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The Rutronik Stars Keltern are the women's basketball department of the club FC Nöttingen in Remchingen, Germany. The game is played in the neighboring municipality of Keltern, and the venue for the home games is the sports hall in the Speiterlinghalle.

History
The club was founded in Keltern in 1981. In 2012 the team was taken over by FC Nöttingen. At that time the name Grüner Stern Keltern was still used. In the 2015 season Keltern became champions in the 2nd women's basketball league group south and was promoted to the 1st women's basketball league. With this rise, the name was changed to Rutronik Stars Keltern. The club has been financially supported by the Rutronik company since its promotion. Rutronik is a sponsor of several sports clubs in the Enzkreis and in Pforzheim. In 2018 and 2021, Keltern won the German championship title, each time coached by Christian Hergenröther.

In 2016, 2018 and 2021 they took part in the Eurocup Women. In 2016 they reached the round of 16.

Successes

 German Champion: 2018, 2021
 Eurocup Women participations: 2016, 2018, 2021
 German Basketball Cup winner: 2021

Notable players

  Veronika Remenárová

References

External links

 Official website (German)

Women's basketball teams in Germany
Remchingen
Basketball teams established in 1981
1981 establishments in Germany
FC Nöttingen


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Vojo Kushi, Sadik Stavaleci and Xhorxhi Martini
Vojo Kushi – 1969 – Sali Shijaku
More on Albania …..
The representation of the last military action of Vojo Kushi, Sadik Stavaleci and Xhorxhi Martini in Albanian Socialist realism is an interesting one as it has been depicted in a number of formats so offers a (possibly) unique opportunity to compare how the event has been presented to the Albanian people, history and posterity. Although the sacrifice of the three is commemorated it is Vojo Kushi who is in the forefront of these representations, his last action of storming an Italian tank being an act of bravery that has transcended even the counter-revolution of the 1990s.
The Actors
Vojo Kushi 1918-1942
Vojo Kushi
There's also much more information available about Vojo. He was born in Vrakë, near Shkodër on August 3rd 1918 from a Serbian minority which was suppressed under 'King' Zog, one aspect of whose rule was to ban names with Serbian suffixes. At that time there was no unified Albanian Communist Party and it was in Shkodër where the first Communist revolutionary organisation was established. However, all Communist Parties go through difficult struggles before (and after formation) and it wasn't until November 8th 1941 that the Communist Party of Albania (later to become the Party of Labour of Albania) was formed in Tirana. Vojo was chosen as a member of the regional committee and also appointed as commander of the local guerilla unit. Apart from other activities he was tasked with the discovery and elimination of traitors and collaborators.
Sadik Stavaleci 1918-1942
Sadik Stavaleci
All I know about Sadik was that he was born in Kosove (considered then and now as part of Albania) and obviously seemed to have joined the partisan/guerrilla movement soon after the Italian invader had entered the country.
Xhorxhi Martini 1921-1942
Xhoxhi Martini
There's not a lot more I've been able to discover about Xhorxhi. He was from Tirana and the youngest of the three People's Heroes to have died on that day.
On October 10th, 1942, due to either a mistake on their part or more likely due to the activity of collaborators, spies and traitors (always to be found ready to creep out from under the rocks in any struggle for national liberation) the three found themselves surrounded in the Red Hills district of Tirana. After a 6 hour battle, during which time they were facing up to six Italian tanks, running out of ammunition and wounded, it was at this time, knowing they had nothing to lose, that Vojo Kushi carried out his suicidal attack. Running out of the building he shot a number of soldiers before he jumped up on to the turret of a tank and attempted to throw a grenade into the hatch he was trying to open. So exposed he didn't last long out in the open.
The Bust
Vojo Kushi – Odhise Paskali
The first piece of art to commemorate the event was put on show to the public in 1949 and is a bust of Vojo Kushi by the sculptor Odhise Paskali (whose other public works include 'Shoket – Comrades' at the Martyrs' Cemetery in Permet). Whether it is in its original location or not I can't say for sure but it has obviously been kept well and has had a recent coating of gold paint. It also sits on a new pedestal with the words 'Heroi i Popullit, Vojo Kushi, Tarzani, 1918-1942' on the plaque. This translates as 'People's Hero, Vojo Kushi, Tarzan, 1918-1942'.
This is a classic bust of the time, a head and (cut off) shoulders view of a man in his early twenties. His head is held high, he's confident and looks into the distance/future. What is very distinctive about Paskali's representation, and I'm not sure where he picked it up, is the very pronounced quiff, that extends over his forehead like the peak of a cap. This is not particularly the image you would get from the two photos I've seen of Vojo but this style has been picked up by other artists, particularly the (unknown) sculptor of the bas-relief a few streets away.
If the bust is the original the plaque certainly is not. Placing the word 'Tarzan' in the description acts to take away the politics of the whole episode. There is an increasing move to 'renovate' lapidars and other monuments throughout Albania but in certain places there is a definite agenda of de-politicisation being followed. What this agenda seeks to demonstrate is that these individuals were patriots fighting for the liberation of the country from the foreign invader. The fact that during the National Liberation War the invader was the Fascist, first the Italian and then the German, is conveniently forgotten as, in the forefront of that struggle, was the Communist Partisan Army. In Albania today many don't say 'forget the war' they say 'forget who led the country to victory'. By putting that simple word 'Tarzan' on the statue they seek to infantilise, fictionalise and mythologise into insignificance the actions of those Communists who refused to surrender.
There's a sense of irony in the present location of the statue. Vojo has his back to a Euro Lloto pop-up store. Here Albanians can gamble on an infinite variety of events in sporting fixtures, a quick way for most (the off the street punters) to become poor and an equally quick way for others (the shop owners, either in Albania or elsewhere) to get rich. Considering that in the 1990s many hundreds of thousands of Albanians were cheated out of their personal wealth and privatised land through criminal Pyramid Schemes its interesting that so many still see their future through touching the big one – such places are all over the country.
Vojo Kushi amongst the debris
(In June 2019 I came across the image above on the Albanian Lapidar Survey tumblr blog. Don't know exactly when it was taken but assume quite recently. What's being demolished is a cheap and nasty betting shop come gambling den. There were a lot of them around a few years ago. Whether the demolition is due to a political decision or just one of new buildings wanting to take the space I don't, as yet, know. What is certain is that it is unlikely to have any effect upon the Albanian desire to 'get rich quick'. They haven't learnt from the pyramid/Ponzi schemes that robbed so many ordinary Albanians of the little they had in the early 1990s.
When I last saw the bust it was in a good condition – but it looks slightly neglected in this picture. The bulldozer is evidently attempting to miss it but that doesn't mean it never got damaged in this exercise. It should be valued as a work of art even by the present government and political establishment in Albania. The Peoples' Heroes and Heroines are still, in the main, respected and this is also the work of one of Albania's most renowned (internationally) sculptors – Odhise Paskali. I'll try to remember to check its fate when next in Tirana.)
Rruga e Dibrës, just south of Sheshi Selvia
41° 19′ 58.0080" N
19° 49′ 21.7200" E
Vojo Kushi – Zef Shoshi
There are, at least, a couple of paintings of Vojo Kushi. One is a simple full length portrait by Zef Shoshi. I don't know the exact date it was painted nor where it might be at the moment, I've never personally seen it on display. Here he is placed in an urban environment, presumably somewhere in Tirana. This is a simple, figurative painting, showing a young man, with a determined expression on his face, looking out of the picture, into the future. The impression of determination, and anger, is reinforced by his clenched fists, his arms hanging down at his side. In this painting he looks very different from the other representations of him in Tirana. Here art is used as a record of someone who died fighting for his country.
The other, more famous, on permanent display in the National Art Gallery in Tirana, is a different affair. This was painted by Sali Shijaku in 1969 and is a huge painting, measuring 200 x 300cm. It depicts a recognizable Vojo Kushi performing his final act of heroism for which he is well-known, that is, just about to throw a grenade into the hatch of an Italian tank (depicted at the top of the post).
Discussing this painting is where the understanding of Albanian Socialist Realism becomes more complex. The painting follows the conventions of political art: it represents an event that actually took place; the individual is recognizable; it serves to commemorate and celebrate an heroic act, a sacrifice, that occurred during the National Liberation War; it seeks to inspire the viewer (especially the young); it declares that the act was committed by a Communist; and it tells the history of the Albanian people.
But, and this is a big but, it is fantastical. Most of the painting is quite dark, a good half of the background and the tank itself (which is in the bottom foreground). There are white flashes in the background indicating either fire or smoke, giving the impression that this is in mid-battle.
It is when we get to Vojo himself that things become strange. For some reason he has lost his shirt and is bare from the waist up, apart from what looks like a cape, fluttering out behind his left shoulder. This cape is red and either represents the red flag of Communism or the Albanian Partisan flag (although it's not possible to make out the black, double-headed eagle). This flag/cape isn't attached to his body in any way, one corner just resting over his raised right arm.
His left hand grips the edge of the hatch lid, giving the impression he has just wrenched it open and in his raised right hand is a grenade, ready to throw it inside the tank. The image and what he is attempting is OK but why is he dressed in such a way? Not only is he bare-chested he is also bare-footed, his right foot on the barrel of the tank's gun, his other foot out of sight as he straddles the turret. The other aspect that is strange is the lighting. A shaft of light comes from some unidentified source at the lower right of the painting, illuminating his upper torso and thus separating him from the dark background.
I think all these devices cause to separate Vojo from the ordinary man and woman. When you look at the picture you get the impression that he has flown there like some sort of superman (the red cape adding to the image of the character in the American Marvel comics). The lack of even a shirt or shoes indicates that nothing can harm him, that he is impervious to the bullets of the enemy. But he wasn't. If this picture depicts anything at all it's the last moments of a partisan willing to give his life for the cause of freedom from fascism. The way the light shines on his face is reminiscent of some Christian religious paintings and the cape, as it gives a backdrop to his head, resembles a halo (a common artistic device that Christian painters stole from the Roman Empire – amongst many other tropes).
As I've written before, until workers are able to freely develop a manner in which to represent themselves, free from the influences of the past, such an interpretation will always be possible.
However, it was obviously a favoured painting in the past, it being chosen to be one of the paintings that were depicted on Albanian postage stamps (although the reds are always much brighter in printed sources than the original).
Vojo Kushi – postage stamp
To the best of my knowledge the monument to the action on October 10th, 1942 is located close to where things actually happened, although building development in recent years has meant that it's now slightly hidden away on a quiet street corner.
Vojo Kushi Lapidar
It's a relatively small lapidar following a typical design. There's a concrete base which has a column just over two metres tall on the right hand side. The concrete is covered with marble slabs – but these have fallen away in a few places. Half way up the lapidar is a marble plaque (which looks original) which bears the words:
Herojte e Popullit – meaning People's Heroes
Xhorxhi Martini
Above the words there's a star and this star, and the letters, are picked out in gold. There's a little bit of vandalism on this plaque, a felt tip pen has been used to fill in the star and there's a tiny figure of a man between the words Vojo and Kushi.
To the left of the column a bronze bas-relief is attached to a concrete panel. This is just over a metre high and just over two metres long. On it is depicted a version of the attack on the tank seen already in the painting by Shijaku.
However, the dynamism of the relief is different. Vojo is virtually sitting on the barrel of the tank's gun which is pointing to the left. Vojo's left hand is stretched out fully in front of him and is gripping the closed edge of the turret hatch. In his right hand, which is fully stretched out behind him, is a grenade. He is keeping his profile low, as it would have made sense in reality, offering a smaller target to the enemy.
There's a repetition of the image in the Shijaku painting as although not completely bare-chested he is only wearing a ripped shirt, which is in tatters, but which also flutters out behind him, creating the image of a flag or a banner.
Although the face is in profile it's quite recognizable from images of Vojo. However, things are slightly strange when we look at the very top of his head where it, and his hair, extend above the main body of the bas-relief over the top of the concrete. This produces a three-dimensional effect on that small part of the sculpture. This also includes a huge quiff, even more exaggerated than that on the Paskali bust on Rruga e Dibrës.
The sculpture is in a reasonable condition, not seeming to have suffered from any malicious vandalism but merely suffering from lack of care, as are many lapidars throughout the country.
Rruga Mahmut Fortuzi
41° 20′ 6.5040" N
19° 49′ 8.5439" E
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by Brandon Hill — Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Samsung's Latest 50MP Camera Sensor May Fix One Of Galaxy SS0 Ultra's Biggest Problems
The Galaxy S20 Ultra is no doubt the overachiever of the Samsung's currently Galaxy S family, and it has the specs to match. In addition to its massive 6.9-inch 120Hz QHD+ display, the smartphone comes equipped with up to 16GB of RAM, 512GB of UFS 3.0 storage, and a 108MP primary image sensor with 100x Space Zoom.
However, it's that last spec sheet stat that has caused the most issues for some users. Many have complained about autofocus problems when using 108MP sensor, which uses pixel beginning to combine light information from 9 pixels into a larger "virtual" pixel. While impressive on paper, the 108MP sensor also didn't include Samsung's well-regarded Dual Pixel autofocus system, which might have helped to eliminate the problems that customers have been facing.
In fact, Samsung addressed the autofocus woes in a statement on its support forums, writing:
The S20 Ultra model is equipped with a high-pixel image sensor, which increases the size of the sensor, resulting in a shallow depth of field and a longer focal length of 10cm or more compared to previous Samsung models. Therefore, when shooting a close object, the background may be blurred, or out of focus may occur. The focal length is determined by the lens specifications, making it difficult to correct with software.
Samsung's 1.2-micron 50MP ISOCELL GN1 image sensor
With that in mind, Samsung appears to have a solution in the pipeline, and it is indeed hardware-based. It involves a brand new 50MP image sensor called the ISOCELL GN1. It not only uses Tetracell pixel binning (combining 4 pixels into one), but also Dual Pixel autofocusing. Th 50MP sensor uses 1.2-micron pixels, which are doubled to 2.4 microns when using Tetracell binning.
Samsung claims that these enhancements not only bring faster performance, but improve low-light photography. The default images that the new ISOCELL GN1 will produce will come in at 12.5MP.
"The ISOCELL GN1 is part of that commitment to deliver stunning images to consumers in any environment," said Yongin Park, who serves as executive VP of sensor business at Samsung Electronics. "We will continue to introduce image sensor solutions at the cutting-edge that will lead the next trends in mobile photography."
According to Samsung, the ISOCELL GN1 enters mass production this month, which would seemingly make it a perfect fit for the upcoming Galaxy Note 20 family.
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Questions of Kagan, the WHO, and Your Right to Eat Pizza
By Briggs on May 11, 2010 • ( 28 Comments )
Kagan Court
The blogs are abuzz with ridiculous discussions of Ms Kagan's sexuality. For example, Andrew Sullivan is his normal self. Even conservatives are taking great pains to say that it doesn't matter.
But I don't know what the question is. Yesterday, I heard on WOR radio that "Elena Kagan is the second straight New York Woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court."
So what's the controversy?
Pollution Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide, Study Finds
Reader James Erlandson sent in this juicy item: the World Health Organization says that "an estimated 40% of world deaths are due to environmental degradation."
The paper says that the "the prevalence of human diseases during the past decade is rapidly increasing", and that this increase has been caused by "the pollution of water, air, and soil."
The study's author, David Pimentel, also said that a lot of people in the world go hungry and that empty stomaches contributes to disease susceptibility. But malnutrition is not pollution. However, Pimentel argues, pollution causes a decrease in the food supply.
That's surely true, but Pimentel makes a fundamental statistical mistake of attributing the observed rate of increase in diseases like diarrhea and tuberculosis to actual increasing numbers of humans infected with those diseases. Say what?
The problem is that these diseases are increasingly diagnosed, and available to be diagnosed, and are diagnosed more accurately.
For example, if you have a place, unfortunately like many in Africa, where until recently people dropped dead from who-knows-what, and then you introduce technology that shows that that "who-knows-what" was actually diarrhea, then you will see in the official statistics an enormous spike in the diarrhea rate. But the rate of actual diarrhea infections has not increased.
In short: an increase in the diagnosis rate does not directly translate into an increase in the disease.
Anyway, to get "40% of deaths from pollution" stresses the math beyond endurance. Since most of us in the States, Europe, Australia, Japan, urban China and India, and other modern nations are not dying from "environmental degradation", and we contribute our fair share of dead bodies, to reach that "40% of all deaths" figure requires that nearly every death in non-modern nations be directly attributable to pollution. Which is silly.
Tax Noxious Textbooks
Professor Barry Popkin doesn't like the idea that you might overindulge in foods he wouldn't himself eat. To stop your potentially offending him by noshing a piece of pizza in his face, Popkin would tax his hated foodstuffs.
Popkin, and many other cultural elitists, care about you. They care deeply. So deeply that they have appointed themselves your medical guardians. Because why? Because, they have decided, you aren't intelligent enough to decide for yourself what to eat!
To these ever-anxious folk, health is the most important thing there is. So I find that, once more, we have to remind ourselves, and Popkin, of the wisdom of Mark Twain:
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Another professor, Don Boudreaux, has a solution to limit the spread of Popkin-like earnestness. It is the most ingenious idea we've seen in many years:
I propose that all articles and books advocating that government intrude into people's private choices be taxed at very high rates. Socially irresponsible producers of such "junk" scholarship churn out far too much of it. As a result, unsuspecting Americans consume harmfully large quantities of this scholarship – scholarship made appealing only because its producers cram it with sweet and superficially gratifying expressions of noble goals. These empty intellectual 'calories' trick our brains – which evolved in an environment that lacked today's superabundant access to junk scholarship – into craving larger and larger, even super-sized, portions of such junk.
San Francisco Isn't New York
Speaking of pizza. While in SF recently, I went into a pizzeria called "Escape from New York", which boasted that it was a genuine New York-style pizzeria. This was not so. For I said to the lady, "I'll have a slice, please." And she replied, "A slice of what?"
Anti-Tobacco Lobbying Is Bad For You
How Republican Is The Country?
Tax the noxious textbooks? This does not go nearly far enough. We should have a tax on all those who engage in public policy advocacy. We should follow the great State of New Hampshire and pay all our representatives (Federal, State and local) a stipend of $100 per year. In addition, given the money grubbing track record of many of our august politicians, we should tax them (and their immediate family members) at double the highest marginal tax rate on any increase in their net worth above the average increase in net worth for the area they represent while they are in office and 5 years beyond that. Of course, there would be no pensions for public service except for Social Security.
realitycheck says:
Environmental Cancer-A Political Disease? [Hardcover]
Professor S. Robert Lichter (Author), Professor Stanley Rothman (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Cancer-Political-Disease-Professor/dp/0300073062/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273585329&sr=1-10
RE: deaths … could it possibly be that there's more deaths — in addtion to more accurate reporting, as discussed — due to more people surviving beyond infancy due to various interventions? After all, with more people breeding more people must die.
RE: Escape From New York Pizza … maybe Briggs needed to ask more precisely for what type slice of the many slices of various items (including pie) offered to get a more responsive response. On the other hand, that place doesn't get very good reviews overall: http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/899084/san_francisco_ca/escape_from_new_york_pizza.html
RE: Popkin & coercive inducements to healthy choices … after reading the article his objectives aren't so bad as reduced obesity reduces other social costs. But rather than coerce people into good behavior, or impose what amounts to a "sin tax" on those that persist anyway, why not regulate food producers by denying them from introducing artificial substances into so many foods to create enticing smells, flavors, etc. where they really don't exist? Its not that I'm advocating either approach, or any for that matter, its that so many foods are so, literally, unnatural due to chemical adjustments that it seems particularly hypocritical of the "do-gooder" ilk of which Popkin is a member to totally ignore the overt chemical manipulation of foods to entice attraction.
But then, maybe those "do-gooders" really don't care about overall health as their real objective is to assume the ability to intervene among & take control over others — power & control is their real objective & noble sentiments/assertions are the camouflage they employ to further their nefarious objectives. They are little more than sophisticated bullies driven by neurotic insecurities that make them feel threatened by anyone that can both think for themself, and, confront & cope with the unpleasant realities that go with life.
Again, all discussed in detail in the book, "The Liberal Mind…" by Dr. Lyle Rossiter; available at: http://www.libertymind.com
In another life one of my jobs was to oversee maintenance of a compound housing over 100 employees. Part of that oversight involved testing the water once a month. this was done by collecting samples from various living quarters and submitting them to the local county sanitarian. All went well and we typically had results well within OSHA standards and all was right with the world. Then, all of a sudden, the samples began to come back with sharply elevated coliform counts which caused a panic among the residents (even though the results were still well within OSHA guidelines). All sorts of remedies, each more expensive than the last, were demanded. I called the sanitarian and he recommended we not worry about it. It seems that he had begun using a new laboratory and their equipment was much more sensitive than the previous lab's. A call to that lab confirmed that fact and that there was likely no change at all in our water quality.
Of course the person in overall charge of our operation began buying bottled water for everyone and set about trying to find funding for a water purification unit for our small site at a large increment to our operating budget.
Need I say that this was a government operation?
Pat Moffitt says:
Malnutrition has increased from 20% in 1950 to 76% today? This is a paper I have to get. 1950 saw not malnutrition but starvation (maybe starvation doesn't count) through much of Asia. China's Great Leap forward in the 50's starved 20 to 50 million people. Malnutrition was rampant in India and Pakistan's until the advent of Norman Borlaug's new wheat varieties in the 60s.
And how does pollution cause new breeding grounds for mosquitoes? The author claims that 1 million die worldwide from mosquito borne diseases and would have us believe this is an increasing number. In 1793 Yellow Fever killed 5000 of Philadelphia's population of 45,000 http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/7374219. In 1933 some 30% of Al Gore's home state had malaria which was endemic throughout the US until 1950.
Who pays for this "research"?
Doug M says:
I would suggest the polution has been the leading cause of death since at least the dawn of civilization. Particularly, polution in the form of our own exrament.
Speed says:
Re: Counting the dead.
A 2004 WHO report says that the top ten (about 50%) of human deaths worldwide were caused by …
Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
Lower respiratory infections
Diarrhoeal diseases
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
Prematurity and and low birth weight
Causes vary markedly by "broad income group." There is no mention of "pollution" although like tobacco and hunger it could be a contributing factor. Collecting and analyzing population health statistics may be one of the most challenging, interesting and valuable services that a competent statistician can undertake. And one of the most damaging for an incompetent one.
Anyone interested in big-picture health projects should look at the Gates Foundation Living Proof Project — all lives have equal value.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/default.aspx
OregonGuy says:
Grand news!
Now we can save the Earth through gardening.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/10/the-union-of-concerned-scientists-tackles-gardening-to-save-the-planet/#more-19374
Here's an interesting summary by a U of Mich. prof that analyzed gravestones & related data in Illinois for the period covering about 1840-early 1900s:
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-2003summer/ishs-2003summer146.pdf
Mortality among 5yrs & less was almost 25 percent; about half to 45% of those 10 or less died. A sizeable number died the day they were born or in their first year.
The author cites increased survival rates on a variety of improvements such as better food, shelter, sanitation, government programs (e.g. innoculations), etc.
Reviewing the data shows just how harsh & deadly life was in the "good ole' days" when pollution & other evils of mankind were essentially nonexistant.
Ken:
It is infant mortality and early death that has the greatest influence on an oft quoted statistic — a nation's life expectancy at birth — not heroic measures that may give us a few more months at the high end.
Mikey says:
Ah. Ordering food in NYC. Upon moving there after a life spent entirely in the SW I entered a deli to order a sandwich. As I was looking for the menu of pre-selected sandwiches from which to choose, the guy yells "Next!" and it was my turn. I said, "Uh…" and about a half second later he yelled "Next!" After the line disappeared, he was happy to school me on ordering just the sandwich I wanted from the list of ingredients. Now I found the prepackaged menu's in non-NYC deli's to be quite annoying.
Ken, to order a slice in New York, as Briggs was pointing out, is to order a particular item that needs no further explanation.
I do miss New York.
Mikey,
Baconeggonarollnocheese. My favorite breakfast.
Nobody liked the Kagan joke?
Demesure says:
"an estimated 40% of world deaths are due to environmental degradation."
I crave to know what % the scam scientist has found for world deaths **before** "environmental degradation" took place, when life expectancy was around 40 years.
Knowing such junk science has been funded by world taxpayers is sickening.
Now, I suspect 100% of world deaths are due to life, may I get some finance to carry further research ?
j ferguson says:
On water quality: Some years back, friend went to Katmandu on a UN mission in connection with hepatitis research. They brought a still with them. When they got there, they bought a case each of the various brands of bottled water. None met even the most basic standard. They were better than drinking water out of the tap, but not much.
One brand likely was water out of the tap – assay was quite close.
The still was kept busy for the duration of the mission.
Environmental degradation? Grandfather who lived from 1885-1973 believed best invention in his lifetime was automobile. It got rid of the horses and thence, their byproducts. He said that in Minneapolis when he was a kid the stuff got up to the level of the curbs and you had to wade through it to cross the street.
He was one of four siblings who made it to 21 out of eleven births. Typhoid and cholera got the others.
When was this golden era of the environment that has now become so degraded?
The New York pizza in San Francisco isn't very good. We are caught up in this local food movement. When the pizza recipe has to travel 3000 miles, it looses something. California pizza isn't so bad, but it is likely to have arugula or similar ingredients which offend the New Yorkers.
Briggs,
Re: Kagan joke
I liked the Kagan joke. Clever. Subtle. Requires some knowledge of current events. Before yesterday I wouldn't have gotten it.
I would suggest the polution [sic] has been the leading cause of death since at least the dawn of civilization. Particularly, polution [sic] in the form of our own exrament [sic].
I'm having an Andy Rooney moment here, Doug M. Why is it OK to fertilize our food crops with cow manure but not human manure?
Rod says:
I liked the Kagan joke. I'm guessing that the first straight woman was nominated straight after the previous straight man.
Is it two women straight? or two women, straight?
Maybe one of the straight women is actually the straight man of a double act.
gcb says:
I thought the Kagan joke was funny, although I was unaware of any potential controversy there until you mentioned it, so it took me a minute to get the required background. I'm more perplexed by the idea that an individual can be appointed to SCOTUS without ever having actually worked as a judge.
gcb,
A Supreme Court justice doesn't even need a law degree.
Too much judicial experience is a negative, as controversial decisions will be used against the nominee.
"I'm having an Andy Rooney moment here, Doug M. Why is it OK to fertilize our food crops with cow manure but not human manure?"
Because Human Manure potentially harbors the eggs of human infectious parasites, or other human pathogens.
For example – cisticercosis. If you eat pig flesh with Taenia larva, they will grow into tapeworms in your GI tract, but it's not a huge problem.
If however, you manage to ingest the eggs from the tapeworm that come out in your manure, the larva will hatch from the eggs, bore into your muscle or central nervous system and really mess you up.
gcb – here is a list of all 40 Supreme Court Justices without prior judicial experience before becoming justices
Name of Justice Prior Occupations Years On Court Appointed By President:
1. William Rehnquist Asst. U.S. Attorney General 1972-2005 Nixon (Assoc., 1972),
Reagan (Chief, 1986)
2. Lewis Powell President of the American Bar Ass'n,
Private Practice 1972-1987 Nixon
3. Abe Fortas Private Practice 1965-1969 Johnson
4. Byron White Deputy U.S. Attorney General 1962-1993 Kennedy
5. Arthur Goldberg U.S. Secretary of Labor 1962-1965 Kennedy
6. Earl Warren Governor of California 1953-1969 Eisenhower
7. Tom Clark U.S. Attorney General 1949-1967 Truman
8. Harold Burton U.S. Senator 1945-1958 Truman
9. Robert Jackson U.S. Attorney General 1941-1954 F. Roosevelt
10. James Francis Byrnes U.S. Senator 1941-1942 F. Roosevelt
11. William O. Douglas Chairman of the S.E.C. 1939-1975 F. Roosevelt
12. Felix Frankfurter Asst. U.S. Attorney, Asst. Secretary of War,
Prof. of Law at Harvard 1939-1962 F. Roosevelt
13. Stanley Forman Reed U.S. Solicitor General 1938-1957 F. Roosevelt
14. Owen Josephus Roberts Special Counsel in "Teapot Dome" investigation and trials 1930-1945 Hoover
15. Harlan Fiske Stone U.S. Attorney General 1925-1946 Coolidge (Assoc., 1925),
F. Roosevelt (Chief, 1941)
16. Pierce Butler County Attorney, Private Practice 1923-1939 Harding
17. George Sutherland U.S. Senator 1922-1938 Harding
18. Louis Brandeis Private Practice 1916-1939 Wilson
19. James Clark McReynolds U.S. Attorney General 1914-1941 Wilson
20. Charles Evans Hughes Governor of New York,
U.S. Secretary of State 1910-1916,
1930-1941 Taft (Assoc., 1910),
Hoover (Chief, 1930)
21. William Henry Moody U.S. Attorney General 1906-1910 T. Roosevelt
22. George Shiras, Jr Private Practice 1892-1903 Harrison
23. Melville Fuller Private Practice 1888-1910 Cleveland
24. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator 1888-1893 Cleveland
25. Joseph Philo Bradley Private Practice 1870-1892 Grant
26. Salmon P. Chase U.S. Treasury Secretary 1864-1873 Lincoln
27. Samuel Freeman Miller Private Practice 1862-1890 Lincoln
28. Noah Haynes Swayne U.S. Attorney for Ohio, Ohio Legislator 1862-1881 Lincoln
29. Nathan Clifford Maine & U.S. Attorney General 1858-1881 Buchanan
30. John Archibald Campbell Alabama Legislator 1853-1861 Pierce
31. Benjamin Robbins Curtis Massachusetts Legislator 1851-1857 Fillmore
32. John McKinley U.S. Senator 1838-1852 Van Buren
33. Roger Brooke Taney Maryland & U.S. Attorney General,
U.S. Treasury Secretary 1836-1864 Jackson
34. Henry Baldwin U.S. Congressman 1830-1844 Jackson
35. Joseph Story Speaker of Mass. House of Reps., U.S. Congressman 1812-1845 Madison
36. John Marshall U.S. Secretary of State 1801-1835 Adams
37. Bushrod Washington Virginia House of Delegates,
Reporter for Virginia Court of Appeals 1799-1829 Adams
38. William Paterson Governor of New Jersey 1793-1806 Washington
39. John Jay President of the Continental Congress,
U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs 1789-1795 Washington
40. John Rutledge Governor of South Carolina 1789-1791, 1795 Washington
While the 40% deaths due to environmental degradation may or may not be supported by the facts or statistics presented, you can't just say
"Since most of us in the States, Europe, Australia, Japan, urban China and India, and other modern nations are not dying from "environmental degradation"
without backing it up, or your argument is less credible than the one you are discrediting.
John Galt says:
You're right on about the diagnosis thing. Have you heard all the debate about the increase in autism? It turns out that they've broadened the diagnosis, which caused the precived increase.
John Galt,
Yep. It's not just that, but when some people hear about the disease, they rush out to have it checked. Many of these folks would not otherwise have been diagnosed.


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Sts. Peter & Paul
Sacraments & Services
Sacraments of Vocation
The St. Michael Story
5 Year Pastoral Plan
Ministry of Lectors and Commentators
St. Michael School
St. Michael Parish
With the Mission of Sts. Peter and Paul
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"That all who enter this Church encounter Christ as children of God, disciples of Christ, and stewards of every gift entrusted to us by God."
" To live our baptismal promises by living our faith through prayer, service, and generosity."
In 1840 a small Catholic community, gathering along the banks of a stream on Oahu, established the Waialua Catholic Mission. On May 8, 1853, Over 160 years ago, the people and frrends of the Waialua Catholic Mission built the first Roman Catholic Church in the North Shore area. In a dedication ceremony, they placed the new church and new parish under their patron saint: St. Michael the Archangel. This event marked the begining of St. Michael Parish, as recoreded in Diocesan records.
As time went on and as the community grew St. Micahel Parish established a School and Various Missions in order to tend to the growing flock. In 1944 St. Michael Parish School was established by Fr. Ernest Claus, SS.CC. and has ministered to the children of our community providing them with a good Catholic Chrisitian education.
Our Mission Church, Sts. Peter and Paul at Waimea started from humble beginings. Catholics residing in the Waimea, Pupukea, and Sunset area informed Father Louis Boeynaems, SS.CC. then pastor of St. Michael Parish of their desire to have a mission church facilitating attendance. Services were being conducted at the time in private homes and then in an old army barracks on privately owned land. Father Louis purchased a property that of an old quarry located just inshore from the northern point of Waimea Bay. He described the place as having a tower and old abandond buildings with walls, no floors, no roof and full of weeds and trees. With the help of the Catholic community and plantation workers they cleared the area, and installed new cement floors, windows and a roof. After years of work, Father Louis held the first services in the new mission church on Easter Snday April 5, 1953.
For more information and detailed histroy please visit the St. Michael story page.


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England rugby union legend and Premier Sport ambassador Lawrence Dallaglio recently joined a number of Premier Sport franchise owners in Upminster to host a sports day for 90 children at a local school.
During the day a mix of boys and girls aged between six and 12 learnt a variety a new rugby skills and were also taught about the importance of keeping active through sport.
During the session, Dallaglio himself delivered coaching in Tag Rugby before giving an inspirational speech about the importance of sport in his life and his belief in a healthy, active lifestyle. Reflecting on the session, Dallaglio said: "It's crucial for children to understand the importance of a healthy lifestyle and to stay active by participating in sport all year round.
"As a former professional sportsman, I understand the importance of high quality coaching from an early age and that's why I'm proud to endorse Premier Sport and the outstanding work of its coaching team. It's only through the provision of well organised, dedicated coaches throughout the country that we'll see our children enjoy playing sport and reaching their full potential, regardless of their level, which is why I'm 110 per cent behind Premier Sport and its aims."
Premier Sport is the UK's leading sports coaching company for children and works closely with a team of ambassadors that also includes Olympic swimming champion Duncan Goodhew, MBE and former Great Britain rugby league captain Paul Sculthorpe.
Luke Miles, a Director at Premier Sport, says that the company is always looking for talented individuals to join its franchise network. "It has been a landmark year for sport and there is now a real desire to leave a lasting legacy for young people. We are looking to recruit people that have a passion for sport and the drive and determination to manage their own franchise territory. This really is an outstanding opportunity for the right candidates and I would urge them to apply immediately."


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Christie Blatchford: Alan Kurdi's story should galvanize the world — but Harper can't be blamed for this tragedy
Christie Blatchford
I may stand alone here, probably do, but I was grateful Thursday, as waves of emotion washed over the country and the world at the picture of little Alan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach, for a prime minister who didn't entirely yield to it.
Alan, his five-year-old brother Ghalib and their mother Rehenna drowned, with eight others, when their tiny boat flipped over in heavy waves. They are among an estimated 2,500 people, most of them Syrians, who have drowned this summer in the very same fashion, desperately trying to get to Europe — to get somewhere, anywhere, safe — from swollen Turkish migrant camps.
Now, Stephen Harper may not be by nature a warm and fuzzy guy, but in remarks he made Thursday at a Surrey, B.C., campaign office, it was plain he was shaken.
When he and Laureen saw the picture, he said, their thoughts went immediately to their own son Ben, now a towering young man, and how he was at Alan's age, "running around like that," and in the "that," you knew all he was remembering — the way boys of three are always in motion, chattering and banging about and falling and bouncing back like rubber balls, and how you can't take your eyes off them, not for a second.
But Harper remained, probably at his peril, reasoned.
"I don't need to tell you what we saw yesterday was a tragedy," he said. "It is far, far worse than that."
Syria's ongoing civil war, ISIL and the destruction and chaos there, have made refugees of tens of thousands and mere survival a desperate challenge for millions more. As of January, the death toll in Syria was 220,000, four million people had fled the country and seven million more were displaced within it. It is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.
Related'Too easy' to start assigning blame for Syrian boy's death, Mulcair says; Trudeau slams handling of crisisCanada says it never denied refugee application for migrant boy and his family'I want the whole world to see': Father of drowned boys hopes tragedy will bring changeJohn Ivison: Migrant crisis suddenly the biggest issue in the election campaign — and Harper's on the high wire
And refugee policy alone, Harper said, "is not remotely a solution to this problem … "
He said a few days ago, he met with the patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (His Holiness Mor Ignatius Aphrem 11), who is visiting Canada from Damascus.
"And look, what they (Syrians) all tell you is this: We're honoured, delighted, relieved, seeing some of our people coming here. … We need the humanitarian aid.
"But more than that we need a situation where people are not attacking and trying to kill us (in Syria), where they have lived as long as history has been written."
The PM said, pretty much, what the dead boys' weeping aunt, Tima Kurdi, said in a news conference from Vancouver.
"There is one thing should be done," she said. "End the war. That's all I can say."
What Harper said was also in essence what Tima Kurdi quoted the boys' father, Abdullah, as telling her: "Now the world is going to watch my story. Where (were they) all this war before?"
In other words, to invoke what a friend of mine once said about crime but it's equally good for wars and atrocities, you have to know who to be mad at, and here, in no particular order, is a long list — Syrian President Bashar Assad and his special brand of genocide, ISIL, the UN, and the world which, until the terrible picture of a dead boy surfaced, was by and large content, as my brilliant Postmedia colleague wrote this week (Terry Glavin also broke the story of the Kurdi family connection to Canada), to watch Syria die and to allow it to happen.
Jason Payne/ PNGTima Kurdi, the aunt of two Syrian boys who drowned off Turkey, speaks to the media at her home in Coquitlam, B.C., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Alan, Ghalib, and their mother Rehanna died as they tried to reach Europe from Syria.
The reaction now ought not to be, as it was as the story developed, to blame Harper and Canada for the deaths of the two boys, or, as one reporter put it to the PM in Surrey, "Do you feel any sense of responsibility for this child's tragic death?"
Now this was before the story of the Kurdi family connection was clarified, by both Tima Kurdi herself and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander.
The situation as originally painted — predictably, it went nuclear instantly — had Kurdi making a formal application for Abdullah and his family, which was of course cruelly denied by the Harper government, when, in fact, she'd applied on behalf of their older brother, Mohammed, and his family.
That confusion appears to have been born of an innocent mistake, Kurdi in her grief conflating a couple of things, but it was immediately used as a launch pad for searing (and inaccurate) headlines and partisan attacks.
In the latter category, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau surely takes the prize, when he said, of Alexander leaving his re-election campaign and heading to Ottawa, presumably to get the facts of the case, "You don't get to suddenly discover compassion in the middle of an election campaign. You either have it, or you don't."
THE CANADIAN PRESS/HOAlan, left, and his brother Galib Kurdi are seen in an undated family handout photo courtesy of their aunt, Tima Kurdi. Alan, Ghalib, and their mother Rehanna died as they tried to reach Europe from Syria.
It was a particularly cheap shot, and Alexander would have been as harshly criticized if he hadn't done just that, or something equally dramatic.
Harper's view is that only a three-pronged effort has a chance in Syria: accept more refugees and do it faster; give more humanitarian aid; continue to participate in the military campaign.
As he said once, "Laureen and I had the same reaction, but it doesn't lead to the same conclusion. Our message is (also) we need to help people who are actually there, who can't get away, and stop the violence being directed at them. I do not know for the life of me how you can look at that picture and say 'Yeah, I want to help that family' and say walk away from the military coalition. … It's incomprehensible to me to see an image like that and conclude you do more of one thing and less of another."
It wasn't perfect, but it was a responsible, intelligent and reasoned response to that picture, and on a day when others took an easier path, the one strewn with flowers, teddy bears, balloons and sentiment. Alan Kurdi's story certainly should galvanize the world, not only to be stricken and weepy, but to fury.
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In a Sanger sequencing reaction, then, we end up with a mixture of polymerase extension products in which a very small fraction of the new DNA strands--all derived from the same template and starting location as defined by the primer--have selectively terminated at each base position along the template; and the terminating ddNTP identifies its template partner by the rules of hybridization mentioned above.
ddNTPs lack the hydroxyl (-OH) group on the sugar residue; this means that unmodified nucleotides (dNTPs) are unable to be added via the joining of the phosphate (P[O.
Also, minimum mass difference between heterozygotes increases to 16 Da for A/G heterozygote in SPC-SBE because of the use of biotinylated ddNTPs, compared with 9 Da for A/T heterozygote with regular ddNTPs.
1) Nonstandard abbreviations: HAEC, human aortic endothelial cell; HUVEC, human umbIIical vein endothelial cell; dNTP, deoxynucleoside triphosphate; ddNTP, dideoxynucleoside triphosphate; Ct, threshold cycle; s/n, signal-to-noise rafio; and s/i, signal iracfion.
Primer extension reactions were performed using the SNaPshot ddNTP Primer Extension Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).
We used the SNaPshot ddNTP Primer Extension Kit to genotype SNP 45 (T[alpha]G) and SNP 276 (G[alpha]T) of the adiponectin gene.
Primer extension reactions were conducted using the SNaPshot ddNTP Primer Extension Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).
Primer extension reactions were performed with the SNaPshot ddNTP Primer extension Kit (Applied Biosystems).
The multiplex primer extension reaction was carried out with purified PCR products as template and a mixture of 12 site-specific primers (Eurogentec; Table 2), which were extended by one matching ddNTP (Amersham Bioscience).
The primer extension reactions were conducted with the SNaPshot ddNTP Primer Extension Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA).
The 11 purified primers (Genosys; Table 1), each specific for a screened mutation, bind to the complementary sequence in the presence of fluorescently labeled dideoxynucleotide triphosphates (ddNTPs), and the AmpliTaq DNA Polymerase extends the primer by adding a single ddNTP to its 3' end.


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La provincia de Huancasancos es una de las once que conforman el departamento de Ayacucho, en el Sur del Perú.

Limita por el Norte y por el Este con la provincia de Víctor Fajardo, por el Sur con la provincia de Lucanas y por el Oeste con el departamento de Huancavelica.

Historia
La provincia de Huanca Sancos fue creada mediante Ley 23928 del 20 de septiembre de 1984, en el segundo gobierno del Presidente Fernando Belaúnde, sobre la base de territorios pertenecientes a la provincia de Víctor Fajardo.

Geografía
 Capital: Sancos
 Altitud: 3.525
 Superficie: 2.862.33 km²

División administrativa
La provincia tiene una extensión de 2862.3 kilómetros cuadrados y se encuentra dividida en cuatro distritos:
 Carapo
 Sacsamarca
 Sancos
 Santiago de Lucanamarca

Población
La provincia tiene una población aproximada de 10 620 habitantes.

Capital
La capital de la provincia es la ciudad de Huanca Sancos.

Autoridades

Regionales
 Consejero regional
 2019 - 2022: Edgar Raúl Olivares Yanqui (Musuq Ñan)

Municipales

 2019 - 2022
 Alcalde: Agustín Luis Meneses Salas, de Musuq Ñan.
 Regidores:
 Napoleón Sumari Salcedo (Musuq Ñan)
 Jesús Núñez Meza (Musuq Ñan)
 Maximina Alarcón Quispe (Musuq Ñan)
 Pedro Eusebio Meza Alfaro (Musuq Ñan)
 Ceferino Barrientos Alarcón (Movimiento Regional Gana Ayacucho)

Festividades
 Carnavales (febrero)
 Virgen de la Candelaria (2 de febrero).
 Virgen de la Encarnación (25 de marzo) .
 [Feria Regional Agropecuario de Corpus Christi y Commpetencia dansantes de Tijera inter Ayllus].
 Apóstol Santiago y Felipe o fiesta del agua (24 de julio)
 Qachua por los 4 ayllus (26 de julio).
 Fiesta Taurina con toros de casta y pura sangre 29 julio
 Virgen de la O, Patrona de Huanca Sancos donde la festividad de Novenantes comienza el 8 de diciembre con las celebraciones de los cuatro ayllus: Jananhuanca, Huando, Lurinhuanca y Sauja; Comunidad campesina, Gobernación, magisterio, Comerciantes, ganaderos y mayordomo; Termina el 18 de diciembre y Tarde Taurina el 19 diciembre
 Baile Navideño autóctono y ancestral por el nacimiento del niño Jesús y competencia inter Ayllus el 24 y 25 de diciembre (es el baile más conocido como "Atipanakuy Navideño")
 Bajada de Reyes, con competencia de baile ancestral, originario y autóctono interinstitucional el 6 de enero

Véase también
 Departamento de Ayacucho
 Organización territorial del Perú

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Municipalidad Provincial de Huanca Sancos
 INEI Perú
 Blogspot huancasanquinos.

Provincias del departamento de Ayacucho

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Before the Lights Go Out
by Andrew Sanger
Six less than last week. I lay on the grass next to Sam, holding her hand. We're both silently counting in our heads. She's slower at counting than I am, but she always finishes with a higher number. She says it's because she's an optimist. I tell her it's because she flunked third grade math.
It's early October, the time of year when you still get caught off-guard by the nighttime chill. Neither of us have a jacket and Sam is wearing short sleeves for some reason. She pulls me closer for warmth. It's not all bad I guess. I try to say something, but she stops me.
I'm not done counting yet."
We lay there for a few more minutes, the cold sinks its teeth in deeper. We both have school the next morning.
"4,269. What did you get?"
I tell her and she smiles. I say that it's not a competition, but we both know I'm secretly jealous. Fourteen stars could mean two extra weeks of being together. She pulls me closer and I try not to feel scared.
August. A warm nighttime breeze blows through our hair, tangling together our loose strands. Sam was right, I shouldn't have grown my hair out. I thought it would make me look scholarly but she told me I look like a teenager with a wannabe garage band. Her words, not mine. She's right, but I haven't admitted it yet.
Sam is really showing now. Her belly pokes out just far enough that I can see a bit of skin between her belt and T-shirt. Sometimes I'll poke the fleshy patch with my finger just to watch her squirm. She says it's bad for the baby, but I can't see it doing much harm other than giving him an early-developed sense of humor.
I haven't given her my count yet. Is this one of the nights when we'll see one of them blink out while we watch? The night sky still looks alive, despite everything.
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Sam mindlessly tries to work out our knotted-together hair, but keeps her eyes up. Almost five years and she's still finished her count first. Five years and I've still never had a higher count than her. I think she adds twenty every time, just to mess with me.
It feels weird to finish on such a round number. I count them again quickly, just to make sure. Same answer. Sam and I have been doing this for so long that I can count groups of stars all at once, ten at a time if I want to.
I feel bad for the city-folk. They hadn't even had 1,600 stars in their sky before they started to go out. Now our sky was starting to look like theirs. It left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Sam is still inside, dealing with Nat. He's been having nightmares ever since I accidently left the news on while he played in the family room. God knows what he heard, but it was more than a nervous eight-year-old could handle.
Sam came back inside and told me the number. Part of me wanted to go out there and count with her, but some days I needed an excuse not to. I would call Nat or put on an old movie from the days when they still tried to distract people.
I smiled, it was the same number as yesterday. I knew better than to take that as a good sign, I knew it meant that she'd miscounted, but I felt comforted nonetheless; like I'd stolen an extra day from whoever was in charge of my days. Sam sat next to me on the couch.
"I hate this movie."
I say I hate it too, but as soon as the TV is off my heart sinks. Sam looks at me like there's something she wants me to say. We sit in silence for a long time.
Seven left. Sam and I agree on that. We've agreed on every count for months.
The cities are a mess. I haven't heard from Nat in three days. I should be more scared for him, but it's hard. In one week it won't matter. In one week the only star that's ever really mattered, the one I've so selfishly depended on my whole life, will be gone. Why does ours have to be the last one? Isn't it a regular star like any other? It feels unfair that we have to be last, that we have to wait.
We'd watched it happening all these years; the stars going out, one by one. It didn't matter how many millions of light years away, it was there one day and gone the next. It was like watching an apartment building from the outside as each inhabitant turned their light off for the night, only to never see them come back on again.
Sam has been in bed all morning. I pull her dark hair, tickle her soft tummy. She laughs, but doesn't get up.
No one knows what it will look like, no one knows what it will feel like.
I try to enjoy these last warm rays, but they feel cheap and purposeless. Sam is out of bed. She smiles at me.
The hours fade. No sign of any change, but we feel it coming.
Sam and I go outside and lay in the grass.
Our one and only star begins to settle behind the mountains. It quickly becomes cold. We forgot our jackets again.
Sam pulls me close, and I'm not scared.
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Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Planning a trip on a budget can often be a challenge. Orbitz.com allows travelers to search many different airlines at once to find cheap flights from St. Louis, Missouri. The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is located 15 miles northwest of downtown on Airflight Drive. Thirteen airlines provide services to the airport, including US Airways, United Airlines, Delta and American Airlines.
Parking at the Airport
Parking at the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is provided by Super Park. Both long-term and short-term parking are available. Shuttle services are available 24 hours a day to and from the parking areas to the main terminal. Super Park ensures the closest parking available, and in many cases, parking is within walking distance to the terminal. Fees are charged by the hour or by the day with discounts for weekly parking.
Go Best Express Airport Shuttle offers shared shuttle rides to and from all downtown hotels and businesses in St. Louis. Shuttles are available every 15 to 30 minutes all day, and reservations are recommended. The MetroLink has 37 stations that provide service to and from the airport. The Link is available for a flat fee. The Metropolitan Taxicab Commission services the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and it provides metered transportation in and around St. Louis. Exact fares depend on the destination, and taxis require an additional $3 airport fee. Limos are available for rent by the day or by the hour, and many local hotels provide complimentary shuttles to and from the airport for their guests. Orbitz.com can assist travelers in locating cheap car rental agencies in the area.
Dining Options at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport offers many excellent food options for those who want to eat before their flight. The Great American Bagel Company offers many bagel varieties, as well as fresh coffee and juice. Starbucks is available at the Lambert's East Terminal and has a selection of blended coffees and bakery items. For travelers who prefer a sit-down meal before reaching the airport, Half and Half is located near the airport in St. Louis and offers eggs, toast, bacon and fresh donuts. For individuals looking for travel deals, Orbitz.com can provide assistance in locating cheap flights from St. Louis.
Wilmington International Airport
Wilmington, North Carolina, is known for its beautiful beaches, island atmosphere, and rich history. Orbitz.com is an excellent resource for researching and booking flights to Wilmington. The area is served by Wilmington International Airport, approximately five miles north of downtown Wilmington, on Airport Blvd. The airlines that serve this coastal airport are Delta, US Airways, and Allegiant Air. Located midway between Miami and New York City, the airport is often chosen as a point of entry to the country for international travelers.
Getting Around in Wilmington
Not only can you book your flight through Orbitz.com, you can reserve a car for use on your visit to Wilmington. The airport has several rental car agencies located in the baggage claim area, and most lots are within walking distance of the terminal. Many nearby hotels offer shuttle service to and from the airport, and there are also private taxis available just outside the baggage claim area.
Average Temperatures in Wilmington
Located in southern North Carolina, along the coast, Wilmington enjoys moderate temperatures year round. Average highs in July, the hottest month, can reach 90 degrees, while average temperatures in January are in the mid 50s. Temperatures in the winter can get down to the 30s, so winter travelers should bring along sweaters and jackets.
Attractions in Wilmington
Beach lovers have three excellent choices for fun in the sun. Carolina Beach offers family fun with a boardwalk, water slides, and a state park. If a laid-back small town beach is more your speed, Kure Beach is a perfectly relaxed and natural setting. Wrightsville Beach is the most easily accessible beach from Highway I-40, and offers beach visitors a look at the Intracoastal Waterway that connects the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Research flights to Wilmington on Orbitz.com, book your choice, and get ready for a wonderful, water-filled vacation.
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Q: How slow is passing large strings as return values in C#? I want to know how return values for strings works for strings in C#. In one of my functions, I generate html code and the string is really huge, I then return it from the function, and then insert it into the page. But I want to know should I pass a huge string as a return value, or just insert it into the page from the same function?
When C# returns a string, does it create a new string from the old one, and return that?
Thanks.

A: System.String is a reference type (class) and so passing as parameter and returning only involve the copying of a reference (32 or 64 bits).
The size of the string is not relevant.

A: Strings (or any other reference type) are not copied when returning from a function, only value types are.

A: Returning a string is a cheap operation - as mentioned it's purely a matter of returning 32 or 64 bits (4 or 8 bytes).
However, as Sten Petrov points out string + operations involve the creation of a new string, and can be a little expensive.  If you wanted to save performance & memory I'd suggest doing something like this:
static int i = 0;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    while (Console.ReadLine() == "")
    {

        var pageSB = new StringBuilder();

        foreach (var section in new[] { AddHeader(), AddContent(), AddFooter() })
            for (int i = 0; i < section.Length; i++)
                pageSB.Append(section[i]);

        Console.Write(pageSB.ToString());
    }

}

static StringBuilder AddHeader()
{
    return new StringBuilder().Append("Hi ").AppendLine("World");
}

static StringBuilder AddContent()
{
    return new StringBuilder()
        .AppendFormat("This page has been viewed: {0} times\n", ++i);
}

static StringBuilder AddFooter()
{
    return new StringBuilder().Append("Bye ").AppendLine("World");
}

Here we use the StringBuilders to hold a reference to all the strings we want to concat, and wait until the very end before joining them together.  This'll save many unnecessary additions (which are memory and CPU heavy in comparison).
Of course, I doubt you'll actually see any need for this in practise - and if you do I'd spend some time learning about pooling etc. to help reduce the garbage created by all the string builders - and maybe consider creating a custom 'string holder' that suits your purposes better.

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I'm a morning person. Most days, as soon as I wake up, I'm alert and ready to start my day. After coffee, of course. That's why I choose to write in the morning; I'm fresh and at my best. When I'm writing, whether it's the first draft of a manuscript or a rewrite, I focus on that. I don't even check my email or answer my phone until I'm satisfied that I've produced the day's writing. It's too easy for me to get sidetracked, responding to emails, posting on Face Book and commenting on other writers' blogs. I like to get up early but not as early as Louise, one of the characters in Mixed Messages.
Louise had tossed and turned all night long. She glanced at the clock on her bedside table: 4:58 a.m. The alarm would go off in two minutes. She reached over and turned it off. I don't know why I bother to set it, she thought. No matter what time she went to bed, every morning for more years than she cared to remember, she had awakened at exactly the same time. Intuitively, her brain knew that it was time to get up.
I have several friends and family members who, whenever possible, stay up until all hours and then sleep the morning away. And, I've read interviews with other writers who claim they're the most productive at night. Just like Lawrence, another character in my book.
Lawrence was a night person. Long after his mother had gone to bed, he would stay up, reading or watching television. He loved the peace and quiet. It was "his time." He wasn't "on call" for his mother and there weren't any of the little disturbances there were during the day such as telemarketers calling, the annoying noise of lawn mowers, leaf blowers and cars honking their horns. At night, there were no interruptions; he could do what he wanted to do.
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A pixel wall clock that represents the combination between analog and digital. The organic shape of the clock seems to be swallowed by the digital pixels. These pixels represent the rise of the digital influence in our current lives.
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