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BillD — January 23, 2023
Zev Feldman, who goes by the sobriquet of the Jazz Detective, has moved on to apply his investigatory expertise, in a category of its own, to a new label.
That label is named, appropriately enough, Jazz Detective.
Jazz Detective is a division of yet another new music entity of Feldman's, Deep Digs Music Group. That group releases archival recordings of musical genres in addition to jazz.
Both enterprises—divisions of yet another, larger Barcelona-based company, Elemental Music Records—strive to bring to light (or rather, to bring to sound) important recorded performances, forgotten or previously unavailable, that complement jazz icons' revered famous recordings.
No doubt about it, the combined releases of Ahmad Jamal's Emerald City Nights recordings are culminations of Feldman's discovery of tapes recorded at the Penthouse in Seattle's Pioneer Square.
To date.
Feldman leveraged his earlier work with the Penthouse's prescient owner's son, Charlie Puzzo, Jr., who archived the performances' tapes; and with recording engineer Jim Wilke, who was the announcer of a weekly live jazz broadcast in the late sixties from the Penthouse on radio station KING-FM. Together, they collaborated to produce Resonance Records's Live at the Penthouse by The Three Sounds with Gene Harris and Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse with Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly.
As is Feldman's wont, his first Jazz Detective project proves that the new label's releases will not skimp on quality, either recorded or written or packaged.
The Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse events started with the release of two limited-edition (of only 3,000 units) double volumes in vinyl format on 180-gram discs that typically sell out in stores. Then Jazz Detective released both albums in streaming and CD formats.
The colorful and informatively detailed CD packages include concert photographs and posters; introductory essays by Feldman and Eugene Holley, Jr.; interviews with Wilke, Puzzo, Jr., and Marshall Chess, whose father, Leonard Chess, co-founded Chess Records, on which Jamal first recorded; and interviews of appreciation for Jamal with jazz pianists Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron, Jon Batiste, Aaron Diehl, and Hiromi Euhara.
The capper is Feldman's interview with Ahmad Jamal, the artist himself, who at the age of 92 gave enthusiastic approval for the project.
Unlike the circumstances surrounding most of Feldman's previous projects, Jamal was available to provide background information about the recordings, approve the packages' photographs, suggest musicians for the interviews, and help supervise the production of the recordings.
As always, eschewing the work of counterfeiters out of respect for the musicians, Feldman firmly adhered to strict ethical standards by being above board, paying for the rights, paying the lead musicians and the sidemen, and keeping track of royalties.
The results are, at least so far, two of Jamal's most important releases, which offer significant discoveries for listeners unfamiliar with his style.
Unfortunately, a 1958 DownBeat review described Jamal's style as "cocktail music." Jazz journalists repeated that dismissive term throughout the decades without investing time in active listening. Or without appreciating the musical values of the hugely popular recording of "Poinciana," as did not the DownBeat reviewer, who described it as "emotionally, melodically, and organizationally innocuous."
Similarly, the public may remember Jon Batiste, lionized now as was Jamal in the 1950's, more for "We Are" or as the band leader on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, despite his wide-ranging, individualistic talent. Doc Severinsen too may be overlooked as a trumpet virtuoso, even though jazz writers sometimes relegate him to being an entertainer for leading The Tonight Show band, his singular choice of clothing, and his antics with Johnny Carson. But saxophonist Ernie Watts, formerly a Tonight Show band member, said, "When you hear someone like [Severinsen], you know what 'great' is."
Listen to more than "Poinciana." Listen to rest of Jamal's music. Listen to his technique. Listen to his originality. Listen to his mastery of the piano. Listen to his musical surprises. Listen to his narratives. Listen to his joy. Listen to his wordless humor. Listen to his silences.
The Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse releases provide abundant opportunities to do so.
The musicians know.
Miles Davis was one of earliest jazz musicians to be entranced by Jamal's technique as Davis arranged some pieces with nods to Jamal's musical approach. Reportedly, he encouraged Red Garland to adopt some of Jamal's technical elements.
Saxophonist Ted Nash said, "The way [Jamal] comped wasn't the generic way that lots of pianists play with chords in the middle of the keyboard, just filling things up. He gave lots of single line responses. He'd come back and throw things out at you, directly from what you played. That's something I don't feel with a lot of piano players."
And of course the jazz pianists' appreciations in the albums' booklets leave no doubt about their respect for Jamal's influence. For example, Kenny Barron writes: "So he leaves all of this space for the rhythm section…to finish an idea…. It's like he orchestrates from the piano…. And of course, his technique is flawless."
Even unto the age of 88, when Jamal released his most recent solo album, Ballades.
Already popular because of his best-selling album, At the Pershing: But Not for Me, which included "Poinciana" in its track list, Jamal arrived at the Penthouse with a large following and with his established style already intact. Influenced initially by Erroll Garner, Nat Cole and Art Tatum, Jamal synthesized their influences and personalized what he was hearing. He established his own orchestral approach consisting of entrancing percussiveness, moments of silence when audiences could still hear the rhythm and be surprised upon Jamal's heavily accented re-entries, dabs of sonic humor, broad sweeps across the entire breadth of the piano, spontaneous interactive exchanges with his bassists and drummers, and an expressive touch.
The singularity of his playing didn't pander to night club audiences, who after all paid to be entertained, even as his brilliance aroused appreciative applause and delight.
As if in defiance of "Poinciana" stereotypes, Jamal opens Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse with his own percussive six-eight vamp (eighth-note/eighth-note/sixteenth-sixteenth [da da da-da] repeated thrice and then rest/eighth/eighth) before his upswept water spouted glissando introducing the fast-paced melody. The bridge of "Johnny One Note," the first track, is even faster at double time in four-four because the return to the meter of three. And then bassist Richard Evans and drummer Chuck Lampkin pick up the rumbling rhythm as Jamal abandons bar lines and extends forceful thick chords over several measures or in repeated triplets, fragments of melody occurring here and there. The introductory number for the June 20, 1963 performance nears its conclusion with a stirring solo by Lampkin. Then Evans's solo emphasizes the meter of three over which Jamal tosses in riffs whose harmonic roots change with each repetition.
And so it goes throughout the concert, "Johnny One Note" being a representation of all that will ensue. More excitement and more surprises follow.
One of those surprises is Jamal's flowing allegro Bach-inspired counterpoint on Evans's "Minor Adjustments" before the improvisation in four over the, yes, G-minor chords. The Garner influence is evident as Jamal's prodding chords in the left hard push the irresistible rhythm (at one and three) with intimations of swing as gales and showers of notes swirl without pause in the upper register. Dramatically, the piece ends with the repeated counterpoint and then rippling rhythmless cadenzas and treble-clef tremolos over Evans's arco accompaniment.
"All of You" proceeds along with a relaxed hard-four stroll, an inviting foundation for Jamal's leisurely improvisation. His performance nonetheless creates moments of humor with bits of quotes like "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me," quivering tremolos, multiple turnarounds, broad chords anticipating the beat, and moments of tension and release with quick signature scampers to the top of the keyboard and back, suggesting that if the piano had more than 88 keys, Jamal would have played those too.
Jamal's trio closed out the 1963 concert with Johnny Hodges's "Squatty Roo," a fast-paced crowd pleaser which provides opportunities to feature Evans and Lampkin as they trade fours with Jamal until he takes the lead at 2:57. his left hand's chords pulsate while he develops upper-treble-clef turbulence and sweeps, as well as dramatic contrasts of volume (not to mention a droll "Fascinatin' Rhythm" quote).
Puzzo looked forward to Jamal's concerts at the Penthouse to the extent that he switched from a smaller grand piano to a concert grand piano during his engagements. Packing the house in 1963, Jamal returned to the Penthouse the next year, bassist Jamil Nasser substituting for Richard Evans. Fortunately, Wilke recorded those concerts too, and they are now available in the same double-CD package.
Despite the absence of Evans, his minor-key composition, "Bogota," commences the March 26, 1964 concert. Similar to Cedar Walton's "Bolivia" in the importance of a continuing bass vamp to establish a signature rhythm, "Bogota" proceeds as Jamal sprinkles bright treble-clef notes over the energetic percussiveness. Then the piece switches to a major key with walking bass lines for Jamal's characteristic improvisation, swinging with powerful bass-clef chords, orchestral accents, and spiraling 64th notes. The piece ends with a restatement of the melody over Nasser's vamp.
The CD includes two popular songs from that concert: "Lollipops and Roses" from Jack Jones's 1962 recording; and "Tangerine," introduced in the 1942 movie, Fleet's In, and receiving much airplay that year from the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. Performed perhaps as an audience pleaser, the "Lollipops and Roses" waltz features Jamal's improvisational mastery in the middle section. Again, his style evinces appreciation of the bassist's and drummer's contributions by holding back for Nasser's solo, the modes switching back and forth from major to minor. "Tangerine" swings at a medium tempo in E-flat major with Jamal's forceful chorded attacks after the initial minimalistic statement of the melody.
The same 1963-1964 package is completed with selections from Jamal's April 2,1964 concert: Evans's "Keep On Keeping On," Jamal's "Minor Moods," and Gershwin's "But Not for Me."
With indefatigable brio, Jamal performs "Keep On Keeping On" as a call-and-response with self. The gospel-inspired chords in the first three measures answer the one-bar single-note call as a lead-in and on the fourth measure. That is, until Jamal's roaring tornadic puissance at 1:50 breaks out into exuberant improvisations through the remaining 7-1/2 minutes, his calm-before-the-storm technique serene until it introduces exciting urgency. Jamal's waltz, "Minor Moods" in D minor, contrasts melodic upper-register delicacy with sustained-over-the-bar-line powerful two-handed chords. The entire CD package ends with the trio's lightly swinging version of "But Not for Me"—which isn't to say that Jamal doesn't apply strength to create surprise with his heavily accented chords for humorous appeal.
Possessing a treasury of tapes documenting live jazz performances at the Penthouse, Puzzo, Jr. provided more tapes to be mastered from Jamal's concerts on March 18,1965 and March 25, 1965 with Nasser and Lampkin; October 28, 1965 with Nasser and drummer Vernell Fournier; and September 22, 1966 with Nasser and drummer Frank Gant.
Jamal approved the commercial release of this music too. The result is a second set of CD's: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966.
Imagine the difficulty of choosing the best tracks from such an abundance of virtuoso playing.
Starting with "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," the 1965-1966 recordings include cover songs, except for Jamal's composition, "Concern." Establishing the harmonic underpinnings of "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" with a ruminative rubato introduction, Jamal sets up his dynamic contrast with two fortissimo three-chord pounces followed separately by Nasser's and Lampkin's solos. Teasingly, the trio follows with a frolicking straightforward version until those same call-and-response pounces and solos evolve into the thrillingly fast interpretation that follows for the remaining nine minutes. Then at 12:58, the light-hearted whimsy returns. Until the aggressively accented three chords and bass and drum solos return, in yet another contrast to the preceding section, as the outro.
The remainder of the first disk of the 1965-1966 set consists of a suite of songs from Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's play, The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd.
"Who Can I Turn To?" starts with Jamal's sustained arpeggios. Yet again, he follows calmness with agitation, long tones in dynamic difference to the succeeding force of broad fortissimo chords from :38 to :45. Like "Poinciana," "Who Can I Turn To?" dependent upon soft textures and inviting, rumbling percussiveness, proceeds serenely after the high-intensity chords, as if, drolly, the unexpected contrasting vigor were a call for attention from the audience. Jamal's tribute to the play continues with "My First Love Song." After Jamal's tender and supple rubato intro, his pauses ornamented by coruscating upsweeps, Nasser's arco bass singing in long tones, the trio shifts gears to play the song with a medium-tempo walking-bass swing, Jamal's accents characteristically and friskily offsetting the light swing. The suite concludes with a soulful version of "Feeling Good." Nasser and Lampkin add the vamp-driven background textures to Jamal's spontaneity, which includes rippling re-harmonizations, extensions of phrases, and allusions to "The In Crowd" and "Blues and the Abstract Truth."
On the second disk, Jamal performs "Poinciana" with swaying spirit in D minor on the second disc of the Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966. No doubt, Jamal includes that crowd favorite in every concert, and perhaps not with hesitation. For Jamal said, "I knew I had something" [with his version of "Poinciana"], and he refused to play it public until Malcolm Chisholm recorded it. Interspersed with phrases from the famous recording (along with the quote from "I'm Glad There Is You") is Jamal's free improvisation. The growing energy of Nasser and Gant suggests that the trio, joyous and cohesive, was totally engaged in the performance.
Vernel Fournier, who famously played drums on the 1958 recording of "Poinciana," appears on two tracks of the October, 1965 concert. Jamal's "Concern," built initially on descending fifths blooming subtly into broader chords, moves into a medium-tempo swing (quoting bits of "Fascinatin' Rhythm," "No Moon at All," and "Surrey with the Fringe on Top," among other allusions). "Like Someone in Love" starts with Jamal's free introduction, until the melody emerges over Nasser's pedal point (and of course, includes quotes, this time from "The Sound of Music" and Ferde Grofé's "On the Trail" from the Grand Canyon Suite).
The 1965-1966 package ends with a jubilant, prestissimo 3-minute version of Benny Golson's "Whisper Not," the melody disguised amidst the furious improvisations of the trio until it emerges more declaratively in the fifth octave register. Abandoning recognizable melody again, the trio resumes rapidity and force as Jamal's left-hand chords—played as half notes, each with shifting colors of internal harmonies—recall Garner's influence and Ted Nash's observation about the uniqueness of Jamal's comping. Then, in the midst of Jamal's against-the-rhythm thick chords, the track fades.
The jazz listening public awaits the third package—Ahmad Jamal's Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968—to be leased in the future. The trilogy then will be completed.
Give them time. At least the first two volumes, never before released, are available to be savored after a wait of more than half a century.
Artists' Web Site: https://ahmadjamal.com
Label's Web Site: www.deepdigsmusic.com
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Pride and Providence
Article Apr 9, 2009
President Obama wants to restore American global leadership to its post-WWII bearings, write Spencer P. Boyer and Ken Gude. That's exceptional.
Spencer P. Boyer
Ken Gude
President Barack Obama gestures as he takes a question from the media during his news conference at the NATO Summit in Strasbourg, France, April 4, 2009. President Obama recognizes that many countries are unique and exceptional and can make important contributions, but our best chance at success is to marshal these forces into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. (AP/Charles Dharapak)
We believe America is an exceptional country, with both a great history of accomplishment and enormous promise of future achievement. Objectively, this should not be controversial, but of course it is.
The end of the Cold War allowed the concept of "American exceptionalism" to be hijacked by the neoconservative push to exempt the United States from the successful international system that prevailed against the Soviet Union. Soon, our nation's allies also came to view American exceptionalism through this distorted lens, and reacted with a predictable mix of fear and animosity. The result: a spiraling stagnation in relations with our allies, with each readily able to lay blame for failure with the other.
Fortunately, the message America is sending the world is now changing. President Barack Obama, in his first trip abroad since taking office, presented the United States to the world in ways that make it possible for all Americans to take great pride in our successes but still recognize that global leadership is not our divine right. The president reminded us that we are strongest when working in concert with a broad set of partners to advance our common goals. That is exceptional.
The world that existed before 1945 was chaotic and plagued by conflict and instability. Weak structures and a lack of participation from key players hampered successive efforts to establish institutions to bring order to international affairs—particularly the United States during the interwar period. After the unimaginable destruction of two world wars and the Great Depression, it was clear that the inability to create a strong rules-based system contributed to a continual cycle of violence and insecurity. It was time for change.
The birth of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods organizations—the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and other multilateral organizations—was the beginning of a new world order in which the United States—the overwhelming victor in World War II— assumed the mantle of global leadership. However, that leadership was exercised through a network of multilateral organizations and international institutions that would push the world towards a more peaceful and prosperous future.
Over the next several decades, tremendous progress was made in the areas of economic development, human rights, humanitarian law, environmental law, nuclear arms control, and international trade. While this success was not always shared as evenly or broadly as it might have been, the second half of the 20th century is unrecognizable when compared with the first.
Against all evidence, the far right wing in the United States has always been critical of the rules-based international system, even though Republicans played important early roles in its development. Former Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush generally operated within it, yet the far right refused to go along. Emblematic of this was former congressional leader Newt Gingrich, who famously castigated Reagan, ironically the current hero of the far right, simply for negotiating arms reductions with the Soviet Union.
But it was the collapse of the Communist bloc that precipitated the takeover of the conservative foreign policy establishment by the far right. Intellectuals argued that America had prevailed against the Soviets because we are exceptional and unique in history, and that the multilateral framework the United States helped create was actually a plot to constrain American power. They believed that the multilateral system was slow and cumbersome, and advocated for direct U.S. military intervention as the principal means to advance our international objectives.
The George W. Bush administration completed the takeover by the first year. Instead of working with our partners on developing international agreements that would further U.S. interests, the administration chose to walk away from negotiations in a manner that antagonized much of the world. The shock of the September 11 attacks emboldened President Bush to disregard international rules in favor of a pre–World War II reliance on raw power and ad hoc alliances.
The war in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib further pushed the United States away from our allies. The belief that the post-Cold War United States was not a reliable partner took hold in Europe and around the world. Problems festered unresolved. Crises grew unchecked. The world is again chaotic and plagued by conflict and instability. Again, it is time for a change.
President Obama understands that the onus is on the United States to begin that evolution, but that we all need to recognize each of our nation's own recent culpability and break out of the familiar patterns that have imperiled cooperation for much of the past two decades. That's why the president told a town hall style meeting in Strasbourg, France last week that:
"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world… [and] times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive. But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious."
The extreme right in America reacted predictably, demonstrating anew they are more concerned with rebuking any perceived slight on the United States than with getting the global economy going or preventing terrorist attacks. Political Commentator Sean Hannity whined that he was "tired of Obama pandering to what I consider to be the worst instincts of those who hate this country." Never mind the irony that Hannity demonstrates the truth of Obama's statement or that Obama is just as critical of European flaws, Hannity's know-nothing patriotism plays well to the base.
Obama is trying to wrest the United States away from the far right and portray an America that can be both great and imperfect—that can resume the mantle of global leadership but still require the assistance of partners to achieve its goals. More capable partners exist today in large measure because of the multilateral system success American neoconservatives have been so eager to destroy.
We now face similar threats to peace and prosperity that challenged a previous generation. President Obama recognizes that many countries are unique and exceptional and can make important contributions, but our best chance at success is to marshal these forces into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. He went on to tell the Strasbourg audience:
"I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism… the fact that I am very proud of my country and I think that we've got a whole lot to offer the world does not lessen my interest in recognizing the value and wonderful qualities of other countries, or recognizing that we're not always going to be right, or that other people may have good ideas, or that in order for us to work collectively, all parties have to compromise and that includes us."
This style of confident and respectful American leadership should be good news to America's allies because it looks as if they have a president in Washington who wants to work collaboratively to solve our common challenges. For some, of course, it is also the bad news. The reason: America's allies have lost their excuse for inaction.
Stagnation breeds its own inertia. It remains an open question if the United States and our allies can change our ways fast enough to adequately respond to numerous immediate crises, whether it is the collapsing global economy, NATO in Afghanistan, or the rapidly warming planet. Obama is intent on forging genuine partnerships to address the growing challenges of the modern world. For all of America's allies who rightfully complained about the United States acting alone, its time to step up and deliver.
Neoconservatives, however, are not interested in solving these problems whether in or out of power. We hope that America's allies recognize the significance of this moment and join with the new president to put the world back on the right track. The former presidential campaign spokesperson for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Nicole Wallace, recently said of Obama, "I think at his core he does not seem to believe in American exceptionalism, the way more Republicans define it." We couldn't agree more, and we couldn't be happier.
Spencer Boyer is Director of International Law and Diplomacy at the Center for American Progress. Ken Gude is Associate Director, International Rights and Responsibilities at the Center. Boyer co-edited and Gude contributed to the book, Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century. To read more of the Center's foreign policy analysis and policy recommendations please go to the National Security page of our website.
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Liam Pattinson whop has passed out of the Army School of Physical Training in Germany.
A soldier from the county has negotiated his way successfully through a testing course and qualified as a Physical Training Instructor.
Liam Pattinson, from Stakeford, passed out from the Army School of Physical Training in Sennelager, Germany.
The 25-year-old combat engineer with 36 Engineer Regiment not only succeeded in passing the course but he did so as the joint best student.
He said: "Just to pass the course is an achievement in itself but to be thought by the instructors as one of the top students is flattering, a proud moment and a great boost for the confidence.
"I am passionate about physical fitness and training, its one of the reasons why I joined the Army and both these things and teamwork factor a lot in the course.
Of the 50 soldiers who started the course, only 35 received their Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC) badge from the Colonel Commandant of the RAPTC, Lieutenant General James Bashall CBE.
In addition to his badge Liam also received a trophy in recognition of being the best student.
As this was the final course to be held by the school, before its relocation back to the UK, the passing out parade for the PTIs was marked with a Beating the Retreat ceremony by the Band of the Household Cavalry and the final lowering of the Corps flag.
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Yes, there is the opportunity to land yourself with a lot of points in today's quiz, but some of the questions are quite difficult too so don't be over confidant.
However, don't worry, if you get stuck you can always find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: How many legs has a tarantula?
Q. 2: 'Zn' is the symbol of which chemical element?
Q. 3: What name is given to a baby elephant?
Q. 4: What is the smallest bone in the body and where is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 5: What is the fahrenheit equivalent of 20 degrees centigrade?
Q. 6: What city is known as 'The City of Lilies' ?
Q. 7: Who was famous for his theory of gravity and 3 laws of motion?
Q. 8: What is the most common transplant operation?
Q. 9: What is the major element of the diet of the Koala bear?
Q. 10: And in a related question, what is the major element of the diet of the wild giant panda?
Q. 11: Which gas is responsible for global warming?
Q. 12: The Ross and Weddell Seas are to be found off the shore of which continent?
Q. 13: Now for a mega-point question. Listed below (in alphabetical order) are ten countries ending in the word 'land'. A point for each one you can name correctly.
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Q. 14: Who led the Seventh Cavalry to its doom at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Q. 15: John Flamsteed was the first holder of which far-sighted post, created in 1675?
Q. 16: What term is given to the technique where paint is mixed and bound with egg yolk?
Q. 17: What was launched by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095?
Q. 18: Who went on a circumnavigation of the world from the Reform Club as the result of a bet?
Q. 19: Which New Zealand-born physicist is credited with splitting the atom?
Q. 20: Which motoring aid was invented by Percy Shaw?
A. 1: Eight.
A. 2: Zinc.
A. 3: A baby elephant is called a 'Calf'.
A. 4: It is called the 'Stirrup' and it is located in the ear.
A. 5: 20 degrees centigrade is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
A. 6: Florence.
A. 7: Sir Isaac Newton.
A. 8: The Bone graft.
A. 9: Eucalyptus leaves.
A. 10: A wild giant panda's diet is almost exclusively (99 percent) bamboo.
A. 11: Carbon dioxide.
A. 12: Antarctica.
A. 13: The correct answers are:
THAILAND.
A. 14: Lt-Col George Armstrong Custer.
A. 15: He was the first Astronomer Royal.
A. 16: It is known as 'Tempera'.
A. 17: The First Crusade.
A. 18: Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout (you get the point for naming Phileas Fogg correctly AND two posssible bonus points if you also knew the name of his servant. (From Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days).
A. 19: Sir Ernest Rutherford.
A. 20: He invented the reflectors known as 'Cats eyes', getting his inspiration when he saw a light reflecting off a cat's eyes as it walked towards him. (British comedian Ken Dodd said that if the cat had been walking away from him he would probably have invented the pencil sharpener!)


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func (s compositeSummary) Observe(value float64) {
	for _, metric := range s.metrics {
		metric.Observe(value)
	}
}

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When Sensories drive to work, they are aware of the birds, the trees, the hills turning green. They notice a cow lowing in the field. [...] Intuitives live in their own private universe, depending on an internal model of external events. [...] When Intuitives drive to work, they watch the tectonic plates, deep in the earth's crust, rubbing together. They run into the cow.
If Open Source software is to make inroads into the general public, something will have to be done about this. The typical response to a complaint about a piece of open source software is "I'll show you where the source is." But by definition the people with this particular itch won't be programmers, and they won't know how to fix the problem: The general public will have an itch they can't scratch, the programmers won't have that itch, and so won't scratch it.
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As part of national Great British Spring Clean campaign, our neighbourhood team have been working hard to arrange and organise a number of events across the city.
The Great British Spring Clean is a national campaign which encourages local councils, residents, community groups and schools to band together to clean up and take pride in their local area.
The national campaign runs from Friday 2nd March – Sunday 4th March. Unfortunately, with the recent weather it has delayed a number of planned events. However, in Derby as part of our pledge for a cleaner Derby, the neighbourhood team will be hosting events throughout the months of March and April making it truly a spring clean campaign.
This year there will be a focus on schools, with the neighbourhood team planning a number of visits and litter picks to help educate pupils about the importance of respecting their surroundings. Since the beginning of February the neighbourhood team have also been working with our refuse team to deliver a programme of free bulky waste collections across the city.
A series of deep cleans are planned for a number of targeted streets and a campaign near the end of the month on encouraging dog owners to clean up after their dogs. Also planned are activities to make our city look brighter with a range of planting projects throughout the month.
We would like as many people to take part as possible so come along and play your part in ensuring your neighbourhood is clean and tidy. If you are a local group; organisation or individuals who want to organise a litter pick, get in touch with your neighbourhood team.
If you're out and about in the community send us a message using the #DerbySpringClean and let us know what events you've been involved in.


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In his own life Burne-Jones had become infatuated with one of his admirers, Mary Zambaco, whom he remained close with during the early 1870s. The Beguling of Merlin and the story of Vivian and Merlin is taken from Arthurian legend. Merlin had fallen in love with Vivian and she profited from his infatuation by learning his skills in enchantment. Int he painting she is shown sending Merlin into a deep sleep.
Edward Burne-Jones was an English artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.In addition to painting and stained glass, Burne-Jones worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, and illustration, most famously designing woodcuts for the Kelmscott Press's Chaucer in 1896.


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La concattedrale di Sant'Andrea Apostolo è un monumento di epoca rinascimentale che si trova a Venosa, in Basilicata.

Struttura e storia
L'altezza della concattedrale è pari a 42 metri. La parte sovrastante è composta da due prismi ottagonali, che fanno da base alla cuspide piramidale alta 10 metri. La parte sottostante presenta tre parallelepipedi sovrapposti, di cui il primo è caratterizzato da una base quadrangolare con un lato di 8,20 metri e con un'altezza di 23,30 metri.

L'edificio fu eretto per volere del duca Pirro del Balzo, il responsabile della mutazione urbanistica di Venosa durante gli ultimi decenni del Quattrocento. Il duca, divenuto signore della città, ottenne il permesso dal vescovo di demolire l'antica cattedrale ed ivi costruire il castello, essendo il punto più vulnerabile della città ed il più soggetto ad attacchi. Come da accordo, Pirro del Balzo si impegnò per progettare la costruzione di una nuova cattedrale. Tuttavia i tempi di costruzione di questo edificio religioso furono piuttosto travagliati.

Mentre i lavori per il castello procedettero a ritmi costanti, quelli della cattedrale, iniziati nel 1470, vennero conclusi solo più di trent'anni dopo (nel 1502) e la costruzione fu consacrata il 12 marzo 1531. Ciononostante, la struttura era ancora incompleta del campanile, la cui elaborazione iniziò nel 1589 per ordine del vescovo Rodolfo di Tussignagno, fu continuata nel 1614 da Andrea Perbenedetti e terminata nel 1714.

Come per l'edificazione castello, anche per quella della cattedrale vennero demolite e rase al suolo tutte le strutture contigue (piazza, botteghe, abitazioni), nonché la chiesa di San Basilio. Sulla facciata in pietra lavorata dell'attuale concattedrale è osservabile un portale con architrave, lungo il quale vi è incisa un'iscrizione che attesta la presenza di Cola di Conza al momento della messa in opera del monumento nel 1512.

Dal 1986 è concattedrale della diocesi di Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa.

Interno

L'interno della concattedrale mostra uno stile architettonico di tipo tardogotico, vistosamente coniugato con inserti rinascimentali ed è suddiviso in due piani e tre navate. Le navate sono delimitate con archi a sesto acuto, di cui quella centrale prospetta, al suo limite, due grandi archi che segnano l'area del transetto, oltre il quale la visuale va a chiudersi sull'abside a forma di lunetta.

La concattedrale ospita nel suo interno varie cappelle, disposte nelle navate laterali. Tra queste si distingue la cappella del Sacramento, collocata nella navata di destra e risalente al 1520, ornata da un arco costellato da putti, candelabri e festoni. Nella parte interiore della concattedrale ci sono anche diversi dipinti come Il martirio di san Felice di Carlo Maratta, Cristo e la Maddalena di Nicola Marangelli, La comunione degli apostoli di un ignoto pittore e L'adorazione dei Magi di Simone da Firenze, di cui è rimasto solamente un piccolo frammento.

Scendendo nella cripta, si giunge ove è custodita la tomba di Maria Donata Orsini, moglie di Pirro del Balzo, dalla quale il duca ebbe come bene dotale Venosa nel 1453. La Orsini morì in questa cittadina nel 1485, all'età di 54 anni e, inizialmente, fu seppellita nella chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace, fuori le mura di Venosa. Dopo cent'anni, i suoi discendenti decisero di trasferire la salma e il monumento in marmo nella Cattedrale e i frati, aprendo il sepolcro, si accorsero che il suo corpo, così come le sue vesti, era rimasto intatto come se fosse morta da poco, e permisero ai fedeli di toccare la donna defunta per poter trarre miracolose guarigioni.

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Q: Field can not be filtered in SOQL query call Here is my SOQL code for finding records to update but it is generating a compiler error like "field 'Chatter_Monitor_Policy_Keyword__c' can not be filtered in query call". Why can't I filter by this field?
string abc = obj[0].Chatter_Monitor_Policy_Keyword__c;
string s ='%'+ abc + '%';
List<Chatter_Monitor_Policy__c> records = [SELECT Id, Chatter_Monitor_Policy_Keyword__c from Chatter_Monitor_Policy__c where Chatter_Monitor_Policy_Keyword__c Like:s and CreatedById =: UserInfo.getUserId()];
if(records.size()!=null)
{
  for(Integer i=0; i<records.size(); i++)
  {
    records[0].Chatter_Monitor_Policy_Keyword__c = s;
    update records[0];
  }
}

A: If Chatter_Monitor_Policy_Keyword__c is a text area then you can't filter by it, though if it truly is a keyword (or short list of keywords) then it should just be a text field which you will be able to filter by.
Can you confirm what type of field you are using? If it is a text area then I'd suggest changing it to a text field if possible.
If you absolutely can't change the field type, then you're probably limited to selecting all of the records and performing the search in code — to do this you'll likely need to leverage a batch apex class to process the data volumes involved.

A: As indicated in the attached screenshot, check the "filterable" acces property of field in schema browser (Force.com IDE etc). This property indicates whether the field is filterable (true) or not (false). If true, then this field can be specified in the WHERE clause of a query string in a query() call. More details here : http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_calls_describesobjects_describesobjectresult.htm

A: Textarea field types are filterable, but it needs to be done in the QueryResult
Quote from SOAP API page

Textarea Field Type
Textarea fields contain text that can be longer
  than 4000 bytes. Unlike string fields, textarea fields cannot be
  specified in the WHERE clause of a queryString of a query() call. To
  filter records on this field, you must do so while processing records
  in the QueryResult. For fields with this restriction, its filterable
  field in the Field type (described in the fields property of the
  DescribeSObjectResult) is false.

So get the query results into a queryresult object, and filter over each of the returned objects.

A: This is an old thread but I hope my SOSL solution can help others. Actually, we can use SOSL as a workaround to turn Textarea field types into filterable/searchable field. See code sample below
String fieldValue = 'somevalue';
String fieldName = 'MyTextAreaField__c';
String query =  = 'FIND {"'+ fieldValue + '"}  RETURNING ' +
                  ' YourCustomObject__c (id, ' + fieldName + ' ) LIMIT 2000';
List<List<SObject>> searchList = Search.query(query);//Return List of SObject list
system.debug('Search result: ' + searchList[0]);//Get search result
if(searchList[0].size() > 0) {
   //You can cast your result and return other fields if needed
   List<YourCustomObject__c > objSearchResultsList = (List<YourCustomObject__c >) searchList[0];
   system.debug(fieldName +' with "' + objSearchResultsList[0].get(fieldName) + '" found. ');
 }

If your search result has record, the sample output will be:
Search result: (YourCustomObject__c:{Id=aeb02000000000LXXX, MyTextAreaField__c=somevalue})
MyTextAreaField__c with "somevalue" found.

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Every class that you define in C# will inherit from exactly one class.
You can explicitly define a base class that the new class inherits from.
Or you can avoid specifying a base class when you define a new class.
If you don't specify a base class, the new class will be automatically derived from System.Object. You can see this by causing Intellisense to pop up for an instance of the class. You see the class members of System.Object–e.g. Equals, GetHashCode, GetType, etc.


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Our 2019 runners are not only putting in the miles to prepare for the 26.2 mile route around the capital, but they are working hard to raise money too.
In total we have four people running for Sports Leaders this year: Vicki, Hannah, Abbie and Georgina.
Hi my name is Vicki Joyce and i teach PE at Honley High School. I am also the School Sports Co-ordinator for all of the Honley feeder schools including Honley, Brockholes, Meltham CE, Meltham Moor, Helme and South Crosland Junior and Infant Schools. As part of my role i deliver the Sports Leaders UK Level two course and provide opportunities for leadership experiences in a range of sports. These include Sports Hall Athletics, Badminton, Table Tennis, Gymnastics, Handball, Netball, Hockey, Football, Rugby, Boccia, Tri-Golf, Cricket and Dance. The young sports leaders at Honley gain valuable life skills and many positive experiences when completing this course and are then more prepared to move on to college or apprenticeships when they leave school.
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Big Everybody Is Watching
Thoughts on Re-Reading 1984
By P.J. O'Rourke
I wrote about George Orwell's novel 1984 in the September 2017 "Innovation" issue of American Consequences – in an article where I surveyed various "futurist" authors of the past to see how accurate their predictions about the future were.
I'm afraid I gave Orwell short shrift. "Yeah, yeah," I said, "a 'telescreen' that watches us while we watch it is where you're reading this now."
I forgot what a powerful, terrifying, and tragic novel 1984 is. I forgot because I had read the book a couple of times and was under the impression that I understood it.
1984 tells the story of a totalitarianism so total that it's not satisfied with eliminating Winston Smith, a decent, conscientious individual. It must also eliminate his decency, his conscience, and his individuality first.
When I read 1984 in high school I thought, "This is what the Commies are doing in the Soviet Union."
When I read 1984 in college I thought, "This is what 'The Man' is doing in AmeriKKKa."
But when I read it as a mature (that is to say, old and worried) adult I was shocked. I realized, "This is what we're doing to ourselves!"
Our situation is much worse… We have dozens of the things – desktops, laptops, iPads, iPhones, game consoles. And we, of our own free will, refuse to turn them off.
In 1984, Winston Smith can't turn off the spying, intrusive telescreen. Our situation is much worse. Winston had only one telescreen. We have dozens of the things – desktops, laptops, iPads, iPhones, game consoles. And we, of our own free will, refuse to turn them off.
We don't live in Winston Smith's horrible world – yet. But we seem to be doing everything that Orwell foresaw to create that world.
Everything and more. The nation of "Oceania" where Winston lives is a one-party state like Nazi Germany or the U.S.S.R. We've topped that. We've got two parties in our one-party state.
Both the "progressive" Democrats and the "conservative" Republicans are intent on making 1984 come true.
The "Leftright" Party is the party that really rules America. Members of the Leftright Party practice the "doublethink" that Big Brother demands in 1984. As Orwell explains it, doublethink is "to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them." (Ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the dueling Republican/Democratic House Intelligence Committee memos on the Mueller Russia probe.)
Orwell captures totalitarianism's interference in every aspect of existence in the first sentence of his book: "…the clocks were striking thirteen." Whenever "the authorities" start meddling with ancient and customary traditions, something is wrong. So it was when President Jimmy Carter tried to put America on the metric system. And so it is today with an ancient and customary tradition we used to have… that the President of the United States was someone you would welcome into your home.
The "Leftright" Party is the party that really rules America. Members of the Leftright Party practice the "doublethink" that Big Brother demands in 1984.
1984 has a "Two Minutes Hate" where everyone has to stop what they're doing and despise Emmanuel Goldstein, "Enemy of the People." We voluntarily stop what we're doing and spend much more than two minutes despising Donald Trump on MSNBC. Or, if that doesn't suit us, we despise Nancy Pelosi for hours on Fox News.
Winston Smith "set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen." This is nothing compared to the expression of smug and idiotic blow-hard certainty which it is advisable to wear when facing the cameras on MSNBC and Fox.
Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where his job is to rewrite history. He obeys the Party slogan, "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Some Leftright Party members tear down monuments to Civil War soldiers who died bravely having no idea they were wrong, while other Leftright Party members dress in red baseball caps that declare they'll make America what it always has been.
In 1984 a language has been invented to replace English, "Newspeak." The purpose of Newspeak is "to limit the range of thought" by removing all previous mental associations and nuances of meaning from the vocabulary. The people of Oceania will be forced to use this language. Members of the Leftright Party have been much more creative. They've invented not one but several languages that limit the range of thought. And they have gotten people to speak those languages without using force. Thus no one is crippled or blind or deaf anymore, much less a moron. They are all "differently-abled." And no one even tries to discover the truth because the "lamestream media" is full of "fake news."
Orwell has a Party member say, "Orthodoxy means not thinking." Members of our Leftright Party aren't thinking twice as much.
"The heresy of heresies was common sense," thinks Winston Smith. With double the heresies we have half as much sense.
In 1984, the Party teaches that "Sexual intercourse is to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema." But now we've got both #MeToo and public-school curriculum abstinence education.
Orwell described life in the year 1984 as "…decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage…" A fair description of Portland, Oregon, or hip, artisanal Brooklyn. On the other hand, it's also not too different from the shanties and trailer parks from which the alt-right pours forth.
"We make the laws of nature," the Inner Party interrogator and torturer, O'Brien, tells Winston. That sure sounds to me like both sides of the Leftright climate change debate.
Likewise we have doubled our Thought Police forces, with one squadron apprehending visiting lecturers who fail to address college students in Newspeak and another squad circulating among Republicans in the House of Representatives arresting any notion that they can be reelected without Trumpthink.
But what is the goal, what is the objective of the Leftright Party? Why do they oppress and overpower us? (Or, rather, why do they trick us into oppressing and overpowering ourselves?)
Orwell goes straight to the point.
O'Brien tells Winston, "Power is not a means, it is an end… The object of power is power."
What the Leftright Party wants is power. And what will the Leftright Party do to us with its power?
Again, Orwell is clear. O'Brien asks…
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"
Winston thought. "By making him suffer," he said.
"Exactly. By making him suffer. Unless he is suffering, how can you know that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is inflicting pain and humiliation."
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MONTANA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE (MCOM)
Rocky Vista University (RVU) announced Feb. 22, 2021 that it has selected Billings, Montana as the proposed site for development of a branch campus of its four-year medical school – the first of its kind in the state of Montana. Billings was selected after an extensive location search by RVU to continue its mission-led focus of providing quality healthcare education while inspiring students to serve with compassion, integrity, and excellence.
Rocky Vista University (RVU) will be the first four-year medical school in the state of Montana. RVU currently operates two other schools, one in Colorado and the other in Utah. Both RVU campuses provide medical degrees in osteopathic medicine and also a graduate program in biomedical sciences; the Colorado campus also provides a graduate degree in physician assistant studies.
Billings was selected after an extensive location search by RVU to continue its mission-led focus of providing quality healthcare education while inspiring students to serve with compassion, integrity, and excellence, according to Big Sky Economic Development.
David Forstein, President and Provost of Rocky Vista University, commented in a press release: "We are thrilled that the COCA has approved RVU's application to develop the MCOM, marking the next exciting step forward in the Billings development project. We are grateful for and encouraged by the strong support we have received from the community. We look forward to continuing to work with the local medical and business community to utilize our expertise to bring superior outcomes for students and benefits to Billings and the greater Mountain West region.
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Officials break ground on new osteopathic medical school in Billings
Officials break ground on new osteopathic medical school in Billings [October 4, 2021 – KTVQ.com (reposted)] BILLINGS — State and local officials, along with Rocky Vista University leadership, ceremoniously broke ground on the Montana College […]
Leaders of new Billings medical school outline plans for 2023 opening
Leaders of new Billings medical school outline plans for 2023 opening [August 13, 2021 – KTVQ.com (reposted)] As it turned out, it was between Casper, Wyoming, and Billings for the location of Rocky Vista University's […]
Dr. David Park Named Vice President and Founding Dean of Proposed RVU's Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. David Park Named Vice President and Founding Dean of Proposed Rocky Vista University Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine [Ivins, Utah – February 23, 2021] Rocky Vista University (RVU) is pleased to announce the appointment […]
MCOM EXTERNAL ARTICLES
Medical school proposes Billings campus (Missoulian.com)
Montana is getting a medical school (3KRTV)
New $78M undergraduate medical school planned for Billings (8KPAX)
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Major Peter Stapleton Shaw OBE (6 July 1888 – 3 August 1953) was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the general election in 1935, as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree.
He did not contest the 1945 general election.

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1888 births
1953 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1935–1945
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers
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I touched on these in the last blog, so I will fast forward here. I left off on a high note, making my first LPGA cut in Ann Arbor.
I was feeling major positive momentum after Ann Arbor and couldn't wait to get started at the ShopRite Classic. Billed as the largest pro-ams in golf, tournament play here didn't start until Friday because of all the extra pro-ams. I played in two and was pleased with my ball striking in both. I shot a solid round of even par in round one and was holding steady on day two until doubling the tenth hole. The wind was blowing and conditions were difficult, so in hindsight I was doing just fine had I kept my head level. Instead, I berated myself for missing another cut (with eight holes still to play!) and lost focus. I wound up shooting +6 and missed the cut by three. I definitely learned a lesson here about staying patient.
It had been a month on the road at this point, and I was starting to feel spent. My physical energy was there, but my mental fuse was getting shorter by the minute. I shot +3 in Canada to miss the cut by four and +2 in Grand Rapids to miss the cut by three.
My caddy and I recognized my mental fatigue, so I made a conscious effort to spend less time on the range and more time cultivating a fresh outlook by doing fun things away from the course during these weeks. I took an amazing tour of Niagara Falls with my Canadian host family on the weekend and enjoyed hanging out with my parents and boyfriend in Grand Rapids. I'd planned to play a 36-hole US Open Qualifier between the two events, but WD'd to conserve energy. Still, though, I didn't have my usual bounce-back-ability when tournament time came.
If this whole stretch was a road trip, my car had gone from spinning its tires in the mud to successfully cruising the open highway before slowly running out of gas, and now, in my seventh consecutive week, I was overturned in a ditch engulfed in flames.
Looking back on the week is comical. As I struggled on the range before the tournament started, I was fighting back tears one hack at a time without ever thinking to call my coach or take a swing video. During my two rounds, I found the pond on two par threes and was sailing drivers OB… in addition to not making a single putt longer than four feet. It was painful. The mental exhaustion of trying to be "on" for so many straight weeks had totally worn me down, and I wasn't even close to being myself.
The golf was bad, but the company was great. Thank you to my Nebraska Husker crew of coach, teammates, and teammates' family for driving down to watch!
I flew back to Phoenix and collapsed into a pile on my couch for two days. When I reacquainted myself with the range on Wednesday, everything was simple again. It felt like I had taken a big breath of oxygen after way too long underwater, and I was able to look back and honestly evaluate my first stretch of LPGA tournaments.
There is a lot to take in as a rookie. Every week brings a new city, new host family, and most challenging, a new course to learn. I'm traveling Sunday nights or early Monday mornings so that I can squeeze in nine holes Monday evening, play eighteen Tuesday, and then have a 6:15 AM nine holes (aka "Emergency-9") before the pro-am starts on Wednesday. I am always either very early or very late in the tee time wave on Thursday and Friday. Not to mention it also takes time to shake the feeling I've somehow snuck into the tournament, and instead feel completely comfortable inside the ropes. No one can prepare or advise you for your rookie year; you just have to experience it. It may have been difficult, but I am so happy to have this streak of "firsts" under my belt and know I am better just for having it behind me.
When I analyze my play in this stretch, I know I was actually close to being where I wanted. The difference between me shooting -2 or -1 most days instead of shooting +1 or +2 was as simple as having one less three putt, making one more birdie putt, and hitting one more fairway. That's it. I wasn't terribly far off- just a better read here, a closer chip there, a smarter club selection here. The margin for error on the LPGA is so slim that a few miscues in two days means you're packing your bags early without a chance to improve on the weekend.
I also clearly learned a valuable lesson about my tournament scheduling. Seven in a row was way too many for me. I knew from my years on the Symetra Tour that three or four weeks was my maximum, but because this was my first crack at a limited number of LPGA opportunities, I was compelled to play every event. In 20/20 hindsight, I probably would have been more successful skipping a week in the middle to mentally recharge and retune with my coach. Yet this was another lesson I had to learn through the fire- no one else could have convinced me to sit out a tournament. Plus, many of my friends did the same thing- successfully! Some players can go twelve straight, others only play once or twice a month. The key is that I now know for certain what my limits are and will honor them in the future.
Back to that week off. After five days in Mesa, I headed over to the Los Angeles area to visit my coach, Gabe Hjerstedt, who teaches there part time in the summer to avoid Arizona heat. We had an excellent two days of lessons at Sherwood CC and got each aspect of my game back in line.
Next stop: Packer country. My caddie of the previous six weeks decided to take a job with another player, so I scrambled to find a replacement two days before I arrived. This is just another aspect of tour life that we all have to deal with, and I chose to not let it bother me.
I was feeling confident coming off of my lesson and fired an opening 66, then backed it up with a 70 to sit T-6th heading into the weekend! These two rounds were big for me. It was huge that I finally turned in a low score and got my name on the leaderboard in order to prove to myself that I was capable. With that 'first' out of the way, I can forever draw back on the experience and know it can happen again.
Unfortunately, some nerves showed up on Saturday and I shot 76-72, dropping me to a 70th place finish. But again, I walked away knowing I had made a big stride forward.
While the US Women's Open was being played in New Jersey, I headed home to Boise. I had time to send videos back and forth to my putting coach Todd Kolb, and together we made some key improvements.
So fun to marinate and grill delicious Snake River Farms steaks while at home. Remember to use LPGA17 as a discount code at checkout for free shipping on yours!
I went into Toledo feeling ready to compete, but that's not what showed up Thursday morning. I didn't hit it great, and it seemed every slight miss was compounded by a worse break of luck. All of a sudden I was +5 through the first 12 holes.
Walking up the thirteenth fairway, my caddy Rick said, "Look, how about we make this fun. I'll pay you $10 for every birdie you make from here in today and tomorrow. Let's see if you can take a Benjamin off of me." Well, nothing motivates me quite like cold hard cash. I steadied the ship, made a string of pars, and birdied 18 to finish at +4. Still pretty rotten. In the afternoon I worked my frustration out at the gym, had a fun dinner with friends, and went to bed on a high note.
I woke up with an extra sense of determination Friday morning. I had been too close too many times this year with nothing to show for it, and I wasn't going to let that happen again. I also had the nice 66 from two weeks prior lingering in my memory.
I didn't quite earn that Benjamin off of Rick on Friday, but I got close. I carded two bogies against seven birdies (even birdieing my last two holes of the day!) to claw my way back to -1 total and make the cut on the number. This game has beaten me down time and time again, but here was a day where finally, I fought and won. Nothing is more important than resilience.
Now, I realize making cuts isn't everything, and it most certainly isn't my goal. But in order to win, you first have to earn a weekend tee time. So, sometimes just passing that hurdle is a victory to be celebrated.
Rick decided to extend the $10 birdie bet to the weekend, and after 72 holes, I'd won $180 :) I fired 67-70 on the weekend and finished T-35th, my best LPGA finish to date.
My pro am partner Ed Beczynski treated two of my friends and me to a special, off-menu Polish meal at his restaurant in downtown Toledo, The Blarney. The desserts pictured here were fabulous, but it was the lucky meatballs we had for dinner that spurred on my second round -5!
The LPGA Tour headed overseas to play the Scottish Open, Ricoh Women's British Open, and then later the Solheim Cup in Iowa. I didn't want to go a full month without playing a tournament, so I drove up the road from Toledo to Battle Creek, MI to tee it up on the Symetra Tour. The Firekeeper's Casino Hotel Championship is where I won in 2015, but I have now MC'd there for two straight years. My swing was off and nothing came easy that week. Oh well.
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On Tuesday, I hopped out of a guided raft in my life jacket and floated weightlessly on my back down the Main Salmon River. Every last ounce of tension in my body from the previous three months melted away, and my mind was as clear as the blue, cloudless Idaho sky up above. This is how an off week should be lived!
Watching the time float by on Payette Lake with my dad. The apple doesn't fall from the tree.
I will be back in action Aug 15-16 near Toronto for a PGA of Canada event. A win there or in the Monday qualifier on Aug 21 will earn me a place in the LPGA Canadian Open in Ottawa Aug 24-27. I am almost sure to be playing LPGA in Portland Aug 31-Sep 3 and in Indianapolis Sept 7-9. I need to finish off the year in a strong way, and I am excited to give it my all down the stretch.
This journey has been so much fun for me, and I thank each one of you for playing a part in it!


What are the pug puppies?
The pugs are also thought to be the part of American kennel club's toy group along with this they are also known as clowns of canine world for their great sense of humor.
These are Wrinkly, short-muzzled face and curled tailed dog's breed. These dogs have a glossy coat of various colors, mostly of black or fawn and have a compact square body with well-developed muscles and big brown eyes.
These dogs originated in China and letter on in sixteen century they were brought to Europe and now are found almost everywhere in the world. Pugs are very sociable and gentle companion Dogs.
1 What are black Pug Puppies?
2.1.1 When will pug stop to grow?
3 How to Train a Pug Dog in 2018?
4.2 Why should black pugs breeds be trained earlier?
5 How to live with pug dogs?
6.2 Some more things you need to take care of.
What are black Pug Puppies?
The Black pug puppies have wrinkled, short-muzzled face and curled tail like all other pug breeds except its color. If you talk about the physical characteristics of black Pug puppies there are two distinct shapes of ears Rose and button; their ears are folded with front edges against the side of the head.
Pugs have straight and strong legs of medium size, well under set legs. Their shoulders are laid back. The black pug puppies usually have small feet and strong ankles. The black colored nails and well split up toes.
Pug breed along with black Pug puppies all are suitable for families especially with children because most of the breeds are fond of playing with children. There is no need to fear as pug breed are sturdy enough to properly play with children.
Pug dogs are small creative sharp and intelligent, so they need or attention and care. This breed has some health problems; we must know to keep them safe and to remain well aware of them.
Pugs are very susceptible to eye injuries because they lack long snouts and a permanent skeletal brow ridge. Eye injuries include proptosis, scratched corneas, and painful entropion.
Due to having compact breathing passageway they also have breathing difficulties as well as having difficulties in regulating their temperature through evaporation from the tongue by panting.
They need more oxygen and cool environment to live in because if their body temperature reaches to 108F (42C), it will cause organ failure.
When will pug stop to grow?
When a pug becomes one year old, he is deemed an adult with the achievement of 90% of his / her height and 80% of his /her weight. Even at this age, your dog may behave like a puppy, but when he/she reaches the age of 18 months, he/she is the complete adult with his/her maximum height and weight.
At this age, black pug breeds become muscular and no longer will he/she grow. If your dogs get more weight after the weight, the dogs have reached this age will be considered as unhealthy.
How to Train a Pug Dog in 2018?
Pug puppies at the beginning are very energetic and seem running around and playing with everything they get it will be funny and entertaining at first but as soon you will be done with this enjoyment you will not feel your dog feeling tired and will seem to troublemaking for you. To avoid your pretty dog to be a mess you need to train him to be obedient.
The main quality of pug breed is that they in growing age try to learn and shape their habits whether you teach him or he will learn by himself.
The black pug puppies as are naughty, so all they will learn is bad habits like chewing your shoes entering in those places where you do not want him to be and running in your house.
It is better to teach him whether letting him spoil himself and learn all those habits which will cause him to be disliked.
Why should black pugs breeds be trained earlier?
These dogs love to learn when they are still puppies and will make this learning's as their habits. So you have to start teaching him every trick you want him to perform, at the very earlier time because when the dog is an adult, it will be hard for him to change his habits and for you to teach him.
How to live with pug dogs?
Black pug puppies have the flat baby like face and large brown eyes which convince most of the people to hug them.
These are very cute attractive and sensitive creature and need care.
Feed them right food: feed your puppy with good quality food. Meat is the topmost ingredient in their diet Avoid feeding them foods containing high quantity cereal and soya.
Some more things you need to take care of.


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This highly collectible cult action figure was produced under the GI JOE line way back in 1993 and was fully endorsed by Capcom. Amazing.
This unique and rare Guile action figure comes with a staggering 10 accessories, and has a spring action Sonic Boom Bazooka accessory! Fantastic.
A former member of the elite Special Forces team, Guile and his co-pilot Charlie were captured during a mission in Thailand six years ago. After many months of imprisonment, he and Charlie managed to escape from their jungle prison. During their perilous escape to civilization, Charlie was recaptured and Guile has been consumed with vengeance ever since. Guile's calm and emotionless exterior hides rage inside. Driven by his need for revenge, he will let nothing stand in his way. Using a unique blend of Special Forces training and street fighting skills, Guile is a force to be reckoned with.


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![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/porti.svg)

Node.js utility for obtaining random TCP ports

## Installation

```bash
npm install porti --save
```

## Usage

```javascript
const porti = require('porti');

// Finding an unused port in a range of ports. If a range is not specified,
// Porti starts at port 1024 and stops when it has found an unused port.
// None of the properties in the first options argument are required.
porti.getUnusedPort({
  min: 2000,          // lower bound of random port range to select from
  max: 5000,          // upper bound of random port range to select from
}).then((port) => {
  ...
}).catch((err) => {
  ...
})
```

Synchronous API:

```js
// Finding an unused port in a range of ports. If a range is not specified,
// Porti starts at port 1024 and stops when it has found an unused port.
// None of the properties in the first options argument are required.
const port = porti.getUnusedPortSync({
  min: 2000,          // lower bound of random port range to select from
  max: 5000,          // upper bound of random port range to select from
})
```