I am in the process of designing something and I've come across the requirement for a certain slug tuned inductor which appears to be unobtainable. Need 3.5uH. Doesn't seem to exist. Spectrum sell 5.3uH and 2.6uH cans so I've decided to try and rewind one with only one winding. I've got one 2u6L left to experiment with.
1. Is this a terrible idea?
2. How best to go about this? Do I start low and measure it with no core or do I stick the core in it and measure it?
3. Can I reuse the wire that is in them or should I buy some and just empty it and start again.
4. How can I crack one open without destroying it?
Alternatively does anyone know if I can tune the 5.3 or 2.6 coils into that range?
Unwind a few turns from the 5u3?
Will try that thanks. I've got to get hold of a 5u3L first hence checking viability. Haven't rewound or dismantled any new ones before, only the big ones you used to get on very old transistor radio chassis'.
I can't remember if they have a couple of small crimps on the bottom that need to be straightened first, but basically you very carefully push them out of the can from the top (ie push down from the top so they slide out the bottom).
Thanks - I just tried that and cut my finger open (doh!) so doing a more scientific method first.
2u6L tuning range of 1.72uH to 4.17uH.
That's well within the tuning range of what I need so I'll probably grab some 2u6L's and just tune them appropriately.
I was half asleep last night at half past midnight when I was thinking this through. This morning I woke up with a "there must be an easier way here".
I'll grab some 5u3L's as well just in case they don't all tune into that range and I need some headroom.
One other thing to consider - which I've done in the past - is wiring an additional coil in series [externally] to your variable one.
OK the tuning-range will be restricted so your choice of the additional coil's value needs to be made with intelligence - and it'll be unscreened - but the little axial-leaded coils that look like resistors are ideal for this sort of thing.
That's an interesting idea actually. Will bear that in mind in future as well.
It worked just fine as a technique for me when I wanted to retune a 10,7MHz FM IF strip down to 5.5MHz for TV sound.
You can effectively shift the inductance up a bit by adding a parallel capacitance. Or down by adding series capacitance. It all depends on context. What was the 3.5uH needed for?
It's mainly a cost saving. It's part of a narrow filter with extremely low passband ripple. If I don't use 3.5uH then I have to combine a few capacitors as a substitute and they are quite expensive.
Looks like 2u6L will do the job here. If it doesn't meet the pass requirements, I'll swap the transformer out for a 5u3L and try again.
These were tested with a calibrated DDS and 1% 100pF mica capacitor in parallel. DDS was swept until peak was found on a scope. DDS was connected to the tank circuit with a 47k resistor so as not to completely ruin the Q of the tank and get a good peak.


The new immigration bill that was announced by the UK Home Secretary Theresa May has generated a large amount of controversy. The bill has united lawyers, doctors, unions and, astonishingly, the UK Independence Party in opposition. On 9 October the Mrs Theresa May announced the bill that will include various measures which will supposedly curb the growing illegal immigration. Some of these include – Requirement of private landlords to check the immigration status of prospective tenants, Requirement that the the National Health Service to charge foreign nationals for treatment and increased fines for people who enter in sham marriages with foreigners just to allow them to stay in the country. According to the British Medical Association the implementation of the rule that all doctors should check the legal immigration status of their patients may costs million of dollars. Dr Richard Vautrey of the BMA told The Daily Mirror newspaper that such plans could be 'a bureaucratic nightmare' Additional criticisms of the bill came from various law and civil rights groups, which claim that the limited rights to appeal in cases of deportation because of illegal immigration that the bill enforces will lead to decreased equality in front of the rule of law. Even Nigel Farage who is the leader of the UK Independence Party criticized the bill which according to him goes against the principles of the libertarianism. He thinks that the requirement that fines should be imposed over doctors and landlord to check the immigration status of their patients and tenants basically transfers the duties of the Border Agency over them and is fundamentally wrong.
UK immigration office will introduce new application forms for many of its visa classes after 1dt October 2013. Most of the new forms are to be used for applications for most visa applications made in the UK under the UK's five tier points-based visa application system. From the UK Border Agency announced that they will allow applicants to use the old form for a short period of time that will end in 23 October 2013, after mthat only new forms will be accepted. The change in the application forms will be relevant for all visas that are from categories tier one, two, four and five.


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Some Canadians living in China say they don't fear contracting coronavirus – Global News
The Canadian government is warning those on the ground in China there could be more passengers than seats on the evacuation plane.
With hundreds wanting out, one Edmontonian wants in — and she's preparing to travel back to the epicentre of the new coronavirus.
"My role is essentially being an Alberta principal at an Alberta accredited international school in Guangzhou," said Tanya Thiessen, principal of the Canadian International School of Guangzhou.
Coronavirus: 325 Canadians have requested to leave epicentre of the outbreak
It's Thiessen and a staff of international teachers, including Canadians, operating the school and educating students from kindergarten to Grade 12. But things aren't the same this year because of the coronavirus.
"School's actually supposed to begin on Monday, but the schools in China are closed until Feb. 17, and in some cases, they are looking to extend that delay into March," Thiessen said.
The virus also taking a toll on students and staff trying to travel back.
"All of our teachers, as well as students, need to pass a quarantine phase in China… that shows that they are well and can return to campus," she said. "The quarantine phase is anywhere from 10 to 14 days to ensure that you do not have any symptoms."
Currently, Thiessen is in Edmonton trying to recruit more teachers.
"It's been a lot of conversation, people that are interested in working abroad will come to the booth and ask questions about the virus, about political relationships between countries, and so it's entering into that dialogue and being able to dispel those myths and rumours," she said.
While much of the world fears contamination, she and others that live among it don't.
"Being a normal healthy adult, I'm not concerned [about] contracting the virus," Thiessen said.
First coronavirus death outside of China reported in Philippines: health authorities
Trevor Metz, originally from British Columbia, is a restaurant owner in Beijing and has lived in China for the past 15 years.
"I'm not that worried. While this is a very serious situation, I also think it's being quite hyped and the fears are almost irrational at times," said Metz, adding he is more worried about the social impacts around him.
"In a city of 20 million people, absolutely nothing is happening on the roads, people are staying home. I'm very concerned [about] the economy here in China. Nobody is going anywhere. I can't get staff back to my pub because they're locked down in their home villages and they're not allowed to travel back to Beijing," he said.
Metz is hopeful things will calm down in the coming weeks. As for Thiessen, she looks forward to her upcoming travels to China and the new school year.
Why Calgary is losing its young adults – CBC.ca
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Derek P. Gilbert hosts A View From the Bunker. He also hosts SkyWatchTV, a Christian television program that airs on several national networks, and co-hosts SciFriday, a weekly television program that looks at science news with his wife, author and analyst Sharon K. Gilbert.
He formerly hosted The Drive, the #1 rated afternoon talk radio program in mid-Missouri, and launched P.I.D. Radio with Sharon in early 2005, making it one of the first podcasts on the Internet.
He's a Christian, a husband and father, and an author. He's in his early 50s, prefers glasses to contacts, and sings barbershop, an a capella style of distinctly American music. He most recently hit the high notes for RingTime, a barbershop quartet from Coles County, Illinois.
In the years since earning his degree in Economics, Derek has worked as a Top 40 radio disc jockey (he was once world famous in Peoria), a real estate salesman, the manager of a tuxedo shop, and a salesman of steel found in machines, buildings, power plants, and oil rigs all over the world.
Derek has written two novels, Iron Dragons and The God Conspiracy. You can find out more about them at Derek's personal website. He's also a contributing author to the non-fiction books When Once We Were a Nation, Blood on the Altar, I Predict: What 12 Global Experts Believe You Will See by 2025, and God's Ghostbusters.
Born in Chicago, just a long home run from Wrigley Field, Derek's radio career took him from Peoria and Chicago in the Midwest, to Philadelphia out east, and then south to Little Rock before finally bringing him back to the Midwest.
Derek's interests include reading, Christian apologetics, rooting for the Cubs, unraveling conspiracy theories, and scratching the chief of Homeyard Security, Sam T. Dachshund.
Derek has always been fascinated by the way things work and how things got to be the way they are. It was his study of evidence for the authenticity of the New Testament documents that awakened him to the battle raging around us.
It is this battle that inspires him.
MOST CHRISTIANS don't know why they believe what they believe. This is a documented fact. And it makes it difficult to share the gospel.
Preston and Kelly Condra, co-authors of the new book By Which We Are Saved: Sharing the Gospel With Confidence, discuss the need for believers to know basic doctrine and how we can overcome our fear of sharing our faith with others.
Check out the Condras' website: www.SufficientWordPublishing.com, and support the work of Watchman Fellowship at www.watchman.org.
And his supernatural thriller The God Conspiracy is now an audio book! Hear a new episode every Monday at www.TheGodConspiracy.tk.
A NEW cave has been officially designated at Qumran, site of the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls, for the first time in more than 60 years. This is historic.
Our podcast today features an extended interview recorded at SkyWatchTV, the first broadcast program to get an interview with two of the men involved in the dig, archaeologist Dr. Aaron Judkins and forensic architect Bruce Hall.
Joining Derek is SkyWatchTV's Jake Ruchotzke for a discussion of the importance of this discovery, the physical and political obstacles that had to be overcome, and what expedition leader Dr. Randall Price hopes to find when the team returns to Qumran in 2018.
THE INTERVENTION in human history by a rebellious group of angels called the Watchers triggered consequences that are shaping the world even today. Even though this was common knowledge to the Jews of the first century, including the Apostles, the men who wrote the New Testament, most of us in the church have never heard of the Watchers, much less what they did.
Dr. Michael Heiser, author of The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, joins us to discuss his new book, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ. This groundbreaking book will open your eyes to the significance God places on reversing the disastrous effects of the Watchers' sins against humanity.
And we are proud to announce that A View from the Bunker is now part of the Fringe Radio Network!
NIKOLA TESLA is just one degree of separation removed from the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Stan explained what was in the parcel and how it might be used to generate energy from the atmosphere.
Watch the 3-minute video on YouTube by clicking here.
THESE ARE strange days. Trying to make sense of the times in the light of scripture is the goal of the upcoming Hear the Watchmen conference, God's Great Gathering: The G3 Intelligence Summit.
Mike Kerr and Jeannie Moore, organizers of the conference, talk about the event and what motivated them to take on the massive challenge of putting it together.
PROPHETIC SIGNS are everywhere you look. 70 nations — the same number created by God after the Tower of Babel incident — recently gathered in Paris to discuss the Palestinian problem. Of course, that's just a nice way of saying they want to create a coalition to compel Israel to give up land to the Palestinian Authority.
Pastor Paul Begley studies prophecy, and he joins us to discuss the days in which we're living and what lies ahead. Are these like the days of Noah, and if so, what's the significance? Why are groups in Israel pushing to build the Third Temple, and what happens when they do? Most of all, what do Christians do about all of this?
Watch Paul's live video broadcast by clicking here Monday through Friday Noon to 2 PM Eastern, and Sunday night from 7 PM to 10 PM Eastern. You can watch his archived YouTube videos by clicking here.
Derek's supernatural thriller The God Conspiracy is now an audio book! Hear a new episode every Monday at www.TheGodConspiracy.tk.
WE ARE living in the most prophetic time since the days of Jesus. Pastor Carl Gallups, best-selling author of The Rabbi Who Found Messiah and Be Thou Prepared, discusses his new book, When the Lion Roars: Understanding the Implications of Ancient Prophecies for Our Time.
Without setting dates or laying out a timeline theory, Carl explains why events such as the restoration of the nation of Israel, invasive government surveillance, and the emergence of the Transhumanist movement are all indicators that the end times are upon us.
Derek's supernatural thriller The God Conspiracy is now an audio book! Hear new episodes every Monday at www.TheGodConspiracy.tk.
VFTB 343: Dr. Timothy Furnish – Battle of Dabiq: First Shot in the Apocalypse or the End of ISIS?
IS THE coming battle for the village of Dabiq, Syria the fulfillment of Islamic prophecy or the beginning of the end for the Islamic State?
Actually, probably neither. Dr. Timothy Furnish, author of Ten Years' Captivation With the Mahdi's Camps: Essays on Muslim Eschatology, 2005-2015, offers a primer on Sunni eschatology, insight into what may follow, and opinion as to why the West seems so unprepared to deal with the Islamic State.
THE SPIRIT realm is the focus of this week's exclusive interviews from the Rocky Mountain International Prophecy Conference. First, we talked with Claudia Koenig, who talked about the need for evangelism and witnessing in these days.
THE MODERN world is returning to the old gods. Festivals like the recent Burning Man are a symptom, not the cause, of the growth of the new paganism.
Carl Teichrib, editor of the online journal Forcing Change and author of the forthcoming book Game of Gods, has been tracking the growth and direction of transformational festivals. He explains what they are and why Christians need to be aware of (and concerned by) them.
THE BIBLE was not written in a vacuum. But most of us read it as if it was. We tend not to think about the influence of the nations around ancient Israel until one of them intrudes on the narrative by invading the Holy Land and plundering the Temple, or something.
Richard Burke is the author of the Raising Up Pharaoh series of novels. He's invested some 30,000 hours of research into the ancient world to make his fictional realm believable. We discuss the path that led him from a career in banking to his studies in archaeology, the ancient Near East and its impact on the patriarchs… and those weird, ancient reptilian figurines found near the site of the ancient temple of Enki, the Sumerian god of the Abyss.
OUR SERIES of exclusive interviews recorded at the 2016 Rocky Mountain International Prophecy Conference continues with a pair of discussions about the role of the church in the last days.
LIKE LAST week's program, this interview covers a topic that is "hard to believe." It seems unthinkable, but our legal system, and even elements within our government, seem to focus their efforts on eliminating people they don't want.


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review :: While You Were Reading :: Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
While You Were Reading is the new novel from Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus - authors of The Book Ninja, and the women behind Australia's Books on the Rail. Here's the book summary from Goodreads:
After ruining her best friend's nuptials, Bea relocates to the other side of the country in search of a fresh start, including meeting new people, living life to the fullest and finally pulling off balayage.
But after a few months, life is more stagnant than ever. Bea's job is dead-end. Her romantic life? Non-existent. And her only friends are her books, her barista and her cleaning lady.
Then Bea stumbles across a second-hand novel, inscribed with notes. Besotted with the poetic inscriptions, Bea is determined to find the author ... and finds herself entangled in one hell of a love quadrangle.
Funny, poignant and insightful, While You Were Reading reveals that there's no such thing as perfection, the value of true friendship and, most importantly, the power of not living in fiction, but still reading it … Often.
A love story for book lovers that celebrates much more than romance.
This story is another love letter from Berg and Kalus to literature and reading, and what it is to love them. I like felt the books mentioned in this one were more peripheral to the story than in The Book Ninja, although it was still fun to see some favourites mentioned. Similarly, I thought the Instagram posts peppered through the book were cute, but I didn't really think they added to the story. I do love that there are lists at the back of the titles of all the books mentioned throughout the story, as well as mini bios of all the bookstagrammers whose photos are featured.
Speaking of The Book Ninja, fans will be delighted by some cameos by characters from that book - I thought having Bea bump into them was a lovely touch!
Bea is a bit Bridget Jones-ish, in that sometimes I just couldn't decide whether I wanted to hug her or shake her. Her story arc is almost a bit "coming of age", which I really liked, as she ditches some toxic relationships and starts to appreciate who she is for herself, rather than measuring her worth by the people around her, and I did enjoy seeing her grow across the span of the story.
The people around Bea are really quite fun - there are lots of quirky people in Bea's life, and I loved seeing their interactions. Something I didn't love in the first part of the book was the amount of negativity between the women - either directly in the way they spoke to each other or how Bea describes the other women, as well as how negative she is about herself (there are a few bits where Bea criticizes her own body, in particular in comparison to her sister that were maybe to help her feel relatable but just made me a bit uncomfortable)
As I mentioned above, I really enjoyed Bea's main story-line through the book. It was fun to see her trying to track down the original owner of the special book she found, and I loved how that part of the story played out. I also loved her friendship with her barista Dino.
While You Were Reading was a sweet and light read about friendship and finding yourself. It was refreshing to read something with out too many heavy themes discussed, and just to enjoy the ride with a fellow bibliophile. I think fans of The Book Ninja will love this one.
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Out now from Simon and Schuster
Source: Free copy sent to me by Simon and Schuster
Category: Australian contemporary romcom
Australian RRP: $24.99
While You Were Reading on Goodreads
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LittleMissStar 10 July 2019 at 17:13
Ooh, I do love when characters from other books make cameos! I'll be adding both The Book Ninja and While You Were Reading to my (neverending!) TBR.
Beautiful review, Bron!
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August 2, 2021 September 10, 2021 / Ken Puddicombe
BY DAVE MOORES
REVIEWED BY MICHAEL JOLL
WINDWARD LEGS by Dave Moores
In her spare time, Alice Cooper (not THE Alice Cooper, but Alice Katrin Cooper, mid-thirties, divorced, former high school teacher turned IT office worker) is one of the crew on an expensive sailboat (a C&C 33, to be precise), Class Action, owned by two women lawyers, partners in more ways than one. The all-female crew forms a close-knit group and a formidable sailing team.
When Alice, clad only in a thong and T-shirt after a night of revelry at the Youngstown Regatta, falls into the frigid Niagara River early one July morning, it's only the beginning of a bad month. About to go down for the third time in the swift current, seedy, weedy Roy dives in and rescues her. Alice considers Roy fishing her out of the water to be only a tiny step up from drowning. Thanks, however, are in order, and unattached-since-last-night Alice shows her appreciation before heading over to Class Action and the first race of the day.
Windward Legs, by David Moores, starts fast and quickly picks up speed. As Moores describes it, competitive sailboat racing is a knives-out, cutthroat venture requiring deep pockets, nerves of steel, and a don't quit attitude. In addition to above-average looks and a decent body, Alice has two things going for her – her attitude and to-die-for legs. Alice's legs are a source of envy to women, usually unrequited lust for men, and inspiration to their owner to whom they are firmly attached. They speak to her. She listens but doesn't always do as they tell her, usually to her detriment.
Moores knows his sailing, especially competitive sailing on one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water – Lake Ontario – having sailed out of Oakville, Ontario, for years. Having navigated the waters of Lake Ontario (albeit as a deckhand and occasional helmsman on a 600-tonne car ferry – a far cry from a six-tonne sailboat), this reviewer can attest to the fickle and often violent nature of Lake Ontario weather and water. After years of competition, Moores retired from sailing while "still alive to tell the tale." And tell a good tale in Windward Legs he undoubtedly does.
Alice likes her work but can't stand her two-timing, brother-in-law boss who only gave her the job out of pity, hoping she would quit in a week. However, despite the odds, she becomes very good at what she does, including writing code for a program she develops on her own time. Unfortunately for Alice, things quickly go south at work and on the relationship front, not that, as she readily admits, she is even moderately proficient at the latter.
Alice's "anything in an emergency" prowess as the stand-in helmsman of Class Action gets noticed by VERY IMPORTANT, VERY RICH PEOPLE. In this case, the VIVRP is a billionaire with an interest in buying the company Alice works for and in need of someone to skipper his priceless racing machine, a vintage, Eight Metre yacht, Jackdaw, in a race starting RIGHT NOW. His crew, a sullen and motley collection of egos and expensive educations, miffed at being passed over as helmsman, grudgingly accept Alice when she demonstrates her skill and nerve on the water.
If treachery abounds on the water, it pales in comparison with the world of IT, where billionaires joust, real fortunes are up for grabs, and no one cares about the collateral damage, the little people, like Alice, who get in the way. A working lifetime spent in IT has given Moores a depth of insight into the amoral and often criminal dealings of the IT pros at the helm of cutting-edge start-up companies. That experience shines through in his writing.
Over the course of the novel, Alice becomes mixed up with the Toronto Blue Jays Puerto Rican centre fielder and his nutty, gun-toting wife from Chicago (and their questionable off-the-field exploits), Class Action's crew members (excellent), Jackdaw's crew (it has its ups and downs), a couple of Afghanistan veterans with a history, and assorted backstabbers, front stabbers, throat slitters, slimeballs and goofballs. And Roxanne.
Windward Legs combines edge-of-your-seat action on the water with high tension, razor-sharp tactics in the boardroom, where a memorable cast of one-off characters plays for keeps and takes no prisoners. The good guys all have issues. The bad guys just have more of them, which makes for gritty reading. Moores doesn't give us black and white in Windward Legs: instead, dark grey meets light grey, as it should.
An excellent read, a real page-turner from start to finish.
Published by MiddleRoadPublishers
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With opportunities to leave the house now limited largely to shopping and a daily dose of exercise, many of us will be settling down in front of the telly a lot more.
A cinema trip might be out of the question for a while but there's a whole world of film at your fingertips on streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and NowTV.
These are the 50 top-rated films according to IMDb's average user ratings. How many can you tick off your list while you're stuck at home?
We've listed all the streaming platforms where they're included with a subscription, plus a couple of the cheapest options to rent or buy.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Locked up for a double murder he didn't commit, innocent banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is facing life in prison. There he meets Red (Morgan Freeman), whose friendship - together with his own hope and determination - offers him a way out.
The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola's genre-defining gangster classic stars Marlon Brando as mob boss Don Corleone, the head of a powerful Sicilian mafia family in America.
The Oscar-winning sequel to Coppola's mafia masterpiece continues the saga of the Corleone family, charting the rise of a young Don Vito, played by Robert De Niro, and Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don.
Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his defining portrayal of The Joker in this Batman blockbuster. Christian Bale stars as the caped crusader as he teams up with Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to destroy organised crime in Gotham City forever.
This classic courtroom drama follow the murder trial of a poor Puerto Rican teenager accused of stabbing his father to death. Twelve white male jurors will decide his fate; eleven believe he's guilty but one man is convinced of his innocence and sets about making a case for acquittal.
Schindler's List (1993)
Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning historical drama tells the true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
The final installment of Peter Jackson's big-screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic sees hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), his loyal friend Sam and the wretched Gollum journey to Mordor to destroy the Ring of Power, while armies amass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world.
Quentin Tarantino's postmodern masterpiece is one of the most influential films of its era. John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson star as a pair of low rent hit men alongside Uma Thurman as their boss's wife and Bruce Willis as a desperate prize fighter in the film, which weaves together three interrelated stories and a pastiche of genres.
Clint Eastwood stars in this classic spaghetti western as one of three drifters searching for a Confederate cash box containing $200,000 during the American Civil War.
The first chapter of the J.R.R. Tolkien adventure sees shy young hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) inherit a gold ring with a mysterious power. Now he must join forces with a wizard, an elf, a dwarf, two men and three loyal hobbit friends to save their land and people.
Edward Norton stars as an insomniac opposite Brad Pitt as a soap salesman in this Chuck Palahniuk adaptation. Together they establish an underground fight club where young men come to thrash out their frustrations - until Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) shows up and things get seriously complicated.
Tom Hanks stars as the endearing Forrest in this sentimental, tearjerking film that takes viewers on a ride through some of the most monumental moments in American history during the second half of the 20th century.
Inception (2010)
Christopher Nolan's mind-bending sci-fi thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a thief who steals corporate secrets from people's subconscious while they dream - and then takes on the inverse challenge of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
After the Rebels are defeated by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker travels journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda. Meanwhile Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin in a bid to lure him to the dark side.
Part two of the Tolkien trilogy sees Frodo and the Fellowship continue on their quest to destroy the One Ring. Their voyage takes them to the Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where dark wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep in Mordor.
Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a hacker who discovers his life has been a lie - constructed by artificially intelligent machines who have imprisoned humans in a virtual world.
Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese's big-screen adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi's true-crime best seller Wiseguy tells the darkly funny but brutal story of life in the mob. Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco are among the all-star cast in what quickly became a classic of the gangster genre.
Based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name, this five-time Oscar-winning film stars Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy, a small-time convict who fakes a mental illness so he can be transferred from a prison farm to a state mental institution.
Seven Samurai (1954)
A group of villagers hire seven warriors to protect them against the bandits that attack them every year, in Akira Kurosawa's genre-defining classic.
Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt star as homicide detectives hunting a psychopath who chooses his victims based on the Seven Deadly Sins in David Fincher's disturbing thriller.
City of God (2002)
Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious slums, this Brazilian drama follows the true story of a young man whose ambition to be a photographer may be his only way out.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Set during the Second World War, this Italian classic follows Jewish bookseller Guido and his family who live a fairy tale life until German forces arrive and they are sent to a concentration camp. There, Guido must rely on his powers of imagination to help his son survive the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jodie Foster stars as FBI trainee Clarice Starling who is thrust into the unsettling world of a maximum security asylum to pick the brains of psychiatrist-turned-cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lechter (Anthony Hopkins).ed
This feelgood festive favourite stars James Stewart as a businessman pushed to the brink of suicide on Christmas Eve - until an angel arrives to show him what life would be like for his family and neighbours if he never existed.
This South Korean black comedy thriller - about a poor family who con their way into the lives of a rich household - swept the board at this year's Oscars, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
It's not available to rent, buy or stream yet, but watch this space.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
As they try to take over the galactic Empire, the Imperial forces capture Princess Leia and hold her hostage - until Luke Skywalker and Han Solo team up with R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue her and restore peace.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning World War Two film stars Tom Hanks as an Army captain leading a rescue mission to save a young private whose brothers have all been killed in action.
Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated adventure is the highest-grossing Japanese film in history. Young heroine Chihiro wanders into a mysterious world ruled by a sorceress, where she meets all manner of monsters and creatures.
The Green Mile (1999)
Based on the Stephen King novel, this big-screen adaptation stars Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard who discovers one of the inmates, a convicted murderer, has mysterious healing powers.
As time on Earth comes to an end, a team of explorers travels to another galaxy in search of a safe future for mankind in this Christopher Nolan sci-fi flick starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.
Léon (1994)
Luc Besson's slick and stylised action thriller stars a young Natalie Portman as 12-year-old Mathilda, who joins forces with her hitman neighbour Léon (Jean Reno) when her family are murdered by corrupt DEA agent (Gary Oldman).
When five criminals are hauled in for questioning over a hijacking none of them committed, they hatch a plan for revenge - which leaves 27 people dead and a ship up in flames.
Harakiri (1962)
This Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) is set in the 1600s during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, and tells the story of Hanshirō Tsugumo, a masterless samurai who arrives at a palace and requests to commit seppuku - a form of ritual suicide - in the hope of receiving alms. There, he learns the brutal fate of another like him - and reveals how their pasts are intertwined.
Disney's classic coming-of-age adventure follows lion cub Simba as he struggles to find his place in the Circle of Life following the death of his father Mufasa, the great King of Pride Rock.
Edward Norton stars as a neo-Nazi who comes to realise the error of his ways by the time he is released from prison for murder. Now he must save his younger brother from going down the same extremist path.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the T-800, a cyborg sent from the future to protect teenage rebel John Connor (Edward Furlong), the future saviour of the human race. But to do so he must face the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a new and improved terminator made of liquid metal.
Based on the memoirs of Polish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, this powerful film tells the real life story of his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw during the Second World War - with the unlikely help of a sympathetic German officer.
Back to the Future (1985)
This 80s classic sees teenager Marty McFly sent back in time to 1955 - where he must repair the damage his sudden appearance has caused to history by rekindling his parents' romance... and then find his way back to the future with the help of inventor Doc Brown.
Modern Times (1936)
Charlie Chaplin's silent comedy follows a factory worker who is driven mad by the monotony of his assembly line job. After being thrown out on the street, he befriends a young, homeless orphan girl and becomes her protector.
Alfred Hitchcock's landmark thriller is set in the creepy Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his housebound, unseen mother. Runaway thief Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) soon comes to regret checking in when she decides to take a shower.
Gladiator (2000)
Ridley Scott's five-time Oscar-winning modern classic stars Russell Crowe as a Roman army general whose family is murdered by a corrupt prince (Joaquin Phoenix). He escapes but is captured and forced to fight as a gladiator in the gory public spectacles staged in the Coliseum - and then his time comes to exact revenge.
City Lights (1931)
Charlie Chaplin's directorial debut in silent films follows a penniless man who falls in love with a flower girl.
Untouchable (2011)
When Florida's most powerful lobbyist finds out his daughter has been sexually abused, he wielded his political influence to pass some of the strictest sex offender laws in the USA. This enlightening documentary charts his crusade and its impact on 800,000 people on the registry.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon star in this drama, which sees police send an undercover cop to infiltrate South Boston's Irish Mafia - not realising the syndicate has done the same to their force.
Whiplash (2014)
The tyrannical conductor of a prestigious music school jazz band focuses his ferocious attention on talented drummer Andrew in this breathless story of drive and discipline.
The Prestige (2006)
Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale star as two magician friends who become enemies when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson also star.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Regarded as one of the greatest in the genre, this spaghetti western is the tale of a notorious outlaw and a harmonica-playing gunslinger who join forces to save a beautiful young widow from a ruthless railroad tycoon.
Joaquin Phoenix puts in an Oscar-winning performance as the misanthropic Joker in this origin story that delves deep into his psyche and examines how society treats outsiders.
Set in Japan during the Second World War, this animated film follows Seita and her little sister Setsuko, who must fight for survival after their mother is killed in an air raid and with their father serving in the navy.
This old Hollywood classic stars Humphrey Bogart as American ex-pat and bar owner Rick Blaine, who is torn between love - his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) - and virtue - helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from Casablanca to fight against the Nazis.
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Trump Administration Says It Will Reject New DACA Applications While Weighing Future Of The Program
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf said that in response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, officials are considering whether to fully rescind the program.
By Julián AguilarJuly 29, 2020 9:30 amBorder & Immigration, Crime & Justice, Partner Organizations, Texas Tribune
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DACA recipients and supporters rallied in celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the program last month outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Phoenix.
From The Texas Tribune:
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will reject new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program despite a federal judge's order earlier this month that new applicants should be given consideration.
The judge's order came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Department of Homeland Security didn't follow proper procedure when it ended the program in 2017 and allowed DACA to stand. But on Tuesday, DHS acting Secretary Chad Wolf said he was instructing staff "to take all appropriate actions to reject all pending and future initial requests for DACA" and exercise its authority to "to terminate or deny deferred action at any time when immigration officials determine termination or denial of deferred action is appropriate."
As of December, there were about 107,000 Texans with DACA permits, according to federal statistics. The program applies to undocumented immigrants who came to the country before they were 16 and who were 30 or younger as of June 2012. The program gave each recipient a renewable, two-year work permit and a reprieve from deportation.
The DHS announcement Tuesday also limits the protection for recipients who renew their DACA permits to one year instead of the original 24 months.
"As the Department continues looking at the policy and considers future action, the fact remains that Congress should act on this matter," Wolf said in a statement. "There are important policy reasons that may warrant the full rescission of the DACA policy."
Even after what many believed was a loss for the Trump administration at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, the president said he was instead given time to figure out how to end the program.
"The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won," Trump tweeted at the time. But he made statements arguing that he had the power to implement action on DACA that would protect young immigrants, though he was unclear on details.
Fernando Garcia, the executive director of the El Paso-based Border Network for Human Rights, said Trump is trying to please immigration hardliners while also courting moderates who favor keeping DACA in place.
"They are not [completely] terminating DACA because of politics, but at the same time they are taking a strong stance and saying they are going to limit the program," he said. "But they also have power to cancel permits so what they are trying to do is also send a message that they are trying to be tough on Dreamers."
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Unified communications brings together all of your communication platforms into one efficient system, integrating voice calls, instant messaging, email and video conferencing. It helps organisations in all sectors and sizes to connect with colleagues and customers more efficiently, regardless of the line of contact.
VIA UC is our dedicated cloud-based unified communications solution. That means, unlike other 'on-premises' UC solutions, there's no bulky equipment or hefty start-up costs. Better still, it enables your people to work flexibly, efficiently and collaboratively anywhere in the world, whether that's an international office or their own home.
WHAT MAKES VIA UC BETTER THAN OTHER UNIFIED COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS?
Designed in-house, VIA UC runs on the Skype for Business framework.
While Skype for Business is already a great UC platform, our team of in-house developers have gone above and beyond, adapting the software to ensure our product is the most advanced unified communications platform available on the market.
It integrates perfectly with Office 365 and Exchange, whilst offering more features and functionality than any other Skype for Business solution – all with a simple, intuitive management portal.
See our case study on how VIA revolutionized Teach First's communications by implementing VIA UC.
VIA offers a fully managed, hosted UC solution for your business. We offer Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), and we take our service very seriously. From initial conversations to the implementation of your solution, we ensure that a premium service is built into every level of delivery.
VIA UC comes with a simple, visual intuitive management portal that enables you to keep control of your solution and make changes with a just few clicks. The VIA UC portal lets you manage multi-layered call routing, automated call attendant, ring and hunt groups and time of day routing, license setup, business reports and analytics, call recording and employee monitoring.
VIA UC is the only fully managed service that provides complete PBX (private branch exchange) replacement through SIP trunking and full collaboration features, based on Skype for Business. Because VIA UC works alongside your existing system, with no extra hardware needed, there's virtually no downtime. You'll be up and ready to go within a day.
VIA UC can produce quality on-hold messages using professional voice-over artists to ensure your company message is always professional.
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Businesses of all sectors and sizes are investing in UC to improve efficiency and user experience in their organisation. Having one simple system for all your phone and video calls, instant messaging, conferencing and screen sharing lets you work more efficiently, more collaboratively and save money in the process. Your colleagues are empowered to communicate in the way that best suits them.
Stick it to your server. Unified communications is becoming increasingly important in today's multi-channel, multi-device world. You can communicate easier, faster and more effectively with a cloud-based unified communications solution. VIA UC integrates seamlessly into your existing business processes and enables colleagues to collaborate, whether they're in the office, working from home or based overseas.
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PORTLAND, OR – May 21, 2018 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today unveiled Lattice sensAI™ – a complete technology stack combining modular hardware kits, neural network IP cores, software tools, reference designs and custom design services – to accelerate integration of machine learning inferencing into broad market IoT applications. With solutions optimized for ultra-low power consumption (under 1 mW–1 W), small package size (5.5 mm2 –100 mm2), interface flexibility (MIPI® CSI-2, LVDS, GigE, etc.), and high-volume pricing (~$1-$10 USD), Lattice sensAI stack fast-tracks implementation of edge computing close to the source of data.
Modular Hardware Platforms – ECP5™ device-based Video Interface Platform (VIP), including the award-winning Embedded Vision Development Kit, and iCE40 UltraPlus™ device-based Mobile Development Platform (MDP).
IP Cores – Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerator and Binarized Neural Network (BNN) accelerator.
Software Tools – Neural network compiler tool for Caffe/TensorFlow to FPGA, Lattice Radiant™ design software, Lattice Diamond® design software.
Reference Designs – Face detection, key phrase detection, object counting, face tracking, and speed sign detection.
Design Services – Eco-system of design service partners delivers custom solutions for broad market applications, including smart home, smart city, and smart factory.
For more information about Lattice sensAI, visit: www.latticesemi.com/sensAI.
Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) is a leader in smart connectivity solutions at the network edge, where the "things" of IoT live. Our low power FPGA, 60 GHz millimeter wave, video ASSP and IP products deliver edge intelligence, edge connectivity, and control solutions to the consumer, communications, industrial, compute, and automotive markets. Our unwavering commitment to our global customers enables them to accelerate their innovation, creating an ever better and more connected world.
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*Luca De Ambroggi, Senior Research and Analyst Director, Transformative Technologies, IHS Markit.
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U.S. News lists Flagler College among best in South
Stuart Korfhage
St. Augustine Record
Flagler College was ranked fourth in U.S. News & World Report's 2021 Best Colleges guide for the Best Regional Colleges in the South.
Flagler was also featured as 13th on the Best Value list in the South regional colleges category, as well as fourth for colleges in the south with a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and second for "Most Innovative Schools" among Southern colleges. For the first time, Flagler was ranked in the "Top Performers on Social Mobility" category, placing 26th.
The guide was released Monday.
The Best Value list recognizes schools for offering high-quality programs at an affordable cost. Most Innovative Schools were nominated by top academics who took part in a peer assessment survey and were asked about schools that had made the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities.
The Undergraduate Teaching list was compiled by nominations from academics asked about schools where faculty had "an unusually strong commitment" to teaching.
Other schools in the top 10 Best Regional Colleges in the South category include University of the Ozarks, Catawba College, LaGrange College and High Point University.
"We are thrilled to again be ranked so highly in U.S. News' prestigious rankings, as this is a real testament to the hard work that our students, faculty and staff are doing to raise the level of academic excellence here at Flagler," Flagler President Joseph Joyner said in a release.
"It is also gratifying to be recognized for our commitment to undergraduate teaching, our innovative approaches to education, and social mobility, all of which closely align with our Core Values."
U.S. News defines regional colleges as those focusing on undergraduate education, but granting fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines. Academic quality is measured by gathering data in a number of categories: assessment by administrators at peer institutions, how well schools perform at retaining and graduating students, the quality of and investment in the faculty, student selectivity, financial resources and the state of alumni giving. A rank is arrived after calculating weighted scores for each school.
There were 68 colleges and universities included in the first tier of the rankings of Southern colleges.
"The Top Performers on Social Mobility" category examines Pell Grant students' six-year graduation rate and that rate against the performance of non-Pell Grant students. Those students are defined as students whose family income is less than $50,000 per year.
In August, Flagler College was also named one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education in The Princeton Review's "The Best 386 Colleges" guide.
Best Regional Colleges South Rankings
1. High Point University, High Point, N.C.
2. Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Ark.
3. Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
4. Flagler College
5. LaGrange College, LaGrange, Ga.
Source: U.S. News


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import React from "react";
import { mocked, Mocked } from "jest-mock";
import { render, screen, act } from "@testing-library/react";
import { PendingEventOrdering } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/client";
import { Room } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room";
import { RoomStateEvent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room-state";
import { RoomType } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/@types/event";

import type { MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/client";
import type { RoomMember } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room-member";
import { stubClient, wrapInMatrixClientContext, mkRoomMember } from "../../../test-utils";
import { MatrixClientPeg } from "../../../../src/MatrixClientPeg";
import DMRoomMap from "../../../../src/utils/DMRoomMap";
import SettingsStore from "../../../../src/settings/SettingsStore";
import _RoomPreviewCard from "../../../../src/components/views/rooms/RoomPreviewCard";

const RoomPreviewCard = wrapInMatrixClientContext(_RoomPreviewCard);

describe("RoomPreviewCard", () => {
    let client: Mocked<MatrixClient>;
    let room: Room;
    let alice: RoomMember;
    let enabledFeatures: string[];

    beforeEach(() => {
        stubClient();
        client = mocked(MatrixClientPeg.get());
        client.getUserId.mockReturnValue("@alice:example.org");
        DMRoomMap.makeShared();

        room = new Room("!1:example.org", client, "@alice:example.org", {
            pendingEventOrdering: PendingEventOrdering.Detached,
        });
        alice = mkRoomMember(room.roomId, "@alice:example.org");
        jest.spyOn(room, "getMember").mockImplementation(userId => userId === alice.userId ? alice : null);

        client.getRoom.mockImplementation(roomId => roomId === room.roomId ? room : null);
        client.getRooms.mockReturnValue([room]);
        client.reEmitter.reEmit(room, [RoomStateEvent.Events]);

        enabledFeatures = [];
        jest.spyOn(SettingsStore, "getValue").mockImplementation(settingName =>
            enabledFeatures.includes(settingName) ? true : undefined,
        );
    });

    afterEach(() => {
        client.reEmitter.stopReEmitting(room, [RoomStateEvent.Events]);
        jest.restoreAllMocks();
    });

    const renderPreview = async (): Promise<void> => {
        render(
            <RoomPreviewCard
                room={room}
                onJoinButtonClicked={() => { }}
                onRejectButtonClicked={() => { }}
            />,
        );
        await act(() => Promise.resolve()); // Allow effects to settle
    };

    it("shows a beta pill on Jitsi video room invites", async () => {
        jest.spyOn(room, "getType").mockReturnValue(RoomType.ElementVideo);
        jest.spyOn(room, "getMyMembership").mockReturnValue("invite");
        enabledFeatures = ["feature_video_rooms"];

        await renderPreview();
        screen.getByRole("button", { name: /beta/i });
    });

    it("shows a beta pill on Element video room invites", async () => {
        jest.spyOn(room, "getType").mockReturnValue(RoomType.UnstableCall);
        jest.spyOn(room, "getMyMembership").mockReturnValue("invite");
        enabledFeatures = ["feature_video_rooms", "feature_element_call_video_rooms"];

        await renderPreview();
        screen.getByRole("button", { name: /beta/i });
    });

    it("doesn't show a beta pill on normal invites", async () => {
        jest.spyOn(room, "getMyMembership").mockReturnValue("invite");

        await renderPreview();
        expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: /beta/i })).toBeNull();
    });

    it("shows instructions on Jitsi video rooms invites if video rooms are disabled", async () => {
        jest.spyOn(room, "getType").mockReturnValue(RoomType.ElementVideo);
        jest.spyOn(room, "getMyMembership").mockReturnValue("invite");

        await renderPreview();
        screen.getByText(/enable video rooms in labs/i);
    });

    it("shows instructions on Element video rooms invites if video rooms are disabled", async () => {
        jest.spyOn(room, "getType").mockReturnValue(RoomType.UnstableCall);
        jest.spyOn(room, "getMyMembership").mockReturnValue("invite");
        enabledFeatures = ["feature_element_call_video_rooms"];

        await renderPreview();
        screen.getByText(/enable video rooms in labs/i);
    });
});


Does your next campaign have the kind of appeal that makes people say, "I can't wait to write a check for that. That is just so important."?
If you'd like it to, you've come to the right place. In today's edition of The Beacon Jeff Jowdy talks with development powerhouse Jerry Linzy about campaign planning and feasibility studies.
Having been involved in nearly a thousand campaign planning and feasibility studies over the years, Jerry has a wealth of insight to share.
Feasibility studies also are essential in crafting a case for support.
In the next half hour, Jerry discusses the key factors in conducting successful campaign planning and feasibility studies — what to ask, who to ask, how to report your findings, and potential issues and setbacks, among other essential points.
Jerry Linzy has been with Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners for 25 years and has more than 40 years of experience as a senior development office in major healthcare institutions and higher education. Over the course of his career, he's been involved in campaigns that have raised billions of dollars. He's a great leader who's known for the character of care, concern and creativity that is at the heart of all his work.
Jerry served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Evansville and as president of the University's Alumni Association. He is past International Chair of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy and a contributing author of The NonProfit Handbook. He also teaches in six tracks at the AHP Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and is a senior faculty member at the Institute for Charitable Giving.


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All Nippon Airways (ANA) is currently showing flights from Calgary to Tokyo, Japan for just $688 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
It's notable that such a large range of dates are available, from late August 2016 summer travel right through to nearly the middle of May 2017.
4. Search for a flight from Calgary (YYC) to Tokyo (HND) using the same dates as you found above.
You may have noticed that Google Flights only shows dates up to about mid April 2017. And Flight Network's calendar only allows you to select dates up to about this point as well.
UPDATE 5/22 - You may also want to try searching on ITravel2000 who is now showing these for $658 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
Update 5/24 @ 5:45 PM MST - Incredibly, the Calgary - Tokyo flights have now dropped to $557 CAD roundtrip including taxes!
Also note that while ITravel2000's calendar only allows you to select dates up to April 19, 2017 you can find late April and early May 2017 flights on FlightHub for $594 CAD roundtrip including taxes. For more details, scroll up to the paragraph titled 'Booking dates in April and May 2017' .
Reminder: If you booked these flights a few days ago on Flight Network when they were $688 CAD roundtrip, you may qualify for their price drop protection credit.
- Look for the cheaper date combinations that are $637 to $700 CAD roundtrip.
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I think the deals are off. Prices just went up about 300-400 dollars now.
Deals are working at this time. I've been trying dates in mid Jan to mid Feb and they are coming up as $1300/person.


Our free morning was spent catching up on some washing, and having a walk along the harbour foreshore on a beautiful sunny day. Apparently it had been the coolest morning in several weeks and the locals thought it was freezing! There are some beautiful views across the harbour along the walk and the War Memorial takes pride of place.
Lunch was at Salvatores near our hotel, and we were ready to be collected for our Jumping Crocs tour by 1.30pm. This tour had not been our initial choice, but for some reason the Wildlands Wetlands Safari was unavailable and we were offered the crocs as an alternative.
Our tour began at the Adelaide River, home to over 1,600 crocodiles. After we boarded the vessel we were asked to ensure that we keep to either the right or left side of the boat (so we didn't topple over!) and to keep all limbs inside the boat – obviously everybody agreed to this, especially as the first crocodile cruised up to us. These are salt water crocodiles, as opposed to fresh water ("freshies") who are quite shy and would prefer to swim away from you – obviously the ones who eat you are the "salties" who head straight for their prey.
A very brave young woman hangs fresh meat on a looong rope on a long pole and dangles it over the vessel, slapping the meat on the water to entice the crocodile who swims up to the bait and after some short time leaps out of the water to grab the meat. It is amazing that such a large animal, with short legs, can leap so far out of the water. Our first crocodile was a fairly large one, and had a few attempts before he finally grabbed some of the meat – apparently (according to our guide who seemed very knowledgeable about crocodiles and their ways , these animals do not eat a lot of food). A very cute 3-year old croc who has been named "Fluffy" leapt almost completely out of the water. Fluffy is one of the youngest crocs, so must be wary of the bigger crocs around (who could eat him), so he scuttled back to the shore fairly quickly, and our guide kindly threw some meat, wrapped in a paper bag) on to the shore for Fluffy to retrieve when he felt brave enough.
Then the final act was the local King Crocodile Trevor who finally appeared to take a bow and leap out of the water for the tasty morsel offered to him – don't like the look of those teeth!
We then left the crocodiles in peace, and ventured on to the lovely Window on the Wetlands Centre, the exhibits were among the best we have seen, and there is a wonderful view over the surrounding Marrakai Plains from an outdoor deck.
After leaving this peaceful spot we drove to the Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, a haven for wildlife and local Aboriginal history. The monsoon and eucalypt forest, melaleuca woodland and open water attract a diverse range of birds, reptiles, mammals and marsupials. Signs warn visitors that crocodiles do come to this area, and we saw one resting among the water lilies! We only ventured outside the coach when we were close to the viewing platform, and didn't stay there long, although we know that crocodiles, with their short legs, can't walk uphill or up steps, so we felt relatively safe! Wetlands are the most beautiful, serene places to visit, and the birds put on a wonderful show for us – egrets, whistling ducks, ibis, grebes etc. and even some wallabies were sharing the vast space. If you have a touch screen you will be able to enlarge the images below to see more detail of the birds.
Finally we were heading home after a wonderful afternoon of viewing nature at its most violent, and its most serene.
This is to be our last night in Darwin, and we will head off to Cullen Bay to Seafood Cullen restaurant, recommended to us as a great place for seafood buffet, and it was excellent!
Tomorrow we join the Ghan from Darwin, and travel overnight to Alice Springs, stopping on the way at the spectacular Katherine Gorge. Hope you can join us.


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The competition: This category tends to be a good one for pilots, and there are a new this year that could contend, including Billions, Jessica Jones, The Man in the High Castle, Mr. Robot, Narcos, The Path, Underground, and Vinyl, any of which could be recognized here even if they don't make the cut for Best Drama Series. I would count on "Game of Thrones" getting nominated for two installments again this year, and I think that Battle of the Bastards and The Door are the episodes most likely to be selected. "Better Call Saul" submitted a bunch of episodes, and though the show didn't make the cut in this race last year, it's possible that an episode, probably Fifi or Klick, could show up here. I don't expect that "Homeland" will be honored again, but if it is, The Tradition of Hospitality is the episode I'd expect to see. "Orange is the New Black" could contend for a variety of episodes, including A Tittin' and a Hairin' and Mother's Day. For its series finale, Episode 9, "Downton Abbey" could return to this race, and "The Good Wife" might also contend for its finale, End. "The Leftovers" wasn't Emmy-friendly last year, but International Assassin could change that, and if drama voters feel the same way comedy voters do about Louis C.K., Episode 110 of "Horace and Pete" could be recognized. This year, there will be six nominees instead of the traditional five.


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Philosophical/Theological Positions
Epistemological: Classical skepticism mixed with fideism (for me, they're two sides of the same coin), certainly in the case of religion (I'm a Christian of sorts), but not alone. It is beyond human power to know anything in any conclusive way; there always remain ways to fundamentally doubt or invalidate any proposition, no matter how reasonable it first seems. However, there is faith, both in the sense of believing on the basis of something other than knowledge as such and in the sense of an intervening Grace that convinces.
Ethical: Moral nihilist leading on to Kierkegaardian Religious. No ethical standards are available to reason. It is by choice that we adopt an ethical standard, although there do seem to be universal feelings of wrong-doings, such as consciously mistreating someone who is innocent. Relativism seems obvious, but enters the self-contradiction of offering the universal explanation that it denies exists. It seems logical that any human preoccupied with the ethical, will constantly come up against its impossibility, in that even if ethical standards were available to reason, and even those we choose ourselves, they remain in an ultimate sense impossible to adhere to. One logical route of this quandary is the Kierkegaardian Religious position, and Christian morality in general, which one chooses to adopt, and then it turns out the point of Christian morality is something essentially different from merely being ethically good.
Of course, choice as such involves a belief in transcendence, in this case, the notion that we can transcend the moral possibilities that we are born into and caused by. That is, choice assumes that it is an act 'uncaused'. Many who emphasise choice seem to forget this, primarily because they ignore the structuralist thesis, that all our beliefs and actions are caused by something other than us, something that preceded us.
Metaphysical:
Pluralist. Reality is not reducible to one thing, substance or symbol, and attempts to reduce it as such will always fail.
Nominalist. Categories, substances, individuals, species, etc... are names that we perhaps necessarily impose on the world, not actual discoveries.
Negative theism/"atheism". I feel that properly understood Christianity presupposes atheism without denying God, i.e. God is being-less, existence-less nothingness. In brief, this is more important to describe the human religious route than for anything else; to learn humility, to be God-centred is to have no centre as such, in a project of kenosis (emptying oneself and becoming entirely passive), in a Schopenhauerian retreat from the Will that is the World.
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Many national stars first performed on YLT's stage
The YLT archives has many treasures including the program for the theater group's first full-length production 'Lady Windermere's Fan.'
The York Little Theatre is one of the community organizations that grew from the Great Depression.
As a sidebar to a news package on YLT in the York Sunday News says, the theater group has produced many stars who have gone on to bigger stages.
In keeping with this blog's series of local folks who have done great things elsewhere,
we include a story on former YLT stars Bobby Spencer and Michael Patrick Walker:
Bert Smith, YLT director from the 1950s to the 1980s, works at the group's stand at the York Fair. The year Smith became director, 1953, the theater moved to Elmood Theater in Spring Garden Township, it's current home.
"A lot of people who have come through our doors have gone on to have big careers in the business," YLT Managing Director Julie Aiken said.
Bobby Spencer and Michael Patrick Walker are two famous faces that have passed through YLT's doors.
Spencer, a 1987 Central York High School grad, saw a production of "Grease" at the YLT more than 20 years ago.
"I wanted to do something beyond high school theater," he said. "I wanted to get involved with the YLT, and my first performance there was in the ensemble of 'The Pirates of Penzance.'"
Spencer said that YLT was a fun experience for him and that he was able to work with "a great group of people."
Spencer went on to pursue his music and acting career, landing the role of Nick Massi in the "slam dunk" production of "Jersey Boys" in 2004. The Broadway show about the rise of the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons won the 2006 Tony Award for best musical.
"It's been really amazing," Spencer said. "We're hoping 'Jersey Boys' is the next 'Les Mis' or 'Rent.'"
Michael Patrick Walker said he got involved with YLT in the late 1980s as well. He said he auditioned for the chorus in "Oliver" during his sophomore year of high school and stayed involved through his senior year.
"I played keyboard and piano for 'Little Shop of Horrors,'" he said. He graduated in 1989 from Susquehannock High School and went on to become a music composer and director.
In 2001, he began working with composer Gary Adler on the music and lyrics for the show "Altar Boyz," which follows a Christian boy band backstage at one of their concerts. The musical opened off-Broadway in 2005 and has toured nationally and internationally. It just celebrated 1,000 performances.
"We wanted to do something nontraditional," Walker said. He said the all-original score sounds like a real boy band.
Walker was exposed to all areas of theater at YLT, from acting to set design to costumes.
"YLT was the first time I worked with people from all different ages in all different fields," he said. He added that YLT's schedule offered a variety of shows that were "newer and more challenging."
"It was important for me to have the experience on stage as an actor," he said. "It helps me put myself in the actor's shoes as a music composer."
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investors are rushing in to a sleepy city on the southern coast of China thanks to a government policy that has seen tens of billions of dollars earmarked to produce a regional economy that would rival the biggest in the world.
China this year kicked off the development of the Greater Bay Area, made up of 11 cities in southern Guangdong province, plus Hong Kong and Macau located in the Pearl River Delta.
Real estate consultancy Colliers International estimates the region already has the fifth biggest economy in Asia but that under the development plan will have the fifth biggest economy in the world by 2030, underlining why HSBC Holdings Plc (L:HSBA) (HK:0005) sees the region as one of its major markets globally.
The area includes cities such as Shenzhen and Dongguan, which are established tech and manufacturing centres, but the plan is having a dramatic impact on smaller cities in the region that had largely been ignored by developers until now.
One such city is Huizhou, which has some of the lowest home prices in the Greater Bay Area and is benefiting from a plan that aims to mimic the likes of Los Angeles, New York or Tokyo in tying together a vast economic region via major road and high speed trains.
Dramatic changes in the city of about 4.8 million people, highlight the impact of national policies in China that target specific areas for development.
Huizhou's economic growth accelerated to 7.5 percent in the first six months of this year, higher than the national average of 6.9 percent, while property investment shot up 23 percent, almost three times the rate of the 8.5 percent national average.
The local government earmarked the equivalent of $39 billion for infrastructure investment between 2016 and 2020. It aims to build 11 high-speed railway stations – the most of any city in the Greater Bay Area - along with many highways. The goal is to enable travellers to reach top-tier neighbours Shenzhen and Guangzhou within half an hour.
"In China, if you want to invest, you go where the national policies go," said property agent Zhang Guangzi in Daya Bay, an emerging district in Huizhou.
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Two years ago, HSBC brought attention to the Greater Bay Area when it announced plans to beef up its presence in the region. The global bank said it would quadruple its staff and increase lending to mid-sized companies in the infrastructure and property sectors.
Last month, Chinese developers including Logan Property (HK:3380), Agile Group (HK:3383) and Yuzhou Properties (HK:1628) said at earnings conferences they planned to expand in Huizhou and elsewhere in the Greater Bay Area.
Property giants Country Garden (HK:2007) and China Evergrande (HK:3333) already own large land banks in Huizhou.
And thanks to spillover demand from Shenzhen - where around 60 percent of buyers are from - Huizhou's supply of new homes is tight. Based on the rate of sales, the city's housing inventory dropped to six months of supply in 2016 from 30 months in 2015.
Much of the demand for new homes in Huizhou comes from people working in Shenzhen. Many owners live in a dormitory provided by an employer in Shenzhen while housing their families in Huizhou.
Huizhou's average home prices are around 10,000 yuan per square metre (sqm), a quarter of other areas near Shenzhen and just a tenth of the cost of central Shenzhen.
Facing competition from other areas in the Greater Bay Area, Huizhou has avoided placing restrictions on home purchases, prevalent in many other cities in China where prices have been rising rapidly. More than 80 percent of buyers are from outside the city, agents and developers said.
Instead, it has implemented a price ceiling on the sale of new homes since late 2016. If it wasn't for the ceiling prices would increase, said Huang Min, Country Garden's Huizhou district marketing general manager.
"Prices are suppressed," Huang said. "There's large room for prices to grow."
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