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Stephanie Powell November 25, 2021
By Greg Cahill
You saw a YouTube video of Anne-Sophie Mutter at age 14 playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, and her achingly beautiful performance has inspired you to learn the violin. But you're worried that string playing must be mastered in youth, that you're too old. Don't worry. "When there is a 'knock on your door,' never ignore it," says violinist, recording artist, and educator Julie Lyonn Lieberman. "If this—or any instrument—speaks to you, heed the call. Learning to play the violin can take place at any time in your life. It's challenging, yes, but it's also healing and fulfilling."
Typically, children start playing violin between the ages of 6 to 9, allowing sufficient physical, intellectual, and emotional development to tackle the instrument. Of course, there are exceptions—you may know the story of 4-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dazzling the court of Maximillian III of Bavaria in Munich with his fiddle. But such examples are rare and should not deter you from pursuing your dream. The discipline and life skills you have acquired can be an advantage. Here is some advice and inspiration to help you get started on violin at any age.
Finding the Time to Practice Violin as an Adult
Learning to play the violin requires a lot of time and effort. Are you prepared to face frustration as you struggle to master technique? Will you set goals and commit to months of effort before you quit? Are you ready to set aside a daily bloc of time to practice? "For grown-up beginners, I advise making the violin a routine, like brushing your teeth," says violinist and online bowing coach Zlata Ihou-Brouwe of Violin Lounge. "Consistent daily practice is what sets you up for success. Some get motivated one day and practice for hours and leave the violin to catch dust for the rest of the week. Strive for five minutes a day and your routine will automatically get longer. When you try to find time, don't search for big chunks of time. You might not find them. Go for those tiny moments in between: the couple of minutes your pizza is in the oven or if you are waiting on something. Also, practice bowing exercises without the violin when waiting in line and on the road."
How to Find a Violin as an Adult Beginner
There is a debate whether it's better to buy or rent your first violin. But renting-to-own has advantages. If you rent a violin for $50 a month and then quit, you won't be out thousands of dollars from a purchase. If you stick with it, most shops will allow you to apply the fees to the purchase of your rental violin. If you buy the violin outright, be sure the dealer allows trade-ins toward a better step-up instrument. There are reputable online dealers offering quality instruments and attentive customer care. One benefit of renting, or purchasing, from a local violin shop, however, is that the staff can help to fit you with a proper chinrest and shoulder rest, as well as select the best bow for your needs.
Finding the Right Violin Teacher as an Adult
Look for a teacher that specializes in adult beginners—both private teachers and community music schools provide instruction for adults. Teaching an adult is quite different from teaching children. Adults have unique needs—scheduling flexibility, physical abilities—and sometimes balk at learning difficult techniques, challenging a teacher in a manner that even the most brazen child would never consider. So you need a teacher who can handle recalcitrant moods, but is empathetic. Also, adults sometimes have ergonomic issues and a teacher that is skilled at identifying those can help navigate physical challenges or health-related issues. "Grown-up beginners tend to tense up a lot," Ihou-Brouwe says. "This, combined with a crooked posture, is a recipe for disaster. First, make sure your body posture is good and everything feels relaxed. Accept that the violin will feel weird at first, not painful, but weird. Take a lot of breaks in between your practice session, do some stretching and keep checking that you're not lifting your bow-arm shoulder or squeezing your left hand, for instance. Spend time finding a good shoulder rest and chinrest, but also know 80 percent of technique is your posture and hold."
What about online lessons? Lieberman suggests that you take advantage of the vast number of free violin lessons available online, but that you use these to supplement private lessons. "I often see misleading advice on social media when a beginner posts a question," she says. "Try to gather a range of answers if you turn to social media for advice and use common sense to determine the best path to follow. It's important to keep in mind that there are a number of approaches to how the bow-hold and every other aspect of technique are taught for this instrument. It's useful to ask any private teacher you work with to explain how they were trained and why they have adhered to their particular teaching techniques. If their approach has yielded injury, discomfort, or a substandard sound, this might not be the best person for you to work with."
Connect with Some Kindred Spirits
For many, the best way to learn a stringed instrument is in an ensemble—that's why middle schools and high schools have orchestral programs. There is a network of adult community orchestras and amateur chamber groups across the nation that can provide experience, moral support, and an opportunity to have fun with a stand partner. Since an audition often is required, joining a community orchestra can provide motivation to practice. Community orchestras sometimes are affiliated with a symphony or may receive limited public funding through a local hotel tax. You can find information about community orchestras in your area online, through Facebook groups or such apps as Meetup. And be sure to look into one of the excellent music camps catering to adult string players.
Protect Your Body While You Play Violin
The old adage "no pain, no gain" has no place in the adult beginner's life. "The belief that you should ignore discomfort and/or pain to master this instrument is still prevalent," says Lieberman, the author of the healthy-playing book You Are Your Instrument: The Definitive Musician's Guide to Practice and Performance.
"This is particularly dangerous for older beginners. If your teacher disregards physical aches and pains when mentioned to him or her, find a new teacher. It's extremely important to work with someone who has taken the time to learn about natural joint and muscle function, who has an arsenal of ideas designed to attend to your specific body type and physical needs, and who listens to you without invalidating what you're experiencing."
Prioritize Joy While You Play
Learning the violin can be daunting. Remember that Anne-Sophie Mutter video that moved you to pursue this pastime in the first place? It was the artistry, the joy, the promise of fun, and a love for the violin that drew you to this instrument. Stick with it—even a modest effort will pay off. "Momentum is the key to mastery," Lieberman says. "To build momentum, you need consistency far more than mega-hours spent practicing. A few minutes each day is far more useful than an hour followed by a few days without practicing, then a couple of minutes, another break, and so on. We all lead extremely busy lives, so even one minute a day will provide you with enough forward motion needed to make progress as long as you pay careful attention to all the details required by whatever you are working on."
Further Resources on Learning Violin at Any Age
8 Adult Amateurs Talk Transcendent Moments & Finding the Time to Keep Playing
It's Never Too Late to Pick Up an Instrument—Here are 5 More Tips for Adult Beginners
7 Programs to Fit Your String-Playing Lifestyle
Strings Magazine on YouTube: Free Lessons and Inspiration
Gear Guide for Adult Amateur String Players
Learn to perfect your practice through expert advice from top string players and educators with the insightful e-book A Practice Primer.
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M81 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is also called Bode nebula, in honor of its discoverer Johann Elert Bode.
M82 is also a spiral galaxy. It was, however described as an irregular galaxy for quite a long time due to its peculiar shape.
The so called ring nebula is located in the constellation Lyra. It was discovered by Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix  in 1779. In the same year Charles messier entered it into his catalog as number 57. Its NGC designation is NGC 6720.
The object is a so called planetary nebula, most likely the most well known.
Object Position: RA 13h29m54s DE +47°12'00"
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A seguir é uma lista dos reis de Mitani, de acordo com o historiador Gérard Gertoux, desde do  até o . Todas as datas devem ser tomadas com cautela, uma vez que são calculadas apenas em comparação com a cronologia de outras nações do antigo Oriente Próximo.

Lista de reis

Primeiros monarcas
Este abaixo é um monarca que cujo reinado está desconhecido.

Reis sucessores

Após isso, Mitani é conquistada e depois destruída pelo Império Assírio e a língua hurrita passa a ser extinta.

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 Tusserata
 Antigo Oriente Próximo
 Mitani
 Hititas

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Mid December is traditionally the date when European rail operators make significant revisions to their timetables, and 2015 is no exception. The most significant change in the Balkan region is a welcome one: after a gap of several years, there will once again be a daytime service between Belgrade, Niš, and Sofia. The existing overnight service continues, so travellers will have a better choice of departure times. The daytime train (named "Balkan") leaves at 07.35 from Belgrade and 11.30 from Sofia, and the trip takes around 9 hours.
It seems that this train will carry at least one Russian Railways sleeper car from Moscow, probably with extensions to the Black Sea and Adriatic coasts in summer. This is by no means the first time it has been possible to travel directly from Moscow to Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro, but there had been a break in service due to the withdrawal of many services that passed through Ukraine. These sleeper cars will now take a more northerly route via Minsk, Warsaw, and Budapest.
There are few other major changes affecting Southeast Europe. The "Serdica" Budapest-Sofia service introduced last year will continue to operate but with a completely different timetable. It will now leave Budapest in the early morning and Sofia late at night, so the part of the journey through Bulgaria (and probably the crossing of the Danube) will be covered in darkness in both directions. There is also a significant timetable change to the "Citadella" from Budapest to Ljubljana, which now leaves in the morning rather than at lunchtime, allowing a late afternoon arrival in Ljubljana.
I have added the fourth and final set of photos to my Kosovo Gallery. These photos were taken in and around the city of Prizren.
I have added a third set of photos to my Kosovo Gallery, this time from a very brief visit to the capital Pristina (or Priština or Pristina...). The fourth and final set will be from Prizren.
I have uploaded a second set of photos to my Kosovo Gallery. The photos in this set were taken in and around the city of Peja (Peć) in northwest Kosovo, including the mountainous Rugova region to the west of the city.
Following a short visit to Kosovo in late April and early May of this year, I have started uploading photos to my Kosovo Gallery.
The photos in this first set were all taken in Western Kosovo. The majority are from the city of Gjakova (Djakovica), and there are some from Visoki Dečani Monastery and the nearby village of Isniq. Photos of Peja, Rugova, Prizren and Prishtina will be added later.
Bradt Guides continue to provide more extensive coverage of the Balkans than any other publisher, and have published new editions of four of their country guides so far this year. The guides to Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro all move on to their fifth editions. It seems like only yesterday that I welcomed the first editions of all of these books, at a time when travel information about those countries in English was difficult to come by, and it is great to see that they continue to be updated. Meanwhile the Bulgaria guide, a relative newcomer, is on its second edition. All are available in electronic as well as paperback format.


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Alabama Football Lands Six Players on AFCA All-America Team
The Alabama Crimson Tide landed six players on the 2017 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-America Team.
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Junior defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick and senior center Bradley Bozeman received All-America honors from The Sporting News.
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Alabama had one player on the first, second, and third teams on the 2017 AP All-American teams.
Four from Alabama Named to FWAA All-America Team
The Alabama football team placed four players on the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) All-America Team, the organization announced Monday.
Alabama Football Places Three on Sporting News Freshman All-America Team
The Alabama football team placed three players on the Sporting News Freshman All-America Team, the organization announced Wednesday morning.
Nick Saban Adds to His Total of First Team All-Americans
For the seventh straight season, The University of Alabama football team has placed at least one player on the list of first team All-Americans. Wide Receiver Amari Cooper and safety Landon Collins were both selected as first team AP All-Americans for 2014.
Four Alabama Players Listed on 2013 FWAA All-American Team
The Football Writers Association of America's 70th All-America Team is dominated by the Southeastern and Atlantic Coast conferences, which placed half of the 26 players on the first team, deemed the best in college football. Fittingly, those two conferences have the teams – Florida State …
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Oklahoma State sophomore guard Marcus Smart is the only unanimous selection to The Associated Press' preseason All-America team.
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We made the semi-annual trip down to the fire station in Clever this afternoon to sample the book sale. This one was smaller than the one in the autumn of last year, which was smaller than book sales before it. I'm afraid it's trailing off and might some day not be a thing. Which is fortunate: I like smaller sales because they're more relaxed.
A biography of Billy Mitchell, which I must read soon as he is the fellow for whom Milwaukee's airport is named, and when we get to Milwaukee later this year, I'll want to tell the story to my inattentive children. Which will be weird, since we're not flying and won't be that close to the airport.
A couple books of poetry: Silent Flowers, a collection of haiku and Mortal Acts Mortal Words, an older self-published looking collection.
Two Rogue Warrior titles, Seal Force Alpha and Echo Platoon.
A collection of Jules Verne, which includes Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, and The Clipper of the Clouds.
Zen and the Art of Knitting. I've got Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance around here somewhere, and I expect this will be a good follow-up to it.
The Last Christmas Show by Bob Hope. I've queued up a number of Bob Hope books for when I go through a Bob Hope books phase much like I did with George Burns last year.
In addition, we picked up a couple of DVDs for a buck, including Captain America: Civil War, L.A. Story, and Short Circuit.
So that might be it for the book sales for me for the spring. I'm not sure I want to trek all the way to Bolivar (for those of you not native to Springfield, that's an exaggeration, but only a slight one) to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale for books (I've already trekked that far for LPs, but that's another story). Which is all right: My book reading has slowed this spring for some reason, and I've been borrowing from the library in areas I'd like to study but that are underrepresented at book sales (the Zen of knitting notwithstanding).
Total spent, after tacking on another Friends of the Clever County Library card (which I also renew semi-annually): $18.
An allusion to a fifty-year-old song isn't targeting the kids these days.
I'm not sure anyone but me and Mr. Hill would get it.
I'm not saying I'm old, but I have a Petula Clark album. I'm saying I inherited it from my sainted mother.
Speaking of Spanish language classics (which we weren't, but this is my blog, and I'll direct the conversation, thank you, but I want to give you the impression, gentle reader, that you were a part of it), we have "La Nave de Olvido".
First up, we have José José, an artist I found when looking for test data that uses accent marks (don't judge me–I am a software tester, and I judge YOU!).
Of course, I have to go with the songbird here, too, favoring Ms. Carr's version. In most cases, I'd rather hear a woman sing of love than a man.
I might have read this book before; there was something familiar about it. Of course, it would seem familiar, as the Dao is out there, and I'm only gleaning what already exists in all of us and the universe.
At any rate, the Tao Te Ching is a collection of 70-something short verses built for contemplation of the Tao. Like many Eastern koan-style verses, the meaning of the lines is paradoxic on a surface reading, but once you get into the spirit of the thing, you get a better idea of how the paradoxes are resolved through recognition of the universal at the root of both horns of the paradox.
So the effect is calming as you go through it a bit, relaxing, but then it becomes a little repetitive because once you grok it, additional repetitions and slight twists of the theme don't add much. Or perhaps I'm not deep enough into it to get the subtler meanings of the repetition.
I borrowed the book from the library as part of my recent Eastern history/philosophy focus, but I wouldn't be surpised if a closer inspection of my read bookshelves already contains a copy of this translation even. If not, I'll think about picking one up if I can find one inexpensively (the list price is $17, and I don't think it's Tao to spend that much on a book).
I don't think I could pursue Taoism as a full-time philosophy, as looking for the natural, going-with-the-current-of-life action for most situations for me would be to take a nap, and I think life requires more action than that. But it should also have a sense of peace that the Way emphasizes.
A study of Springfield's trash and recycling collection finds it is not the most efficient system available, and city council members are looking at some potential changes.
Springfield has a free market system, with 12 licensed residential haulers within city limits. Citizens had previously expressed concerns about wear and tear on streets, noise and traffic congestion. A Kansas City consulting firm, Burns and McDonnell, hired by the city, gathered opinions from people by phone, in a survey and in open houses.
They found Springfield residents pay more than people in some surrounding communities, without added services like recycling or yardwaste and bulky item pickup. It found most citizens care about the environment, but only 55 percent recycle.
This is only a preliminary study, but the city has given waste haulers the two year notice that would come along with a change eliminating the citizens' choice.
It seems a small thing, the trash hauling bit, that I harp on it over and over, but that's because, at the root, the principle that the city can mandate a single provider for mandatory service flies against a whole lot of liberty and limited government. It's not even that the trash trucks provided the roads they run on, which is the rationale behind government-granted monopolies in cable television, telephone, and electrical service. The "principle" as it is is not limited to trash service and could be extended to grocery stores and gas stations (whose trucks use the roads too, donchaknow it would be more efficient if there were only one set of trucks on the road every day!).
Meanwhile, watch as I, like Natty Bumpo, have to move further and further into the country as "civilization" advances.
Apparently, in the middle 1990s, Marvel and Byron Preiss/Putnam put out a series of novels based on Marvel properties. In hardback. These books preceded the new movies that revitalized the Marvel house, by the way. These books, it would seem, did not do it.
This book is not the first of the Spider-Man books; it mentions a couple of other adventures in the past, and they seem to be building to something, as elements of those previous books led to elements in this book.
At any rate, the plot: Spider-Man finds out that Doc Ock is plotting something, and it might have something to do with a company he'd investigated previously, including some teaming up with Venom in Miami (in a previous book). Venom (Eddie Brock) is also on the trail of the company, which seems to have supplied Doctor Octopus with nuclear material that the bad doctor is going to use to crash the world's financial markets and then destroy some cities to purify the human race. So it's standard super hero fare.
But, unfortunately, a Spider-Man comic (or film) might be hard to transfer over to a novel, and Ms. Duane doesn't capture the essence and the kinetic energy of Spider-Man. It's told a bit like a straight thriller (with Spider-Man in the center of it), but the pacing is not as fast as you would expect if you were raised on Spider-Man comics, and there's a bit too much day-to-day interaction between Peter Parker and Mary Jane (along with their housekeeping and her modeling jobs). So it's a bit slow.
Additionally, there are some errors and oversights in the book. If I recall, it refers to the place where the license plate attaches to the car as the fender instead of the bumper. It calls the headquarters of the Fantastic Four the Fantastic Four's Headquarters instead of the Baxter Building. It talks about the sound of Spider-Man's footfalls as he walks into an abandoned subway station (which sounds loud for what are essentially socks, and walking on the floor seems very un-Spider-Manish). And a couple other things that were jarring.
On the other hand, the book has moments that struck right or fit in with my worldview. When MJ takes a job doing voice work for a Captain Planet and the Planeteers style cartoon, one of the other says, "Please God, twenty years from now when everyone's reading Tolstoy and Kipling again, all this will seem very silly." (Spoiler alert: Twenty years later, they're probably planning a live action Captain Planet and the Planeteers reboot instead of reading Kipling (didn't they just do a live action Jungle Book reboot? They were rebooting the cartoon no doubt.)) In another, an elderly cell phone hacker calls a grown man Stevie, and this reminded me of an older woman I knew who called a distinguished doctor "Jeffy" and the former state legislator and current County Clerk "Shanie." So that rang true.
Doris gave him an excessively wry smile. "It must be, dear. They're the government aren't they?
My goodness, that sounds current, doesn't it? Except for the analog bit and prediction that the digital will make it harder (spoiler alert: It doesn't).
At any rate, it's an okay book, more of a thriller than a Spider-Manesque story, although it has Spider-Man characters. As it deals with cell phones, it's more current than a lot of the fiction I read and has aged pretty well in that regard. I might pick up some of the others in the line as I come across them.
Can anyone help me identify it and give me a hint as to how to reverse the effects of any dark magic it might entail?
Also, can anyone please tell me whether it was my children, my cats, or something more sinister that deployed this demonic bit of obeah upon us?
A little bit of Plato's Phaedo.
A portion of the Akkadian myth of Marduk and Tiamat.
Alien Legion #10, an Epic/Marvel comic book from 1985.
Geez, I feel like I am in college again.
One semester, I tried to keep up with the reading, briefly. I was taking six classes of philosophy and English, so it amounted to about 200 pages per night. That meant I got up at five, worked a couple hours at the grocery store, went to classes, went back to work at the grocery store for a couple hours, went to a campus even sometimes, and then came home to read until midnight. I did this for two weeks my junior or senior year, and I kept up with the assigned reading. But I realized if anything made me fall behind, I would never catch up. So I went back to my normal pattern of keeping up with the classes and picking and choosing the texts to read.
One semester, I took a course on Ben Jonson, the playwright contemporary to Shakespeare, and (predictably) I fell behind in the reading for the class, so in the week leading up to finals week, I read a play a night (which wasn't too bad–it wasn't 200 pages a night, but it was a bit of a slog). The last class before the final, he said anyone who had an A in the class already could skip the final, and, as it turns out, I did. The A was on the basis of comparing Jonson's play Sejanus His Fall to Machiavelli's The Prince and to show how many of the rules Sejanus broke. Apparently, and unbeknown to me, the professor had written a book similar to my paper, and I didn't come across it in my research. Because, face it, my research was to take things I'd already read in other classes and apply them to topics of the current class to streamline my paper writing and research. I didn't go looking for scholarly work on it. As it turns out, my reading was not required. But it comprises volume one of a two-volume set of Jonson I picked up later, so I only have to read the second when I find it.
Not included in yesterday's reading: Perfect Dark: Initial Vector, a book based on the video game series that I picked up after Perfect Dark was the answer in a trivia night a couple weeks ago. My mother-in-law asked me on Sunday what I was reading, and I'd just started that paperback.
So if you ask me what I'm reading, the day that you ask me is apparently very important as to whether I give the impression of a well read scholar or a garden variety geek.
Yesterday, I had a couple of minutes to kill, so I ducked into the Disabled American Veterans thrift store to browse the albums therein. A warm-up, perhaps, for the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale later this month which will also feature a large number of albums for a buck each. At the DAV, they were less than a dollar each, which is lower than the norm.
At any rate, what I got would make Gimlet jealous, perhaps.
Hoch Die Tassen! by Xaver Hirschleitner, Original Münchner Blasmusikanten (I think).
Ich Bin In München Verliebt by Die Kaiserlich Böhmischen Und Die Bayerischen Königsjodler.
Christmas with Julie Andrews because it has a perfect cover, and the one I have is defaced with some childish inking.
Man, that is some German music (complete with konigsjodelling). It reminds me of the church festivals in Milwaukee, and it makes me homesick for my homeland. Which is not Germany, but it hearkens back to that country.
Congressman Devin Nunes stepped aside in the Congressional inquiry. Somewhere, I saw that his name did not have a tilde because it's from the Portuguese, not the Spanish.
Which means, upon further reflection, that I have been pronouncing Clara Nunes' name incorrectly.
I would say, "Ay de mi," but that, too is Spanish.
ate in the night on Jan. 29, three still-unknown thieves drilled through the skylight of a building near Heathrow Airport and rappelled 40 feet to the floor, bypassing the security alarms.
They went straight to six specific crates that contained three dealers' worth of books that were en route to the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Oakland.
Over the course of several hours, they unloaded the books they wanted into duffel bags, belayed their loot to the roof, and took off in a waiting van. The haul totaled nearly $2.5 million.
Or are the Good Book Hunting posts merely book laundering?
I thought the book sale was open until 6pm yesterday, but when we rolled into the Ozark library at 4:40, it turned out we only had twenty minutes to browse.
Which impeded me less than a current soon-to-be-forgotten self-discipline in buying books. No longer am I in the market for dollar hardbacks that might be interesting someday. Instead, I'm looking for items in particular subject areas or by authors I have read and will probably like. Which no longer includes John Sandford, by the way.
You can see my beautiful wife got a bunch of magazines. She likes to browse through them pretty quickly and tear out recipes and other items of interest for later review. This particular sale is her favorite because they have so many that fit her criteria of interest. Also notice she bought a book entitled Black Belt Karate, which is funny because she is about a month shy of receiving a black belt in a different martial arts discipline.
Two Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher: Side Jobs and Changes.
The Ancient Near East, a collection of primary texts from that period (which is suddenly one of my interest subject areas. Note that this practice of self-discipline often means I buy a collection of books in a current interest which then passes or pauses, and the books sit unread for years.
Into These Hills, a bit of Ozarks history.
The Pessimist's Guide To History, a collection of historical anecdotes and not an epistemological filter on actual history.
Learning To Kill, a collection of short stories by Ed McBain (and, perhaps, some of his other pen names).
The Reagan Wit, a thin volume about the 40th President's humor.
Lost Boys, a book by Orson Scott Card. Presumably not about teenaged vampires.
That's only 8 books, which is felonious self-restraint.
The biggest story here is the one that got away: I had picked up another book, a collection of stories about a Chinese folk hero whose name escapes me that was translated from the Chinese. I was surprised not to have it.
At any rate, I've read more books than I've bought this year, but the upcoming weeks will include the Friends of the Clever Library Book Sale and the big kahuna, the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale. I will visit the latter twice: once on a week day for dollar albums and then on Saturday for the half price day to seek books in my preferred current interest areas and any CD lecture series that look interesting.
So we had a good Spring thunderstorm a few nights ago at Nogglestead, and after about thirty minutes of a driving rain against the west side of the house, my beautiful wife's office window started leaking. And by "leaking," I mean it was as though Thor himself was urinating on her electronics. She scrambled to move and cover her equipment, and I scrambled to find what was going on. In a driving rain. Lit occasionally by lightning. This is kind of old hat for me.
Back in our Casinoport days, water got into the house by every sort of way. The walkout basement was really a dugout sliding glass doorway that looked uphill and had a single drain to relieve the rainwater. It also had two crab apple trees above it. I had to sweep that out every day to ensure the crab apples, shaped and sized perfectly to fit into the holes on the drain cover. I learned this the hard way; once, when I did not, I looked out the door during a heavy rain, and it looked like an aquarium with a really low water level. Which lead me to an evening spent in the pouring rain, bailing my walkout basement's landing and clearing the drain every minute or so. Then there was another time when the gutter pulled away from the end of the house during a thunderstorm, allowing the water to stream off the roof into the runner of the sliding window in the kitchen, which led to the water rolling out of the runner into the dining room. I was able to prop the gutter into place with a propitious two-by-four and reaffix the gutter in the light of day.
But I had no such luck that recent night at Nogglestead: We don't have any trees to block the gutters, and they were half-empty or half-full (I'm not sure which I should insert here to self-identify as a pessimist). Nothing was collected on the deck above the window. I didn't see anything, but I did know that the lintels above the window could use a caulking and a painting, which I couldn't do in the rain.
When we first moved in, the home inspector had shown us where the window and door frame below our deck could use a caulking, and right after we'd moved in, I did so, but that was eight years ago almost. So it looks as though it's time to revisit that, and I'd put it on my list of chores for the summer that I'd get to right after reading yet another book I'm likely to not remember anyway.
So I bought a couple tubes of exterior caulk and took a look above the window instead of at the lintels. Oh, my.
Above the windows were some end-facing bricks with some broken-down mortar and some splotches of caulk. Some of the holes in the brick had been filled with caulk, and there were some splotches of brown caulk here and there where the mortar had started to break down.
That looks like something I might do. Did I do that? I don't think so. I've never bought brown caulk in my life.
So I chiseled out the old mortar and pulled the old caulk out.
And I took steps to ensure that this never happens again.
Now, back to that book I am reading. What is it again? I've forgotten already.
So this year, I've started putting strange things in my children's lunches for school.
I know, the customary thing to do to make a big deal of it on the Internet is to put a little love note or drawing into the lunch boxes and then to produce ready-for-viral listicles of images. But I'm not a mommy and I'm not artistic. So the lads get some strange foodstuffs indeed.
It started when, as a lark, I put a tin of Fancy Feast cat food in their boxes.
Then, a couple weeks later, I thought about putting some brownie mix, unprepared, in the Pokemon and Sonic the Hedgehog comestible containment devices. I was at the store at the time, but I could not find inexpensive (sub-buck) brownie mix, so I picked up three boxes of Jiffy Yellow Cake mix. The next day, they each got one, and I baked the third so they could actually have cake when they got home. One of the lads, good boy, opened the cake mix and ate some of it at school.
I considered giving each pack of microwave popcorn two weeks ago, but I demurred. Because I wasn't sure that one of them would open it, and that would be a waste of my beautiful wife's preferred snack of late.
Today, I gave each an ice cream cone. No ice cream; just a cone.
Someday, perhaps when I am gone, they will get to talking and say, "Do you remember when Dad put something in our lunch?" And they'll think of me.
Or perhaps they'll mention it to their therapists. Regardless, it's building my immortality, one little bit of remembered silliness at a time.
This book is quite a downer.
I read America Alone almost six years ago (when this current title was still fresh). This one is less optimistic: in the interim, America Alone (ish) elected Barack Obama, and several years' worth of his policies were underway, so Steyn is concerned that America has joined the rest of the west in entering its decline. So he talks about what the world will look like after the United States cedes its hegemony to other nations with less noble intentions.
Five years after the book, I'm not as gloomy as Steyn was (and is now, given the title of his latest book–After America for those of you who might not know). The sweep of history is broad and long, and its predictors are more often wrong than not. However, the book does crystallize, or should, that our Western traditions and heritage are better than all the others that have been tried and do require some conscious defense thereof. If you merely enjoy liberty without recognizing its sources, someone will quickly take it from you.
Right down to how long it took me to read it after its publication.
As I said, it's pessimistic, and it's too much like reading his blog in book length. Which is to say, depressing if you take it too seriously. He might be right, he might be wrong, and most likely he's part both. But there's no good spending one's evenings before bed wallowing in it. Also, the recent past might suggest a change in the wind for the United States which, one way or another, will render its half-decade-past prognostications out-of-date.
So read it if you're reading this blog post from somewhere in 2011 or 2012 when it's fresh. Otherwise, stick to shorter, current doses on the Internet.
And remind me to stay away from current events books at the upcoming book sales.
As I might have mentioned, I found this book when I went looking for The Legend of Gilgamesh. This book was on the book shelf where I'd last seen the earlier work, so I read it instead when I could not find the epic. They're almost the same: You'd have to explain to anyone under thirty-five who either of these guys is. Or was.
At any rate, this book collects a bit of Berra's recollections from his life in baseball and presents a little life advice based on it. That's about it. He talks about breaking into the big leagues, playing in New York in the days before baseball players made millions, and his youth in St. Louis. It explains how he got the nickname Yogi and, more importantly, his real name (which is probably available on his Wikipedia entry, but I've never looked at it). Both of which could help me should they come up in a trivia night. Which would have to be run by someone older than 35.
A nice piece of filler reading material. It won't change my life, but it was pleasant. Also, take a look at that title page: It looks as though this book is signed by the author. How cool is that?


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What is the 7 biome?
What are the characteristics of each biomes?
What are the 6 basic biomes?
What are the 7 biomes in Canada?
What are the 6 major biome types?
What are the 6 most important biomes?
In the terrestrial category, 7 biomes include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, deserts, tundra, taiga – also known as boreal forests – grasslands and savanna.
Biomes. A biome is an area classified according to the species that live in that location. Temperature range, soil type, and the amount of light and water are unique to a particular place and form the niches for specific species allowing scientists to define the biome.
What are the characteristics of the 6 biomes?
Terms in this set (6)
Boreal Forest Biome. Warm, rainy summers; very cold winters with heavy snow; trees produce cones with seeds that are eaten by many animals.
Deciduous Forest Biome.
Desert Biome.
Grassland Biome.
Rain Forest Biome.
Tundra Biome.
What are the 7 biomes in South America?
There are Marine Rainforest,Alphine,Deset, Savannas,Grassland,Chaparral,DesertscrubFreshwater and Deciduous Desert.
Some count six (forest, grassland, freshwater, marine, desert, and tundra), others eight (separating two types of forests and adding tropical savannah), and still others are more specific and count as many as 11 biomes.
In Canada, we have the 4 overarching biomes: tundra, desert, grassland, and forest. Within BC, we have the following subcategories: semi-arid desert, temperate rainforest, boreal forest (taiga), and alpine tundra.
What is a biome What are its characteristics write on major biomes of the world?
There are five major types of biomes: aquatic, grassland, forest, desert, and tundra, though some of these biomes can be further divided into more specific categories, such as freshwater, marine, savanna, tropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, and taiga. Aquatic biomes include both freshwater and marine biomes.
What are the characteristics of desert biome?
The following are the key characteristics of the desert biome:
little rainfall (less than 50 centimeters per year)
temperatures vary greatly between day and night.
high evaporation rates.
coarse-textured soils.
drought-resistant vegetation.
There is general agreement among ecologists that our complex natural world can, based on temperature and rainfall, be classified into six major biomes: desert, tundra, grassland, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, and tropical forest (Odum, 1989).
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Nobody is saying you're totally to blame for your single status, although your actions do have a huge part in why you're single. You can also blame timing, the location you live, and a little bit of bad luck. Although it's not 100% your fault, you do have certain control of this situation.
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Amanda Magalhães (; born 9 September 1991) is a Brazilian actress, singer-songwriter, pianist and producer, known for the role of Natália on Netflix series 3%. In 2020, she released her debut album, Fragma.

Childhood and personal life
Amanda is the daughter and granddaughter of notorious musicians (respectively, William and Oberdan Magalhães). Her mother was a backing vocalist for Baby Consuelo. Many other of her relatives were musicians, but except for her great-grandmother Yolanda, who played the acoustic guitar, women would mostly only sing, which made her feel she would follow the same path. At the age of nine, she discovered Alicia Keys, Norah Jones and Nina Simone, all women who sing and play, and realized she would draw inspiration from them. Her father supported her and she began to study. At 15, she earned her first piano. Her parents divorced when she was six and, some years later, her father moved to São Paulo, where he would play live more often, and he eventually convinced her to move in.

Magalhães spent half her life in São Paulo, where she studied at she University of São Paulo Drama Arts School (EAD-USP).

Music career

Beginnings and musical instruction
Magalhães considered being a composer, but not necessarily a singer. She liked soundtrack composers such as Alexandre Desplat and tried to compose songs inspired by such music. In her teenage years, she would listen to a lot of classic rock, including Jimi Hendrix. Later, she turned to her father's black music.

Later in life, she shifted focus and entered USP to study drama arts. The director of a play she was cast in, (Na) Solidão nos Tempos de Algodão ((In the) Solitude in the Cotton Times) wanted her to sing "Solitude", by Billie Holiday. After receiving positive feedback on her performance, she decided to invest on a musical path, as well. She spent the next years buying equipment and learning musical production to record her own compositions.

First singles and Fragma
Starting in 2018, Magalhães started to prepare her first album. Until 2020, she released three singles. The first was "Fazer Valer" (To Make It Count), featuring rapper Rincon Sapiência, a trap song created on the piano and released on 14 December on Rolling Stone Brasil's website and with lyrics inspired by Buddhism. After this song, she also released "Vai Ouvir" (Gonna Listen) and "Coração Só" (Lonely Heart). "Vai Ouvir", from 21 February 2019, was created after the end of a relationship and is influenced by gypsy jazz, which she listened to a lot during a trip to France to work on a play, besides elements of Latin music, Bollywood, pop, walking bass and references to Chico Buarque's play Gota d'Água (Water Drop). "Coração Só" was released on 4 July 2019, influenced by folk pop.

As she released the fourth one, "Saiba" (Know It), on 4 November 2019, featuring Seu Jorge, she announced the three previous ones wouldn't be part of the album, titled Fragma. In July 2020, she released a single named "Na Sua Casa" (In Your House), released with a stop motion video recorded via an app.

Influences
Besides Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Nina Simone and her own father, Magalhães also cites Daft Punk, FKJ, Hiatus Kaiyote, Solange Knowles, Ray Charles, Zaz, Flume, BaianaSystem, Céu, Rita Lee, Liniker, Jorge Aragão, Mozart, Alcione, Erykah Badu, Madonna, Elis Regina, Björk, Amy Winehouse, A Tribe Called Quest, Childish Gambino, Rosalía, Jorja Smith, Letrux, Caldeirão, Quincy Jones and others as influences.

Acting career
Magalhães worked on Netflix Brazilian series 3% on the role of Natália, and also on the series Psi, by HBO Brasil, and on the movie Querida Mamãe.

Discography
Albuns
 Fragma (2020)

Singles
 "Fazer Valer" (2018, featuring Rincon Sapiência)
 "Vai Ouvir" (2019)
 "Coração Só" (2019)
 "Saiba" (2019, featuring Seu Jorge)
 "O Amor Te Dá" (2020)
 "Na Sua Casa" (2020)

Filmography

Television

Cinema

Theater

References

External links

Brazilian television actresses
Actors from Rio de Janeiro (state)
1991 births
Living people
Brazilian women pianists
Brazilian women singer-songwriters
Brazilian singer-songwriters
Women in Latin music


The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kenneth Fay, age 54, most recently a resident of Missouri, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to charges that he failed to pay child support.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, in November 1993, Fay was ordered to pay child support by the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations Section. Fay failed to pay the child support and the case was referred to the federal government after both the state and county exhausted their ability to collect the child support payments from Fay.
Fay was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2011. At that time, Fay owed more than $90,000 in child support payments.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. Prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daryl F. Bloom.
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As the weather warms and lawns start to show their true green color, anyone with a morsel of lawn care expertise knows it's time for fertilizing warm season lawns. If your lawn is a Zoysia or Bermudagrass, see our blog post on the Best Times to Apply Fertilizer.
If the crowning jewel of your lawn is Centipede grass, you're in the right place. Before we begin to discuss the specifics of when and how to fertilizer TifBlair Centipede Ecograss, let's talk about the benefits of Centipede's unique characteristics compared to other warm season grass varieties.
TifBlair Centipede Ecograss is unique because of its incredibly low maintenance level. Affectionately titled the "lazy man's grass," TifBlair is the lowest maintenance of all quality southern lawn grasses.
What contributes to this low maintenance? First, Centipede prefers a more acidic soil than other warm season grasses. This means that you likely will not need to add lime to your soil to balance out the pH. Second, TifBlair has the lowest fertility requirements of any of our Super-Sod grasses, meaning you may need to fertilize your Centipede once a year or not at all.
TifBlair Centipede is unique because it does grow more densely and vigorously than common Centipede but also makes mowing easier due to its slow growth habit. The easier and less frequent the mowing schedule the better, especially when temperatures are on the rise.
If you're dealing with a new construction site where the top layer of soil has already been scraped away from the scene, Centipede's love of low pH could work to your advantage. Often times when the top layer of soil is scraped off, the revealed subsoil is low in pH or you end up with acidic back-filled soils. Since TifBlair doesn't mind acidic soil, you won't have to worry about liming the area to balance the pH.
To measure the pH of your soil and ensure you don't need to add lime, conduct a soil test by sending your soil off to Waters Agricultural Labs. Never add lime to a Centipede lawn without conducting a soil test first.
Speaking of soil tests, before laying Centipede, apply fertilizer according to the results of a soil test. If the test indicates a need for fertilizer, use a formula low in nitrogen (N) such as 5-10-30 + Iron. You may never need to fertilize Centipede except for when you first install your sod.
We have a handy video and written instructions about seeding a TifBlair Centipede lawn to learn about fertilizing before seeding.
You've seen that this is a "lazy man's grass" that may not need fertilizer, so why would you want to bother? By fertilizing you can achieve a darker green color or simply promote growth once your lawn has greened up for the summer.
If you do elect to fertilize for these reasons, use a formula low in Nitrogen, such as our Starter and Centipede Formulation 5-10-30 + Iron.
We always suggest conducting a soil test to determine how much fertilizer your lawn needs.
Calculate how many pounds of fertilizer you need for your lawn according to your soil test results with the formula sheet on How to Calculate Fertilizer Rates.
Split your total fertilizer pounds per year into 2 applications.
To avoid burning your grass, don't apply fertilizer to wet turf.
Don't over-apply. Centipede is one of the few turfgrasses that can actually be harmed by over fertilization.
Winter- December through Early February. Omit fertilizer. Your Centipede will be dormant and you don't want to promote growth while it's dormant.
Early Spring-February through Early April. Omit fertilizer. Your grass will still be partially dormant. Applying fertilizer at any point before soil temperatures warm up to appropriate levels will almost always cause chlorosis.
Pre-emergent exception: During late February to early March, you may use a "weed and feed" for pre-emergent weed control if you would like. Just make sure it's low in Nitrogen. We recommend 0-0-7 with Stonewall.
Mid-Spring- Late April through May. Apply the first dose of 5-10-30 + Iron fertilizer to your lawn during these months, only after your Centipede has greened up completely.
Organic Lawn Care Alternative: Instead of fertilizing your lawn with chemicals in the spring, you can aerate and topdress your lawn with Soil3 organic humus compost. This will act as your round of spring fertilizer.
Dark Green Color Alternative: Instead of applying fertilizer, use liquid iron on your Centipede lawn to achieve that dark green color.
Mid-Summer- June through August. Apply 5-10-30 + Iron as your final fertilizer application for the year.
Fall- September through November. Do not fertilize during these months. Centipede will go into dormancy, and fertilizing would disturb that process.
Too much fertilizer on your Centipede will actually harm your turfgrass instead of helping it. A condition results from over fertilization, especially with a nitrogen-based product. This is sometimes referred to as Centipedegrass decline.
You may not see the effects of high-nitrogen fertility in your Centipede when you first over-apply fertilizer, but the harm caused by excessive nitrogen is usually not visible until the next spring when your Centipede is trying to green up. It can take a full twelve months for signs of excessive fertility to show.
In many cases, lawn care companies damage lawns by over fertilizing them. Since lawn maintenance services are accustomed to the Bermuda lawns that require more fertilizer, their typical nitrogen application can kill the Centipede lawn. This is why we have the special formula 5-10-30 for Centipede as a low-nitrogen solution.
If you're working with a lawn care company to maintain your lawn, be sure they're using a low-nitrogen plan for fertilizing your lawn so your Centipede stays healthy and you remain happy.
For additional details on maintaining a TifBlair Centipede lawn, check out our TifBlair Maintenance Guide.
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Ray and I received some very disheartening news the day before leaving for Chile. Kevin Vallely, Ray's expedition brother—from the expedition to the South Pole in 2009 and the journey across Lake Baikal in 2010—informed us he wouldn't be able to make the trip due to recent developments with his father's health. Ray and I, along with the entire i2P community, want Kevin and his family to know that he is in our thoughts and we are all hopeful that things will turn for the better over the next few days and weeks.
Upon receiving the news Ray and I were forced to analyze the situation in front of us. We were one day away from a 600-700 mile running expedition across the driest desert on the planet and our options were few.
One option, maybe our only option, is that Ray is going to have to do it solo. My role shifts a bit from logistics, school communications, and desert traveler (via truck!) to logistics, school communications, and part-time runner to keep him company every once in a while. I will not be carrying all of my supplies—sleeping bag, stove, tent, food, sat phone, etc..—as Ray is doing. I will be carrying exactly enough Gatorade hydration and nutrition to get me through the day.
After all the training, logistics meetings with our Chilean team members, coordinating scouting missions so we don't get hopelessly lost in the desert, scouring topography maps and Google earth, working with our corporate expedition partners like Gatorade, Canada Goose, Stratos Global and a host of others, packing and re-packing gear, weighing bags, communicating with i2P team members and education coordinators, and all the while working on the upcoming spring 2011 i2P Youth Ambassador Expedition to Jordan the time has arrived. Ray is set to begin Saturday morning. He is looking forward to sharing the experience and contrasting story of biodiversity in the driest desert on the planet with all of the students that followed along throughout the Youth Ambassador Amazon expedition. Students will see a much different setting from the landscape seen just a few months ago.
Photos and more blogs to follow!


At this year's Salone del Mobile in Milan the UNStudio Futures team will once again team up with Swiss furniture brand USM to design their 'Making Places' stand: a playful installation that investigates 'a third space' between home and work. Also, Spanish furniture brand Ondarreta will be presenting the SILU Chair and Table designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio, while Ahrend will be presenting three versions of the new protoype for the 'UNSwivel' chair. UNStudio will also be curating a series of architectural talks for Deltalight and attending the 2019 Milano Hackathon.
The UNStudio Futures team and USM have been working together since 2017, exploring the changes taking place within the world of work. Last year the 'HomeWork' stand at the Salone del Mobile, designed by UNStudio, received, among others, the Frame Award for Trade-fair Stand of the Year.
This year we have teamed up again to create the 'Making Places' installation.
Spanish furniture brand Ondarreta will be presenting the SILU Chair and Table combination designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio.
For SILU, UNStudio and Ondarreta have fused traditional wood bending techniques and technical know-how with contemporary design. As such, SILU plays with functional ergonomic surfaces that dynamically transform into structural frame components. In SILU smooth transitions are made between sharp angles and soft curves and all pieces are made from wood sourced from sustainably managed forests.
Ahrend will be presenting three versions of the new prototype for the UNSwivel Chair in Milan this year.
UNSwivel, designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio in cooperation with Ahrend, is a dynamic work environment that combines different ways of working in one piece of furniture.
The dynamic workspace consists of a chair, screen and side table. The screen can rotate 360 degrees around the seat, while the table can be placed to the left or right side of the chair. Such flexibility facilitates different activities during the work day, such as meetings, carrying out concentrated work, or bilateral consultations, each of which have their own requirements in terms of acoustics, privacy and posture.
This year Ben van Berkel will be giving a presentation on Vitalising Workspaces, followed by a Q&A with Jeroen Junte at the special yearly Salone event 'The Architect's Breakfast', which takes place on Wednesday 10th April.
With so many designers and architects gathered in Milan, we invited two speakers from different backgrounds to speak about the role of light in their work: Saskia Beer, a Dutch urban development entrepreneur and consultant, and Rogier van der Zwaag, a visual artist and filmmaker.
UNSknowledge will moderate Saskia and Rogier's talks and host a short panel after the presentation to engage the public in a conversation about using light as a medium for communication and inclusivity beyond its functional purpose.
UNStudio is participating in the 2019 Hackathon on Tuesday April 9th-Friday April 12th. This year's Hackathon, entitled 'Designing the Future Data Centric City' will explore the rise of Datavironments, a future form of cityscape that integrates Mobile Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality into the communal lifestyle. The workshop will also propose unique and inspiring solutions to 'what the city of future will look like' through a series of design competitions.
The 2019 Hackathon, is an initiative by Dassault Systèmes as a part of Dassault Systèmes Worldwide Conference for Sustainable Innovation.


Ralf went out for a breath of fresh air.
Jeffery put on some sunscreen.
I think Arlene could be persuaded to help.
Geoffrey knew of the risks beforehand.
Hohn lent me the money I needed.
Suzanne loves art more than anything else in the world.
Jacobson was arrested for drunken driving.
Kerri and Mario had fun together.
Svante headed down the street.
Andrew could swim like a fish before he turned eight.
Part doesn't like it when Kriton leaves the toilet seat up.
Sugih hasn't eaten a thing all day.
Deirdre got more Christmas presents than Vidhyanath.
Hohn wiped the tears from Russ's eyes.
I'm sure Marion was nice to Troy.
Hazel's gross income last year was over thirty thousand dollars.
Revised burst into the apartment.
Starbuck is old enough to look after himself.
Tai got up early in the morning and swam.
Isaac says he's gotten used to eating hospital food.
Shakil has a dark complexion.
Tim didn't mind living by himself.
Pablo was too surprised to react.
Sridharan's dog isn't allowed in the house.
Skeeter is going back to prison.
We'll begin the meeting when Sorrel get here.
Jackye doesn't know a thing about investing.
I woke up and Edith was gone.


BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks visit the Vegas Golden Knights for game three of the Western Conference first round with the series tied 1-1.
The Golden Knights have gone 18-8-3 against division opponents. Vegas leads the Western Conference shooting 34.3 shots per game while averaging 3.0 goals.
The Sharks are 21-16-4 in road games. San Jose is fourth in the league shooting 10.7 percent and averaging 3.5 goals on 33.0 shots per game. The teams meet Sunday for the seventh time this season. The Golden Knights won the last matchup 5-3.
TOP PERFORMERS: Jonathan Marchessault leads the Golden Knights with 59 total points, scoring 25 goals and collecting 34 assists. Reilly Smith has 6 points over the last 10 games for Vegas.
Brent Burns leads the Sharks with 83 total points, scoring 16 goals and adding 67 assists. Tomas Hertl has totaled five goals and eight assists over the last 10 games for San Jose.
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 4-5-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.4 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game with a .871 save percentage.


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import logging; log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

from cStringIO import StringIO
import ExifTags
import hashlib
import Image
import ImageFile
import urllib2

# PIL's Error "Suspension not allowed here" work around:
# s. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/1999-August/000816.html
ImageFile.MAXBLOCK = 1024*1024

def load_image_from_string(s):
    """Loads a PIL image from a string"""
    try:
        image = Image.open(StringIO(s))
        return ImageHelper(image).fix_rotation()
    except IOError, e:
        log.error(e)
        return None

def load_image_from_file(filename):
    """Loads a PIL image from a file"""
    image = Image.open(filename)
    return ImageHelper(image).fix_rotation()

def load_image_from_url(url):
    """Loads a PIL image from a url"""
    try:
        image_string = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
        image = load_image_from_string(image_string)
        return ImageHelper(image).fix_rotation()
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        log.error(e)
        return None

class ImageHelper(object):
    """Helper methods for images"""
    def __init__(self, image):
        """Start with an object as the focus of this class"""
        self.image = image

    def md5_hash(self):
        """Gets the md5 hash for this image"""
        return unicode(hashlib.md5(self.image.tostring()).hexdigest())

    def to_jpeg_string(self, params={}):
        """Opens an image file and returns a jpeg binary string representation"""
        # Set default encoding params (but allow overrides)
        encoding_params = {
            'quality': 95,
            'optimize': True,
        }
        encoding_params.update(params)
        # Fix the image if it's not RGB
        if self.image.mode != u'RGB':
            self.image = self.image.convert(u'RGB')
        # Encode the new image to a string buffer and return
        out_bytes = StringIO()
        self.image.save(out_bytes, u'JPEG', **params)
        return out_bytes.getvalue()

    def to_png_string(self, params={}):
        """Opens an image file and returns a png binary string representation"""
        # Set default encoding params (but allow overrides)
        encoding_params = {
            'optimize': True,
        }
        encoding_params.update(params)
        # Encode the new image to a string buffer and return
        out_bytes = StringIO()
        self.image.save(out_bytes, u'PNG', **params)
        return out_bytes.getvalue()

    def fix_rotation(self):
        """
        Turns EXIF rotation into a physical rotation (doesn't clear the rotation EXIF!)
        see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606587/how-to-use-pil-to-resize-and-apply-rotation-exif-information-to-the-file
        """
        # Get the key for the 'Orientation' EXIF property
        for orientation_key in ExifTags.TAGS.iterkeys():
            if ExifTags.TAGS[orientation_key] is 'Orientation': break

        # Get the EXIF orientation value from our image
        orientation = self.image._getexif().get(orientation_key)

        # Perform our rotation
        if orientation is 1: # Horizontal (normal)
            image = self.image.copy()
        elif orientation is 2: # Mirrored horizontal
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT)
        elif orientation is 3: # Rotated 180
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.ROTATE_180)
        elif orientation is 4: # Mirrored vertical
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
        elif orientation is 5: # Mirrored horizontal then rotated 90 CCW
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM).transpose(Image.ROTATE_270)
        elif orientation is 6: # Rotated 90 CW
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.ROTATE_270)
        elif orientation is 7: # Mirrored horizontal then rotated 90 CW
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT).transpose(Image.ROTATE_270)
        elif orientation is 8: # Rotated 90 CCW
            image = self.image.transpose(Image.ROTATE_90)
        else:
            pass

        return image

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Born March 1st 1837 at Deventer, Holland.
Began flute studies in Cologne, later moving to Leipzig to study his instrument with Hanke for whom he acted as deputy at the Leipzig Opera House.
He was a member of Jullien's Band in the early 1850's before his appointment as principal flute under Charles Hallé in 1858.
By 1870 he had set up his own Saturday Popular Concerts in Manchester with an orchestra of sixty players. De Jong appeared as soloist and conductor.
His conducting career took him to regular appointments at Buxton, Liverpool and Morecambe. He was Flute Professor at the Royal Manchester College of Music 1893 – 1906.


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Federation University Australia > Connect > Alumni > Alumni profiles > RICHARDS, RW (Dick)
RICHARDS, RW (Dick)
Distinguished Alumnus
Dick Richards was an Australian science teacher who joined the Ballarat School of Mines in 1914, where he gave 44 years of service, 12 of them as Principal.
During his career he developed many pieces of experimental equipment and during World War II acted as a scientific adviser in the production of optical apparatus in Australia.
Dick's work was honoured through the naming of the Ballarat School of Mines–R W Richards Medal, which is awarded annually to a Bachelor of Applied Science graduate.
Dick Richards was granted leave from his SMB post and spent 3 freezing years in Antarctica between 1914-1917 as part of an Exploration Expedition. Travelling with Sir Ernest Shackleton, Richards' ship Aurora, tethered offshore, was blown away in a gale leaving Richards marooned for two years with nine other men. He was awarded the Albert Medal (now known as the George Cross) in 1923 for his efforts on the ice to save the lives of two fellow explorers. He outlived all other members of the expedition, and became the last survivor of the so-called "Heroic Age"


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Bring a Trailer Bargain of the Week: 2007 987 Porsche Cayman
by Matthew Skwarczek twitter linkedin on July 16, 2021
Given how well their resale value holds, some might think secondhand Porsches are unaffordable. However, not every used Porsche is expensive, and that includes its sports cars. One model, in particular, is often found at reasonably affordable prices. And this week, there's one up for sale on Bring a Trailer: a 2007 987 Porsche Cayman.
A used 987 Porsche Cayman is a fun mid-engine sports car that rivals the 911
2007 Porsche Cayman front | Porsche
While the rear-engine 911 is Porsche's most iconic car, some critics argue that it's not necessarily the German brand's best sports car. In terms of balance and fun, the mid-engine Cayman is regularly considered the 911's equal, if not it's better. And that's been the case since the first-gen 987 Porsche Cayman debuted in 2006.
At first, the 987 Porsche Cayman was only available in 295-hp, 3.4-liter flat-six Cayman S trim. But in 2007 came the base Cayman, with a 2.7-liter flat-six engine rated at 245 hp and 201 lb-ft of torque. And while the 987 Cayman S has a standard six-speed manual, that was optional on the base Cayman, which came standard with a five-speed manual. As a result, the base model goes 0-62 mph in 6.1 seconds, 0.3 seconds slower than the S, Road & Track says.
Besides the smaller engine, the 987 Porsche Cayman also has smaller front brakes than the S and a softer suspension tune. And it doesn't have quite as much standard equipment. However, it's also 88 pounds lighter than the Cayman S, Car notes. Plus, with a softer ride, the 987 Cayman is more forgiving on rough roads than the Cayman S.
Also, a base 987 Porsche Cayman is still a mid-engine Porsche sports car. To quote Autocar, its "high-speed stability is superb and noticeably better than the [contemporary] 911's." Even with the retuned suspension, the base car "delivers crisp handling," R&T reports, and the smaller rotors don't noticeably affect braking performance. There's also plenty of feedback through the steering wheel. And the five-speed transmission gives up little, if anything, to the six-speed, Car says.
There's a 2007 model for sale on Bring a Trailer
2007 Porsche Cayman 5-Speed | Bring a Trailer
To be fair, the modern 718 Cayman has more tech and more power than the 987 Porsche Cayman. The older car, though, has a critical advantage over the new one (disregarding the GT4): that sweet flat-six engine.
But the five-speed 2007 Cayman currently listed on Bring a Trailer offers a little more than that. Besides the coupe's standard equipment, it has 18" Cayman S wheels, leather upholstery, heated seats, and automatic climate control. It also has the Sound Package Plus, which adds extra speakers, a more powerful amplifier, and CD storage in the glovebox. And it rides on H&R lowering springs. Those are the only modifications besides the paint protection film.
2007 Porsche Cayman 5-Speed interior | Bring a Trailer
Besides being mostly stock, this 2007 987 Porsche Cayman has less than 76,000 miles on the clock. It also has a zero-accident history. And BaT reports that the seller has addressed several maintenance items in preparation for the sale. Besides changing the oil, they also replaced the tie rod ends, sway bar links, shocks, tires, and the battery.
This used 987 Porsche Cayman might be a bargain buy, but will it be expensive to maintain?
As of this writing, this 2007 987 Porsche Cayman is listed on BaT for $22,000 with three days left in the auction. To be sure, you can find cheaper Caymans, but not significantly cheaper ones. On BaT, the average used Cayman hovers closer to $30,000. Considering this car's condition and mileage, it's a true bargain.
Given that it's a used Porsche sports car, some might be wary of bidding on it. As always, we recommend getting a pre-purchase inspection beforehand. Additionally, this 987 Cayman is a '987.1' car, which means it has an M97 engine with an intermediate shaft, PCA explains. The phrase 'IMS failure' sparks fear for many potential Porsche owners, as it can mean buying a new engine.
However, it's worth noting that IMS failures are often overblown, and affect the Cayman less than the 911. Also, in 2007, Porsche gave the 987 Cayman a stronger IMS bearing, further reducing failure rates, Motorious says. And while 987.1 engines can suffer from cylinder scoring and leaking rear main seals, the 2.7-liter engines are less prone to the former. Based on the BaT post's description and comments, this 2007 Cayman appears to suffer from neither.
In short, this 2007 987 Porsche Cayman offers 911-level fun and handling at a fraction of the price. And while some parts can be pricey, in this spec, this coupe should be just as affordable to maintain.
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Amy Adams gave up her first class seat to a US soldier on flight to LAX
I feel like we don't talk about Amy Adams enough. She's lovely! She's beautiful, talented, seems incredibly down-to-earth and is kind without the need to draw attention to herself. That latter quality was demonstrated on a flight to LAX on Friday when she gave up her first-class seat to a US soldier in coach.
From People:
The Oscar nominee was at the airport in Detroit on Friday when she spotted a soldier in uniform at her gate and then arranged to give her first class seat to the man, who had been ticketed in coach.
Jemele Hill, co-host of ESPN's Numbers Never Lie, was also on the flight and Tweeted about what happened next.
"Just saw actress Amy Adams do something incredibly classy," she wrote. "She gave her 1st class seat to an American soldier. I'm an even bigger fan now."
"I don't think he knows she did it," she added.
"As I was getting seated, I saw the flight attendant guide the soldier to Ms. Adams' seat. She was no longer in it, but it was pretty clear that she'd given up her seat for him," Hill told ABC News. "I was incredibly impressed."
Hill revealed that Adams, 39, whose father was in the U.S. military, briefly chatted to the soldier by the cockpit and then went back to her seat in coach.
"[She] did it so quietly and quickly that it speaks to her character," Hill said. "And somebody in coach just got a helluva seatmate."
Aw, isn't that sweet? (Seriously – no sarcasm there.) I've always thought she seemed really lovely, and this just confirms it. More Amy Adams! Amy Adams for president!
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I smell a PR stunt
pik nak says:
Absolutely a PR stunt. She is quite lovely though, gotta say. I had the chance to spend time with her one evening & she's real, y'all, down to earth girl. Good on her. F that PR however. Nothing's done on the "downlow" & with humility in Hollywood.
was gonna say, if they just talked for a couple seconds, which of them which immediately whip out their phone for a photo op?
mireee says:
I know if a Hollywood A-lister gave me their seat and I got to meet them I'd whip out my phone for a selfie!
Oh wow guys no lets completely ignore the fact this was a really nice thing to do for a person who risks his life defends the freaking country and denounce it as a PR stunt because nothing good came out of this situation right? Good job on seeing the big picture assholes.
But seriously soldier guy enjoy it now and prepare yourself for getting royally screwed when you're a vet.
I agree why are these ppl so cynical did they not see her father was military so she knows the sacrifice 1st hand. If you want to believe it was a "PR" move I hope you think "PR" stands for Proper Respect. Classy move Amy


The Beaches is a neighbourhood and popular tourist destination located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of the "Old" City of Toronto. The commercial district of Queen Street East lie at the heart of The Beaches community. It is characterized by a large number of independent speciality stores. The side streets are mostly lined with semis and large-scale Victorian, Edwardian and new-style houses. There are also low-rise apartment buildings and a few row-houses. There are several parks just a few steps south. Kingston Road is a four-lane road along the northern section of the neighbourhood travelling with residences on either side. Woodbine Avenue is a four-lane road originating from Lakeshore Boulevard at the Lake Ontario shoreline, running north. It is primarily residential.
Pic. 1. On Lakeshore, just when Woodbine becomes Lakeshore. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 2. Boardwalk facing east. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 3. A park for children. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 4. Beach facing west. A couple of skyscrapers on the right. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 5. Boardwalk facing east. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 7. Boardwalk facing east. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 8. Housing on the beach front. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 9. The area close to the beach has some better looking residences. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 10. A bit closer to Queen street, we find some more typical houses of this neighborhood. A bit old and shabby, but alright. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Pic. 11. Queen Street East. View photo in original size (1009x746 pixels).
Pic. 12. Queen Street East. View photo in original size (738x938 pixels).
Pic. 13. Queen Street East. View photo in original size (732x990 pixels).
Pic. 14. Queen Street East -- these far-west-like electricity pylons are the ugly side of Toronto. Well, no city is perfect. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).
Map of The Beaches neighborhood.
Woodbine subway station, then take bus going south on Woodbine, stop at Lakeshore.
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Map of The Beaches. Pictures by Parent within 4 kilometers of The Beaches Neighborhood.
India Bazaar Neighborhood by Parent. The portion of Gerrard Street between Greenwood and Coxwell is commonly referred to as "Little India" or "Gerrard India Bazaar", or "South Asian Bazaar". There are numerous Pakistani, Indian, Sri.. Distance from The Beaches: 2.4km NWW, 16 pictures.