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Riske, Cristian advance to Linz final on injury-marred day
LINZ, Austria (AP) — Alison Riske advanced to the final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz Thursday when fellow American Danielle Collins pulled out of their match with a right arm injury after losing the first set 7-5.
It was the only set played on semifinals day, as Simona Halep withdrew from her all-Romanian match against Jaqueline Cristian with a knee injury.
It's the 11th career final and second of the season for Riske, after losing to Jasmine Paolini of Italy in Portoroz, Slovenia, in September.
"Honestly, I don't have words for it," said the 73rd-ranked American, who has two career WTA titles and was ranked 18th two years ago before various injuries forced her out for nine months.
"I had a really rocky year. It's been a slow process coming back. I get emotional thinking about it because it's definitely been a journey. So, I'm very grateful to be in the final."
Riske went 3-1 down against the third-seeded Collins, but leveled for 3-3 and had another break at 5-5 before closing out the set with a love game on her serve.
Collins, who played with her right arm taped, was attended by a physio but quickly hinted that she couldn't play on. She hugged Riske before leaving the court.
Riske has not played Cristian before.
The 100th-ranked Romanian advanced to her first WTA final after Halep pulled out a few hours before their match, citing a knee injury she sustained in Wednesday's quarterfinal.
"I would do anything to be able to play, but it is swollen and painful and playing will only make it worse," Halep wrote on Twitter.
The withdrawal put an end to the former top-ranked Halep's streak of winning at least one tournament each year since 2013.
Cristian lost in qualifying but still made the main draw after another Romanian player, Sorana Cirstea, withdrew from the event.
Cristian became only the fifth "lucky loser" since 2000 to reach a WTA final. The previous one was American Coco Gauff, who did it at the same Austrian indoor event two years ago, and ended up winning the title.
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Spring 2010: Work of Academic Staff Helen Klebesadel
The Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff is an unlikely place for an art gallery.
Helen Klebesadel, a watercolor artist and occasional UW—Madison lecturer, suggested that Donna Silver, who started as secretary of the academic staff last summer, create a home for original artwork in the office. The gallery is now prepared to display framed, ready-to-hang two-dimensional artwork created by UW—Madison academic staff on four of its walls.
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"I encourage places with big spaces to use them as galleries," says Klebesadel, whose watercolors, which blend themes of craft and nature, are on exhibit this semester. "The gallery gives people a reason to go in and walk around and walk through the door the first time."
The gallery is another way of highlighting the talents and skills of UW—Madison's academic staff, Silver says.
"When Helen first came to the office and shared her vision of transforming it into an art gallery, I was struck that this would be an ideal way to celebrate the multiple talents of the academic staff on this campus," she says.
It's also been a good way to engage people who come in to the office for other reasons but are struck by the vibrant colors and scenes in Klebesadel's work, Silver adds.
"People stop in to drop off something and say, "Something is different!'" she says.
The door to the office in 270 Bascom Hall leads visitors right into Klebesadel's "Dresden Quilt," an intricate and bold image of a cascading quilt with bright hues of blue, red, green and yellow offset by black. Klebesadel says her technique requires that she paint each stitch by hand — twice — to portray the artistry that goes into quilting.
Her other works combine elements of nature — birds, fruit, flowers and trees — with such crafts as embroidery, crochet, quilting and lace making, which Klebesadel says she learned from her grandmother during her upbringing on a farm near Spring Green.
"They were all people who did art forms that were not considered art, they were considered crafts," she says of artisans from the area. "Those paintings dwell on that theme."
Her paintings call attention to the craft elements in her work. In "Transfiguration," one of Klebesadel's still-life paintings on display, a detailed lace tablecloth takes up most of the painting, while near the top, the stem of a pear in a glass dish burns softly like a candle.
"Usually with a still life you'd have a tablecloth as a background for all these objects and the most important thing in the painting is the object," Klebesadel says. In "Transfiguration, "the tablecloth dominates the imagery and says, 'Look at me.'"
This fall, oil paintings by Georgene Pomplun, event coordinator for the Office of the Chancellor, will color the walls.
Academic staff who would like their work considered for exhibition in the Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff should contact the office at soas@soas.wisc.edu. The e-mail should include the artist's contact information and position on campus, a short artistic statement describing the art and creative concerns, a works list, and between four and 10 images of the artwork.
More information about Klebesadel's artwork is available at her Web site.

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After Decades of Fighting, the Blue Water Navy Benefits Bill Is Now a Law
A Vietnam veteran listens as Agent Orange expert and military historian Paul Sutton addresses the group during a town hall meeting held at the New Jersey State council, Vietnam Veterans of America, at VFW Post 809 in Little Ferry, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2015. (Jim Anness/Northjersey.com via AP)
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
President Donald Trump signed the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act into law late Tuesday, a move that will fast-track disability compensation for personnel with medical conditions related to the chemical herbicide Agent Orange.
The enactment follows a decades-long fight by sailors, Marines and others who served off the coast of Vietnam. The law means they will now get the same presumption as ground troops that certain diseases are connected to Agent Orange exposure.
According to Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs, an estimated 90,000 veterans may be eligible for benefits under the law.
The legislation, H.R. 299, extends disability compensation to personnel who served off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam between Jan. 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, within 12 nautical miles of the coast of Vietnam and Cambodia, along a line of demarcation spelled out in the law.
Those eligible include veterans with one or more of the presumptive diseases whose claims were previously denied. It also includes those with new claims.
The bill also covers veterans who served in the Korean Demilitarized Zone between Sept. 1, 1967, and Aug. 31, 1971, as well as children with spina bifida born to veterans who served in Thailand between January 1962 and May 1975.
House Unanimously Passes Blue Water Navy Bill
House Launches Renewed Push for Blue Water Navy Bill
Justice Department Won't Appeal Agent Orange Ruling Benefiting Blue Water Navy Vets
Court Decides 'Blue Water' Navy Vets Should Be Eligible for Agent Orange Benefits
While most veterans service organizations, including Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and Vietnam Veterans of America, supported the bill, another group objected.
Military-Veterans Advocacy, a group that brought a lawsuit against the federal government for denying benefits to Blue Water veterans, said Wednesday that the law's wording may negatively affect up to 55,000 of the 90,000 veterans who served offshore.
John Wells, a retired Navy commander with Military-Veterans Advocacy, said the area noted in the bill may exclude some sailors whose ships were offshore, but outside the territorial seas.
"This includes a number of carrier sailors who were exposed [to Agent Orange runoff] by the surging waters of the Mekong River that discharged into the South China Sea," Wells said in a statement released Wednesday.
A legal victory earlier this year would have awarded benefits to veterans immediately, Wells argued, and wouldn't require VA to delay implementation by needing to raise funds to pay for it first.
"The battle for benefits for the Blue Water Navy should have ended with the signing of the legislation. Unfortunately it did not. We will continue to work with the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Association to win benefits for every veteran exposed," Wells said.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the bill could cost as much as $1.1 billion over 10 years; the Department of Veterans Affairs has estimated the cost to be as high as $5.5 billion.
The cost of the benefits is expected to be covered by raising fees levied on non-disabled veterans for VA-supported home loans, increases of .35 to .5 of a percentage point, depending on the type of loan.
After the Senate passed the bill June 12, Rep. Mark Takano, a California Democrat who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee and one of the original drafters of the legislation, said Congress has now "righted a terrible injustice."
"We can finally tell the tens of thousands of veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War but wrongly denied benefits that justice is finally coming," Takano said.
-- Patricia Kime can be reached at Patricia.Kime@Military.com. Follow her on Twitter at @patriciakime
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RM53mil state aid to build affordable homes for bumis
Centre of attraction: Visitors checking out the model of 'The Rise' affordable housing project in Jalan S.P. Chelliah after the groundbreaking ceremony.
The state government, through its Penang Bumiputera Housing Trust Accounts, will allocate RM52.9mil to build 320 low medium-cost (LMC) homes for bumiputra buyers.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the LMC homes were part of the 2,093 units of a public and affordable housing scheme called 'The Rise' in Jalan S.P. Chelliah.
He said the units would come with parking space, adding that proceeds from the sale of these units amounting to RM23.2mil would be channelled back to the trust accounts.
He added that this was to enable the state government to provide more housing units for bumiputra buyers in the future.
The money in the trust accounts is contribution paid by developers to secure the release of unsold bumiputra lots over the years.
"Penang Bumiputera Housing Trust Accounts now has RM69.3mil. We still have RM16.4mil as balance after deducting RM52.9mil, which is meant for the 320 LMC units.
"We will continue to provide more bumiputra public housing once the RM23.2mil is channelled into the trust accounts following completion of these units within three years," he said at the groundbreaking ceremony of 'The Rise' on Friday.
The project, with a gross development value of RM600mil, is scheduled for completion by November 2019.
The 4.4ha site will house 883 units with a built-up size of 800sq ft priced at RM200,000, 165 units of 900sq ft (RM300,000), 275 units of 1,000sq ft (RM400,000) and 770 units of 700sq ft (RM72,500).
The Penang Municipal Council is the registered proprietor of the land, while Penang Development Corporation was appointed as attorney and project administrator to manage the development of the land for affordable homes.
An open tender was called before it was awarded to developer Zubicon Sdn Bhd to carry out the project.
The facilities planned include a pavilion, linear park, community park, riverfront point, market street, big tree skyway, bus terminal, taxi hub, Chelliah Square, civic centre and surau.
Jalan S.P. Chelliah will also be upgraded.
The state government is embarking on 12 affordable housing schemes (including 'The Rise'), comprising 22,545 affordable homes in all five districts in Penang.
Work to build affordable homes has begun in Bandar Cassia and Teluk Kumbar. - By The Star


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Q: Community♦ user edit: How does it know what to edit? I just noticed that the Community♦ user edited a ~1 year old answer of mine. As you can see, the method call was changed from getSfGuardUser to getGuardUser:

Now I checked the documentation and it seems that the edit is correct.
But how did Community know about that? As far as I know, it is an automated process. Does it have a reference of all possible APIs of languages/frameworks (which seems very unlikely) or is there a routine admins can trigger, for replacing content? Or is it a secret?

A: Unfortunately, it is not AI, but indentured digital sharecroppers :)
An upcoming new functionality that allows anyone to edit, then high-rep users to approve, was exposed briefly, and your answer was one of the lucky winners.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75377/diff-is-hard-lets-go-shopping
So, yes, it's a sort of secret. Or was.

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Former Kotaku guest editor turned television host Geoff Keighley dropped us a line earlier to let us know that a brand-spanking-new trailer for Resident Evil 5 would be debuting on Friday the 30th (or early Saturday depending on time zone) on Spike TV's GameTrailers TV. The new trailer shall be comprised of both cutscenes as well as gameplay footage, promising to offer more hints at the mystery facing Chris Redfield. Perhaps the trailer will also offer some insight into some of the images revealed in Famitsu earlier this week. Mark it on your calendars folks, Friday, May 30th at 1amET/PT.
Now that I actually have cable television once again I'll finally be able to feel really bad about missing it instead of being able to fall back on the no cable excuse.


For twenty years, he's controlled public institutions from behind the scenes. He brags about his connections to organized crime. And he's connected to some of the most powerful people in Canada. So who is the King of Cabbagetown?
"Connected" in The Globe and Mail by Greg McArthur, Karen Howlett and Adrian Morrow.
"A 'Big Fish' Seeks a Seat at the Toronto District School Board" in The Globe and Mail by Karen Howlett, Caroline Alphonso and Greg McArthur.
This episode is sponsored by Sock Club, Endy and The Great Courses Plus.


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Netanyahu Seeking to Expand Asia Trade, Cites European Antisemitism, Islamisation
by News Editor
Prime Minister Netanyahu with Japan's Shinzō Abe. Photo: GPO.
Reuters – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday a wave of anti-Semitism and what he called "Islamisation" in Western Europe are factors in a Jewish state push to expand trade with Asia.
Europe is Israel's biggest trading partner, but deepening diplomatic disputes over policy toward the Palestinians and anti-Jewish incidents such as a Jan. 9 attack by an Islamist gunman on a Paris kosher deli have triggered Israeli worries.
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Geography of the United Arab Emirates
Life in the UAE
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The United Arab Emirates is situated in Southwest Asia, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia; it is in a strategic location along northern approaches to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit point for world crude oil. The UAE lies between 22°50′ and 26° north latitude and between 51° and 56°25′ east longitude. It shares a 19-kilometer border with Qatar on the northwest (according to the UAE), a 530-kilometer border with Saudi Arabia on the west, south, and southeast, and a 450-kilometer border with Oman on the southeast and northeast. The land border with Qatar in the Khawr al Udayd area is a source of ongoing dispute (in fact, whether it even shares a land border with Qatar is in dispute). The total area of the UAE is approximately 83,600 square kilometers. The country's exact size is unknown because of disputed claims to several islands in the Persian Gulf, because of the lack of precise information on the size of many of these islands, and because most of its land boundaries, especially with Saudi Arabia, remain undemarcated. The largest emirate, Abu Dhabi, accounts for 87 percent of the UAE's total area (67,340 square kilometers). The smallest emirate, Ajman, encompasses only 259 square kilometers (see figure).
Map of United Arab Emirates
Emirates of the UAE
Topography of the UAE
Satellite image of the UAE
Geographic coordinates: 24°00′N 54°00′E / 24°N 54°E / 24; 54
1 Physiography and boundaries
4 Area and land boundaries
5 Resources and land use
6 Environmental concerns
Physiography and boundaries
The UAE stretches for more than 650 kilometers along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf. Most of the coast consists of salt pans that extend far inland. The largest natural harbor is at Dubai, although other ports have been dredged at Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and elsewhere. Numerous islands are found in the Persian Gulf, and the ownership of some of them has been the subject of international disputes with both Iran and Qatar. The smaller islands, as well as many coral reefs and shifting sandbars, are a menace to navigation. Strong tides and occasional windstorms further complicate ship movements near the shore.
The UAE also extends for about 90 kilometers along the Gulf of Oman, an area known as the Al Batinah coast. The Al Hajar al Gharbi (Western Al Hajar) Mountains, rising in places to 2,500 meters, separate the Al Batinah coast from the rest of the UAE. Beginning at the UAE-Oman border on the Persian Gulf coast of the Ras Musandam (Musandam Peninsula), the Al Hajar al Gharbi Mountains extend southeastward for about 150 kilometers to the southernmost UAE-Oman frontier on the Gulf of Oman. The range continues as the Al Hajar ash Sharqi (Eastern Al Hajar) Mountains for more than 500 kilometers into Oman. The steep mountain slopes run directly to the shore in many places. Nevertheless, there are small harbors at Dibba Al-Hisn, Kalba, and Khor Fakkan on the Gulf of Oman. In the vicinity of Al Fujayrah, where the mountains do not approach the coast, there are sandy beaches.
These northern emirates on the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman are part of the Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert ecoregion. [1]
South and west of Abu Dhabi, vast, rolling sand dunes merge into the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) of Saudi Arabia. The desert area of Abu Dhabi includes two important oases with adequate underground water for permanent settlements and cultivation. The extensive Al Liwa Oasis is in the south near the undefined border with Saudi Arabia, and about 100 kilometers to the northeast is the Al Buraymi Oasis, which extends on both sides of the Abu Dhabi-Oman border.
Prior to withdrawing from the area in 1971, Britain delineated the internal borders among the seven emirates in order to preempt territorial disputes that might hamper formation of the federation. In general, the rulers of the emirates accepted the British intervention, but in the case of boundary disputes between Abu Dhabi and Dubayy, and also between Dubayy and Sharjah, conflicting claims were not resolved until after the UAE became independent. The most complicated borders were in the Al Hajar al Gharbi Mountains, where five of the emirates contested jurisdiction over more than a dozen enclaves.
See also: Climate
The climate of the UAE generally is hot and dry. The hottest months are July and August, when average maximum temperatures reach above 40 °C (104.0 °F) on the coastal plain. In the Al Hajar al Gharbi Mountains, temperatures are considerably cooler, a result of increased altitude. Average minimum temperatures in January and February are between 10 and 14 °C (50 and 57.2 °F). During the late summer months, a humid southeastern wind known as the sharqi makes the coastal region especially unpleasant. The average annual rainfall in the coastal area is fewer than 120 mm (4.7 in), but in some mountainous areas annual rainfall often reaches 350 mm (13.8 in). Rain in the coastal region falls in short, torrential bursts during the summer months, sometimes resulting in floods in ordinarily dry wadi beds. The region is prone to occasional, violent dust storms, which can severely reduce visibility. The Jebel Jais mountain cluster in Ras al Khaimah has experienced snow only twice since records began.[2]
In the oases grow date palms, acacia and eucalyptus trees. In the desert the flora is very sparse and consists of grasses and thornbushes. The indigenous fauna had come close to extinction because of intensive hunting, which has led to a conservation program on Bani Yas island initiated by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in the 1970s, resulting in the survival of, for example, Arabian oryx and leopards. Coastal fish consist mainly of mackerel, perch and tuna, as well as sharks and whales.
Area and land boundaries
total: 82,880 km²
land: 82,880 km²
water: 0 km²
Land boundaries:
total: 867 km
border countries: Oman 410 km, Saudi Arabia 457 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nmi (27.6 mi; 44.4 km)
continental shelf: 200 nmi (230.2 mi; 370.4 km) or to the edge of the continental margin
exclusive economic zone: 200 nmi (230.2 mi; 370.4 km)
territorial sea: 12 nmi (13.8 mi; 22.2 km)
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m
highest point: Unnamed 1,910 m knoll just across the border from Jabal Bil Ays in Oman.
Resources and land use
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas
arable land: 0.77%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 2%
forests and woodland: 3.8%
other: 98% (1993 est.)
Irrigated land: 50 km² (1993 est.)
Natural hazards: frequent sand and dust storms
Environment - current issues: lack of natural freshwater resources being overcome by desalination plants; desertification; beach pollution from oil spills
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: Biodiversity, Law of the Sea
Saudi Arabia - UAE border dispute
^ http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at1306_full.html
^ Nasouh Nazzal (2009-01-24). "Heavy snowfall on Ras Al Khaimah's Jebel Jais mountain cluster". Gulf News. http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/General/10278477.html. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
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We will celebrate with Audrey as she turns 8 with a ceramic birthday party! Each guest will pick out their own ceramic and paint it with the color of their choice! Then we will open gifts and eat dessert!


Strangely the icon of the tabard doesn't match the ingame look- in the model viewer at the moment you basically have a picture of a triangle with rays moving from it, instead of the icon of a tree in the icon.
The view in 3D feature shows a tabard that looks more like one that would come from something in Uldum, as it looks like a pyramid. Guessing it's just a placeholder, but I could be wrong.
Virtually identical to the Cenarion Expedition Tabard, with a tree in place of the Expedition's Stag.
It's brown and green, otherwise looks pretty different. Different icon, different borders.
I know the text say 85, but anyone tried to see if it gives any rep in 80-84 instances?
This works in pre-85 instances.
disregard that, I ran a few more and was only gaining championing rep in Blackrock Caverns.
Just so people know where it is.
As soon as you land in Hyjal for the first time, it's instantly inside the building (the one with Ysera), on the right hand side, a female Tauren is the Quartermaster.
As a level 82 I was getting rep with this in Blackrock Caverns, but only when killing a mob with Twilight in the name.
This tabard requires you to be friendly with the Guardians of Hyjal to purchase. Provisioner Whitecloud, the Guardians of Hyjal quartermaster which sells this tabard as well as all associated reputation rewards is located in Nordrassil Inn, Mount Hyjal.
In pair with emerald shield makes a great RP outfit.
thanks blizzrd for putting the only 2 faction epic armor pieces available for hunters in the 2 *!@#tiest factions there are. uncanny. well i'll see you $%^&*!s next expansion.
You're seriously crying about getting Exalted on a faction which leaves you halfway through Revered by level 81?
Just did Halls of Origination normal and got rep with this , qued for random dungeon . Earlier in the day my first random dungeon of the day I got rep with this too in Grim Batol. I qued for Blackrock Caverns specifically on my second dungeon and got no rep , so I guess maybe you have to que random to get rep.
Dunno if this has changed, but I just ran Lost City of the Tol'vir using the dungeon finder as a lvl 85 and all others in my dungeon group were 84 and i STILL GOT REP. Maybe its changed as of 4.2?
I aien't getting ANY rep by equipping it! I tried za/zg heroic, vortex pinnacle heroic, random heroic hour of twilight and i aien't getting ANY rep from it! IT's awfully annoying and blizzard simply replies to check on their fansites and that i should be able to find the answer...yeah right!
where i have to go to get exalted with this tabard?
This tabard along with a few others i can confirm that will grant rep gains in MoP normal and heroic dungeons in the same way as it would be for the cata dungeons.
You Get Rep for the Guardians of Hyjal from running level 90 heroics while wearing this.
This appears to work in lv90 heroic dungeons as well.


The Ministry of Justice has set out plans to strike out claims automatically where the case fee has not been paid.
In amendments to Civil Procedure Rules published this month, the new sanction for non-payment was confirmed for claims where the trial fee has not been paid on or before the trial fee payment date.
The claimant will be liable for the costs which the defendant has incurred, unless court orders otherwise.
If the claimant has had notice in accordance with this rule to pay the trial fee, and remission refused or granted in part, the claim will again be struck out.
If a fee is not paid for a claim where there is also a counterclaim, the counterclaim will still stand.
The new rules come into force on 6 April.


The MC2 is a high precision, fully automatic, microprocessor-based Micro Ohm meter for measuring very low resistance.
The system is designed for highly accurate readings on-site with laboratory precision. This newly designed technique of measurement incorporates a high precision measurement circuit and modular power source. Extensive filtering and high precision standards are used within the test system.
This intelligent system has an easy to use operation screen, which allows quick selection of the current level, up to 200 Amp, and the resistance level to be measured. The results of the test are displayed within a few seconds automatically. The results are reported on the easy to read liquid crystal display and can be stored or printed out.
The MC2 is one of the most lightweight systems available that comes complete with its own rugged, waterproof field case.


In today's Blog Hijack, Sheri Sanders takes over to talk about Rock the Audition which will launch at Broadwaycon!
Hey there! It's me, Sheri Sanders!
You may or may not have heard of me, but I'm the Rock Chick. The girl who teaches people how to sing Pop/Rock music. The go-to-girl for Rock Auditions. I am hijacking this blog to talk about Auditioning for Rock Musicals and give you a few tips on picking the right song to sing for all the different styles of Pop/Rock Musicals that are out there!
Here are a few important things for you to know!
1. One pop/rock song does not fit all styles.
Hairspray is different than Hair, which is different than Sister Act which is different than American Idiot, Hamilton, and Amelie!
2. There are technically 8 styles of popular music currently represented on Broadway.
3. You don't need eight songs. You need four.
That's right. You should have four pop/rock songs in your book that cover ALL the styles. What do I mean? Check out this video of Pretty Girl Rock by Kerry Hilson. One song where she tipped her hat to EVERYONE in every era.
Since there aren't a lot of songs that do this in EVERY era represented on Broadway, let me share a few, and show you where to find them.
4. These are songs that I call "bendies": songs that live in a few styles of popular music and could be "bent" to fit many styles.
• Maybe by Janis Joplin (50s and 60s, 70s Folk/Rock, Country, Gospel, Blues.
Curious about identifying others? I created a sheet music site where I made a deal wit Hal Leonard to cut and arrange thousands of popular tunes in all styles currently represented on Broadway.
Now I scrolled down to Love on Top so you can see how I organized it. It tells you EXACTLY what time periods this song could be used for!
You will find great songs, I have AWESOME taste. And if you wanna play with me, and learn HOW to bend your songs so they feel authentic in every era, go to www.rock-the-audition.com. There's tons of different ways to play with me no matter where you are on the planet!
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from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.exception.nitro_exception import nitro_exception
from nssrc.com.citrix.netscaler.nitro.resource.base.base_resource import base_resource

class statobjects(base_resource):
    _objects = []

    def get_objects(self):
        try:
            return self.objects
        except:
            raise

    def _get_nitro_response(self, service, response):
        try:
            resources = [statobjects() for _ in range(1)]
            result = service.get_payload_formatter().string_to_resource(statobjects_response, response)
            if(result.errorcode != 0):
                if (result.errorcode == 444):
                    service.clear_session()
                if(result.severity is not None):
                    if (result.severity == "ERROR"):
                        raise nitro_exception(result.message,result.errorcode)
                else:
                    raise nitro_exception(result.message,result.errorcode)
            resources[0] = result.statobjects
            return resources
        except Exception as e:
            raise e

    def _get_object_name(self):
        return None

    # Use this API to fetch all the statistic objects resources that are available on netscaler.
    def get(self, service):
        try:
            obj = statobjects()
            response = obj.get_resources(service)
            return response[0]
        except Exception as e:
            raise e

def statobjects_response(base_response):
    statobjects = statobjects()

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Robot.Kinematics.DenavitHartenberg
{
	public class DHTransformation
	{
		public static Matrix4x4 ToPreviousFrame(DHFrameInfo frameInfo)
		{
			double a = frameInfo.A;
			double d = frameInfo.D;

			double cosTheta = Math.Cos(frameInfo.ThetaRadian);
			double sinTheta = Math.Sin(frameInfo.ThetaRadian);

			double cosAlpha = Math.Cos(frameInfo.AlphaRadian);
			double sinAlpha = Math.Sin(frameInfo.AlphaRadian);

			return new Matrix4x4(
				cosTheta, -sinTheta * cosAlpha, sinTheta * sinAlpha, a * cosTheta,
				sinTheta, cosTheta * cosAlpha, -cosTheta * sinAlpha, a * sinTheta,
				0, sinAlpha, cosAlpha, d,
				0, 0, 0, 1);
		}
	}
}


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Peter Gill's 2001 play is a masterpiece of subtext – appropriate for a play about directors and actors since subtext is their stock-in-trade.
Set on a remote Yorkshire farm in the 1960s and depicting the tender relationship between two young men, Robert Hastie's quiet production lets its many silences speak for themselves.
John has come up from London to assist on a production of the 14th century York Mystery Plays. Farm labourer George hasn't been turning up to rehearsals, blaming his ailing mother (a wonderfully warm Lesley Nicol). Amid the rhythms of country life – cups of tea, poorly calfs – they start a relationship.
Ben Batt's George is a brick wall, reluctant to express emotion, but also completely comfortable in his love for another man. The expressions on Jonathan Bailey's face, as John when George first propositions him, are masterfully complex, a conflicting mix of fear, excitement, disbelief, reluctance, besides something animal.
Cultures clash on Peter McKintosh's gorgeously detailed farmhouse set, which includes a stunning vista of the Yorkshire Moors above the stage. The play's great beauty is that the barriers to George and John's romance are nothing to do with sexuality. They're about class, physical and figurative distance, and how deep their roots lie in either the city or the country. George refuses to move to London to become an actor, despite his natural talent, and John won't relocate up North.
In the hands of someone lesser than Hastie that voluminous subtext would be glossed over and lost. Here, though, despite a fiddly production that fusses too much over superfluous props, the play's many silences are taut, full of pregnant promise that the 1960s would be a decade of social change, and retrospective bitterness at how far we've got to go.


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COVID-19 Lockdown: NRL Employees working 12-hour Shifts to Meet LPG Demand
| Monalisa Gogoi - 26 Mar 2020
NRL is, in fact, maximizing its LPG production so that there is no scarcity of the commodity in the event refinery production has to be reduced in view of lower demand of MS and HSD. As on date, the Refinery is running around at full throughput supported by employees working on 12-hour shifts observing complete social distancing.
By MONALISA GOGOI
Guwahati, March 26, 2020: Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), located at Morangi, Golaghat district of Assam, has geared up to face the prevailing global medical exigency arising out of COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Govt. of India to contain the disease.
The NRL is a refinery owned by Numaligarh Refinery Limited, a joint venture between Bharat Petroleum (61.65%), Oil India (26%) and Govt of Assam (12.35%). Earlier, it had a capacity of 3 million metric tonnes per year.
However, in January 2019, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs tripling the capacity of the Numaligarh Refinery in Assam to 9 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) at a cost of ₹22,594 crore.
The Union Government also approved the setting up of a crude oil pipeline from Paradip to Numaligarh and a product pipeline from Numaligarh to Siliguri. The project is to be completed within 48 months, after approval and receipt of the statutory clearances.
The 3 MMTPA Numaligarh Refinery Limited was dedicated to the nation by the erstwhile Prime Minister Shri A. B. Vajpayee on 9th July, 1999.
NRL has been able to display creditable performance since commencement of commercial production in October 2000. With its concern, commitment and contribution to socio-economic development of the state combined with a track record of continuous growth, NRL has been conferred the status of Mini Ratna PSU.
The present authorized capital of the company is Rs. 1000 crores and paid-up capital is Rs. 735.63 crores.
"The Company is operating round the clock with bare minimum staff manning operations in its Refinery and two Marketing Terminals in Numaligarh and Siliguri," said Madhuchanda Adhikari, DGM (CC), Numaligarh Refinery Limited.
As on date, the Refinery is running around at full throughput supported by employees working on 12-hour shifts observing complete social distancing.
The objective has been to ensure availability of essential transportation fuel MS and HSD and LPG, the scarcity of which would affect common masses.
NRL is, in fact, maximizing its LPG production so that there is no scarcity of the commodity in the event refinery production has to be reduced in view of lower demand of MS and HSD.
NRL employees are putting up a brave front in their line of duty in the light of the present circumstances, though precautionary steps including frequent sanitizing and use of proper Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) is being religiously followed.
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Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL)
Golaghat, Assam
Global medical exigency arising out of COVID-19
India Lockdown
Govt of Assam
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
Numaligarh Refinery in Assam
Crude oil pipeline from Paradip to Numaligarh
Pipeline from Numaligarh to Siliguri
Prime Minister Shri A. B. Vajpayee
Modi Govt
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Rise in India's Crude Oil Imports, Driven by Increased Consumption
Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Efficiency Companies Raise $1.5 Billion in VC Funding in 2017


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The Blueprint è il sesto album del rapper statunitense Jay-Z, pubblicato nel 2001 dalla Roc-A-Fella e dalla Def Jam. Distribuito una settimana prima rispetto a quanto previsto al fine di prevenire il bootlegging, è stato registrato a New York. A differenza dei precedenti prodotti del rapper, The Blueprint è composto da produzioni e campioni basati sulla soul music degli anni settanta.

All'epoca della registrazione del disco, Jay-Z era in attesa di due processi, uno per possesso di arma da fuoco e uno per aggressione, divenendo uno degli artisti più dissati nell'hip hop (ricevendo dissing da Nas, Prodigy e Jadakiss).

L'album riceve un plauso universale da parte degli autori musicali, che elogiano la produzione e il lirismo dell'artista. È considerato uno dei suoi album migliori e uno dei dischi hip hop migliori di sempre. Uscito il giorno dell'attentato alle Torri Gemelle, The Blueprint vende  copie nella sua prima settimana, debuttando al primo posto nella Billboard 200 e ottenendo la certificazione di doppio platino negli Stati Uniti.

Nel 2012 la rivista Rolling Stone l'ha inserito al 252º posto della sua lista dei 500 migliori album. Nella revisione del 2020 della stessa classifica, l'album sale fino alla posizione numero 50.

Jay-Z devolve parte dei suoi guadagni derivanti dal tour di The Blueprint alle organizzazioni di soccorso per l'11 settembre.

Descrizione

The Blueprint venne registrato nell'arco di due settimane, . All'epoca, il rapper era in attesa di due processi penali, ed era in un periodo di contrasti con vari colleghi, tra i quali Jadakiss, Fat Joe e soprattutto Nas e Prodigy dei Mobb Deep. A tal proposito, nella traccia Takeover, Jay-Z attacca i due rapper del Queensbridge, utilizzando un campionamento tratto dalla canzone Five to One dei Doors e un'interpolazione di Fame di David Bowie. Particolarmente duro l'attacco nei confronti di Nas con i versi: «Had a spark when you started but now you're just garbage» ("Hai avuto una scintilla [riferimento a Illmatic] quando hai iniziato, ma ora sei solo spazzatura"). Per The Blueprint, Jay-Z e i suoi produttori (soprattutto Kanye West, Bink! e Just Blaze) trassero ispirazione da vecchi pezzi soul degli anni settanta, includendo campioni vocali di artisti come Al Green, Bobby "Blue" Bland, David Ruffin e Jackson 5 in quasi ogni traccia sull'album, e donando al tutto sonorità mainstream. Alcune eccezioni sono i brani Jigga That Nigga, Hola Hovito e Renegade, una traccia prodotta da Eminem che vede anche la sua partecipazione come ospite.

Copertina
La copertina dell'album mostra una fotografia virata in blu di Jay-Z seduto su una scrivania, opera del fotografo Jonathan Mannion, ispirata a un'immagine della serie The Firm di Jocelyn Bain Hogg, che dipingeva il crimine organizzato in Gran Bretagna. Al posto del telefono e del tirapugni che si vedono accanto al posacenere nella foto originale, furono posizionati un sigaro, un pacchetto di sigari e un microfono.

Accoglienza

The Blueprint è acclamato dalla critica specializzata, ottenendo un punteggio di 88/100 sul sito Metacritic. Per Vibe è il suo miglior album, The Source gli assegna un punteggio di 5-mic («album classico») e secondo l'autore musicale Nathan Rabin è «il più forte, solido e coerente album di Jay-Z dall'uscita del leggendario Reasonable Doubt del 1996.» XXL assegna un punteggio perfetto in una recensione retrospettiva del 2007.

L'album aiuta notevolmente Jay-Z a consolidare il proprio posto come «erede di The Notorious B.I.G. al titolo di miglior rapper di New York». In Takeover dissa due dei suoi più temibili rivali a quel titolo, gli MC del Queensbridge Nas e Prodigy. The Blueprint è considerato un «album perfetto»: ha testi, flow, rime e basi eccellenti, è un lavoro diretto e personale che presenta un solo ospite e segna il ritorno dell'artista all'hip hop dopo diversi album crossover. Per le ragioni appena descritte, è spesso paragonato a Reasonable Doubt.

Pubblicato il giorno dell'attentato alle Torri Gemelle, il disco vende  copie fisiche nella sua prima settimana, diventando il quarto album consecutivo di Jay-Z a raggiungere la prima posizione nella Billboard 200. Totalizza oltre due milioni di copie vendute negli Stati Uniti d'America, venendo certificato doppio platino dalla RIAA. Al febbraio 2012, le vendite raggiungono quota 2,7 milioni.

Riconoscimenti
The Blueprint è inserito in diverse liste come album dell'anno, tra i migliori album del decennio e di tutti i tempi. Nel 2003 Rolling Stone lo mette nella sua lista dei 500 migliori album di sempre al 464º posto e nella lista riveduta del 2012, il disco sale al 252º posto, per poi salire fino al 50º nella terza revisione datata 2020. Sempre Rolling Stone lo piazza al quarto posto tra i cento migliori album degli anni duemila. The Blueprint è inserito nel libro del 2005 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Nel 2019 l'album è stato scelto dalla Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti per la preservazione nel National Recording Registry per significativi meriti "culturali, storici o estetici".

Tracce

Tracce nascoste

Campionamenti
 The Ruler's Back contiene un campione da If nell'esecuzione di Jackie Moore, e un'interpolazione di The Ruler's Back di Slick Rick.
 Takeover include un campionamento tratto da Five to One dei The Doors, Sound of da Police di KRS-One, e un'interpolazione di Fame di David Bowie.
 Izzo (H.O.V.A.) include un campionamento tratto da I Want You Back dei Jackson 5.
 Girls, Girls, Girls contiene un campione da There's Nothing in This World That Can Stop Me from Loving You di Tom Brock, e High Power Rap dei Crash Crew.
 U Don't Know include un campionamento tratto da I'm Not to Blame di Bobby Byrd.
 Heart of the City (Ain't No Love) contiene un campione da Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City di Bobby "Blue" Bland.
 Never Change contiene un campione da Common Man eseguita da David Ruffin.
 Song Cry contiene un campione da Sounds Like a Love Song eseguita da Bobby Glenn.
 All I Need  include un campionamento tratto da I Can't Break Away di Natalie Cole.
 Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)  include un campionamento tratto da Free at Last di Al Green.
 Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise) contiene un campione da Got to Find My Own Place eseguita da Stanley Clarke.
 Girls, Girls, Girls (Part 2) contiene un campione da Trying Girls Out dei The Persuaders

Classifiche

Classifiche settimanali

Classifiche di fine anno

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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Remembering Jackie Postance
by Emma Lindsay
Jackie Postance, who has died aged 50, was a dedicated campaigner for Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Party conferences are not known for being the most vibrant of events, with too many long debates in stuffy rooms and too much deep-fried food. But I had a very different experience when attending the Liberal Democrat conference with Jackie Postance last year.
Jackie siezed the opportunity, and with a disarming smile stopped everyone from cabinet ministers and peers to national journalists for a quick chat in the corridors and bars.
Her meeting with Paul Burstow MP was a highlight, the two having been in touch on social media for over a year before finally meeting in person. Discussion covered everything from the Demos Commission on Residential Care to minimum staffing levels in care homes. But the moment that stays with me is them both roaring with laughter when Jackie asked Paul a particularly cheeky question.
Jackie was involved in Leonard Cheshire's local and national campaigns for many years, including the successful Mobilise for DLA campaign.
The campaign was launched when the government announced plans to scrap the mobility component of DLA for people in residential care. Jackie was amongst a group of disabled people who met then disability minister Maria Miller and told her about the negative impact the change could have on their lives. She also joined other campaigners from across the UK to take the campaign to Westminster and lobby MPs direct.
This national mobilisation successfully forced the government to scrap the plans. Only a couple of months ago Jackie was in attendance at a Leonard Cheshire reception at 10 Downing Street to celebrate our work in getting talented disabled people in to the work place.
Jackie was also an active member of the campaign group in her local community in Rustington, West Sussex. Together they worked to push for improvements to the local area including taking part in pavement surveys with councillors and Highways staff.
We remember Jackie for her warmth and enthusiasm, her passion for politics and her cheeky sense of humour. She will be sorely missed by her friends and staff at St Bridget's care home.
Emma Lindsay is campaigns manager for Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Join our campaign community
We'll keep you up to date with our work and let you know how you can get involved.


Work with a team of construction oriented professionals you can count on to assist in decision making. A bond agent well versed in contract bonding should be a priority. If your agent is not knowledgeable or does not have the market to fit your company's needs, then there is little other professionals can do to help with you bonding needs. A CPA that specializes in construction is a must. Attorneys, bankers and insurance agents are also key advisors.
Work to provide a strong relationship with your surety and provide full disclosures. This means communicating good and bad news to your surety bond agent and underwriter if or when problems begin. If possible, many sureties will work with the contractor to help it through the problem. The surety is a critical partner though good times and bad and can help owners and contractors manage the changing economic climate. Bottom line, the surety wants you to succeed as much as you do.
Have a bank line of credit available to support the company's business plan.
Evaluate your bank. Contractors should critically evaluate the strength of their bank and that bank's knowledge of and "commitment" to the construction industry. When credit tightens, banks that do not have a deep commitment to contractors may pull back from an entire industry, regardless of the underlying credit worthiness of their customer.
Bond subcontractors, especially when they represent a key trade, a significant portion or sole source of the work, you are unfamiliar with their company, or there are questions on their availability, capacity, ability or financial strength.
Don't take on more than you can manage. Stay within your capabilities. Think twice before you consider work outside your known geographical area and niche.
Do what you do best. Protect your top talent, who will manage projects well no matter what the market conditions are.
Don't "buy" a job to keep employees busy—adjust overhead and maintain profit margins. Bid the job, not the competition.
Don't be too anxious to fill your backlog. You have a choice on what projects to chase and what owners to work with. Evaluate the risk. Sometimes a contractor's best job is the one it does not get. One bad project can tear down a company.
Demonstrate discipline in applying appropriate margins to the risk profile of work and refuse to accept unreasonable and inequitable risk in contracts. Understand the contract, and push back for amendments where warranted.
Construction is cyclical and contractors should prepare for the pent-up demand that will build during recession. Protect your core resources and be ready to bid work when the economy rebounds.
Update your business plan accordingly. If you don't have a business plan, it is imperative you develop one as it is critical every company have a "road map," goals or objectives.
Showing signs of a weak balance sheet? Strengthening can usually occur by reducing revenue and overhead, as well as concentrating on collecting receivables and liquidating portions of equipment and inventory.
Evaluate the quality of a potential client. Your bond agent should be able to assist here as well.
It is a variety of successes that make a good contractor, and it is a process that continually evolves. Successfully managing your business in both good times and bad is critical to your survival.


After great fanfare abroad, the heralded Amateur Olympia contest has finally made its way stateside on Sept 14 at Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend.
With the battleground taking place at the Orleans Hotel and Casino, this will mark the very first time the Amateur Olympia will be held in the United States. IFBB and NPC competitors from USA, Canada, Mexico, South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean are welcome to participate in this ground- breaking event.
The tireless efforts of American Media, Inc., the NPC and the IFBB has the industry buzzing: 2 Pro cards will be awarded for each division. In total, 10 coveted IFBB Pro cards are up for grabs to the dedicated athletes competing in the contest.
The Amateur Olympia is scheduled to be held at the Orleans Hotel and Casino Showroom on Thursday, Sept 14th with a check-in taking place on Wednesday, Sept 13th.
Never before in history have amateur athletes had the opportunity to grace the same prestigious event as the likes reigning 6x Mr. Olympia Phil "The Gift" Heath, the former Mr. Olympia Dexter "The Blade" Jackson, Shawn Rhoden, Mamdouh "Big Ramy" Elssbiay, and the return of the legendary "Sultan of Symmetry," Flex Wheeler.
Be a part of the Olympia Weekend with the best in the world, including a chance to rub delts with none other than blockbuster celebrity, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who will be in attendance.
Enjoy an awesome weekend at the jam-packed expo with over 300+ of our industry's leading companies that's full of friendly fellow fitness enthusiasts and fans. Cap off your trip with the SuperStar seminar on Sunday.
At the Olympia Weekend, it's fitness and bodybuilding 24/7 in Vegas.
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Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter and Norwich
The Collected Poems of Joseph Hall, ed. Arnold Davenport (Liverpool, 1949).
Wynter
The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall, D.D., ed. Philip Wynter, 10 vols (Oxford, 1863; reprinted New York, 1969).
For a writer who was as prolific and as controversial as Joseph Hall, there are remarkably few surviving manuscripts of his works. The only autograph manuscript to receive an entry below is the draft of Certain Irrefragable Propositions which he sent to Archbishop William Laud (*HlJ 12), a document which, with Laud's alterations, was the basis for Hall's Episcopacy by Divine Right (1640). A few of his miscellaneous poems are preserved in early copies, but, apart from two extracts (HlJ 8-8.5), there is no manuscript of his important satire Virgidemiae. A few scattered copies of certain prose works are to be found, including his popular contribution to seventeenth-century 'character' literature (HlJ 14-16) and an unpublished English translation by Moses Wall of his Henochismus (HlJ 53). His most frequently copied piece was his plea for moderation addressed to the House of Commons in 1628 (HlJ 17-30), of which, no doubt, other copies are to be found besides those recorded here.
Only three notable manuscript collections of works by Hall can be recorded: namely, the Beal MS (Dr Peter Beal, London, Hall MS), comprising some 22 religious works by him; the Wallington MS (British Library, Sloane MS 922), containing eleven of his Epistles; and the currently untraced Thomas Robinson MS (Untraced, [Thomas Robinson MS]), containing six or more works by him.
The Verse Canon
The canon of verse accepted here is based on Davenport, with the addition of a few poems (HlJ 3, HlJ 4-5) which are ascribed to Hall, correctly or otherwise, in manuscript sources. Another recent addition to the verse canon is a poem of 1601 beginning 'Mayere, thy famous Grandsire hither fled', but it is known only in a printed source: see R.M. Cummings, 'A New Epigram by Joseph Hall', N&Q, 232 (September 1987), 295-6.
Entries are not given here to verses written about Hall by other authors, although he did attract a number of these, certain of which enjoyed a circulation in manuscript miscellanies. They are of some biographical interest since they represent contemporary reactions, sometimes hostile, to his ecclesiastical and administrative policies, as well as his alleged rapacity and nepotism. A poem variously titled The Curate of Doctor Hall or Dr Hall's Curate's petition to the Kinge (beginning 'I serve under Dr Hall') is to be found, inter alia, in the Bodleian Library (MSS Ashmole 781, p. 118; Rawl. poet. 26, f. 2v (subscribed 'Mannynge')); in Bradford Archives (32D86/34, p. 90); in the British Library (Egerton MS 2560, f. 79r), at Downing College, Cambridge (Bowtell Collection, MS 'Wickstede Thesaurus', Part II, f. 78r), in Durham Cathedral (Hunter MS 27, f. 92v); in the library of Robert Pirie, New York (Feilde MS, p. 629); and in the Staffordshire Record Office (D 1721/3/246, [unnumbered item]). A poem Vpon the Dedication of Hall's Workes (beginning 'Joseph foreseeing these hard times of dearth') is to be found in the British Library (Add. MS 58215, f. 60r; and Harley MS 6917, f. 96r). A Latin epigram on Hall is in a manuscript volume of Latin poems on various authors written by Thomas Porter in 1614 and dedicated to Sir John Heveningham. This manuscript is owned by the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall (MS 436). For a poem on Hall written by Phineas Fletcher, see FlP 15.
An interesting argument in favour of an addition to the Hall canon, under the category of 'Dramatic Works', is advanced in Frank Livingstone Huntley, Bishop Joseph Hall, 1574-1656: A Biographical and Critical Study (Cambridge, 1978), p. 30 et seq. There is reason to believe that Hall may have been the 'major author' of the second part of The Returne from Parnassus, the third in a trilogy of Cambridge student plays acted in 1598-1601. This play was twice printed in Cambridge in 1606 and a contemporary manuscript copy, once owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, is preserved in the Folger Shakespeare Library (MS V.a.355). It is possible that Hall also 'had a hand in' the first two plays of the trilogy, The Pilgrimage to Parnassus and the first part of The Returne from Parnassus. The text of these two plays is preserved in a contemporary manuscript copy, once owned by Thomas Hearne, now in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. D. 398, ff. 200r-20r), and published in facsimile in the Old English Drama Students' Facsimile series, 1912. The two plays were first printed by W.D. Macray in 1886. The whole trilogy is re-edited from the manuscript and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949). Hall's participation in these entertainments would help to explain some of the references in John Marston's satires against him, and they may even be the 'lost pastorals' which Hall is supposed to have written (see Huntley p. 40).
Hall's prose writings, like those of most ecclesiastical writers, do not fall into clearly defined 'literary' and 'non-literary' categories. For present purposes the canon is based on Wynter (1863). Entries are therefore given to manuscripts of tracts, sermons, epistles and other writings published during, or in two cases (HlJ 17-30, HlJ 55) just after, Hall's lifetime.
A number of Hall's original letters survive, as well as some copies, although they must represent only a small fraction of the huge correspondence that Hall must have conducted in his official capacities. It would seem unlikely, in fact, that many of his papers concerning diocesan business would have survived his virtual ejection from the bishopric of Norwich in 1641 and the parliamentary sequestration of the property of malignants in 1643. Known letters by him, some of them relating to his works and to major religious and political issues, have been given entries below (HlJ 85-138). A few others are edited in Wynter from early printed sources. Two untraced letters by Hall, one autograph signed in 1650 as Bishop of Norwich, the other a letter signed as Bishop of Exeter, were sold at Sotheby's, 15 March 1916 (Major C.H. Simpson sale), lot 138, to Lecky.
There was also at one time a seventeenth-century transcript of correspondence of Marco Antonio de Dominis (1560-1624), the Archbishop of Spalato who became a martyr of the Inquisition. The manuscript included a letter of his to Hall and Hall's Responsum, possibly the correspondence which was published in de Dominis. De pace religionis (Vesuntione Sequanorum, 1666): see Wynter, X, 208-14. This manuscript, once part of the Libri collection, was sold at Sotheby's, 19 June 1893, lot 254, and the sale catalogue notes that a 'similar MS' was sold at Sotheby's on 30 March 1859.
Lost Books and Manuscripts
Neither is there any trace of the books and manuscripts mentioned in Hall's will. Most of his library he bequeathed to his son, Samuel, who also received his 'paper bookes', except for those containing 'the notes of my sermons', which he divided between his other sons, Robert and George. He also specified 'the papers in my litle black Trunke, contayning Letters of intercourse wt forraine Diuines, and some sermons and tractates', directing that these should 'not be medled wth, or disposed, wtout the ioynt consent of my said three sonnes, whom I thank God I haue liued to see learned, iudicious and paynfull diuines'.
Apart from Hall's will, which is given entries below (HlJ 139-141), a few surviving documents signed by Hall, or relating to him, may briefly be listed as follows.
The earliest known signatures of Hall are those under the dates 2 October 1595, 17 October 1598, and 8 April 1600 in the earliest of the College Order Books for the library at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (COL 14 1, pp. 11, 12, 13). Exeter Cathedral retains some official documents bearing Hall's signature or notes (Dean & Chapter of Exeter 3601), including the second part of his Bishop's register. Also preserved here are some notes on Hall's family and descendants written c.1730 (Dean & Chapter of Exeter 3499/2961). Certain of these items are recorded in HMC 55, Various Collections IV (1907), pp. 14, 95. A signed decree of Hall's regulating Plymouth burial fees in 1637 is in the Devon Record Office, Plymouth (W 374). A signed licence to preach which Hall granted on 31 May 1639 to one Thomas Brancker is at Yale (Osborn MSS File 6495). Another document on vellum signed by Hall on 28 September 1637 is at Harvard (Autograph file), and a document signed by him relating to the examination of Abel Bawden, 27 April 1638, was sold at Sotheby's, 4 February 1876, lot 165.
Exempla of Printed Works Annotated by Early Readers
Besides the extracts from Hall's works which appear in commonplace books and miscellanies (HlJ 65-84), it is not uncommon to find printed exempla of works by him containing manuscript annotations by early readers. Examples include a bound collection of three printed works by Hall (Epistles, Characters of Virtues and Vices, and Pharisaism and Christianity) in the Bodleian (8o Rawl. 597) and an exemplum of Quo Vadis? (1617) in the Huntington Library (RB 61290).


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Ободното черво () е елемент на храносмилателната система при повечето гръбначни, основна част на дебелото черво. В него протича подпомагана от бактерии ферментация на неусвоения хранителен материал, като от него се извлича вода и сол. При бозайниците ободното черво се състои от няколко части:
 Възходящо ободно черво (colon ascendens)
 Напречно ободно черво (colon transversum)
 Низходящо ободно черво (colon descendens)
 Сигмовидно ободно черво (colon sigmoideum)
 Ректум (Rectum)
 Флексура хепатика (дясна извивка)
 флексура лиеналис (лява извивка)

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