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Pebble Beach Auctions 2013: Lamborghini Urraco and Jarama
Urraco and Jarama: Italian for 20 cylinders of headaches.
By David Traver Adolphus
For years, I've been putting the Lamboghini Urraco and Jarama on "Budget Supercar" and "Forgotten Exotics" lists, but I've always conveniently left out the fact that even if you were the kind of masochist to buy a lesser-known Lamborghini, your biggest problem in the first place would be actually finding one.
The two cars have a lot in common: They were introduced within a year of each other in the early 1970s and have recognizably similar flying-wedge styling by Marcello Gandini. They served different purposes, though, and a 350-hp V12 1972 Jarama was Lamborghini's big GT, a replacement for the Islero. The Jarama cost around $23,000, about four times more than a V12 Jaguar E-type. The Urraco was a Ferrari Dino fighter. The V8 in this top-spec 1976 P300 version made 265 hp, and it sold for about the same, which was dead on with its Dino competition and not much more than the then-new V12 XJ-S.
Lamborghini built many more Urracos than Jaramas, but due to decades of low values and high costs, they've mostly evaporated—it's hard to justify pouring repair money into a car that isn't worth much. Look at those specs, though, you realize that someday, the same rarity, combined with performance and the Lamborghini name, would inevitably start to raise prices. As RM Auctions consignments, both of these models will go up for sale without reserve in Monterey this weekend. RM estimates the Urraco will sell for $60,000–$80,000 and the Jarama, which is one of six built with really cool double glass roof panels, for $115,000–$130,000.
Unlike the seven- and eight-figure cars offered in Monterey, there's little chance these are going to end up in a museum. I'm really hoping they go to the same person—someone who will commute to work in the Urraco and drive the Jarama to the grocery store on the weekends. They're cars only an enthusiast will appreciate, in all their bizarre, heartbreaking Italian magnificence. Stop and lend a hand when you see the hood open on the side of the road.


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Bainbridge Little Theatre puts on The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Published 4:14 pm Tuesday, December 3, 2019
By Carolyn Iamon
The cast of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe all smile at their practice on Monday evening.
A classic piece of children's Christian literature, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is the production chosen by Bainbridge Little Theatre for its annual Christmas holiday show this December. It opens this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and continues its run each night on Friday and Saturday before closing with a Sunday, Dec. 8 matinee at 2:30 p.m.
It is one of the seven novels for children written by C.S. Lewis contained in "Chronicles of Narnia," and has a magical theme.
Four young children of a London family were sent to the country to live with an old professor during the days London was undergoing nightly bombing by the Germans during World War II .
As the children explored their new surroundings they discovered a large wardrobe. Upon entering it they found themselves in a fantasyland where animals talk and a magical lion named Aslan fights against the evil White Witch, Jadis, who represents the power of Satan. The Lion symbolizes all the goodness of Jesus and Christianity.
It is basically a story of love, faith, courage and giving, with its ultimate triumph of good over evil.
The show is being directed by Kier Klepzig who has held many leading roles in BLT productions; but this is his first time to direct a show. He said he was eager to work on this one, saying, "It's a story everyone knows and loves."
It stars a magical group of 28 youthful actors, many of whom are convincingly portrayed as animals thanks to creative costuming.
Aslen, the Lion, is portrayed by Stevie Hall, while Isabella Beam is the White Witch. The four children are Payton Staples, Kate Johnson, Brooke Phillips and Cooper Genovar. Other roles are filled by Micah Langdon, Sheila Herendeen, Krysti Ramer, John Ingram, Preston Folsom, Layne Lawrence, Kodi Lawrence, Shjy'Tavian Jenkins, Kodi Lawrence, Jake Lawrence, Alyssa Johnson, Kate L. Bradleigh, Trent Lawrence, Hannah Lewis, Selena Jenkins, Amerie McLendon, Aiden Herendeen, Gabriel Moon, Jaden Beam, and Nikki Thompson.
Rachael Crager is the stage manager who holds it all together and Sterling Widner is in charge of lighting.
Tickets are available at the door 30 minutes before curtain time, or reservations can be made by visiting www.bainbridgelittletheatre.com or by email: bainbridgelittletheatre@gmail.com.
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Severe thunderstorms cause an average of 5.4 billion dollars of damage in one year in the United States. There were over 600 deaths in 2011.
A new study published in the Nature Partner Journals looks at where the Tornadoes are happening. Tornado frequency in certain locations appears to be shifting since 1979.
The study by Vittorio A. Gensini and Harold E. Brooks shows there has been a decrease in tornadoes across the Central United States and an increase in frequency across the Midwest and Southeast.
The main decrease across Texas comes during the months of March, April, and May across North Texas and the Texas Panhandle. There was an increase in tornado frequency across eastern Oklahoma. The rest of the Oklahoma remains about the same.
However, it is important to note that on average Texas sees the most tornadoes out of any state during the month of May. This is the peak tornado month for Tornado Alley. An average May means 43 Tornadoes.
Texas does cover a lot of ground. The next closest state is Kansas with 36 and Oklahoma with 27 tornadoes between the years of 1989 and 2013. Even though this area may be seeing a downward trend, it doesn't mean these states are seeing the least amount of tornadoes.
"None of us should think that this means we are less at risk for tornadoes here in Oklahoma and North Texas," Warning Coordination Meteorologist Rick Smith said.
Smith works for the National Weather Service in Norman Oklahoma.
"It only takes one, and that even years considered to be quiet for tornadoes (like 2013) can be very impactful," Smith said.
Overall there was an increase in Tornado reports between 1980 and the early 2000s. Tornado reporting was organized in 1950, however computers capable of producing the Significant Tornado Parameter (STP) didn't exist until 1979.
STP is a computer model used to analyze an environment and predict the likelihood of a Tornado. The environment and actual storm reports since 1979 were analyzed for this study.
STP increases across the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast. There is a downward trend in the Southern Plains. This leads to a potential shift in the location for tornado frequency.
This is the first time these trends have really been researched at this level.
The environment and tornado reports show a decreasing trend in tornadoes across parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and northeast Colorado.
In contrast signs show an increase in tornadoes across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
It is not clear if the shift in tornado frequency is because of climate change.


2 round tables discussions with the format of mini-workshop for a selection of young scientists (younger than 35) to meet established, world renowned scientists (see below) on a face to face basis for guidance and/or discussion of specific aspects of their current research. The candidates are expected to submit a case, by writing an abstract describing the issue/problem they wish to discuss. The round table is open to 12 young scientists submitting a case (6 time slots for each table) and 30 young scientists in the audience, again split between tables. The two round tables will separately focus on two themes in hydrology (experts and topics will change each year).
PhD candidates and early career postdoctoral researchers who wish to seek the advice of a high profile scientist in their field. Selection will be determined by this years invited scientists on the relevance of the case problems presented. Special attention will be paid to candidates coming from developing countries.
Each selected candidate discusses his case with the expert along a 15-minutes time-slot. The discussion is open to all the scientists submitting a case and all the scientists sitting in the audience (who must have submitted a case to that topic to be an audience member).
The interested candidates are kindly requested to submit a 200 words abstract of the case they wish to present to Dr. Jim Freer, jim.freer@bristol.ac.uk, by January 31, 2009. The selection of the presented case will be done by preferring problems that lend themselves to the mini-workshop form. Some pre-discussion of the material may be requested from the invited scientists before the event.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 17:30-19:00 in an EGU splinter meeting room to be communicated later.
Keith Beven has been at Lancaster University since 1985, and also currently teaches at Uppsala University and EPFL, Lausanne. He has previously work at the Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, and the Universities of Leeds and Virginia. His work as a hydrologist has been recognized with the award of the John Dalton medal of the European Geophysical Society in 2001 and the Horton Award and Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union. He has published over 300 journal papers and is listed by ISI as Highly Cited in the areas of both Ecology/Environment and Engineering. Other international awards include the 2002 Linné Award Lecture at Uppsala University; the 2004 American Geophysical Union Langbein Award Lecture; the Belgium Francqui Foundation Chair at K.U. Leuven in 1999/2000; and the Konung Carl XVI Gustafs Gästprofessor i Miljövetenskap (King of Sweden's Visiting Professor in Environmental Research) for 2006/2007. He has previously held visiting chair positions at UC Santa Barbara, USA (1996); and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (1997, 2002 and 2008). He is sole author of a text on Rainfall-Runoff Modelling (Wiley, 2001, with paperback edition in 2003) that has recently been translated into Chinese. A text on Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future? was published by Routledge in July, 2008. He was invited to prepare the first in a series of books of Benchmark Papers (with commentary) for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (2006) and has published five other edited books. He is an Associate Editor for Hydrological Processes, and on the editorial board of Advances in Water Resources and J. Forecasting.
Professor Andrea Rinaldo is an eminent researcher who made outstanding contributions to the science of hydrology. Andrea has covered an exceptionally wide range of research topics within hydrology and Earth's system science, such as transport processes in the hydrologic cycle, fluvial geomorphology, tidal geomorphology and dynamics and eco-geomorphological studies in coastal and marine systems. His research achievements in all these fields are outstanding. His path-breaking work in the areas of transport of solutes in porous formations and of hydrogeomorphology may best serve to illustrate his exceptional contributions to hydrology. In the first area Andrea, with students and collaborators, has provided original theoretical formulations, solutions and high accuracy numerical studies of the stochastic transport equation which are now a reference in the field. He has published more than 150 refereed publications out of ~ 250 total. See also Rodriguez-Iturbe, I. & A. RINALDO, Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997.


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Even legendary creative directors start somewhere.
Ben Priest, the outgoing group chief creative officer at Adam & Eve/DDB, recalls the first film he ever made at the start-up he co-founded a decade ago.
Adam & Eve's first film was a 30-second TV spot for Cadbury's Chocolate Digestives. Priest says he doesn't think the ad is representative of the work the agency became known for – beautifully crafted, emotive advertising typified by campaigns such as John Lewis Christmas.
Yet his first project offers lessons for creatives trying to make their mark: "Don't grip it too tightly," Priest says. "Get busy, make stuff, don't worry too much if it's going to define you."
Priest is leaving Adam & Eve/DDB and the advertising industry for good this week. Read his last interview with Campaign here, on creativity, entertainment and avoiding obscurity.


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Isaac de Camondo (1851-1911) Isaac de Camondo, Moïse's first cousin and his elder by nine years, was born in Constantinople in 1851. He arrived in France with his parents at the age of eighteen. He was involved in the family business at an early age, becoming the bank's agent then General Consul of Turkey from 1891 to 1895 – and thus a prime link between his family and the Ottoman power. From 1894 he began to distance (...)
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Beach Slang
A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
by Ian Cohen
Beach Slang's earnest angst still makes for an excellent group therapy session.
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"Punks in a Disco Bar" — Beach SlangVia SoundCloud
If you're familiar with any Beach Slang song, you've pretty much already heard A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings. That's kind of the point of Beach Slang. James Alex speaks almost exclusively of being young, loud, and wild to reacquaint listeners with the dormant emotions they once felt were inextricable from formative moments: discovering the Replacements, playing in a high school band, making out on the filthy couch at your first punk rock show. He yells lyrics like, "The radio is loud and wild, but I'm too drunk to spin the dial," one of the more *subtle *nods to the 'Mats. Meanwhile, the main riff of "Spin the Dial" is an almost verbatim recall of their own song "Punk or Lust." It too has a glorious, defiant chorus that shouts down every impulse to think critically about a record called *A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings. *
This balance between my brain and my heart has been ongoing since Beach Slang's debut single, "Filthy Luck." It was one of modern indie rock's most impressive declarations of intent and the resulting 2014 EP Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? was so fully-formed, it threatened to make any subsequent Beach Slang music redundant. They quickly turned out a darker, more diverse rendering of their pub-rock sound later that year with Cheap Thrills on a Dead End Street*, *and the exact same pattern is playing out with Beach Slang's LPs. A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings follows the urgency and coherence of The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us by pushing Beach Slang towards opposite extremes: "Atom Bomb" and "Wasted Daze of Youth" are frenetic and chaotic ragers that stop short of expressing the actual rage that may have went into them. "All Fuzzed Out" is the template for the best songs here, the ones that are slower, longer and surprisingly autumnal. It taps into shoegaze and New Romantic influences that seem unexpected but were nonetheless telegraphed on their mixtape of cover songs.
But for all of their attempts to slightly expand their reach, Beach Slang's blinkered perspective continues to draw a thick line around those who love this kind of rock'n'roll and those who have no interest whatsoever. While Alex's unyielding earnestness is a major part of their appeal, it's also the most divisive aspect of Beach Slang and the mere decision to call this album *A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings—*even if it is earned—calls into question whether he's truly operating without pretense. And if there's even a sliver of doubt about it, Beach Slang are basically unlistenable.
Though Alex claims he's telling the stories of his fans on *A Loud Bash, *the ones from "Young Hearts," "Wasted Daze of Youth" and "Future Mixtape for the Art Kids" sure sound like his own stories told on "Young & Alive," "Ride the Wild Haze" and "Bad Art and Weirdo Ideas." Alex recently opened up about the deep adolescent trauma and abandonment issues at the root of "Punks in a Disco Bar," but the lyrics barely hint at it. Despite Alex's claims that his shoot-first songwriting style holds nothing back, it may actually have the opposite effect.
Yet, the impulse to question Alex's sincerity is necessary to create an environment in which Beach Slang can thrive. Similar over-the-top acts like PUP and Pkew Pkew Pkew contrast their anthemic punk rock with an abject lyrical misery that makes it clear their shitty circumstances are a direct result of loving anthemic punk rock too much. But Beach Slang are incurable romantics and when their best songs hit their mark, as many of them do here, other forms of music seem woefully non-committal. This stuff isn't just on the nose; the effect is more like what Prodigy described on "Shook Ones, Pt. 2": "Rock you in ya' face/Stab your brain with your nose bone." Of course, that can only happen so much before you become numb to it. For all of its subtle improvements, the choruses don't quite soar as high on A Loud Bash as before. And while their triumphant debut ended with "Dirty Lights," perhaps the best song Beach Slang has ever written, this album's closer "Warpaint" is almost certainly their worst, a "Save Your Generation" pastiche that confirms the wisdom of keeping Alex's vocals lower in the mix throughout the record.
After all, it's difficult to resist the impulse to be embarrassed on Alex's behalf. In recent interviews, Alex name-checked John Hughes, Kerouac, and Bukowski as writing influences—a 42-year old man completely unaware that those three are often used as fodder for jokes about try-hard high school boyfriends. And yet, none of them really loom over A Loud Bash: there are none of the *Pretty in Pink *tropes that have sustained syncable faux-indie pop for decades, none of the misanthropic navel-gazing of Kerouac—and Alex certainly doesn't share Bukowski's attitudes towards women. Yes, there's a song called "Hot Tramps," but it's likely a Guided By Voices homage. It contains one of Alex's most genius lines: "Your arms are like a car crash I want to die in."
For all of their punk rock advocacy, Beach Slang are really just an atypical twee band—how else to describe their glorification of clumsy, endearing adolescence? Everything about them should make a cynical music consumer wince: Alex getting onstage looking like Angus Young on prom night and yelling, "We're here to punch you right in the heart!" and reading fan poetry and covering the most well-known songs of his most obvious influences. It's certainly curative for Alex, being able to relive the best parts of his teen years without having to endure the abuse and loneliness. And there's a poignancy to Beach Slang that courses through every second of A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings that explains why they might even be necessary: It works best as group therapy, a 30-minute reprieve from the pervasive judgment of adulthood. Is that lifestyle really sustainable or really any way to truly live? Here's the first chorus on the album: "I hope I never die." Simply believe that James Alex believes it and you might, too.


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Deux-Chaises est une commune française située dans le département de l'Allier, en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Ses habitants sont appelés les Deux-Chaisois et les Deux-Chaisoises.

Géographie
Deux-Chaises est située sur la route départementale 945, de Moulins à Montmarault, au sud de l'ancien chef-lieu de canton, Le Montet. Le centre du bourg se trouve décalé à l'est de cette route ancienne qui reliait Moulins à Montluçon et qui a donné son nom au quartier situé au bord de la route (Le Grand-Chemin) ; la route porte le nom de route du Grand-Chemin dans la traversée de Deux-Chaises.

Presque parallèlement à la D 945, mais à environ  à l'ouest, avec la même orientation nord-sud, la route Centre-Europe Atlantique (A79, ancienne N 79) traverse la commune ; un échangeur dessert Deux-Chaises.

Communes limitrophes
Ses communes limitrophes sont :

Urbanisme

Typologie
Deux-Chaises est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (95,9 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (96 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante : prairies (76,2 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (11,5 %), terres arables (8,2 %), forêts (2,6 %), zones urbanisées (0,9 %), zones industrielles ou commerciales et réseaux de communication (0,6 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
Deux-Chaises fait partie de l'aire linguistique du bourbonnais d'oïl.

Histoire
Deux-Chaises, Duabus Casis (802), du latin duae casae, « deux maisons », est une très ancienne paroisse, concédée à l'abbaye de Saint-Denis en 636 et restituée à cette abbaye en 1082. Elle figure dans les chartes de 636, 802 et 1082 sous le nom de villa et ecclesia de Duabus Casis.

Politique et administration
À la suite du redécoupage des cantons, Deux-Chaises fait partie du canton de Souvigny.

Population et société

Démographie
Les habitants de la commune sont appelés les Deux-Chaisois et les Deux-Chaisoises.

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 Église Saint-Denis, église romane du .

 L'étang de Chaume, à l'extrémité occidentale de la commune. En ce lieu se passaient la majorité des bals de la commune et des environs. Très populaire dans les années 1970-1980.
 Mines de charbon. Une mine de charbon (houille) fut exploitée à partir du  au lieu-dit Modère (au nord-est du bourg), une autre fut exploitée plus tard à Mondry (sur la , route de Treban).
 Élevage « Les Lamas du Tilloux » : une centaine de lamas vivent dans cet élevage, qui peut être visité (à proximité de la , au sud du bourg). Parmi les produits dérivés du lama, on trouve des produits tissés, gants, chaussettes, bonnets, pelisses, etc.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 René Fontaine (né à Deux-Chaises en 1946) : maître chocolatier, meilleur ouvrier de France en 1976.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de l'Allier

Liens externes
 Deux-Chaises sur le site de l'Institut géographique national (archive)

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
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 Cartes

Références

Commune dans l'Allier

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ITVX boosts investment in digital-first content
The launch of ITVX, as a combined SVOD and AVOD offer to replace ITV Hub later this year, will boost ITV's digital first commissioning strategy.
"We are investing significantly in new and exclusive programmes which will be free to stream, and also in technology and product design to make the viewer experience and interface a premium one on ITVX" says Rufus Radcliffe, ITV's Managing Director of Streaming,
ITV will spend £20 million pounds on digital-first content for the new platform this year and £160 million pounds in 2023.
Until the launch of ITVX later this year, ITV Hub will continue to be the free streaming home of ITV, with ongoing plans to scale up the amount of content on the service in the run up to ITVX launch. ITV Hub currently has 4,000 hours of content while ITVX will have around 15,000 hours at launch.
BritBox will remain the standalone subscription home of the best of British content including forthcoming originals Why Don't They Ask Evans? and The Dry, until later this year, when the content on ITV Hub and BritBox come together in what will be the new streaming home of ITV, ITVX.
A raft of dramas will now stream first and for free on ITVX before arriving six to nine months later on ITV's broadcast channel, including A Spy Among Friends, starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce and Nolly starring Helena Bonham Carter, which is the first production for Nicola Shindler's new Quay Street Productions, part of ITV Studios. There's also Drama Republic's Confessions of Frannie Langton, Lenny Henry's six part drama The Little Birds and Tiger Aspect production Litvinenko, starring David Tennant.
Other ITVX exclusive content will include landmark natural history series from Plimsoll Productions, A Year on Planet Earth, comedy, such as a new series using Deep Fake techniques to create celebrity set-ups, as well as a feature-length film finale for Plebs. Plus new documentary The Case Against Cosby – exposing new truths about accusations against Bill Cosby with exclusive access to survivors.
As well as streaming first exclusives, all the drama and comedy ITV commissions will be made available to viewers in one go on ITVX, for free, as soon as the first episode has aired on ITV's linear channels. The same will be true of the majority of reality series.
ITVX will also be home to a wide selection of popular US series. In the first of a series of deals to be announced, ITV has concluded a wide ranging content deal with WarnerMedia International Television Distribution for programmes including UK premieres of The Sex Lives of College Girls and All American, as well as The OC, One Tree Hill and select series of The 100, Supernatural and Veronica Mars.
As well as being able to live stream ITV linear channels, ITVX will have a changing number of exclusive themed channels, data driven to align with viewer preferences and popularity.
These pop-up channels will give a scheduled experience through a streaming service, with viewers able to choose where in the schedule they join.
With 20 channels at launch, including Hell's Kitchen US, True Crime, The Oxford Detectives, 90s Favourites and The Chase as examples, ITV intends to offer viewers a new themed channel, every week of the year on ITVX.
More information on ITV's streaming premieres:
A limited series based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre, which dramatises the true story of Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) — two spies and lifelong friends, one of whom was betraying the other all along, at the height of the Cold War. It is produced in collaboration with Sony Pictures Television, ITV Studios and Veritas Entertainment Group. Lewis also serves as executive producer through his production company, Ginger Biscuit Entertainment
Created by Emmy-nominated writer/producer Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, The Sex Lives of College Girls follows four college roommates as they arrive at New England's prestigious Essex College. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating as they live out their new, free lives on campus. The series stars Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, and Alyah Chanelle Scott. Additional series regulars include Midori Francis, Gavin Leatherwood, Chris Meyer, Ilia Isorelys Paulino, Lauren Spencer, and Renika Williams.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Drama Republic
Sara Collins' award winning debut gothic novel brought to the screen, a tale of mystery and murder, sex and slavery, laudanum and love. Starring Karla-Simone Spence (Blue Story, Wannabe) as Frannie Langton, the drama's young protagonist born into a life of slavery who is fighting to tell her own story. She is joined by Sophie Cookson as Madame Marguerite Benham and Patrick Martins as Laddie Lightning in the line-up for the murder mystery drama.
A Year on Planet Earth – Plimsoll Productions in association with ITV Studios
Featuring a story arc across the seasons, the series is set to draw viewers in over a number of episodes, unfolding like a drama. It will be narrated by Stephen Fry, and made by a team, including Tom Hugh-Jones (Tiny World, Planet Earth II) and Dr Martha Holmes (Blue Planet, Hostile Planet).
The Case Against Cosby
A two-part documentary revealing new truths through exclusive access to the long-time survivors of the sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby. The Case Against Cosby follows the harrowing journey for justice driven by the only survivor whose case could be tried in a court of law, Andrea Constand. Based on her memoir, The Moment: Standing Up to Cosby, Speaking Up for Women, The Case Against Cosby will reveal the stories of the many who have finally been able to raise their claims publicly against the serial sexual predator and television icon, Bill Cosby.
Three Little Birds – Douglas Road Productions in association with Tiger Aspect
Devised by Lenny Henry and based on the experiences of his own family, this is the story of a group of young friends finding their way to Birmingham, after they journey over from Jamaica as part of the Windrush generation.
Nolly Quay Street Productions
The first drama under Nicola Shindler's new production banner with ITV Studios, Nolly is written by Russell T Davies as his love letter to the soaps, it is a biopic following the life of actress Noele Gordon on the Crossroads set playing motel owner Meg Mortimer. Nolly is played by Helena Bonham Carter.
Litvinenko – Tiger Aspect
Litvinenko is a four-part drama with David Tennant as Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer whose death from polonium poisoning in November 2006 triggered one of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police. The drama also focuses upon the story of Marina, played by Margarita Levieva, Alexander's fearless, dignified widow who fought tirelessly to persuade the British Government to publicly name her husband's killers and acknowledge the role of the Russian State in his murder.
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Family owned Swedish firm, Malmberg, has secured its first biogas upgrading project in Italy where it will retrofit HERAmbiente S.p.A.'s, existing composting plant in Sant Agata.
HERAmbiente S.p.A.'s, existing composting plant in Sant Agata.
The facility, located near the City of Bologna, will be supplemented with treatment and anaerobic digestion of 135,000 tonnes of food waste per year. The biomethane will be produced using Malmberg Compact® GR 20R.
The company said that the capacity of the plant will be 1000 Nm3/h and the customer estimates to produce 7.5 million Nm3 biomethane per year for the Italian gas network.
According to Malmberg, one of Italy's largest local utilities and environmental services providers, prior to choosing its water scrubber technology HERAmbiente undertook a thorough evaluation.
It said that it won the tender due the fact that it has good references from plants where the substrate is food waste, which requires robust and reliable technology that produces gas reliably, and can show with its high availability figures from experience with over 100 biogas upgrading plants around Europe.
The company added that Italy is a large gas market with more than 1000 gas filling stations and more than 900,000 cars running gas, so the infrastructure is already there for the environmentally friendly biogas.
"We see very positive on the Italian biogas market and are pleased that we now also can make a green footprint in Italy," said Erik Malmberg, CEO of Malmberg Water AB.
Dutch firm, Frames Renewable Energy Solutions, has completed work on a biogas upgrading plant for manure processing specialist Groot Zevert Vergisting in the city Beltrum.
Amur is launching an anaerobic digestion feedstock which is blended from food waste to a specification designed to optimise productivity.
Quantum Biopower has opened a 40,000 tonne per year mixed organic waste anaerobic digestion plant incorporating Global Water Engineering's GWE RAPTOR technology.


August 15, 2013 - The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division files enforcement actions against Aviation Fuel International and its former owner Sean E. Wagner in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida.
In July Wagner, a former owner and operator of two Florida based airline fuel supply service companies, was arrested and went before a West Palm Beach judge on charges of participating in a scheme to defraud bankrupted Rockford, Illinois based Ryan International Airlines a charter airline company.
In the Grand Jury Indictment, the grand jury believed Wagner participated in a conspiracy to defraud Ryan International Airlines by making kickback payments to Wayne Kepple, the former vice president of ground operations for Ryan International Airlines who was in charge of contracting with providers of goods and services on behalf of the company.
In exchange, Kepple awarded business to Wagner's fuel supply service companies. From at least as early as December 2005 through at least August 2009, Wagner and his companies made kickback payments totaling more than $200,000, in the form of checks, wire transfers, gift cards and cash, to Kepple while working at Ryan International Airlines.
Ryan International Airlines (FAR 121 airline) provided air passenger and cargo services for corporations, private individuals, and the U.S. government, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service.
In 2006, Ryan held a number of contracts working mainly for the Department of Defense and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In 2008, it had to terminate some of its contracts following the failure of European carrier Futura International Airways, from which Ryan International Airlines had leased several aircraft which supported its operations.
In November 2011, Ryan took delivery an Airbus A330-300, which it leased from Virgin Atlantic Airways. In February 2012, Ryan furloughed Pilots, Flight Attendants and support staff. On March 6, 2012, Ryan filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing "unexpected and dramatic reductions in military flying." On April 1, 2012, Ryan lost its bid to continue flying for the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The loss of the DHS contract resulted in the immediate grounding of four MD-80 aircraft to cut costs.
On August 1, 2012, Ryan returned its A330-300 to Virgin Atlantic, ending its lease and accepting an older model A330-200 formerly operated by Atlasjet. Fifteen days later Ryan announced it would furlough 30 pilots and 60 flight attendants. On January 11, 2013, Ryan International Airlines' CEO announced that the airline had gone into liquidation. Its staff was dismissed and the company ceased operations.
The Justice Department is asking the court that upon conviction of one or more of the offenses alleged in Counts one through five of the Indictment, Aviation Fuel International, Inc. and Sean E. Wagner, forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the violations or to seek forfeiture of any other property of the defendants up to the value of the above forfeitable property.
Wagner began his career in the aviation industry in 1987 when he was a A & P mechanic at Air Repair located at Opa-locka, Executive Airport. In 1992, Wagner gained employment with World Fuel Services in their dispatch division. In a short time he was promoted to sales where he developed a large portfolio of customers for World Fuel Services. In 1994 he was promoted to Vice-President of Sales. Two years later he was promoted to executive Vice-President of Sales.
During his employment with World Fuel Services the company saw growth from $10 to more than $10 billion. In 2006, Wagner formed Aviation Fuel International, Inc. (AFI), which became a multi-million dollar operation fueling aircrafts domestically and around the globe. In 2012, Wagner sold Aviation Fuel International Inc to Fuelstream, Inc.
Wagner was hired by Fuelstream as Executive Vice-President of Global Sales. His bio reads he "resides in Davie, Florida, married with three children enjoys tennis, golf, and has a passion for Formula 1 racing. Since 2002, he has competed in numerous Major Formula racing events, most recently, placing first in a National competition at Daytona International Raceway".


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Corporate Procedure and Artistic Expression
Last month I was summoned to a 'formal interview', and two days later a letter informed me that I was to attend a 'disciplinary hearing'.
I sent a text to Linda: A chocolate has mysteriously found its way into my lunch box. I am giving it a 'formal interview' to establish why it hasn't followed 'procedures'. If I discover that the chocolate has a brain and is capable of acting upon its own initiative, it will be given a 'disciplinary hearing' and charged with 'conduct unbecoming of a lemon cream'.
The manager conducting the hearing showed all the humanity and sense of proportion I expect of a speed camera. When I reminded him that I had an exemplary record during my eight years with the company and that no-one had suffered from my 'crimes', he informed me sanctimoniously that a murderer is still a murderer, even if he (or she) has led a previously blameless life.
The night after the hearing I dreamt that I was back in the flat in Colnbrook. Concorde had just been bought by Quantas, painted bright red, and was about to make its first flight since coming out of retirement. We rushed to the windows to watch the beautiful bright red bird ascend smoothly into the stratosphere, but then something went horribly wrong. The plane went into a spin, then plummeted earthwards, disintegrating into flaming pieces. Horrified, I could only think of all those people on board, anticipating the journey of a lifetime and a happy landing on the other side of the world. I woke up at 3.30 wondering whether this dream was symbolic of the crashing and burning of my driving career, or of the more widespread crushing of the human spirit's freedom to soar by the weight of procedure and legislation. Are we in the hands of incompetent pilots or afflicted by a more general social malaise that is eliminating human essence from existence?
The divorce of essence from labour was fundamental to the antagonism Marx felt towards capitalism. In performing the dull and repetitive tasks generated by the division of labour, the factory workers spawned by the Industrial Revolution were no longer making use of the invention and imagination that distinguished human productivity from the instinctive forms of production practised by animals. 'Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, ' declared The Communist Manifesto (published in 1848), 'the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, the most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.' Because such labour separated people from the distinctive qualities that made them human, Marx contended in the mid-nineteenth century that they were scarely identifiable any more as human beings.
In the twenty-first century, management issue 'procedures' like confetti because people cannot be programmed into instinctive obedience like computers. Imposed to eliminate the requirement to think, 'procedures' - never to be questioned, overlooked or disobeyed - are the next best thing. I'd left the hearing with a 'Final Written Warning' (an odd concept considering I've never previously had a 'written warning') and questioning the manager's grip on reality. I hadn't murdered, hurt or maimed anyone. I hadn't been rude or abusive. I hadn't damaged any equipment. I hadn't stolen from anyone or attempted to defraud the company. I had committed the worst heresy of all in failing to follow 'company procedures'.
If this computer malfunctions once more it will be scrapped
For the past eight years the day job has served its purpose admirably. It demands no thought, so I have been able to perform my daily tasks on automatic pilot, pay the bills and get on with what makes me human: creating 'Why Don't You Fly?' and Karl Marx and Careful Driving. An idea is sometimes so good that I have to stop in the next lay-by or service area to write it down in my notebook before continuing, but the disciplinary hearing followed by the dream are the clearest signals that I have reached one of life's T-junctions. I can now hardly bear the prospect of going to the place I call work, where 'procedures' overrule common sense and where for the next twelve months I'll be operating under the threat of dismissal for the smallest misdemeanour or mistake.
Reuniting human essence with existence can only achieved by forging a career as author and inspirational speaker, but if I am to abandon the day job I must write one or more best-sellers and / or build a client base for my talks which means approaching more schools, colleges and universities, places where each year I'll be speaking to a different set of pupils or students.
Neither task will be easy. First of all the writing: I was simultaneously appalled and inspired by an article in the Sunday Times Magazine about the author Stephen Benatar. I had never heard of him.
'No, I never felt downhearted about the failure of any of my books. I have wondered why they haven't been taken up by readers and why does nobody know me? The thing is, I love to write. '
Stephen Benatar writes for exactly the same reason that I do: because he wants to be read. He got his first rejection slip at the age of twelve for a short story. At the age of 19 his first novel was rejected. He wrote 11 novels over the next two decades, but all were rejected by publishers. When The Man on the Bridge was published by Harvester when Benatar was 44, he dared to believe that finally, his literary career was about to take off. Despite good reviews, however, the novel failed to get good sales. Wish Her Safe At Home was then published in 1982 by The Bodley Head. The book received great reviews and was the runner-up for the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize, but like The Man on the Bridge it was unable to generate good sales figures. Bloodied but unbowed, Benatar kept on writing. By the end of the eighties he had written 15 books, only four of which were published. Cosmo Landesman, the Sunday Times interviewer, asked Benatar if he was downhearted during this period. His answer is salutary, proof to me that writing is a vocation, something one simply has to do irrespective of income.
'No, I don't feel any bitterness or envy of successful authors. Honest. People like Ian McEwan, I don't envy him because I don't rate his work. '
In 2007 Benatar attempted to get Wish Her Safe At Home republished as a Penguin Classic, but despite a fantastic review from Professor John Carey, a highly regarded reviewer for the Sunday Times, they rejected him. So did 36 other publishers. He took to republishing his novels under his own imprint - Welbeck Classics - and selling signed copies personally at bookshops. Managers have been astonished by his success - he sells on average around 50 books on each appearance. His record is 128. His secret is to approach browsers in bookshops and chat to them about his book - something that admittedly I'd find very hard to do.
Now, at the age of 73, after decades of obscurity and countless rejection slips, Stephen Benatar is finally on the verge of finding success as a writer. The New York Review of Books, having already published his novel Wish Her Safe At Home in the States, is about to launch a British edition. His lucky break came when he bumped into the managing editor of the publishing section in a bookshop and persuaded him to buy a copy. 'I read the book straight away and was knocked out . It's not every day you find a neglected classic from an Englishman who is still alive. Everyone in the office read it and was just as excited as I was,' said Franks.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6838975.ece
I hope I get my lucky break before I reach my seventies, but I may never get it at all. Like Benatar, however, I will keep writing. What started out many years ago as Driving Dorabella, a story about one man driving his truck from the United Kingdom to the oil fields in Kazakhstan has metamorphosed into Karl Marx and Careful Driving, a grand opera in three parts about European history and the ideas that shaped it. For centuries the conductor of this great opera was thought to be supernatural but the rise of humanism in the fourteenth century led to an increasing belief that human beings are the directors of their own opera. Because of the role his ideas played in the political history of the land through which the author is travelling, Karl Marx is the star. The validity of his materialist conception of human nature and his critique of nineteenth century working life is tested against the author's personal experience of working life at the end of the twentieth century. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Rousseau, Aristotle and Plato are co-stars, and Emperor Constantine, St Augustine, Tsar Nicholas II, Ronald Reagan, Bakunin, Feuerbach, Hegel and John Locke are amongst an illustrious supporting cast.
Thinking that watching someone else talk about an epic cycling adventure might give me some ideas of how to improve my own talk, we went to Malvern Theatres on 22 April to see a talk by the record-breaking long-distance cyclist Mark Beaumont. In 2008 Mark took 81 days off the previous record for the time taken to circumnavigate the world by bicycle, covering the 18,300 miles in 194 days and 17 hours, and crossing four continents and 20 countries. 16 months later he cycled 13,000 miles from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego. I would estimate that there would have been perhaps around 800 people who paid £14 each for tickets to see the talk and Mark probably sold around 200 copies of his book in a single evening.
Two years ago the Ludlow Cycle Users Group hired Ludlow Assembly Rooms and opened my own talk and slideshow up to the general public. Over a hundred people paid £5.00 per ticket, and many more were apparently turned away at the doors. The talk was well received and I sold 20 copies of 'Why Don't You Fly?' afterwards. I began to think that as well as approaching groups such as the W.I., Townswomen's Guilds and Probus Groups, I ought to be hiring theatres and directing my talks to the general public. Unlike Mark I haven't broken any world records and my journey hasn't been serialised by the BBC, but the experience in Ludlow indicates that I might reasonably expect audiences of between 100 and 200 people to turn up and pay £7.50 each to hear about another epic ride. Hopefully they might also purchase 20 - 30 copies of 'Why Don't You Fly?'.
On Saturday 24 April we went to the Symphony Hall to see a performance by the Academy of Ancient Music of the Overture to Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in C major, and Mozart's Requiem. Two of the soloists in the Requiem interested me a great deal. James Gilchrist, the tenor, used to be a doctor before turning to a full-time career in music in 1996:
'I was once accosted by someone after a concert in Aldeburgh, who told me I wouldn't remember him (he was not quite right, but I certainly couldn't place him), and telling me that he used to tell me off for humming during his operations when I was a student of surgery, and now look – he's having to fork out a fortune to hear me! He was delighted to do so, of course, and it was an important lesson for me about why music is so valuable to us all. I believe the arts are in some profound way essential to all of us. Artistic expression and endeavour are what make us human, and the most visceral and basic of our modes of communication. It's glib to call music the medicine of the soul, but I think there's some truth in that. '
(http://www.jamesgilchrist.co.uk/)
Christopher Purves, the bass, began as a performer with the rock and roll group Harvey and the Wallbangers before embarking upon a career singing as a classical soloist:
Purves came to opera late and not by the well-trodden route of young artist programmes, prizes and talent scouts. He didn't study music (he read English at Cambridge) and sang in a rock band, Harvey and the Wallbangers, until 1987. He also recorded the theme to the Um Bongo soft drink ads ("Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo . . .) "Not the prime way of getting into opera," he notes drily.
(http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/)
I rather like people who don't follow established procedures. James Gilchrist and Christopher Purves are wonderful talents. Artistic expression and endeavour are what make us human.
Nodding donkeys near Atyrau, Kazakhstan (photo courtesy of Lenny Coulson)
May promises to be a busy month. Switching from one line of narrative to another in Karl Marx and Careful Driving must be achieved without derailing the reader, so points will have to be oiled. I must research the oil industry in Kazakhstan and the Crusades, and re-read Rousseau's Social Contract.
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Karl Marx and Careful Driving
'I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.' (Cormac McCarthy)
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The Diary of a Work in Progress
This is a journal about the writing of three books. Karl Marx and Careful Driving, Cold War and Careful Driving and Red Sunset and Careful Driving will describe three journeys made by truck from the UK to the territories of the former Soviet Union in 1993-4. The adventures of the author and his colleagues as they cover extraordinary distances in their immense vehicles over some of the most inhospitable terrain and climatic conditions imaginable, the author's personal journey from university academic to a nomadic life at the wheel of an artic, and the story of the rise and fall of Soviet Communism will all be deployed to uphold or refute Marx's claims about the nature of freedom and the human condition.


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Cramer sees biotech stocks as a refuge in the coronavirus-driven market plunge
By Sheela on February 24, 2020
CNBC's Jim Cramer said investors who are trying to navigate Monday's global stock market sell-off should look to drug companies.
"I look at these drug companies and I think, 'Wouldn't that be a great place to go if the market really falls apart?'" Cramer said. "They're so good and they haven't come down."
Earlier Monday, Cramer tweeted that the sell-off in response to the deepening coronavirus outbreak indicated further negative effects on U.S. multinational companies' earnings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq saw significant declines as the virus's outbreak takes deeper roots outside of mainland China, where a vast majority of the cases are located.
Coronavirus cases have risen in Italy, now home to the largest outbreak outside of Asia. There also are now more than 830 cases and seven deaths in South Korea as the country's authorities raised their alert to the "highest level."
On "Squawk on the Street," Cramer pointed to Gilead Sciences as one potential buying opportunity, noting it has a drug being used in a coronavirus trial.
Shares of the biopharmaceutical company were up more than 4% early Monday, standing in contrast to markets around the globe that are falling due to increased concerns about the coronavirus.
The "Mad Money" host said there is much uncertainty around the fate of Gilead's antiviral remdesivir as a possible treatment for coronavirus. But he noted that a World Health Official on Monday suggested the drug may prove effective.
"If Gilead works, anybody who sells here is going to say, 'Why did I sell it when there was such ingenious science going on?'" Cramer said.
In general, he cautioned investors against buying heavily into Monday's declines.
"If the world slows, you're going to regret that you bought heavily here unless you're going to [be] buying Merck," Cramer said, referencing the potential benefits of the pharmaceutical company's Keytruda to treat cancer.
GlaxoSmithKline is another example of a stock that could remain attractive, Cramer said. He said the British pharmaceutical company has new developments around its anti-cancer efforts and it maintains a strong dividend yield.
"If you own companies that are directly in harm's way, maybe you sell some. But then you redeploy into things that are just kind of bulletproof," Cramer said. "Do you want to sell a drug company that may be working?"


THAT Fahad Al Nabet be reappointed as an independent director of the Company in accordance with the Company's articles of association.
THAT Roderick Maciver be reappointed as an independent director of the Company in accordance with the Company's articles of association.
THAT the Board of Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised to determine the remuneration of the External auditors, Ernst & Young.
THAT the remunerations and compensations of AED 10,000 be paid to each Member of the Board of Directors of the Company for each Board Meeting attendance and the remunerations and compensations of AED 5,000 be paid to each Board Committee Member for each Committee Meeting attendance, for the financial year ended 31 December 2013 thereon be approved by the company shareholders.
Over 50% of 398,953,391 shares represented in person or by proxy voted in favour of these resolutions. A poll was conducted during the meeting as requested by the Chairman of the Meeting, Mr Mohamed Al Fahim, in-line with Depa Limited's Articles of Association.


World By Women (collaboration with young people, directed by Katie Posner, produced by Jacksons Lane.) November 27,28,29th 2018 at : School For Girls, Christ Collage Finchery and St Thomas More Catholic School.
Fertility Talk Saturday 12rd May, 2018, in Fertility Festival at Bush Theatre.
World By Women (collaboration with young people, directed by Katie Posner, produced by Jacksons Lane.) November 27,28,29th 2018 at Hornesy School For Girls, Christ Collage Finchery and St Thomas More Catholic School.
February 2010: project with Batttersea Arts Centre and young artists.


Looking for a few unique ideas for holiday décor? Check out these two awesome decoration ideas that you can make yourself and display in your apartment at The Woodlands to make it look a little more festive!
These decorative canisters are a great way to add a little something to a shelf, tabletop display, or even your dinner table! You can choose different items to put inside, using any color scheme you prefer. Additionally they are a great way to use any clear vase or canister you have lying around.
Items to put inside – Try gift bows, candy, ornaments, or anything else you like!
All you need to do is place your items in to your canisters! See how simple and easy? Get creative and try different color combos!
Picture frame ornaments are super-easy to make and take hardly any time at all. You can find everything you need for this project at your local dollar store!
Mini picture frames. Make sure there is a hook on the back for hanging.
If your frames have the part that is used to prop them up on a table, try to remove it if possible. No big deal if you can't!
Measure and cut pieces of wrapping paper to fit inside the frames you chose.
"Frame" the pieces of wrapping paper.
Tie a ribbon through the hook part on the back that would normally be used to hang the frame on a wall.
For just a few dollars, you can make your very own unique holiday decorations in no time. Have fun and be creative!
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Kent State football rallies in fourth quarter, beats Buffalo in overtime of MAC finale
In Buffalo, Kent State scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns and then had the go-ahead score in overtime to beat the Bulls 30-27 in the Golden Flashes regular-season finale.
Kent State scored a pair of rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter to tie the game 24-24. Ja'Shaun Poke scored on a 10-yard run on a fourth-and-4 to cut the Golden Flashes' deficit to 24-16. The point after failed. After Kent State forced Buffalo to punt, Marquez Cooper scored from the 2-yard line with 1:00 left in regulation to cut the deficit to 24-22. Freshman quarterback Tommy Ulatwoski then hit Poke on a two-point conversion to knot the game 24-24.
Buffalo went up three points in overtime, scoring first, setting up Ultawoski's game-winning possession with a 7-yard TD pass to Devontez Walker for the Kent victory.
"It's always an adventure," said Kent State head coach Sean Lewis. "It's always an adventure when we play Buffalo."
Cooper finished with 140 yards rushing on 30 carries with two touchdowns. He concluded the season second in the MAC in rushing with 1,331 yards and he scored 13 touchdowns on the ground.
"Incredible character shown by our guys," said Lewis. "We've been talking about it for the past 10 days. We were going to play for pride, we were going to play for passion, we're going to play for the program [and] we were going to play for each other.
"It wasn't pretty in a lot of different ways for a lot of the evening but the guys found a way to get it done and that's what it's about."
Kent State quarterbacks completed 14-of-34 passes for 150 yards and a touchdown. The Golden Flashes outgained Buffalo 364-346.
Buffalo's Matt Meyers scored three touchdowns and ran for 109 yards on 21 carries.
Kent State closed the season with a pair of road wins to finish 5-7 overall and 4-4 in the Mid-American Conference. Buffalo is 5-6 overall, 4-3 in the MAC, and finishes its regular season Friday by hosting Akron.
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There are some remains of the early 12th century stone chapel of St John the Baptist, the site of Godric of Finchale's burial, built sometime around the end of Godric's life. Some of the temporary buildings, erected for the first prior and his monks sent to establish the Priory some twenty years after Godric's death, still exist. The monastic complex was built in the latter half of the 13th century with alterations and additions continuing for the following three hundred years.
There are many excellent examples of heavily decorated capitals on the original arcade columns; tracery in the filled-in nave arches of the church, and on the south wall is a double piscina and two carved seats of the sedilia.


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Q: How to do something till an input is detected in python3? I want to execute a piece of code till the user enters an input(detects a random keypress), how do I do that in Python 3.x?
Here is the pseudo-code:
while input == False:
    print(x)

A: You can do it like this:
try:
    while True:
        print("Running")
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print("User pressed CTRL+c. Program terminated.")

The user just need to press Control+c.
Python provide the built-in exception KeyboardInterrupt to handle this.
To do it with any random key-press with pynput
import threading
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener

class MyClass():
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self.user_press = False

    def RandomPress(self, key):
        self.user_press = True

    def MainProgram(self):
        while self.user_press == False:
            print("Running")
        print("Key pressed, program stop.")

    def Run(self):
        t1 = threading.Thread(target=self.MainProgram)
        t1.start()

        # Collect events until released
        with Listener(on_press=self.RandomPress) as listener:
            listener.join()

MyClass().Run()

A: If you want to interact with users, you may follow the below way:
flag = input("please enter yes or no?")
if flag == "no":
    print(x)

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There are memes and pictures abound on social media these days, portraying people loving and enjoying winter and how they are decorating for the upcoming holiday season. I, on the other hand, am already counting down the days to Spring, and to the Toronto Boat Show. I wasn't so interested in falling leaves and pumpkins in the fall, nor am I overly interested in Christmas decor but I'm trying to get into the spirit. It's December 1st today. The Boy was beyond thrilled to begin opening his LEGO Advent Calendar this morning. While we did listen to a couple Christmas songs, I quickly resorted back to my Yacht Rock play list.
I really much prefer palm trees and flip flops. Ahhh, thoughts of blue and turquoise waters, white sandy beaches, coconut and nutmeg in my cocktails, they fill my head like sugar plum fairies… Never mind that palm trees don't grow in Ontario, or that flip flops kill my feet. I am mourning the passing of summer. I anxiously long for a tropical Christmas. It wasn't but seven weeks ago that we went to the local beach! Sadly, the oncoming winter was ever apparent the weekend we stripped Monster of her sails and donned our parkas.
We've slowly been preparing Monster for the winter months ahead, despite that I'm really not ready to embrace winter. It's the diligent thing to do, to be prepared for the weather to come. We've swapped out our nice summer dock lines, and spider webbed extra dock lines in the slip. The ports and overhead hatches have been insulated with window insulation kits. They really make a world of difference in terms of condensation. Our styrofoam door, a plug to replace the hatch boards, is in place too. We have decided to shrink wrap only our center cockpit this year as opposed to the entire boat. After our late incoming to the Marina last year, following our time in the Drydock, we learnt that our boat was a much healthier environment without the shrink wrap. Our insulated boat demonstrated her advantages in our cold climate however, we still want a space to escape the blustery weather. Far too often we left our boots outside last year only to find them full of snow in the morning. We plan to build a wooden frame around the cockpit and use pvc conduit to form a dome shape over the boom to create a vestibule of sorts. Which we started upon today, despite the building winds, Gordon was hard at work. Monster was stripped of her main sail too, our sails now stored away in a nice, dry space for the winter.
While the Boy and I were out this afternoon, keeping out of Gordon's way, I spotted the wee live Christmas trees we purchase every year at our local grocery store. There was a family, with two young kids picking out their tree. It did cross my mind to select one for ourselves but, we are not quite ready. I wouldn't call myself a Grinch, I'm just finding that with every passing year, and with only a few to go before we plan to cast off, the prospects of winter are disheartening. I really do miss that warm sunshine and the summer breeze.
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A quarter mile stretch of sidewalk was added to the residential area of Dagsboro in Sussex County, Delaware. The project was completed in 2012 and runs from Clayton Street to Vines Creek Road along SR 20. The project included crosswalks, pedestrian lighting, ADA curb ramp upgrades, upgraded signage, and minor landscaping in addition to sidewalks. $406,400 in TE funding with a match of $101,600 was used to complete the category 1 project.


I was honored with a bronze badge by Polish Kennel Club.
Our kennel Esqueen was registered in 2008 but animals and dog shows were a big part of our life long before that year. My love for dogs started many years ago – in my first family house. I grew up in the company of a Giant Schnauzer, Boxer and a Mutt named Diana. I'm sentimental when it comes to this name as she was the one who taught me how to respect animals. I knew that my home will always have a furry member.
My biggest dream came true in 2003 when together with my husband we decided to buy our first dog. I always wanted to have a Newfoundland. We found Stare Krzepice Kennel where on a lovely sunny day we got out little bear. We could choose from several puppies but there was one, called Eban, that caught our eyes. My first Newfoundland and the first we had to say goodbye to so soon. We got the chance to be his home only for a little over a year. On 17th of November 2004 our biggest happiness was stolen. Even though it has been 11 years since that horrible day my eyes still are wet from tears while writing this. We've moved heaven and earth to find him, we had hope for couple of years, and many people have helped us to whom I am very thankful. Veterinarians from all over our country were informed, but all for nothing. On the 17th of November Eban sunk into the ground.
While searching for Eban in animal shelters we found Asta, whom at the beginning was supposed to be Eban :) later it came out that she was a girl but we did not have the heart to leave her there. She was in very poor condition and our home needed a new friend to fill up the emptiness after losing our 'bear'. The birth date of Asta is not known, she was described as a 5-year-old when we adopted her. She lived 5 more years with us. She was our oasis of calm, faithful friend till her last days.
Some time has passed after we decided to get a next dog. This time we decided that, due to the bad memories, it will not be a Newfoundland. We started looking for a perfect family dog. The Cocker Spaniel breed seemed to have all the features we were looking for. The decision has been made but we did not want a golden one, not a black one… it must be special… must be blue roan. When I found the website of Lastug kennel and saw photos of the colorful litter I knew this was it. We let the breeder choose the perfect one for us. We received Cevin – a Spaniel with a Newfoundland heart! CEVIN CLAIN Lastug, a very positive and devoted boy, was my first English Cocker Spaniel. He is a perfect swimmer and as a real hunting dog he passed all the exams without any preparation. He is also the first dog I showed on dog shows. I need to thank him for his patience to my difficult trainings ;) He was highly appreciated by judges and finished the Junior Champion and Poland Championship titles in no time.
We fell head over heels for this breed and decided to, this time with Sara, to get another dog. This time it was my daughter who chose the puppy. She picked Dami – DANCING QUEEN Lastug, from the same kennel as Cevin. Our blue roan lady with a feisty character jacked up our lazy Cevin. ;) During our visits in Lastug Kennel Sara chose her Dami but my heart was stolen by a different girl… A black and white female with coquettish eye lashes… I couldn't take my eyes of her… But this time it was Sara making her dream come true so the choice was her. I could not get that girl out of my mind so I phoned Aneta to ask if she was sold. I found out that her new owners changed their mind and she was still looking for a home. After this I knew she was going to be mine! From the breeding perspective it had no sense at all to have three dogs so closely related, however DIRTY DIANA Lastug got me from the first sight. This is how in less than two years we ended up with three Cocker Spaniels from Lastug Kennel – Cevin, Dami and Diana. Even though they all are practically family they all have different characters and temperaments. Cevin is a heart stealer, Dami is a negotiator if she doesn't like something she won't hesitate to tell you about it :) and Diana – the reflection of Asta, the oasis of calm, my private princess. Aneta I will be forever thankful for our three 'babies'.
In 2010 Dami had her first litter, all nine puppies found loving homes.
In 2012 I saw a photo of a tricolor girl… Couple months later that girl came to live with us. Milka, DREAM COME TRUE FOR ESQUEEN, was born in Perfect Partner Kennel (Warsaw). She is the daughter of Leading-Light Phenomenan, a very famous orange roan dog. Mili is full of energy, needs lots of activities. She loves Frisbee and swimming. Together with Dami they can run and swim all day long. Even though she is so chaotic, at the same time she is as sweet as a donut ;) and is completely in love with Sara, she is her shadow.
In the same year our family has gained a new member – an Irish Setter. Totally not my cup of tea – I thought at the very beginning. I was sure that a Setter does not suit our family. As he is not a Cocker or a Newfoundland. Sara begged me for two years I finally agreed to Ebony-Sett Flashing Flamenco, the boy of her dreams. After we took him I started to believe that everything happens for a reason and nothing happens without one. 'Dream dogs' tend to have everything we expect from them. Flami is a next dog, whom doesn't take eyes of my daughter. They understand each other without words. I love this guy to bits but this is not the same kind of love I have for Newfoundlands and Cockers. Karolina thank you so much for our red-haired!
I am sure that these are not the last cockers and setters living with us. There will be more in the future. In 2006 I fell in love with the first breed, in 2012 in the next one… And this is how it's going to be. Forever.


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15 of the best data visualization projects of 2011
This was the year of big data. Data graphics continue to thrive and designers are putting more thought into what the data are about, and that's a very good thing.
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New Explanation On The Birth Of The Solar System
Birth of the solar system
A team of international astrophysicists, including Dr Maria Lugaro from Monash University, has discovered a new explanation for the early composition of our solar system.
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Amazing Close-up Photos of Saturn
This image was taken by Cassini as it moved above the above the dark side of the planet. This view combines 45 images taken over the course of about two hours
These stunning images of Saturn taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft show the ringed planet, its moons and rings in the most incredible detail yet. (Pics)
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Is Global Warming On Hold?
According to a new study, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.
For those who have endured this winter's frigid temperatures and today's heavy snowstorm in the Northeast, the concept of global warming may seem, well, almost wishful. (Pics)
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Scientists Directly Observe Three Distant Planets
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a fuzzy image of the planet, known as Fomalhaut b, which is no more than a white speck in the dust ring that surrounds the star.
A little more of the universe has been pried out of the shadows. Two groups of astronomers have taken the first pictures of what they say – and other astronomers agree – are most likely planets going around other stars.
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Hubble Completes 100,000th Orbit
The Hubble Telescope completes 100,000th orbit and takes yet another breathtaking photo.
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Alien's Eye View Of Earth From 31 Millions Miles Away
A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world.
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Mars and Venus are Similar
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So I can't believe we are in the middle of August…but that means it's time to start planting for the fall. I had every intention to get some seeds into the ground by the end of July, but that just did not happen!
I'm hoping that my fall garden will make up for what I missed out on this spring! I'll be pulling up my lettuce, tilling in some fertilizer and planting some seeds for the veggies that failed me this spring.
What about your fall garden?!? Have you thought about it? Have your planted any seeds?!
I just posted about my fall garden today! I had intended to start my seeds indoors the beginning of July. But did not get around to it. So I planted the seeds directly a few weeks ago. I planted broccoli, two varieties of kale, red chard and spinach. My seeds have already begun peeking out from the soil!
I may also buy some fall transplants from a local nursery and put those in my Spring garden square. I doubt my pepper and okra plants are going to do anything at this point!
What beautiful photos! This is a timely reminder. Thank you!
We live in an apartment, but I've been really happy with what I've been able to get from my pots so far! I just noticed new buds on my bell pepper plant that I thought we were done seeing produce from. – We've already eaten 5 peppers from the plant and I was very happy with that. Our tomato plant has loads of new buds on it as well and 4 tomatoes growing on it currently. Even though its grown into quite the "tree" we've only gotten one tomato from it so far so we are beyond thrilled. I had thought I'd be planting new plants in my pots for the fall, but it looks like the current ones will be staying put for now!
P.S. Your post has me curious do you know if onions or garlic grow well in pots? If so I may just be planting some of those this fall!
I have planted spinach, kale, swiss chard, peas, cauliflower and curley parsley for my fall garden. I need to get some broccoli seeds soon or I am going to have to buy plants from the local nursery!
I just planned my fall garden the other night! Excited to finally get my square foot garden up and going! I am having the kids do a fun craft for my markers as well, I will let you know how it turns out!
Just has got below the 90s here, so I'm starting to seriously think about ripping out everything and starting anew! Garlic is waiting, and we did seed strips for carrots and radishes this afternoon.
I was inspired by this post, and remembered doing SFG several years ago. I have two planter boxes awaiting SOMETHING. It's still heat indexes in hi 90s here, so I was hoping to still get some carrots and lettuce in. I went to get some seeds, but there aren't any. My question (having been out of this for several years) is: What do you all do about seeds? Do you get them at the beginning of spring and just hold onto them? Do you find stashes tucked about at stores at this time?
Hi, This is the first time we're going to plant vegetables and your post really inspired me more. Is it too late to plant from seeds for a fall garden? I bought seeds for buttercrunch lettuce, red salad bowl lettuce, carrots, broccoli and onions.
Also, what happens if I plant vegetables that were suppose to be in the spring garden? like cucumber, strawberries and tomatoes?
I'm very new at this, I don't have any idea about gardening but I'm dying to get started. Many books are not so easy for non-experts like me.


Now almost three years old, The Liars Club has built a reputation for hosting some of the most cutting-edge acts around. Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and the Scissor Sisters have all played there, on their way to major success.
Tonight was the turn of two bands with a similar take on twisted, punked-up electro-pop: Battant from London, and ADULT. from Detroit.
Following a successful tour supporting Ladytron, Battant are quickly building up an insiders' buzz. Their greatest asset is vocalist Chloe: a waif-like ice maiden, with a steely stage presence. Comparisons with Siouxsie Sioux are inevitable, and deserved.
Greeted with whoops of recognition, the band's stand-out track was Jump Up: a jerky, new-wavey number, evoking memories of the wonderfully batty Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen.
Headliners ADULT. – former darlings of the short-lived electroclash scene – took the same formula, and pushed it to new extremes.
With her vocals shrouded in heavy echo, it was impossible to discern what Nicola Kuperus was singing about. Instead, one searched her bizarre, witch-like performance for clues. Eerie, unsettling, slightly mocking, performing almost to herself, she wailed and chanted above the raging squall of the backing track and bass guitar, scarcely moving her lips throughout.
Unfortunately, ADULT.'s limited box of tricks was soon worn out. The audience divided. While the glowstick-waving Nathan Barley types at the front shimmied and swayed, those towards the back stood motionless and puzzled.
Sure, it's good to be confrontational. But without any substance to back it up, it's all too easy to wind up looking rather superficial in the process.
The last time that Computerman played Nottingham, their audience numbered just twelve. This time, despite an early start, they drew a healthy crowd of supporters, who were clearly not just there for the headliners.
Which is just as it should be, as the five-piece band was based in Nottingham, before moving to London and landing a record deal. Their current single, No More Broken Hearts, is a good representation of their live sound: fast, furious, and dramatic.
Vocals are shared between bassist Adam Pickering – a natural rock star, with a touch of the Tim Burgess about him (bet he hates that comparison) – and bespectacled guitarist Mark Sykes, whose voice was reminiscent of James Dean Bradfield from the Manics. The two singers had an endearing habit of mouthing each other's words when they weren't singing, as if they couldn't wait to join in.
Computerman are back in Nottingham on February 17, playing Trent University. They deserve a bigger crowd still.
Following such a well-received support set, The Fallout Trust battled to keep the audience on-side. As time went on, the chatter at the back of the room threatened to drown them out entirely.
This was a shame, as they are accomplished musicians with a lot to offer. Singer Joe Winter gave an intense, committed performance, jerking around like a man possessed. The music was at its most interesting when it steered away from generic NME-approved rock, towards a more melodic, structured sound.


In step with Augsburg University's excellent reputation in the field of education, we offer the complete Master of Arts in Education program in Rochester. Classes primarily meet weekday evenings at Bethel Lutheran Church.
Are licensed elementary or secondary teachers seeking a master's degree in special education or ESL.
The K-6 elementary license allows you to teach in grades K-6. Our program is designed around four themes: relationships, reflection and inquiry, diversity and equity, and leadership. When you graduate from our MAE, you will be a knowledgeable and responsive teacher. Some classes may be held via videoconference with Minneapolis.
Our degree is in response to the growing need for ESL teachers in Southeastern Minnesota. As a graduate of our MAE with ESL, you will be prepared to shape global citizens in a diverse and changing world. The K-12 English as a Second Language license is available as an initial license as well as an endorsement to an existing license. This license qualifies teachers to work with K-12 students for whom English is a second language across a range of subject areas.
There is a high need for qualified Special Education teachers in Southeastern Minnesota. Our program is designed for those currently working or planning to work with students with disabilities. This program leads to a Minnesota teaching licensure as an Academic and Behavioral Strategist (ABS). The license prepares teachers to work across multiple disability areas to provide services to students with mild to moderate needs, including: autism spectrum disorders (ASD), developmental cognitive disability (DCD), emotional behavior disorders (EBD), other health disorders (OHD), and specific learning disabilities (SLD).
As a student in Augsburg's MAE licensure and degree program, you will find yourself among interesting students and dedicated professors who believe that all children deserve an effective, highly qualified teacher—the teacher you can become.
Augsburg University's Education Department is a recipient of the Minnesota legislature's generous Collaborative Urban Educator (CUE) funding. The CUE program's purpose is to increase the diversity of the teacher workforce in Minnesota. Our program specifically targets East African future teachers: East African Student to Teacher (EAST). The goal of the program is to recruit, retain, and license highly qualified students who wish to become K-12 teachers. EAST covers tuition costs towards initial licensure. Award amount will vary based on degree sought and are decided on an individual basis.


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