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Statistically, children who read with their parents are better holistic people both in and out of the classroom. Please consider reading 20 minutes a night with your children!
Also: What do you think about starting a Parents book club? I would love to pick one book a month and read it with parents. We can meet up and discuss the book. Wouldn't that be grand?


In Constant Guests, debut novelist Patricia Nedelea spins a tale that skips across the European continent and the centuries, interweaving art, Christology, parentage, romance and intrigue.
The story centers around Isa, a 24-year-old Parisian waitress whose world rips apart once she discovers that she'd been adopted at birth, and that Mara, her biological mother, has just died after being comatose for 20 years. Shocked, Isa springs into action, determined to learn about her parents—and maybe herself as well.
Isa subsequently realizes that her beloved small painting, one she'd had since infancy, previously belonged to Mara. It's revealed that this painting is a sample tarot card, the prototype of the original 24-card set, created in 1389. Since Mara had been intent on finding the entire set, Isa attempts to reconstruct Mara's journey in order to understand the mother she never knew.
Like the novel Cloud Atlas, the story moves forward and backward in time, entailing different characters and scenarios. From a spiritual teacher in Patmos, c.100; to a faux-bishop in Tuscany, 1389; to Mara, a onetime timid museum curator in Transylvania, 1971; to present time, Nedelea effortlessly spins the disparate threads into a collective whole.
Nedelea's descriptive skill is impressive (one character, for example, is "a short unremarkable blonde with a face like a seal's.") Her locales paint a perfect sense of place, with pinpoint specificity of sights, sounds and even smells. And her literary tour of medieval torture devices? Explicit—-and chilling.
Constant Guests is not without issues. Although Nedelea's knowledge of tarot cards is prodigious, the resulting minutia impedes the story's momentum; furthermore, frequent reportage of who owns which of the 24 cards (continually in flux), muddies the plot. And the book's final portion delivers such an overload of farfetched information, most will have to re-read to absorb it.
That said, the author's craft and creativity (plus the glorious tarot card illustrations) are superb. Despite its flaws, Constant Guests is an engaging, notable debut.


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News from the Snowy River Campus
We currently have seven Yr 9 students at the SSL (School for Student Leadership), Snowy River campus at Marlo in Gippsland. Here's an update from Brea about what they've been up to this term.
Our time here at the Snowy River Campus has been one of the most enjoyable experiences that any of us have done. We have had so many new opportunities and have had to face many challenges that range from everyday life challenges like washing our own clothes to the physical components of EXPO and canoeing, to rooming with a complete stranger.
When we arrived here at SRC we didn't really have the chance to be shy and secluded, we just had to jump straight into it and we all did that easily and from that have made the best of friends.
We have had a wide range of classes here that include values and beliefs, yoga, thinking and learning, passport, intro to canoes, and intro to bikes. We don't have the normal classes like maths and english, but we learn lots of new skills that have helped us to broaden our learning and our leadership skills.
Living here at SRC has been amazing. It's hard to write just how much happens and how much you like living here, but to us this is home. We have a good schedule here which is pretty basic. Get up at 6.30, breakfast at 7.00, head count at 7.30, class at 9.00, morning tea at 10.30, class resumes at 11.00, lunch at 12.30, new class at 1.30, afternoon tea at 4.00, DEARR at 5.00, dinner at 6.00, evening class at 7.30, get ready for bed at 9.00, between the sheets at 9.15.
A few of our one off classes have been canoeing, bridge building and surfing. In canoeing we paddled up the Yeerung River and then had to authorize a capsize which was a great experience. In Bridge Building we had to use logs of wood and rope and we had to make three tri-pods and bridges that would get us across a section of water to a canoe that held a bag and each person had to retrieve an item from the bag. In surfing we pretty much spent a total of 10 minutes learning how to get up on the board and then we were all out there in the water having a go at surfing. That was a great day and we all stood up a couple of times.
Mortlake College and Lakes Entrance were paired up for all classes, and we went on an EXPO together that went for three days that consisted of hiking, canoeing and camping. We had to hike a fair way on the first day, down Mount Raymond, then we canoed about 4km over choppy water that was white peaked which is dangerous for inexperienced people, so it was a bit dangerous for us, but we all managed really well. We slept in a paddock the first night and woke to cows right in front of our tents because they had breached our fence. The second day was mainly canoeing, having us canoe 12km which was a tad tiring, but we all felt very proud when we finished. We made it to Corringle early in the afternoon and had a lot of free time so we went fishing but unfortunately didn't catch anything. That night we went for a night walk which was the highlight for nearly everyone. It was so beautiful. We had all of our torches off and were just walking. The sky was full of stars and we were all so mesmerised. It really was amazing. The third day was about an 8km walk, which I think we all thought would be difficult but it was a very casual and easy walk. We walked along the Estuary through Marlo and then moved to the beach and walked along there for a while and we had to hike up big sand dunes, which are difficult without anything on our backs, but we had 15kg expo packs on, but it was another moment where we felt so proud when we reached the top. We sang '99 bottles of beer on the wall about four times and that was the song that brought us back into the campus on the third and final day.
We would all like to thank Anthea Good and Anne DeManser for organising everything and helping us begin our time and our parents for allowing us to come because without them we would never have been able to come here and have our time here at SRC
By Breanna Kirkwood

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Мариа́нне Квист (, урождённая Мариа́нне Йо́ргенсен, ; ) — датская кёрлингистка, чемпион мира.

Играла на позиции третьего и четвёртого. Неоднократно была скипом своей команды.

Достижения
 : золото ().
 : бронза ().
 : золото (1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1993).

Команды

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Частная жизнь
Замужем. Муж — Микаэль Квист, датский кёрлингист и тренер по кёрлингу.

Примечания

Кёрлингисты по алфавиту
Кёрлингисты Дании
Чемпионы мира по кёрлингу
Чемпионы Дании по кёрлингу

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Coffee can be bought either as whole beans or as coarsely or finely grounded coffee.
What are the pros and cons of the coarse and fine coffee ground? Are there different applications for coarsely and finely grounded coffee?
There are necessarily pros and cons of different types of grinds as much as different purposes associated with different types of grinds. The coarseness of the grind will determine what type of brewing method that will be used. The difference in grind will also determine the length of the brewing process.
Also grind coffee just before brewing for the freshest cup of coffee possible. Normal grinders with blades work ok, but burr grinders work best. Regular grinders chop more than grind.
Here is an article that outlines different grinds and what brewing process to use.
if you want your grinds to have a good-decent flavor(in my experience) get a bag that has a one-way air valve (much like a respirator with no intake) thebeanforge.com sells their ground coffee in such bags. To answer your direct question, I would only assume the courser grains will keep the flavor longer than the finer grains. Finer grains may be able to bleed the flavor at a lower temperature=less brewing time. In my experience you can brew course grains satisfactorily in a regular drip coffee maker, such as the "Mr. Coffee" makers and a run-of-the-mill paper filter.


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Released late last year, Evermore's Follow the Sun is some of the best work by the New Zealand/Australian trio of brothers. The latest album is filled with huge sounds and catchy choruses that equate into stadium-worthy anthems that should see the band stretching further than Australia and New Zealand.
Produced by the band themselves, Follow the Sun works by blending styles akin to Mumford and Sons and Coldplay- then mixing them up and adding the Hume brothers style to make it their own. Huge harmonies and some of the best percussion choices instantly make the album unique. That's not just on the obvious choice, "Follow the Sun" but it's all over the album. The Coldplay and Mumford and Sons correlations are fine but those are bands that Evermore has some things in common with, not bands they borrow things from. The influences that you can hear on the record range from U2's stadium ready rock, Silverchair's grungy styles (see "Pieces" to hear a softened grunge track in all it's glory. Not new grunge that people labeled most of rock last decade- but legitimate grunge.) They even have some unique Zepplin and Muse style dramatics to complete a well-rounded and fascinating listen.
Evermore's been around for more than a decade and they've sold millions of albums in Australia and New Zealand, yet they haven't made the full impact in the U.S. yet. Through Australia they've toured with Matchbox Twenty and a slew of other high profile artists. With this record, if they made a run at the U.S., I could see them doing really well. They're already getting some noticeable sync placement, they should get more than that sometime soon too. Follow the Sun is a great album and if you check it out and give it a chance, you'll find out what you've been missing.


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Argentina's media celebrates life and times of Maradona
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Argentina's media paid homage to the life of Diego Maradona following his death from a heart attack on Wednesday.
Buenos Aires-based daily Clarin said the 60-year-old was found dead in his bed at 11.30am and that several ambulance crews failed to resuscitate him.
"The only thing that Maradona was able to do like a normal person was die," it said, under the headline "World Upheaval: Diego Armando Maradona has died".
It reported that major Buenos Aires landmarks, such as the Obelisk, the planetarium and the Lezama palace, were illuminated in the colors of Argentina's flag on Wednesday night as a mark of respect.
Rival newspaper La Nacion said football had provided a refuge for Maradona amid his long battle with drug and alcohol dependence.
"It didn't matter if it was hell outside. When he walked onto the pitch he forgot his worries," it said.
Jorge Valdano, who was Maradona's teammate in the Argentina side that won the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, said Maradona had struggled with the public spotlight like few other footballers before him or since.
"There is something perverse about a life in which dreams are fulfilled and Diego suffered the generosity of his destiny like no one else," Valdano wrote in a column published in La Nacion.
Valdano quoted Maradona's former physical trainer, Fernando Signorini, who once said: "With Diego I would go to the end of the world, but with Maradona I wouldn't even go to the corner shop."
The Ole sports newspaper ran the headline, "Long live Diego," adding that Maradona's profound impact on all walks of life in Argentina made him eternal. "He will never finish writing his story. He is alive," it said.
TNT Sports said a wake for the former Napoli and Boca Juniors star would be held at the Casa Rosada presidential palace on Thursday and Friday. It cited estimates from officials that the event would attract more than a million mourners. Enditem


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Parkway Drive issue Fractures stream
By Scott Munro ( Metal Hammer ) published 18 September 15
Hear latest track from Australian outfit's 5th album, out September 25
Parkway Drive have issued a stream of their track Fractures.
It features on the Australian outfit's fifth album Ire, out on September 25 via Epitaph. It follows the release of Crushed, Sound Of Violence, and Bottom Feeder.
Frontman Winston McCall spoke to Metal Hammer about why they decided to move away from their metalcore sound on the follow-up to 2012's Atlas.
He said: "We had a band meeting, and it turned out all of us were thinking the same thing: none of us would get creative fulfilment out of writing another Parkway metalcore album.
"It was a really odd point to be at; we didn't want to stop what Parkway was about, but at the same time there had to be a different way of doing it.
"It took a hell of a long time to get our heads around what that actually meant."
Parkway Drive will head out on the road in January for a run of dates to support Ire and are the cover stars of the latest edition of Metal Hammer, out now in print, digital and via TeamRock+.
Ire tracklist
Dying To Believe
Vice Grip
The Sound Of Violence
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Volvo Shows Off New XC90's Button-Less Interface: Video
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In just a couple of months Volvo will reveal its first all-new XC90 since the launch of the original SUV all the way back in 2002. The new XC90 is shaping up to be a much more luxurious and refined model than the one it replaces, and it will also be packing some of the latest technology found in the auto industry.
In addition to fuel-efficient hybrid powertrains, new safety features and autonomous capability, the new XC90 will also benefit from an advanced user interface almost completely devoid of conventional buttons. The interface, part of Volvo's Sensus connectivity and user interface sub-brand, will feature a large tablet-like touchscreen (ala Tesla's Model S), head-up display, voice activation and some thumb controls on the steering wheel.
The touchscreen replaces the traditional selection of buttons and controls in the center stack with one sleek control panel. This central panel will work together with a configurable digital instrument cluster behind the steering wheel, while vital information can be projected on the head-up display on the lower part of the windscreen.
2015 Volvo XC90 spy shots
To ensure it's easy to use and quick to become familiarized with, popular information such as navigation and media are displayed high up and easy to check. The phone controls, application icons and climate controls, meanwhile, are located lower on the screen. All of this logic is based on extensive usability and user experience research and the latest technology, according to Volvo.
It's no coincidence that Volvo's new interface sounds a lot like the interface of a smartphone. Not only will it provide owners with the ability to mirror and use Apple iOS devices in the touchscreen display, the system will offer a range of additional benefits common to smartphones via integrated cloud-based applications. Available apps will be dependent on the market but should include services for music streaming, navigation, finding and paying for parking, restaurant searches, and vehicle maintenance.
The new Volvo XC90 will be revealed in early August before a formal debut at the 2014 Paris Auto Show in October. Sales in the U.S. commence spring 2015.
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Culture is what makes a people distinct. Discovering multiple cultural expressions of a single territory is what makes one trip different from another. In 2018, we are celebrating the Year of Cultural Tourism. We propose a whole host of experiences for you to find pleasure in every variant of Catalan culture. Enjoy the cultural menu we have prepared for you!


For almost a week, I've been operating on the assumption that once I got my PICC line, I'd be able to go home. My cardiologist had assured me this would be okay--in fact, he pointed out that I was more likely to get an infection on the temporary pacemaker if I stayed in the hospital.
Late afternoon yesterday I wandered down to one of UCLA's older cafeterias to get an iced mocha. Simple pleasures attain great significance in demoralizing institutions.
In prison, cigarettes are worth their weight in tobacco, nicotine, paper, cellulose acetate, rayon, and tar.
The cafeteria iced mochas are not surprisingly not great. I walked back to my room through the new hospital's cafeteria (called the "Dining Commons") and noticed that it actually had a small Starbucks stand. How had I eaten there many, many times without noticing this little gem? I stared at the unsatisfying cafeteria mocha in my hand and decided that I was stuck in the hospital and deserved to treat myself to a real iced mocha. So I bought a Starbucks iced mocha latte as well. Venti, baby.
I loaded it up with half and half and sugar--only to discover to my chagrin that it, too, was somehow inadequate. Clearly I'd only thought I wanted iced coffee. Simple pleasures become less simple....So I bought some chocolate chip cookies and headed back to my room to watch the Mets game on ESPN.
Sick children in New York inevitably become Mets fans because of the team's infirm mascot, Mr. Met, a hydrocephalic. Despite his hideous hemicraniectomy scars, Mr. Met puts on a smile--and a show--for his beloved Metropolitans!
Oh, no! He must have been praying to the devil!
The large structure on the hilltop is the Getty Center, one of my favorite places in LA.
Needless to say, the picture doesn't do the view justice. Streaks of low-rolling, sun-streaked clouds caressed the hills. No doubt the light was moodily enhanced by the Santa Barbara brush fires. I couldn't help but feel hopeful on the eve of my release. The spectacular presence of Los Angeles endured; my confinement could not.
This morning one of my cardiologists came in and seconded the surgeon. He said they really never let people go home with the temporary pacemakers, and he reiterated the catastrophic, if slight, risks. He also said, "What's five more days in the hospital?" I suppose he has a certain logic there. A Taoist sort of In-N-Out kind of Brahman-is-Atman McNugget.
The Taittiriya Upanishad says: "He who knows the Bliss of Brahman...does not distress himself with the thought, 'Why am I stuck in the hospital? What's another five days?' Whoever knows this (bliss) regards both of these as Atman."
So it looks like I'm stuck here at least another week or so. If I can go a few days past that, I'll make it a full month. As far as I know, Lewis and Clark got from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in less than a month.
Sacagawea readies to give Cpt. Willaim Clark the "Nyuck-nyuck" eye-poke. She learned from the best, Chief Why-ay-oughta.
But, I'm determined to try to use my tenure at UCLA productively. Perhaps I can even do some personal creative writing, now that I know I'm trapped here. As I've always said, "If life gives you lemons, get that fishy smell off your hands."
Hey, Will. You may not remember me, but I'm a friend of Caitlin M.'s from college. You came over to my apartment once to have dinner when she was visiting. I think hot fudge was served. Anyway, we also have some friends in common on facebook which led me to your blog. Just wanted to let you know that I'm finding it so interesting and funny despite the crap reason under which you find yourself writing it. I will enjoy it while it lasts and hope that you're home and too busy enjoying life and not being in the hospital to blog soon.
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The Class of 2020 graduation will probably look different than those of the past. Graduating amid a pandemic shouldn't make the day any less special. Graduation is still something to celebrate and we all know that the seniors have worked hard to get to where they are over the last decade.
The Garden City High School administration has set a date for the commencement exercises for the 133rd Garden City High School senior class. The date for graduation for the Class of 2020 has been planned to take place July 17-19. The district will be working closely with the Finney County Health Department to determine what type of ceremony will be allowed to take place on those dates.
The senior class voted to go with a traditional graduation ceremony. The next choice would be to hold smaller graduation ceremonies for the class. The school administration worked with a number of seniors and parents that formulated options for a graduation ceremony.
The originally scheduled ceremony was postponed due to the school facilities being closed across the state as part of the Governor's plan to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. All school facilities in the district, including playground equipment, continue to be closed to the public.
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Maritime Heritage Grant Program
The Senate followed with a favorable vote (92-7), and the president signed the bill into law on 23 December 2016.
initiated by the US Maritime Administration (MARAD).
Advocacy by the maritime heritage community and the support of members of Congress resulted in that agency's commitment of $7 million to the grant program over the past few years.
The new legislation mandates char 18.75% of all ship scrapping proceeds will be committed to the maritime heritage grant program (our goal was 25%,
So we have some more work to do,keeping in mind that the Maritime Administration can request 6.25% of these funds for its own maritime heritage needs).
Of the remainder, 50% of the scrappi ng profits remain
The National Park Service (NPS) will continue to administer the competitive gram program.
The Park Service can claim up to 15% of the transferred funds (i.e. of the $7 USS Yorktown in South Carolina won a 2014.
Maritime Heritage Grant to implement state-of the-art technology and interactive educational features aboard the 1943.
Carrier to provide insight into the shipboard life of the engineering crew and million transferred
This is a large amount, and should be reexamined.
Additional amendments to the 2017 defense bill require greater transparency in the Maritime Administration's ship scrapping operations, including timely reporting on when funds become available, and the use of funds for the preservation and presentation to the public of the Maritime Administration's maritime heritage property.
These changes are all beneficial to the gram program.
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Randy Forbes (assisted by staff member Eric Lindsey), Garret Graves (assisted by Ian Bennin), Donald Norcross (assisted by Morgan Jones), John Brady, Duncan Hunter, John Garamendi, Walter Jones, the technical functions of the engine machinery.
Although you may not be aware of it, every time you turn on your computer you owe a huge debt to Grace Hopper.
A Yale-trained mathematician,
Hopper joined the Navy in December 1943, keen on serving the war effort directly.
At thirty-seven, she already had a successful teaching career at Vassar College,
Nevertheless, in June 1944, as a newly commissioned lieutenant (junior grade), Hopper was sent to Harvard University's. Computation Project—then operating under.
the Bureau of Ships—to work on the Mark I computer.
Even as a very young child, Hopper was inquisitive and fearless.
clocks in her home and other antics that her patient parents chose to indulge and gently guide.
her towards more productive endeavors Thus,
both by temperament and by life experience, Grace Hopper was uniquely suited to seize the opportunities.
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Santa Monica hotel built without permits can remain open
Posted: Dec 14, 2019 / 12:03 AM CST / Updated: Dec 14, 2019 / 01:51 PM CST
FILE – This May 6, 2019, file photo shows the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. The beachfront hotel built without proper permits and fined nearly $15.6 million will be allowed to remain open. After hours of debate the California Coastal Commission voted 7-5 Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, to approve after-the-fact permits for the Shore Hotel, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Santa Monica beachfront hotel built without proper permits and fined nearly $15.6 million will be allowed to remain open.
After hours of debate the California Coastal Commission voted 7-5 Thursday to approve after-the-fact permits for the Shore Hotel, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
In exchange, the hotel's developer agreed to create a "micro hotel" within the Shore resort that overlooks Santa Monica Pier. The resort will include 72 rooms priced no higher than $180 a night, waive $25 resort fees for guests in those rooms and limit their nightly parking fees to $25.
The developer, Sunshire Enterprises, still has to pay the nearly $15.6 million fine and must also cover $2.3 million in mitigation fees. The fine issued in May for opening the hotel without proper permits is a record for the commission.
The dispute began after the commission, which oversees development along California's coast, granted Sunshine approval in 2009 to demolish two aging, moderately priced hotels containing a total of 87 rooms. They were to be replaced with a new hotel that commissioners were promised would also be affordable in a tourist area where inexpensive hotels are rare.
But after the demolition permits expired the developer built a 164-room resort hotel with two restaurants, a pool, a gym, a meeting space and rooms ranging in price from $265 to $800 a night, the Times said. Parking fees were $43 a night.
In seeking permit approval Thursday, the developer originally proposed adding a 14-bed, low-cost hostel with nightly rates topping out at $52. After commissioners said that was insufficient, the hotel agreed to turn the 14-bed hostel into a micro-hotel.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Climate issues are set to be one of the main talking points at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week, but a survey of CEOs released Monday shows that they are not even ranked among the top ten threats to business growth.
In its annual report ahead of the gathering in Davos, financial services group PwC said climate change and environmental issues are ranked as the 11th biggest threat to their companies' growth prospects. Though up one spot from the same survey a year ago, climate-related issues lag way behind other concerns such as over-regulation, which ranks as the number 1 worry. Other concerns in the top 10 include trade conflicts, lack of skills among workers and populism in politics.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Recent economic indicators point to an easier time ahead for small manufacturers and companies in the home remodeling industry.
A decline in the home repair and remodeling market that began in the first quarter of 2019 is projected to end with the third quarter of this year, according to researchers at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. The center forecasts fourth-quarter spending on repairs and renovations will rise 1.5% from year-earlier levels.
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The Libyan National Oil Corporation confirmed it had invoked force majeure on oil exports from two key southern fields, a clause that allows for a failure to fulfill international contracts due to a sudden disruptive event.
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Could you guess who was quoted as having written that statement?
The Apostle Paul, Peter, even John while writing the book of Revelation while imprisoned on an island?
Only the naive would believe or teach that the Christian life is not filled with sufferings and hardships.
Anyone who preaches or teaches the opposite is in danger of misleading many away from the true gospel.
Should we enjoy being a follower of Christ?
But our fulfillment should be in the fact that we are given to a cause, a cause that does at time bring about sufferings and hardships.
Interesting to me is that in the second quote we find the apostle Paul writing to Timothy in II Timothy 1:12.
That yes I suffer but I believe in the One who will deliver me.
The first quote I must say stunned me when I read who wrote that.
Allow me to use it again.
It sounds very much like a passage from the Apostle Paul as well.
And it was written in a distant remote land not far from where Paul traveled.
On approximately December 15th, 2001, this person wrote that statement as a warning to his children to avoid his path in life.
It was written by Osama Bin Laden as he was trying to escape American troops at Tora Bora as depicted in the book Manhunt by Peter L. Bergen.
For all that he had fought for, as misled as it was and remains and brought tragedy to many, he was telling his children not to follow in his steps.
Fortunately, as we follow in the steps of Christ and of the Apostle Paul we too at times suffer.
However we suffer knowing that those who follow us will benefit from our sufferings.
That their benefit will allow them a stronger walk with God as they also defend their faith.
We suffer for a cause that truly means life and death.


The project would be taken up under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
The Karnataka government has decided to take up a elevated corridor project to decongest city roads from January 2019 at an estimated cost of about Rs 25,495 crore, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on November 29.
The project is also aimed at providing effective modes of transportation, minimising maintenance cost of vehicles and ensuring road safety along with limiting carbon emission, he said.
"Due to traffic congestion on city roads, we have decided to go ahead with construction of corridors to ease traffic in North-South, East-West and central parts of the city," Kumaraswamy told reporters here. The total length of the first phase corridor is 102.04 km and it is estimated to cost Rs 25,495 crore, he said, adding that 92 acres of land was required for the project.
The project would be taken up under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode, he said. Officials have been instructed to ensure there were no legal hurdles and that complete transparency was maintained, Kumaraswamy said.
The government has decided to kickstart the project in January 2019 and complete it by 2021.
Kumaraswamy had announced in his budget speech about undertaking of construction of elevated corridor and also allocated Rs 1,000 Crore for present year.
The chief minister held a meeting of officials of various departments Thursday, where he also examined the presentation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) regarding elevated corridors project.
He said with a view to ensuring that public property was not affected, it had been decided to go in for four-lane roads at places where it may affect people and six-lane in the remaining places.
Kumaraswamy said, according to estimates, 3,700 trees might have to be felled for the project and steps would be taken towards translocating trees wherever possible and also planting of new trees in about 100 acres at various places in the city.
"There will be interlink between corridor and metro line, and at places double-decker model is likely to be adopted for this purpose," he added.
In another move to decongest city roads, the state cabinet had recently decided to bear the land acquisition cost of about Rs 4,500 crore for the 65-km peripheral ring road, estimated to come up at a cost of about Rs 17,000 crore.
"Despite efforts by various governments through various programmes, we have not been successful in providing all the basic necessities to the citizens of Bengaluru," Kumaraswamy said.
Pointing out that there was a section among citizens who are opposed to such infrastructure projects, Kumaraswamy asked them to take note of situations such as vehicles moving bumper to bumper on city roads and speed limited to 15-20 km per hour leading to wasting of time in traffic.
"If there are any doubts, Vidhana Soudha's doors are always open. You can clear your doubts either by meeting me or the Chief Secretary.
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Juanita Stead, 36, said she did not suffer morning sickness or put on extra weight during her pregnancy, and continued to menstruate and so she had no idea that she was pregnant.
A hospital X-ray on New Year's Eve for back pains revealed the truth.
"The technician looked at me and said, 'My dear, you're pregnant with a full-term baby.' And I said: 'No sir, you got the wrong woman and you're looking at the wrong screen. There is no way I'm pregnant," she said.
Nicholas was born soon afterwards.
Coincidentally, the birth of the couple's first child, two-year-old Cameron, also caught them off guard.
Stead knew she was pregnant with Cameron, she said, but he arrived two months early.
"I felt like I had to go to the bathroom and out he popped, right into the toilet," she said. Her husband scooped their first-born out the toilet and put him in his mother's lap until an ambulance arrived, she said.
Not knowing you're pregnant and thinking you just have random back pain.
And Speck, I guess I can't be sure that this one won't happen. But I will take precautions. Like if I get discomfort close to the due date that is persistent perhaps I'll just pee on a towel or something just in case? Really though. Crazy.
Overall, while your father is Canadian and from the looks of this article this does leave you at a great disadvantage to the rest of the world's population, I trust that my genes will pull you through! Don't fear!!
ps. enjoy the baclava. I went to Auburn especially for you to get some good stuff….. (it really was for you, I could almost hear your voice asking for some)..
My girlfriend's cousin only found out she was pregnant when she was 7 months along. They had to quickly re-locate back to Australia from New York (no health insurance!) and quickly prepare for bub's arrival. Amazing. She had her period the whole time.
now now. stop the canuck bashing now or I will start looking for strange Aussie news, and you know that will get ugly.
oh my goodness. crazy… Did she think she was putting on weight unexpectedly around the belly??


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package com.cognitionis.timeml_basickit;

/**
 * @author Hector Llorens
 * @since 2011
 */
public class Event extends Element implements Cloneable {

    // why 1000000? It is enough: 1 million events by average correspond to a 10 milion words document - like 50MB txt (Wiki-WWI 20000w, Quijote 400000w, Bible 500000w, more than 1000 pages)
    //              It improves eficiency: not id-taken check
    public static final String firstExtraMakeinstanceId = "1000000";
    private String eiid;
    private String event_class;
    private String event_pos;
    private String event_tense;
    private String event_aspect;
    private String event_polarity;
    private String event_modality;
    private String event_context; // sentence contents
    private String event_participants; // depending on the PoS: verbal, nominal...
    private String event_aspectual_modifier;
    private String event_duration;
    private boolean is_main;
    private boolean is_linked_to_tref;

    public Event(String i, String ex, String c, String di, long snum, int tnum) {
        this.id = i;
        this.expression = ex;
        this.num_tokens = 1;
        this.event_class = c;
        this.doc_id = di;
        this.sent_num = snum;
        this.tok_num = tnum;
        this.event_aspectual_modifier = "";
        this.event_duration = "0";
        this.is_main = false;
        this.is_linked_to_tref = false;
    }

    @Override
    public Event clone() {
        try {
            return (Event) super.clone();
        } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
            throw new AssertionError();
        }
    }

    public String get_class() {
        return event_class;
    }

    public String get_POS() {
        return event_pos;
    }

    public String get_context() {
        return event_context;
    }

    public String get_participants() {
        return event_participants;
    }

    public String get_aspectual_modifier() {
        return event_aspectual_modifier;
    }

    public String get_duration() {
        return event_duration;
    }

    public String get_pos() {
        return event_pos;
    }

    public String get_tense() {
        return event_tense;
    }

    public String get_aspect() {
        return event_aspect;
    }

    public String get_polarity() {
        return event_polarity;
    }

    public String get_modality() {
        return event_modality;
    }

    public boolean is_main() {
        return is_main;
    }

    public boolean is_linked_to_a_ref() {
        return is_linked_to_tref;
    }

    public String get_eiid() {
        return eiid;
    }

    public void set_context(String context) {
        this.event_context = context;
    }

    public void set_participants(String participants) {
        this.event_participants = participants;
    }

    public void set_aspectual_modifier(String mod) {
        this.event_aspectual_modifier = mod;
    }

    public void set_duration(String duration) {
        this.event_duration = duration;
    }

    public void set_pos(String s) {
        this.event_pos = s;
    }

    public void set_tense(String s) {
        this.event_tense = s;
    }

    public void set_aspect(String s) {
        this.event_aspect = s;
    }

    public void set_modality(String s) {
        this.event_modality = s;
    }

    public void set_tense_aspect_modality(String s,String pos) {
        if (!s.equals("-")) {
            String[] sarray = s.split("-");
            // hack for Spanish: deprecated, makes the relations worse
           /* if(pos.equals("VMN0")){
                event_tense = "NONE";
                event_aspect = "IMPERFECTIVE";
            }else{*/
            for (int i = 0; i < sarray.length; i++) {
                if (event_tense == null) {
                    if (sarray[i].matches("(past|present|future|infinitive)")) {
                        event_tense = sarray[i].toUpperCase();
                    } else {
                        if (sarray[i].equals("conditional")) {
                            event_tense = "FUTURE";
                            event_modality = "would";
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    if (event_tense != null && sarray[i].matches("(perfect|continuous)")) {
                        String aspect = "";
                        if (sarray[i].equals("perfect")) {
                            aspect = "PERFECTIVE";
                        } else {
                            aspect = "PROGRESSIVE";
                        }
                        if (event_aspect != null) {
                            event_aspect += "_" + aspect;
                        } else {
                            event_aspect = aspect;
                        }
                    }
                }

            }
            //}
        }
        if (event_tense == null) {
            event_tense = "NONE";
        }
        if (event_aspect == null) {
            event_aspect = "NONE";
        }
    }

    public void set_polarity(String s) {
        if (s != null) {
            if (s.length() > 3) {
                s = s.substring(0, 3).toUpperCase();
            }
            if (!s.matches("(POS|NEG)")) {
                s = "POS";
            }
        }
        this.event_polarity = s;
    }

    public void set_is_main(boolean v) {
        this.is_main = v;
    }

    public void set_is_linked_to_ref(boolean v) {
        this.is_linked_to_tref = v;
    }

    public void set_eiid(String s) {
        this.eiid = s;
    }

    public static String treebank2tml_pos(String pos) {
        String out = "OTHER";
        if (pos.startsWith("V")) {
            out = "VERB";
        } else {
            if (pos.startsWith("N")) {
                out = "NOUN";
            } else {
                if (pos.startsWith("J")) {
                    out = "ADJECTIVE";
                } else {
                    if (pos.equals("IN") || pos.equals("TO")) {
                        out = "PREPOSITION";
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return out;
    }
}


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package org.apache.servicecomb.swagger.invocation.arguments;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import org.apache.servicecomb.swagger.invocation.InvocationType;
import org.apache.servicecomb.swagger.invocation.converter.Converter;
import org.apache.servicecomb.swagger.invocation.converter.ConverterMgr;
import org.apache.servicecomb.swagger.invocation.converter.impl.ConverterCommon;
import org.springframework.util.TypeUtils;

public abstract class ArgumentsMapperFactory {
  @Inject
  protected ConverterMgr converterMgr;

  protected InvocationType type;

  // key为ContextParameter
  private Map<Class<?>, ContextArgumentMapperFactory> factoryMap = new HashMap<>();

  public void setConverterMgr(ConverterMgr converterMgr) {
    this.converterMgr = converterMgr;
  }

  protected void createFactoryMap(List<ContextArgumentMapperFactory> factoryList) {
    factoryList.forEach(factory -> {
      factoryMap.put(factory.getContextClass(), factory);
    });
  }

  protected ContextArgumentMapperFactory findFactory(Type type) {
    if (type.getClass().equals(Class.class)) {
      return factoryMap.get((Class<?>) type);
    }
    return null;
  }

  public <T> T createArgumentsMapper(Method swaggerMethod, Method providerMethod) {
    ArgumentsMapperConfig config = new ArgumentsMapperConfig();
    config.setSwaggerMethod(swaggerMethod);
    config.setProviderMethod(providerMethod);

    collectArgumentsMapper(config);

    return createArgumentsMapper(config);
  }

  protected void collectArgumentsMapper(ArgumentsMapperConfig config) {
    List<ProviderParameter> providerNormalParams = collectContextArgumentsMapper(config);
    if (providerNormalParams.isEmpty()) {
      return;
    }

    if (isSwaggerWrapBody(config, providerNormalParams)) {
      collectWrapBodyMapper(config, providerNormalParams);
      return;
    }

    collectSwaggerArgumentsMapper(config, providerNormalParams);
  }

  protected boolean isSwaggerWrapBody(ArgumentsMapperConfig config, List<ProviderParameter> providerNormalParams) {
    Method swaggerMethod = config.getSwaggerMethod();
    if (swaggerMethod.getParameterCount() != 1) {
      return false;
    }

    Type swaggerType = config.getSwaggerMethod().getGenericParameterTypes()[0];
    if (!swaggerType.getClass().equals(Class.class)) {
      return false;
    }

    Type firstProviderParam = providerNormalParams.get(0).getType();
    if (TypeUtils.isAssignable(firstProviderParam, swaggerType)) {
      return false;
    }

    // no public field, it's not rpc wrapper class
    if (((Class<?>) swaggerType).getFields().length == 0) {
      return false;
    }

    swaggerType = ((Class<?>) swaggerType).getFields()[0].getGenericType();
    Converter converter = converterMgr.findConverter(type, firstProviderParam, swaggerType);
    if (ConverterCommon.class.isInstance(converter)) {
      return false;
    }
    // 透明rpc的包装场景
    return true;
  }

  // 处理所有context类型的参数
  // 剩余的参数返回
  protected List<ProviderParameter> collectContextArgumentsMapper(ArgumentsMapperConfig config) {
    List<ProviderParameter> providerNormalParams = new ArrayList<>();

    Type[] providerParameterTypes = config.getProviderMethod().getGenericParameterTypes();
    for (int providerIdx = 0; providerIdx < providerParameterTypes.length; providerIdx++) {
      Type parameterType = providerParameterTypes[providerIdx];
      ContextArgumentMapperFactory factory = findFactory(parameterType);
      if (factory != null) {
        ArgumentMapper mapper = factory.create(providerIdx);
        config.addArgumentMapper(mapper);
        continue;
      }

      ProviderParameter pp = new ProviderParameter(providerIdx, parameterType);
      providerNormalParams.add(pp);
    }

    return providerNormalParams;
  }

  protected void collectSwaggerArgumentsMapper(ArgumentsMapperConfig config,
      List<ProviderParameter> providerNormalParams) {
    Method swaggerMethod = config.getSwaggerMethod();
    Type[] swaggerParams = swaggerMethod.getGenericParameterTypes();

    // 普通场景,要求除了provider上的context,其他参数必须按顺序一一对应,provider上的有效参数可以与契约不一致
    int minParamCount = Math.min(providerNormalParams.size(), swaggerParams.length);
    for (int swaggerIdx = 0; swaggerIdx < minParamCount; swaggerIdx++) {
      ProviderParameter providerParameter = providerNormalParams.get(swaggerIdx);
      Type swaggerParameter = swaggerParams[swaggerIdx];

      Converter converter = converterMgr.findConverter(type, providerParameter.getType(), swaggerParameter);
      ArgumentMapper mapper =
          createArgumentMapperWithConverter(swaggerIdx, providerParameter.getIndex(), converter);
      config.addArgumentMapper(mapper);
    }
  }

  protected void collectWrapBodyMapper(ArgumentsMapperConfig config, List<ProviderParameter> providerNormalParams) {
    // 将provider的参数存入唯一swagger参数的field
    // 或是将唯一swagger参数的field存入provider参数
    Method swaggerMethod = config.getSwaggerMethod();
    Class<?> swaggerParam = swaggerMethod.getParameterTypes()[0];
    Field[] swaggerParamFields = swaggerParam.getFields();

    // 普通场景,要求除了provider上的context,其他参数必须按顺序一一对应,provider上的有效参数可以与契约不一致
    int minParamCount = Math.min(providerNormalParams.size(), swaggerParamFields.length);

    Map<Integer, FieldInfo> fieldMap = new HashMap<>();
    for (int swaggerIdx = 0; swaggerIdx < minParamCount; swaggerIdx++) {
      ProviderParameter providerParameter = providerNormalParams.get(swaggerIdx);
      Field swaggerField = swaggerParamFields[swaggerIdx];
      swaggerField.setAccessible(true);

      Converter converter = converterMgr.findConverter(type,
          providerParameter.getType(),
          swaggerField.getGenericType());
      FieldInfo info = new FieldInfo(swaggerField, converter);
      fieldMap.put(providerParameter.getIndex(), info);
    }

    ArgumentMapper bodyFieldArg = createBodyFieldArgMapper(config, fieldMap);
    config.addArgumentMapper(bodyFieldArg);
  }

  protected abstract <T> T createArgumentsMapper(ArgumentsMapperConfig config);

  protected abstract ArgumentMapper createArgumentMapperWithConverter(int swaggerIdx, int providerIdx,
      Converter converter);

  protected abstract ArgumentMapper createBodyFieldArgMapper(ArgumentsMapperConfig config,
      Map<Integer, FieldInfo> fieldMap);
}


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00028 #include "cli/pch.h"
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00030 #include "cli/io_device.h"
00031 #include "cli/traces.h"
00032 #include "consistency.h"
00033
00034 CLI_NS_USE(cli)
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00036
00037 void cli::EnsureCommonDevices(void)
00038 {
00039     OutputDevice::GetNullDevice();
00040     OutputDevice::GetStdOut();
00041     OutputDevice::GetStdErr();
00042     IODevice::GetStdIn();
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00045 void cli::EnsureTraces(void)
00046 {
00047     GetTraces();
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Supreme Court: Boris Johnson illegally suspended Parliament
BY Flyn Braun	 September 24, 2019 5:25 am GMT+0300 June 17, 2020 9:50 pm GMT+0300 343 Views
Britain's Supreme Court has taken a unique, historic decision, effectively finding Prime Minister Boris Johnson guilty of abuse of power. According to the panel of judges, he wrongfully sent Parliament on a long break.
The Supreme Court — Britain's constitutional court on Tuesday announced a decision on two claims for prorogation, that is, the Prime Minister's decision to send Parliament to recess until October 14. The panel of judges found the decision unlawful.
Chief justice lady Hale said that the government has not presented any reasonable justification why he needed before the planned exit of the country from the European Union to declare prorogation for five weeks, when the normal duration of prorogation — a few days.
Therefore, all 11 judges of the panel unanimously decided that the prorogation was illegal, and declared it legally null and void.
On October 31 appointed exit of Britain from the European Union, and opponents of Johnson accused him of that he, announcing a break, trying not to let Parliament interfere with his, Johnson, the course of a hard break with the European Union.
After such a decision, Johnson's opponents — both opposition parties and members of the Prime Minister's party — will inevitably and very insistently demand his resignation.
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The Prime Minister responded to the opposition's accusations that prorogation is a routine procedure for preparing the government's new legislative program, and in this case, it is announced solely for the same purpose.
The Supreme Court ruled that it was now up to the speakers of the House of Commons and the House of Lords to decide when Parliament should resume.
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/**
*
* @file xiic_sinit.c
* @addtogroup iic_v3_1
* @{
*
* The implementation of the Xiic component's static initialzation functionality.
*
* <pre>
* MODIFICATION HISTORY:
*
* Ver   Who  Date     Changes
* ----- --- ------- -----------------------------------------------
* 1.02a jvb  10/13/05 release
* 1.13a wgr  03/22/07 Converted to new coding style.
* 2.00a ktn  10/22/09 Converted all register accesses to 32 bit access.
*		      Updated to use the HAL APIs/macros.
*		      Some of the macros have been renamed to remove _m from
*		      the name and some of the macros have been renamed to be
*		      consistent, see the xiic_i.h and xiic_l.h files for further
*		      information
* </pre>
*
****************************************************************************/

/***************************** Include Files *******************************/

#include "xstatus.h"
#include "xparameters.h"
#include "xiic_i.h"

/************************** Constant Definitions ***************************/

/**************************** Type Definitions *****************************/

/***************** Macros (Inline Functions) Definitions *******************/

/************************** Function Prototypes ****************************/

/************************** Variable Definitions **************************/

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*
* Looks up the device configuration based on the unique device ID. The table
* IicConfigTable contains the configuration info for each device in the system.
*
* @param	DeviceId is the unique device ID to look for
*
* @return	A pointer to the configuration data of the device,
*		or NULL if no match is found.
*
* @note		None.
*
******************************************************************************/
XIic_Config *XIic_LookupConfig(u16 DeviceId)
{
	XIic_Config *CfgPtr = NULL;
	u32 Index;

	for (Index = 0; Index < XPAR_XIIC_NUM_INSTANCES; Index++) {
		if (XIic_ConfigTable[Index].DeviceId == DeviceId) {
			CfgPtr = &XIic_ConfigTable[Index];
			break;
		}
	}

	return CfgPtr;
}

/*****************************************************************************/
/**
*
* Initializes a specific XIic instance.  The initialization entails:
*
* - Check the device has an entry in the configuration table.
* - Initialize the driver to allow access to the device registers and
*   initialize other subcomponents necessary for the operation of the device.
* - Default options to:
*     - 7-bit slave addressing
*     - Send messages as a slave device
*     - Repeated start off
*     - General call recognition disabled
* - Clear messageing and error statistics
*
* The XIic_Start() function must be called after this function before the device
* is ready to send and receive data on the IIC bus.
*
* Before XIic_Start() is called, the interrupt control must connect the ISR
* routine to the interrupt handler. This is done by the user, and not
* XIic_Start() to allow the user to use an interrupt controller of their choice.
*
* @param	InstancePtr is a pointer to the XIic instance to be worked on.
* @param	DeviceId is the unique id of the device controlled by this XIic
*		instance.  Passing in a device id associates the generic XIic
*		instance to a specific device, as chosen by the caller or
*		application developer.
*
* @return
*		- XST_SUCCESS when successful
*		- XST_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND indicates the given device id isn't found
*		- XST_DEVICE_IS_STARTED indicates the device is started
*		(i.e. interrupts enabled and messaging is possible).
*		Must stop before re-initialization is allowed.
*
* @note		None.
*
****************************************************************************/
int XIic_Initialize(XIic *InstancePtr, u16 DeviceId)
{
	XIic_Config *ConfigPtr;	/* Pointer to configuration data */

	/*
	 * Asserts test the validity of selected input arguments.
	 */
	Xil_AssertNonvoid(InstancePtr != NULL);

	/*
	 * Lookup the device configuration in the temporary CROM table. Use this
	 * configuration info down below when initializing this component.
	 */
	ConfigPtr = XIic_LookupConfig(DeviceId);
	if (ConfigPtr == NULL) {
		return XST_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND;
	}

	return XIic_CfgInitialize(InstancePtr, ConfigPtr,
				  ConfigPtr->BaseAddress);
}
/** @} */


Haven't posted about Sally for a while.
The good news she is doing great, the bad news I had to bring her through a new set of Mange treatments.
The Demodex milbes took over again a few weeks after the 1st treatment was considered successful.
I was surprised how fast it spread again. We discovered spots behind the ears, two days later it had reached the cheeks soon after spots appeared near the front legs and fur started falling out quickly, despite special food, VCO and fish oil treatment.
Only injection and Amitraz bath once a week brought her back to normal.
Her tail developed very nicely, the face was the worst area but I can see real recovery in this area now as well.
Her weight increased from 11kg when rescued to about 20kg a week ago.
Glad to know your Sally is recovering. Demodex doesnt work all the time. You can also use EURAX lotion which is for human use.
Just to share, I think it is true that mites cannot survive Chlorine bleach (Zonrox) diluted in water as a rinse, but the dog's skin will survive another day.


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FSU thwarts Alabama State in Tallahassee Regional
Seminoles advance to winner's bracket.
FSU thwarts Alabama State in Tallahassee Regional Seminoles advance to winner's bracket. Check out this story on fsunews.com: https://fsune.ws/1sVTCMG
Jackson Tarpley, Staff Writer Published 10:19 a.m. ET June 4, 2016
Taylor Walls slides in safely for one of FSU's 18 runs in their win over Alabama State.(Photo: Hunter Dyke/FSView)
18 runs, 15 hits.
That was the offensive story for Florida State in an 18-6 win over Alabama State in the first game of the Tallahassee Regional. It was a classic summer day at Dick Howser stadium that witnessed an 18-6 FSU (37-20) win over Alabama State (3893-degree3 degree temperature and high humidity marked the start of the contest, as well as a packed Mike Martin field. Over 3,200 Seminole fans filled the bleachers to watch their team take the first round of the Tallahassee regional.
The Noles got off to a rapid start in the first inning, getting 7 players across the plate to start the game. It was the Freshman Jackson Lueck with a Single RBI over second base to bring home Sophomore Taylor Walls, which would start the barrage of runs for the Noles. After that, it was Busby, Nieporte, and Henderson that were all able to capitalize off pitches and get hits to bring in runners.
"I think we got some breaks early, especially in the first inning," FSU Head Coach Mike Martin said. "A good ball club will take advantage of that, and we did."
The Hornets ended the game with 5 recorded errors, with a good percentage of those coming in the first inning.
In the top of the seventh, Nole fans began to hold their breath when Alabama State scored five runs in a row to close the gap to just four. The game would remain 10-6 until the bottom of the seventh when the Noles would score eight runs in a hot streak to seemingly put the game out of reach for the Hornets.
The story of the game defensively was sophomore pitcher Drew Carlton, who pitched 6.2 innings allowing 8 hits, 5 runs, no walks, and 5 strike outs. He also tied his season high of 118 pitches in a single game, with 82 of those pitches being strikes. Carlton threw masterfully for six innings, before fatiguing and allowing a few runs to the Hornets in the 7th inning.
Drew Carlton has now made seven straight starts of at least five innings for FSU. (Photo: Hunter Dyke/FSView)
Offensively, the standout player was Sophomore Dylan Busby, who had 5 RBI's on the day.
"I'm just going up there and swinging at balls I should swing it, [and] taking balls I should take," Busby said when asked if the baseball looked like a beach ball when swinging. "Things are just falling into place."
"Our guys did a good job tonight, [the 7th inning] was a challenge," Mike Martin added. "You have a nine-run lead, and suddenly its down to four. That's not a piece of cake."
The Noles advance to take on Southern Miss on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. at Dick Howser Stadium.
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Henri II, comte de Nassau-Siegen ( à Siegen –  à Hulst) est comte de Nassau-Siegen de 1638 à 1652.

Biographie
Il est le fils du comte Jean VII de Nassau-Siegen et son épouse, la duchesse Marguerite de Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbourg (1558-1599).

Il s'est marié le  à Marie-Madeleine de Limbourg-Stirum (1623 –  à Siegen). Elle est une fille de Georges-Ernest de Limbourg-Stirum (1593-1649) de son premier mariage, le  à Detmold, avec la comtesse Madeleine de Bentheim (1591-1649). Henri II et Marie Magdala ont quatre enfants :

 Ernestine (1647-1652) ;
 Guillaume-Maurice de Nassau-Siegen (1649-1691), qui règne à Nassau-Siegen ;
 Sophie-Amélie de Nassau-Siegen ( à Wisch –  à Jelgava), mariée en 1678 à Frédéric II Casimir Kettler, duc de Courlande et de Semigallia (1650-1698) ;
 Frédéric (1651-1676).

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Naissance en août 1611
Naissance à Siegen (Allemagne)
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Décès dans la province de Zélande
Décès à 41 ans
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"We are perceivers, and what we perceive is our reality. This is the secret of Hyle, and of this great moment we call 'reality.'" — Hyle
Hyle refers to the Prima Materia, that which is always there; the basic matter of everything. It is the space between the cracks, dark matter, if you will. It is what creates and sustains the waking moment we call reality. Hyle is the Saturnine element, the first ingredient of the Great Work.
Hyle, as the sound artist, seeks to alter the mood and perception of the listener through a sonic form of psychodrama, or hypnosis. By listening to the sounds as they progress, change and mutate, one's perception gets lost in the composition. Working primarily with guitar, and sometimes microphone, Hyle transforms this very basic signal of vibration affecting magnetic fields through a variety of sound tools, into sounds that have been so transformed that one could say they have transcended their original form. Sense of time and place are commonly lost to the artist while in the midst of performing.
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How Star Trek: Discovery Redesigned the USS Enterprise Bridge
Star Trek Discovery / April 12, 2019
Production designer Tamara Deverell explains how she brought a new look to the beloved ship while also maintaining its iconic design.
By Scott Collura
In the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "Such Sweet Sorrow," (read our review here) the show finally revealed the full interior of the new, redesigned -- yet old! -- USS Enterprise. And it was a sight to behold for Trekkies.
Production designer Tamara Deverell and her team have updated the iconic vessel to fit with the look established by Discovery, and yet they've also managed to incorporate many of the hallmarks of the ship that were established over 50 years ago at this point. I spoke with Deverell this week about the daunting undertaking of redesigning the Enterprise. Read on for the highlights from our chat…
Bringing The Original Series Into Our World
Deverell explained that her chief goal when undertaking this design was to try to bring Star Trek: The Original Series into our world rather than trying to do something "completely new." This included looking at the design plans and layout from TOS, as well as digging into old episodes of the show.
"[I wanted] to really evoke The Original Series as much as I could," she said. "But still to do it within our Discovery style and with the new building techniques that we have now, which are much more finessed and space agey, I want to say, than they had been."
Of course, there are always going to be viewers and fans who aren't happy unless a set like this is a 1:1 replica of the original. Certainly setting Discovery in the era just a few years before The Original Series was set has led to lots of criticism for the show on this front. But Deverell is philosophical about the approach of Disco.
Captain on the bridge!
"Well, we do get a lot of comments and a lot of flak from fans," she said. "It's like, well, it's not exactly the original. Well, if we did the original sets, you would be sorely disappointed because the expectations of audiences today are to see something incredible and fastidiously sci-fi and surfaces and details and 3D printing and all that. All the mechanics of the way we build sets now are completely different than what they used, which was hammers and nails and cardboard, and wonderful sets though they were, to get the essence of those and bring them into our world is ... I don't have an issue with it. I think we'd be disappointing people if we didn't."
Her thoughts go beyond the mere mechanics of set construction as well.
"My other reaction is, Star Trek is about the human story," she continued. "It's about the people and the interactions and the explorations. It's not about ... [getting] bogged down in just the physical reality of it. The things that are important for me are the Star Trek themes and the essence of that. That's what drives me, is Pike's character and, even though I'm dealing with sets, I'm still inspired by these characters. Who Spock was and who Spock becomes and the canon of that and how we can evoke that and continue those great Star Trek themes."
The Original Series and Discovery iterations of the Enterprise bridge
A Whole New Set
Deverell confirmed that the Enterprise bridge set is a completely new build on a new stage, and not a redress or alteration of a previous set like, say, the old Shenzhou bridge which was transformed this season into the Section 31 ship bridge.
"There was some talk of doing it for Season 1 and we did the exterior [then]," she said. "We had started working on it quite a while ago, which was great. We had a lot of time to really think about it. When it came to building, we actually had to do it pretty fast for this finale. It was a fun ride, but at least I'd actually had a good start on the design and the concepts and they were all approved. I had [showrunner] Alex Kurtzman, way back, looked at the model with me and brought some of his thoughts into it long before we ended up really deciding to build it."
It's the nature of production that caused the delayed between design and build -- "It's always a bit of a dance and a bit of money game and can we afford this?" laughs the designer. So even while it seemed at times that they might not get to actually build the set because of money, her team kept refining their drawings and designs anyway.
"We felt like we owed it to the world to be on the Enterprise," she said. "We went down many roads with this. We did discuss building it as a -- we would still design it -- but it would all be a green screen set. Which it wasn't. Just the front portion, the physical view screen that we normally build around it -- we just did the green screen template for that. The rest of it we built."
The question is, if the Discovery team went through all the expense and effort to build this set for just two episodes, well… is it possible we'll see it again? Or was the set struck at the end of production on Season 2?
"I can't tell you that now," laughed Deverell. "I'm gonna put it in my backyard…"
Red Railings and More!
There are so many great touches on the Enterprise set which call back to the original design. Some are obvious -- like the unmistakable red railings on the bridge -- but then there are the blink or you miss it bits, like the tri-screen desktop monitor in the conference room.
"We did the Sulu eye scanner, we did the Spock eye scanner, we did the Uhura station -- we copied that layout of her station," said Deverell. "We did the light thing in the turbolift. The Enterprise had this funny light that goes up the back of it in The Original Series. Of course, ours was a monitor, but we did that. The weird handle things in the turbolift? We did a version of those. We were like, what are these? We spent hours looking [at TOS]. They sort of twisted them and we tried to figure out what they were. We did a version of those, although they didn't really make sense! They still don't but they're cool."
Sulu's (or in this case, Number One's) eye scanner
Alex Kurtzman and the executive producers had input on the design as well, and Kurtzman in particular had a suggestion for a new addition to the bridge.
"Alex, when I was showing him the initial model, he was like, 'Let's do a corridor behind the bridge,'" said Deverell. "Which never really existed. We didn't actually build that whole corridor. We built a part of it, and that's one major thing that he contributed."
Deverell also laughed about how "everybody has an opinion" -- especially when it came to the actual color of those railings.
"Oh, the railings have to be that reddy orange, and then they put orange in the script and I was like, it's really a red," she said. "I was going crazy was that orange red thing! … I'm telling you, if you look at TOS, which I've done for hours, sometimes it's orange, sometimes red. I checked with CBS archives about what the actual Pantone colors are and was matching to that and crazy designer minutiae with the colors that we were picking."
In fact, Deverell found the choosing of the colors of the Enterprise set to be the toughest part of the redesign.
Just grab that thing and say where you want to go!
"The particular reds and the green, the greeny grays, which I was really trying to match what they had in The Original Series," she said. "That was a big nod for me. I think that was something I really struggled with and ... colors come easy for me and I usually don't struggle. And I struggled with the colors of the Enterprise bridge to just get that right essence and that right reddy orange and that right grey tone. The lighting -- not that it was a struggle, but [we] really worked hard to get some of the gobo lighting effect that they had in The Original Series. There's these grids that form these shadows, so we were playing a lot with that. It wasn't a lighting that everybody necessarily liked and I really pushed hard, 'Let's put a bit of that in.'"
One area where the design clearly had to diverge from the original was the necessity of shooting Discovery in widescreen, whereas TOS was shot in the old-school, square 4:3 aspect ratio.
"We're designing to that ratio essentially," she said. "It does affect it. It stretches things out. Our tendency is to bring down ceilings, so that we can see them more. Fortunately for us, like on the Enterprise bridge, the ceiling was actually adjustable and we were able to tweak it with a chain motor system. So, oh, let's bring it down a little bit more in this shot so we can see here a bit more. Which of course in TOS, I don't even know if they had a ceiling. There's part invention of what it would be. When Jonathan Frakes first came on in Season 1 and we were touring the sets with him -- I love this line -- he looked up [on the Disco bridge] and he said, 'Oh my God, there's a roof!' Hilarious. It's such a Jonathan Frakes thing to say. For him, his history when he was acting in the [TNG] series, they didn't do ceilings in all the sets and of course ours are all 360 degrees for viewscreen."
The team also looked at other starship bridges, including those from the movies, which of course also were shot in widescreen.
"Especially with Alex Kurtzman and his involvement with the movies," she said. "We looked at a lot of what they had and how ... It was a lot to do with more lighting I looked at a lot with our cinematographers and shape and pushing the sci-fi elements, the glossy floors and things like that. We were definitely drawing from all those different Star Trek eras and films and TV shows. It's funny the things you end up looking at, because you can just go down the rabbit hole of Star Trek when you're doing research and end up in the strangest places!"
Those Chairs
And then there are the chairs on the bridge, which are the same base from TOS, with the Disco team making the black covers for them.
"I think we did a little change in the back, but we really tried to replicate," said Deverell. "That was a big nod for us, those chairs. The same thing with the captain's chair … We were really looking at that. I think we matched the wood, cause there was wood on Kirk's chair, Pike's and Kirk's chair. But especially Kirk's chair I was looking at. … We sharpened some of the angles, we did a little bit more wood, but the basic shape and essence of it is the same. The black leather, all of that."
In the end, Deverell says a project like this becomes something more than just production design on a TV show.
"It's fun doing that kind of thing," she said. "We have a lot of fun trying to replicate things. They're historic. It's weird because we're doing a sci-fi thing that takes place in the future, but we're doing a period piece as well."
Talk to Executive Editor Scott Collura on Twitter at @ScottCollura, or listen to his Star Trek podcast, Transporter Room 3. Or do both!
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Sarah McClurg is a singer-songwriter from Ottawa, Canada. Having already made a splash in Nashville with her 2010 debut, "Tennessee Rain", Ms McClurg is now set to embark on a tour of the UK with Silver Creek. Despite being in the critical stages of preparing for her upcoming UK tour, Sarah McClurg was kind enough to wake up early and grant Bluesbunny's Peter McGee a few minutes of her time.
PM: You're set to depart for the UK shortly, is that right?
Sarah McClurg: Today, in fact! Tonight!
PM: Fantastic! So, are you excited about the tour?
Sarah McClurg: Oh yeah, very excited! We're going to be doing a whole bunch of shows at different venues, and we have some other musicians who will be playing with us also, like Danni Nicholls and Sara Petite. I look forward to meeting them.
PM: Will this be your first time visiting the UK?
PM: I guess now I'll go to the topic of your album, "Tennessee Rain", which gathered a good deal of acclaim for its blend of rock and country music. What inspired you to make such an album?
Sarah McClurg: I went to Nashville initially. When I first went to Nashville, I just went with one song. I went around about twelve different music venues and I passed out my CV, trying to find someone who might want to work with me, and I came across Danny White, who would produce "Tennessee Rain." I really wanted an album based more on contemporary country than pop/rock, but still with components of classic rock and pop. At the end of the day, the album came out with everything I wanted on it!
PM: Could you tell us a little about your influences? What or who made you want to pick up a guitar in the first place?
Sarah McClurg: I always had songs in me, and I had no way of communicating them. Now, all my friends are musicians, so they taught me a few simple chords on the guitar, and from that point I started writing a few songs with basic chords. As I was learning to play guitar a little better, I felt that my songwriting was getting better, too. I'm still just a singer-songwriter and not a guitar player, but learning guitar has been the biggest door to open for me. It's been able to let me communicate more effectively through song. I always had melodies and lyrics, but making a song without the guitar was the hard part. It was one of the best decisions I made!
PM: What does performing live mean to you?
Sarah McClurg: It's almost indescribable. I've always felt that being onstage meant finally feeling that I know where I belong. It just feels natural.
PM: What else do you have planned for 2011?
Sarah McClurg: We have some shows lined up here (Canada), and I have other tours in mind. I'm getting a lot of airplay in Australia. A few different things really! I'll be heading down to LA, for an awards show. We'll also be shooting a music video for "Tennessee Rain" in April.
PM: Ms McClurg, thank you for your time!
Sarah McClurg begins her UK tour on Sunday 13th February 2011, in London, and plays Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry on Sunday 20th February. For additional information, visit her website.