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The Shadow Lines By Amitav Ghosh
• Saturday, December 13th, 2014
Amitav Ghosh was born in 1956 into a middle-class Bengali Hindu family in Calcutta, India, to a lieutenant colonel father and a housewife mother. He grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He received a B.A. degree in 1976 and an M.A. degree in 1978 from the University of Delhi followed by a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Oxford in 1982. As well as working as a newspaper reporter and editor, Ghosh also taught at the University of Delhi, the American University in Cairo, Columbia University in New York City and Queens College in New York.
Amitav Ghosh is a novelist, an essayist and a non-fiction writer. He has received prestigious awards including the Prix Médicis étranger, The Padma Shri, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Frankfurt International e-Book Award and he has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and for the Man Asian Literary Prize. The Shadow Lines, Ghosh's second novel, published in 1988, won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar.
Ghosh is now a full-time writer. He lives between the USA and India with his wife Deborah Baker,
who is a biographer, an essayist and a senior editor at Little Brown and Company, a publishing house in the USA. The couple have two children.
The Shadow Lines is set against a historical background that moves back and forth from the second world war in England to the nineteen-sixties in India, leading to the eighties and interwoven with the fictitious lives of the characters. The author tackles a specific theme: the power of memory, the art of remembering almost everything and how one can travel, virtually, to various places through one's memories. The writer brings together, through the main nameless character, various periods of time and series of events experienced by generations of the family and friends in Calcutta, Dhaka and London.
Events start decades before the narrator's birth and end on the eve of his return from London to Delhi. After becoming a mature young man and after studying in London for one year, he comes to terms with the fact that there is no longer hope of having his beautiful cousin, Ila, share his love now that she is married to Nick and madly in love with him despite their misfitted marriage. Before leaving London the narrator also finds out from May, Tridib's lover and Mrs Price's daughter, the truth about the mysterious death of his elder cousin and mentor, Tridib, while visiting Dhaka during the Bangladeshi revolt.
Tridib is a great story-teller, through his tales of London and various other topics like "Mesopotamian stelae, East European jazz, the habits of arboreal apes, the plays of Garcia Lorca, there seem to be no end to things he could talk about", make everything real for his younger cousin. Both cousins are gifted with vivid memories, an acute sense of perception of the past as well as a strong desire to learn new things to feed their imagination. Additionally, the narrator's grandmother, through her many stories about Dhaka, where she was born before settling in Calcutta, has "no home but in her memory" and she makes the narrator feel as if he was there with her.
The narrator realises, while sitting on the edge of a camp bed in the cellar back in Raibajar with his beloved cousin, Ila, surrounded by objects that carry a lot of memories, like ghosts of time, that "they were not ghosts at all: the ghostliness was merely the absence of time and distance – for that is all that a ghost is, a presence displaced in time".
The Shadow Lines is a compassionate, powerfully moving novel in many ways. Ghosh masterfully expresses his thoughts in his eloquent writing. His characters are well depicted in an interesting, vast array of individuality. The narrator is a passionately imaginative recorder of the events and lives of people around him. The young Tridib is an idle, avid, multifarious intellectual. Ila is portrayed as a spoiled, beautiful young bohemian seeking complete freedom in her new world and although born an upper-class Indian, feels devoid of identity. Tha'mma's husband dies when she is thirty two years old and in order to survive, she works for twenty seven years as a schoolmistress in Calcutta. She is hard working and authoritarian unlike her only sister, Mayadebi, who is richly married and referred to ironically as "Queen Victoria" by her elder sister. There is also the very old friends of Tridib's family, Mrs Price, and her two children, May and Nick.
The violence in Dhaka and Calcutta described subtly by Ghosh and shown as incomprehensible and aberrant brutality, as in the violent death of the innocent Tridib, sadly still exists today in many other places of the world, e.g. in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, Israel, Yemen and Bahrain. In his novel, Ghosh describes shadow lines that create a seemingly unbridgeable gap producing bloodshed. These lines leave their shadows wherever they happen to be. They are irrationally man-made in order to divide people and separate countries artificially. While wars, religions, partitions and violence alienate people and nations, at least the power of memory combined with imagination keeps them united.
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Garden Spells By Sarah Addison Allen
• Saturday, November 01st, 2014
Sarah Addison Allen was born in 1971 in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from a housewife mother and a father who was an editor, a reporter and an award winning columnist in the local paper, the Asheville Citizen-Times. At the age of sixteen Allen wrote her first book: Once From Mood and in 1994 she obtained a B.A. literature Degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Sarah Addison Allen lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she writes her novels. Her first book, Tried And True, was published in 2003 under her nom-de-plume, Katie Gallagher. The breakthrough came with her novel, Garden Spells, in 2007 followed by The Sugar Queen in 2008, The Girl Who Chased The Moon in 2010, The Peach Keeper in 2011 and Lost Lake in 2014. Her latest novel, First Frost will be published in January 2015.
Garden Spells – like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon – is a magic realism novel which is a literary genre that tightly binds together unreal elements with realistic fiction.
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's first novel, takes place in Bascom, North Carolina. It's the story of the two Waverly sisters: the thirty-four-year-old Claire and the twenty-eight-year-old Sydney, who after being separated and scarred by life, reconcile after a long estrangement in order to cast off the Waverly's bad reputation in Bascom which has lasted for decades and through generations. The two sisters decide to fight the adversity of life side by side and turn their supernatural gift legacy into a blessing instead of an affliction.
There is also their cousin, the seventy-nine-year old, Evanelle, as well as Bay, Sydney's five-year-old daughter. The four of them, like all Waverly women, are gifted with magical powers and not forgetting the mysteriously prophetic apple tree in the Waverly's garden, reminiscent of "The Tree Of Knowledge": "If you eat an apple from that tree, you'll see what the biggest event in your life will be".
Claire has a considerable talent for growing plants as well as being a successful businesswoman. She sells and caters to the locals for most unusual food and drinks, like biscuits with lilac jelly, lavender tea cookies, honeysuckle wine, rose geranium wine etc.. All is prepared using her mystical garden plants which have special, bewitching, curative properties. Claire always has a remedy for people's problems "that could be solved only by the flowers grown around that apple tree in the Waverlys' backyard".
Claire and Sydney were children when their mother left home abandoning them and they were consequently brought up by their grandmother who influenced Claire's magical culinary practice. Claire grows up to be insecure and introverted. At the beginning she is reluctant to open up even to her sister, Sydney, let alone to Tyler Hughes, the newcomer artist living next door. In order to calm the ardour of her loving neighbour and make him forget her, she makes him a casserole with snapdragon oil and tarts with bachelors' button petals containing magical powers from the plants and flowers in her back garden.
Sydney, the unruly younger sister is gifted with a "premonitory" acute sense of smell. She can smell someone's presence before their arrival. After completing high school, Sydney leaves home when eighteen years old and returns back ten years later with her five-year-old daughter, Bay, escaping from her brutal husband, David. Despite her young age, Bay, being a Waverly, is skilled as well and she knows where things or somebody belong.
The seventy-nine-year-old, Evanelle Franklin has psychic powers in anticipating events. At any time of day or night, she can feel the urge to give people unusual gifts which appear useless but turn out to be very beneficial at a certain time and at a precise moment.
Bascom itself is a bizarre town where each family, like the Waverley's, is known for a certain specific peculiarity that goes back generations: the Hopkins young men marry older women and the Clark women marry wealthy husbands and keep them under their spell with their sexual skill.
Garden Spells is an easy, entertaining read, the supernatural associated with horticulture makes the story a diversion from everyday realistic life. Sarah Addison Allen describes her writing style and genre as a "southern-fried magical realism, with a love story" and "fairy tale aspects, all stirred in a pot like a dish".


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The Battle in Seattle: Hundreds Arrested and a Look at the WTO and the Environment
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President Clinton spoke yesterday before trade ministers from 130 member countries of the World Trade Organization, as hundreds of protesters continued to occupy the streets of Seattle in non-violent protests against global capitalism. The WTO limped into its second day of meetings, with stunned delegates meeting behind police lines to decide on a trade agenda aimed at expediting global free trade. The city continues to be in a state of emergency and under police siege–with hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement agents patrolling the streets, arresting people and shooting tear gas canisters to disperse crowds. Close to 500 demonstrators were arrested yesterday, as police changed tactics from the day before and began to make mass arrests.
Last night's protest lasted well into the night, and protesters were taken to Sand Point, an empty Naval facility that was re-opened by police. One of the people arrested yesterday was Victor Minotti, from the International Forum on Globalization. He met with a member of the official US Trade delegation, and was arrested as he spoke to activists in the street after the meeting. Today we also bring you the sounds of what has become known as "the battle in Seattle."
We also take a look what WTO critics say is one of the largest casualties of free trade policies: the environment. Thousands of environmental activists have taken to the streets in the last several days, some dressed as sea turtles and butterflies to symbolize two species in danger of extinction, one from fishing, and the other from the effects of genetically engineered corn, whose pollen is thought to kill monarch butterflies. Activists say that logging, gas emissions, industrial pollution, and many other mass scale corporate onslaughts on the environment will increase with the WTO's measures to expedite trade.
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In the year 2000 my wife and I bought 10 hectares of farmland at Monarto with the intention of growing Asiatic liliums for the wholesale cut flower trade. We had visited one of the largest lilium farms in Australia on the outskirts of Traralgon in Victoria. There the bulbs were grown in the ground with 70 % shade cloth overhead and no protection from strong winds.
Having discussed with the supervisor the management of the cutting and subsequent regrowth the following season I established a cash flow and maintenance programme. The principle is simple – buy bulbs of 14-16cm circumference, grow them to a height of 1.2 metres, cut stems in bud of 60 -70cm in length, make bunches of 5 stems per bunch and send to the wholesale market. The growing season would start in August, cutting would start in early November and delivery to the market would continue until the third week in December.
The cost of each bulb was 30-35 cents depending on the variety and the price per stem was 50-60cents depending on the time of year. The bulbs would last approximately 4 years but stem bulbs could be harvested to reduce costs.
The land was purchased from our own capital but the establishment of the shade house, shed [with cool room and toilet], water and electricity was financed from a loan with interest only payments each month. I engaged Contractors to erect the shed and install the electricity. The shade house, water reticulation [stand pipes and branch lines] I installed myself.
I erected the shade house using 3 metre x 90mm treated pine posts, with 150mm x 40mm timber joists and 70% shade cloth. The initial structure was 25 metres x 25 metres x 2.4 metres high. Rather than grow the bulbs in the ground – clay /limestone marl – I made light timber frames from 40mm x 9mm treated pine battens most of which were 2.4 metres long x 200mm high lined with black plastic. These formed the sides of long growing beds. The ends of the beds were made from 1.5 metre long x 200mm high frames lined with black plastic. The idea was to grow the bulbs above the high ph soil and cover them with a sawdust/sand growing mix containing slow release fertiliser and trace elements. I obtained the saw dust from a furniture manufacturer nearby which used a high percentage of hardwood in the furniture. The coarse sand was from the local landscape supplier.
In the beginning the bulbs were planted using a template of mdf board with holes drilled at 100mm centres to allow the bulbs to be planted in a regular pattern 100mm apart. After mixing the sawdust/sand growing mix in a concrete mixer it was transferred to a wheelbarrow and emptied into the raised beds containing the bulbs. The beds were filled to the top and hand watered using a 50 metre long x 20mm diameter hose with 'soft wash' sprinkler.
The initial batch of 5000 [8 varieties].were planted in October/November during a hot spell of weather. I had a part time casual worker to help. Once the new shoots appeared they were fertilised using a watering can containing soluble fertiliser. This was a slow process and was soon replaced using a hose attachment where a concentrated solution was placed in a container attached to the sprinkler.
Liliums in the wild require very little fertiliser, however, for the cut flower market the trade required a minimum of 3 buds per stem and this requires weekly fertiliser with high NPK. Too much nitrogen produces rapid growth and soft stems. Too little nitrogen produces smaller growth and shorter stems to cut.
The financial success of this venture depended on the advice I received from the grower in Victoria. Each bulb must produce 3 stems of 1.2 metre height. After cutting a 60-70cm stem the remaining leaves on the cut stem would recharge the bulb for next year which would produce another stem of similar height. The reality was totally different.
The timing of the erection of the shade house was delayed for a number of reasons. The 3 metre wide overhead shade cloth was attached to the structure at each end but each length needed to be joined together along their edge.
I didn't have time to do that before planting. When strong northerly winds blew, the shade cloth separated and allowed the hot sun to scorch the new growth. Had the bulbs been planted in the cooler months of the year (May to July) the separation of the shade cloth wouldn't have been as severe a problem. Needless to say there were no stems to cut that season and no cash flow.
Information about growing liliums was freely available on the internet. One of the 'facts' I gleaned was that to ensure that flowers were set in the bulb for the next season the bulb had to cool down during the winter period to about 4 degrees celsius. When I checked the temperature of the growing mix I discovered that the temperature was unlikely to fall below about 11 degrees. So I began lifting the bulbs and transferred them to polystyrene foam boxes with sawdust and placed them in the cool room at 4 degrees. I did this for two seasons until I realised that it was unnecessary. The stem bulbs which I planted outside the shade house and remained in the ground during winter produced just as many buds as those which were lifted.
The medium term plan was to increase the number of bulbs to about 30,000. I would then compare the income and expenditure with my cash flow plan and decide whether I would continue to grow the business.
The second season started full of hope. The shade house was secure, the bulbs which had been planted the previous season and had not been too severely scorched would emerge. In the mean time I had ordered another batch of 8000 bulbs which were planted. In August the bulbs appeared and were looking good. About a month later several beds of the new season bulbs looked different. While the other beds of liliums were growing tall and strong the odd ones looked healthy but were stunted. As they matured and produced their buds their height was only 200mm !! The flowers opened up and I had a magnificent display of beautifully formed lilium flowers filling 3 beds each 10 metres x 1.5 metres. When the stem of a lilium grows there is normally about 3 cm between each leaf node. In this case the separation between the leaves was about 1mm!! Nobody could explain why. However the next season they grew normally.
It wasn't until the third year that I watched with some satisfaction the beds full of healthy tall growing liliums. Surely this year I could expect to take a large number of bunched flowers to the market. The buds emerged and grew until one day as I was watering the beds the stems began to lean over under the weight of the large buds and the water clinging to the leaves and over they all went. This happened to about 5 beds. Over the next few days the buds which were still developing turned upwards to face the sunlight. The solution was simple. Lift the bulbs the following year and change the spacing on the template to 125 mm instead of 100mm. The reason for growing liliums close together is to force them to grow tall. The recommended spacing was 100mm!
During this time I was taking bunches of cut stems to the wholesale market at Thebarton but my expenses exceeded my income. The buyer at the market complimented me on the quality of my stems so all I had to do was to increase the number of bunches.
In the fourth year I extended the shade house and started harvesting the stem bulbs which I had been growing on in beds outside the shade house. About that time a new fertiliser appeared in the garden centres called Dynamic Lifter. It was organic and highly rated. I was aware of the risks associated with too much organic material around lilium bulbs so I applied the pellets on top of the growing mix to about 3 beds as a trial. None of the bulbs in those beds emerged! When I examined the beds later there was no sign of a single bulb! To be fair to Dynamic Lifter I may have applied the pellets too liberally – who knows?
By this time my finances were looking shaky so I decided to give the venture one more year. What I hadn't realised was that the bulbs which I had planted in the first two years were now starting to thin out. I needed to replace those bulbs with new bulbs. I also re-evaluated the cash flow on the basis of reasonable expectations of flower production from each bulb. What I had been told in the beginning bore no resemblance to reality. Even after correcting all my mistakes the prospect of cutting a saleable stem from each bulb each year was 'pie in the sky'. Even with fresh bulbs from Holland I could only cut about 50% of the stems in the first year. I would then have to wait for two years for the bulb to regenerate for the next cut. The bulbs cost about 32 cents each and I was paid about 50 cents per stem. To make a comfortable living would require the planting of at least 500000 bulbs and a lot more work!
One day I was talking to a neighbour who told me that young lads were earning $18.00 per hour working at the Woolworths Big W Distribution Centre which I drove past on my way to my flower farm. I made some enquiries and applied for the position of casual worker. About 12 months later I was working for Woolworths. In the mean time we had to sell the house and move into rented premises after paying off the flower farm debt.
Several years later the owners of the lilium farm near Traralgon in Victoria went into liquidation.
In hindsight growing only liliums for the cut flower trade as a business venture is always going to be difficult. Compared to other cut flowers the lilium is unique. When cutting the flower stem most of the nutrition required for the next season's growth is removed. This is not the case with other bulbs. Daffodils, and other cut flowers from bulbs produce a flower separate from the leafy part of the plant. Cutting these flowers doesn't put any stress on the plant. On the other hand rose bushes produce numerous stems each season from the one plant and continue to do so year after year.


Sandy is a city located in Salt Lake County, with total area of 22.4 square miles. The major residential region of eastern Sandy sits on the slopes of the Wasatch Range while the western section lies at the bottom of the valley. Interstate 15 and State Street (US-89) run through the western portions of the city, while the Jordan River forms part of the western border with West Jordan and South Jordan.
Population is 98,827 with a resident's age of 32. Estimated median household income is $94,025, estimated median house value is $312,600.
Permanent settlers first moved into Sandy during the 1860s and 1870s because of the availability of land in the less crowded southern end of the Salt Lake Valley. The original plat was essentially one square mile, situated on an alluvial terrace running north and south along the eastern edge of the Jordan River drainage system and paralleling the mountain range.
The Canyons School District is now the primary school district located in Sandy. It began operation at the beginning of the 2009-10 school year. Sandy has 18 elementary schools (Alta View, Altara, Bell View, Brookwood, Crescent, East Sandy, Edgemont, Granite, Lone Peak, Oakdale, Park Lane, Peruvian Park, Quail Hollow, Sandy, Silver Mesa, Sprucewood, Sunrise, Willow Canyon), six middle schools (Albion, Crescent View, Eastmont, Indian Hills, Mount Jordan, Union), four high schools (Jordan, Hillcrest, Brighton, and Alta), one technical school (Canyons Technical Education Center—CTEC), and one alternative high school (Southpointe). The Blessed Sacrament School is a private Catholic elementary school.
The city's roads are located on the same grid system as the rest of Salt Lake County. I-15 runs down the western side of Sandy, with three exits (at 9000 South, 10600 South and 11400 South) located in the city. The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) operates a bus system that reaches into the city. UTA's TRAX light rail system operates in Sandy. The city is home to four light rail stations: Historic Sandy at 9000 South; Sandy Expo, an infill station at 9375 South, serving the South Towne Exposition Center and Rio Tinto Stadium; Sandy Civic Center at 10000 South, serving the city center and nearby transit-oriented developments; and Crescent View at 11400 South. All of Sandy's light rail stations are on the Blue Line, terminating at Salt Lake Central Station to the north and Draper Town Center to the south.
Bell's Canyon Trail – This hike runs up Bell Canyon, past a scenic reservoir, and up to a beautiful waterfall. Along the way you get majestic views of the Salt Lake Valley. The canyon is located on the east side of the valley, above Sandy, just off of Wasatch Blvd. Wildlife is commonly seen along this trail, including mountain goats in rocky areas. This trail features a lake and is rated as difficult, best used from April until September.
Mount Olympus – a 9,026 feet peak on the east side of the Salt Lake Valley. With Instagram worthy views from the summit, this trail is wide and easy to follow, but darn steep. Great hike and virtually anyone can do it if taken slow and steady. A spectacular mountain which is well worth the effort.
Shops at South Town – a shopping mall, built in 1986, located just east of Interstate 15 on State Street. Contains 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m2) of retail space with 150 stores and restaurants.
Storm Mountain Park – a park with a covered pavilion, soccer field, tennis courts, covered seating, kid's playground, perfect for an alfresco lunch.


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Palio nothus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution
This species was described from Prestonpans Bay, Firth of Forth, Scotland. It has subsequently been reported from the United Kingdom north to Scandinavia, Russia and Greenland. It has also been reported from the Pacific coast of Canada.

Ecology
In the north-east Atlantic Palio nothus feeds on bryozoans of the genus Bowerbankia.

References

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1838
Taxa named by George Johnston (naturalist)

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Over the years is has been proven humans are constantly looking for effective ways to ensure they are capable to improve their communication skills which has been enabled with improving their social skills. It is important to note in recent times social skills have notable been turned to be a critical part of the human kind livelihood and different curriculums have been developed, special classes organized and workshops held by different organizations to ensure participants are able to improve their social skills. Social reports have indicated by improving the social skills the individual is guaranteed success in life, when an individual is able to communicate better regarding a product they are selling then they are able to beat their competitors which allows them to achieve the desired success and they command the market with improved social skills, a business is capable to take much command in the market and ensure the business is a success.
A successful academic life demands that the individuals are able to demonstrate the right social skills that ate needed, the colleges have taken a step to ensure all the students who undertake different courses are also able to effectively communicate them to relevant persons. When students are able to communicate what they have learnt in class then it is possible for them to be able to handle real life situation, they can directly relate what studied in class to the real life situations. To emphasize this plays a significant role as for the students as they transition to the job market, while at the work stations, it is critical for the employees to be capable to present the needed information in a particular manner to ensure there is effective communication. The bosses are very keen to ensure the employees who are taken on board are able to not only have excellent academic qualifications but also excellent social skills.
Having great social skills allows an individual to have great personal relationships, when an individual is able to communicate properly what is happening in their immediate life circle then they are capable to build strong personal relationships with the different people in their circles. Different social reports indicate human beings are social beings whose communication is noted to be changing with age, thus it is crucial for the people to be able to constantly keep up with the trends in communications for them to remain relevant in the social skills. It is beneficial to note when an individual is able to communicate better, they are not only able to maintain strong relationships but are able to able to make huge investments in their designed relationships.


As many of you reading this know, I'm what you would call a Tex-Can. I was born and raised in Canada, but I've called Texas home for nearly 30 years. I can't picture U.S. Global Investors headquartered anywhere else, even after traveling to all parts of the country and, indeed, the world.
Texas just "gets it," which is why I think CNBC recently named the $1.6 trillion economy the best state for business in 2018–the first time, in fact, a state has won four separate times since the network began ranking them 12 years ago.
In case you haven't heard, Texas is oil country–the number one producer in the U.S., accounting for more than 40 percent of national output–and that's been a blessing for the state's economy. Employment in oil and gas has led growth among its major sectors. Since Congress removed the crude oil export ban, oil and gas exports have gone from making up 5.2 percent of state exports to the largest share at 18 percent, or $45 billion over the past 12 months, according to the Dallas Fed. Investment bank HSBC now predicts that Texas will surpass OPEC members Iran and Iraq next year to become the world's number three oil producer, accounting for over half of U.S. production.
America's Top States For Business CNBC, a division of NBC Universal, has been ranking state business climates annually since 2007. CNBC's state rankings are based on 10 categories: Cost of Doing Business, Workforce, Quality of Life, Infrastructure, Economy, Education, Technology & Innovation, Business, Friendliness, Access to Capital and Cost of Living.
The Dallas Fed conducts the monthly Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey (TMOS) to obtain a timely assessment of the state's factory activity. Firms are asked whether output, employment, orders, prices and other indicators increased, decreased or remained unchanged over the previous month.
The iShares S&P 500 Index ETF (IVV) rose $2.72 (+1.02%) in premarket trading Thursday. Year-to-date, IVV has declined -0.19%.


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4th round (101st overall), 2009
2006-07: The Ilves U18 forward Toni Rajala netted a career-high 18 goals and 44 points through 30 games this season, his first with the team.
2007-08: Rajala played the majority of his hockey with Ilves U20 this season, netting 13 goals and 35 points through 33 games. He appeared in six more games with Finland's U18 Team, netting three goals and five points at the WJC-18.
2008-09: Rajala split the season between Ilves U20 and the clubs top team in the SM-Liiga. In 31 games with the junior squad, he tallied 14 goals and 31 points, totaling another five points (2g+3a) in 21 games with the senior club. He also competed with the Finnish U18 and U20 Team's, netting 10 goals and 19 points at the WJC-18, along with a Bronze Medal victory, and another three points (2g+1a) in six games at the WJC; he was named to the WJC-18 All-Star Team for his efforts, and took the Best Forward, Best Plus/ Minus (+10), Most Goals, and Most Points Awards at the tourney. Expect to see him make his North American debut with Brandon (WHL) next season.
2009-10: Rajala skated for the WHL's Brandon Wheat Kings in his first season in North America. Overshadowed by high-scoring teammates like Matt Calvert (COL) and Brayden Schenn (LAK) during the regular season, the diminutive playmaker was Brandon's leading scorer at the 2010 Memorial Cup. In 75 WHL games with Brandon, including playoffs, he scored 30 goals with 40 assists and was +23 with 32 PMs. The host Wheat Kings advanced to the championship game at the Memorial Cup with an overtime win in the semifinals after winning just one of three games in pool play and Rajala scored 2 goals with 5 assists and was award the George Parsons Trophy for sportsmanship. Rajala represented Finland at the 2010 U20 World Junior Championship; scoring 1 goal with 2 assists with a -2 plus/minus in six games for the fifth-place Finns.
2010-11: Rajala returned to Finland to play for Ilves in the SM-Liiga and also skated for Finland at the 2011 U20 World Junior Championship. Rajala played in 44 games as a 19-year-old and scored 9 goals with 13 assists and had a -3 plus/minus with 22 PMs as Ilves finished tenth in the 14-team league. Rajala scored 4 goals and was -1 in six playoff games. In six games for Finland at the junior tournament he had 4 assists and was +1 with 2 PMs.
2011-12: Rajala attended Edmonton's training camp before returning to Finland for his second season in the SM-Liiga with Ilves Tampere. After getting off to a slow start due to some nagging injuries, he was the second-leading scorer for an Ilves team that finished last in the 14-team SM-Liiga, Rajala led the team in goals with 16 and his 29 points in 51 games trailed only former Oilers first-round pick Jesse Niinimaki (36 points). In the relegation series against Mestis champion Kiekko-Vantaa he scored 1 goal with 4 assists in five games and was plus-three with 4 penalty minutes. Ilves won the series 4 games to 1 to remain in the SM-Liiga.
2012-13: Rajala returned to North America after two seasons in Finland's SM-Liiga and was a point-per-game scorer for Oilers affiliates Oklahoma City (AHL) and Stockton (ECHL). Rajala skated in five AHL games in October and had 1 goal and 1 assist before being loaned to Stockton during the NHL lockout. He returned to Oklahoma City in January and was among the team's top scorers over the second half and in the playoffs. Rajala finished with 17 goals and 28 assists in 46 games and was +18 with 16 penalty minutes. The Barons finished third in the South Division and reached the Western Conference finals. In 17 playoff games he scored 4 goals with 12 assists and was +9 with 8 penalty minutes. In 29 ECHL games with Stockton he scored 18 goals with 20 assists and was an even plus/minus with 10 penalty minutes. Rajala was released by the Oilers in August, 2013.
Rajala has quality offensive talent whose best asset might be his elusiveness. He is however, very slight of build. He is a pure skill player who – mentally and physically – always seems to be a step ahead of the opposition. Size and strength are real concerns, and the key issue will be whether he can compete on a nightly basis against some of the bigger and faster players in the NHL. He has shown flashes of being unstoppable at the junior level – both in domestic play and in international competition – and has a strong inner drive to create offense. He is a marvel handling the puck, shoots accurately with a quick release, and is adept at passing and receiving the puck.
Rajala played his first year of pro hockey in North America in 2012-13. He played the majority of his games at the AHL level, with some time spent at the ECHL level. He was a strong contributor offensively for both teams and will likely see more ice time at the AHL level in 2013-14.
SHL Prospects Notebook, March, 2015: Skelleftea takes regular season points title, playoffs begin
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Photo: Timra IK forward and Nashville Predators prospect Emil Pettersson has had a good 2014-15 season in the Allsvenskan, posting 35 points in 52 games (courtesy of City-Press via Getty images)
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Leksand and Modo were the teams at the bottom of the totem pole, so both will face-off with no less than four teams from the Allsvenskan to try to stick in the SHL. It is widely felt that Leksand, a team that came on strong at the end of the season, thanks in good part to the strong contributions of 22-year-old undrafted defenseman Linus Hultstrom (10-23-33 in 48 games), will have little problem dominating this relegation round. But Modo's squad will have its work cut out for it, despite having added Donald Brashear and then Marcel Hossa after losing William Nylander to Toronto Marlies. Read more»
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by Kady Hobbins
Photo: Anton Lander, Oklahoma City Barons captain and part-time Oiler, is one of two players remaining from Edmonton's 2009 draft clas (courtesy of Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images)
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Behind Yakupov, defensemen are the strength of Edmonton Oilers Top 20
Photo: Offensive-minded defenseman Justin Schultz leads a deep and talented defensive pipeline for the Edmonton Oilers (courtesy of Perry Nelson/Getty Images)
The Edmonton Oilers organization underwent some changes during the off-season with new general manager Craig MacTavish making some big moves at the 2013 NHL Draft as well as during the free agent frenzy. Many of the signings were already at the NHL level hence why there was not a great influx of new prospects here, but you can be sure that things will continue to be shaken up as we head into the 2013-14 season.
Edmonton Oilers maintain a skilled, balanced pipeline in Top 20 update
Photo: Nail Yakupov, shown here celebrating a late game-tying goal against Los Angeles in January, takes over the top spot in the Oilers mid-season Top 20 ranking (courtesy of Chris Austin/Icon SMI)
The Edmonton Oilers Spring Top 20 saw very little movement in the top 10 ranks while the bottom 10 prospects were shuffled more drastically. The top 10 features a number of highly skilled prospects who are either currently filling regular spots on the Oilers' roster such as Nail Yakupov and Justin Schultz or are looking slated to do so in the future.
Edmonton Oilers reaping benefits of deep, talented group of pro prospects
Photo: Mark Arcobello, among Oklahoma City's leaders on and off the ice this season, made his NHL debut with the Oilers on February 6th. (courtesy of Chris Austin/Icon SMI)
The 2012-13 season has been a roller coaster ride for the Edmonton Oilers' minor league affiliate, the Oklahoma City Barons. The lockout at the beginning of the season brought them a host of talent with the likes of Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, to name a few. However, once the lockout ended, the Oilers quickly found themselves in injury trouble and the AHL's Oklahoma City Barons were not only without the benefit of some added offense, but missing some of their key centermen as well. Despite this, the Barons have managed to soldier on and are currently vying for a playoff spot in the Western Conference of the AHL.
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Q: Trying to make a text parser that inserts newlines where needed, but it's not quite working I'm making a game, and I read dialogue text from an XML file. I'm trying to make a routine to add in newlines automatically as needed, so that it fits in the text box. It just won't work right, though. Here's the code as it currently is:
SpriteFont dialogueFont = font31Adelon;
int lastSpace = 0;
string builder = "";
string newestLine = "";
float maxWidth = 921.6f;
float stringLength = 0;

for (int i = 0; i <= speech.Length - 1; i++) //each char in the string
{
    if (speech[i] == ' ') //record the index of the most recent space
    {
        lastSpace = i;
    }

    builder += speech[i];
    newestLine += speech[i];
    stringLength = dialogueFont.MeasureString(newestLine).X;

    if (stringLength > maxWidth) //longer than allowed
    {
        builder = builder.Remove(lastSpace); //cut off from last space
        builder += Environment.NewLine;
        i = lastSpace; //start back from the cutoff
        newestLine = "";
    }
}
speech = builder;

My test string is "This is an example of a long speech that has to be broken up into multiple lines correctly. It is several lines long and doesn't really say anything of importance because it's just example text."
This is how speech ends up looking:
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The first line works because it happens to be a space that brings it over the limit, I think.
i = 81 and lastSpace = 80 is where the second line ends. builder looks like this before the .Remove command:
"This is an example of a long speech that\r\nhas to be broken up into multiple lines c"
and after it is run it looks like this:
"This is an example of a long speech that\r\nhas to be broken up into multiple line"
The third line goes over the size limit at i = 123 and lastSpace = 120. It looks like this before the .Remove:
"This is an example of a long speech that\r\nhas to be broken up into multiple line\r\ncorrectly. It is several lines long and doe"
and after:
"This is an example of a long speech that\r\nhas to be broken up into multiple line\r\ncorrectly. It is several lines long an"
As you can see, it cuts off an extra character, even though character 80, that space, is where it's supposed to start removing. From what I've read .Remove, when called with a single parameter, cuts out everything including and after the given index. It's cutting out i = 79 too, though! It seems like it should be easy enough to add or subtract from lastSpace to make up for this, but I either get "index out of bounds" errors, or I cut off even more characters. I've tried doing .Remove(lastSpace, i-lastSpace), and that doesn't work either. I've tried handling "ends with a space" cases differently than others, by adding or subtracting from lastSpace. I've tried breaking things up in different ways, and none of it has worked.
I'm so tired of looking at this, any help would be appreciated.

A: As an alternative approach, you could break your sentence up into an array using .split and then fill your box until there isn't space for the next work, then add the newline and start on the next line.

A: You add Environment.NewLine to your StringBuilder, you need to consider that when you specify the index where to start removing.
Environment.NewLine's value is System dependent. It can be "\r\n", "\n" or "\r" (or, only one of the first two according to MSDN).
In your case it's "\r\n", that means for removing one space, you added two other characters.
First, you need to declare a new variable:
int additionalChars = 0;

Then, when adding a line of text, you should change your code to something like this:
builder = builder.Remove(lastSpace + additionalChars); //cut off from last space
builder += Environment.NewLine;
additionalChars += Environment.NewLine.Length - 1;

The -1 is because you already removed a space (should make this code independent of the system's definition of Environment.NewLine).
UPDATE: You should also account for words that are longer than the line limit. You should break them anyway (couldn't help but have a try):
if (stringLength > maxWidth) //longer than allowed
{
    // Cut off only if there was a space to cut off at
    if (lastSpace >= 0) {
        builder = builder.Remove(lastSpace + additionalChars); //cut off from last space
        i = lastSpace; //start back from the cutoff
    }
    builder += Environment.NewLine;
    // If there was no space that we cut off, there is also no need to subtract it here
    additionalChars += Environment.NewLine.Length - (lastSpace >= 0 ? 1 : 0);
    lastSpace = -1; // Means: No space found yet
    newestLine = "";
}

A: Can you do something like the following code. The advantage is two-fold. Firstly, it skips to the next space to measure and decide whether to add the whole word or not, rather than going letter by letter. Secondly, it only calls MeasureString once for each word in the string, rather than for every letter added to the string. It uses StringBuilder with Append when the word will fit, or AppendLine when it won't fit and a new-line needs to be added.
        int lastSpace = 0;
        int nextSpace = s.IndexOf(' ', lastSpace + 1);
        float width = 0;
        float totalWidth = 0;
        float maxWidth = 200;
        while (nextSpace >= 0)
        {
            string piece = s.Substring(lastSpace, nextSpace - lastSpace);
            width = g.MeasureString(piece, this.Font).Width;
            if (totalWidth + width < maxWidth)
            {
                sb.Append(piece);
                totalWidth += width;
            }
            else
            {
                sb.AppendLine(piece);
                totalWidth = 0;
            }
            lastSpace = nextSpace;
            nextSpace = s.IndexOf(' ', lastSpace + 1);
        }
        MessageBox.Show(sb.ToString());

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With it looking likely that the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee would proceed with a vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas without considering the sexual harassment charge leveled against him by Anita Hill, seven female Democratic members of the House march over to the Senate in a dramatic display of protest to "demand justice."
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If you've followed my writings about new music, or at least since September, you may remember me mentioning a friend of mine who was going to listen to some new music that I recommended (which I've since deleted the references to, as my first plans to do this fell through and the article was going out in a newsletter). This friend had little to no experience with classical music outside of film score (which we both agree with Anne Midgette that it's a good introduction to classical music), so this would be a step beyond dipping a toe in with some Mozart or Brahms. His name is Alex Wiederspiel, he is the current faculty advisor at our old college radio station, U92, and is also the news director at another radio station in West Virginia. The pieces I assigned him were John Adams' Absolute Jest, Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices, Max Richter's recomposition of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Jennifer Higdon's Viola Concerto, and Kevin Puts' Four Airs. When he finishes them, I will update this post with his written opinions on the works—this will be after his second or third listens to these pieces. We had a talk about his first impressions, and here that is!
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When I have clients I connect with during our consultation, I want to do whatever I can to shoot that wedding because I know it's going to be something really special, and after 400 weddings I've seen it all.
After meeting with Danielle and Kiel, I knew I wanted to photograph their wedding. Danielle is a passionate, emotional and heartfelt kind person and Kiel is a smart, quiet strong man and they make for the most adorable couple. I love that Kiel knows something about photography and on occasion will ask about my lens choice or other nonchalant comments which I know he's watching and taking it all in.
How can you not love a client who ask you to be their wedding photographer with a save the date? I mean really isn't that just fabulous! You will see lots of details for this wedding as Kiel was responsible to for making many of those wooden items including the doors which they walked through on their wedding day. Each item has a meaning and was created or brought to the wedding with intention. This is how to do details making them really special.
The youngest flower girl was a pistol and stole the show on more than one occasion. She is absolutely adorable. Her older sister had enough walking down the aisle so you have to check that out.
The bridesmaids for this wedding were terrific! Best friends and were the calming force and gentle love that needed on a wedding day. Way to go ladies!
It was a cold winter day which was perfect and made for beautiful images. Can't say enough about this couple, their families, their wedding party — nothing less than exactly what the bride created.
What a great new venue in Conroe! Magnolia Meadows was the backdrop for Shelby and Jon's cold and wet wedding. But the weather was not going to keep these two from their wedding and Magnolia Meadows has a wonderful indoor location for the perfect wedding. Shelby and Jon are a sweet couple who really don't like to be in front of the camera! But you would never know as their love shows through in these lovely images. It was great to be their wedding photographer at Magnolia Meadows. Enjoy!


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In the year 128,426 PF the robot race X-92Z has finally managed to populate numerous planets as Terra Prime becomes too caustic for continued inhabitation. X-92Zkind know that they were created by some other type of race because their circuitry and mechanical form could not have spontaneously generated.
X-92Zkind has a goal of discerning the sort of race that could have created them but that is of secondary importance to their goal of finding a way out of the Universe. The oldest of their kind, Krahn, is over 250,000 Terra Prime years old, and although it can't remember much from Before Fall (BF) because of damaged circuits, he does know that the youngest member of X-92Z will likely outlast the Universe.
On an outpost on planet Terra-793, the X92Z inhabitants of an excavated cavern have noticed a strange phenomenon; the walls of the cavern are slowly turning black. Oxidation is ruled out since the colour change spreads from ground zero – a section of the cavern that had been breached 400 Terra Prime years earlier. Close examination reveals a complex, self-replicating chemical process that seems to be absorbing particular minerals from the cavern wall, generating new units and thus migrating in a fractal pattern that confounds the best X92Z scientists.
This black substance is what we humans call mold, but the X92Z have no concept of biological processes or organisms. They have, in fact, discovered biologic life but they have no idea what life is. How do you think they would interpret this chemical process of self-replicating units?
Thank you. So some level of 'metabolism' might be a defining point of 'life'?
I'd say so. An ability to take in nutrients, whatever they may be, and metabolize them for energy.
And for some reason the last part of my first response got cut off. Regarding the most basic chemical reactions, what about proteinoids and microspheres?
I don't know what proteinoids and microspheres are - got any good links?
Just a wikipedia page(i know, i know). I asked a friend your question and that's what she replied with. She didn't go into any details.
Usually taking in nutrients would be required for replication. That's all for me.