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Robert Worth Bingham IV (March 14, 1966 – November 28, 1999) was an American writer and a founding editor of the Open City Magazine.

Early life
A member of a wealthy family from Louisville, Kentucky, his great-grandfather was the politician and newspaper publisher Robert Worth Bingham, and his grandfather, Barry Bingham, Sr., went into the family newspaper businesses as an editor and publisher. Bingham's father, Robert Worth Bingham III (known by his middle name), who also worked in the family business and was expected to take over, was killed aged 34 in a car accident while on vacation at Cape Cod in 1966, when his son was only three months old.

Bingham graduated from Brown University in 1988. He then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.

Career
After graduating from Columbia, his fiction and non-fiction appeared in The New Yorker, and he worked for two years as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily. He wrote the short story collection Pure Slaughter Value and the novel Lightning on the Sun.

Personal life
Bingham died of a heroin overdose at age 33 on November 28, 1999, six months after marrying Vanessa Scharven Chase, daughter of Theodore Chase Jr, professor of biochemistry at Cook College, Rutgers University a Harvard graduate art historian, and five months before the publication of his novel.

Bingham was a close friend of musician Stephen Malkmus; Malkmus played a show at Bingham's wedding, and served as an usher at his funeral. The title of "Church on White," a song from Malkmus's debut album, Stephen Malkmus, refers to Bingham's old New York City address.

Bingham was also a friend of the late poet/musician David Berman (leader of the band Silver Jews); the song "Death Of An Heir of Sorrows", from Silver Jews' 2001 album Bright Flight, is an elegy for Bingham.

Legacy
In Bingham's honor, the PEN American Center has established the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which awards $25,000 to the most exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement.

Bibliography
Pure Slaughter Value (1997)
Lightning on the Sun (2000)

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Here you can find Daily Market Analysis of Currencies, Indexes, Metals, Oil and others.
Supply at EURUSD took over control after Thursday's test of resistance at 1.1380. First support at 1.1320 wasn't able to stop decline and today for the first minutes of trading downward movement is continuing. Nearest support is at 1.1160 but if it breaks stronger support will be located at 1.1100. One of that levels should make rebound.
In previous analysis from February 9 I indicated weakness of the bulls at USDJPY and possibility of price movement towards 109.80. I wrote: 'Demand is weak and support at 116.10 wasn't defended. Nearest supports are at 114.00, 112.30. However it is likely that even support at 109.80 may be tested'.
Indeed price fell below support 112.30, however rebound occurred earlier at 111.00. Demand's reaction was strong and price returned sharply above 112.30. Today price is continuing upward movement and resistance at 114.00 was broken. Target for current upward movement is at 116.10. Return above 116.10 will be a bullish signal, but rebound from that level will give better chance for the bears.
EURGBP moves in uptrend since lows from November 2015. Upward movement is very dynamic. Corrections which occurred during this period retraced only 23.6% of main trend. Struggle between demand and supply can be seen at 0.7760 - 0.7800. Because it lasts since a week it shows the determination of the bulls and the strength of that level. It can be found at weekly TF how important that level was in the past.
It is likely that this level won't break and rebound will occur. Nearest support is at 0.7700 however more important level were potential declines should reach is 0.7540. This level coincides with Fibonacci 38.2% of previous upward movement. Alternatively if bulls are strong enough next resistances will be at 0.7900, 0.8030.
Previous GBPUSD analysis gave almost 300 pips profit. I wrote: "If price stays above 1.4500 first target for falls will be at 1.4400. Next goal for bears will be 1.4200". First indicated level was reached very fast and second level could be tested today. Current chart pattern supports declines.
After downward movement which lasted since December 11 to January 21 rebound occurred. Corrections which occurred after this period retraced 50% of previous declines. Price returned to main trend and yesterday support at 1.4380 was broken below. Today GBPUSD continues downward movement, nearest supports are located at 1.4200, 1.4080. When that last level will be broken (January 2016 low) next important levels are located at: 1.3720, 1.3500 (2009 historical low).
As expected, BOJ has maintained Interest Rates at current -0.1% with 44-pips price action movement for Friday trading session. USD/JPY rallied to to 111.27 high, currently trading 111.15, flirting with 50-EMA at 111.19. Currently, U.S Index is still pushing higher with 97.54 June record high, giving bull hand to USD/JPY with expectations for further incline for the pair.
Crude Oil traded below $50 bp benchmark for the past two weeks, still receiving mixed signals by both OPEC and increasing U.S inventories output and with that, traders are taking precaution measures, avoiding the black gold commodity trading. On Monday, oil peek recorded $46.69 bp weekly high but failed to hold soft gains, still closing below 46.00 level.
Markets is anticipating a definite rate hike with an additional 0.25% to current 1.00%. Currently, odds are at 100%, confirmed by major sources. In case FOMC delivered a rate increase, the question that follows is how will the FOMC's statement address Inflation and balance sheet.
Job sector is out performing recently but inflation last reported in April shows 2.2%, still on gradual decline last reported on Feb 2017 at 2.7%, not stable at 2% target as U.S Fed sees ultimate.
Gold peeked yesterday to 1281.13 after disappointing multiple inflation U.S key figures that decreased Sept Fed hike odds down to 38% after being at 54%. After that, eyes were centered at FOMC meeting yesterday with high anticipation for a definite rate increase with 0.25%, followed by a statement by Yellen which turned hawkish more than expectations. As a result, U.S Index was strengthening, adding pressure on gold, pushing the precious metal downward with almost -$21 (1257.16 low) before closing the session.
EUR/USD inaugurated Monday's trading session with 26-pips loss and 1.1182 low. Currently, U.S Dollar is showing signs of recovery, inching higher with 97.24 high for today.
Technically, the pair is still trading above 20-EMA at 1.1175 which keeps the market in an uptrend destination. Closing above 1.1200 level, suggests for more attacks and the pair will test R1 at 1.1228, then 1.1252. On the other hand, if EUR/USD closed below 20-EMA, expectations for a correction phase within Friday's range at 1.1130+.
Gold extended the bearish momentum for the 10th consecutive session shedding -$12.70 yesterday and 1243 low for yesterday. First, Gold bumped into support at 1247 with RSI indicating an oversold market, as a result, gold managed to make a correction at 1253, but as FOMC members Dudley and Evans crossed wires with an additional hawkish stance, gold was sold aggressively pushing the precious metal into second support at 1242 despite that RSI (H1) indicated an oversold market at 20 level.
GBP/USD remains under threat after hung Parliament election. The pair awaited yesterday for a hawkish stance by BOE Carney, but as the Gov. terminated the possibility of potential rate hikes, the cable dropped pressure with 155-pips yesterday landing on 1.2603 low. on the other hand, PM May latest news indicates that Conservatives have failed to reach out to DUP Party with a deal to control Parliament seats majority ahead of spiky Brexit negotiations which adds more pressure on Pound.
Crude oil prices has been on a gradual decline since 25th of May with $9.00 loss and $42.93 low yesterday. Despite OPEC and Non-OPEC reports showing a high level of compliance during May estimated at 108%, fear of global oversupply still overwhelms the market, pushing oil prices lower.
EUR/USD plunged yesterday to 1.1127 low but managed to make a reverse course with a daily bullish candle at 1.1169 high. Today, the pair clocked a newer high at 1.1177 with expectations for further pip-gains as the greenback trading pale with 97.05 low.
USD/CAD has been testing 100-EMA at 1.3340 for the second consecutive session. Yesterday, the pair rallied +84-pips with 1.3347 high and today, market is showing low price action with only 21-pips as price action. Currently USD/CAD is trading 1.3317 as U.S Index continues to show weakness.
Gold showed immunity against 1240 level with a rejection for penetration during this weekly trading session. Yesterday, a positive U.S Existing Home Sales was released, yet gold rallied and extended gains today with 1254.85 high, still to be considered a correction phase after last week's sharp declines.
Today, gold's bearish momentum will be tested further more, with expectations for intense volatility as U.S releases Unemployment Claims data. Any further rejection for 1240 is an indication for further correction phase and potential of bullish momentum build up. On the other hand, if U.S data we negative, gold will receive an extra lifting hand supported by today's rallies and closing above 1265, 100% for bullish momentum.
In case the data was negative and 1241 support level failed, market should look into further dips with a destination for 1237, then 1230.
EUR/USD opened Monday's trading session bouncing off 1.1190 support area testing with 1.1189 low, and failed with to extend further gains beyond 1.1200 level, only by +1-pip (1.1201 high). Technically the pair is still trading above 10-EMA level and last week, the pair dips were fighting 1.1130 support area with failure to break, sustaining the bullish momentum and keeping potential for further rallies aimed at 1.1200+ area.
After a superb run for EUR/USD last week with 1.1445 high with technical indicators shows an over bought market, the pair showed a daily bearish candle on Friday and extended the correction phase on Monday's trading session with 1.1403 low, On the other hand, U.S Index is currently showing a minor recovery with 95.55 high tackling EUR/USD from further advance. Currently the pair is trading 1.1408 intraday, still above 10-EMA at 1.1360.
Fundamentally, the pair awaits Manufacturing PMI, both from EU first, followed by U.S in after noon which should impact EUR/USD levels.
GBP/USD received a hit yesterday with negative with UK manufacturing PMI causing the cable 90-pips loss 1.2932 low. On the other hand, greenback extended recovery session today, boosted by positive data yesterday with a 96.04 high, add more pressure on the cable. Technically, the pair is still in uptrend phase trading above 10-EMA at 1.2880. GBP/USD is currently trading 1.2940 intraday.
EUR/USD bullish momentum survived yesterday's FOMC meeting as the U.S Index spikes were contaminated with 96.24 high as market expected more attacks due to previous hawkish U.S Fed statement, but instead a lesser was given by Yellen Yesterday.
The pair clocked 1.1368 high yesterday and 1.11325 low for today, still testing 10-EMA area at 1.1320 with 25-pips price action for today with expectations for more volatility as EU releases German Factory Orders, but the focus will be on ECB statement today.
Friday 7th July 2017, U.S is set to release major economic data. First, Unemployment Rate is doing far by good during the past years and it's highly expected to remain at 4.3% record. As for Average Hourly Earnings, last report booked 0.2% and expectations today are 0.3%. Any number between these two will be taken as a positive sign, but in case market was caught off guard with a lesser figure, this could be a game changer as Average Earnings, along with negative data released on June 4th.
As a result, NFP will take center stage today and expectations are at 175K and above, in case of a lesser number, then the buck will receive another punch pushing the U.S Index lower which could come in Trump's economic outlook favor.
Summary: The market remains in a short term bull advance with potential to attack the 13092 May high. A surge over Monday's high should fuel rallies near 13092. Be prepared for additional near term corrections, but narrow sideways congestion within the upper edges of last Wednesday's run over 12891*+ will keep bull forces. A close under 12891* is needed to stop the upturn and foster a correction down along 12802*.
Comment The market is bullish. A close over 7727 could fuel aggressive rallies towards 8000. A reluctance to extend past Wednesday's high today will caution for near term corrections into next week. A close under 76435* warns for a correction phase back through last week's run.
EUR/USD has entered the second consolidation session this week with 1.1381 low and 1.1418 high yesterday, so far the pair traded 18-pips today, with expectations to stay within yesterdays trading range. Currently the pair is trading 1.1395 intraday with daily RSI at 60 level and hourly RSI at 50 level, which gives EUR/USD the chance to score stingy pips aimed at 1.1420, 1.1445 resistance levels. On the other hand, the greenback remains bearish and Index failed to close above 96.54 for trend reversal, which keeps EUR/USD hanging above, ready to press forward.
AUD/USD failed to sustain the bullish momentum today as it f 0.7626 high, retreating low of 0.7605 during the European trading session. Currently the pair is trading at 0.7608 intraday just above its 100-EMA at 0.7605.
GBP/USD extended the selloff wave since yesterday with 113-pips value loss, landing in 1.2810 low for now. The pair tested daily 50-EMA at 1.2820 with failure and in case market closing below, signs of bearish momentum will persist.
MPC member Broadbent crossed wires yesterday with a dovish stance hinting for many current obstacles facing UK economic outlook, being inconsistent with Carney's recent hawkish speech, hence a negative wave still evolves for the cable.
Crude Oil managed to add $2.36 bp since Monday and clocked $45.99 bp high supported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration report on Tuesday as it expects U.S. crude oil production to rise by less than previously forecast next year due to a lower price outlook, but remaining at record. Also, reports by Reuters mentioned that Saudi Arabia is due to decrease their oil exports to the lowest record during August.
On the other hand, other fundamentals such as Libya and Nigeria (Non-OPEC) extended their oil production output, keeps market overloaded (glut) and oil rising prices at slower pace.
Yesterday, Qatar signed a contract with Total French Company to develop Shahine field with $3.5B and could see oil production at 300,000 bp day.
USD/CAD was on a heavy selloff wave ever since Gov. Poloz (June 28) hinted for a possible tapering with an increase by BOC interest rates by 0.25% to current 0.50%. Overall, the pair has lost 340-pips price action on Friday with 1.2859 low and daily RSI around 25 level, which indicates an oversold market with potential for correction phase in case USD/CAD wants to continue pressing downward.
The pair started the correction phase since Monday with 1.2943 high yesterday, but current daily RSI is at 32 level which still indicates an oversold market.
EUR/USD inaugurated Asian trading sessions with +30-pips price action and clocked 1.1439 high as the greenback extends downtrend for today at 95.34 low. Yesterday, Yellen crossed and failed to give specifics as questions were addressed which left market confused and the DXY couldn't press forward and traded neutrally.
Gold plunged aggressively on Monday at 1204.90 on Monday sending a strong message that further downside yet prevails, but managed to make a correction phase extended till Thursday before clocking a 1225.15 yesterday sending signs of a potential bullish reversing trend. Current phase for gold should be a correction phase that holds potential for an uptrend, but unless gold closes above 1228 by daily chart or at least 4 hours candle stick, market should be prepared for an another aggressive selloff wave extended towards 1195+, with potential for 1190+.
Fundamentally, Yellen speech yesterday kept the U.S Index on high volatility which had its effect on Gold, and today, Yellen, along with U.S Data which will be released shortly will give a better outlook how market will react towards gold. In case gold broke closed closed below 1213, additional confirmation for further selloff waves, and in case gold failed to close above 1228, then trend will be sideways until further notice.
EUR/USD bullish trend is sustained supported by U.S Negative released on Friday, with disappointing CPI as Yellen mentioned that any tapering with Rates and U.S Federal balance sheet will be subject to economic data (U.S Data on Friday). As a result, the pair rallied from 1.1391 low on Friday, extended weaker gains this week with a higher high by 5-pips and 1.1475 peak for today.
Currently, the pair is trading 1.1448, awaiting vital data as EU releases Final CPI y/y. ECB will release a statement this Thursday along with Interest Rates decision which makes today's data articular. Draghi has mentioned for a potential change or increasing rates, if not, Quantitative Easing program edition which is currently attracting EUR/USD fever buyers, hence the pair dwelling high above. As for the buck, the U.S Index looks helpless with a yearly low at 94.83 for today.
1- EUR - Findal CPI and Core CPI today at 9:00 AM GMT.
Comment EUR Future: The market is bullish, still signalling for a run to 1.1580+. A pop over last week's reversal high will spark the extension to 1.1580. Be prepared for additional near term corrective action along 1.1450 to continue developing a staging level for rallies. Only a close under 1.1391* marks a near term peak and signals for retracement to attack 1.1308* for a larger downturn.
Daily RSI is at 62 , Hourly RSI at 51, which gives the pair space to push higher than Friday's high.
GBP/USD extended the bullish momentum today after a remarkable home-run on Friday with 1.3113 2017 news-highs. Yesterday, the pair made a correction plunging to 1.3046, resting daily RSI to 60 level, then rewarded losses clocking 1.3099 high ahead of major inflation data to be released today which could fuel GBP/USD for a newer high record in case of a positive UK CPI associated with previous hawkish speech by Carney, head of BOE.
Add to that, U.S Dollar continues digging lower with 94.49 2017 fresh-low. Expectations of further tumbling for the U.S Index in the coming days as Reuters reported a setback yesterday for health care program and a major conflict among Republicans regarding the system.
UK Data, after a release, will be followed by Gov. Carney in the afternoon with expectation for a hawkish tone supporting Sterling sharp tone facing pace buck, but still UK CPI will set the tone for Carney.
Our preference: long positions above 1.1510 with targets at 1.1565 & 1.1585 in extension.
Our preference: short positions below 1.3060 with targets at 1.3000 & 1.2950 in extension.
Our preference: short positions below 112.40 with targets at 111.75 & 111.50 in extension.
Our preference: long positions above 0.7865 with targets at 0.7950 & 0.7990 in extension.
Our preference: long positions above 1238.00 with targets at 1247.00 & 1250.00 in extension.
Crude Oil still fails to close above $47 level, developing a habit with a sharp slip as a phobia. Through out July, crude oil was seen flirting with $47.00+, and yesterday, oil peaked to $47.12, giving potential for further advance, then failed to guard gains and closed at $46.41. Currently oil is trading at 50-EMA level at $46.46 intraday, and in case market closes above it, we could see some further gains in the coming days.
Fundamentally, market is still receiving mix signals between OPEC pledging for further actions to curb global output and U.S increasing inventories that was reported yesterday.
Australian Dollar extended the intensive inclines, searching for newer highs as AUD/USD clocks multi years 0.7947 today. The pair uptrend found support by recent hawish RBA statement, positive Chinese GDP on Monday opening session, and continuous collapsing U.S Dollar as the Index with 94.26 low yesterday.


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Q: Windows XP corrupts registry every several hours There is a Dell XPS 400 with Windows Media Center installer.
It is installed on RAID (Intel Matrix Storage) which is built-in chipset south bridge.
Raid has two 150 Gb WDC drivers connected as mirror.
All drivers and updates are installed( sp3 and so on).
A week ago PC changed its video mode to 256 colors (like VESA mode) and after several moments I got BSOD: c000021a: 0xc0000005
Doctor watson did not create dump although it is installed as default debugger.
After reboot it said that config file is missing or corrupted. So, I boot to recovery console and found that registry file (config) is so small. I've replaced it with one from recovery point and windows booted sucessfully.
But after about 3 hrs -- it has crashed again in the same wat!
I look in event viewer: is said that Explorer.exe failed to open \global??\DLIAFS.
I look in winobj, and found that it is a device. I made "deny from everyone" for this device ACL, and after several hours my windows crashed.
I restored registry, boot again and there was no error about DLIAFS. I did full chkdsk and it did not found anything bad. But I found event about error paging to \Harddrive1\D. I do not have pagefile there, but I thought I should check my disk again. Unfortunatelly I cannt use smart tools for RAID, but I downloaded latest software from Intel (it can do the same things like RAID bios can but from windows).
It verified my disks, found some errors, fix them, than I rebooted. And it crashed again.
I am lost. What (except kernel debugging) could be done here?
Thanks

A: Sounds like bad ram to me, as Dan suggested get the Ultimate Boot CD and run memtest86+
I built a machine that kept killing the registry, anywhere between 1 minute after boot to an hour...  Memtest86 showed a fault and half an hour later I had a new stick of RAM from the shop.

A: Sounds like bad hardware. Try booting from the Ultimate Windows Boot CD and run scans on the drives directly. One of them is most likely bad.

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I look in event viewer: is said that Explorer.exe failed to open \global??\DLIAFS

It sounds an awful lot like an infection to me.  First-generation malware did a great job of mucky-mucking things up, and getting explorer to play along with whatever crapware was inserted usually was the first indication something was wrong.  Couple this with the system wanting to access some random 5 or 6 character string that was a program wedged somewhere on the boot drive and you have all the signs of an infection.  I'd boot a live linux CD and run a scanner (clamav), or pull the drive and attach it to a machine with known-good antivirus/antimalware protection and scan it.

I restored registry, boot again and there was no error about DLIAFS. I did full chkdsk and it did not found anything bad. But I found event about error paging to \Harddrive1\D. I do not have pagefile there, but I thought I should check my disk again. Unfortunatelly I cannt use smart tools for RAID, but I downloaded latest software from Intel (it can do the same things like RAID bios can but from windows). It verified my disks, found some errors, fix them, than I rebooted. And it crashed again.

If the malware scan doesn't pay off, I'd look closely at your RAM. Unseated or bad RAM could cause this.  Power the machine off, re-seat all of your memory (unlatch it, then re-latch it to the socket), and try again.  If it persists, pull all of the sticks and place them back in one at a time (or in pairs if your system requires it), or better yet see if you can borrow some RAM from someone else.
You can use smart tools to monitor individual drives.

A: Have you run a virus/trojan scan?
It's unusual (but not unknown) for malware to completely destroy your OS, as it's more useful (to the writer) to have your machine working for them.

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The Rebirth of Elisa Waut ! In 1984 Elisa Waut (Elsje Helewaut, Hans Helewaut and Chery Derycke) won Humo's Rock Rally. After a unique track record of 6 albums (Elisa Waut 1985, Commedia 1987, Bloom Boom 1989, Wood Nymph Blonde 1991, Angelus 1994 and Mystica 1998) and 15 singles, including the classic "Four Times More", Elisa Waut's musical career came to a spontaneous halt in 1998. For 17 years she was quiet. But it was Elsje's highly-sensitive tendency, which is both a curse and a blessing for her, that prompted her to start writing and singing again. Together with Chery she had an abundance of inspiration for many new songs. Hans felt a call to join the duo and surprised them with his refined cinematic arrangements and contemporary production.
A spark had lit a bonfire. Earlier this year their 1st single "Blossom" was released, a precursor of a new spring. Today we have "Portraits and Landscapes", their 7th album, and the 2nd single "Portrait". Loyal to their three-way chemistry, Elisa Waut has been completely reborn in the year 2015.
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Mission Bay comes of age
The opening of the Warriors' Chase Center arena is a coming-out party of sorts for San Francisco's newest neighborhood, nearly 40 years in the works
By John King
The opening of the Golden State Warriors' Chase Center next week will mark the flamboyant and unexpected finale of a 40-year exercise in city-building, San Francisco style.
The scene is Mission Bay, a 60-block area that begins 1 mile south of Market Street and for a century consisted of rail yards and industrial sheds. The debate about how to revive it at one point included a proposal for lagoons and a canal. Even now, despite the presence of more than 10,000 residents and a UCSF campus, many Bay Area residents know it only — if at all — as the blur of stocky buildings between the Giants' ballpark and Interstate 280.
This is bound to change as Chase Center hosts countless large events starting with a Sept. 6 kickoff concert featuring Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony and the Warriors' first preseason game on Oct. 5. Visitors will gauge the young neighborhood by what they see around them — good or bad, exciting or dull — not by comparing it to the plan approved in 1998 that remains on the books.
But the false starts and early expectations are worth revisiting, because Mission Bay — more than any other single piece of San Francisco — shows how difficult it is for cities in today's America to map out what the future will hold.
Urban planning can lay down rules, but it can't control cultural shifts or what the economy might bring. Especially in a dynamic but unpredictable region like the Bay Area, real life calls the shots.
A view looking west down China Basin Street from Fourth Street, which is the main shopping corridor in the new Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco.
(Photos By Jessica Christian / The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
In many ways, Mission Bay's transformation is remarkable.
The 303 acres created with fill after the Gold Rush form the base for buildings that range in size from five to 16 stories and hold nearly 6,000 apartments and condominiums, as well as 3.5 million square feet of office and laboratory space. More than 60 acres are reserved for a UCSF research campus and an 878,000-square-foot hospital.
A dog park recently was added across from an ebulliently designed playground. The city's police headquarters opened in 2015, two blocks north of where Uber is building its headquarters. Apartments for formerly homeless people look out on a locally themed miniature golf course that has become a social destination.
But viewed more subjectively — as "another uniquely San Francisco place," to quote the goal laid out by City Hall in 1987 — there's less than meets the eye. What was conceived as a neighborhood instead feels like a puzzle, a collection of parts.
Some parts are alluring, to be sure.
A stroll along Mission Creek, a wide tidal waterway where egrets and seals are common, offers an urbane antidote to urban stress. Gus's Community Market, which opened last winter and specializes in fresh produce and reasonably priced sandwiches, spills out onto the sidewalk at Fourth and Channel streets.
But too many large blocks are filled with monolithic slabs — or, more recently, slabs covered in a variety of colors and facades used by architects to try and suggest you're viewing multiple buildings. Passageways intended to make large blocks pedestrian-friendly often look stark. The same goes for the small plazas that accompany many of the office blocks.
The newest piece of the puzzle is the most surprising yet: Thrive City.
Construction workers and other buildings are reflected in the windows of the new Thrive City along 3rd Street in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif. Thursday, August 22, 2019. (Jessica Christian / The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
That's the name the Golden State Warriors gave the 11 acres that include their privately funded arena as well as two 11-story office buildings. Restaurants and bars will line a large plaza off Third Street on the west side of the arena, below a 2,500-square-foot video screen.
The Warriors entered the scene in 2014 by purchasing the land from Salesforce, which at one point intended to build its headquarters there. The Thrive City branding comes from a marketing deal with nearby Kaiser Permanente that reportedly will net the team as much as $295 million over the next 20 years.
The only real opposition to the Warriors' move came from wealthy UCSF supporters, who filed a lawsuit charging that the facility violated the Mission Bay plan. They also warned that event traffic would block access to the huge UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco.
That legal attack failed. Construction began in 2017.
Traffic concerns are legitimate, and Thrive City indeed covers blocks once planned as part of a biotech zone. But the hospital wasn't part of the 1998 plan, either. Nor was software giant Salesforce, which hadn't yet been founded.
The presence of the Warriors encapsulates the saga of Mission Bay's long path to reality: Many elements of the landscape that has emerged could not have been conceived when the developers, politicians and planners started work.
Mission Bay as solid ground dates to the 1870s, when Southern Pacific Railroad bought tidal flats and filled them with soil and debris to conjure up a rail yard that could serve a fast-growing port in a fast-growing city.
A century later, the port had withered and the freight lines were in decline. Southern Pacific responded by trying to turn its holdings into real estate gold, hiring architects and other consultants to create a plan that would both turn a profit and win public support.
Some of those plans were formulaic. Others, in hindsight, have a fantastical allure — such as the elaborate vision by legendary architect I.M. Pei, released in 1983, to loop a canal through the acreage south of Mission Creek, place an island in the middle and cluster a trio of 40-story towers, intended as corporate icons, at the north end.
The response by Mayor Dianne Feinstein? A chilly letter informing Southern Pacific that the height limit would be eight stories and 30% of all housing units must be affordable.
The city then decided to draw up its own plan, which took until 1990.
By then, Art Agnos was mayor and corporate towers were no longer in demand. Companies wanted what was known as "back-office" space. San Francisco saw Mission Bay as the ideal location.
Catellus, the real estate arm of Southern Pacific, agreed to the new approach. But voters said no, narrowly, and plans were tweaked again (more affordable housing, fewer offices) before City Hall gave the official green light in 1991.
New apartments and office buildings are seen reflected in the waters of Mission Creek, which is home to the only longtime residents of the Mission Bay neighborhood, a community living aboard 20 houseboats moored in the creek.
New apartments and office buildings are seen reflected in the waters of Mission Creek, which is home to the only longtime residents of the Mission Bay neighborhood, a community living aboard 20 houseboats
Photo: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
Chase Center's opening: Nearly 40 years in the works, Mission Bay plan finally realized
That's how things stood in 1994, when Nelson Rising became head of Catellus and was confronted by a plan that already seemed obsolete. It was filled with restrictions imposed by developer-wary critics, including a requirement that offices and housing always had to be built simultaneously no matter what the larger economic picture might be.
As for the idea that back-office space could generate the revenue to pay for public benefits like affordable housing, good luck. Technology had advanced so quickly that such outposts of Financial District firms no longer even had to be within the Bay Area.
"I looked at the plan and saw that it wouldn't work," Rising, now chairman of Rising Realty Partners, said this summer. "We wanted to have something that would be flexible, to take advantage of alternatives that might come about."
What broke the logjam, and cleared the way for today's still-evolving neighborhood, was a new mayor and a new economic model.
Willie Brown took office in 1996. He'd not only been state Assembly speaker, but an attorney with Southern Pacific as a client. He also knew that two large civic players were in a bind: Catellus, which needed something to revive its development efforts, and UCSF, which had almost given up on its search to find room within the city for a new campus.
Taking stock of Mission Bay
303 acres. This includes 60 acres that form the academic medical center of UCSF Mission Bay.
41 acres are in the plan — 19 acres have been completed.
5,789 units completed so far, with 271 more under construction. The neighborhood plan allows 6,500 units, roughly 30% of them affordable.
Offices and research space
2.6 million square feet have been completed with an additional 1.8 million square feet under construction. This includes 913,000 square feet in four buildings along Third Street — all of which will be occupied by Uber.
Civic uses
The headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department is on Third Street, and there is a branch library on Fourth Street near Mission Creek. One block on the neighborhood's west side is reserved for a public school.
Besides the obvious answer — Chase Center, new home of the Golden State Warriors — a 250-room hotel is scheduled to open late next year. Work has begun on a 5.4-acre bayfront park with a ferry terminal set to open in 2021.
Source: Mission Bay Development Group and San Francisco's Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure
"We had the serendipity of a new mayor who had experience in deal-making," said Kofi Bonner, part of Brown's staff at the time and now a top executive at the development firm FivePoint. "Willie was able to connect the dots."
Soon there was a new vision: UCSF would receive 43 acres from Catellus and the city if it agreed to build its research campus in Mission Bay. The gamble was that the university's presence would give the long-stalled project an anchor, while helping to attract biotech firms that instead were setting up shop in places like South San Francisco.
The plan approved unanimously by the Board of Supervisors in 1998 included a districtwide affordable housing requirement of roughly 30%, one holdover from Feinstein's time. Catellus agreed to build and maintain 43 acres of parks. Mission Bay's 20 houseboats were protected in perpetuity.
This new approach also made it easier for developers.
Brown made Mission Bay a redevelopment district, a move that helped pay for infrastructure upgrades by using tax revenue that otherwise would have gone to the state. The square footage that Catellus had hoped to build on the UCSF land was spread across the rest of Mission Bay — one reason so many blocks within the neighborhood look so stubby.
The blocks intended for medical research, meanwhile, were zoned so that standard offices could be built as well. This paid off when biotech proved to be a fairly minor presence. The city's ongoing tech boom has filled the void instead, with recent commercial buildings being designed for the likes of Uber and Dropbox.
Dean Macris, who served Feinstein and Agnos as planning director, takes the various twists and turns in stride.
"A big project like Mission Bay, there are going to be false starts," said Macris, who also served as the city's top planner under then-Mayor Gavin Newsom from 2004 until 2008. "As time passes, needs change."
John Rahaim, who succeeded Macris in 2008 and remains the city's planning director, admits to mixed feelings about what took shape.
"Mission Bay is definitely of its time," Rahaim said this summer. "Some parts are interesting, but ... it's not what we would do now."
I-280 skirts Mariposa Park at the southern end.
(Jessica Christian / The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
Mission Bay makes two seemingly contradictory points about the value of long-range planning.
It can't predict the future. But it can lay the groundwork for profound change.
The futility is seen in how plan after plan depended on economic assumptions that were confounded again and again. Corporate towers weren't the financial engine. Nor was back-office space. The UCSF gamble paid off, but it hasn't sparked the biomedical boomtown that was anticipated.
Notions of what constitutes "good" urban design aren't carved in stone, either.
Tall buildings were taboo anywhere outside the Financial District during the 1980s, which is why Feinstein could cap those Mission Bay towers at eight stories. The plan now on the books allows twice that, and 28 acres the Giants now use as a parking lot along China Basin at the north end of Mission Bay will sprout 24-story towers under the plan approved by voters in 2015.
More subtle assumptions, no matter how well-intentioned, can also fall short.
Consider Mission Bay Commons, intended as a five-block grassy stretch modeled on South Park and the Panhandle.
The two blocks that are fully landscaped, closest to the bay, get little use despite lawns and shaded benches. The blocks to the west, where food trucks and the miniature golf course were added on a whim a few years ago, draw people throughout the day.
"If you do a plan well enough to set the table, so to speak, then people find ways to make things work," said Karen Alschuler, whose firm SMWM worked on the parameters of the 1998 plan. "The details change, but you need to provide the infrastructure."
At a scale like this, infrastructure refers to more than streets and sewer lines. It's also the framework of where parks are located or how wide the sidewalks will be — the human touches that can make a place feel inviting.
Structures made of twigs and other tree materials are inside the busy Mission Bay Kids' Park, where children swing on monkey bars and other play structures, which opened in 2016 along Long Bridge Street.
Those elements could be the ones that ultimately define Mission Bay's public image.
A big part of what makes this area feel so unlike other San Francisco neighborhoods is that it has developed one block at a time, one big piece after another. But as the pieces come together, with trees and shrubs and plants in between, what looks awkward from afar is more comfortable up close.
This is starting to be the case along Fourth Street south of Mission Creek, which seems relatively cozy and is intended to be the neighborhood's retail corridor. Around the corner on Long Bridge Street, the commotion at the children's playground makes more of an impression than the architecture around it.
"The public spaces are coming into the foreground and the buildings are settling into the background, and that's the way it should be," said Kelley Kahn. Now a policy director for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Kahn worked on Mission Bay for San Francisco's Redevelopment Agency from 2006 until 2013.
"Some buildings are better than others, but the collective scale is what's key," Kahn commented after a walk through Mission Bay this summer. "This is how it was supposed to feel."
The aim of planners through the 1980s and early '90s was to craft a plan for Mission Bay where every possible outcome was preordained. That wasn't realistic then. It's even less realistic now as technology and social trends continue to take new forms.
Instead, a 21st century neighborhood has emerged. Mission Bay is home to people of all incomes, while absorbing unexpected elements such as a hospital and a sports arena with relatively little controversy. There's a lively residential scene in Dogpatch to the south and a mix of new housing and commercial complexes on the other side of I-280 to the west.
With each passing year, it becomes harder to tell Mission Bay apart from its surroundings. In some ways, that's the best measure of success that a long-range plan can have.
John King is The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. Email: jking@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @johnkingsfchron

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John Brennan isn't fooling anybody. I started the Ban Sharia Brand in 2014. He might have been the leader of the CIA, but I psychologically profiled him a long time ago as a Useful Idiot that wishes to bring Muslim Communism to the rest of us.
They are only Capitalists as far as their relationships with themselves. They are communists in relationships with U.S. or them slaves.


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Guayaquil Ecuador, San Francisco Church
The San Francisco Church of Guayaquil is the third oldest in the city and its source is connected with the transfer of the Franciscan Order to New Town, the first decade of the eighteenth century. It is also a symbol of Catholics living in the city and profess their faith in the temple, has now been embellished by the municipality you light the city has been placed, to provide a spectacular being a site visit both domestic and international tourists.
City: Guayaquil
Address:Ave. 9 de Octubre and Pedro Carbo
Schedule of attention:Daily from 09:00 to 18:00
Information of San Francisco Church
The Church of San Francisco de Guayaquil was built in the early nineteenth century. It was destroyed several times by fire is rebuilt again and again. In the early years of the 1920s, performed the first restoration work and some changes in its facade, following the details of who owned the original building was built entirely of wood.
Its main tower is its main distinction, if you go inside the church will find that is divided into three naves, where are located two works of colonial carved, covered with gold leaf, the magnificent altarpiece altar and the beautiful and unique pulpit.
Inside we can find important works of art, like sculpture of the Descent from the Cross of Alvarado and Figueroa. It also has important groups of sculptures of colonial and republican that give a touch of seclusion and peace.
San Francisco Square
Also called Plaza Rocafuerte, today is a place for outdoor exhibitions and plays. Favorite spot for tourists to be photographed because of their peculiar style and the number of pigeons that live there. Walking a little can find handicrafts made by Otavalo and a number of shops and restaurants for the enjoyment of those visiting this area.
1. San Francisco Church Guayaquil
Map San Francisco Church, Guayaquil Ecuador
<<~ city previous: Metropolitan CathedralNext: Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas ~>>
Activities and Sites of interest in Guayaquil
Malecon 2000
On the Malecon, you can visit important monuments of the history of Guayaquil, museums, gardens, fountains, shopping centers, restaurants, bars, food courts, cinemas, and docks, where you could board a ship for a journey by the river Guayas.
Las Peñas Neighborhood
It is the neighborhood oldest and most emblematic of Guayaquil, the houses date back more than a century. It is located on Cerro Santa Ana and built houses that belonged to important people of Ecuadorian history.
Malecon del Salado
The detail that stands out most in the huge work that represents the Malecón del Salado is the suspension footbridge, which has a length of 55 feet, arched and linking the north and south block of the work of two plants, which is the symbol of the new Malecon.
Located in the premises of the Colegio Militar Eloy Alfaro, has stories, legends and relics dating from the colonial era. It has a varied and rich collection of painting and photography, comprising more than 60 original oil paintings by renowned painters.
Centenario Park
Centenario Park is home to the column with that country Guayaquil and pay tribute to the men who wrote the story of the October 9, 1820. At its core is the Column of the Founding Fathers of the emancipation minded local and regional levels.
Its imposing structure and design that dates from 1907 and was declared Historical Heritage of the City, was operated on and restored to house cultural exhibits two glass urns that highlight the metal structure
Seminary Park
It is also known as the Park of the Iguanas, for the many iguanas that live in it, is located in what 300 years ago was the center of colonial Guayaquil, still maintaining the atmosphere of classical antiquity that makes it so special.
General Cemetery
Guayaquil Cemetery is also called "white city", marble mausoleums carved by Italian artists such as Enrico Pacciani. adorn the headstones of the most outstanding men and women across the country's history.
Metropolitan Cathedral
It was the second temple and the first parish church of Guayaquil. towers have beautiful semi-Gothic style, is one of the most visited city. Inside there are three naves whose large and spacious windows the light enters through the windows.
San Francisco Church
It was the third who settled in the city, it is believed that his foundation was the August 2, 1603, feast of Our Lady of the Angels and day of great importance to the Franciscans. Both inside and outside the building have been inserted classical elements.


Are We Letting God the Father Rescue (Preserve) Us in the midst of the Storms of Life through Jesus Christ His Son?
Matthew 14:22 "And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid." KJV online. Image from Dore's Bible Gallery 1800's online.


The younger brother of Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore, Luka Bloom (AKA Barry Moore) decided to relocate to the United States in 1987. Re-christening himself Luka Bloom during the plane trip (Luka from the Suzanne Vega song, Bloom from James Joyce's 'Ulysses'), he took the first step toward establishing his new identy.
A master interpreter, Bloom has always balanced original songs with reinventions of material by a diverse range of songwriters. His reworking of LL Cool J's 'I Need Love' transformed the song from its hip-hop origins to a brogue-inflected folk tune, while his 2000 album 'Keeper Of The Flame' featured covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, ABBA and Radiohead. 'Between The Mountain And The Moon', Bloom's first full album of original compositions on his own label, revisits the characters and folklore of his native Ireland.
Launching his career in the 1970s, Bloom was encouraged by his brother, who hired him to play with his groups Planxty and Moving Hearts. He recorded three impressive solo albums in the 1970s and '80s before leaving Ireland for Washington, D.C. Determined to earn an audience on his own merits he took a residency at a Georgetown pub, where he honed his solo act. Bloom's reputation as a skilled guitarist and uplifting performer continued to grow. Accepting a second residency at the Red Lion in New York's Greenwich Village, he began to shuttle between the two clubs. By the end of the year, he had elected to make New York his home. The decision proved fortuitous when his show at the Red Lion was caught by a talent scout from Reprise, who signed him to the label. He subsequently released three acclaimed albums with Warners and one with Sony, before returning home to Ireland where he has continued to record and tour to great acclaim.
Between heaven and earth, from valley to top, between mountain and moon, that's where the Irish bard Luka Bloom always takes his audience to. That goes for his latest cd with the uplifting title "Between the Mountain and the Moon" as well.
What's more, the man is quite productive lately, with an overview of his earlier years on the recent album "The Barry Moore Years" and the occasional project "Keeper of the Flame", on which Luka Bloom brings a selection of his musical inspirations, from Bob Dylan to The Cure.
This energetic zealousness reveals Bloom's great respect for music. He gives his guitars affectionate names and plays them as if they were his self-created lovers. From this man you can only expect passion, fire, sweat and open-handed eagerness. The music on the eponimous cd already tickles like some mild highland whiskey, but when you experience the hallmark Luka Bloom in live performance, you realise why the Indians called it firewater.
"Her name is Alyanya. She has just written her first songs, and done her first shows, in Ireland, with me. She has a lovely quiet confidence, which makes her completely natural on stage. Her voice is pure and true, as are her songs. I feel happy to guarantee that people who come to hear my show, will enjoy her."
Rotterdam - When Irish singer Barry Moore was flying several kilometres above his future homeland America in 1987 he did two things. First of all, he took on the stage name Luka Bloom. Luka after Suzanne Vega's song of the same name, and Bloom after the main character of James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". Secondly, he decided to create a solo career, independent from record companies and aimed at a rock audience.
Weekend shows were not a part of that. Bloom only wanted to play on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so the audience would really come to listen to him. So the acoustic solo guitar player repeated last night at the new Luxor Theatre that Monday is his favourite day to perform. And next he played a passionate rendition of the song "You", dedicated to the audience, and he went on to excel for two hours on the steel strings.
Bloom's (1955) work can be roughly divided in two. One half consists of folky chords played like lightning, the other half of quiet and clear, subdued strumming. Both he played with great craftsmanship and precision last night. But too much resonance deprived the fast numbers a little of their subtlety. Bloom knows how to create an orchestral dimension with his three six-string guitars (Rudy, Judy and Coogee). And then he may be a little loud, even all by himself.
Apart from that Bloom gave a very warm and nearly faultless performance last night. Much of his charm is derived from his pretended nonchalance. Bloom waddles across the stage stiffly, as if he came straight from the pub. He makes carefully rehearsed jokes, inserted spontaneously between songs. And he knows how to take his audience effortlessly from melancholy to joy. Bloom always remains the honest and straightforward Irishman. Not with a thick tongue, but with a genuine accent.
Known particularly for his own songs, Bloom also played a number of covers last night. Joni Mitchell's "Urge for Going", Bloom's favourite autumn song, strummed like a steel waterfall. Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love", reduced to a few simple chords, leaning heavily on Bloom's powerful voice. And Bob Marley's "Natural Mystic", a funny Irish-Jamaican mix, coming from a love for reggae that Bloom shares with his Irish support act Alyanya.
Strong numbers by Luka himself were, among others, "Dreams in America", and "Love Is A Place I Dream Of". Encores were the slightly off-key, but intensely spiritual "Gabriel", and the stamping folk hit "You Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time". Also obligatory, the cover that gained Bloom his great fame here in 1992: L.L. Cool J's "I Need Love". Yes, the lighter song. Though Bloom warned the audience about this at the start. "Folks, leave the lighters in your pockets. Or it is time for me to retire".
Luka Bloom at the new Luxor Theatre.
When indolence threatens, Luka asks the people sitting in the balcony to take the empty chairs in front of the stage. The slightly formal atmosphere is suddenly transformed into an intimate concert.
A little later the audience gathers together in front of the stage. "It is as if my concert only starts now", the Irish singer and guitarplayer jokes. But it is not a joke. When he finishes with the lesser known "You" - from the old cd "Acoustic Motorbike" - it is obvious that this is not the end of the show. The audience movingly sings along with "The Fertile Rock", one of five encores, as they did with "Sunny Sailor Boy" earlier on. After a two hour show without a break the Irishman proudly mingles with the enthusiastic crowd in the lobby.
One singer and a guitar, you can't really get smaller than that. Luka Bloom, however, is the ultimate one man band. He combines great guitar technique with carefully worked out amplification. He has no problem at all with the combination of chords and solos. And the high speed at which he moves his strings makes them sing.
His latest cd "Between the Mountain and the Moon" - a year old by now - exudes the quiet of the Irish countryside Luka returned to after a long period in New York. But in his concert he is still the energetic, rocking city singer-songwriter, with a warm voice, which this time had a little more trouble with the higher notes.
Luka Bloom shows himself to be a master of the dynamic. With great subtlety he strums the strings during "Keeper of the Flame", while he punishes them with his plectrum during songs like "Ciara" and the new "Bogman" (Ik ben een boer, he translates into fluent Dutch).
The classic "Black is the Colour (of my True Love's Hair)" he extends with a spine tingling guitar solo to a true highlight. More were to follow, like "Gabriel" and most of all "Love Is a Place I Dream Of". In this very sensitive song Sinéad O'Connor sings with Luka on the CD, here 20 year old Alyanya takes on that role surprisingly. This talented Dublin singer-songwriter also opened for Luka, and she reminded us of Suzanne Vega. If her guitarplaying gets a little of Luka's dynamic we will hear more of her.
Luka Bloom, Friday 15 November 2002, Muziekcentrum Eindhoven.
The first tour in Dutch theatres of this singer/songwriter was a huge success. Public and press alike were equally enthusiastic. Now Luka Bloom is back for his second tour in Holland, in which he will treat his audience to Irish folk, but also alternative pop, rock and reggae.
for photos, posters, setlists, reviews and information of the tour!


A field of illuminated and dancing water lillies, the installation Oasis has been drawing crowds at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens as part of the ongoing VIVID Festival.
It is created at the site of NSW's permanent memorial to the Forgotten Australians, on the water feature known as Twin Ponds.
In this place, we remember the many thousands of NSW children who grew up in care in the decades leading up to the 1990s – in orphanages, in Children's Homes and foster homes, in institutions. We remember the lonely, the frightened, the lost, the abused – those who never knew the joy of a loving family, who suffered too often at the hands of a system meant to provide for their safety and wellbeing. We rejoice in their courage and strength.
The site of this lasting memorial is currently home to another – albeit temporary – tribute to those who experienced out-of-home care. The 'lillies' light up to piped music, and illuminate the trees above. Artificial mist adds a touch of mystery.
Created by Gunjit Kaur, James Feng and Minh Au, Oasis aims to bring out of the shadows, the experiences of Forgotten children. The neglect and abuse they faced, as well as the strength and resilience that emerged, are at the core of this work of art.
In some ways, the slender pipe also evokes the 'thread' that is a significant part of the Western Australian memorial to the Forgotten Australians: There is a strong thread that links the way a child is raised with the person they become in adulthood. This memorial stands as a reminder of that thread to all who create policies that affect children.
The 20-minute mix is made up of bits from popular as well as classical music, and snippets from TV and radio shows.
The end is beautifully soothing, in the hope that there is some resolution, perhaps even peace.
And that, in essence, is at the aim of this evocative piece – for viewers to experience a variety of feelings as they are urged to get into the shoes of a 'lost' generation of kids.
It wasn't until 2009 that care-leavers received some solace when the then Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd issued a statement of acknowledgement and apology in Parliament for their maltreatment. Today there are legal and social support services available for them and their families.
Gunjit met her artist-colleagues James and Minh at uni, where she studied architecture and engineering. The trio hope to work on other creative projects in the future.
Work on Oasis commenced late last year, she revealed, as the core team sussed out the site.
The bulk of the work took place in the nearly two weeks of assembly. And yet, Gunjit added, the challenges continued on location. Overnight, as installation was underway, ducks flew in and tried to land in the pool, knocking over 200 of the bottles.


The Stealth Star series is an attempt to find undervalued fantasy assets as determined by the RotoViz Similarity Score Apps. The first two articles focus on elite reality quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger and Joe Flacco. Both players appear on the verge of fantasy breakouts.
Amid exuberance about his 5.5 yards per carry average as a rookie, DeMarco Murray was a borderline first round pick in 2012 fantasy drafts. The former Sooner had posted a 4.37 forty at the NFL Combine, leaving him with a dazzling 117 Speed Score. The Dallas Cowboys were going to be explosive, yet more committed to the run. It was a perfect storm for the young runner's ascent to stardom.
I have to admit, I found it easier to make the case against Murray last season. Yards per carry averages tend to be pretty fluky and have little predictive value. Murray was oft-injured in college, injured as a rookie, and unimpressive as a junior and senior at Oklahoma. Moreover, some of the advanced splits at PFF suggested Murray's apparent superiority to Felix Jones was more the product of luck than a true talent gap.
It appears that I was right on Murray. He played in only ten games, managed a mere four touchdowns, and was held below a thousand yards from scrimmage. Fantasy players who drafted a receiver in his stead were rewarded with big seasons from players like Brandon Marshall and A.J. Green.
But perhaps I was merely lucky. Maybe the odds favored Murray's emergence, but fate conspired against him.
Entering 2013, Murray's ADP has fallen to the bottom of the second round where he's competing with guys like Frank Gore and Darren Sproles. A quick look at the RotoViz Similarity Scores for these players confirms that history is on the side of the Dallas runner.
* A glance at the chart may lead you to believe that these are the standard scoring numbers, but this is PPR. Keep that in mind when you're considering Darren Sproles.
Often when Similarity Scores are mentioned, skeptics claim that the computer doesn't realize how changes to players' situations will impact their projections. In this case, Gore, Sproles, and Murray remain in fairly stable environments, giving us a good window into their 2013 prospects.
This is what the app does know. It knows Murray is young and relatively big. It knows how often he carried the ball per game and how many receptions he corralled. Moreover, it knows he only played in ten games and only averaged 4.1 yards per carry. And it doesn't care.
Well, that's not precisely true. If Murray had played in more games or averaged a Peterson-like 6.0 yards per carry, his projection would be even better. His low projection especially.
But possibly the most interesting thing is how his projection is actually impacted by those missed games. Among the many trailblazing innovations available with your subscription to RotoViz is the ability to look at the idea of injury-prone in a way that isn't based on intuition, anecdote, or random guesswork. The RB App has just been updated to allow you to include games played as a factor in the future projection. And the results can be surprising. Here's how it impacts Murray.
If you're extremely risk-averse in your draft approach, you might want to be a little more wary of Murray. But his median projection is still better than the high projections for Gore and Sproles. (Numbers in the first chart are .5 injury weight.) Meanwhile, his high projection actually improves. If you're a believer in Murray, you're going to be getting an even bigger discount than you thought.
DeMarco Murray's ADP is the perfect example of an exploitable inefficiency. As avid game watchers and fantasy players, we have a hidden bias against players who were injured the previous season or didn't appear particularly efficient. It's easy to forget that history clearly shows age, size, touches, and receptions to be more salient qualities in projecting future success.
Outside of the clear cut RB stars, DeMarco Murray possesses the best chance of putting up elite RB1 numbers. His expected value dwarfs that of the runners being drafted in the same range. His expected value above replacement will easily eclipse the trendy second round wide receivers in most formats.
DeMarco Murray could be the entire key to your 2013 fantasy season. But don't take my word for it. Play with the RB Similarity Score App and find out for yourself.


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Apparitions – debiutancki album zespołu Hungry Lucy wydany w 2000. W sierpniu 2001 nakładem Alfa Matrix wydano zremasterowaną wersję pt. Apparitions: Revisited zawierającą oryginalne utwory i remiksy niektórych z nich wykonane przez europejskich artystów.

Lista utworów

Apparitions
 Alfred (4:47)
 Blue Dress (4:08)
 Bound In Blood [insomnia mix] (4:37)
 Grave (5:31)
 Blame (4:10)
 Stretch (4:56)
 Journey (3:47)
 Cover Me (5:24)
 Bound in Blood [waltz lullaby] (3:28)
 Bed Of Flames (4:14)
 Stretch [battery mix] (6:14)
 Grave [digger mix] (4:54)
 Ode (3:07)
 Goodbye (2:47)

Apparitions: Revisited
 Blame
 Stretch
 Alfred
 Journey
 Bound In Blood [insomnia mix]
 Grave
 Blue Dress
 Cover Me
 Bed Of Flames
 Stretch [neverwood mix]
 Alfred [timeless mix]
 Grave [no comment mix]
 Stretch [mnemonic mix]
 Ode
 Goodbye

Przypisy

Albumy Hungry Lucy
Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 2000

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The progress and wellbeing of each individual child is of paramount importance. Through a broad and engaging curriculum we strive to ensure that each child develops a lively, creative and curious mind to lay the foundations for their journey as a lifelong learner. With a strong moral code, we encourage self-confidence, independence and a sense of mutual respect, and help them grow into positive, responsible people who can work with others and who are better equipped for life today.
We are a small school situated on Dundry Hill, enjoying spectacular views over Bristol and the Severn Bridges towards Wales. The school has been on this site and serving the community of Dundry since 1858 and continues to enjoy strong links with the local church.
Our school is a happy, friendly place where we aim to help our children develop into confident individuals. We want to enable them to become resilient and creative learners, who show respect for others and the world around them. Above all, we will inspire our children to achieve their best in all things.
Our school has served Farrington Gurney and the surrounding community for 160 years, consistently producing high standards of education. Our supportive and intimate environment allows children of all ages and abilities to achieve their best within a safe, secure and creative environment.
There is a strong Christian ethos within the school, in which we encourage pupils and adults to have a caring and considerate attitude towards one another. We recognise and value the uniqueness of every child and encourage them to develop their independence and confidence.
Mr Daniel Turull is the Headteacher, working alongside a very strong and committed team of teachers and support staff.
Please contact Mrs Michelle Hazard in the school office if you have any queries or questions. The school's telephone number is 01761 452419 and our email address is office@farringtongurneyschool.co.uk.
Hemington Primary School is a very popular, small school set in the picturesque Somerset village of Hemington. We are based in a beautiful Victorian building and benefit from a field, sensory garden and wooded conservation area.
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Gareth Griffiths Headteacher of High Littleton Primary School stated; 'Children from High Littleton are already using food technology facilities at Norton Hill and we are also preparing training materials on the new Key Stage 2 curriculum for English and Maths teachers at both Norton Hill and Somervale. This sharing of information, facilities and a continued focus on improving all three schools is deeply exciting and is exactly what we should be doing for the local area'.
At Leigh on Mendip, our school ethos is to provide the school community with a safe, challenging and creative environment in which we care and respect individuals, their needs and skills, to ensure we are 'working together to achieve our best'.
This is a happy, family school in which we encourage all members of the school to have a caring and considerate attitude towards one another; this strong community spirit is fostered by everyone involved in the school. The school enjoys an excellent reputation for providing a broad and balanced, challenging and creative environment, made possible by our highly committed team of teachers, governors and support staff.
We are a leading Forest School and are committed to outdoor learning. In addition to every child benefiting from a weekly dedicated Forest session which is exploited for cross-curricular opportunities, Forest School is also a means of providing small-group nurture support. I greatly believe that Forest School activities are a great benefit to pupils both academically and socially, helping them to grow into confident, well - rounded individuals who aspire to achieving their very best in life. I believe every child has a gift or talent, whether it is academic, sporting, artistic or vocational. In our role as educators we aim to equip pupils with the skills and confidence to achieve their best in life.
We have established ourselves as a hub for promoting learning outside. As a school we are supporting other local schools to become outdoor learners and are facilitating the training for other educational providers to become specialists in this field. Over the next year we are promoting learning everywhere, with a focus on the outdoors, learning around heritage and culture and in the local community.
Midsomer Norton Primary lies in the heart of Midsomer Norton just behind the Methodist Church. We have an excellent reputation as an inclusive school with a strong community ethos. On 1st September 2017, the school acquired academy status and formally joined the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership.
At Midsomer Norton Primary School, we believe in 'Learning for Life'. An exciting learning journey begins here! We strive for excellence and to develop confident, independent children with an enthusiasm and love for learning. We have high expectations and encourage children to work to the best of their ability through providing exciting learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom. We aim to prepare children for the opportunities, responsibilities and challenges that life offers.
Being part of a great community is important to us and we are lucky to be situated right in the heart of it! We pride ourselves on the supportive partnerships we create with our parents, other schools and organisations locally and further afield.
We are delighted now to be at the stage of planning for the opening of the new Norton Hill Primary School. The school has been approved by the Department for Education and we have already identified a site near to Norton Hill School which will be suitable for the new school.
Shoscombe C.E. Primary School was founded in 1866 and over the years has been extended and improved to become a unique and attractive building which caters for the needs of the children in the local community. It is situated in picturesque surroundings which offer opportunities for environmental and local studies.
Shoscombe Church School is a small and friendly village school where children are inspired and nurtured to discover their unique potential. Our children shine with self-belief and go into the world with the determination and resilience to follow their dreams.
Our children are polite, happy and excited learners who live and breathe our Christian core values of joy, creativity & wonder, empathy, respect, resilience and aspiration.
At St. John's we recognise and develop the unique gifts and personal qualities of all. Our mission is a simple one: to provide an outstanding education which equips our children with the confidence to love learning, as well as the care and respect for others which will ensure their lifelong success.
Our Christian values support all of our work, and our committed team of staff and governors make sure that every child feels nurtured, respected and proud to belong to the community of St. John's. We wish every child to enjoy life to the fullest and to fulfil our mission to provide "A Foundation for Learning and Caring".
The school is a happy, stimulating and caring place and we expect high standards of behaviour and good manners throughout the school.
We are a happy, inclusive school where everyone is valued. Through learning that is creative, rich and full of opportunities, we aspire to develop a love for learning rooted in Christian values. We encourage children to follow their dreams and have the confidence to be the best they can be.
Our Core Values that we live and breathe every day are: Creativity, Respect, Aspiration, Joy, Kindness, Resilience.
We teach our children that it is important to value who we are as a small school but to also work closely with others in our local, national and international community. Our Christian values and trust in God binds us together.
Trinity Church School works together with everyone involved in order to decide how the school will best meet the needs and interests of the children who attend it. We believe in placing the school at the heart of our community which we serve.
The aim and ethos within the school will be for all children to aim high, reach for the sky and reach their true potential.
Fulfilling potential, achieving success – Aim High!
Welton Primary is a popular semi rural school set in the heart of the beautiful Welton valley providing an education for children from the ages of four to eleven from 8.55am until 3.15pm Monday-Friday. We are delighted to be part of the Midsomer Norton Schools' Partnership and work closely with the other primary and secondary schools in the trust for the benefit of the children at Welton.
Westfield's vision is based on a fundamental belief that 'Everyone is Valued'. Westfield is a school where learning, teaching, achievement and self-worth are always celebrated and recognised. Our five year vision will enable our school, to identify what will be achieved in the short and long term and how we as a school community will contribute to our joint goals.
We will provide a World Class education system in a supportive environment for all our pupils, built upon success, inclusivity and forward thinking to equip our children for the 21st century.
Our purpose at Beechen Cliff is to develop the compassion, aspiration, balance and resilience of each pupil. When pupils leave us we want them to be at ease with themselves, to have a sense of self-worth, to be able to stand up for their beliefs and to be a valuable member of society.
We are proudly traditional in our approach and offer a strong academic curriculum. Although methods of teaching and expectations of society have changed, the essence of a high quality education remains unchanged. It is these timeless qualities and Beechen Cliff's sense of tradition that is valued by generations of parents and pupils.
Norton Hill provides the children of the local community, and beyond, with a first class education based around core traditional values. The vision remains one where children achieve more than they ever thought possible in a safe and healthy environment. A broad and balanced curriculum is offered where high expectations and personal challenge afford outstanding outcomes, both academically and socially. Our extra-curricular opportunities are equally impressive with outdoor education, music, drama, dance and sports all contributing to the outstanding provision available to all our students.
Somervale School has built on its outstanding progress at GCSE over the last three years with another good year of results.
88% of students achieved 5 A*-C passes with those achieving 5 A*-C including English and Maths at 52%. Three of Somervale's highest performing students included; Sam Clark who achieved 12 A*/A grades, Charlotte Hill 9 A*/A's and Leah Battle 8 A*/A grades. The Maths Department led the way in the core subjects with 69% A*-C and in the option subjects Music was the highest performer with 100% A*-C pass rate. In Science and Information Technology over 90% of students achieved at least one A*-C or its equivalent, a rise of over 25% in Science on the figure in 2012.
St Dunstan's is a special place to learn. The ethos for learning is very strong. This is generated through a skilled and strong team of staff with students that are engaged, wellbehaved and focused on learning.
St Dunstan's is a small school and this is a strength. Students and families are well known and the pastoral care is excellent. GCSE classes are often quite small and this supports the students in achieving very strong value added outcomes. In 2015 the value added score was 1013 against a national figure of 1000. This means, across a students' best 10 GCSE grades, they get 4 grades better than expected when compared to national results.
Students at Midsomer Norton Sixth Form have bucked national trends by achieving the best results ever. They smashed last year's results achieving an average of AAB per student and an average of a B grade per entry. 86% of students achieved A*-C, 54% achieved A*-B and over a third of students achieved either A* or A grades. All these measures are above the national average.
Students have been ambitious in their applications this year and 35% of students will be going to a Russell Group university. This has been assisted by the Sixth Form's specialist Russell Group University preparation programme.
Universities attracting Midsomer Norton Sixth Form students include Imperial College, Leeds, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton, York, Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool and Leicester.


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Michael Oser Rabin (ur. 1931 we Wrocławiu, w ówczesnych Niemczech) – specjalista w dziedzinie kryptografii, laureat Nagrody Turinga w 1976, profesor nauk komputerowych w Harvard University.

Urodzony w żydowskiej rodzinie rabinackiej, po wojnie ukończył Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1953), w 1956 zdobył stopień doktorski w Princeton University.

Nagrodę Turinga otrzymał wspólnie z Dana Scottem za pracę napisaną w 1959: Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem, która wprowadzała ideę maszyn niedetermistycznych, inspirujacą w następnych latach liczne badania na tym polu. W 1975 Rabin wynalazł algorytm, który szybko i z minimalnym prawdopodobieństwem błędu potrafi określić, czy dana liczba jest liczbą pierwszą. Algorytm ten znalazł zastosowanie w implementacji szyfrowania z kluczem publicznym. W 1987 wspólnie z Richardem Karpem stworzył skuteczny algorytm wyszukiwania ciągów znaków. Jego obecne prace dotyczą przede wszystkim zagadnień bezpieczeństwa komputerowego.

13 lipca 2007 otrzymał tytuł doktora honoris causa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.

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Linki zewnętrzne
 ACM Turing Award Citation

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Hebrajskiego
Laureaci Nagrody Turinga
Doktorzy honoris causa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Urodzeni w 1931
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Bob Tyrell is a famous tattoo artist, and he lives and works in Michigan. He was born in 1962. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and he was on the shows, London Ink and L.A. Ink, and he was best known for tattooing the back of Kid Rock. He was a jury member for the Chaudesaigues Award, and award that recognizes the artwork and career of other tattoo artists. He was also a member of the World Wide Tattoo Conference in 2012.
On his website, he says that he had a wonderful artist for a father, and he grew up wanting to be an artist, because that example inspired him. He started playing guitar in his early teens, and he gave up art all the way to pursue a career in music. This is common for some tattoo artists to do, like Yoji Harada, and there seems to be a connection between musical talent and artistic talent. He'd wanted to get a tattoo for years, but he didn't get his first tattoo for several years, until he was almost 30. Once he got his first tattoo, he was sucked in, and he got his sleeves and a full piece across his back in a few short years. A lot of prominent tattoo artists describe it as getting hooked or getting sucked in once you get your first tattoo. He also did some art classes and drawing during that time. He took his initial drawings to Eternal Tattoos, where he was based in Detroit, and he was given an apprenticeship, and he was tattooing full-time within three years. He was even able to quit his day job. Now that he's become one of the most prominent tattoo artists in history, it just goes to show you that anyone can do it, no matter how late they start, where they live, or their past pursuits beforehand. It's not something that requires a lot of training or schooling. It just requires talent. It also requires commitment and dedication too.
He was pretty old, the age of 34, when he finally started full-time in tattooing, and he said that it was better late than never. That's the positive attitude you have to have if you want to become one of the world's most prominent tattoo artists. He credits Tom Renshaw with helping him a lot while he was there, and he says that that guy really helped him out a lot in the first couple years. He was at Eternal Tattoos for a six-year period. He currently travels on the road, and he does work at conventions for tattoos and guest spots at tattoo shops.
Bob Tyrell had an interesting life story, and a pursuit as a tattoo artist that was unusual compared to most. That didn't stop him, however, from becoming one of the world's most famous tattoo artists, and he's etched his name into tattoo art history from here on out, pun intended.
There is also a way to buy merchandise on the site, and you can purchase t-shirts and such on the site. There are also art prints. The prices are reasonable at around $20 per shirt and $50 per art print. It's a small price to pay for the level of artistry you get in the work.
Bob Tyrell started out tattooing in an unlikely spot, in Detroit, Michigan, and you would expect it to be harder, but he did just fine. He didn't start a tattoo studio in Los Angeles, Chicago, or New York. He made his own way in life, and he kept at it. That was his success secret.


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WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Congressman David Kustoff (TN-08), issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the United States embassy opening in Jerusalem.
"Today marks an important day for our greatest ally Israel. After years of talk and no action from previous administrations, last year, President Trump kept his promise and moved the United States embassy to Jerusalem. This act sent a message to the world that the United States officially recognizes Jerusalem as the unquestionable capital of Israel. The United States will always stand shoulder to shoulder with our greatest friend and ally, and today is a day that should be celebrated for years to come."
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