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Select Thinking Environmentally: Introduction to the Special Issue on Environmental Ethics
YAO Xinzhong
Front. Philos. China. 2017, 12 (2): 191-194. https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-006-017-0013-9
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Select Is There an Identity Crisis in Environmental Ethics?
YANG Tongjin
Environmental ethics is both a moral philosophy and an applied ethics. This duality has led some people to feel confused about environmental ethics' identity and to cast doubts on its legitimacy. This paper, by distinguishing and exploding environmental ethics' two patterns of inquiry (the moral philosophy pattern and the applied ethics pattern) and their characteristics, tries to resolve the discipline's identity crisis and to argue for its legitimacy.
Select Towards Gratitude to Nature: Global Environmental Ethics for China and the World
Bo R. Meinertsen
This paper asks what should be the basis of a global environmental ethics. As Gao Shan has argued, the environmental ethics of Western philosophers such as Holmes Rolston and Paul Taylor is based on extending the notion of intrinsic value to that of objects of nature, and as such it is not very compatible with Chinese ethics. This is related to Gao's rejection of most—if not all—Western "rationalist" environmental ethics, a stance that I grant her for pragmatic reasons (though I remain neutral about it theoretically). Gao argues that the Daoist notion of living in harmony with nature can instead become the basis of a Chinese environmental ethics. However, the involved Daoist conception of living in harmony with nature is, in my view, based on an aesthetic property. The paper argues that despite the appeal of the Daoist view for a Chinese environmental ethics, an aesthetic property cannot provide the basis for a global environmental ethics. The paper also considers another version of Daoist environmental ethics, which does not rely on an aesthetic notion, but I argue that it too fails as such a candidate. As an alternative, the paper considers and applies contemporary Western thinkers on gratitude (such as Robert Emmons and Elizabeth Loder), proposing that gratitude to nature (environmental gratitude) can indeed provide the needed basis.
Select Xujing (Emptiness and Stillness) in Daoism, Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature, and Environmental Ethics
GAO Shan
In this article, I will examine the concept of xujing 虛靜 (emptiness and stillness) in Daoism and its relationship with the aesthetic appreciation of nature and environmental ethics. Firstly, I will examine the Chinese philosophical understanding of nature through the concept of qi. I point out that qi is characterized by four interrelated features, which are emptiness, creativity, vitality, and stillness. Xujing are also aesthetically appreciated as the objective features of qi. Secondly, I will discuss why, as the objective features of qi, xujing are considered to be features that have aesthetic value. I argue that empathy is the reason why emptiness as the objective feature of qi is regarded as having aesthetic value. Thirdly, I will discuss how the aesthetic concept of emptiness helps contribute to the construction of place-based environmental ethics.
Select The Earth Garden: Going Back or Going Forward to Nature?
Jos de Mul
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Against the background of a short meditation on the contrasting ways in which landscape has been represented and idealized in Eastern and Western painting traditions, the article will try to show, using some striking examples, that the development of landscape painting in the last two centuries reflects the changing relationship of humanity and nature, leading in both the East and in the West to either the expression of a nostalgic longing for nature to be back as it once was, or to a gloomy expression of the vanishing of nature amidst the modern, technological world. Connecting to both the concept of "harmony," which is a key concept in Eastern aesthetics, and to some recent reflections in Western philosophy on the relationship of nature and technology, a post-nostalgic conception of nature and natural beauty is defended, in which nature and technology are no longer seen as opposing categories, but rather as poles that are intertwined in an ever-lasting process of co-evolution. It is argued that we should not so much strive to go "back to nature," but rather to go "forward to nature" and establish a new harmony between human and non-human nature and technology. The article ends with some reflections on the role artists and aestheticians may play in this transformation.
Select James Legge's Hermeneutical Methodology as Revealed in His Translation of the Daxue
ZHENG Shuhong
With a focus on The Great Learning (Daxue 大學), this paper explores the specific exegetical or hermeneutical methodology adopted by James Legge in his translation of this Confucian canonical text. It begins with an analysis of the translation theory endorsed by Legge, comparing his translation with those of Ku Hung-ming and Wing-tsit Chan. The second part aims to explicate the hermeneutic dilemma faced by Legge in his dealing with this text. It looks at the intellectual context in which Legge's scholarship on the Chinese classics had developed, as well as the academic standard he was required to maintain throughout his translation. Overall, Legge's familiarity with Qing scholarship makes it interesting to determine where and why he follows or rejects Zhu Xi. Given Legge's Christian missionary background and the sense of mission pervading Zhu Xi's commentary, we conclude that Legge's affinity with Zhu Xi is much more subtle and complex than previously speculated: the difference in their approach to Confucian texts cannot be reduced to a contrast between construction and deconstruction or between canonization and decanonization.
Select Modernity and Postmodernity: The Characteristics of Postmodern Cultural Media
TONG Li
From the academic frontier of modernity and postmodernity, the author aims at exploring the fission between modernity and postmodernity and also the characteristics of postmodern cultural media from a philosophical vantage point. This paper illustrates three aspects of Western modernity: individual modernity, social modernity, and instrumental modernity, and it also clarifies the issues in modernity, starting by explaining three forms of the cultural fission: avant-garde, modernism, and postmodernism. The paper then demonstrates that the rise of postmodernity represents a new transformation and new characteristics of contemporary Western spirit, namely, the collision and compatibility of various concepts, in which popular culture and high culture, mass culture and elite culture, fashion and games as well as noise and silence have constituted an uncanny landscape of cultural media. This eerie landscape displays the indeterminacy of language, culture, art, consciousness, and aesthetics. From the perspective of theoretical innovation, the author proposes that the postmodern cultural media always displays its commodity and instrumentality, plays and entertainment, anti-culture and anti-art, replication and fabrication logically and practically as an outcome of post-industrial society. In conclusion, three critical issues are addressed: personal spiritual belief, the development of mass culture, and aesthetic principles. The postmodern cultural media has deeply influenced traditional culture, aesthetics, and how they are evaluated, resulting in cultural conflicts and a humanistic dilemma in the world of contemporary capitalism.
Select Was John Stuart Mill a Pluralist?
WANG Tao
In his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill, the 19th-century British political philosopher, portrayed his On Liberty as being "a kind of philosophic text-book" dedicated to a single truth, that is, "the importance, to man and society, of a large variety in types of character, and of giving full freedom to human nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting directions." The Mill of On Liberty may seem to be a pluralist who tends to prefer difference per se to goodness of a uniform pattern, many-sidedness to conformity, and eccentricity to mediocrity. This paper seeks to challenge this argument by paying close attention to the text. It argues that the Mill of On Liberty was far from a single-minded pluralist. Two divergent positions are found throughout his reasoning: one is a pluralist idea that an individual's own plan of life is the best, no matter how base or licentious it might be; the other is the belief that there exist a limited number of ideal ways of life which define what the good life is. The two positions are, if not mutually exclusive, at least in important aspects indicative of some profound tension at the center of Mill's thought.
Select Natural Realism or Transactionalism: On the Relationships between Putnam and Two Pragmatists, James and Dewey
SUN Ning
The relationships between Hilary Putnam and the pragmatists (especially William James and John Dewey) are obvious but subtle. To shed some light on this issue, the author will explore a key issue that not only stands as Putnam's main inheritance from the pragmatists, but that also illuminates the relationships between them more clearly than any other issues. This key issue is the understanding of perception and the philosophical position that arises from this understanding. The author argues that in adopting Dewey's transactionalism (or interactionalism), Putnam advances from James' insight to Dewey's, a shift that is particularly manifest in Putnam's attempt to add another layer of meaning to what he refers to as the second na?veté that he detects and appreciates in James' natural realism.
Select Habitual Learning as Being-in-the-World: On Merleau-Ponty and the Experience of Learning
HE Jing, Ejgil Jespersen
In Phenomenology of Perception, both intellectualism and empiricism were blamed for not grasping consciousness in the act of learning. This was, Merleau-Ponty thought, due to an objective volatilizing of the subjective role of the lived body in perception. In order to overcome the difficulties in the tradition of learning and the philosophy of consciousness, Merleau-Ponty's next important step was to take maximal grip as a central case of learning. To him, learning as being-in-the-world, basically has to be sketched out in embodied and socially contextualized situations. Drawing upon this asymmetrical identity from Merleau-Ponty, our argument in this paper is that learning is best understood as a phenomenon that involves the learner's engagement with the world and her intention to make sense of its structures. A new perspective is thus employed to present learning as an embodied and socially embedded phenomenon, which is always projected by habitual experience and involves transcendence. These characteristics of learning are brought together in an integral and comprehensive way and have relevance to studies of learning in institutions and in daily experience.
Select LIU Xiaogan, ed., Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy(reviewed by Franklin Perkins)
Franklin Perkins
Select Livia Kohn, Zhuangzi: Text and Context (reviewed by Martin Sch?nfeld)
Martin Schönfeld
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Today Marks the 'Beginning of a New Chapter in Collaborative Business Model'
Posted On: 28 DEC 2021 5:09PM by PIB Ahmedabad
CSIR-CMERI handed over the Non-Exclusive rights for Technology Know-How of the indigenously developed 'Vehicle mounted Drain Cleaning System' to MANIAR & CO., Ahmedabad, Gujarat in the presence of Dr. V.K. Chaurasia, Joint Advisor, Ministry of Urban & Housing Affairs,Govt. of India, Prof. Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI ,Mr. Satheesh Machiraju, Sr. General Manager, Tata Motors Limited, Shri K. Sanjeeva Rao, General Manager (Govt. and Public Affairs), Delhi, Tata Motors Limited and Mr. Iqbal Maniar, Co-Founder, MANIAR & CO on 28th December 2021.
The Vehicle Mounted Drain Cleaning System is a Mechanized Scavenging System consisting of 3 modules namely (i) Recycled Slurry Water Unit (ii) Closed Loop Feed Back System (iii) Post Cleaning Inspection System.
The CSIR-CMERI developed Vehicle Mounted Drain Cleaning System Prototype have been demonstrated at CSIR- National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi in the presence of Dr. Shekhar C Mande, Director General, CSIR, Prof. Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI and other officials of CSIR, Mrs. Roopa Mishra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and other officials of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Engineer-in-Chief, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Engineers of Delhi Jal Board and Municipal Corporations of East, West and North Delhi. The efficiency and effectiveness of the Technology was highly appreciated by the present officials and subsequent to that an Expression of Interest was floated by CSIR-CMERI as a result of which the Technology is being handed over to Maniar & Co.
Dr. V.K. Chaurasia, Joint Advisor, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, congratulated CSIR-CMERI, Maniar & Co. and Tata Motors Limited on achieving such a wonderful accomplishment. There is a huge demand for such Technology Delivery Systems across the Nation and in many Developing and Third World Nations. The deployment of the Technology in the Society through the various Civic Administration Agencies across the Nation will resolve the huge challenge associated with 'Eradication of Manual Scavenging' from India. The adoption of the Technology across the Nation will help create 'Regional Manufacturing Hubs' which consequently will help drastically improve the Employment Scenario and Economic Prospects across the Nation. Besides, the CSIR-CMERI Municipal Solid Waste Management Technology also holds the potential to be the 'Game-Changer' in the domain of Waste Management and help realise the Vision of the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India of a 'Zero-Landfill India'. Dr. Chaurasia requested the Premier Technology Institutions, MSMEs, Manufacturing Entities and Specialised OEMs to 'Evolve Together' for Greater National Service. Such initiatives will help build 'Confidence for the Future'.
Prof. Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI, during his address shared that the 'Transfer of Know-How' to MANIAR & CO. marks the 'Beginning of a New Chapter in Collaborative Business Model'. This Business Model forges the specialised expertise of Government Technology Institutions, Government of India Ministries, Original Equipment Manufacturers and Specialised Manufacturing Agencies to develop a seamless Economic Framework for time-bound and efficient delivery of Impactful Products for the Society. This Modified PPP model ensures optimum Synergy and Coordination amongst the various agencies. It will lead to a Technology-Driven 'Growth Model' strengthened by the support and expertise of Policy Makers in consonance with Specialised Component Manufacturers. Such Technologies will also pave the way for Motivated Youngsters to be the 'Social Entrepreneurs' of the future. Prof. Hirani thanked the Dr. Chaurasia, Mr. Maniar and Tata Motors Limited for coming together and help the Technology 'See the light of the Industry and Society'.
Mr. Iqbal Maniar, Co-Founder, MANIAR & CO, thanked CSIR-CMERI for facilitating the adoption of the Technology. MANIAR & CO have been working in the domain of Mechanized Solutions for Sewerage Systems and observed that the most challenging thing has been the scarce availability of Water for the proper functioning of the Systems. The CSIR-CMERI Vehicle Mounted Drain Cleaning System uses Recycled Slurry Water for Mechanised Cleaning of Sewerage Systems and thus entirely solves the Scarcity of Water Issue. The Pricing of the Technology is much cost-effective when compared to the existing Technologies and even more so relative to the imported variants. The Technology once ready for the market will help Maniar & Co. contribute significantly to the Swachch Bharat Abhiyan. Hundreds of lives have been lost for the prevalence of Manual Scavenging while cleaning Manholes. CSIR-CMERI developed indigenous mechanised Technology will help completely Decimate Mortalities associated with Mechanised Scavenging.
Mr. Satheesh Machiraju, Sr. General Manager, Tata Motors Limited, Shri K. Sanjeeva Rao, General Manager (Govt. and Public Affairs), Delhi, Tata Motors Limited, congratulated the stakeholders for this momentous accomplishment. They shared that India is in need of such Innovations. The initiative is a perfect specimen of Collaboration between a Private and Government Organisation. Tata Motors has always supported path-breaking innovations and they expressed their belief that the widespread adoption of the Technology will hugely benefit the Nation in the Long-Term.
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In this study, the traffic state of a commercial vehicle was analyzed from a macroscopic viewpoint by using the probe data of a commercial vehicle in the Shikoku region during a period of heavy rain that occurred in western Japan in July, 2018. A method is proposed to calculate indexes, such as the detour rate and reduction in the number of trips, through an analysis of a trip at each origin-destination (OD) and extracting the route of a detouring vehicle during a disaster by using the results of the calculation. Finally, a method for the early detection of abnormalities, which involves paying attention to U-turn action during traffic disturbances is proposed. The influence of heavy rain on a commercial vehicle was evaluated quantitatively by analyzing the probe data of the vehicle during a disaster period caused by heavy rain. Specifically, analysis was performed on the number of passing commercial vehicles before and after the occurrence of a disaster, changes in running speed, route changes at each OD, and the vehicle trajectory around a regulated area. From the results of the analysis, it was possible to grasp the macroscopic traffic state, OD influenced by the traffic restriction, route in use for the OD during a normal time period, and an alternate route (detour action) during the disaster time period. With the method for the early detection of abnormalities at the time of a traffic disturbance, which pays close attention to U-turn action, a U-turn after the traffic regulation can be detected; however, it was confirmed that there is a problem in detecting timing and the application range.
S. Umeda, Y. Kawasaki, and M. Kuwahara, "Analysis of Traffic State During a Heavy Rain Disaster Using Probe Data," J. Disaster Res., Vol.14, No.3, pp. 466-477, 2019.
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First Latino President to lead US Catholic bishops
Mexican immigrant, Archbishop José Gomez commands a speech and communion in a Los Angeles community (above). Gomez has been elected as the newest United States Conference of Catholic Bishops President, the first Latino bishop to do so.
The bishops of the U.S. Catholic church made a symbolic choice for its next president at a recent conference.
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles was elected into office on Tuesday, Nov. 12. The Mexican immigrant is "the first Latino bishop to become president of the American bishops' conference," according to The Washington Post.
Gomez's election comes at a rather tumultuous time as there has been a shift between the Latinx community and the Catholic church.
"Latinos in the U.S. are no longer majority-Catholic, according to a Pew Research Center survey released last month," LA Times reporter Sarah Parvini wrote. "Some 47% describe themselves as Catholic, the survey showed, down from 57% a decade ago. At the same time, 23% of Latinos say they are religiously unaffiliated, up from 15% in 2009."
Despite his prestigious role, Gomez's power within individual dioceses nationwide is limited. Regardless, the bishops also use their time at the conference to discuss national topics of concern such as the political climate and the lack of migrants being allowed into the U.S. along the Southern border.
With the new archbishop being of Mexican heritage and an immigrant within a rather disparaging secular political climate, the leader is not pulling any punches.
In his first press conference, Gomez prioritized addressing the Supreme Court case regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program where five of the nine judges are Catholic. The case was happening simultaneously to Gomez' election, according to The Post.
"We are praying for the good result of the Supreme Court decision, in favor of the possibility of the Dreamers to be in the United States, obviously in a legal way," Gomez said.
According to The LA Times, American bishops have opposed the "enforcement only" policies. Historically, the bishops are standing behind "comprehensive immigration reform," as they believe immigration isn't a matter for the political sphere rather it is a matter of humanitarian concern instead.
Though Gomez may currently be the highest ranking Catholic official in the U.S., many other bishops including Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, have followed suit by voicing their opinions on the atrocities that have happened this last year.
The Latino bishop of El Paso spoke out on Oct. 13 at an Indigionous People's Day vigil in regard to the prior mass shootings and border situation of this past year in particular, according to AP.
"Sin unites people around fear and hate," Seitz said. "Our highest elected officials have used the word 'invasion' and 'killer' over 500 times to refer to migrants, treated migrant children as pawns on a crass political chessboard, insinuated that judges and legislators of color are un-American and have made wall-building a core political project."
It is perhaps why electing Gomez as its president was such a power move. San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller is also a high ranking Mexican American Catholic leader is in full support of Gomez' election and hopes it will allow for the welcoming of more Latinos to the church.
"It will be very meaningful," García-Siller said to The Post. "He's a symbol of opening roads for leadership for more Latino Catholics."
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Netwoven Inc. is a leading Microsoft professional services provider who helps companies design and deploy solutions for business collaboration, intelligence, workflow, and relationship management. Founded in 2001 by senior-level executives from Microsoft, Oracle and Intel, Netwoven empowers more intelligent enterprises by connecting people, processes, and information. We help medium to large enterprise customers unlock the hidden value of their information assets and derive rapid return on investment from their technology investments.


Impeller enters the system of "Gazel"2752 Ø400 engine cooling system. It is plastic with eleven paddle and clad steel bob for mounting to water pump engine bank. The color of impeller varies from white to black. Nonsymmetrical disposition of working paddles are available for extra performance rising.


There is no strict prerequisite for this course but students should preferably have a previous knowledge of public international law and notions of international criminal justice.
This course is an introduction to International Humanitarian Law (IHL), also called the law of armed conflict or the laws of war. IHL is a set of rules that seek to limit the effects of armed conflict, with the dual purpose of saving those who do not, or no longer, participate directly in hostilities and to restrict the use of violence to the strict military necessity. IHL is a branch of public international law that has close relations with other branches, such as international human rights law and international criminal law, but also with international politics and transitional justice. While analyzing its principles, sources, rules and jurisprudence, and using the most recent case studies (the Israeli-occupied territories, Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Syria, Mali, etc.), this course encourages a critical and interdisciplinary approach of IHL.
Interactive lectures (questions and discussions by students are encouraged).
A 2000-word book review, due in week 9 (40%) and a 5000-word research paper, including footnotes, due at the end of the term (60%), on a topic of the student's choosing with teacher approval.
Extensive reading, class attendance, book review and research paper.


Lock in a great price for Premier Inn Newcastle Quayside - rated 8.4 by recent guests.
The location was great, right near the river and close enough to Eldon square we could walk. The room felt large and airy due to the tall windows which we really liked. It didn't feel small and cramped.
Great parking facility. Excellent directions, maps and communication beforehand.
Staff pleaseant. Location good. Food delicious. Room quiet and very comfortable.
The staff were all amazing and led by a lovely manager, who was very friendly and professional.
Hotel is in a good location for the quayside and city centre and parking is available if you book. We had a family room that was a good size, didn't feel cramped.
location close to the quayside for evening walks and restaurants. The beds in room 401 were comfortable and the free tea and coffee appreciated. On site parking was good.
On the quayside and with fabulous views of the River Tyne, the hotel is just 5 minutes' walk from the city centre and offers comfortable, great-value modern en suite rooms.
The Premier Inn Newcastle Quayside is within easy reach of the A1 and just 700 yards from Newcastle Central Railway Station. Situated between the two major business parks, the hotel is adjacent to the Sage Gateshead concert hall and just 6 miles from Newcastle International Airport.
The on-site restaurant and bar offer good food and drink at great-value prices.
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being allowed to store my suitcase in reception with a receipt before I continued my journey.
No plugs next to the bed.
Liked the breakfast - very good, liked the location especially for the Sage, and the staff were very helpful as indeed they all are everywhere, but the room was not so good. It was a bit pokey, old feeling in keeping with the premises which are very dated, but the bed was too BIG (queen size?) and too high and took up too much space and tight against the wall. Generally did not feel comfortable. It's probably to do with the fact it is a very old building and in need of gutting. Sorry!
Bad soundproofing on top floor, creaky floorboards kept me awake!
The staff were extremely helpful. The breakfasts were good and the restaurant pleasant.


National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has announced recruitment news for the post of Chief General Manager. Applicants who are interested in this job may apply on or before 26th October 2014.
Education/ Qualification: Candidates applying for this job must possess Graduate in Law, 17 years of service as Group- "A" [Pay Scale of PB- 3 (Rs. 15,600- 39,100) with Rs. 5400 (GP)] or equivalent level post or higher basis out of which 7 years of experience in the field of law related to contractual matter/ arbitration/ legislative matter/ land acquisition.
Procedure to apply: Candidates interested in applying this job must send their job application along with all the documents which are necessary at the address given below in prescribed format.
Superscribe the envelope with "Application for the post of _________".
Important date to remember: Last date of submitting application is 26th October 2015.


This regularly updated feature on technical tours in Slovakia includes historical and modern factories and breweries.
This article was published in the latest edition of travel guide Spectacular Slovakia.
The cooling towers of a nuclear power plant instead of castle bastions, or highly mechanised production lines instead of ski slopes: Slovakia offers some special options for technology geeks or those who are simply curious about how cars or electric power are produced.
Several companies have opened their doors to tourists, offering visitors insight into their plant's history and technologies.
"My brother works here, and he was talking so much about this firm that I wanted to see it with my very own eyes," said Mária Depešová, 28, when describing her motivation for visiting carmaker Volkswagen Slovakia in Bratislava.
After getting special headphones for both noise protection and to hear the guide when the tour makes its way directly through production halls during working hours, the mechanically-inclined can observe selected parts of the Bratislava-based Volkswagen's body shop, as well as production and press halls. Visitors can directly watch workers create what will be a future car.
The company also organises special Think Blue. Factory. tours, which focus on environment-driven technologies.
Another option for visitors is a special drive with an electric car or a drive on an off-road course. For the off-road, the company uses specially modified vehicle at a track which simulates various tough terrains, from a wooden roadway, through sand, water and steps, to hills at various gradients. Visitors can either travel as a passenger or take a turn behind the wheel with the help of an instructor.
The carmaker also opens its gates during the Night of Galleries and Museums, an event held each May. The plant also exhibits the car models it is making on the site.
Martina Koronská, 42, a mother of two, visited Volkswagen with her whole family. She said that one reason they came was that her husband is an engineer and interested in car production, but that they also just wanted to show their children something new.
"In this world, it is good to go somewhere with a family, especially if you have children," Koronská said.
Slovenské elektrárne is the country's largest electricity producer and offers visits in various types of power plants. The nuclear power plants in Jaslovské Bohunice and Mochovce, thermal power plants in Nováky and Vojany, and water power plants placed across the country are included. In 2013, some 21,000 people visited these premises, said company spokeswoman Jana Burdová.
The tours usually start in the information centres, where the visitors hear highlights of the history and present work of the complex. Visitors then view some selected parts of the respective plant.
The information centre in Jaslovské Bohunice houses the model of the whole complex, a model of nuclear reactor, fuel cells and pumps, and posters showing how the electricity is actually produced. Though the texts are only in Slovak, a tour guide can usually translate them into English. On this tour, visitors continue to the V2 reactors by bus. After passing through several control gates, they get a helmet, glasses and ear protection and go to the engine room to see the machines in action, and the control room, to see the work of controllers who supervise the operations.
"There are not many choices in Slovakia," said Miroslava Vandlíčková, teacher at the Žilina University, who was at the power plant with students who specialise in fire engineering.
She explained that the university arranges several visits to the plant, as it offers a good explanation of how electricity production works. Dušana Hrušková, a student, was impressed by the control room. Compared to her first visit, when she saw an out-of-use reactor, this was better, as she could see what the employees are actually doing, she said.
Slovenské elektrárne also organises a so-called Open Plant Day for the broader public. The tour over the premises is accompanied by cultural attractions and various competitions focused on families with children, Burdová said.
In Jaslovské Bohunice, the Open Plant Day is held in cooperation with the village. Visitors, who must reserve the tour in advance, gather in a bus which takes them to the plant and drives around the complex. Firefighters who work at the nuclear power plant demonstrate their technology and what they do.
While beer tourism is just on the rise in Slovakia, there are several places, where Slovaks can have a closer look how beer is brewed. One of them is in Vyhne, where the local brewery Steiger has been brewing beer for over 540 years, making it the oldest running brewery in Slovakia. Visitors are led through production, bottling and storage premises and are informed about the production technology.
At Steiger the beer is still being brewed by the classical technology, in contrast to large breweries which use a more industrialised approach. Steiger uses traditional ingredients for brewing beer and ferment in two phases, first in open tanks and then in tanks in cooled cellars. Tours end in the brewery's shop, where visitors can either taste or buy beer or radlers - beer mixed with a soft drink, which has become popular in Slovakia.
Heineken Slovensko, a member of the Heineken group and one of the biggest beer producers in Slovakia, takes a different approach when it hosts visitors at its plant in Hurbanovo during its Open Day in September.
Visits must be booked one month in advance. Minimum size of group: 10 people. Age requirement for nuclear power plant: 18 years. Tours in Sk, E. Visits in various plants available at www.seas.sk/map: click on the facility you are interested in and follow the instructions to arrange a visit or send e-mail to the infoseas@enel.com.
Visits must be arranged at least one day in advance via phone or email: visit@volkswagen.sk; solid boots required). Group size: 5-15 people. Age requirement: 12. Tours in Sk, G, E.
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Everyone, please feel free to comment on my journal.
I hope this helps to keep your motivation up. It's hard to stay motivated at times, but being able to look back and see progress is always good.
I remember being 19 and about the same weight as you. I would love to have that as a base to start from now, but sadly don't.
You seem to have some lofty goals. They are quite attainable, but will just take time (less time for you than me as you have youth on your side). I would recommend setting some smaller intermediate goals though. Meeting and exceeding a goal is a great way to stay motivated.
Thanks, Cliff. Those are really just my long term goals.
For now, I just want to get stronger, any gains now will make me happy.
Andy--I knew there was something about you that I liked!
lol my name up until 2008 has always been Andrew, but ever since I started my job in 2008, the supervisor introduced me to everyone as, "Andy," even though I told him my name was Andrew lol. And i'm glad he did that too.
congratulations on the bodyweight squats on 30 Aug.
robt-aus wrote: congratulations on the bodyweight squats on 30 Aug.
Jebus wrote: lol my name up until 2008 has always been Andrew, but ever since I started my job in 2008, the supervisor introduced me to everyone as, "Andy," even though I told him my name was Andrew lol. And i'm glad he did that too.
I insisted on "Andrew" when I was a kid, because it sounded more grown-up to me then. I had a job where the manager was named Andy, and he called be "Benny" (from my last name) to distinguish me from him. Fortunately, no one else there followed his example!
Jungledoc wrote: I insisted on "Andrew" when I was a kid, because it sounded more grown-up to me then. I had a job where the manager was named Andy, and he called be "Benny" (from my last name) to distinguish me from him. Fortunately, no one else there followed his example!
Lol, I'm gonna start calling you Benny. ahh jk.
I need to get a sand bag or something.
Feel free to critique my routine.
i can't workout when i'm laughing either, and my mp3 player is currently full of George Carlin and Billy Connolly.
robt-aus wrote: i can't workout when i'm laughing either, and my mp3 player is currently full of George Carlin and Billy Connolly.
It's wierd how it makes us so weak lol. Someone should try and put GSP into comic submission.


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ITV grabs Hatton Garden heist drama
By Jesse Whittock
9th June 2017 @ 11:00
UK broadcaster ITV has ordered a four-part drama about a real-life jewelry heist in Hatton Garden, London.
Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham and Brian F. O'Byrne will star in Hatton Garden, with Jeff Pope writing the four-part series with Terry Winsor.
The ITV Studios-produced drama is based on an audacious jewels and cash burglary a gang of elderly career criminals in April 2015.
It will tell the story of how the men planned, prepared, organised and ultimately succeeded in pulling of the heist at the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Company, and the complex police investigation that later led to their arrests.
Pope (Little Boy Blue), head of factual drama at ITV production arm ITV Studios, and Winsor (Hot Money) are co-executive producing, with Imogen Cooper (Quacks) producing.
The commission came from ITV head of drama Polly Hill (pictured), who joined from the BBC last year.
"After the critical acclaim of Little Boy Blue, we are delighted to commission Jeff Pope's new drama, Hatton Garden," said Hill.
"Jeff is a master at bringing these true stories to screen and these dramas have always been and continue to be an important part of ITV drama. I think the audience will be fascinated by this story and Jeff's compelling dramatisation of it."
Filming begins in London in June.
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HBO renews 'The Last Of Us', following strong early ratings
HBO has renewed The Last Of Us for a second season, following strong ratings for the post-apocalyptic drama series. The show, which launched just two weeks ago, is already shaping up to be one of HBO's tentpole scripted series. Its second episode, which premiered on Sunday, was watched by 5.7m viewers across HBO and linear […]
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Amelia Brown is stepping down as MD of Fremantle-owned Britain's Got Talent prodco Thames after 20 years to set up her own production company. Brown will exit the UK firm in July and will work with Thames and Fremantle to ensure a smooth transition. First joining the company in 2003 as a freelancer and then […]
Peacock adds 5m subs in Q4 2022, but losses hit $978m
NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock added over five million paid subscribers in the US in Q4 2022, with its total to more than doubling to surpass 20 million over the course of the year. According to parent company Comcast's 2022 annual and Q4 report, the growth was driven by live sports, new films and original programming […]
UK's C4 launches streaming data reports for producers
Sales round-up: Hulu lines up 'The Unusual Suspects' for US debut; 'Attila The Hun' travels the world
Wildbear & ZDFE start production on Japanese WW2 docuseries
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RoboCop Prime Directive: Release New Trailer & Images
Jose Padilha's RoboCop remake has been the topic of much conversation going back to the day it was announced. For many, the original 1987 Paul Verhoeven action/satire starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen is a true classic that should remain untouched. Of course, the sequels might have tarnished some of that idea, but that never stops Hollywood from trying to transform previous successes into current ones.
There have been all kinds of rumors swirling around this film, about Padilha reportedly not being happy with the film and whatnot. Whether any of that is true or not, it looks like Sony's ready to start the big PR push for the film. The studio just released the first trailer for the film as well as a group of images originally posted on Hero Complex featuring stars Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Jay Baruchel, Jackie Earle Haley and Michael Keaton.
RoboCop is poised to hit theaters on February 7th.
Posted in Explosions Are Rad, Movies, Sci-FiTagged Abbie Cornish, Explosions Are Rad, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Baruchel, Joel Kinnaman, Jose Padilha, Michael Keaton, Movies, Robocop, Robots, Samuel L. Jackson, Sci-Fi, SonyLeave a comment
I Very Much Enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises
Posted on August 8, 2012 September 27, 2019 by TJDietsch
My wife has very kindly offered for me to head over to the theater and watch Dark Knight Rises a few times. I bowed out because it was too late one night, I wasn't up to the three hour commitment and I just wasn't feeling up for something so seemingly intense another night, but today I took her up on her very generous offer. As I tweeted before heading over to the theater, I actually can not remember the last movie I saw inside as the few new movies we've gone to since Lu was born 15 months ago have been at the drive-in.
Somehow, I'd actually been able to avoid any and all spoilers since the film's July 20th release date. I might have written about Dark Knight Rises a few times a week for Spinoff leading up to the film, but since then any and all stories have been purely about box office. I've scrolled over tweets, avoided emails and even skipped some of my favorite podcasts to stay in the dark. I'm actually shocked it worked.
I don't think I need to get into too much detail about the plot, but this film picks up eight years after the events of Dark Knight. Batman's been out of commission since then, vilified thanks to his plan with Jim Gordon while Harvey Dent was turned into the city's fallen knight. It's been a good time for Gotham…until Bane comes to town and wants to knock everyone off their collective high horses.
Okay, the rest of the review until otherwise stated will take place in SPOILER country, so you've been warned. What I liked about this movie is the journey it took us on, even if it's not one that's necessarily the most original. Bruce is destroyed by the death of Rachel from the previous film and doesn't know how he can go on living when she can't do the same. This dovetails nicely with the plan he hatched with Gordon, giving Gotham the Batman they deserve. We also discover that Bruce's distrust of humanity make him automatically deject any plans that might be used negatively even if their primary source could be good. That's the kind of person her is at this point.
Bane is a whole different animal, one whose MO feels like a living breathing thing throughout the movie because we're only hearing and seeing it from other peoples' perspectives for the most part. I thought that was a really interesting take on him: you basically only know him by his actions and his speech, not because you know anything about him or his past. The way that his plan not only confirms the fears Bruce always had about the tech getting into the wrong hands but maybe also that you might as well get some good out of things even if they can be abused for evil (that's not said anywhere on film, but something I thought while watching). I will say that the voice took some getting used to. It almost sounds like someone dubbed in a funny voice in that opening scene, but gets a little less cartoony as it goes on. I also had a hard time understanding him a few times, but that didn't really bother me. You tend to understand the point he's trying to convey.
I also want to talk about Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake. Man, I loved this character and his arc. He's Bruce Wayne if he wasn't rich, an orphan who learned later how to hide his anger at what happened to him and his parents, but eventually decided to do good by joining the police force. How he goes from that to freedom fighter could have been a whole movie in its own right and one I would have watched. I also enjoyed Anne Hathaway's performance. She really dug into her bag of actor tricks going from flummoxed demure maid to femme fatale in no time flat, something that could have felt slopping in the hands of a lesser actress. She's the bad guy side of the Bruce Wayne/John Blake model: poor kid taking what she needed to survive and never really stopping, but wanting to.
Making the proceedings even more entertaining for me was the fact that some of the Batman comics I read growing up were the basis of this story. I'm seen lots of comic movies and really enjoyed them, sometimes going back later and reading the stories they were based on, but I really can't explain to you how much a part of me the long form Bane story Knightfall meant to me. Those were the first Batman issues I ever collected. I devoured the parts of that story I could find and it lead me to buying Batman comics for the next 20 years almost. But that's not all, the movie also includes elements from the No Man's Land story that saw Gotham cut off from the rest of the country and even some of the Bane/Ra's al Ghul stuff that came about in later issues. I was even retroactively remembering how things fit in with my comics after we found out who Miranda Tate really was (facepalm, of course it was her!).
The movie wasn't perfect though. Like I said, Bane's voice was pretty cartoony at times, to the point where I was trying to figure out what animated character he sounded like. It doesn't help that I have no idea what Tom Hardy sounds like normally. I also thought some of the larger crowd fighting was a little weak, specifically outside city hall, though the bouts between Bane and Batman were always gnarly. OH, and how awesome was it seeing Batman and Catwoman fighting awesomely side by side?! Oh, right, I'm on complaints. Let's see…oh, Batman took an awful lot of very previous time to stop and say goodbye to Catwoman and Gordon when flying the bomb out, didn't he? It reminded me of a much less campy version of that famous scene from the 60s Batman movie where he's trying to get rid of the bomb.
Speaking of the end, I thought it was very curious. Going in, I knew that this was going to be Christopher Nolan's last Batman film (unless the famously tricky director is playing with us once again), but I was also assuming that this would be the last Batman movie set in his movie universe, like Warners would just scrap it and start over again with a new idea. But that's pretty silly isn't it? In comics, sometimes a writer leaves and blows everything up, leaving the next guy to pick up the pieces and sometimes there's a really smooth transition. It seems like Nolan was giving whoever comes after him a very easy access point. They can clearly move forward with the John Blake developments or bring our hero back any number of other ways. Heck, Nolan could even still produce like he's doing on Man of Steel, that would give him time to work on whatever his next original project will be. I don't know any of the answers here, but I like having the questions running around my brain.
End SPOILERS. So, yeah, I really enjoyed this movie. It didn't grab me right away in the beginning, but kept winning me throughout and by the end, I was completely in, rooting for Gotham and believing that one man really can make a difference. I was so pumped on the way home I had to make sure to watch my speed. I also bought in hard to the idea that you have to make sacrifices to help change things, you can't just hide behind whatever's safe or even your family because you're just making a crappier world for your kid to live in if you're not helping change things.
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Ele-Mental: A Fifth Element Review
Posted on March 17, 2009 October 2, 2019 by TJDietsch
A few weeks ago, I brought home a stack of movies from Wizard's DVD closet. I was just looking for flicks that I hadn't seen before and one of them was The Fifth Element, a movie I distinctly remember being interested in when it came out (I was 14 of the time), but just never saw for whatever reason. When I brought it home, my wife Emily seemed pretty excited, she remembered watching and liking (not loving) it. Well, the weather was pretty crummy on Sunday, so we stayed in and watched:
Written and Directed by Luc Besson
Starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker and Luke Perry
Going in, I knew very little about The Fifth Element, so here's the deal for those of you who haven't seen it: there's these lumbering mechanical armadillo turkey aliens called the Mondoshawan who kept stones representing the four elements (wind, earth, fire, water) on earth that are part of a super-weapon. An ancient line of priests kept the secrets of the stones for the day when this big crazy planet of death (called the Great Evil) would come. In 1914, they come back to Earth and take the stones back with them. 300 years in the future, the Great Evil is alive and kicking and the priest wants to get his hands on the stones. Too bad these shape-shifing aliens called the Mangalores blast the Mondoshawan ship carrying the stones out of the sky (well, space). To figure out what happened with the stones, some scientists clone the last surviving Mondoshawan hand from the ship into a woman, called Leeloo (Milla).
Okay, so those are the basics. Getting back to the beginning of the movie for a moment, I really like the design of the Mondoshawan. Personally, I've never seen an alien race that looks like this, so props to the design department for creating these guys. Speaking of the design details, fun note to comic fans, French artists Moebius and Jean-Claude Mézières had a hand in the overall design for The Fifth Element. Anyway, the Mondoshawan show up in 1914 to the shock of Luke Perry, playing an artist/assistant to an archaeologist. I never watched 90210 back when it was on (seriously, I'd tell you if I did), but I did find him very charming and convincing in a roll that I wish had somehow carried over into the future sequences (especially if he could have replaced the ridiculously annoying Chris Tucker character Ruby Rhod, but more on him later).
So the aliens come, grab their toys and leave a key with the secret priests, then head into space and we head 300 years to the future where we meet Korben Dallas (Willis) who has an apartment that would make Tim "The Toolman" Taylor proud. I'd like to see such space-saving furniture and appliances in the near future. Willis basically plays the same character he played for most of the '90s: tough, rough around the edges, but, in the end, a good man. And I don't mean that as a dig. I've got no problem with a guy doing what he does best, few people could pull it off like Willis. That being said, I'm glad to see him spreading out in the past decade.
Anyway, Dallas is a a former military man who now works as a cabby with plenty of points on his license. While we get introduced to Korben, the aforementioned Mondoshawan ship crashes and the scientist explains that their DNA is so highly complex and perfect, that a whole Mondoshawan can be cloned from a hand. They put the hand in a cool, tube-looking machine that, a few moments later, produces Milla in an awkward looking suit of white bandages. They go on about how she's perfect, but I'm not as much of a Milla fan as, say, Diggnation's Kevin Rose (my fellow podcast fans know what I'm talking about). So, Milla, who we eventually finds out is called Leeloo (and is also the fifth element), escapes from her creators, wrecking shop on a bunch of cops (who look like they borrowed their fashion sense from Judge Dredd and Flavor Flav) and leaping to her possible death.
Luckily for her, the future has flying cars (which, again, look awesome) and good dudes like Korben Dallas driving flying cabs because she smashes right through his roof, landing in the backseat. Korben contemplates turning her over, even letting the police connect their cars with a wire before rethinking things and speeding off in one of the coolest flying car chase scenes I've seen. We get our best look at the future society in these scenes, including the proliferation of McDonald's (but, really, who's shocked by this?) and a filthy underground that resembles many other future-based movies both before and after.
Leeloo eventually guides Dallas to Father Vito Cornelius (Holm), the current priest keeping the secrets of the Mondoshawan, who recognizes Leeloo because of her element tattoo (which must be part of her DNA I guess, like her crazy orange hair). Cornelius kicks Dallas out, who returns home to find out he got fired from his cab-driving job.
Meanwhile, the big bad guy, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (who sports a pretty annoying accent and haircut, but still makes a creepy villain) (Oldman) meets up with the Mangalores, offering them some pretty rad guns that shoot bullets, fire, ice, etc. in exchange for the case holding the four stones. Did I mention that if a bad guy assembles the stones around himself in the pyramid on Earth, he'll get all kinds of powers? Okay, consider it mentioned. Zorg gets pretty peeved when it turns out that case they got from the crash is actually empty, a fact that Leeloo, whose back with the priest still, knows. Turns out they're on a pleasure cruiser (in space) called Fhloston Paradise. Zorg blows up a number of the Mangalores before leaving.
The government (remember, Dallas used to be in some kind of military), rigs a contest that he wins to send him to Fhloston Paradise. I forget how they find out about it, but when they do, Zorg's bug (an actual remote-controlled bug with a camera in the president's command center) tips Zorg off. The Mangalores are also on the trail, using a mistaken identity, thinking it's Dallas. There's a somewhat confusing scene in which the military comes to tell Dallas about their plan, then Leeloo and the priest show up and finally the police. Korben hides the three military people in his refrigerator which sinks into the floor to reveal a shower. He then hides Leeloo in the shower and the priest on his hide-a-bed by the time the cops show up. Somehow they get mistaken that a neighbor is Dallas (I'm not really sure how this worked). Besson played this gag really well, using the apartment he already set up in a great, claustrophobic way that actually had me worried they he'd get caught and relived when he didn't.
Cornelius grabs Dallas' winning tickets to Fhloston Paradise and makes off with Leeloo, something that Dallas shortly realizes and heads to the spaceport, just barely making it in time to replace the priest's assistant on the trip. Cornelius finds out about this and sneaks his way onto the spaceship. Oh, also, this is where the movie takes it's (in my opinion) biggest misstep by introducing Ruby Rhod in the flesh.
I'm not really sure what his character's supposed to be. He's some kind of superstar radio DJ, but his continued stuttering and way-too-fast-and-high-pitched dialog drove me crazy. I was hoping the whole time he was on screen that a stray bullet would end my misery. Jar Jar Binks didn't bother me this much. Seriously. I almost turned it off 10 minutes into his first real appearance, but I was intrigued enough to stick with it.
Now that all the players are on a pretty dangerous locale (the equivalent of a cruise ship floating through space) the action really starts to ramp up. Even while a tentacled blue alien called Diva sings in some pretty crazy tones. Leeloo rumbles with some of the Mangalores in the Diva's room (she's the one that has the stones on the ship, I shoulda mentioned that before), the Mangalores don't like what's going on, so they abandon their "covert" plan and just decide to take over the whole ship. One of them even kills the Diva, who explains to Dallas that the stones are inside her. We then get treated to a pretty gross, but cool scene of Dallas pulling the stones out of the hole in her torso. You know what would have made it cooler? No Ruby, who spends the rest of the movie being annoying right next to our hero. Jerk. I'd like to think that the Bruce Willis of Lucky Number Slevin or Sin City would just plug him, call it collateral damage and continue saving the universe.
Zorg's also sneaking around. He gets his hands on the case that he thinks has the stones, seemingly kills Leeloo and then sets the ship to explode before taking off.
Zorg realizes he doesn't have the stones so he returns to the ship, stopping his own destruct countdown, but Korben and crew are already on the run. Too bad for Zorg that a dying Mandalore sets off his own bomb that destroys the mostly-evacuated pleasure cruiser.
An interesting thing about The Fifth Element is that the bad guys don't seem to know who Korben Dallas is (even though it turns out that he worked for Zorg's company as a cab driver). It's not like the Mangalores care who he is when they first get on the ship (only once he starts blasting the crap out of them while leaping through the air, does he become an annoyance), even though he's in direct opposition to them. Also, he never meets Zorg in the film once, even though they're supposedly the opposite numbers in the flick. It's an element that I like which sets this movie apart from a lot of others which seem to think that the good guy and the bad guy HAVE to face off at some point, regardless of how cliched it might seem.
What we do get to see is a race-the-clock situation in which Korben, Leeloo (she's beat up pretty bad, but not dead), Cornelius and Ruby (for some reason) race to the pyramid on Earth and try to figure out how to use the stones and Leeloo (she's the fifth element by the way) to stop the Great Evil, which is racing towards Earth to destroy it. Due to some dumb luck (and sighing), the men figure out how to activate the four stones and Dallas figures out how to activate Leeloo (the fifth element appears to be love). Upon kissing, the stones shoot beams into her and she shoots a beam out at the Great Evil which explodes.
We end with the president showing up at the science lab that created Leeloo to congratulate the pair, but they're having sex in the regeneration tube. Nice, Korben. I like the James Bond-like ending.
A few other thoughts. A friend told me he didn't think the movie takes itself seriously as a sci-fi movie, but I don' think that's the case. To me, all the performances seem sincere, even the cursedly annoying Ruby. It does have a bit of a cartoony feel to it, especially with Willis in the lead, but it's a fun kind of cartoon, one that I would gladly watch Saturday mornings. No, it's definitely not Star Wars, but I don't want another Star Wars, I've already got a bunch of those.
In the end, I'm glad I watched The Fifth Element, it proved an entertaining ride that was able to keep my waning attention. It was fun and like Em, I liked it, though I didn't love it. I don't think 14-year-old me would have felt cheated if I laid down money for this back '97.
Posted in Kicking It Old School, Movie Review, Sci-FiTagged Brion James, Bruce Willis, Chris Tucker, Gary Oldman, Kicking It Old School, Luc Besson, Luke Perry, Milla Jovovich, Movie Review, Sci-Fi, The Fifth Element, Tiny ListerLeave a comment


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Fantasy Premier League: Gameweek 9 Review
Written by @NiallHawthorne
There's an expression in everyday life that 'The cream will always rise to the top', and that is actually true, for a myriad of dull scientific reasons (and if you know a scientific reason why this is not true, blow it out yer arse, this is a Fantasy Football blog…). However if the cream always does rise to the top, this is because the dross sinks to the bottom, which was demonstrated in spectacular fashion this weekend in the Premier League.
Harry Kane tops the leaderboard this week following his 2 goal, 1 assist public humiliation of Dejan Lovren at Wembley on Sunday afternoon. I've not seen a more embarrassing, turgid, life-sapping display on Sunday television since they tried to replace Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear with that T(otal) F(eckin) I(diot) Chris Evans and Joey from Friends. At least Jurgen Klopp was able to haul Dejan ashore after half an hour…it took the BBC weeks longer to do the same to Evans.
Following closely in second is Nicolas Otamendi who delivered a sensational 15 points to the 18% of FPL players who have him in their ranks. Think about that for a second. That's pretty much 1 in 5 of all players have Nicolas Otamendi in their team. That's like finding out that 1 in 5 of the general population believe that the moon landings in 1969 were real! LOL. (They were SO faked y'know, but that's for another blog…)
Getting back to the dross on display last weekend, the shambles that is Everton Football Club presented some old FPL stalwarts from Arsenal to shine on Merseyside in the early Sunday kick-off. Seeing the likes of Ozil and Sanchez racking up double-digit scores made me all nostalgic and yearning for the days of yesteryear when a manager could go more than eight games without losing his job, reality TV stars who I've never heard of didn't fall off the stage and Jose Mourinho was getting the tea for Sir Bobby of Robson. The fact that both have ownership figures below 2.3% shows how the mighty had fallen, and how fickle FPL owners are.
It doesn't matter if Alexis had carried your miserable arse to glory for the past three seasons, as soon as he threw his toys out of his pram at The Emirates you dropped him like a hot snot. He's a real person too y'know. How do you know he doesn't log into the FPL website each Saturday morning to see that 2.2% of players own him, with a single, salty tear running down his face? You ungrateful b*stards.
Two of the more surprising heroes of the week were both from the South Coast as Bournemouth and Brighton headed north (some more north than others) to plunder cracking away wins and heap pressure on the heads of the managers of their vanquished foes. Glenn Murray deserves a huge nod of appreciation for proving that he's still alive and kicking at 34 years of age with his two goals at The London Stadium – on that performance alone he's statistically England's second best striker right now. Heh. Junior Stanislas also caught the eye by scoring one and assisting one up in Stoke on a windy Saturday in October. Senior Stanislas would be very proud. I presume that's his Da's name, right?
Final hat-tips of the week go to the Chelsea due of Pedro and Batshuayi. The former has the most wonderous hair in the Premier League – it's so thick and luxuriant I'm not sure it isn't an actual helmet. Anyway, I digress, he scored a WHAMBOOZLER (that's my word) and assisted another for 12 points. The latter also scored 12 points and has continued his quest to become the new 'Ole Gunnar Solskjaer' of the Premier League by bagging another couple off the bench, a teasing titillating FPL option for those of us looking for a 'differential' and annoyed that our blood pressure is too damn normal.
Four players make our Villain Of The Week section this week, but only because FantasyYIRMA told me this wasn't a LFC blog and I couldn't write 17,000 words on the Liverpool defence. Some people are so self-absorbed aren't they? Anyway, Idrissa Gueye has been referred to as a poor man's Ngolo Kante. After this weekend he could be considered to be a poor man's Gareth Barry, and you never want to be a poor man's Gareth Barry, especially when you consider Gareth Barry was once considered a poor man's Steven Gerrard. So many poor men around, eh? I blame the Tories.
Federico Fernandez joins this ignominious list because…well because he battered the ball into his own net, innit?
That's a quick way to negative points in this game. He's joined on -1 points by a duo of Hornet defenders who thought that their teammate Richarlison needed some tough love. When you're 2-1 up at Stamford Bridge and you decide that you can showboat by missing an open goal, some will think that you're a bit cocky. He's a young lad in his defence, but he'll never learn unless he's taught a lesson. How very noble of Holebas and Kiko Femenia to allow Chelsea to score another three goals and demonstrate to young Richarlison that the boring task of scoring open goals should be completed, no matter how 'uncool' he thinks it is.
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Posted on 25 Oct 2017, in Player Selection and tagged Arsenal, bournemouth, BPL, brighton, burnley, Chelsea, classic football shirts, crystal palace, EPL, Everton, fantasy football, fantasy football scout, Fantasy Premier League review, fantasy preview, four four two, fourfourtwo, FPL, gameweek, Gameweek 3, gameweek review, huddersfield, ladbible, leicester, Liverpool, man city, Man United, Manchester United, Newcastle, oddsbible, review, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Swansea, watford, West Brom, West Ham. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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Admit it–despite your general concern for the well-being of your fellow New Yorkers, you can't help roll your eyes when that dreaded "sick passenger" announcement comes over the subway intercom. "Why get on the train if you're not feeling well?" or "Can't they just move the person to the platform?" are common moans heard during these all-too-common delays. But, it turns out, it's a lot more complicated than that.
The New York Times took a look at the rise in sick passengers, up to 3,000 a month this year as compared with 1,800 each month in 2012. Every time this happens, the train crew has to notify the rail control center, who then will call an ambulance. It depends on the specific station and time of day how long it will take emergency medical workers to locate the sick patient. Then, if it's deemed the passenger cannot safely walk, he or she must remain on the train to be assessed. Further, if the passenger has no one to wait with them and there's no police officer available, it falls on the train conductor to stay with the patient until help arrives. This can lead to the train being pulled out of service altogether. And of course, the delays start a ripple effect throughout the line.
The MTA says most instances of sick passengers are those who have fainted or vomited, but sometimes it's something more serious like a heart attack or even death ("sick passenger" does not mean a track suicide as many suspect; those instances are referred to as "police investigation"). But riders still feel that one sick person should not delay thousands of others. Back in the late '90s, the issue was addressed by stationing nurses in several busy stations. This ended in 2008 with budget cuts, but a new ad campaign asks riders who feel ill to get off at the next stop and ask for help.


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Martin promises to keep chasing race lead after taking third on stage three of Volta a Catalunya
by Shane Stokes
Third on Wednesday's stage three of the Volta a Catalunya, Dan Martin has said that trying to pay tribute to the victims of Tuesday's plane crash was a big motivation for the team and that he and the other Cannondale-Garmin riders would aim high on Thursday's toughest stage.
Martin finished third behind solo winner Domenico Pozzovivo (AG2R La Mondiale), who jumped clear towards the end to nab the victory. Rigoberto Uran (Etixx-QuickStep) led in the chase group three seconds back, with Martin outsprinting Alberto Contador (Tinkoff Saxo) for third and the time bonus.
"I was very happy to be on the podium in my adopted home town but of course we would have liked to take home the win," he said afterwards.
"The support was amazing, though, and racing on our training roads definitely gave us that extra inspiration and local knowledge today. With the deeply sad news of the Girona citizens involved in the tragic plane crash yesterday it was a difficult day for the town but we almost brought the victory home for them and we certainly raced in their honour, and the honour of all of the victims and their families and loved ones."
Martin's result moves him up to sixth overall and sees him make some inroads into the advantage of Pierre Rolland (Europcar), the new race leader.
The 2013 overall winner is two minutes 22 seconds back. hile riders such as Contador are likely Rolland's biggest threat, Martin and Talansky – who is five seconds further back in tenth overall – will try to do something big.
"There are a few more opportunities in this race now, and it was great teamwork with Andrew today," he said. "To have two of us still in contention is great for the next stages and especially the queen stage tomorrow."
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The state of Indiana is home to two major professional sport franchises, and a number of college sports teams. Indiana is also prominent in auto racing.

Professional sports teams

Indiana has a rich basketball heritage that reaches back to the formative years of the sport itself. Although Canadian educator and inventor James Naismith developed basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891, Indiana is where high school basketball was born. In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15,000 screaming fans and later wrote "Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport." The 1986 film Hoosiers is inspired by the story of the 1954 Indiana state champions Milan High School.

 Indiana has produced more National Basketball Association (NBA) players per capita than any other state. Muncie has produced the most per capita of any American city, with two other Indiana cities in the top ten. Professional basketball player Larry Bird was born in West Baden Springs and was raised in French Lick. He went on to lead the Boston Celtics to the NBA championship in 1981, 1984, and 1986.

The Indiana Pacers of the NBA play their home games at Gainbridge Fieldhouse; they began play in 1967 in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and joined the NBA when the leagues merged in 1976.

Indianapolis is home to the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference. The Colts have roots back to 1913 as the Dayton Triangles. They became an official team after moving to Baltimore, MD, in 1953. In 1984, the Colts relocated to Indianapolis, leading to an eventual rivalry with the Baltimore Ravens. After calling the RCA Dome home for 25 years, the Colts currently play their home games at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. While in Baltimore, the Colts won the 1970 Super Bowl. In Indianapolis, the Colts won Super Bowl XLI, bringing the franchise total to two. In recent years the Colts have regularly competed in the NFL playoffs.

List of current professional and amateur teams

*–Denotes a club that is on hiatus

List of former professional and amateur teams

College sports

Indiana has had great sports success at the collegiate level. NCAA Division I athletic programs in the state are:

Motorsport
Indiana has an extensive history with motorsport. Indianapolis hosts the Indianapolis 500 mile race over Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway every May since 1911. The name of the race is usually shortened to "Indy 500" and also goes by the nickname "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." The race attracts over 250,000 people every year, making it the largest single day sporting event in the world. The track also hosts the Brickyard 400 of the NASCAR Cup Series since 1994. From 2000 to 2007, it hosted the United States Grand Prix (Formula One). From 2008 to 2015, it hosted the Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix.

Indiana features the world's largest and most prestigious drag race, the NHRA's U.S. Nationals, held each Labor Day weekend at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in Clermont, Indiana.

The United States Auto Club is headquartered next to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and sanctions the Indiana Midget Week in June and the Indiana Sprint Week in July. Notable short ovals in Indiana include Indianapolis Raceway Park (NASCAR Trucks and USAC Silver Crown), Anderson Speedway (Little 500 and ARCA/CRA Redbud 400), Salem Speedway (ARCA, USAC Silver Crown), Terre Haute Action Track (USAC Silver Crown Sumar Classic, Hut Hundred, Hulman Classic), and Winchester Speedway (USAC Silver Crown and ARCA/CRA Winchester 400). The Indiana State Fairgrounds used to host the USAC Silver Crown Hoosier Hundred from 1953 to 2020.

Ironman Raceway hosts annual rounds of the Grand National Cross Country since 1995 and the AMA Motocross Championship since 2014. In addition, the AMA Supercross Championship visited the RCA Dome from 1998 to 2008, and the Lucas Oil Stadium has hosted a round since 2009.

Indiana is also host to a major unlimited hydroplane racing power boat race circuits in the major H1 Unlimited league, the Madison Regatta (Madison).

Horse racing
Pari-mutuel betting was legalized in 1989. Hoosier Park opened in Anderson in 1994, and off-track betting parlors opened in the state in 1995. Indiana Downs opened in Shelbyville in 2002. Hoosier Park became a racino on 2008 and Indiana Downs did the same in 2009.

Sports venues

List of Championships

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A single band of stainless steel is tidily arranged as opposite into a double Möbius Band .
Drop it and it springs into this folding puzzle.
For those who like to get really tangled up, this is a more complex puzzle.
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The first stage is to organise them like this.
Then, like the one-piece puzzle at he top, fold it up into this tidy band.
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Former lawyer Melanie Hoffman lost half her body weight and opened a gourmet take-out caf specializing in healthy and delicious food. Then her husband left her-for a woman twice her size. Immediately afterwards, she's blindsided by a financial crisis. Melanie reaches out to a quirky roommate with a ton of baggage and becomes involved in a budding romance with a local documentary filmmaker.
In this warm and often laugh-out-loud novel, Melanie discovers that she still has a lot to learn about her friends, her relationships with men, and herself-and that her weight loss was just the beginning of an amazing journey that will transform her life from the inside out..


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