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Alfred's Other Game
My dad is a Scrabble aficionado, enthusiast, devotee . . .
(Excessive synonyms use is going to get tiresome, Scrabble themed post or no Scrabble themed post.)
So for Father's Day or more accurately for a time relatively close to Father's Day, a few bits about Scrabble.
In 1938, architect Alfred Butts made the Scrabble prototype. He chose the frequency and point value of letters by analyzing the front page of the New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post and the New York Herald Tribune . . .
as would be reasonable to expect from most architects inventing a word game.
[A word game played] not with a jumble of letters but with a mixture so proportioned that the individual letters will occur in the same frequency as they do in normal word formation would have a proper speed and snap; an excellent balance between the skill of the players and the luck of the draw. - Alfred Butts
He had developed an earlier game Lexiko. Alfred and his friends made the games by hand, producing 12 games per hour.
By August 1934 had sold eighty-four games, for $1.50 each, at a net loss of $20.43.
Alfred tried marketing the new word game as "Criss Cross Words," and then as "It."
Evidently unemployed architect can make a brilliant game but remain naive to successful product branding.
In 1948, James Brunot bought the rights to manufacture the game and he changed the name to Scrabble.
Scrabble is from the Dutch schrabbelan meaning to claw, scrape or make scrawled writing. It is a much better name implying some swashbuckling action.
Brunot paid Butts a royalty of about two-and-a-half cents on each set sold. In 1949, Butts royalties totaled $149.27
In 1952, the president of Macy's played Scrabble on vacation and was surprised that his store did not sell the game. Sales went from 4,853 in 1951 to 3,798,555 in 1954
The instructions for first deluxe version of Scrabble were printed with errors in scoring. Obviously, Scrabble fans wrote in to express their extreme displeasure.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS:
I feel sure Smith was keeping score on your hypothetical Scrabble game. [...] If I were Jones, I'd certainly never play with Smith (or LIFE) again.
I doubt that Jones stands a chance of ever beating such slick-of-hand mathematics as that displayed by Smith.
Alfred invented a game similar to Scrabble and called it "Alfred's other game". Not a success.
Butts calculated that his total income from his invention was $1,066,500, of which he once stated, "One-third [of the royalties] went to taxes. I gave one-third away, and the other third enabled me to have an enjoyable life." (New York Times obituary)
The world's largest game of Scrabble was played in Britain's Wembley Stadium to celebrate Scrabble's 50th birthday. Each tile measured 6ft square and took two men to lift.
To celebrate Scrabble's 60th birthday, several games of Extreme Scrabble were played around the globe.
A $31,800 Scrabble set was designed for the Prague Mind Sports Festival in 2012. The titles contain radio-frequency identification sensors and the board has corresponding sensors. There are also LED's and software to "dramatically light the playing surface."
I would guess there are only so many ways to make watching Scrabble play interesting.
However, a $31,800 price tag makes the Restoration Hardware WALL SCRABBLE® a deal at only $1495.
But if you are going to shell out money, support the artisans . . . Look . . . gorgeous . . . less than $200. Seriously, some amazing stuff.
Per Life Magazine (Dec. 1953) dogs liked the wood Scrabble tiles, and would eat "half a dozen at one sitting."
One in three homes in America and half of the homes in Great Britain have a game of Scrabble. (Draw your own English literacy conclusions.)
"Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia." Eddie Izzard
Merriam-Webster added 5,000 new words in the 5th edition of the Scrabble Dictionary including Selfie, Hashtag, Frenemy and Bormance. (I'm going to lay down a little challenge for my dad. 2,000 Scabble points if you can define all four words.)
In 2008, Hasbro considered adding apostrophes (') and hyphens (-) to the game.
Over 150 million games have been sold in 121 countries. Games are produced in 31 different languages and in Braille.
"Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves." Kelly Link
Scrabble is the 2nd best-selling board game in U.S. history, after Monopoly.
It is estimated (I have no idea by whom) that over a million Scrabble tiles are missing. A significant stash have probably become hot crafting items.
"Monopoly may end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble." Craig Brown
You know there is substantial infatuation with an item if it can compete with Mason Jars as THE Wedding prop!
(If you don't have a Pinterest Wedding board with popular Wedding props, someone in your immediate family does. They will be more than happy to show you.)
A local ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut, prohibits people from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.
"More of his friends were playing Scrabble now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored." David Nicholls
Scrabble jewelry tiles are available in sterling silver, with black diamond letters for $149.
The most points that can be scored on the first go is 128 with muzjiks (Russian peasants).
The most commonly played word in competitive Scrabble is qi (life force.)
In 1989, Phillip Appleby finished a game with 1049 points, the highest officially recorded score.
Dr Karl Khoshnaw holds the record for the highest word score in competition which was 392 points for caziques (plural of West Indian Chiefs).
The longest word playable with only vowels is euouae (a Gregorian cadence) and the longest word with only consonants is crwth(s) (an old Welsh stringed instrument).
The word oxyphenbutazone is part of the single play yielding the highest possible score under American tournament Scrabble rules, scoring 1,780 points across three triple-word-score squares.
Ganesh Asirvatham played 25 Scrabble games at the same time and won 21 of them.
In a recent survey, board games emerged as the leading cause of disharmony during Christmas, with nearly a third of respondents admitting to cheating.
Charles Ryan, former chairman of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design cautioned, "There's no point in getting viciously competitive if everyone else is just there for a few hours of face-to-face, social fun." Wise Christmas words from the former chairman.
A national Scrabble champion and professional Scrabble consultant has several strategy tips of which I will share only two.
(You are welcome.)
Two letter words are going to get you through this game, so pay your respects.
Don't use your S's lightly. Save for something good.
I guessing if my dad knew "professional Scrabble consultant" was an option, he might have chosen an alternative occupation. Not too late to change!
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Leninist assumptions and cult hierarchies
Simon Pirani was part of a panel of three who addressed the CPGB's Communist University under the title of 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
I was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party from 1972, when I was a teenager, until 1985. For a year before that I was in the Young Communist League, along with friends from school, and after I left the WRP I was in its largest offshoot until the early 90s. Since then, although I have been active in politics, including writing about contemporary Russia and a book about the Russian Revolution, I have not been a member of any organisation.
I am going to talk not about the particular politics of the leftwing groups, but about their culture. In other words, the way they operate, the way their members live their lives. This includes the relationship between members of the group and other people; what we might call their 'moral code'; and the often unspoken assumptions that group members have about the way they behave - about big things, such as work, family, enjoyment, friendships; and about smaller things, such as the way we speak, the way we dress, etc.
It is very easy to think of things we do not like about the behaviour of leftwing groups. An obvious example is the way members of some of them unquestioningly repeat the party line and behave intolerantly towards those who do not accept it. I would argue that these symptoms are part of the culture of these groups in a wider sense.
Leftwing groups, including those that resemble sects, operate in a society dominated by a ruling class that is hostile to their aims. Inevitably they are profoundly influenced by the morals and culture of that society, and find it difficult to counter that influence.
This is partly because they limit themselves almost entirely to political questions and do not think about or discuss morals and culture. They do not think about how we live and how we behave, and so everything remains on a superficial level. In my opinion the movement to communism cannot be defined merely as a political movement: it is something much deeper than that.
Arising from this context, there are cult-like and highly negative aspects about the vast majority of the groups - including some that were relatively successful in their own terms. An example that recently struck me is that of the Black Panther Party of the United States, an organisation I absolutely worshipped when I was 13-15 years old. To me these were the guys who were really doing it. They were at the centre of the beast and defying the state. They had a much stronger influence, and were much better anchored in local communities, than any of the groups most of us were involved in. Nevertheless, from the discussion now going on among former members, and publications by them, what is very clear is that a culture of intolerance and authoritarianism, hierarchical relationships within the group, subordination of women to men - that was all there in the Black Panther Party. I am picking that example deliberately because, of the many groups of the 70s and 80s, that is one that comes out looking pretty heroic.
I think there is a problem with the legacy of Bolshevism - although there is also plenty of evidence of hierarchy, authoritarianism or intolerance in anti-Leninist groups, such as anarchists. What I would say about Leninist groups, including Trotskyists, is that the ideological assumption that the Bolshevik Party was the model to follow - and usually completely misunderstood versions of what the Bolshevik Party was and did - is used to reinforce hierarchies. In the 70s and 80s the Leninist groups consciously embraced the idea that they were a vanguard: bringing ideas to relatively ignorant working class people; in Lenin's words, quoting Kautsky, bringing consciousness to the working class "from without".
Now such groups are much less significant than all sorts of other types of organisations and movements, and generally I think that is a good thing. But then, certainly, the groups had this belief, which seems to me to be a glue that held together many of the very negative things about them.
Once you reject the assumption that the working class needs these ideas to be brought to it in this particular way, the reason for the groups to operate in that manner - and indeed to exist - is called into question. This vanguardism also underpins a lot of reactionary nonsense about the role of strong individual leaders.
The WRP exhibited many of the tendencies I have mentioned in a very extreme way: authoritarianism, hierarchical relationships, etc. It was also quite extreme in the sense that it had at its centre a group of about 100-200 people (of which from the age of 16 or so, for about 10-12 years, I was one) - so-called 'professional revolutionaries', who, in most cases, lived very much as a sect.
When I say 'as a sect' I am not talking about sectarianism in the political sense, but about being cut off from family and from former friends, and living a life dominated by a small range of political tasks. This was underpinned by a lot of rubbish about self-sacrifice, Bolshevik discipline, etc.
The other extraordinary aspect of the WRP was that its leader, Gerry Healy, was not only an authoritarian bully in public: he also conducted a string of abusive sexual relationships with women members of the organisation in private. Healy was expelled from the WRP in 1985 on the grounds of (1) this sexual abuse; (2) quite serious violence against one person conducted in private; and (3) behaviour of which the entire organisation was aware - groundlessly accusing another member of being a police agent was the particular example that was mentioned; it was the sort of thing he did absolutely routinely.
In relation to the sexual abuse, we are talking about serial rape, such as might be practised on girls by their fathers or uncles, or within institutions such as the Catholic church; and for which perpetrators might expect long jail sentences in cases where they are caught and tried.
It is important to underline that most members of the organisation were completely unaware of this sexual abuse. It was inflicted on people in secret. However, we unknowingly created the conditions for it by our acceptance of things we were aware of: a hierarchical structure; tolerance towards bullying by individual leaders; intolerance towards people who were outside the group; the deliberate ritual humiliation of members in large meetings - particularly senior members with whom Healy was picking a fight for one reason or another; the expulsion of all those who voiced substantial political disagreement and some who did not - that goes almost without saying; and the use of violence.
Just to explain what I mean by 'violence', it was of the intimidatory type that is used within families - pushing and shoving, etc. It was sometimes a bit more serious than that, but not as serious as the violence used by some national liberation movements against internal dissent, up to and including torture and murder. Such extreme violence has also been used in the course of internal conflicts by so-called socialist organisations that run into political trouble in circumstances of armed struggle and repression. I often think that if the WRP had existed in a context in which guns were available some of its lunacies might have ended up being expressed in people turning guns on each other, as happened, tragically, in some of the fragments of the Irish Republican Socialist Party.
We set out to fight oppression - that is why people joined the organisation - and we ended up creating a machine for disciplining, humiliating and at worst abusing ourselves and other people like us. So destroying that machine in 1985 was a great thing. At another meeting recently I stated that expelling Gerry Healy, which led to the break-up of the WRP in its old form, was "the most revolutionary thing the WRP ever did". I was criticised for saying it, but I think it was right, so I am repeating it here.
The importance of the particular case of the WRP is that it shows the depths of the problems created by cultures of authoritarianism and discipline; and by the cult-like nature of the groups.
Obviously not every section of the Catholic church has priests who abuse young male members of their congregations. But an atheist could very well construct an argument that the Catholic church's very nature prepares the ground for that to happen. I think there is a parallel. There is circumstantial evidence of behaviour similar to Healy's - albeit on a smaller scale - by leaders of other political groups. Obviously a factor here is the sect-like quality of the groups. In so far as a number of Trotskyist groups, particularly in rich countries, ended up like this in the 1970s, that is relevant to the history of Trotskyism in general, although it is only one small aspect.
I would be the last to suggest that there are not other aspects of that history that are more important: Trotsky's critique of Stalinism; the Trotskyists' role in the USSR - until they were defeated and silenced there - and in those countries where they achieved substantial influence in the labour movement, such as France, Bolivia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, etc.
Neither would I say that the sexual abuse, or the culture of authoritarianism and discipline that made it possible, is the whole story of the WRP. It was involved in the class struggle in many ways: the WRP - and the groups that preceded it in the 1950s and 60s - conducted significant activity in the labour movement. For example, during the crisis of the Communist Party that followed the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, the group carried out a lot of important union activity among miners, shipworkers, carworkers, etc. In the 70s and 80s, WRP members of my own generation played an important part in various trade union struggles.
That was the contradictory nature of the WRP and, I expect, many groups - a politics that appeared anti-capitalist and in some sense revolutionary was married to a culture that was deeply anti-revolutionary. That culture is absolutely inimical to any movement towards communism
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Mariana Dale covers early childhood education for KPCC. She'd previously reported for KJZZ, the public radio station in Phoenix since 2016, where she most recently focused on education.
While at KJZZ, Mariana helped found the engagement reporting project, Q&AZ which led her to answer questions about everything from the history of Japanese internment to saguaro cacti.
Mariana has a strong belief in the power of engaged journalism.
"Connecting with the community at every step makes for better journalism," she said. "I'm excited about the opportunity to focus my attention on a beat that has the potential to improve the lives of Southern California families and caregivers."
Mariana was born and raised in Arizona and has worked at papers and radio stations in Tucson and Phoenix. She's also a member of the Next Generation Radio family, and loves "talking about media with the youths!"
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Preparing To Go Back To Preschool In A Pandemic: 'Fun, But In A Different Way'
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It's hard to date this frame accurately. Liquid brazing was in use from the 1920s onwards. I examined 1930s Raleigh catalogues, and brazed-on pump clips appear to have been introduced in the mid-thirties. But the 'All Steel' logo appears to be in a re-designed style that I assume to be post-War.


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Women are too emotional to understand fracking and don't understand the facts… says woman scientist
Posted on June 9, 2020 by Mike Buchanan
It's remarkable what women can say about women as a class, which would immediately be branded 'sexist' or 'misogynistic' if said by men. The start of an article about Professor Averil Macdonald and her thoughts on gender differences with respect to views on fracking, in the Mail:
Many women who are opposed to fracking are too emotional and just 'don't understand' it, one of Britain's leading female scientists has said.
Averil Macdonald, who is the new chair of UK Onshore Oil and Gas, believes women against the process, which includes Vivien Westwood, just go with their gut instincts and ignore the science.
More men will consider the facts but women who make up their minds 'will not be persuaded', the academic said.
A recent study by the University of Nottingham has revealed that only 31.5 per cent of women believe fracking should be allowed in the UK, compared to 58 per cent of men.
Professor Macdonald, who was handed an OBE this year for services to women in science, says a major problem is too few women study it after the age of 16 so lack the knowledge to 'trust' that fracking would be good for Britain.
She told The Times: 'Frequently the women haven't had very much in the way of a science education because they may well have dropped science at 16. [Why would they do that? Don't all 16-year-old girls have a burning ambition to work in STEM fields?] That is just a fact.
'Not only do [they] show more of a concern about fracking, they also know that they don't know and they don't understand. [My emphasis. It would seem that women knowing they don't know and don't understand a topic is no barrier to having a view on it. It's almost as if feelings trump facts for them, isn't it?]
'They are concerned because they don't want to be taking [something] on trust. And that's actually entirely reasonable.'
She said that women are more likely to make to (sic) they (sic) minds based on 'feel' and 'gut reaction' and facts would not change their minds. [my emphasis]
'More men on the other hand will look at the facts and be persuaded because 'fair enough, (I) understand', she said.


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$(COMPILE) -o $*.o -c $*.f
#$(TARGET) : $(OBJECTS)
#   $(COMPILE)  $(OBJECTS) -o $@
#del :
#   /bin/rm $(OBJECTS)

When I run the above script, the following error gets generated.
make: *** No targets.  Stop.

Now I know I have to make some modification with TARGET but not sure where to start or how to modify the target.
Again, my goal is to run the script and generate density.o file.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: GNU Make has built-in rules for making fortran object files from sources, and fortran programs from object files, see https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue-of-Rules.html
Your makefile can therefore be condensed into just the following:
$(TARGET): $(OBJECTS)

Should you want to generate just the object, you can even do that without a makefile:
# make density.o from a sourcefile
make density.o

Note the built-in rules put the object files next to the source files (unless using VPATH etc etc, more about that in the manual), so you'd call it like
make ../SOURCES_COUNTERFLOW/density.o

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BERLIN — Northway Bank has been selected to participate in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston's Equity Builder Program, which assists local homebuyers with down-payment and closing costs as well as homebuyer counseling and rehabilitation assistance.
The $3.6 million program provides grants to financial institutions to assist households at or below 80 percent of the area median income.
Borrowers are eligible to receive up to $15,000 in assistance on a first-come, first-served basis, but also must complete a homebuyer counseling program.
"Homeownership is not easily attainable for many households, so we are pleased to offer this assistance to help individuals and families purchase a home. Homeownership helps build wealth and create financial stability, and programs that assist homebuyers can be effective in adding to the vibrancy of our communities," said Wendy Olson, vice-president, mortgage sales manager at Northway Bank.
Northway Bank is eligible to receive up to $150,000 in 2019 through the Equity Builder Program, depending on availability of funds.
Since 2003, the Equity Builder Program has awarded more than $38.8 million to assist 3,512 income-eligible households to purchase a home.
To learn more, call 800-442-6666 or visit northwaybank.com.


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When I woke up this morning I was excited.Christmas is here and I will see you today.For so much long I prayed and waited.I decided to text you because I want to say,I love you and wish you a Merry Christmas!


Although B2B marketers are now offering a wide array of products and services, new research suggests that B2B buyers are still challenged to search, identify and choose the right solutions for their needs.
Part 3 of Merkle Loyalty Solution's "B-to-B Loyalty Report" recently shed light on these challenges and how they impact B2B buyers. The majority of buyers (65 percent) claimed that their largest obstacle is that B2B marketers are too concerned with selling than listening to their audience's needs. B2B buyers are also challenged because marketers do not understand their needs (31 percent) or their company (30 percent).
"B-to-B sellers who can hit the ground running with their new clients — already familiar with their business operations, daily challenges, and pending opportunities — have a far better chance of creating additional B-to-B relationships and closing deals than sellers without the necessary background or industry knowledge," wrote the authors of the report.
When it comes to making purchase decisions, a personal brand reference appears to matter to B2B buyers. About 61 percent of North American B2B buyers claim that when they have a personal brand preference, they are more likely to buy a B2B product or service for business. Approximately 26 percent stated that they are at least more likely to consider it.
In Part 2 of Merkle's "B-to-B Loyalty Report," research indicated that there were other factors that played a role in buyers' loyalty as well.
The majority of North American buyers (77 percent) stated that reliability keeps them coming back for more. This was followed by prices/discounts (63 percent) and excellent customer service (60 percent).
"Attuned as they are to the importance and profitability of sustained relationships that build loyalty, B-to-B programs can leverage dedicated support to build and sustain relationships with their own business members," wrote the authors of the report.


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Everything That Could Happen in a Soccer Match Happened to Swansea's Jonjo Shelvey Yesterday
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by Chris Ryan
You think you know what it means to run the gamut of human emotions? You have no idea what it means to run the gamut of human emotions. Only one man knows: Jonjo Shelvey. Experience his struggle, and rise up into the sky on the wings of his glory.
Jonjo Shelvey and Brendan Rodgers. #BeingLiverpool pic.twitter.com/02ZsCcofQg
— LFC Fans Corner (@LFCFansCorner) May 30, 2013
That's Shelvey and Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, as seen in the unintentionally hilarious TV documentary Being Liverpool (ENVELOPES!). Guess what. Shelvey doesn't play for Liverpool anymore. The 21-year-old English midfielder was released from the Merseyside nest like a baby bald eagle, told to go find some playing time. He landed in Wales, signing up with Michael Laudrup's Swansea.
Yesterday, Shelvey's old club visited his new club in one of the more entertaining matches of the young season, a 2-2 draw that saw Liverpool stay atop the Premier League table. Before the game, the NBC cameras were trained on Shelvey as if he was Brett Favre returning to Lambeau. To my mind, Jonjo is best known for his Savalas dome and getting tossed from the Liverpool–Manchester United match in 2012. But obviously, whoever was running the booth last night knew something that I didn't. This was Jonjo's night. Like someone in The Guardian's minute-by-minute said, it wasn't Liverpool vs. Swansea, it was Jonjo vs. Jonjo. Jonjo won the game, lost the game, lost it again, then saved it. Gamut. Human. Emotions. I really like writing the word "Jonjo." Here's what happened:
In the second minute, Jonjo scored on his old club, smashing a shot into a midfielder, scooting around Mamadou Sakho, jumping over Martin Skrtel, and smashing one past Simon Mignolet. Jonjo: hero.
In the FOURTH MINUTE (like 120 seconds later), Jonjo made an innocent enough back pass to his keeper, Michel Vorm. You know who else was innocent enough? Lennie from Of Mice and Men. Daniel Sturridge jumped in there and killed the rabbits. Jonjo: villain.
(GIFs via Balls.ie)
After a tense 20 or so minutes of possession football from both teams (lots of passing, and passing, and passing), Jonjo struck again. This time he fired a laser-guided pass across the field to Victor Moses, who happens to play for Liverpool. Moses then got on the board for the Reds with the above snap shot. Jonjo: folk hero!
Then, with his Swansea team down 2-1 in the 64th minute, Jonjo laid this Christmas present header down for Michu …
(GIF via Gerrard8FanPage)
Jonjo's line on the night was one goal, three assists — two for Liverpool, one for Swansea. What a legend. After the match, Jonjo's old manager, Rodgers, said, "Jonjo, bless him, is a terrific boy. He made a brave decision to leave Liverpool FC. He's a terrific young player and I was disappointed when he left." I can't tell how much of that I believe.
Going into the match, Jonjo was probably already feeling a bunch of … well, feelings. Playing against his old team, old teammates, trying to make a fresh start, trying to prove his worth to his new club, and their supporters. Whether you think he was genuinely seeking more playing time, or was deemed surplus to requirements at Liverpool, you have to respect his sense of self-determination. Three or four years ago, he was a prospect coming out of Charlton who drew favorable comparisons to Steven Gerrard. By the end of last season he was barely getting on the field. He went to Swansea to jump-start his career, something a lot of other players on the periphery of big clubs should probably do.
Regardless of how you felt about his on-field performance last night, whether it made you laugh or cry (it should have made you do both), you had to appreciate how genuine he seemed in the postmatch interview …
Human emotions.
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A tracheobronchoplasty is a surgical procedure performed at limited medical facilities across the United States.  It consists of a thoracic surgery during which mesh is sutured to the outside of the patient's trachea through a series of hundreds of knots.  These sutures are in turn pulled taught which subsequently 'opens' the collapsed tissue in the tracheal wall creating an opening with which to process air.  The hope is eventually, this 'scaffolding' of sorts will scar over thereby strengthening the structure and making it permanent.

Recovery time is typically six to nine months and the patient should see gradual improvement in voice control, reduced coughing and an increased ability to move air more effectively.  Not all patients with tracheobronchomalacia can be considered candidates for this procedure.  However, it does offer an alternative for those patients who are unable to tolerate the more traditional stent therapy.

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India has unhealthiest coal power plants in the world: Study
By Anuj Cariappa
| Published: Friday, February 22, 2019, 7:57 [IST]
Geneva, Feb 22: China and the US may be the largest producers of coal power, but power plants in India take the highest toll in the world when it comes to health, a global study claims.
Coal-fired power plants produce more than just carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, said researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Coal burning also releases particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury -- thus damaging the health of many people around the world, they said.
To meet energy demands, coal ministry increases fuel supply to power plants
To estimate where action is most urgently required, the researchers modelled and calculated the undesired side effects of coal power for each of the 7,861 power plant units in the world.
The results, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, show that China and the US are the two largest producers of coal power, but power plants in India take the highest toll in the world when it comes to health.
Central Europe, North America and China all have modern power plants, but Eastern Europe, Russia and India still have many older power plants equipped with insufficient flue gas treatment, said Stefanie Hellweg from ETH Zurich's Institute of Environmental Engineering, who led the study.
As a result, these power plants only remove a fraction of the pollutants -- while also often burning coal of inferior quality.
"More than half of the health effects can be traced back to just one-tenth of the power plants. These power plants should be upgraded or shut down as quickly as possible," said Christopher Oberschelp, the lead author of the study.
The global picture of coal power production shows that the gap between privileged and disadvantaged regions is widening. This is happening for two reasons.
Firstly, wealthy countries -- such as in Europe -- import high-quality coal with a high calorific value and low emissions of harmful sulphur dioxide.
The poorer coal-exporting countries such as Indonesia, Colombia and South Africa are left with low-quality coal, which they often burn in outdated power plants without modern flue gas treatment to remove the sulphur dioxide.
"In Europe, we contribute to global warming with our own power plants, which has a global impact. However, the local health damage caused by particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide occurs mainly in Asia, where coal power is used to manufacture a large proportion of our consumer products," said Oberschelp.
"Global coal resources will last for several hundred years, so the harmful emissions need to be limited politically. It is particularly important to leave coal that is high in mercury and sulphur content in the ground," said Oberschelp.
Researchers said reducing the negative health effects of coal power generation should be a global priority.
India's coal production: What's in store for 2019?
"But further industrialisation, especially in China and India, poses the risk of aggravating the situation instead," they said.
The initial investment costs for the construction of a coal power plant are high, but the subsequent operating costs are low. Power plant operators thus have an economic interest in keeping their plants running for a long time, according to researchers.
"The best option is therefore to not build any new coal power plants. From a health and environment perspective, we should move away from coal and towards natural gas -- and in the long term, towards renewable energy sources," said Oberschelp.
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According to recent reports, Tesla is close to finalizing the agreement with China to produce vehicles in the country. If the deal goes through, it will give Tesla better access to the world's largest auto market.
The agreement would be with the city of Shanghai and would allow Tesla to construct facilities in its Lingang development zone. Anonymous sources say the agreement could come as soon as this week, with details being finalized right now.
Elon Musk recognizes the importance of setting up local production centers in China, where Tesla's revenue has tripled over the last year, rising to more than $1 billion. If the company is able to assemble vehicles locally, it could avoid a 25% tax which makes the Model S and Model X more expensive in China than in the US.
China has recognized the importance of electric vehicles and other non-fossil fuel vehicles as a rapidly emerging industry, and government support has helped the country surpass the United States to become the world's largest market for non-emission vehicles.
Reducing the costs of electric cars is critical to Elon Musk's efforts to reach more mass-market consumers. Tesla is expected to begin rolling out the Model 3 electric sedan next month. Tesla has not yet made the Model 3 available in China, but in the United States, it is expected to be extremely popular with customers standing in long lines to place a $1,000 deposit for the car.
March saw Tencent Holdings Ltd., the biggest Internet company in China, purchase a 5% stake in Tesla for $1.8 billion dollars. If Tesla teams up with the influential company, they could have an easier time gaining traction in the Chinese market which is saturated with new-energy vehicles, having more than 200 companies planning to produce non-fossil fuel cars.


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Q: Fail2Ban regex does not match I'm using fail2ban. For some reason Fail2Ban refuse to compile my regex. Here is my logs that I need to match:
root@server1:/etc/fail2ban/filter.d# tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Sun Apr 20 10:40:05 2014] [error] [client 75.144.181.151] user root: authentication failure for "/phpmyadmin/": Password Mismatch
[Sun Apr 20 10:40:16 2014] [error] [client 75.144.181.151] user root: authentication failure for "/phpmyadmin/": Password Mismatch
[Sun Apr 20 10:40:38 2014] [error] [client 75.144.181.151] user haker not found: /phpmyadmin/
[Sun Apr 20 10:40:44 2014] [error] [client 75.144.181.151] user pentest not found: /phpmyadmin/

and here is my fail2ban filter.d file:
root@server1:/etc/fail2ban/filter.d# cat /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/phpmyadmin.conf
[Definition]
failregex = [client <HOST>;] user .*; not found: \/phpmyadmin\/|[client <HOST>;] user root: authentication failure for "\/phpmyadmin\/":
ignoreregex =

here is my regex line from the file above:
[client <HOST>;] user .*; not found: \/phpmyadmin\/|[client <HOST>;] user root: authentication failure for "\/phpmyadmin\/":

Unfortunately fail2ban log file giving me error about regex: Unable to compile regular expression..
root@server1:/etc/fail2ban# tail /var/log/fail2ban.log
2014-04-20 10:47:06,788 fail2ban.filter : INFO   Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/error.log
2014-04-20 10:47:06,789 fail2ban.filter : INFO   Set maxRetry = 3
2014-04-20 10:47:06,789 fail2ban.filter : INFO   Set findtime = 600
2014-04-20 10:47:06,790 fail2ban.actions: INFO   Set banTime = 600
2014-04-20 10:47:06,790 fail2ban.filter : ERROR  Unable to compile regular expression '[client (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]+);] user .*; not found: \/phpmyadmin\/|[client (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]+);] user root: authentication failure for "\/phpmyadmin\/":'
2014-04-20 10:47:06,794 fail2ban.jail   : INFO   Jail 'ssh' started
2014-04-20 10:47:06,799 fail2ban.jail   : INFO   Jail 'pureftpd' started
2014-04-20 10:47:06,805 fail2ban.jail   : INFO   Jail 'phpmyadmin' started

My regex http://regex101.com/r/kU7tX3. What is wrong with this? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

A: I would have asked a question in comment but i cannot add a comment:
So trying my best to understand the requirement and giving an answer.
Requirement: I think you are looking to filter all lines containing
"authentication failure for "/phpmyadmin/""
You can do so by changing your regular expression to following:
failregex = .*authentication failure for "\/phpmyadmin\/"

You may have to escape "
Please add comments if this wasn't the correct understanding.....


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TEN project 99% done
The TEN project is 99 per cent complete, Kosmos Energy, one of the partners working in Ghana's Jubilee oil fields in the Western Region, has said.
The TEN Project is Tullow's second development following the record delivery of the Jubilee field in 2010. It is expected to produce up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day.
Operated by Tullow, the TEN Project takes its name from the three offshore fields under development – Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme – which are situated in the Deepwater Tano block, around 60km offshore Western Ghana.
In its second-quarter report, Kosmos said: "The TEN project remains on schedule and on budget, with the project now 99% complete and expected to deliver first oil shortly, consistent with the operator's guidance.
"Eight of the eleven previously drilled wells have now been completed. Hook-up and commissioning of the FPSO, connecting the pre-drilled wells to the vessel via the subsea infrastructure, is nearing completion."
The update said a gradual ramp-up in oil production towards the FPSO capacity of 80,000 bopd is anticipated around the end of 2016 as the facilities complete performance testing and well production levels are increased to optimal rates.
Per operator guidance, average annualised production from TEN in 2016 is expected to be approximately 23,000 bopd gross during the year, which equates to an average of approximately 55,000 bopd while it is online in 2016.
Associated gas production at TEN is expected to be re-injected into the Ntomme reservoir gas cap until gas export begins.
Gas export was planned to commence 12 months after field start up, with the Tweneboa gas reservoir coming onstream a further 12 months later.
However, plans to accelerate gas export are currently under evaluation as the fabrication of the gas export facilities has been completed early and can be installed by year end, allowing connection to the existing gas infrastructure early in 2017, the energy firm added.
During the second-quarter, Kosmos announced that it had entered into a farm-out agreement with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES) covering the Block 42 contract area offshore Suriname. Kosmos and its partners in Suriname expect to commence a 6,500 square kilometre 3D seismic survey during the third-quarter.
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"I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one."
"Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"
he died every night to let her breathe.
Please if you can or want to, could you please check my short wattpad novel?
Thanks it's much appreciated, and if you want please leave comments on the book, I would really love to read them.
But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn't it? People you have a history with, they won't let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can't disentangle yourself, can't set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.


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HomeAfghanistanĀbistān-e Pā'īn
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Best time to visit Ābistān-e Pā'īn, Afghanistan
The best time to visit Ābistān-e Pā'īn in Afghanistan is from april until october, when you will have a pleasant till hot temperature and none till limited rainfall. The highest average temperature in Ābistān-e Pā'īn is 35°C in july and the lowest is 11°C in january.
The average climate figure for Ābistān-e Pā'īn is an 8,8. This is based on various factors, such as average temperatures, the chance of precipitation and weather experiences of others.
Ābistān-e Pā'īn has the semi-arid climate prevailing. If you want to know what the average temperature is in Ābistān-e Pā'īn or when most precipitation (rain or snow) falls, you can find an overview below. This way, you are well prepared. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.
Climate Ābistān-e Pā'īn per month
All climate data from Ābistān-e Pā'īn
Ābistān-e Pā'īn in brief
Area 29 km²
Climate Ābistān-e Pā'īn
Ābistān-e Pā'īn has the semi-arid climate prevailing. It is warm to hot all year round and trees don't grow here because of the drought. It consists mainly of sand with grasses and sometimes shrubs. The average annual temperature for Ābistān-e Pā'īn is 17° degrees and there is about 103 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 294 days a year with an average humidity of 35% and an UV-index of 4.
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Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn january
On average, it is maximum 11° in january in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 1° degrees. In january there are 7 days of rainfall with a total of 34 mm. The it will be dry 23 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and on average, it snows 1 day in january.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn february
On average, it is maximum 12° in february in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 2° degrees. In february there are 11 days of rainfall with a total of 68 mm. The it will be dry 16 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and on average, it snows 1 day in february.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn march
On average, it is maximum 19° in march in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 8° degrees. In march there are 10 days of rainfall with a total of 34 mm and the it will be dry 21 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn april
On average, it is maximum 25° in april in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 13° degrees. In april there are 8 days of rainfall with a total of 38 mm and the it will be dry 22 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn may
On average, it is maximum 31° in may in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 18° degrees. In may there are 5 days of rainfall with a total of 13 mm and the it will be dry 26 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn june
On average, it is maximum 34° in june in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 20° degrees. and the it will be dry 30 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn july
On average, it is maximum 35° in july in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 22° degrees. and the it will be dry 31 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn august
On average, it is maximum 34° in august in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 20° degrees. and the it will be dry 31 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn september
On average, it is maximum 30° in september in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 16° degrees. and the it will be dry 30 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn october
On average, it is maximum 24° in october in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 11° degrees. In october there are 2 days of rainfall with a total of 4 mm and the it will be dry 29 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn november
On average, it is maximum 16° in november in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 6° degrees. In november there are 7 days of rainfall with a total of 20 mm and the it will be dry 23 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.
Weather Ābistān-e Pā'īn december
On average, it is maximum 12° in december in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and at least around 1° degrees. In december there are 4 days of rainfall with a total of 15 mm. The it will be dry 26 days this month in Ābistān-e Pā'īn and on average, it snows 1 day in december.
14 day weather forecast Ābistān-e Pā'īn
The weather for Ābistān-e Pā'īn in Afghanistan will be 18° till 16° degrees in the next 14 days with one day chance of light rain showers.
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About Ābistān-e Pā'īn
Ābistān-e Pā'īn lies in Afghanistan in the province Herāt. If you want to call Ābistān-e Pā'īn you have to use +93 or 0093 before the phone number without the first 0 in the original phone number (if it occurs). If the normal number is 05012457809, for example, you can remove the first 0 and call +935012457809 or 00935012457809.
Ābistān-e Pā'īn is in a straight line at 5.298 km distance from London. From London-Heathrow the flight time is about 7 hours25.
The coordinates of Ābistān-e Pā'īn, Afghanistan are latitude: 33.34082 en longitude: 61.952602
Currency Ābistān-e Pā'īn
In Ābistān-e Pā'īn the Afghan afghani is used to pay.
1 Afghan afghani = 0,01 United States dollar
100 Afghan afghani = 1,30 United States dollar
1 United States dollar = 76,72 Afghan afghani
100 United States dollar = 7.672,20 Afghan afghani
Time difference Ābistān-e Pā'īn
In Ābistān-e Pā'īn it is now 09:17 o'clock in the morning on thursday 21 january 2021. That is 9,5 hour later than in United States. The time zone of Ābistān-e Pā'īn is Asia/Kabul and the Greenwich time is UTC+04:+04.
Vaccinations Ābistān-e Pā'īn
These vaccinations may differ per person and / or be advised on the basis of the stay in Ābistān-e Pā'īn.


We have been wanting to create a Lesson Plan Database for a while and we finally have reached a point where we can make it happen. All of these units can be implemented in your classroom without need to visit the Island itself but, as always, can be greatly enhanced by the Island experience and the other programming we can deliver on Hurricane Island. Please contact us if you are interested in bringing your class out to Hurricane or spread the word about us to other teachers. Even though we are the Center for Science and Leadership our existing programming covers science, engineering, history, art, math, ELA, and leadership/team building. We would love to work with you to develop a program that fits your individual needs and help you make a trip to Hurricane Island a reality for you and your students.
The lesson plans in this unit all relate to human impacts on the environment through examining the issue of Marine Debris. Lessons include: Marine Debris Timeline, Developing Hypotheses, and Coastal Cleanup.


Thank God its Friday !..as a mother with two children in school, Fridays are always the days i say thank you God for seeing me through the week as Saturday means a longer day in bed! lol.
By 4am, as usual my husband's alarm came on, to warn me that i had one more hour of light sleep before waking up finally, but i guess i overdid the one hour and got woken up by this rude cough..i tried coughing and changing my sleeping position, but the cough persisted until i got up to take some water, that was when i noticed it was way past my usual wake up time and if i did not hurry, , my daughters will miss their school bus...boy, i was like a mum on roller skates, getting them ready, but the beauty of it all, was that they made the school bus with the help of their understanding school driver ! Thank God for little mercies!!
My take from the whole experience was that the "cough" was not usual but a prompting by the Holy Spirit to get me to wake up, if i had ignored that prompting, my daughters would have missed school or my day would have been altered by the whole experience. So what am i getting at ?...so many of us have ignored the prompting of the Holy Spirit and have ended up suffering for it..
How many times, have we been prompted to do something but we have ignored it, leaving ourselves stranded or in trouble at the end. Lets learn to listen to the Spirit of God prompting us; to take the right decision, to seek wise counsel, to treat our spouses/children with love and understanding, to treat our co-workers the way we would want to be treated, to be nice and attentive to our parents, to reach out to someone and make his or her day...I pray that the Holy Spirit will help us to listen as He prompts us to act in our own best interest. God bless us all and do enjoy your weekend.
Action - Lets learn to discipline ourselves by reading God's word and get the Holy Spirit to lead us always.


Fish Fingers. They're not a glamorous proposition; for many adults they're often associated with lonely nights and generally giving up on life. Kanye West flat out refuses to eat fish sticks.
But Birds Eye Fish Fingers don't really care about negative elderly perceptions, they're going after kids who are keen to snack on something crunchy, and we know how much power kids have.
With no significant media spend in the last five years, Birds Eye is claiming a 20 percent increase in sales of Fish Fingers after recently launching a cinema advertising campaign. The commercials impressively replicate the popular Pixar computer animation style and were screened in 3D before major kids films over the holiday break.
"Birds Eye is the first FMCG company to have utilised this spectacular technology in Australia and the sales results support the creative execution," BWM executive creative director Rob Belgiovane says.
Birds Eye says it has also changed up the product "formulation", and will screen the cinema ad in 2D on television from this weekend.


Next Friday December 6th, Heaven O'Connell Street will play host to the ultimate Ladies Night for pampering and beauty.
This night is a celebration of the first year of business for Heaven, and there are loads of treats in store for customers.
Heaven Face and Body was set up ten years ago, with the first salon in Grafton Street. As the business grew, further Heaven salons then opened in Ashbourne, and subsequently, Rathmines.
Heaven can provide all the beauty and relaxation treatments imaginable, from massage, to laser hair removal , to threading.
On 6th December there will be free consultations available for laser skin mapping, any file and polish will come with a free hand and foot massage.
Voucher prices will be specially reduced to 50% off normal retail price. Dermalogica fans can get their hand on Dermalogica products at a special 20% off normal price.
If you are thinking of treating a special someone to a gift voucher for Christmas, then good news for you! Heaven have a two for one offer on their gift vouchers, meaning twice the treat this Christmas!
Champagne and nibbles will be laid on for customers and Guests from 4pm onward on 6th December.
From Monday to Wednesday every week, all beauty treatments are half price until 5pm. Saturday Specials include half price waxing, facials and massage, to help you get ready for your weekend!


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Oiho (for Ohio)
Daylight Saving Time, a thing that many of us tend to look forward to in these late gray waning days of winter, was first instituted on March 31, 1918, as a wartime measure to help conserve fuel. This photograph shows the very first man to "turn the clock ahead," as three others stand nervously by—the whole lot of them looking rather like sheepish schoolboys caught in the act, or white whiskered mice having a fine old "Hickory Dickory Dock" of it. (I'm teasing. In truth, they were only senators, albeit ones who probably did feel a little like travelers in a sci-fi tall tale, somehow altering the very fabric of time.) Some people would say that the date of the occasion was inadvertently well timed too, the whole thing being perhaps a bit of a Fool's errand right from the start. In 1784, Ben Franklin published an anonymous letter entitled "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light," in which he observed that Parisians burned candles after dark, and then slept past dawn. He proposed "taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise." It was satire, but Franklin is also known for the proverb "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." (James Thurber offered a differing point of view when he stated in The New Yorker in 1939: "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.") In 1966, Lyndon Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act into law and we've all been "springing forward" and "falling back" ever since. The time-shifting system still has its critics, who say that simply trying to adjust to the shift can be unhealthy or risky, and that our lifestyles have changed so much that the purported benefits of "daylight saving" simply no longer exist or are outweighed by the drawbacks. In any event, don't forget to fool with your clocks tonight, kiddos! (Just kidding, of course. You should have already done that, on March 13th.) And now that we all know what time it is, let's turn our attention to today's typo (Oiho for Ohio), found twice in OhioLINK, and fifteen times in WorldCat.
(Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Charles P. Higgins turning the Ohio Clock forward, while Senators William M. Calder (NY), Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (DE), and Joseph T. Robinson (AR) observe, 1918, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Harald* + Harold* (for Harold* or Harald*)
Happy Birthday, Bud! Born Walter Edward Cox on March 29, 1948, Bud Cort decided take a stage name due to the fact that there was already a well-known actor named Wally Cox out there. Both men exhibited quirky, sort of geeky personas that, to some extent, belied their actual personalities. Wally Cox is perhaps best known for playing "Mister Peepers" on TV and being the voice of cartoon canine Underdog. He was also married three times; an Army vet; and BFFs with Marlon Brando. Bud Cort, despite his constant association with the 1971 "cult film" Harold and Maude, has in fact been acting in movies and television for almost half a century now. In 2004 he appeared alongside his friend Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. "I had three great grandfathers, all fishermen, all lost at sea," Cort claims. He admits that over the years he has feared being typecast as an oddball, and at times even wished he had never made Harold and Maude. (But we'll forgive him for that!) The previous year he had starred in the perhaps even cultier film Brewster McCloud, which garnered him a nomination for "Laurel Award for Male Star of Tomorrow." A young Roger Ebert wrote of the film: "I'm not sure it's about anything. I imagine you could extract a subject from it, and I'll try that the next time I see it. But I wonder if the movie isn't primarily style; if Altman doesn't have a personal sense of humor and wants his directing style to reflect it. One could, of course, get into a deep thing about birds and wings and freedom, but why?" Bud Cort also landed roles in Up the Down Staircase, Sweet Charity, M.A.S.H., and The Strawberry Statement, for starters. In 1971, he was cast in a movie called Gas-s-s-s (also known as Gas! or, It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It), Roger Corman's last film for American International Pictures. (Corman broke off longstanding ties with AIP after they cut the final scene, a shot in which the Almighty weighs in on the wacky goings-on, and one of which the director was particularly proud.) It boasts an absurdist post-apocalyptic plot line (think Edgar Allen Poe on a motorbike), though as Wikipedia put its: "Eventually God intervenes. Coel and Cilla are reunited with all their friends, and there is a big party where everyone gets along." Which may be the biggest gas of all. If, like me, you're a big fan of Bud Cort, but are yearning to move on beyond Harold and Maude, check out some of his earlier films, along with his middle and late periods as well. There were 133 cases of today's typo in OhioLINK, and 1281 in WorldCat.
(Bud Cort in Brewster McCloud, taken from the web.)
Chrisianity (for Christianity)
An amusing typo, made just in time for Easter, was brought to the attention of a church in York, England, the other day. The pastor had ordered several signs reading "Christ is Risen," but was dismayed to learn that they had been printed without the all-important letter T. "The pastor at the Baptist Church is actually called Chris," confided the assistant curate and apparent wag, "and he's got to get up for a sunrise service at 6.30 am on Easter Sunday. His predecessor didn't manage to get up for the service last year..." I'm assuming that that "getting up" business (i.e., rising) was intentional irony; the humor, at any rate, seems to redeem the blunder. Happy Easter to all you early risers, eggheads, beach bunnies, folks named Chris, and Christians of every stripe. Let's all rise up in the name of everything Good and Holy and, while we're at it, take the typos out of our own eyes. We witnessed five instances of Chrisianity (for Christianity) in OhioLINK this morning, and 43 in WorldCat.
(Misspelled Easter sign, Acomb Parish Church, York, England, taken from the web.)
Botherhood* (for Brotherhood*)
Words like brotherhood and mankind were universally accepted at one time for the goodwill, compassion, and inclusiveness they implied, but it seems that we are fast becoming intolerant of such traditional usage. (Perhaps there will soon be a "sin tax" on such syntax.) While we still hear familiar formulations along the lines of "brotherly love" and "sisterhood is powerful" (though the former is often meant generically and the latter specifically), the younger generation might be somewhat more inclined to use the word cis than sis and, frankly, may see "brother" as too much of a bother. One of my favorite boy bands of yore was the so-called Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which comprised seven male artists (painters and poets, for the most part) in 19th-century Britain. These were William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; later they were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Wollner. This heterodox fraternity courted quite a bit of controversy and on one notable occasion was chastised by none other than Charles Dickens, who apparently thought that the painting Christ in the House of His Parents made the Holy Family look like a bunch of "medieval" alcoholics and slum dwellers. Amazingly, he went so far as to slut-shame Millais' Mary for being so hideous-looking that she would stand out "as a Monster, in the vilest cabaret in France, or the lowest gin-shop in England." Other critics hastily jumped on the bandwagon, decrying the notion of the young Jesus as a "red-headed Jew boy." Boys will be boys, it would seem, but fortunately, the Pre-Raphaelites eventually grew more accepting of women, giving rise to painters like Marie Spartali Stillman and Elizabeth Siddal; the poet Christina Rossetti; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron; and many others. There was just one case of our bothersome typo to be found in OhioLINK this morning, along with 34 in WorldCat.
(Christ in the House of His Parents, or The Carpenter's Shop, by John Millais, circa 1850, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Interupt* (for Interrupt*)
Have you ever noticed this verbal tic some people have where they reflexively begin a reply to almost any question put to them with the word So? I've seen bankers, politicians, criminal defendants, and others do this, and it's always weirdly disconcerting. Because what it sounds like they really mean is: "Oh, so you're done talking now? Okay, so where was I?" or "So, as I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted..." It's as if they've come with prepared remarks or an agenda of some kind and your comments are merely a distraction. I won't use his real name here, but I once knew a guy who was so adorable I forgave him his dithering, but who also introduced an inordinate number of sentences that way. His last name started with the letters S-O (let's say it was "Soul"), so I wrote him a poem one time that contained the line: "So, So-so [Soul]..." Wikipedia states: "It is widely believed that the recent ascendancy of 'so' as a sentence opener began in Silicon Valley. Michael Lewis in his book The New New Thing, published in 1999, noted that 'When a computer programmer answers a question, he often begins with the word so.' Microsoft employees have long argued that the 'so' boom began with them..." In any event, whoever's responsible for this annoying affectation probably shouldn't be bragging about it, There are times, though, when "So" sounds exactly right. The first known use of so as a sentence opener is from Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "So graunte hem sone out of this world to pace." (So grant him soon out of this world to pass.) Some might wish the same for the overuse of so these days, but it's most likely here to stay. So. Back to the matter at hand. You know the drill. There were 16 cases of Interupt* (for interrupt*) in OhioLINK today, and 372 in WorldCat.
(Geoffrey Chaucer reading his poems to the court of Richard II, frontispiece to Troilus & Criseyde, c. 1400, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Televisoin* (for Television*)
Of all the children's authors one could imagine writing about television, one of the least likely to many minds would have to be Ludwig Bemelmans, the father of "Madeline." However, the great man did in fact write such a book, one that is now, sadly, out of print and very hard to find. It's called A Tale of Two Glimps and it's just as odd as it sounds. Bemelmans had been commissioned by CBS in 1947 to create a whimsical, anthropomorphic kids' book to plug the company's product. He came up with a story about a couple rabbit-like creatures (reminding one a bit of Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" denizens, along with the ubiquitous "rabbit ears" then sprouting from every set) who debate and represent the tried and true of black & white versus the rara avis of the variegated. As one reviewer put it: "An evanescent little soap bubble, this bit of Bemelmania was part of a campaign to promote color TV." Having blogged about television typos on several occasions before, our pick for today is perforce one of "lowest probability," according to the Ballard list. We viewed one of these in OhioLINK, and 19 in WorldCat.
(Cover of A Tale of Two Glimps, taken from the web.)
Minnsota* (for Minnesota*)
Wanda Gág, who was born on March 11, 1893, in New Ulm, Minnesota, is probably best known for having drawn Millions of Cats. Although I understand that some people who read this book to their children find the plot line a bit "disturbing" (in that the feral felines, all but one, end up killing each other in a giant cat fight), it holds the distinction of being the oldest American picture book still in print. Wanda Gág came from a family of artists: her father Anton was a painter and photographer, her sister Flavia a writer, painter, and book illustrator. Wanda appears to have been a born feminist. On his deathbed in 1908, her father told the teenager: "Was der Papa nicht thun konnt', muss die Wanda halt fertig machen." (What Papa couldn't do, Wanda will have to finish.) Being the eldest of seven children, that meant a lot of work for Wanda, along with empathy, flexibility, and role reversal, all of which may have eventually led her to write the 1935 children's book Gone Is Gone: or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework. In 1917, after all of the "housework" was finished, Wanda moved to New York City's Greenwich Village on a scholarship to the Art Students League, where she studied composition, etching, and advertising illustration. Bohemian in both senses of the word, she clearly enjoyed writing about her own life and process, as seen in the nearly 500-page tome Growing Pains: Diaries and Drawings for the Years 1908–1917. Notables said to have been inspired by Gág include Eric Rohmann, Ursula Dubosarsky, Jan Brett, Susan Marie Swanson, Maurice Sendak, and perhaps most intriguingly of all, Pop-Art "collagist and correspondence artist" Ray Johnson, the subject of the 2002 documentary How to Draw a Bunny. With two hits in OhioLINK and 68 in WorldCat, we can easily draw the conclusion that our typo for the day is one of "low probability" on the Ballard list.
(Portrait of the artist Wanda Gág, 24 December 1916, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Insturm* (for Instrum*)
Google had a great image today in honor of Clara Rockmore, an early proponent and expert player of the hands-free musical instrument known as the theremin. Rockmore was born Clara Reisenberg in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 9, 1911, the youngest of three girls. She was a child prodigy on the violin, reportedly had "perfect pitch," and at the age of four became the youngest student ever admitted to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Clara was close personal friends with the inventor Léon Theremin and worked alongside him perfecting and finessing his instrument. (Although he actually proposed to her on several occasions, she wound up marrying attorney Robert Rockmore instead.) As we breathlessly wait out the last few weeks of winter here, enjoy this eerie and evocative rendition of Ira Gershwin's "Summertime" from Clara Rockmore's Lost Theremin Album, produced by her nephew in 2006. Although the theremin is making something of a comeback, it's still a sort of "geeky" thing to play, as wonderfully demonstrated by Jim Parsons ("Sheldon") on The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Bus Pants Utilization." There were 36 hits on Insturm* (for instrum*) in OhioLINK today, and 636 in WorldCat.
(Clara Rockmore and Léon Theremin, birthday celebration, 1929, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Conput* (for Comput*)
Betty Holberton (née Frances Elizabeth Snyder) was born in Philadelphia on March 7, 1917. After enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was asked by her math professor if she wouldn't be happier at home taking care of the kids, she decided to take up journalism instead, the kind of job that was both open to women and designed to get you out of town. But when World War II rolled around, Holberton was hired by the Army to compute ballistics trajectories and chosen to work, along with five other women, on the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), now thought to have been the "first general-purpose electronic digital computer." This was deemed "subprofessional" work and the women who did it were called "computers." Holberton proved especially adept at understanding the new behemoth and was said to have "solved more problems in her sleep than other people did awake." Her achievements in the field of programming are truly impressive and far too numerous to mention here, but suffice it to say that in 1997, four years before her death, she received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award and the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award, and was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. This photo of Betty and the ENIAC reminds me of the 1957 film Desk Set, about a librarian whose skills are pitted against a giant computer known as EMERAC (i.e., Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator). As well it should, of course, since the movie appears to have been based on a true story. Which may be the highest honor of all, come to think of it, to be at the inspirational center of a famous Hepburn-Tracy vehicle when you yourself are only forty years old. That's really quite a thing. So, here's to you, Betty Holberton! We computed six cases of today's typo in OhioLINK, and 220 in WorldCat.
(Glen Beck and Betty Snyder program the ENIAC in building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Philadelphia, circa 1947 to 1955, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Colombia* + Columbia* (for Columbia* or Colombia*)
Guy Wetmore Carryl was born this day in New York City in 1873. He died there in 1904, far too soon, but perhaps somewhat aptly, on April Fool's Day. Carryl had had a short but productive career as a humorist, satirist, and poet, often taking inspiration from such literary lights as Aesop, Mother Goose, the Brothers Grimm, and Jean de La Fontaine. He published six books between 1898 and 1904, two of them posthumously: The Garden of Years and Far from the Maddening Girls. Some of his titles sound a bit naughty, like Mother Goose for Grown-Ups (1900) and Grimm Tales Made Gay (1902). In "The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet," the reader is delightfully instructed as follows: "And the Moral is this: Be it madam or miss / To whom you have something to say / You are only absurd when you get in the curd / But you're rude when you get in the whey." Indeed, Carryl's jokes were not always G-rated. He attended Columbia University and wrote the college's first "Varsity Show," by which means he managed to ruffle the feathers of Harry Thurston Peck with his wry, if not overtly feminist, observation that "it takes two bodies to make one seduction." Ironically enough, Professor Peck was later sued for breach of promise, and although nothing was ever proven, he found himself at the center of a scandal involving three women (and their bodies) from which he never really recovered. There were 423 cases of our combination typo in OhioLINK today, and "too many records found for your search" in WorldCat.
(Cover of Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl, with illustrations by Peter Newell, 1898, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Oaklahoma* (for Oklahoma*)
It's not so much that Donald Trump (or his hired tweeter) can't spell the names of the places he's stumping in. It's more that he won't. So far, he's managed to mess up Wichita, Kansas, Tulsa, and Oklahoma, rendering them, if you must know: Witchita, Kanasas, Tusla, and Oaklahoma. The song "Oklahoma" (from the play and Broadway musical of the same name) was made the official state song of Oklahoma in 1953. According to Wikipedia: "The lyric, which briefly depicts the Midwestern twang phonetically, describes the landscape and prairie weather in positive language. It further emphasizes the wholesome aspects of rural life, and the steadfast dedication of the region's inhabitants, against the overtly stated formal backdrop of the territory's impending admission to the Union in 1907." The Donald might be described in somewhat similar terms, minus the sincerity and attention to detail; hopefully, come next spring, we won't be feeling the need to start applying to other Unions. I'm not sure which number from the soundtrack of Oklahoma! best characterizes the Donald Trump campaign: "All Er Nuthin"; "Pore Jud Is Daid"; "I Cain't Say No"; or given his recent pissing contest with the rest of the Republicans-for-president guys, "People Will Say We're in Love." There were six examples of today's typo found in OhioLink, and "too many records found in your search" in WorldCat.
(Scene from Oklahoma, 1943-1944, Theatre Guild production, from Wikimedia Commons.)


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There are two courses at Royal Dornoch; the Championship Course, a favourite of Tom Watson and often regarded as one of the top 20 courses in the world, and the Struie course, a great layout in its own right.
An easier test than its more renowned counterpart but just as beautiful, the Struie was extended in length by the introduction of five new holes in 2003. The improvements have extended the course to 6192 yards and many of the new holes lie alongside the shoreline, making for some beautiful views but also some tough playing conditions when the West winds pick up! The Struie Course is a fine challenge for every level of golfer and a real joy to play.
We suggest you book your tee times well in advance.If the course is too busy on the day then there may be a chance that you get paired up: however Royal Dornoch will try and avaoid this whenever possible.
Golf carts are only available with a medical certificate, and are £20 per cart. Electric trolleys are also available for £10, and pull trolleys are available from £3.


Since 2004, Rebecca Frain had been an integral part of her father's electrical consultancy company, Electrical Safety UK. When Frain's mother developed signs of early onset dementia in 2014, her father stepped back from the business to care for her, and Frain took over as managing director.
As a young female leader in a male-dominated environment, at first Frain found it difficult to "stand up with confidence." So, eager to find her professional voice, Frain came across the CMI Level 5 Management and Leadership qualification, and soon signed up.
With solid management skills in place, Frain acknowledges that the course has given her career a boost. "It's pushed me professionally, it's taken me to the next level," she says.
The business is reaping the benefits of her transformed leadership skills. Profits and productivity have rocketed, and the company is going from strength to strength. Over the past few years, Frain has doubled company turnover to £1.1 million, and successfully merged the company with Pennine Elec-Tech. "I've been able to strengthen the management team to move forward with the plans I have for the company," she explains.
Her progressive approach to leadership has got her noticed too. In 2017, Frain was named one of Management Today's 35 Women Under 35, which recognises the UK's most inspiring leaders.


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Hosting Major Events
by Beatriz Garcia and Andy Miah
Overcoming bad press Although the Salt Lake Games have been accompanied by controversies since their very inception, the local support for hosting the world Olympics within the state of Utah has been remarkable. Now with the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City complete, potential event host cities have a different example to learn how they can develop their staging strategy. term interests of the place has resulted in a careful investment in infrastructures.
The Olympics is not a Sporting Event
With the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games winding down, visitors will have noticed how the Olympics does not only mean spending copious amounts of money to watch athletes whizz past at extraordinary speeds. Originally conceived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin as a vehicle of cultural and educational betterment, the Olympic Games in Salt Lake has served to reinforce these links in some novel ways. the Olympics does not just mean watching athletes.
Division of Olympic Proportions
by Andy Miah and Beatriz Garcia
Apparently, the Olympic Games is about different peoples coming together as one group. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) expounds the nice, liberal values of peace, freedom, justice and honesty, asking that the world comes together to "celebrate humanity". If you have not been to an Olympic Games, then you have probably not been exposed to this new-age discrimination
The truth about Olympic Truce: rights, responsibilities and the impossibility of being global and apolitical.
On the penultimate night of the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games in February 2002, demonstrators were in the city centre reminding visitors that the Olympics is about global peace, not winning medals or breaking world records.
The Olympic Myth
The Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games draws to a close this weekend with very little controversy surrounding it. For this newly famed US Western city, its challenges were found somewhat earlier in the last millennium.
A Scottish Olympics.
At the competition venue, Scottish and British flags were flying. With the gold medal win of the all-Scottish women's curling team, Scotland has ensured a new place in international sport and has allowed Great Britain to improve its Winter Games record. One of the most locally appreciated events of the official Olympic cultural program explained the history of the Western pioneers, recognising as key the importance of the Scottish settlers and their unique way of life.