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El Aral es un pedanía y barrio que pertenece al municipio de La Algaba en la provincia de Sevilla, Andalucía, España. A 1 de enero de 2015 contaba con unos 751 habitantes censados aproximadamente. Sus coordenadas geográficas son 37°28'26.3"N 6°00'15.1"W. Se encuentra situada a una altitud de 7 metros y a 11 kilómetros de la capital de provincia, Sevilla. Geográficamente se encuentra situada en la depresión del río Guadalquivir.

Toponimia
Proviene del castellano antiguo El Aras o Alaraz, que a su vez tiene un significado equivalente del árabe حقل الزراعة  (haql alzuraae) «campo de cultivo».

Situación
El Aral está situado en el noroeste del municipio de La Algaba y al norte de Sevilla, concreta mente a 11 kilómetros de la capital, a la cual está unida por el Camino del Aral, que a su vez concluye en la Carretera A-8006, también, cuando se construya la autovía SE-40 por la Vega del Guadalquivir se ha planteado una salida e entrada desde El Aral.

En torno a su barrio original, El Aral, se le han ido configurando diversos núcleos como El Tributo, entre otros.

Monumentos

 Ermita de la Inmaculada Concepción. La Ermita de la Inmaculada Concepción es un templo religioso bajo la advocación de la Purísima Concepción de María Coronada.

Fiestas

 Romería de la Purísima Concepción (o Romería de La Algaba), el 10 de junio, la imagen recorre el camino desde la Iglesia de Santa María de las Nieves hasta su ermita de El Aral.
 Candevelares  el día 7 de diciembre se hacen candelas en honor al dogma de la Inmaculada, en cada barrio del pueblo se montan estas grandes candelas rematadas por un júa (muñeco hecho de trapo y virutas de maderas para arder). Alrededor de estas candelas se cantan villancicos y se toman dulces típicos navideños.

Demografía
En 2017 el barrio contaba contaba con 757 habitantes, de los cuales 393 eran hombres y 364 eran mujeres.

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'Mahesh Bhatt ignited...
'Mahesh Bhatt ignited in us the fire to work' Says Pooja Bhatt
| 26 Aug 2019 1:28 PM GMT
Having wrapped up the Mysore schedule of "Sadak 2" this week, actress Pooja Bhatt has penned an Instagram post, praising her father and director Mahesh Bhatt for igniting a "fire" in her team.
"Wrap/Unwrap.. and with that we ended a truly magnificent schedule for 'Sadak 2' in Mysore! Can't wait to be back on set! Each day pushed our limits, each day revealed something more to each of us. And long after the last trunk was packed and the last tempo sent on its way home, the fire Mahesh Bhatt has ignited in all of us continues to blaze with fervour, passion and a desire to do even more," Pooja wrote.
Mahesh Bhatt is returning to direction after almost two decades with "Sadak 2", a sequel of his 1991 hit "Sadak".
"Sadak", a romantic thriller, featured Pooja Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt and was one of the highest-grossing Hindi movies of 1991. The sequel stars Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Pooja Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt. "Sadak 2" is scheduled to release on July 10 next year. (IANS)
Also Read: Speaking On Alia Bhatt's Relation With Ranbir Kapoor, Pooja Bhatt Says She's No One To Decide For Alia
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Republican Eagle: Criminal justice program stands strong in face of backlash
By John Russett on Dec 15, 2015 at 8:00 a.m.
On the heels of recent events, which thrust police practices into the national spotlight, Greg Cady, criminal justice instructor at Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical, said it's more important than ever to have dedicated, motivated professionals in the field.
With its beginnings in 2009, Cady said, Southeast Technical's criminal justice program was built on the needs of area law enforcement, and instructors bring more than 150 years of combined experience in the criminal justice field.
Enrollment numbers have remained fairly steady at Southeast Technical, Cady said, with most years seeing 50 to 60 students. This fall, 51 students are enrolled in the criminal justice program and eight are enrolled in a newly implemented cyber information and security program.
Cady, who also serves in the Naval Reserve, said the level of expertise provided by current instructors serves to comfort and build confidence for students entering the program.


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Nola's pitching, Bruce's power lead Phillies over Mets
By BEN WALKER The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Aaron Nola, Jay Bruce and the Phillies see plenty of reasons why they can play even better after the All-Star Game.
The Mets? Well, they say there's always hope.
Nola held the Mets hitless into the sixth inning, Bruce homered twice and the Phillies quieted New York with an 8-3 victory Sunday.
The Phils headed into the break at 47-43 — they were 53-42 at this point last year and envisioned more after adding Bryce Harper, J.T. Realmuto, Andrew McCutchen and others in an offseason push.
"I think we all kw that we underachieved in the first half," said Bruce, a big hitter since being acquired in June.
The Phillies led the NL East for most of the season, but injuries to McCutchen and the bullpen caught up to them.
"Some adversity in the first half," manager Gabe Kapler said. "We're in a good position. We're feeling pretty confident."
The Mets, meanwhile, are 40-50, not what they imagined after adding Robinson Canó, Edwin Díaz, Jed Lowrie and more in the offseason.
"I feel like we can make a run at this thing," manager Mickey Callaway said. "We can sneak into that wild card, sneak back in this division. Look what the Nationals have done in a 2 1/2-week period."
"Anything can happen in baseball, I've seen it all. We need to have a sense of urgency because of the possibilities. And in my mind, anything's possible," he said.
The Mets' highlight of the day: Rookie All-Star Pete Alonso hit his 30th home run to break up Nola's no-hit bid.
Bruce drove in four runs against his former team and Rhys Hoskins homered as the Phillies took two of three in the series.
The feuding division rivals kept their cool and there were no warnings from the umpires, a day after a tense game in which Jake Arrieta hit Todd Frazier and later said if the Mets veteran was still upset, "he can come see me and I'll put a dent in his skull."
Hoskins was hit in the left thigh by a pitch from reliever Wilmer Font in the seventh. As fans cheered, Hoskins spun around and slung a leg guard toward the dugout, then took his base without incident.
In April, Mets reliever Jacob Rhame was suspended two games and fined for zinging two fastballs over Hoskins' head, apparent retaliation for two Mets getting drilled.
Hoskins later got even, homering off Rhame and taking an amazingly slow trot around the bases. This time, Hoskins homered in the ninth and routinely went about his business.
Nola (8-2) extended his scoreless streak to 22 innings before Alonso hit a two-run drive with one out. The right-hander allowed three hits in 6 2/3 innings — he has never pitched a complete game as a pro, totaling 112 starts in the majors and 31 in the minors.
His assessment of the Phils so far: "Up-and-down first half."
Zack Wheeler (6-6) was tagged for six runs in five-plus innings, an outing that definitely didn't enhance his trade value as the July 31 deadline approaches.
Hoskins hit an RBI double, Realmuto followed with a two-run double and Bruce had an RBI single in the first.
Bruce hit a two-run homer that finished Wheeler in the sixth and connected in the eighth for his 28th career multihomer game and third this year. The Mets traded Bruce to Seattle in the winter as part of a package for Canó and Diaz, the Mariners dealt him to the Phillies in June.
Bruce has 24 homers and 57 RBIs. With 14 home runs for Seattle and 10 for the Phillies, he is first big leaguer to reach double-digits for two teams before the All-Star break, STATS said.
Adeiny Hechavarria connected for his first pinch-hit homer in the Mets ninth.
BUMPING ALONG
Harper caught a pair of flyballs in right field despite center fielder Scott Kingery bumping into him both times.
Kapler kiddingly likened it to a collision between "an outside linebacker and a fullback blocking."
Phillies: Arrieta has bone spurs in his right elbow and will be checked to see whether surgery is needed. He is 8-7 with a 4.67 ERA.
Phillies: Start the second half Friday night with a three-game series at home against Washington.


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Q: Calling two functions in my route slim I am having a issue calling two separate functions in my route. I am using PSR-r autoloading and created my own namespace.
See code below with two functions.
<?php

namespace App\Controllers;
use PHPMailer;

class Mailer {
  public function sendMail($request, $response)
  {
    echo "walking up the hill walking up the hill";
  }
  public function updateDB($request, $response) {
    echo "Sending message sending message";
  }
}

I have these two functions and I would like to call them in my route one after the other. How can I accomplish that.
See my route below how would I call the functions?
$app->post('/confirm', function($request, $response) {
          //sendMail
          //updateDB
})->setName('usersend');

I want to call the sendmail function first and then the update DB after using two separate functions just to keep my code cleaner.

A: You can load your Mailer class into Slim's Dependency Container
and then inject them in your routes/controllers.
First add your Mailer class to the Container
$container = $app->getContainer();
$container['Mailer'] = function ($container) {
    return new Mailer();
};

And then you can use it in your routes like that:
$app->post('/confirm', function($request, $response) {
   $mailer = $this->get('Mailer');
   echo $mailer->sendMail();
   echo $mailer->updateDB();
})->setName('usersend');

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Acclaimed as one of the finest journals focused on the humanities, the University of Toronto Quarterly publishes interdisciplinary articles and review essays of international repute. This interdisciplinary approach provides a depth and quality to the journal that attracts both general readers and specialists from across the humanities.
UTQ Subscribers look forward to the bi-lingual 'Letters in Canada' issue, published each spring, which contains reviews of the previous year's work in Canadian fiction, poetry, drama, translations and works in the humanities. Many of the recent issues have contained over 600 pages of the year's work in creative writing and scholarship!
Le troisième numéro est une édition bilingue couvrant la production en littérature et en sciences humaines de l'année précédente. Ce volumineux numéro de plus de 500 pages a pour sous-titre Lettres canadiennes. Il contient des articles fouillés qui rendent compte du roman, de la nouvelle, de la poésie, du théâtre et de la traduction, ainsi que des comptes rendus sur les travaux dans les sciences humaines publiés dans la dernière année.
Colin Hill received his BA from Concordia University and his MA and PhD from McGill University. At present, he is an Associate Professor of Canadian Literature in the Graduate Department of English at the University of Toronto, and in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he is also director of the Canadian Studies program. His research explores twentieth-century Canadian fiction and its intersections with international modernist writing. He is the author of Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2012) and editor of Waste Heritage: A Novel by Irene Baird (University of Ottawa Press, 2007). His recent articles have appeared in Canadian Literature, Journal of Canadian Studies, Essays on Canadian Writing, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The Canadian Modernists Meet. He is a member of the Editing Modernism in Canada project for which he is editing critical editions of the early novels of Hugh MacLennan and Raymond Knister. He is currently at work on a book about modernism and Canadian cities.
Acclaimed as one of the finest journals focused on the humanities, UTQ publishes interdisciplinary articles and review essays of international repute. This interdisciplinary approach provides a depth and quality to the journal that attracts both general readers and specialists from across the humanities.
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Whenever you see a girl who's immensely beautiful, you are bound to melt.
But then you hear a godly voice speaking to you, saying,"BHAI PIGHALNA NAHI HAI!".
You guessed it right! ZAKIR KHAN.
The maseeha of singles, a stand-up comedian, writer, presenter and actor, Zakir Khan started his career by appearing and winning Comedy Central's "The Best Stand Up Comedian" back in 2012. There was no looking back thereafter as this Indore guy went on to make people roll in fits of laughter with his unique and self depreciating style of comedy.
Zakir has been part of shows like On Air With AIB, AIB diwas and the Great Indian Laughter Challenge. His version of the 'SAKHT LAUNDA' received immense popularity, and it was with this punchline that Zakir reached the zenith. Despite of having a diploma in Sitar and a heart of gold, this guy is the humblest of comedians and an even greater person. Not only does he have a great sense of humour but his poetries are also a hit amongst the masses too.
Having portrayed the lead role in the Amazon Prime web series, "Chacha Vidhayak Hai Humare", Zakir went on to give back to back hits in the form of his stand up gigs, "Haq se Single" and "Kaksha Gyarahvi", both Amazon Prime Originals. His popularity with the masses is noteworthy and Zakir has established his fandom amongst the young guns.
The JOY in ALEGRIA is going to be in an altogether different space, as the 'SAKHT LAUNDA' will be here on the 8th of February. Hold your breath because when Zakir is on stage, you can't hold on to your "SAKHTI". Grab your passes soon!
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Like a sub-sector of the house decorative products industry, the ceramic industry has stored a minimal profile in China. However its status within the overall decorative marketplace is progressively rising. Whether it's viewed in the outlook during staffing quality, manager mindsets, management practices or operational processes, the ceramic industry in China is really a promising one. The amounting pressures from ecological rules, fierce market competitions and rising RMB haven't delay the force from the Chinese ceramic industry.
Because the 1990s, the booming domestic and worldwide interest in ceramics had brought to the introduction of some massive ceramic companies, which had created some quasi-professional talents within the ceramic industry. The rapid growth and development of China's electronics industry recently is partially because of its effective cultivation of a lot of management talents, therefore the ceramic market is keen to follow along with the key to enhance its very own staffing quality, by recruiting management talents using their company effective industries.
Getting stated that, you may still find many family-run companies within the Chinese ceramic industry, and also the prevalent nepotism of these companies without doubt place a constraint on their own lengthy term development. Even though some family-run information mill beginning to understand the significance of professional managers, the trust together continues to be missing. It's not unusual to determine a whole management being removed through the boss within this industry. The important thing for this concern is most likely not about whether a business is family-run or otherwise, but about if the owner has got the awareness to use modern management philosophies and methodologies to handle the company.
China's ceramic production today continues to be quite modernised and industrialised, and also the extent of automation can also be growing. Despite management practices and company cultures may vary between different provinces, using technologies and production processes are very similar among companies. It has inevitably brought to homogeneity between product styles, rich in volume but low differentiation products on the market. Our prime volume could certainly give prices benefits of ceramics exports from China, but they have also attracted a substantial degree of anti-dumping critique using their company countries. Many Chinese ceramics are offered as OEM products for foreign brands without any origin labels. Otherwise, many Chinese consumers would most likely discover that their imported TOTO toiletware in your own home are really "Produced in China".
Therefore, some industry insiders have noticed that as the manufacturing processes are very good now, china ceramic market is still missing a branding and marketing mentality. On the positive note, some companies have finally realized the significance of worldwide management and innovation and started to pilot new management and operational models.
Copycat goods are rampant within the decorative product industry of China. Many Chinese ceramic information mill good and quick at copying products, and because of this , why Chinese ceramic representatives aren't welcomed at some worldwide trade shows. While Chinese companies could make perfect copycat products, most of them are short at innovative ideas and style works. Dr Zhang Mengyou, Chief executive officer of Bald eagle Brand Holdings, a Singapore-listed Chinese ceramic company, commented that aside from peppa pig developments, Chinese ceramic companies also needs to focus on marketing innovation. He stated that comprehensive marketing awareness isn't about planning for a single campaign or event, but about mobilising all organisational personnel to attain marketing innovations constantly, hence a quantum leap from "Produced in China" to "Produced in China".
When compared with other decorative products for example floor, furniture and lighting, china ceramic market is now facing more ecological pressure and controversies within an already competitive market. The recently introduced energy-efficiency measures through the central government won' doubt result in tighter ecological needs on ceramic companies in many provinces. Whether ecological issues could be correctly solved isn't just the important thing to some ceramic company's compatibility using its local atmosphere and sources, but additionally an essential way of measuring a company's social responsibility locally.
Compared with other overseas tiles or ceramic sanitaryware industries, china ceramic sanitaryware industry still does not possess a market dominant brand, which is also reflected within the whole decorative products industry. There are several bigger size companies, but there weren't any true leaders. Although a lot of large companies established nationwide sales systems, their competitive advantages are frequently found in their house regions. And so the Chinese ceramic market is with more brand influences.


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Rush Drummer Neil Peart died on January 7th at the age of 67.
"Peart's love of literature and reverence for history deeply informed his songwriting. "Red Sector A," for example, emerged after he read accounts of World War II concentration camp survivors. "Manhattan Project" addresses the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, from multiple viewpoints. For much of Rush's career, Peart was also dogged by long-ago praise for the author Ayn Rand, whose works were an influence on the sprawling 1976 song cycle 2112. (He later clarified that Rand's work no longer resonated with him.)
In a 2015 Rolling Stone cover story, Peart self-described as a "bleeding-heart libertarian."And, above all, his lyrics made people think — Rush fans were liberal, conservative, religious, non-religious — but they all united around their respect for the band and their admiration for how Neil could articulate their experiences, or give them a new way to look at an issue."
In no small part because of his erudition, Peart's erudition earned him the nickname "The Professor." It was apt: Carrying himself with an air of well-spoken authority, he possessed knowledge about a variety of topics, owing to his extensive global travels — on Rush tours, he was known for taking off on bicycle rides and, later, would hop on his motorcycle to travel between gigs — and a voracious curiosity about the world around him. In his 2002 book, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, he described going to art museums in the afternoons before Rush concerts "to feed my growing interest in paintings, art history, and African carvings."
While an interesting travelogue, at its root Ghost Rider was a chronicle of how to repair a shattered self. The book details how Peart embarked on a solo motorcycle trek "to try to figure out what kind of person I was going to be, and what kind of world I was going to live in" after his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, died in a 1997 car crash, and his wife Jackie passed due to cancer the following year.
All told, Peart released seven nonfiction books, several fiction collaborations and poured out thousands more words via his personal website. "What made Neil such a good writer is how much he loved to read," Halper says. "He really loved and respected books. He loved good literature — he and I sat around one night talking Shakespeare — he loved poetry, he loved philosophy. He valued good conversation. He was a thinker — in the truest sense of the word."
As any Rush fan will share, air-drumming to 1981's "Tom Sawyer" can be one of life's greatest pleasures.
[Excerpt from 'Remembering Neil Peart, A Monster Drummer With A Poet's Heart', by NPR's Annie Zaleski.]
A favorite quote from Bob Dylan, taken from a 1978 Rolling Stone interview: "The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?"
Rush was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Four new moulded angled IEC Lock models have been introduced as a direct result of numerous customer requests for a smaller, more versatile version of the existing C13 IEC Lock+ that can fit into tighter spaces. The new range comprises a left angled C13 IEC Lock+, right angled C13 IEC Lock+, up angled C13 IEC Lock+ and down angled C13 IEC Lock+. They come with a two part handle located at the front of the connector to minimise the overall length of the connector, with the added benefit that the handle can be removed where space is limited. All four connector types share the same interface and locking mechanism components.
Two new angled re-wireable C13 IEC Lock+ Connectors – a right angle connector and a down angle connector – have been added, again as a result of increasing customer demand for a smaller version of the existing rewireable C13 IEC Lock+. They come with a two part handle located at the front of the connector to minimise the overall length of the connector and both share the same interface and locking mechanism components. The outer housings can be mounted in either orientation, which means the right angle connector can be converted to left angle and the down angle connector can be converted to up angle.
The range is being supported with a new website www.ieclock.com, which showcases the new, modernised logo. A newly designed product display stand and a promotional video have also been produced to help promote the range.


A year ago, AccuScore said the Golden State Warriors would win in five games and that's exactly what happened.
With the NBA Finals tipping-off on Thursday, AccuScore again employed its simulation engine to figure out the chances for each team to win and calculate out what the most likely outcome would be. Well, the Golden State Warriors are an absurd 88.6% to win the series with a 21.6% chance of sweeping the Cavaliers.
Yes, this is a mismatch and far more of a mismatch than the Warriors versus the Rockets was projected to be and eventually turned out to be. Even with LeBron James playing as an all-time great, the Warriors' array of superstars is far too much for one man to carry a team across the finish line.
The most likely outcome in the 2018 NBA Finals is a Cavaliers' victory in five games, 24.4%, or six games, 26.8%. On the flip side, the Cavs' best odds of a series win comes in seven games at 4.1%, meaning Cleveland winning the series would be a massive upset.
To highlight the importance of LeBron James, our computer also ran the simulations without James to determine the impact a player of his caliber would have on the series. If LeBron wasn't on the Cavaliers, the Warriors' likelihood jumps to 95.4% with the most likely outcome a sweep at 32.3%. Without James, the Cavs' chances of winning are in less than half.
If James is playing and Stephen Curry was to sit out the series, Golden State is still the favorite because of Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, but the Warriors' odds of winning drop dramatically to 68.7% with the series projected to extend to six or seven games. The Cavs are still not likely to win the series, but the prospects are far more realistic without Curry on the court draining three-pointers.


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To feed the dead, you first need pan de muerto
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Varieties of pan de muerto covered in sugar and sesame seeds and sugar skulls at La Migaja Mexican Bakery inside the Mi Rinconcito Mexicano restaurant in Miami, Fla., Oct. 28, 2021. The sweet Mexican bread is put on altars to honor, remember and feed dead family members crossing over on Día de los Muertos.
By The New York Times News Service Syndicate | wordpress@medianewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: November 1, 2021 at 9:56 a.m. | UPDATED: November 1, 2021 at 10:08 a.m.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Over the past week, Elizabeth Hernández has turned La Patrona Bakery into a frenetic pan de muerto operation, making dozens of round loaves topped with bony fingers.
This bread of the dead — similar in texture to challah and sprinkled with sugar or sesame seeds — is a staple of the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. The celebration on Nov. 1-2 aims to reunite the souls of the dead with the living.
"It's a symbol of their death, but at the same time, life," Hernández said in Spanish of the bakery's bread, which uses a recipe from Mexico City.
People eat the bread with their families, but it is also an essential offering on home altars, or ofrendas. The sweet-smelling bread sits alongside photos of the dead, and an array of their favorite foods and drinks, attracting and nourishing the souls who visit, said Michelle Téllez, a professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona.
By the time the holiday is over, the food usually doesn't have any smell or flavor because the dead have presumably eaten it, said Antonieta Mercado, a professor at the University of San Diego who has written about the history and significance of Día de los Muertos.
Beyond the Mexican diaspora, the holiday has found broader appeal in popular culture. The popularity of films like the 2017 Disney Pixar feature "Coco," which is set during Día de los Muertos, underscores the significance of the holiday and gets people to ask questions about the celebration, Mercado said, but it also comes with the risk that the cultural meaning may be lost.
While scholars generally agree that it originated with Mexico's Indigenous people, they debate how the living initially memorialized the dead. Some scholars, like Téllez, believe it was a celebration tied to the changing seasons. Others, like Mercado, associate it with the growing cycle of corn, when people asked the souls of the dead and the forces of nature to bring a good harvest.
After Spaniards began to convert Indigenous people to Christianity, the Indigenous celebration absorbed traditions from the Catholic All Saints' Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls' Day (Nov. 2).
"It's beautiful because you honor your ancestors," Mercado said. "For a lot of Latinx and Indigenous communities, their ancestors are a part of the community. They never leave, they just translate to another plane."
In 16th-century Mexico, Spaniards celebrated All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day with cemetery vigils, laying out flowers, candles and bread, said Stanley Brandes, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has researched Día de los Muertos. Pan de muerto owes its sweetness to the sugar brought to Mexico by the Spanish.
There are dozens of different types of pan de muerto, with bakers offering their own interpretations, based on where they live and where they're from.
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While Hernández of La Patrona Bakery uses anise seeds, Jaime Reynoso Pérez, an owner and baker at La Migaja Mexican Bakery inside the Mi Rinconcito Mexicano restaurant in Miami, uses orange blossom. His bread is also round, representing the circle of life. It pays tribute to the dead with pieces shaped like bones and a small circle in the middle to represent the skull. The bread, a recipe Reynoso Pérez said is like a hamburger bun and a concha combined, is covered in white sugar and tastes like a flower.
Reynoso Pérez, who is from Veracruz in Mexico, also makes another bread with sesame seeds and caritas, or little faces, he imports from Oaxaca. The caritas, sometimes representing the visage of an angel or the Virgin Mary, are made with dried pieces of dough that are decorated with vegetable paint. He places them in the center of another variety of pan de muerto.
"When it's your time to make it, you personalize it to the way you want to do it," Reynoso Pérez said in Spanish. He is preparing to sell about 800 loaves of bread for the holiday. "I try to be more classic and stick to the original because that's the flavor you look for when you're away from home to take you back. It brings back a lot of memories."
Pan de Muerto
Sugar skulls at La Migaja Mexican Bakery inside the Mi Rinconcito Mexicano restaurant in Miami, Fla., Oct. 28, 2021. The sweet Mexican bread of pan de muerto is put on altars to honor, remember and feed dead family members crossing over on Día de los Muertos.
Total time: 2 hours, plus 1 hour for rising
Yield: Three 7-inch rounds
You'll find this pan de muerto, or bread of the dead, at the center of the elaborate Day of the Dead altar festooned with sugared skulls, flowers and other mementos of the family's departed.
560 grams (4 cups) all-purpose flour, plus more as needed
100 grams (1/2 cup) plus 2 tablespoons sugar
29 grams (1 ounce) fresh cake yeast (available in some supermarkets and specialty food markets)
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons lard, softened, plus additional as needed
1 large egg white (optional)
1 tablespoon sesame seeds (optional)
1 tablespoon melted shortening (optional)
1 tablespoon sugar or cinnamon-sugar (optional)
1. Mound 560 grams of flour in a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup of the sugar and salt. Add yeast, breaking it up with your fingertips. Mix lightly.
2. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. In the well, add eggs and 1/2 cup of the lard. With your fingers or a wooden spoon, slowly draw flour into eggs and shortening until they're mixed into the flour. Gradually add the milk. The dough will be messy and very sticky.
3. Flour a work surface heavily, and have more flour ready to use. Turn dough onto the surface and begin to knead aggressively, sprinkling with flour liberally until dough is soft, smooth and supple, and rebounds after a touch. Divide into four equal pieces and form into smooth rounds. Allow to rest in a warm spot for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, grease a large baking sheet with lard.
4. Once they have rested, gently flatten three of the four pieces into 6-inch rounds, patting them around the edges so they retain a slight dome in the middle. Place them on the baking sheet several inches apart; if necessary, use more than one sheet. To the fourth piece, add remaining 2 tablespoons lard, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 2 tablespoons flour, kneading until well incorporated. This is for decorating the rounds with the traditional skull and crossbones; it will be supple but stiffer than the bread dough.
5. To make the crossbones decorations, divide the decorating dough into three equal sections. From one section, break off a ball about 1 inch in diameter and set aside. Divide the remaining part of that section into two, rolling each into a rope a few inches long, with some parts of the rope fatter than the others. (Do this by gently rolling the dough with your hand outstretched, with only the three middle fingers touching the dough, so that the dough between your fingers is puffier than the rest.) Cross the two "bones" in an "X" across a round of bread, and place the small ball of dough in the center. Repeat with remaining dough. Set the breads aside to rise for one hour. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 350 degrees.
6. The bread may be baked plain, or gently brushed with egg white and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Bake until browned and fragrant, about 45 minutes, or until it produces a hollow sound when tapped on the bottom. If baked plain, it may be brushed afterward with melted lard and dusted with sugar or cinnamon sugar. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Rescue mission continues for 75 missing at Shenzhen landslide site
Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2015 shows excavators and bulldozers working at the landslide site at an industrial park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Lu Hanxin)
Published December 28, 2015 at 1:57 PM
Updated December 28, 2016 at 3:12 PM
Rescue workers on Sunday continued to remove mounds of rubble and mud from the Hengtaiyu industrial park in Shenzhen City of south China's Guangdong Province after the major landslide on Dec. 20 that left dozens missing in the city.
More than 5,000 rescuers and over 700 excavators have been racing against time to remove the mud and locate buried buildings at the site. The landslide occurred on Dec. 20 when a mountain of construction waste collapsed and blanketed an area of about 380,000 square meters, burying or damaging 33 buildings, authorities said. A total of 75 people remain missing.
An official said the average depth of mud and debris is about 15 meters, and the rescuers aim to remove another 5 meters of mud by Dec. 30.
"Based on the current depth, we need to remove at least 4 meters of mud every day before we get close to the buried buildings," said Yu Wen, who was leading a search-and rescue team of the Hydropower Troops of the PLA Armed Police Force.
Light rain, which started falling on Saturday night, has hindered the cleanup operation, said Yu.
"It slows the bulldozers and excavators down, especially the bulldozers, which can easily become stuck in the mud and cannot work properly," said Yu.
Yu added that rescuers have stepped up efforts and are expected to reach most of the buried buildings in three days.
Police officials said they will work with the inspection team and vowed to investigate suspects and punish criminals in accordance with law.
Meanwhile, the city's health authority said five injured people have been discharged from hospital as of Monday and no epidemics occurred at the landslide site.
It added that 17 injured people were still being treated as of 4 p.m. Sunday.
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That's why I put this week's bake off in the too hard basket until today. In fact, I've whipped these up this afternoon, in the time between Sophie waking up and the kids getting home from school. And the longest part of the process was the actual baking time.
As you can see, they're a long way from perfect. I think I had air bubbles in my pastry bag. And finding a recipe that had good reviews was actually quite difficult. I went with a recipe that had two reviews (versus some with fifty or more), so statistically the chances were high that the recipe wouldn't work.


What I would like the next NEW Lunar game to be about.
Re: What I would like the next NEW Lunar game to be about.
Kei Shigema has admitted that he doesn't like thinking too deeply about the background, since he prefers letting fans discuss and debate amongst themselves over what things mean, the connections between the games, the history and legends, and so on.
The entrance to the mystic ruins remind me of Vane. Was there anywhere else in Lunar that used teleporters besides Vane?
Actually, Monde Luna, they could have built a ruin over the teleporters that were supposed to take you to the Frontier in TSS. It's been a LONG time since I've played TSS, but I do remember them being on the edge of the Frontier on the outside of the mountainous barrier.
True, although the notion of building a ruin is kind of amusing.
I'll stick with my theory that it's Taben's Tower.
I should have worded that better. I meant that maybe they built some kind of structure over it and after time passed, it fell into a ruin.
I dunno though. I always felt the Mystic Ruins were something that just wasn't visible in TSS.
GhaleonOne wrote: I should have worded that better. I meant that maybe they built some kind of structure over it and after time passed, it fell into a ruin.
The world may never know... At one point I had even talked myself into thinking it was the remains of the Goddess Tower but that was just as silly as any other idea I posted. I guess the Mystic Ruins are just a place Ghaleon likes to chill with his faries, strange dude.
Well seeing as how the Mystic ruins were built after the fall of Vane, it was constructed sometime after the events of Lunar 1. Probably a projected headed by someone who knew what happened or had first hand knowledge of what happened in Lunar 1. It probably was someone from Vane that built it.
It was obviously a warning to people to not let the mistakes of the past repeat themselves. Perhaps it was a monument to those darker days?
I'm basing all of this on the fact that their is a recording of the events of Lunar 1 at the top of the tower.
I think Ghaleon found it to be the closest thing to his time that he enjoyed being there.
What really bugs me is are the Blue Spire, the Sphinx, the Dragon Ruins, the Star Dragon Tower, and that tower that pops up in the epilogue (near Pentagulia's ruins).
I don't understand if Althena transported everyone by magic/dragon/dragonmaster then why the need for a tower on the Blue Star and a pair of towers on Lunar?
Aaron wrote: Well seeing as how the Mystic ruins were built after the fall of Vane, it was constructed sometime after the events of Lunar 1. Probably a projected headed by someone who knew what happened or had first hand knowledge of what happened in Lunar 1. It probably was someone from Vane that built it.
Right, and the Goddess Tower must've been built after the events of Lunar 1 because there's a recording of Luna in it in EB... oh, wait.
That logic isn't logical. There's nothing innate about the recording that was required in order for the tower to be built. If there had been other scenes of Lunar 1 throughout the tower, maybe, but one recording at the top of the tower says nothing about when the tower itself was made.
When does it say that Althena transported everyone "by magic/dragon/dragonmaster"? The reliefs at the beginning of the game show people metaphorically travelling to Lunar in ships; the remakes incorporated an actual ship of sorts. There are transporters all over the place requiring fountains. Why shouldn't a physical structure also be required?
Lucia explains that Althena used her magic to move everyone to Lunar. A physical structure is not required to teleport. Ghaleon could blink places, so could the 4 heroes in EB and so could Zophar. The White Dragon Wings also allowed people to warp regardless of location.
I'm pretty sure that the move from the Blue Star to Lunar was not instantaneous and they did have to actually travel to Lunar.
As for the Mystic ruins...I think that anything is possible. But, I think it was constructed after Lunar 1.
Just because the Goddess Tower has a recording doesn't mean the purpose of the Mystic Ruins was something other then to house a recording of Ghaleon's battle.
Aaron wrote: Lucia explains that Althena used her magic to move everyone to Lunar. A physical structure is not required to teleport. Ghaleon could blink places, so could the 4 heroes in EB and so could Zophar.
Zophar attacks Lucia and weakens the hell out of her, but where is he? Is he floating in the sky using mind powers to attack her and he's "off camera" to us? Is he an invisible entity that is always in all places and he's so confident that he opts not to attack Lucia again or anything until the end of the game?
I'd love to see Lunar 3 be about the next generation being cyberpunked RPG 1000 years later from Lunar 2.
This time it'd connect not only Earth, but also Blue Star in this story and gameplay, just like in Final Fantasy IV.
The next tiny dragon would be the blue one with the smart and wise characteristic, or the dark one with the ironic and badass characteristic(just like Nero in Lunar Knights(DS)).
As for the characters it'd be like Final Fantasy IV, one would be the dragonmaster, one the ninja(like Jean), one the priest(Ronfar) and the two would be twin magicians with the opposite magic powers(water-wind-fire-earth)(just like Porom and Palom - FFIV).
And of course the return of Ghaleon as the secret helper of theirs to assist them in their mission and in his knowledgement from the past.


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"Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler surprised the Bay Area on Thursday night, flying to his hometown to greet stunned crowds before screenings of his hit movie.
The Oakland native, who previously directed "Fruitvale Station" and "Creed," also showed up at the Metreon in San Francisco and AMC Bay Street 16 in Emeryville, according to social media reports.
Coogler waited until after the pre-movie trailers were over at the Grand Lake, an Art Deco movie house where he said he had watched films as a child. When the house lights went on and he was introduced by theater owner Allen Michaan, the crowd gave the director a thunderous ovation.
"Black Panther" is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, focusing on what had mostly been a fringe character since his comic books were introduced in 1966. The movie is expected to set box office records over the upcoming weekend.


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Le mont Mézenc  est un sommet montagneux d'origine volcanique situé au sud-est du Massif central, à la limite entre les départements de la Haute-Loire et de l'Ardèche. Il culmine à  d'altitude au cœur du massif du Mézenc. Il est situé sur la même ligne de crête que le mont Gerbier-de-Jonc, entre Velay et Vivarais, sur la ligne de partage des eaux entre l'Atlantique et la Méditerranée.

Toponymie
Le massif du Mézenc séparait le Velay de l'Helvie, les Velaves des Helviens. C'est ce fait qui lui a donné son nom dérivé du mot pré-latin mège, comme d'autres frontières primitives que sont Mèje, Mèjane, Montmège, Montméa, Medze, Mezenc, etc.

Le point culminant de ce massif s'appelle le Puei-Vuei, . Ce n'est que vers le milieu du  qu'on a commencé à appeler le Puei-Vuei mont Mézenc, notamment sous l'influence du volcanologue Montilien Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond.

Géographie

Situation

Le mont Mézenc est situé à cheval entre la Haute-Loire et l'Ardèche.

Topographie
Il est constitué de deux sommets distants d'un demi-kilomètre. Le sommet Sud est le plus élevé à  d'altitude, il est situé dans le département de l'Ardèche dont il est le point culminant, sur la commune de Borée. Le sommet Nord est surmonté d'une croix et culmine pour sa part à  d'altitude, à la jonction des communes de La Rochette, Chaudeyrolles et des Estables. Il s'agit du point culminant du département de la Haute-Loire et le plus haut sommet du rebord oriental du Massif central.

Géologie

Le Mézenc est un dôme de phonolite datant de 7 Ma. Il est entouré de plateaux basaltiques du même âge et d'autres dômes de phonolite ou de trachyte (appelés « sucs »). La montée du magma s'est faite progressivement à la faveur de fractures du socle en plusieurs paliers et petites chambres. L'absence de pyroclastite démontre l'absence d'éruptions cataclysmiques liées à la vidange de grandes chambres magmatiques.

Climat
L'hiver y est très rude en raison du vent qui abaisse la température. Les étés sont quant à eux courts et frais. Le vent fort et particulièrement froid (blizzard local), qui soulève la neige et peut contribuer à créer des congères importantes en hiver, s'appelle la burle.

Faune et flore
Le mont Mézenc présente une végétation de pelouse et de lande subalpine. Son versant sud en particulier offre un type de lande unique dans le Massif central caractérisée par des plantes comme le raisin d'ours, le Séneçon argenté ou le genévrier nain.

Au sommet du Mézenc sont présents Merle à plastron, Pipit spioncelle, Monticole merle-de-roche et, en hiver, Niverolle alpine, Accenteur alpin et Tichodrome échelette. Les forêts de conifères sont fréquentées par le Cassenoix moucheté, le Venturon montagnard et le Pic noir. Les flancs du mont, en dessous de la limite des arbres, abritent la Marmotte des Alpes, introduite dans les années 1980.

Histoire
Une croix monumentale en bois a été installée au sommet nord par les prisonniers français le 7 octobre 1945, après leur retour des camps de prisonniers en Allemagne. Cette croix, détruite par le vent en décembre 1953, a été remplacée par une croix métallique en 1954.

L'appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) fin gras du Mézenc (ou fin gras), devenue appellation d'origine protégée (AOP) est souvent associée au mont Mézenc. Il s'agit en fait du bœuf de Pâques qui est élevé sur le plateau du Mézenc.

Chaque année en septembre, la fédération de Haute-Loire du parti politique Les Républicains et son président Laurent Wauquiez organisent une ascension du mont Mézenc où est organisé un rassemblement de ses fidèles (à l'image de l'ascension de la roche de Solutré avec François Mitterrand).

Protection environnementale

Le mont Mézenc est classé zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique de type I sous le numéro  sur une surface de 408 hectares et fait partie d'un site d'importance communautaire Natura 2000 étendu sur une surface de .

Travaux de restauration des zones humides

Envahies par les épicéas, les mégaphorbiaies, habitats typiques des zones humides, sont menacées de disparaître de la forêt domaniale du Mézenc si aucune action n'est menée. Classées en zone Natura 2000, ces zones humides font l'objet de travaux de restauration  grâce au câble-mât qui visent la restauration et l'extension des mégaphorbiaies des sources du Lignon. L'ensemble de la zone de travaux est situé dans le périmètre de la réserve biologique dirigée du Mézenc donc l'objectif de production a été abandonné au profit de la protection des milieux. Jusqu'à ce jour, aucune technique d'exploitation acceptable pour l'environnement et économiquement supportable n'a pu être réalisée sur la zone. Mais l'ONF travaille avec des entreprises de montagne pour importer en Auvergne une nouvelle technique d'exploitation : le câble-mât qui permet d'exploiter des bois en zones peu accessibles ou sensibles.

Dans la culture
Le Mézenc et les sommets voisins apparaissent dans plusieurs épisodes de la série télévisée Kaamelott d'Alexandre Astier. En effet, les scènes où apparaît l'épée Excalibur, après que le roi Arthur l'a replacée dans son rocher d'origine, ont été tournées à proximité. Les scènes de la trilogie cinématographique ont ramené l'équipe de tournage sur les lieux en 2019.

Voir aussi

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 Mont Gerbier-de-Jonc
 Monts du Vivarais
 Fin gras du Mézenc
 Mézine

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Monts du Velay
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Exile and the Kingdom (2006) is the debut solo album from Canadian singer/songwriter Jeff Martin. The title is derived from the 1957 book of the same name by Albert Camus.

Track listing
All songs are written by Jeff Martin, except track 1 by Jeff Martin, Michael Lee and Ritesh Das

"World is Calling" – 5:24
"Butterfly" – 3:31
"Where Do We Go from Here" – 3:37
"Daystar" – 3:59
"Lament" – 4:34
"Angeldust"  – 4:51
"Black Snake Blues" – 3:32
"Stay inside of Me" – 3:40
"The Kingdom" – 6:22
"Good Time Song"  – 3:18

Personnel

Recording personnel
Produced by Jeff Martin
Executive Producer Michael Lee Jackson
Associate Executive producers: Dr. Michael Virro, Perry Tapanainen
Recorded & engineered by Nick Blagona
Assistant engineers: Evan Ritchie, Barry Nolan
Mixed by: Nick Blagona & Jeff Martin
Assistant mix engineer: Luke Fountain
All songs recorded at Caroline Studios, Durrus, County Cork, Ireland
All songs mixed at Metalworks Recording Studio, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Mastered by Nick Blagona at Metalworks Recording Studios
Published by JMartin Music (SOCAN)

Musicians
"World is Calling":
Jeff Martin – vocals, electric guitars, bass guitar, emulator synthesizer, dumbek
Ritesh Das – tabla, chant.
Michael Lee – drums.
Marc Oulette – String arrangement & composition
"Butterfly":
Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitar, Fender Telecaster B-bender, Hammond B3
Ritesh Das – udu
Michael Lee – drums
"Daystar":
Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitar, sitar, sarod, tanpura, hurdy-gurdy, piano
Ritesh Das – tabla, dholak, dunun, udu
Michael Lee – Drums
"Lament":
Jeff Martin – vocals,  Ellis 7 string resonator guitar, electric guitars, bass guitar, E-bow, emulator synth
Ritesh Das – tabla, dunun
Michael Lee – Drums
Evan Ritchie – manjira
"Angeldust":
Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, esraj emulator synth
Nick Blagona – shakers, hand drum
"Black Snake Blues":
Jeff Martin – vocals,  Ellis 7-string resonator guitar, bass guitar, banjo
Michael Lee – Drums
New Beginning Choral Ensenble
Rodney Appleby – choir vocal arrangement & conducting
"Stay inside of Me":
Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, mandolin, emulator synth
Jenny Laws – Vocals
"The Kingdom":
Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, Hammond B3, emulator synth
Ritesh Das – tabla, manjira
Michael Lee – Drums
Marc Oulette – string arrangement & composition
New Beginning Choral Ensemble
Rodney Appleby – choral vocal arrangement & conducting
Nick Blagona – tambourine
"Good Time Song":
Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars,  Ellis 7 string resonator guitar
Ritesh Das – table (yes, "table")
Larsen Liebig – double bass
Terry Scott – spoons

Charts

References

2006 albums
Jeff Martin (Canadian musician) albums
Shock Records albums


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Oldbury 'chemical leak': Families forced to flee homes after fire on Birmingham industrial estate
A father, who was evacuated with his young family, said this was the second fire at the factory in just a few months
A fire at a factory on the site is believed to have sparked a chemical leak (
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Families have been forced to flee their homes after a suspected chemical fire and ammonia leak on an industrial estate surrounded by houses.
Residents were urged to shut their windows as emergency crews scrambled to control the incident at an industrial estate in Oldbury, West Midlands.
Fire fighters with breathing equipment and a special hazardous unit were pictured outside the factory at around 7pm today.
A father, who was evacuated with his young family, said this was the second fire at the factory in just a few months.
Chris Daniels told the Mirror Online he didn't feel safe living near the factory and they have often had to shut their windows to stop fumes coming in.
Chris, whose home backs onto the factory, added: "At about 6.30pm we were just about to bathe the little one, and there was a knock at the door.
Fire fighters with breathing equipment and a special hazardous unit were pictured outside the factory (
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Resident Chris Daniels said they often had to shut their windows to stop the fumes from the factory coming in (
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"Someone in a high vis told us to close all our windows and doors as there had been a ammonia leak.
"Then 10 minutes later a fireman knocked the door saying we had to get out now for around an hour, so we packed some stuff and as we left another fireman said they didn't know how long.
"The whole estate was blocked off.
"What's worse is just a few months ago there was also a fire at the same factory.
"We really don't feel it's safe to have a housing development right behind the factory.
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"When we first moved in seven years ago we were told it was being knocked down for more houses."
"A lot of the time we have an awful rubber burning smell, which has been worse the last 12 months and another reason we question the safety issues of the factory
"Sometimes we have to shut the windows because the smell is that bad, which as you can imagine in the recent heatwave is not very nice."
West Midlands Ambulance Service tweeted: "There is currently a fire at an industrial site on Summertime Road in Oldbury.
People were rushed to safety from their homes at around 6.30pm today
"A number of houses are being evacuated and we're urging people to avoid the area and the residents to keep doors and windows shut."
West Midlands Police tweeted just before 7.30pm tonight: "We're currently supporting the firs brigade at a suspected chemical leak on an industrial site on Summerton Road, Oldbury.
"A number of homes are being evacuated and we are urging people to avoid the area."
West Midlands Fire tweeted before 7pm: "Green area of Oldbury, local residents are being treated with an incident in the rounds."
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50511, Dau's Garage, Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 125 S. Dodge (515) 295-5144
50010, Benson Motors, Inc., Renault, 5th & Douglas (515) 232-2462
51401, Lou Walsh Motors, Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, Hwy. 30 W. LeClark Rd. (712) 792-4352
50613, Jim Holdiman Motors Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 4325 University Ave. (319) 277-1210
52402, Bruce Mc Grath AMC/Jeep, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 4610 Center Point Rd. N.E. (319) 393-4610
51012, Holzhauer Motor Co. Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 505 West Main (712) 225-5713
52732, Heritage Motors Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 126 4th Ave. S. (319) 243-6100
51501, Town & Country Auto Center, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 3501 W. Broadway (712) 323-7137
52806, Kimberly AMC/Jeep/Renault, 625 W. Kimberly Rd. (319) 386-2701
50309, Des Moines AMC/Jeep Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 201 E. Locust (515) 288-2231
52001, Tegelers Inc., AMC/Jeep, 2307 Central (319) 583-9746
52001, University Import, Ltd., Renault, 3199 University Ave. (319) 583-6493
52747, Wilson Motor Co. Inc., AMC/Jeep, 510 5th St. (319) 785-4401
50533, Lyle's AMC/Jeep, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 1000 S. Commercial (515) 448-4375
52556, Sut Hill AMC/Jeep/Renault, Hwy. 34 W. Box 828 (515) 472-5181
52627, Midway Motors Inc., AMC, 1523 Ave. G. (319) 372-6521
50501, Clement Auto & Truck Inc., Jeep, 3001 5th Ave. S. (515) 576-3158
50438, Ollenburg & Neal Motors, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 395 W. 3rd St. (515) 923-2861
50441, Sorensen Motors Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 209-11 1 st Ave. (515) 456-4883
50125, Watters Autoland Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, Hwy. 65-69 N. (515) 961-7461 20
52240, Le Garage Inc., Renault, 110 Stevens Dr. (319) 338-6988
52240, Wagner Jeep, AMC/Jeep, 903 S. Riverside Dr. (319) 337-9673
50126, Scenic City Sales Inc., AMC/Jeep, 210 River St. (515) 648-4639
50138, Mathias Motors Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, Box 498 Hwy. 14 S. (515) 842-5921
52060, Bob's Auto Sales-Service, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 206 S. Olive (319) 652-5616
52301, Hogan Bros. Inc., AMC, 197 E. Hilton St. (319) 642-5561
50158, Braga Motor Co., AMC/Jeep, 908 North Ave. Box 596 (515) 752-3636
50401, Price Motors Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 808 S. Monroe (515) 423-8273
52641, J & J Motor Co. Inc., AMC/Jeep, Hwy 34 W. (319) 385-2819
52761, Krieger Motor Co., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 119 E. Mississippi Dr. (319) 263-5432
50201, Ron Willey Inc., AMC/Jeep, 905 6th St. (515) 382-2174
50659, Kramer Auto Sales, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 23 N. Locust Ave. (515) 394-2101
52645, Brunken Motor Co., Renault, Hwy. 34 E. Box 68 (319) 367-5214
50208, Newton Motor Coach Co., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 1800 1 st Ave. E. (515) 792-5242
50662, Mark Birdnow AMC/Jeep Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 841 S. Frederick (319) 283-4014
50219, Leydens Auto Sales, AMC/Jeep/Renault, 508 Main St. (515) 628-4405
50220, Terry Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 915 Railroad St. Box 240 (515) 465-5671
51103, Wilson Motor Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 407 W. 8th (712) 258-0167
50588, Peterson Motor Co., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 604 West Milwaukee (712) 732-3640
50677, Yarcho Motor Co., AMC/Jeep/Renault, 305 E. Brewer Ave. (319) 352-2734
50595, Janson's AMC, 800 Des Moines St. (515) 832-3613
50273, Reed Motors Inc., AMC/Jeep/Renault, N. Hwy. 169 Box 312 (515) 462-1525


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From Rookie Extraordinaire To The Hall Of Fame
Aug 15, 2020Posted by james
Earlier this month, I wrote about the death of Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman from a pitched ball during a game on August 16, 1920 at the Polo Grounds. Following Chappie's funeral, dazed Indians players, management and fans somehow continued their emotional drive for a pennant.
At first, the Indians placed several other roster players at shortstop. But, no one could play the position as well as Chappie. So, Indians owners dug into their minor league system for a 21-year-old who was a standout on the New Orleans Pelicans. Joe never had seen a major league game. In fact, he never had visited a major league city. By his own admission, Joe never had ventured outside of the south and now he was selected to replace a baseball icon in Cleveland during a pennant race.
The game of baseball was teetering. Soon after the death of Chappie, evidence emerged that the 1919 World Series had been fixed by gamblers and certain members of the Chicago White Sox. What became known as the Black Sox Scandal pulled another dark cloud over baseball as the Indians, Yankees and White Sox fought for a pennant.
The Indians eventually grabbed the American League flag and then headed to Brooklyn for a World Series that had been a baseball dream for Ray Chapman. As the series opened, The Cleveland Plain Dealer featured a three-column by eight-inch drawing of an Indians ballplayer holding his cap to his side while leaning on a bat. The player was gazing toward a giant pennant waving on the horizon. Looking down from the clouds was Ray Chapman. The inscription above him read, "Carry On." In a reference to the gambling scandal, the caption below the illustration read, "It pays to play clean."
Cleveland won the championship five games to two in a best-of-nine series to conclude an exciting yet painful baseball season. But, that's not the end of the story. I am sure you are wondering about that young shortstop who replaced Chappie.
Joe certainly was an emerging star, but he made his share of rookie mistakes. He had only four hits in the series and he made three errors. Fate, though, looked upon Joe to close out the season for the Cleveland World Champs. At 3:57 p.m. in the seventh game, he fielded a grounder and flipped the ball to the second baseman for the final out.
Joe was known for patience and work ethic. He played 10 years at shortstop and third base for Cleveland and then another three seasons for the Yankees. He played 1,103 consecutive games from September 13, 1922 through April 30, 1930. Joe's lifetime batting average was .312 and he gathered more than 2,200 hits. He always put the ball in play, striking out only 114 times in 7,132 career at-bats for an average of one strikeout every 62.5 at-bats. Joe was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame during 1977.
Joe Sewell excelled as a major league baseball player when, at a tender age, he was asked to replace the beloved Ray Chapman under difficult circumstances for his team, the city of Cleveland and for baseball. A Cleveland sports writer recognized the player's upside soon after he joined the Indians, writing near the end of the 1920 regular season, "Once more, doff the chapeau to Joey Sewell, rookie extraordinaire."
Remembering Fun-Loving Chappie
Though none of us recall one of the saddest days in American sports, all of us should pause for a moment on August 16 to reflect on the tragedy that occurred in Manhattan 100 years ago.
~ James C. Metzger
Chappie was known as a happy-go-lucky guy, always laughing, smiling and singing. Everyone who met him loved him. He wasn't just a Major League Baseball player. He was a star.
All Chappie wanted was to bring a pennant and a World Series championship to Cleveland. If this could be accomplished now, Chappie hinted that this might be his final season as a ballplayer. At the age of 29, he planned to follow a business career with his new father-in-law's company.
On August 16, 1920, the Cleveland Indians were in New York for a tense three-game series with the Yankees as the teams battled for first place. During the subway ride aboard the elevated train to the Polo Grounds for the first game, Chappie tried to ease the pressure on his teammates. The team had run into bad luck, their shortstop said, because the team had stopped singing as a group. Right there, in the subway car, Chappie began to sing "Dear Old Pal o' Mine" in his sweet tenor voice.
Later that day, Ray Chapman, one of Cleveland's baseball icons, was sprawled on the ground near home plate. He had been struck in the head with a pitch from Yankees pitcher Carl Mays. Chappie died in a hospital the next morning.
Many who arrived at the stadium for the scheduled second game of the series had heard about the events of the previous day but they did not yet know that Chappie had died. At the Polo Grounds gates, league officials and detectives told the fans that the game had been postponed. Hundreds of fans walked to the undertaker's establishment, James F. McGowan at 153rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, where the player's body had been transported from the hospital.
That evening, Chappie's remains were brought to Grand Central Terminal by his widow and team officials. The casket was enclosed in a white pine box. On top was a bouquet of flowers. As the casket was carried through the terminal, hundreds of New Yorkers stopped during their evening rush home. Men removed their hats. Women wept.
News about the death of a major league baseball player from a pitched ball spread across the country. In a Cleveland newspaper, the words of a writer explained the sorrow: "Lawyers forgot to talk of cases, ministers found it hard to concentrate on their work, politicians neglected their interests for the time being, workmen stood at their tools, and all thought of Chapman and his loss."
Across the city, flags hung at half-mast. At the corner of East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue, where the paperboy known as "Izzy" featured the baseball scores for his customers, game results did not appear that day on the boy's poster. He was devastated.
Hundreds of people gathered at Cleveland's Union Station to await the arrival of the Lake Shore Limited from New York. The crowd watched quietly as the widow and her father stepped from the train along with the casket. Following a church funeral, Ray Chapman was laid to rest on August 20 at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
On September 3, when Cleveland again played at its home stadium, a lone bugler walked to the shortstop area of the infield at League Park. Fans removed their hats. Members of the Cleveland and visiting Detroit clubs stood at attention on the field. A sailor, a member of the Cleveland naval reserves that was Chapman's old unit, lifted the bugle to his lips and played taps.
Ray Chapman is the only Major League Baseball player to die from an injury received during a game. The official boxscore from the August 16, 1920 game at the Polo Grounds simply recorded the incident as "Hit by pitched ball—By Mays (Chapman.)"
The epilogue to this story will be featured in the post to appear later this month.


David Fincher has revealed he may consider shooting the other two films in the Millennium trilogy back-to-back.
The Social Network director – who releases the first of the movies, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, this month – was asked if he would consider filming the rest of the Stieg Larsson series at the same time.
He told Collider: "Yes, the second two books are very much one story and it doesn't seem prudent to me to go to Sweden for a year, come back for a year, put out the second one. Go to Sweden for a year. Come back for a year.
Rooney, 26, has previously admitted that shooting the film, which also stars Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist, took its toll on her physically and mentally.
"The physical challenge was probably even more shocking than the emotional, because there were lots of days that we were doing stunts, with many takes, over and over. It was an amazing experience and I know that I have learnt so much. I am just not quite sure what that is yet," she said.


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'Unsightly' ship vexes city
ZACK McDONALD | The News Herald
PANAMA CITY � After spending upward of $100,000 to remove more than 20 derelict boats from Watson Bayou, Panama City has been left with one behemoth of an eyesore, city officials said.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contained several errors. The El Dorado is not an abandoned vessel and has not been deemed derelict by Panama City officials. The boat, which is legally docked, is not involved in a hurricane dispute, has no ties to an Arkansas bank and the owner has not been asked to move it by law enforcement or city officials.
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El Dorado, also called the Sun Dancer, is formerly a luxury cruise liner transferred from the St. Andrews Marina to the Millville waterfront in 2011. It was docked, moored � and has remained there ever since.
�It�s almost in one of those no-man�s-land situations,� said William Whitson, Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) director. �We are trying to be as patient and cooperative as we can, but at some point our patience runs out.�
The CRA initiated the cleanup efforts of derelict boats in St. Andrew Bay in 2011 with $7,500 to remove four boats. After the city obtained a $75,000 grant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) through the Florida Boating Improvement Program, the city removed several deserted boats throughout St. Andrew Bay.
At the time, officials estimated 52 boats were abandoned in the bay. The goal was linked with the Millville Waterfront Vision Plan, which was implemented after Millville was designated a Waterfronts Florida Partnership Community. The plan identified the most pressing priorities, such as addressing blight, revitalizing the community in Millville�s historic waterfront character and developing the Watson Bayou Waterfront Park.
The 288-foot fishing pier recently was completed and is a major element of the park, which acts as a location for public events, festivals, markets and similar community activities.
However, looking out over the water from the fishing pier, the El Dorado takes up its share of the scenery.
The owner �had been trying to work with us,� Whitson said. �But now the boat is there, it�s unsightly and it needs to find a new home.�
Whitson said the El Dorado is not breaking any laws.
�The boat is there legally; it just happens to be unsightly,� Whitson said.
The dock where it is tied off is property of Watson Landings, a limited liability corporation that lists Jack Williams as its registered agent. Williams could not be reached for comment for this story.
Code enforcement officials said the state took over derelict boat operations and the owner began attaining permits to renovate El Dorado.
Whitson said the city�s achievements in Millville were substantial and the CRA is working on grants and building up funds to further the Millville waterfront.
�At some point we are going to have to get serious about options we have because I don�t think it is going to stay there long term,� Whitson said.
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We can't wait to hear Halsey's next album.
Halsey has revealed that her new album is coming this year, sending fans into a complete frenzy.
The announcement came after the singer opened up about the record on Twitter.
Then, a fan asked if the album would be coming out this year.
Halsey quote-tweeted it and said it was.
Many fans responded in excitement to the news.
Halsey's upcoming album will be the singer's first full-length release since 2017's hopeless foundtain kingdom.
The singer was recently announced as an artist performing at Woodstock's 50th anniversary event. She took to Twitter to comment on the divisive opinions over the lineup.
Halsey also recently dropped "11 Minutes" with YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker that we haven't been able to stop listening to since it's release. You can watch the video for that below.
How excited are you to hear new music from Halsey? Sound off in the comments below!


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A Wonderful Experience in Yazd
The desert city of Yazd, located about 620 kilometers from Tehran or 310 from Esfahan, is an old town with a rich history. There are many things to do and see in and around this fascinating city, including significant Zoroastrian sites, the historic city of Yazd with its still-inhabited mud-brick dwellings, and the vast expanse of sand-dunes and desert activities. Along with its laid-back atmosphere and predictably dry weather, it comes as no surprise that Yazd is a popular tourist destination; there are several travel agencies with English speakers in the main town, with some goods and services even priced in euros. Two friends and I made a last-minute plan to go to Yazd over a 4-day weekend, and it quickly became one of my favourite Iranian destinations.
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Hotels in Yazd, The First Adobe City of the World
Yazd is a city deep in the dry-lands of Iran with the minimum amount of rain or snow in a year which most likely would have turned this city into hot ruins over its 5000 years of history. However, being located around a hot desert has its own perks and it's lead to the people of Yazd mastering the art of architecture to survive the harsh environment. For this reason, Yazd has been called a marvel of adobe engineering and mud-brick houses and walls and wind catchers. Today's well-known hotels in Yazd have mostly renovated remnants or of yesterday's unparalleled traditional Persian houses built for Khan's or noblemen. A trip to Iran can only be announced "remarkable and indelible" if you book a room in one of these Yazd hotels, which, by the way, have more to offer than just mud-brick walls and cozy yards.
1 day in Yazd – where to go and what not to miss
I first went to Yazd in mid-summer 2016. We arrived on an overnight train from Kashan in the early morning. The beautiful city of Yazd was still sleeping. It was day 6 of our intense 12-day vacation and we were in need of rest too.
Yazd: The Eternal Civilization
Yazd is one of the rare places in the world where you can taste the still alive and dominant flavor of a civilization that has flourished for millennia. Located in terrain and more arid and forbidding than the deserts of Nevada, this oasis is still breathing and shining thanks mostly to the very unique and sophisticated technology invented by the Persian people sometime in the early first millennium BC to guarantee not only a reliable supply of water, but also a sustainable peace between the people of different areas and/or different religions.
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Mel Kiper: Malik WIllis is a 'Right-Handed Version of Michael Vick'
Nick Farabaugh
Malik Willis and the Steelers have plenty of noise surrounding them with a little over a month left before the NFL Draft. From many perspectives, it makes a ton of sense. Willis has a phenomenal arm, great athleticism, and intangibles that put him through the roof.
Still, however, those same qualities are what could make him less available to Pittsburgh in the draft as well. Even though ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. mocked Willis to Pittsburgh in his latest mock draft, he acknowledges the talents of Willis. When speaking to the media on a conference call on Wednesday, Kiper still said Willis in the Top-10 does not make sense, as he would rather wait later in the first round to take a swing.
"If you're picking in the top 10, that's way too rich for me," Kiper said. "I sought this from my friends in the league who don't need quarterbacks, but they don't have any quarterbacks ranked in the Top 10. But it only takes on quarterback-needy team to jump on it, obviously. I'm just not sure if that guy is in this class."
Kiper pointed out obvious flaws in a team like Atlanta or Detroit spending their Top-10 pick on a quarterback in this draft would bring. With Kenny Pickett and Willis ranked as his 19th and 20th players overall respectively, Kiper sees that as a spring for teams later in the first round to take those guys. Still, Kiper believes that teams could see the upside with Willis and swing for him in the Top-10.
"Obviously, he interviews unbelievable," Kiper said. "He's got the rocket arm. I compared him yesterday to, he's kind of a right-handed version of Michael Vick in a lot of ways. I could definitely see Carolina at six, Atlanta at eight, Seattle at nine taking Malik Willis. He would be the one because you're rolling the dice on talent, you're betting on the talent. I'd prefer him to go somewhere like New Orleans at eighteen or Pittsburgh at twenty, but it only takes one team."
Regardless of if Willis drops to 20 or the Steelers have to trade up for him, the comparison to Vick is interesting. Given how dynamic Vick was at his peak, Willis could offer some very real appeal to teams much further in front of Pittsburgh as a result.
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