is this the washed-up solar system we deserve?
Jon Christian September 24th 2019
/ Ad Astra
/ Brad Pitt
/ Solar System
/Ad Astra
/Brad Pitt
/Solar System
Let's get the obvious thing out of the way: If you've seen "Apocalypse Now" or read "Heart of Darkness" — or you're familiar with "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Solaris," "Interstellar," or even "Gravity" — then the sulky new Brad Pitt flick "Ad Astra" is going to feel pretty familiar.
And that's fine. If it ain't broke, as they say, don't fix it.
What is broke, by any reasonable definition of the term, is the interplanetary infrastructure in "Ad Astra." The film depicts a profound and relatable systemic failure. Humankind has gone off world, built an orbital economy, and then watched it slowly disintegrate, like your hometown after the factory closed.
It's hard to say if this vision is plausible, but it's emotionally resonant.
The movie keeps probing similar themes in different ways. Spoilers ahead: there's a Moon colony, sure, but it feels like a rundown airport, complete with escalators and an Applebee's. And outside the colony's gates, travelers are warned not to stray into disputed territories, where armed bandits attack visitors like a lunar version of "Mad Max."
There's also a beautifully decrepit Mars base, which has the design sensibility of a stucco fast-food franchise — as well as a sense of even deeper abandonment than the Moon colony. It's underpopulated, dirty, and at one point, Pitt's character ambles past what appears to be a feral dog.
Oh yeah, and then there's the doomed space habitat where animal research has gone so far off the rails that starving primates have developed a taste for human flesh. And an antique space station out by Neptune where the inhabitants met a terrible… well, let's not give everything away.
This is all visually arresting, by the way. And the soundtrack is terrific.
Maybe that's enough to excuse a thin plot, held together with daddy issues, that never quite lands. Like, "Ad Astra" is fine. But it feels like a fictional universe — fictional solar system? — that could serve as the setting for a far more interesting story. It's more compelling to imagine space as a crumbling strip mall than a gleaming, NASA-sanctioned temple.
That idea's not totally original — James Cameron experimented with something similar in the first half hour of "Aliens" back in 1986 — but it's an intriguing vision of a future in which an orbital economy has boomed and then busted, leaving early adopters out to dry across the solar system.
Maybe, if America's anything to go by, that'll be inevitable anywhere.
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