A novel method is presented for systems with periodic references and/or disturbances by employing controllers in an array structure for each dispersed harmonic components. The method is based on automatically and appropriately setting the complex levels of the harmonic components of the control signal. Both computer simulation and real time experimental results are presented to illustrate the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Murat Dogruel was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1967. He received the B.S. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1992 and 1995. Since 1995, he has been working at the Faculty of Engineering at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is currently a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He served in the military as a faculty member at Turkish Air Force Academy from 1996 to 1997. Then, he was appointed as the chairman of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Marmara University. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Miami, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 2001 to 2003. He served at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences from 2006 to 2008. He is the Dean of Faculty of Engineering at Marmara University since 2014. His research interests include hybrid state systems, nonlinear control, harmonic control arrays and intelligent systems.


Hey guys! If you're interested in makeup, you're probably on the hunt for the perfect foundation or the perfect lipstick (or both). I may have just found my perfect lipstick. That is, the perfect brand and type of lipstick, not necessarily the shade. Ok well, I may have one minor thing that I dislike about it but otherwise it's perfect!
You're probably eagerly anticipating what this amazing lipstick is. I shall save you from your suffering then!
They are none other than the Rimmel London's Lasting Finish Lipsticks.
These are my first ever Rimmel lipsticks and they retail for $9.95 AUD which is oh-so-affordable here in Australia considering how expensive other lipsticks are here. I purchased these about two months ago, but there is currently a 50% off sale going on at Chemist Warehouse for all Rimmel, Revlon, Maybelline, and Sally Hansen products!! I purchased shades 084 Amethyst Shimmer & 016 Heart Breaker (just had to get this one for its name ;)). I have not been using them at all because I was into my Revlon Lip Butters too much. I purchased these after Suzi (www.stylesuzi.com) recommended them in one of her videos. And when I got to finally try them, I FELL IN LOVE.
Wearing Heart Breaker and loving it!
Ironically enough, Heart Breaker instantly stole my heart and I ain't ashamed of it. Not so much in love with Amethyst Shimmer though. Once you look at the swatches and read along, you'll find out why I love Heart Breaker.
Left is Amethyst Shimmer and right is Heart Breaker.
First up is Amethyst Shimmer.
Amethyst Shimmer has a shimmery dark rose tone. I find this shade to be way too mature for my likings. It applies smoothly and colour pay off is great. Just not too keen on wearing this one. I find it too shimmery & mature for me...I'm not too sure why I purchased this one anymore haha.
You can see my full face view here.
Next up is my favourite, Heart Breaker.
This.Is.Amazing (just sayin'). The colour pay off, creaminess, ease of application, comfort, and price is all top notch. It does not dry out my lips and my lips feel so comfortable after wearing this. It applies smoothly and it's the perfect rosey-red shade for me.
Here's a full face view with Heart Breaker.
Who would I recommend this to? To anyone looking for an affordable, long-lasting lipstick.
Lasting power? It lasts around 4-5 hours without eating, and 3 hours when eating. Even after I ate, I noticed I still had some stain of the lipstick left.
Pigmentation? The colour is so vibrant and the lipstick is very pigmented. Only one swatch and you're ready to go!
Repurchase? Definitely. But perhaps in different shades.
Do you own any Rimmel lipsticks and what are your thoughts on them?
Aw, these lipsticks look so pretty on you! Heartbreaker has to be my fave too!
I love the Kate Moss lipsticks, they are long wearing and have great pigmentation, and they don't dry out your lips! Win!
Heartbreaker looks great :) I have one in 'Cutting Edge' perfect for a vampy lip. Love the formula!
I had to google to see the shade haha and it looks gorgeous. Ahh so many options!
Aww thank you :) it definitely caught my heart!
Wow, the lipsticks look amazing. Both of the colours you picked out look great on you!
I'm so tempted to try them out now!
Aww thank you :) You should definitely try them out! Especially with the crazy sale going on at the moment.


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A Newly Recognised Gastroenteritis Virus of Man
The complete nucleotide sequence of Aichi virus (accession no. AB010145) has recently been determined by Drs. T. Yamashita and N. Takeda at the Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Aichi, Japan (Yamashita et al., 1998). The Aichi virus genome (isolate A846/88) is 8,251 nucleotides long, excluding the poly(A) tail and has 5' and 3' untranslated regions of 712 and 240 nucleotides, respectively. The single long open reading frame of 7,302 nucleotides protentially encodes a 2,433 residue polyprotein. This putative polyprotein was predicted to contain the typical picornavirus polypeptides, VP0, VP3, VP1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D. The capsid proteins appear to be preceeded by a leader polypeptide approximately 145 amino acids long. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that Aichi virus could be placed in a new picornavirus genus.
Aichi virus was first recognised in 1989 as the cause of oyster-associated non-bacterial gastroenteritis in man (Yamashita et al., 1991). Aichi virus is cytopathic in BS-C-1 cells. Most interestingly Aichi virus appears to morphologically resemble astroviruses when examined by electron microscopy. Antibody surveys in Japan showed that exposure increased with age reaching about 80% in persons 35 years old (Yamashita et al., 1993). More recently Aichi virus was isolated from Pakistani children with gastroenteritis and from Japanese travellers returning from tours of Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia) who were complaining of similar symptoms (Yamashita et al., 1995).
Yamashita, T., Kobayashi, S., Sakae, K., Nakata, S., Chiba, S., Ishihara, Y. and Isomura, S. (1991). Isolation of cytopathic small round viruses with BS-C-1 cells from patients with gastroenteritis. J. Infect. Dis. 164: 954-957.
Yamashita, T., Sakae, K., Ishihara, Y., Isomura, S. and Utagawa, E. (1993). Prevalence of newly isolated, cytopathic small round virus (Aichi strain) in Japan. J. Clin. Microbiol. 31: 2938-2943.
Yamashita, T., Sakae, K., Kobayashi, S., Ishihara, Y., Miyake, T., Mubina, A. and Isomura, S. (1995). Isolation of cytopathic small round virus (Aichi virus) from Pakistani children and Japanese travelers from Southeast Asia. Microbiol. Immunol. 39: 433-435.
Yamashita, T., Sakae, K., Tsuzuki, H., Suzuki, Y., Ishikawa, N., Takeda, N., Miyamura, T. and Yamazaki, S. (1998). Complete nucleotide sequence and genetic organization of Aichi virus, a distinct member of the Picornaviridae associated with acute gastroenteritis in humans. J. Virol. 72: 8408-8412.
Oh, D.Y., Silva, P.A., Hauroeder, B., Diedrich, S., Cardoso, D.D., Schreier, E. (2006). Molecular characterization of the first Aichi viruses isolated in Europe and in South America. Arch Virol. 151: 1199-1206. Epub Jan 19 2006.

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After having introduced Swiss DJ collective and record diggers Turbo Falafel last month to through this piece, they decided to curate a mix made up of songs they found on cassettes during their Egypt exploration. The result is a 50 minute set that will take you on a drive through the busy backstreets of Cairo. This is what Dave from Turbo Falafel had to say about it.
"I spent few days in Cairo, the capital from Egypt, trying to dive into the chaabi music: the most popular music expression in the country. Chaabi is the music of the backstreets of Cairo, sometimes modernized but always very traditional. The name itself means "people, or "popular". The chaabi music is reactionary. Composed and played by the working class, is a reaction to the chaotic urban scene, to a massing together of country groups who poured, during the decades, into Cairo looking for work. What they found was a dense ghetto environment, promising nothing but hard times. The music they made in response during these times, is today the sound of the backstreets of all the country.
What we get are lyrics who often tell about the hard-social conditions. The vocals improvisations, from saddening melancholy hearts, sing the themes never staying too far from the pain and suffering. this is the typically representation of the substance of chaabi.
The chaabi is rooted in this past, but is changing whit the times, keeping with the feel of modern lifestyle of the city and his new classes. At times fast and urgent, at others passionately doleful, is a reflection of life in what must be the most densely populated area of the globe. Without violence, yet with constant drama and incident, lives clash and support each other in this lifestyle, lived entirely in the ghettos and explicated by the music.
Stream the mix below and follow the duo on Soundcloud for new similar releases!


Wonder Woman (DCEU) vs Rey (Star Wars)?
Best Answer: Wonder Woman would win. Rey has not yet complete her training to defeat Kylo Ren. So Wonder Woman would win because she has strength, flight, and brawling skills. Diana is a warrior.
Why is this even a question? Wonder Woman would wreck Rey no question.
Rey would need to hit her with a Saber to do anything, which she wouldn't be able to.
Wonder Woman. Rey's not nearly skilled enough. Diana's the Godkiller. Her power is unpredictable and intense.
Wonder Woman all the way. Rey is a nobody and is a Mary Sue. Not to be sexist or anything but the last jedi has terrible character writing. Kylo Ren is also terrible and a nobody. Who is Rey? How does she have the force? Who were her parents? Etc. Thats what I mean by character details.


I have been searching for a small statue to put on my altar. An altar is any space where you put special, sacred items that hold meaning to you. I was hoping to create the perfect space for where this statue, still unknown to me, would stand (or sit!).
I've been wrapped inside a joy bubble of creating and writing for the last few months. That is a good time to go searching!
I was on Facebook and on the side there was a sponsored ad for a place that had statues. I went to it and was looking around and after lots of searching my eye fell to the Green Tara. She was beautiful, small and perfect. I decided to do a little research and find her meaning.
The secret words of the Joy Mantra on "dalieh du dalieh dulieh souha" is the Green Tara mantra of Tibetan Buddhism sung by Chinese artist Su Ching-yen.
In Tibet "Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha"
In Sanskrit "Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā"
considered to include all the other colors.
And I promise you, if you take time to learn this, to sing it, the joy starts flowing in even more. My kids learned it and when things are feeling really tight, stressed and full of anger, I start to chant this and the boys join in. Lucas did all 108 with me the other day. Beauty.
So when we start to look around for what we need it is always there. It takes opening up our hearts and minds and souls. It takes asking for help when we need it. It is accepting that help or the message or the guidance.
So a green tara will be joining me one of these days, when it is time.
And I'll remember the calm that this mantra brought me today when things were really, really tough.
That is what I choose today.


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Hill Middle School, Naperville, Illinois
Hill Middle School is a 6-8 school in District 204, and is located at 1836 Brookdale Road in Naperville, IL.
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Jan 17, 2020 122 Raintree Ct. 2 1.1 912 ft2 0 1982 Springlake $146,000
Jan 15, 2020 2704 Sheridan Ct. 3 2.1 1,646 ft2 2 2001 Kingspointe $240,500
Jan 14, 2020 906 Prospect Ct. 2 2.1 1,582 ft2 1 1991 Villas of the Fields $215,000
Jan 13, 2020 2720 Blakely Ln. 3 2.1 2,137 ft2 2 2012 Mayfair $410,000
Jan 10, 2020 887 Quin Ct. #101 2 2 1,128 ft2 1 1990 Brookdale Manor $182,350
Jan 10, 2020 1220 Bainbridge Dr. 4 2.1 2,070 ft2 2 1983 Brookdale $383,000
Jan 10, 2020 395 Gregory St. 2 1.1 1,052 ft2 1 1993 Liberty Square $162,000
Jan 6, 2020 2708 Mcclennan Ct. 3 2.1 1,646 ft2 2 1999 Kingspointe $236,500
Jan 3, 2020 5S040 Pebblewood Ln. #W301 1 1 870 ft2 1 1974 Pebblewood $102,500
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Hill Middle School home sales for the month of December rose in volume by 31.6% when compared to last year, while the median sale price rose by 11.5% from $326,500 to $364,000. The number of Single Family homes sales rose by 220%, while the median sale price rose by 4.3% from $358,500 to $374,000. Condo/townhome sales decreased by 35.7%, while the median sale price decreased by 20.4% from $282,495 to $225,000.
Homes Sold 19 25 +31.6% 9 10 +11.1%
(Single Family) 5 16 +220% 2 2 0%
(Condos/Townhomes) 14 9 -35.7% 7 8 +14.3%
Median Sale Price $326,500 $364,000 +11.5% $194,000 $225,750 +16.4%
(Single Family) $358,500 $374,000 +4.3% $267,500 $447,500 +67.3%
(Condos/Townhomes) $282,495 $225,000 -20.4% $155,500 $198,675 +27.8%
Days on Market 27 51 +88.9% 23 16 -32.6%
(Single Family) 27 57 +109.3% 44 45 +2.3%
(Condos/Townhomes) 38 40 +6.7% 23 15 -37%
Subdivisions/Buildings
Ashton Pointe
Ashton Pointe is a townhouse community built in the early 2000's by Pulte Homes. Ashton Pointe features 330 town homes with floor plans ranging from 1,150	to 1,574 square feet of living space. Ashton Pointe is located in Aurora, Illinois on Pennsbury east of Aurora. Read more $188,250
Astor Place
Astor Place is a luxury 42 rowhome community built in the mid 2000's by Alexander Homes. Astor Place features 6 floor plans with floor plans ranging from	2,180 to 2,755 square feet of living space. Astor Place is located in Naperville, Illinois. Read more $315,000
Bridgewater is a townhouse community built in the early 2000's by Pasquinelli. Bridgewater features 147 town homes with floor plans ranging from 1,264 to 1,667 square	feet of living space. Bridgewater is located in Naperville, Illinois on North Aurora Road east of Route 59. Read more $212,000
Brighton Ridge
Brighton Ridge is a single family home neighborhood built in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Brighton Ridge is located in Naperville, Illinois on Naperville/Plainfield Road	south of 75th. Brighton Ridge is bordered on two sides by Springbrook Valley Forest Preserve. Brighton Ridge's location, just south of 75th street, makes this neighborhood close to the geographic center of the Naperville and gives it a convenient location for shopping and major transportation. Read more $480,000
Brookdale is a single family home community built by multiple builders between the late 1970's and early 1990's. Brookdale is located in Naperville, Illinois north of	Aurora Road and east of Route 59. Read more $365,000
Brookdale Manor
Brookdale Manor is a townhome community built in the 1990's by Pasquinelli Construction. Brookdale Manor features about 128 town homes with floor plans ranging from 1,050	to 1,550 square feet of living space. Brookdale Manor is located in Naperville, Illinois east of Route 59 and north of Route 34. Read more $168,450
Burlington Woods
Burlington Woods is a single family home and townhouse community. The townhouses were built in the early 1990's, the single family homes were built starting in	2018 by Eastman Builders. Burlington Woods is located in Naperville on N Aurora west of Route 59. Read more $235,000
Butterfield is a single family home neighborhood built in the late 1980's by the Bigelow Group and Pulte Homes. Butterfield is located in Aurora, Illinois just	south of Butterfield Road (route 56) and west of Eola Road. Read more $216,000
Buttonwood
Buttonwood is a single family home neighborhood built in the early-to-mid 1980's. Buttonwood is located in Naperville, Illinois on Oswego west to Thornapple. $437,000
Carrolwood
Carrolwood is a townhouse community built in the late 1980's by Pulte Homes. Carrolwood features homes with floor plans ranging from 1,252 to 1,362 square feet	of living space. Carrolwood is located in Naperville, Illinois on Ogden east of Route 59. Read more $177,250
Chantecleer Lakes
Chantecleer Lakes is a condo community built in the mid 1980's. Chantecleer Lakes is located in Naperville, Illinois south of Diehl Road and east of Il.	Route 59. Read more $125,000
Cinnamon Glen
Cinnamon Glen is a townhome community built in the late 1980s by the Bigelow Group. Cinnamon Glen feature town houses with floor plans ranging from 750 to	1,400 square feet of living space. Cinnamon Glen is located in Aurora, Illinois north of Bilter Road and west of Eola Road. Read more $164,000
Colony Lakes
Colony Lakes is a single family home and duplex community built in the early 1990s. Colony Lakes is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola south of Ogden. $198,000
Concord Valley
Concord Valley is a single family home neighborhood built in the mid 1990s by Concord Homes. Concord Valley features 128 homes with floor plans ranging from 1,784	to 2,233 square feet of living space. Concord Valley is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola north of North Aurora Road. Read more $290,511
Country Lakes
Country Lakes is a single family home and townhouse community built in the 1980's and 1990's. Country Lakes is located in Naperville, Illinois south of Diehl	Road and west of Route 59. Read more $195,000
Country Oaks
Country Oaks is a townhome community built in the early 1980s. Country Oaks is located in Aurora, Illinois south of Butterfield Road and west of N.	Eola Road. Read more $113,000
Countryside is a single family home neighborhood built in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Countryside is located in Naperville, Illinois on Route 34 east of Route	59. Read more $425,000
Diamond Bay
Diamond Bay is a townhouse community built in the early-to-mid 1990s by Pulte Homes. Diamond Bay features town houses with floor plans ranging from 1,148 to 1,595	square feet of living space. Diamond Bay is located in Aurora, Illinois on McCoy west of Route 59. Read more $155,000
Enclave at Country Lakes
Enclave at Country Lakes is a townhouse community built in the 2000s by Town & Country. The Enclave features homes with floor plans ranging from 1,199	to 1,431 square feet of living space. The Enclave at Country Lakes is on a 65.6-acre site that adjoins the Country Lakes Golf Course off North Aurora Road. Enclave at Country Lakes is located in Naperville, Illinois on North Aurora Road west of Route 59. Read more $183,000
Estes Park is a townhouse community built in the late 1990s. Estes Park is located in Naperville, Illinois on Rickert north of 75th. $177,000
Hampton Park is a active adult, clubhouse community built in the mid 2010s. Hampton Park is located in Naperville, Illinois south of Diehl Road and east	of Route 59. Hampton Park features four ranch floorplans with 2 bedrooms, 2 baths and 2-car garage. Read more $315,000
Ivy Ridge
Ivy Ridge is a single family home neighborhood built in the late 1990's by Lexington Homes. Ivy Ridge features 230 homes with floor plans ranging from	1,633 to 3,036 square feet of living space. Ivy Ridge is located in Naperville, Illinois west of Rickert Drive and north of 75th. Read more $355,000
Kingspointe
Kingspointe is a townhouse community built in the late 1990's. Kings Pointe is located in Naperville, Illinois east of Route 59 and north of Aurora Road. $205,000
Lakewood Crossing
Lakewood Crossing is a single family home neighborhood built in the mid 1990's. Lakewood Crossing is located in Naperville, Illinois north of 75th Street east of	Route 59. Read more $313,000
Lehigh Station
Lehigh Station is a townhome community built in 2006-2007 by Ryland Homes, another section was built by M/I Homes starting in 2015. Lehigh Station features homes	with floor plans ranging from 1,641 to 2,245 square feet of living space. Lehigh Station is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Route 59 and south of Liberty Street. Read more $265,000
Liberty Square
Liberty Square is a townhome community built in the early 1990s. Liberty Square is located in Aurora, Illinois south of New York Street and west of	Commons Drive. Read more $125,500
Longwood is a single family home neighborhood located in Naperville, Illinois. Longwood is on Bruce Lane west from Route 59. $246,500
Mayfair is a community of townhouses built between 2008 and 2015 by Kimball Hill Homes and M/I Homes. Homes range from 1,550 to 2,232 square feet.	Community amenities include walking trails, a putting green, bocce ball courts and horseshoe pits, as well as a common park with community grills. Mayfair is located in Naperville, Illinois south of Ogden Avenue and east of Route 59. Read more $310,000
Metro West
Metro West is a townhouse community built by M/I Homes of Chicago starting in 2018. Metro West is located in Naperville, Illinois west of Route 59	and south of Aurora Road. Read more $362,000
Neudearborn Station
Neudearborn Station is a condo and townhouse community built in the mid 2010's by Neumann Homes. A newer section was built in 2018 by DR Horton.	Neudearborn Station is located in Naperville, Illinois west of Route 59 and north of Aurora Road. Townhouses range from 1,850 to 2,001 square feet and condos range from 1,372 to 2,140 square feet. Read more $230,000
Ogden Pointe
Ogden Pointe is a townhouse community built in the early-to-mid 1990s by Concord Homes. Ogden Pointe features 130 town homes with floor plans ranging from from 1,300	to 1,600 square feet of living space. Ogden Pointe is located in Aurora, Illinois on Route 34 west of Route 59. Read more $139,900
Pebblewood
Pebblewood is a condo community built in the early 1980s. Pebblewood is located in Naperville, Illinois on Pebblewood Lane south of Diehl Road and west of	Route 59. Read more $115,000
Pine Meadows
Pine Meadows is a single family home subdivision built in the mid 1990s. Pine Meadows is located in Aurora , Illinois east of Eola and north of	Ogden Avenue. Read more $300,000
Riverbrook
Riverbrook is a townhouse community built in the late 1990s. Riverbrook is located in Naperville, Illinois west of Raymond Drive and south of Brookdale Road. $173,000
Riverbrook West
Riverbrook West is a townhouse community built in the early 2000s. Riverbrook West is located in Naperville, Illinois on Windward north of Aurora Road. $221,000
Sedgwick is a townhouse community built by M/I Homes of Chicago starting in 2017. Sedgwick is located in Naperville, Illinois east of Route 59 and south	of Ogden Avenue. Read more $363,500
Springlake is a single family home and townhouse community built in the 1980's and1990's. Spring Lake is located in Aurora, Illinois south of New York Street	and west of Commons Drive. Read more $122,500
Stonebrook is a 72 single family home neighborhood built between the late 1990's and mid 2010's, it is adjacent to Stonebrook Country Club. Stonebrook features homes	with floor plans ranging from 2,800 to 4,300 square feet of living space. Stonebrook is located just west of Eola Road and south of Old Molitor Road in Aurora, Illinois. Read more $421,000
Terraces of Brookdale
Terraces of Brookdale is a townhouse community built in the mid 1980s. Terraces of Brookdale is located in Naperville, Illinois on Queensgreen Circle, west of Raymond	Drive and south of Diehl Road. Read more $176,450
The Fields is a single family home and townhouse community built in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Fields is located in Naperville, Illinois on Plainfield	Road north of 75th. Read more $215,000
The Plaza On New York
The Plaza of New York is a townhome community built in the late 2010s by M/I Homes. The Plaza of New York is located in Aurora,	Illinois north of New York Street and west of Route 59. Read more $275,000
Trails of Country Lakes
Trails of Country Lakes is a single family home neighborhood built in the mid-to-late 1980s. Trails of Country Lakes is located in Naperville, Illinois on North Aurora	Road west of 59. Read more $281,000
Villas of the Fields
Villas of the Fields is a townhouse community built between the late 1980s and early 1990s. Villas of the Fields is located in Naperville, Illinois north	of Rickert Drive and west of West Street. Read more $185,000
Vintage Club is a condo community built in the early 2010s. Vintage Club is located in Naperville, Illinois south of Ogden Avenue and east of Route	59. Read more $313,000
West Wind Estates is a single family home neighborhood built in the late 1980s and early 1990s. West Wind is located in Naperville, Illinois on Oswego Road	west of River Road. Read more $470,000
West Wind Estates
Westglen
Westglen is a single family home and duplex neighborhood built in the 1980s. Westglen is located in Naperville, Illinois on 75th west of Washington. $305,000
Wildflower is a single family home neighborhood built in the mid 1990's. Wildflower is located in Naperville, Illinois north of Route 34 and east of Route 59. $317,000
Willowbend
Willowbend is a condo community built in the 1980's and 1990's. Willowbend is located in Naperville, Illinois west of Route 59 and north of Aurora Road. $153,000
Willows is a condominium community built from the 1970s to early 1980s. Willows is located in Aurora, Illinois north of Ogden and west of Route 59. $58,000
Willows of Fox Valley
Willows of Fox Valley is a condo community built in the early 1980s. The Willows of Fox Valley is located in Aurora, Illinois on New York west	of Route 59. Read more $63,250
Windgate
Windgate is a single family home neighborhood built in the early-to-mid 1990s. Windgate is located in Naperville, Illinois on Book Road north of 75th. $407,500
Yorkshire Square
Yorkshire Square is a townhome community built by Kensington Homes in the mid 2010s. Yorkshire Square is located in Aurora, Illinois north of New York Street	and east of Eola Road. Read more $235,750
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Bainbridge Greens
1112 Bainbridge Drive	 Backstop Parking Trails
Colfax Way
1111 Bainbridge Drive	 Multi Purpose Field
Fox Hill Greens
1635 Brookdale Road	 Picnic Area Playground Trails
Redfield Commons
1324 Redfield Road	 Multi Purpose Field
Willow Bend West
5 S 515 Paxton Drive	 Multi Purpose Field


Cal's Lost Game? Or Lost Chance?
Can John Calipari ever avoid a controversy?
Generally, the U.S. regards international basketball competition as a non-contact event. A warm-up.
It's our game. We always have the best athletes. We shouldn't lose.
So when Cal was hired to coach the U19 team at these international games in Egypt, it was mostly seen as his opportunity to polish his portrait as he spent a couple of uninterrupted weeks with the best recruiting targets in the country.
Talk about the fox in the hen house. Not only should Cal come home with a gold medal, but also with Romeo Langford, Immanuel Quickley, Cameron Reddish and Louis King hanging from his belt.
That scenario was never conveyed to the Canadians. Maybe Canada's RJ Barrett is the real prize of the recruiting class. Maybe Langford's injured back was too much of a setback for the US team.
Or maybe Cal dropped another one he should have won. The whispers preceded him to Kentucky eight years ago. He was always so close yet so far at UMass and Memphis.
He's a master recruiter who doesn't know what to do with the talent he amasses. He's the classic snake oil salesman whose elixirs never heal anyone. He didn't win with the best accumulation of basketball talent on one bench in 40 years.
I don't buy any of that. But for those who do, this international loss will only fuel the fire. More importantly, what will it mean for these talented youngsters?
Will they decide their futures are better off in some other coach's hands? Exactly the opposite of what Kentucky fans assumed would be the benefit of Cal landing this coaching gig in the first place.
Of course, none of us was in those practices, or in the team huddles during timeouts. We don't know how well, or how poorly, Cal connected to these talented players.
We do know that eight years worth of Kentucky players – from John Wall to Bam Adebayo – have sung Cal's praises after going on to NBA riches. We do know that he remains close to DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, Karl-Anthony Towns, Tyler Ulis and all the other players who could have shrugged off the Calipari relationship after leaving campus – the way, say, Ben Simmons has pretty much severed any association with LSU, or the way Lonzo Ball peevishly split from UCLA minutes after the Sweet Sixteen loss to Kentucky.
Cal has always disavowed all results but one: getting his players onto NBA payrolls. That's what he sees as his job as a college educator, grooming his students for high-paying jobs, and he's done it as well as Harvard's MBA program or Johns Hopkins' med school.
The question, of course, is whether Langford, Quickley, Reddish and the others will see it that way.
Losses sting young athletes in a very emotional way. Players like this are not used to losing. They're not used to being criticized by their coach. There will almost certainly be other college coaches who will use the opportunity to suggest to these kids, whisper in the ears, that Calipari misused them. He's not the coach they might have been thinking he was. He's not the coach who'll hold their best interests in his hands.
Was this a huge opportunity blown? Or is Calipari smarter, sharper, better than that? I know what I think. Cal always seems to land on his feet.
It may have escaped your notice that the Lakers lost a summer league game to the cross-town Clippers. By three points. In overtime. In July!
Just this. Lonzo Ball, in his royal purple and gold debut, shot two of 15, one for 11 from three.
Do you know how Markelle Fultz or Jayson Tatum or Josh Jackson or Lauri Markkanen did in their debuts? Of course you don't. Do you care? Of course you don't. But it's the Lakers. It's Magic Johnson. And it's LaVar Ball.
In an article in Sunday's Courier-Journal, with a four-column banner head, the AP writer went through Lonzo's miserable game stats fairly quickly before turning to the bouncing Ball that matters.
LaVar and his quotes were all over the place, predictably excusing his son, minimizing the performance and blaming everyone else.
Lonzo apparently opened the game with a flashy pass to Brandon Ingram that drew the crowd to its feet.
Assists: one. Months till the NBA playoffs: nine.


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Andrew Griffiths is one of the most prolific figures in the UK music scene but chances are you won't have heard of this mild mannered Welshman. Over the past 12 years the composer, producer and musician has worked on more than 100 albums, various projects for film, television and theatre as well as somehow finding the time to lead worship at Swansea Valley Bible Church. Cross Rhythms recently spoke to Andrew as he was working on a multimedia project for the Olympic Games. "The project is called Following The Flame," he explained. "It's an exhibition that has been commissioned by the National Assembly For Wales and is to celebrate Wales' achievements (as part of team GB) in the Olympics over the last 100 years or so. The exhibition will launch in June and will tour for three years."
Andrew first started playing music when, as a child, he was diagnosed with asthma. "The doctor suggested that it would be beneficial if I took up a brass instrument, so I began playing the trumpet. I wasn't brilliant at it, but kept trying, until the Lord stepped in when I was about 13 or 14 and spoke into my life. His word to me was to 'strive for excellence', so I did. From that moment I could see a marked difference in the way I understood music. I gave myself to practise and learning and found that I could learn other instruments very quickly. I set my heart to worship the Lord in every part of my playing, I would even worship the Lord with scales."
He continued, "I was brought up in a Christian home, so I had a knowledge of the Lord from the beginning. But it was when I was 12 that I started to realise I could no longer rely on my parents' experience of God. So on September 15th 1984, in a youth service, I gave my heart to the Lord. The great thing is that my two older brothers got saved that night too. There was 'much rejoicing' in the Griffiths' house when we got home. So, there were no flashing lights, no dramatic story, but a story of God's grace, that I have been spared a lot of hurt and trouble that so many others have to go through before they find the Lord."
In 1991, before leaving home to study music at Cardiff University, Andrew and his brothers Paul and Marc released the jazz influenced album 'Inhabit Our Praise' under the name The Griffiths Brothers. "I was still in school and did most of the production in my bedroom on an Atari ST. We then hired a studio to add all the live elements such as vocals and brass. I think Cross Rhythms gave the record quite a nice review too."
How did Andrew's career as a session musician and film and television score composer begin? He responded, "For years I would go around different churches and conferences with my brothers. I would play piano for them to sing or we would play as part of the worship team. I would play trumpet and sax, Paul would play trombone and Marc would play trumpet (some called us The Brass Monkeys). A good friend of mine, Mal Pope, heard about us and called us about doing a session on an album he was working on. We worked so closely as a family, some used to say we were MIDI-linked together. From then we did more and more work in other studios and TV shows around the country. This went on for a number of years, until Paul and Marc got 'proper jobs'. Not long after I graduated Mal and his business partner Peter King gave me a set of keys to their studio and said 'learn how to use it,' and that's how I learned how to be a recording engineer."
He continued, "My first commission as a composer was for the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Someone contacted Mal about writing six pieces depicting different aspects of the life of the singer Paul Robeson. He said that he couldn't do it but recommended me for the job. The music was a great success and I still write for the company. My first film score came about through a series of God-instances. I'd been trying for years to get my foot in the door and found that it was a very closed community in Wales, but had peace that in God's time I'd have the opportunity. One day I was doing a brass session at a friend's studio for a singer/songwriter by the name of Billy Engel. During the session Billy asked if I would have a go at setting 1 Corinthians 13 to music. I went home that night and within an hour it was done. Billy had worked as a TV producer and put me in touch with some friends of his in the USA who needed music for a film they were working on. The film was 2005's Between The Walls by the Staron brothers."
Griffiths was also asked to work on the Staron brothers' second film, 2009's humourous Bringing Up Bobby. "We weren't going to blow the whole budget flying me over to the States so they emailed a cut of the film with a cue sheet of where they felt the music belonged. The studio here at home is connected to the house so I would sometimes work late at night when there would be no interruptions and could be in sync with working hours in the USA. Most of the sounds would be recorded live such as the brass, woodwind, guitars and percussion, I even got away with playing a real cello on that soundtrack. I've never met Chris and Nick Staron. It's amazing how the internet has enabled me to work with people from all over the world."
Andrew has been worship leader at Swansea Valley Bible Church for 20 years. How does this role differ from his day job? "I've learned a lot over that time. For years I wanted to take everything I used in the professional world and implement it in the worship environment, but I've learned that all the Lord wants is a worshiping heart. There are some things that cross over, but not everything should. One important moment for me was when I was playing in the worship team for a large conference. The band was great and musically it was like doing a professional job but one evening after the main service I came to the realisation that I hadn't thought about the Lord once all night. I was so concerned with playing well that I'd lost all focus. Now more than ever, I want to make sure I don't get caught up in the music, but get caught up with the Lord. When I lead, I want to worship the Lord myself, I then invite the congregation to come along for the journey."
In 2004 The Griffiths Brothers recorded another album, 2004's 'Better Than Life', but it looks set to be their last as Marc has now relocated to Australia. In 2009 Andrew released his first solo album 'Big Bangs & Monkeys'. Does he plan to record any more solo projects? "I'm so busy working on other people's songs, it's only when I'm quiet that I get time to write and record my own stuff. There are some new songs in the pipeline, but I never force songs to exist. Sometimes I have to wait for the Lord to do something in me before I can finish a song."
Andrew explained where he finds inspiration for his songwriting, "An idea can come from anywhere. Something someone says, a situation or a musical phrase I hear. I'll sometimes get an idea and that idea will 'cook' for a year before it becomes a song. That was the case with the song 'Three Days'. I had the idea over a year before I even started writing anything. Then as soon as I started writing it, it was done in two days. I record every idea I have either on the computer or on my phone and keep them as a sort of sketchbook. I think there are about 40 song ideas on the go at the moment. Some are musically complete with full melody and production with maybe the hook written. I've learned to leave them until the Lord tells me to take them up. When the time is right, a song can be finished in an hour."
Griffiths currently plays approximately 30 instruments. "I'm always looking for new sounds or if a job comes up that requires something different I have to decide if I can learn it in time. I play most of the instruments myself except drums - having a great drummer helps solidify the groove and locks everything else together. I play mostly the piano or guitar these days, or if it's a brass session, I'll play trumpet, sax, trombone and French horn. I've done some weird sessions though, a few years ago I was on a TV ad for an insurance company, dressed as a duck playing a penny whistle! I love to experiment with sounds and instruments, I'm on the hunt for a hammer dulcimer at the moment."
2008 was a particularly prolific year for Andrew as he somehow managed to produce more than one album a month. How did he do this? "It was quite a busy time. I would have a client in during the day, we'd work from 10 till about five. Someone else would arrive from about six and we'd work till about nine or 10. And then after everyone had gone to bed I'd work on another project till about two or three."
Of the huge amount of projects that Griffiths has worked on, which really stand out? "There are so many albums, some I don't even remember doing. I love doing work for Teen Challenge UK. I've produced every album The Evidence have done since about 1992 or '93 and the albums for the Hope House Girls. I also produced the 'Forever Jesus' series of CDs from 1999 to 2002. Between 2004 and 2006, I produced seven albums working with school children, based on the life of the footballer John Charles. The project was called The Gentle Giant. I had written the soundtrack for the main exhibition and was then asked to work with different schools across Wales to write and record songs in response to what they had seen and learned after visiting the exhibition."
He continued, "There have been one or two secular albums which have been fun to produce as I can afford to be a little more experimental in the production and they also give great opportunity to share about the Lord when we're stuck in the studio for days. Every so often a session will come along for one or two famous(ish) people. I did some brass work for X-Factor star Rhydian Roberts and I also produced for Merrill Osmond. If I'm approached about producing something in a style I don't normally work in, I tend to do a little research first before starting. The easiest style for me would probably be big and orchestral. I don't have to think too much when doing that sort of thing. I also like things to be funky whenever they can be."
It comes as a surprise that a producer with so much work to his name isn't better known. Does Andrew purposefully keep a low profile? "I suppose I do really. I've never had an interest in being famous. All I want to do is be at the centre of God's will and do what I love doing. I've also seen the harm that pride can do in any musician's life. I want to make sure that when it comes to my life, especially as a worshiper, that all the focus is on the Lord. I have learned that he isn't impressed by cool playing or flash arrangements, what he wants is for me to run after him with all my heart and give him my best. The nice arrangements sometimes come as a part of that, but that isn't the goal. To meet with the Lord is my only goal."
EXCELENTE!!!! It is great to read about an exceptional artist with a humble heart for the Lord, thank you Andrew for the testimony and thank you Peter for the article.


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Police: Ohio mom charged after young boys walked to Rite Aid alone
by: Michelle Rotuno-Johnson
WARREN, OH (WKBN) – The mother of two young children found wandering by themselves in Warren pleaded not guilty to two counts of child endangering at her arraignment Friday.
Thursday evening, around 6:30 p.m., two employees of the Rite Aid on Parkman Road said they found two boys, 4 and 5 years old, playing in the store. At first, they thought the children's parent was waiting at the pharmacy but when they realized the kids were alone, they asked them questions and called 911.
The boys told the employees they "walked there to buy things by themselves," according to a police report.
"I just don't think, you know, she realizes what she has and how serious it could have been. They could have been injured, they could have been kidnapped," said one of the store's employees.
Officers were able to track down the mother, 24-year-old Rebecca Rice, at her apartment, which is more than half a mile away from the store.
When police arrived, they said the door was open and they saw a man jumping out her window. She told them she had been sleeping, police said.
"We're lucky. Any time young children get out in the city unsupervised, you know that can be serious injury or death," said Tim Schaffner, executive director of Trumbull County Children Services.
Officers said she never asked if her children were alright.
Rice is being held in the Trumbull County Jail without bond. A judge ordered she not contact her kids unless Children Services approves. She's due back in court on Feb. 6.
According to police, the temperature was 31 degrees at the time. They said the boys probably would have had to walk 20 minutes to get to the store.
MIAMI (AP) — Four Florida passengers were in for a shock when actor Will Smith answered their Lyft call and gave them a ride around town.
The actor was in Miami promoting his new movie, "Bad Boys for Life," over the weekend. He picked up four riders in a 2020 Porsche Taycan, occasionally getting into the attitude of his movie character detective Mike Lowry and encouraging passengers to do their best Bad Boys imitation as his partner in crime.
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Cus D'Amato [1908-1985] was a man of great integrity, knowledge and heart. Most famous as being the manager and trainer of champions Floyd Patterson and Mike Tyson, many martial artists outside of boxing would come to learn about him through his brilliant insights on fear and the psychology of fighting.
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just amazing article to read and not only for a boxer but for any man on the planet.
Fear is your mind taking into account of the severity of your situation. It is the humbling of your ego to reality so that when you react you fully understand the reprocautions of your actions. It is the lack of processing the reason your afraid that results in foolish decisions.


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Deductive Software Verification: From Pen-and-Paper Proofs to Industrial Tools
Reiner Hähnle*, Marieke Huisman
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Deductive software verification aims at formally verifying that all possible behaviors of a given program satisfy formally defined, possibly complex properties, where the verification process is based on logical inference. We follow the trajectory of the field from its inception in the late 1960s via its current state to its promises for the future, from pen-and-paper proofs for programs written in small, idealized languages to highly automated proofs of complex library or system code written in mainstream languages. We take stock of the state-of-art and give a list of the most important challenges for the further development of the field of deductive software verification.
Computing and Software Science
State of the Art and Perspectives
Bernhard Steffen, Gerhard Woeginger
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Hähnle, R., & Huisman, M. (2019). Deductive Software Verification: From Pen-and-Paper Proofs to Industrial Tools. In B. Steffen, & G. Woeginger (Eds.), Computing and Software Science : State of the Art and Perspectives (pp. 345-373). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10000), (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91908-9_18
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HomeSportsSassuolo vs Juventus: Khedira, Ronaldo, Can score as Juve record comfortable 3-0 win
Sassuolo vs Juventus: Khedira, Ronaldo, Can score as Juve record comfortable 3-0 win
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- Cristiano Ronaldo was directly involved in all the three goals scored against Sassuolo - The 33-year-old has now scored his 18th of the season in his debut season in Serie A Sassuolo vs Juventus ended in a 3-0 scoreline in favour of Max Allegri's side as Juve go 11 points clear at the top of Serie A. Sami Khedira set the ground running after he slammed home an initial shot from Cristiano Ronaldo which was saved by the keeper to make it 1-0. The Portuguese got his name on the scoresheet in the second half from a trademark header after rising highest tin the box to score from a Miralem Pjanic's corner to make it 2-0.
Ronaldo also had a hand in the Bianconeri's third goal as he provided an assist for Emre Can who finished off in style to wrap it up at 3-0. The Italian champions returned to winning ways after a disappointing 2-2 draw to Parma at the Allianz Stadium last weekend.
Juve were also knocked out of the Coppa Italia after losing to Atlanta surprisingly by 3-0 but the win away at Sassuolo will give the Old Lady much confidence on the domestic scene. READ ALSO: Mohamed Salah's new look get mixed reactions from teammates and fans Ronalo now has an incredible 18 goals in 23 matches in his debut season in Serie A and 20th in all competitions in 31 games following last summer's switch from Real Madrid.
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County's Critters Breathe Easier
Nature Conservancy pays $9 million for Edwards ranch near Julian
Ernie Grimm
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Santa Ysabel. "There are certain people out there that would like to see it stay in ranching hands forever. That's not realistic. It might last one more generation."
You say you'd like to buy 5000 acres of San Diego County backcountry land, preferably with a perennial stream and rare oak woodland habitat. The Santa Ysabel Ranch has all that and more. The problem is, the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation agency based in Virginia, has purchased the ranch from Tom and Mary Lou Edwards of Yuma, Arizona, for $9,000,000. But your luck hasn't run out yet. The Conservancy may be looking to resell it to someone like you, with a few preservation caveats, of course.
The ranch borders the existing Volcan Mountain Wilderness preserve. "Together," Clint Powell says, "they form a wildlife corridor from the valley, up the mountain, and down to the desert side."
The ranch sits on two separate parcels, one on each side of the Santa Ysabel Valley. The larger east parcel, 3894 acres, stretches from the intersection of Highways 79 and 78 near the town of Santa Ysabel up the side of Volcan Mountain touching Farmers Road at its eastern extremity. The west parcel, 1512 acres, sits in the rolling oak grasslands north of Highway 78 on the other side of the valley.
Bill Leahy: "Kanaka Flat is a refuge for a number of large, what I call charismatic species - bobcats and badgers and ringtails, which are a kind of raccoon, and golden eagles."
Much of the two-parcel ranch sits on flat land and borders two highways, meaning it would have been prime for future development. Clint Powell, area naturalist and columnist for the Julian News, says he's elated that the Nature Conservancy acquired the land for the simple reason that "it keeps it out of the hands of development."
Greg Schuett, president of the Volcan Mountain Preserve Foundation: "The land there in Santa Ysabel Valley is highly subject to development."
But Bill Leahy, the Nature Conservancy's Southern California area director, says there's more to the purchase than just preventing a large tract of land from being subdivided and developed. "San Diego is very rich in terms of the number of plants and animals that it contains," he explains. "San Diego County has more species diversity, that is, more different kinds of plants and animals, than any other county in the whole continental U.S., which is very remarkable. At the same time, in San Diego County you have some of the most intense urban pressure due to growth and development. So, in addition to identifying those places that are unique and emblematic of what was there when the first settlers arrived, we're also looking at which sites are most likely to be lost in the near term due to these pressures. In the case of the backcountry of San Diego, the two pieces that were formerly owned by Tom and Mary Lou Edwards -- the Santa Ysabel East and West Ranches we're calling them -- those properties held a number of different values, biologically."
In particular, Leahy says, the Nature Conservancy was "very interested in oak woodlands, specifically Engelmann oak woodlands. Engelmann oak woodlands are very unique to Southern coastal California. They used to extend all the way up to Santa Barbara at the time of settlement. But they've more or less disappeared from most of their range. There are really only a couple of good examples of them left. One of them is in the San Diego backcountry in the Santa Ysabel Valley area. The properties we purchased are within that area. In addition to that, grasslands are rapidly disappearing from coastal Southern California. Most of the grasslands in the low-lying areas, particularly along the coast, have been developed or are about to be developed. They're gone. So here we had a chance to capture and preserve some of that. In addition, we have something that's also rare in Southern California, a perennial year-round stream -- at least four and a half miles of one -- called Santa Ysabel Creek, which is fed by a spring off of the property called Ironside Spring. It flows out of Volcan Mountain."
Santa Ysabel Creek is the headwaters of the San Dieguito River. "There's an amazing area," Leahy continues, "called Kanaka Flat, which is a large, wet meadow. That's up toward the east side of the property. It's an open area that seasonally is very wet and has lots of diverse plants and wildflowers associated with it. The property is also a refuge for a number of large, what I call charismatic species of animals that people closely associate with nature conservation. Those would be bobcats and badgers and ringtails, which are a kind of raccoon, and golden eagles, which make their home in the backcountry of San Diego and need large, open grasslands to forage. We suspect that these two properties will be very important for maintaining golden eagle populations. On top of that, there are actually some rare plants on the property, and some plants which exist only in the backcountry of San Diego."
Naturalists and conservationists in the area are thrilled with the fact that the Nature Conservancy acquired the Santa Ysabel ranch. One reason is because at its eastern edge, the ranch borders the existing Volcan Mountain Wilderness preserve. "Together," Clint Powell says, "they form a wildlife corridor from the valley, up the mountain, and down to the desert side."
Greg Schuett, president of the Volcan Mountain Preserve Foundation, says he's happy to see the purchase "because the land there in Santa Ysabel Valley is highly subject to development. It's all right now in large ranches, but ranching is no longer profitable. So, in the next 50 years, the land is going to go one of two directions, either to development or to nature preserves. Our point of view is we want to see it protected as a nature preserve, if the ranchers are willing to sell."
Among ranchers, Schuett surmises that there "seem to be three ways of looking at [the future of the area.] There are certain people out there that would like to see it stay in ranching hands forever. That's not realistic because it's not profitable. It might last one more generation. But the people who are retiring from ranching now are not passing it on to their kids and the kids would rather get into computer programming. So then this generation is faced with selling it. Who are they going to sell it to? Well, right now, there's money for them to get fair-market value and sell it to a conservation agency. There's also the opportunity for them to sell it to a developer or to try and develop it themselves. I just don't think that's the right way to go."
Tom and Mary Lou Edwards declined to comment directly on their motives for selling the land to the Nature Conservancy. But Kevin Knowles of Conservation Land Group, a for-profit agency specializing in brokering large land deals with conservation in mind, speaking for the Edwardses said, "They wanted to get out of the property with the cattle-ranching business being so tough in San Diego. But they didn't want to see it subdivided. TNC made a good offer, and they decided to go with them."
There wasn't a wide-open bidding period for the property. "We really only showed it to a handful of interested buyers," Knowles explains. "There were several private parties who were interested in buying it and who had made offers, actually. That's when the Nature Conservancy came in with an offer that was ultimately accepted."
Knowles described the $9,000,000 up-front, all-cash sum the Conservancy paid Tom and Mary Lou Edwards as "market value" and said it was "roughly the same as the other offers we received." The Edwards decided to sell to the Nature Conservancy because, Knowles explains, "They saw them as being very reputable, very credible. They saw in them a history of closing large transactions around the state and felt that was their best bet. You worry about the buyer not coming through on their commitments when you're talking about this much land and money. But the Nature Conservancy did things perfectly. All the timelines were met, and I know that Tom and Mary Lou were very happy in the end. Deep down, it probably meant a lot to them that it would stay relatively the way it is now."
What's next for the Santa Ysabel Ranch hasn't been settled yet. The Nature Conservancy traditionally manages the land it purchases but, "In California," Leahy explains, "we've kind of moved away from that model to where we suspect that there are local organizations that are much better equipped in the long run, in the 50-, 100, 200-year sense, to manage these lands. We do, however, want to make sure that the reasons we've bought the land, the specific animals and plants, are monitored and managed appropriately. One way we do that is by developing and creating collaborative partnerships that hopefully will turn into long-term institutions for management of these lands. That might be with a public agency; it could be county, state, or federal level. Or it could be with a private nonprofit organization or a combination of those. And, in addition to creating that local institution, we also try to inculcate into those partnerships certain principles for long-term management of the long-term resources."
Leahy points to the Santa Rosa Plateau outside of Murrieta in Riverside County as an example of this kind of cooperation. The Nature Conservancy co-manages that facility with Riverside County Parks, the Department of Fish and Game, and the Metropolitan Water District. It's open to the public for "passive public use" -- hiking, bird-watching, guided mountain biking, and horseback riding, but no camping, no hunting, no fishing. Leahy says this is the most probable future for the Santa Ysabel Ranch, though he can't say when it will happen. Right now, only Nature Conservancy members -- about 10,000 in San Diego County -- are allowed on the land but only as part of group trips organized by the Conservancy's recently opened office on Fifth Avenue between downtown and Hillcrest.
Still, selling the ranch to a private party is not out of the question. "In some cases," Leahy says, "we may acquire land and turn it back over to private land owners with a conservation easement -- that is, convenants and restrictions that the Nature Conservancy holds in perpetuity that describe, in a fairly detailed way, how we want to see the natural resources maintained and managed over time. We have partnerships around the country with farmers and ranchers and other property owners that are maintaining the property in a traditional, rural, agricultural, or ranching use. We have sold that property to them, subject to an easement that allows them to continue to do that because we see grazing as an important management tool. But we also have some prescriptions for times of year to move cattle out of certain areas, or it provides for setbacks from sensitive riparian areas or waterways. So there's a way we can actually conserve land and keep it in private ownership."
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The creative team behind the vfx of Ang Lee's literary adaptation Life of Pi (lead by Rhythm & Hues)—which featured stormy seas, a photoreal Bengal tiger and more—took home four Visual Effects Society Awards last night during the 11th annual ceremony. This included the top prize for outstanding visual effects in a visual effects-driven feature. Director Lee was also presented with the VES Visionary Award by Dennis Muren.
The honors should come as a vote of confidence for Pi for the Oscars race; in 7 out of the past 10 events the winner of the outstanding vfx Award has gone on to take home the visual effects Oscar. (Last year Hugo nabbed the Oscar, and had won in the VES supporting vfx category). This year's Oscar match up closely matches the VES top prize contenders with four out of five nominated for both key awards: Pi, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Avengers and Prometheus. The fifth VES nominee was Battleship, the fifth Oscar nod went to Snow White and the Huntsman.
Disney-Pixar's Brave also came out a champion by matching Pi's four Awards; followed by Marvel's The Avengers (two awards) and The Impossible and The Hobbit (one each). In the TV categories, jurists wanted to know "Where are my dragons?!" as they handed over four Awards to HBO's fantasy epic Game of Thrones.


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The Second Amendment Is Not a Suicide Pact
Mandalay Bay: Top O' The World, Ma! (PART TWO)
Posted on October 10, 2017 by John Grant
The bulk of coverage of the Las Vegas shooting is about victims, heroes and villains. The really important story that's rarely covered is about how and why guns and violence have become such an absurd part of US culture and why it's so difficult to restrict the easy access to lethal weapons designed for war.
Gun Porn and Male Alienation:
A trip to my local grocery store reveals a magazine rack with dozens of covers showing beautiful models selling a lifestyle that requires what the advertisers manufacture and market. Also on the rack are a half-dozen very slick magazines selling gun culture. There's no other way to describe it; you never see a critical or analytic article. The photography is eye-catching and slick, the models manly and masculine — except for the hotties holding machine guns, a much loved image. There's a strong focus on the latest versions of the now classic AR-15. The "look" of these magazines can be described only as gun porn. Instead of luscious, naked women spread across a centerfold, the usual cultural understanding of "pornography," in these magazines its images of lethal weapons that trigger the erotic charge. (As explained later, maybe a "thanatotic" charge is more accurate.) I recall back in the 1970s the literary critic Leslie Fiedler, author of Love And Death In The American Novel, giving a lecture at Florida State in which he expanded the term pornography to include things beyond intercourse and engorged genitalia. In his mind, American marketing and pop culture was virtually defined by the term pornography. Pornography was material with little purpose or merit other than to seduce. It's the opposite of what E. F. Schumacher envisioned in the subtitle of his famous book, Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. The gun porn magazine genre makes it very clear there's lots of corporate money at stake stirring up and indulging the market for sexy weapons.
Pages from today's super-slick magazines glorifying the ubiquitous AR15
We're told gun sales are up and rising. Fear is in the air. I recently visited a gun shop in my area that I'd visited last a couple years ago. The number of guns in the place had more than doubled. I've never seen so many hi-tech weapons, a huge proportion of them some version of the ubiquitous AR15, a weapon that began its career as the M16 made famous in Vietnam. As a REMF (rear echelon mother fucker) in 1966, I had an old wood-stocked M14. Infantry soldiers tell us the M16 was notorious for jamming at the worst possible moment. One can imagine the curses in a firefight. Since then, the weapon has been R&Ded to the max and is a favorite of gun lovers everywhere. There's a huge market for accessories of all sorts to trick out one's AR15 so it really looks cool and menacing. Things like "bump stocks" are marketed to turn a semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon of war. One marketed bump stock sells for $99.
I have a friend who owns an AR15, and I shot it with him last month. It's indeed a satisfying mechanism to hold. I personally own two handguns and must confess there's something very powerful about holding these weapons and shooting them. Hefting and fondling them can give one — especially a male — a real sense of power as an extension of one's self. If you go deeper, as with an automobile, a gun is an extension of what goes on in a person's inner life. There's a saying that the problem is not the gun but in whose grip it resides. So let's be honest, there is a metaphoric erotic/thanatotic charge at work here. I've read of infantrymen going "kill crazy," succumbing to the physical and psychological satisfaction of ending a life or lives, especially in heated moments stoked with emotions rooted in vengeance and hatred. But, sometimes, it can just be the act of killing.
Following World War One, as he saw the world heading toward another conflagration, Sigmund Freud shifted his concern from sex to issues of violence and war. Criticism of Freud sometimes emphasized he was a "writer" and not a true "scientist." It's true: He's a rich and interesting writer whose entire imaginative career was devoted to promoting and mapping out the inner life of human beings. He has become passé these days, superseded by the more efficient, outer-life-directed ideas of behaviorism and drug therapy. When Freud began his career, the whole idea of an inner life (the sub- or un-conscious) was still a novel idea. Like any writer working on the edge, he sometimes went too far, lost his bearings or just ended up sounding half-baked. His 1920 descriptions of Eros and Thanatos have something of a "working in the dark" feel about them. During this period, he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein, another great mind of the time troubled by the growing cycle of violence.
Freud's efforts at describing Eros and Thanatos — also called the sexual, or sometimes life, instinct and the death instinct — was a noble effort, though the way the 20th century turned out, it was indeed a failed, Quixotic effort. The idea of a death instinct hinges on the notion that, like the metaphor of salmon going up stream to spawn and die, there's a deep-seated instinct in all organic matter to return to an inorganic state. That is, as he writes in one of his books, "The aim of all life is death." In the case of his death instinct, it's not just any death, but a specific, destined death. The man was trying to understand something that remained allusive, just out of reach. By the time of Civilization and its Discontents in 1930, he's very much haunted by the specter of Hitler and National Socialism. All the early stuff about sex is in the back seat. According to Freudian commentator Raymond Fancher, "It was clear to Freud that there exist daemonic, destructive forces in civilized societies, forces which he could interpret only as manifestations of Thanatos, the death instinct." Individuals or an entire culture could be consumed or overwhelmed by this death instinct. Eros was a life force that countered Thanatos; Eros extended beyond the narrow lines of sexual intercourse to include a range of healthy and peaceful human interactions. Simplified, they coordinate in my mind as Constructive and Destructive impulses in which sex can be a factor. Remember Susan Brownmiller's 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape? It was often reduced to the statement that rape was not about sex; it was about power. It was an important point, but the way it was expressed always seemed to beg the question. As a European male, Freud was looking at the process less in the light of justice than in the light of understanding the impulses at play.
As I sit back and ponder American culture circa 2017 — aware of the horrors of the Vietnam War; the unlearned lessons that led to the on-going bloody debacle that is Iraq; the moral outrage that is drone warfare (Stanley McChrystal pointed out that our enemies see it as a soft, coward's ploy); the struggle between "black lives matter" and "blue lives matter"; the violent imagery that assaults Americans every day from every angle; and, finally, the insanity of a gun culture run amok — I admire Freud's mission to understand this stuff in a deep, metaphoric fashion.
Something is out of balance: It feels like a darkness out of the past is stalking our culture. You have to wonder, in the sense of Stage Four Breakdown, whether a culture blindered by its own fantasies and bullshit can, in the deep recesses of its DNA have a secret, inherent death wish — that is, if Freud is at all prescient in his writerly stumbling around, could we be on a runaway train not to just any death, but to a destined death. Of course, a metaphoric death can come in many shapes. Is the right-wing NRA's notorious stubbornness a catalyst for Breakdown? Are individuals like Stephen Paddock, to borrow Peter Sederberg's terms, "both the creator and the product of [this kind of] shared meaning," a shared meaning steeped in fear and violence. More Eros in our communal lives would provide welcomed balance.
Stephen Paddock's Destined Death Wish:
Imagine the man in his suite of rooms on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino. He reportedly stalked other concert venues, but for some reason he didn't act. He was a willfully self-contained man who planned meticulously. Maybe those venues weren't right. Maybe he just wasn't ready. He was, no doubt, warmly welcomed as he registered. Mandalay Bay bellhops hauled his expensive luggage, unbeknownst to them containing an incredible array of weapons and ammunition, up his room. The weapons are certainly in well-designed, expensive pieces of luggage. He gives the bellhops a nice tip, then stores the cases somewhere in the room and puts a DO NOT DISTURB sign on the door, so housekeeping won't come in and see anything. Like he always did, he must have played the $100 poker machines, because his room (#32135, or room 135 on the 32nd floor) was a comp, and he had comp meals. There's a report that, on one occasion, he ordered meals in the room for two; so he may have arranged for company. He registered at the hotel at least four days before the concert.
We can only imagine what goes through a man's mind as he plans the public slaughter of anonymous people from a high perch. The phrase "the banality of evil" goes through my mind; it was coined by Hannah Arendt reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1963. Paddock, by all accounts, was a decent fellow. No one has dug up anyone who has said anything bad about the man — other than his crime, of course. He seems to have sincerely liked (loved?) his girlfriend Marilou Danley. Paddock arranged a ticket to the Philippines for her, and once she was there he sent her $127,000 and said for her to buy a house for her family. "She didn't even know that she was going to The Philippines until Steve said, 'Marilou, I found you a cheap ticket to The Philippines,'" one of Danley's sister told the press. It would not be the first time a socially inept American male found female companionship to suit his personality in an Asian woman who did not ask questions or expect anything other than protection in life. It does not seem inconsistent that this kind of enigmatically self-centered loner would find such a woman a good match. In the photo, below, with Danley and her two sisters cooking in the Philippines, Paddock looks downright warm; he seems to be enjoying himself. By all accounts, Marilou Danley was/is a kind and generous woman. It seems possible no one is more astonished by events than Marilou Danley.
Stephen Paddock with Marilou Danley, right, and her two sisters in the Philippines
So it's the night of the concert. There's no evidence revealed to the public that anyone knows of Stephen Paddock's plans other than he. The wild intensity inside Stephen Paddock's mind must have been extraordinary as he watched from the 32nd floor as the crowds gathered. If it's true, as Ms. Danley reportedly told investigators, that Paddock was deteriorating mentally and physically, it's likely his life's successes and failures passed through his mind as he meticulously set up his shooting nest. Since he shared a house in Sun City, Mesquite, with Ms. Danley, he may have been aware of stories like a recent controversy at another Del Webb active adult community, Sun City Aliante. As reported recently in a New Yorker article by Rachel Aviv called "The Takeover," greedy predatory behavior threatened aging baby-boomers with money. The phenomenon is known as legal guardianship. It's the sort of thing that could really disturb a wealthy, aging man obsessed with control and independence.
The New Yorker piece starts in 2013 with two residents who had been married for 55 years. Rudy North was 81; Rennie was 79. They were in their home minding their own business and there was a knock on the door; it was a woman named April Parks, accompanied by three other people. Parks owned a company named A Private Professional Guardian. "Parks told the Norths that she had an order from the Clark County Court to 'remove' them from their home. She would be taking them to an assisted-living facility." The couple was stunned and confused. "Go and gather your things," they were told. "One of Park's colleagues said that if the Norths didn't comply he would call the police." Without notifying them or their children, who visited them regularly, they had been deemed by a Clark County judge to be wards of the state. Rudy may not have been a track sprinter, but he read the newspaper regularly; he read popular novels, "or, if he was feeling more ambitious," he read Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. In a notebook, he had recently written: "Deep below the rational part of our brain is an underground ocean where strange things swim." To make a very long and troubling story short, the couple was moved 40 miles away to Lakeview Terrace, an assisted living facility. When their daughter Judy came to visit, she found her parents missing; it took her days to figure out where they were. When she finally called Parks and told her: "You can't just walk into somebody's home and take them!" Parks calmly replied: "It's legal." And she was correct; it was all legal. The North's home and belongings were sold by a company called "Caring Transitions."
Since then, newspaper stories blew the lid on the scam and the court was shamed into backing away. Parks is facing trial for perjury and theft. In a culture that too often values marketing and profit over justice, these people had figured a scam to get your money from your wallet to their wallet. Like Paddock had figured out how to "flip" houses to make money, these people, in cahoots with legal operatives, worked the laws to fleece aging and vulnerable people. They especially targeted aging couples without children. And, again, it was all legal.
As a smart, savvy and capable loner like Stephen Paddock becomes aware of himself "deteriorating," as his girlfriend told investigators, as he becomes aware of the much vaunted control of his life falling away, as he becomes aware of how cold-blooded and predatory the legal bureaucracies in such a "paradise" can be, as he immerses himself in the sexy gun culture and accumulates more and more very lethal weapons — does what he ended up doing make logical sense in a warped mind? When the life of someone like Paddock becomes troubled and when even his warmest relationships may no longer provide anything but reinforcement that he's losing his grip, does going out in a storm of violence make sense? Might this be a "motive"? And might it qualify as the destined death Freud spoke of? A man like Paddock sees "other people" as threats to avoid or overcome — or they are seen as there to serve his needs. Crowds of people may have been abstractions for Paddock, not flesh-and-blood people worthy of empathy. Paddock seems not to have been the sort of man who would "age gracefully" or seek "help" from others. Was he a man caught in a web of personal decline with no way out? No way out, that is, except all those empowering guns he was amassing? As a woman candidate for US Senate in Nevada put it a few years ago, did Stephen Paddock employ "a second amendment solution" to punctuate a personal baby-boomer crisis of aging? Mass murder as a cry for help?
The term running amok comes from the Malay/Indonesian word meng-âmuk. It's defined as "An episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding."
How does a society politically break the cycle of right-wing obstruction and restrict the availability of so many incredibly lethal weapons? Is it really all about money and corporate profits? The 58 victims of this crazed event deserve to be counted for something, to be a voice, so to speak, in the struggle for shared meaning. Australia is a very macho nation and it successfully cut down on gun violence by legal restrictions. To watch leaders like Mitch McConnell following such a disaster is truly demoralizing. All they do is distract and stall, hoping through that process opposition will be seen as futile and events like Las Vegas will be forgotten — until the next incident. It makes you think of Nero playing his fiddle.
In 2006, Newt Gingrich wrote an item in the conservative publication Human Events arguing that the First Amendment should not be allowed to provide cover for terrorists. "Either before we lose a city, or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up [terrorists'] capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech. … Free speech is not an acceptable cover for those planning to kill." The following headline topped the piece:
"The 1st Amendment Is Not a Suicide Pact."
That was 2006. In 2017, with Stephen Paddock's actions in mind, it's fair to wonder whether, thanks to the political right, the NRA and the gun industry, the 2nd Amendment has become a suicide pact.
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If you are looking for accommodation in Cabarete, Dominican Republic we think it is only fair that we warn you — our town is full of aquaholics. Below we have provided an example of each of the different types of aquaholics you might encounter when you are here on vacation. It's good to research a location before you visit, so you know what you are getting yourself into.
This video was filmed by Alaz Cabarete and produced by AP Visuals for the brand DaSilva Kiteboarding. It features several young Cabarete riders: Carlo Jose Martinez, Manuel Vasquez, Suami Cavallo, and Joselito Del Rosario. There are clips from several Cabarete Beaches, but the majority was filmed at Playa Encuentro. The short film is meant to showcase the talent of the riders, but it also does a pretty good job of showing off the perfect, almost year-round windy conditions that have made Cabarete famous to aquaholics from around the world.
Another collaboration between Alaz Cabarete and AP Visuals, but this time they have come together to highlight local surfer Zion Balbuena and friends shoot the curl and smack the lip (our best effort at surf slang). 90% of the surfing in Cabarete happens at Playa Encuentro, so that is where this video was filmed. If we told you about the other surf breaks in the area…we would have to kill you. If you are a real aquaholic, you will easily make friends over a cerveza or 4, and once you have earned the trust of the bros, they might show you the others. But probably not.
Ok, we are sensing an aquaholic enabler here! Another video by Alaz Cabarete shot at Playa Encuentro. Most people probably don't know this, but Cabarete is a world class location for both flat water paddle boarding and stand up paddle surfing since we are surrounded by lagoons, river, and ocean. Featured in this sunrise video is wave-a-holic, Meghan. Although this particular video was filmed at Playa Encuentro, we should mention that paddle surfing has since been banned at this location for safety reasons, but you can feel free to paddle surf the waves at Kite Beach or Cabarete Bay.
We swear that when we started this blog post, we didn't set out to feature all videos by Alza Cabarete and AP Visuals, but here we are and it's been an awesome ride! This video was filmed on the last day of the 14th Caribbean Laser Midwinter Regatta put together by Carib Wind Cabarete. It perfectly articulates why sailors from all over the world return to Cabarete year after year. Cheers to constant sun, warm water, wind, and waves!


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