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Top 5 Superhero Fantasy Books
Books / By Leonard Barnes
Although superheroes started off in comics, they've evolved to become to much more than that. Heroes like Batman and the Avengers have conquered both Netflix and the big screen with record-breaking results. At the same time, there's been a revolution of Superheroes in the world of Fantasy literature. If you're looking for a thrilling, super-powered read, here are some books to check out:
1)	Steelheart-Brandon Sanderson
"Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will.
Nobody fights the Epics…nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.
And David wants in. He wants Steelheart — the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning — and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.
He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182126-steelheart
2)	Renegades-Marissa Meyer
The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone… except the villains they once overthrew.
Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice — and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28421168-renegades
3)	Alone-Robert J. Crane
Sienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure of who to turn to and discovering she possesses mysterious powers, Sienna finds herself pursued by a shadowy agency known as the Directorate and hunted by a vicious, bloodthirsty psychopath named Wolfe, each of which is determined to capture her for their own purposes…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13602390-alone?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SFbzkwp7sb&rank=2
4)	Star Child-Leonard Petracci
Powers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space.
The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret. He pretends to be nothing more than a mere Regular while his peers develop unique powers, varying from controlling lightning to producing diamond hard skin. But when his mother is kidnapped by an unknown organization, SC has no choice but to act.
SC ventures into a school of talented students to learn to fight, where he must learn to master his powers without revealing their true nature. But soon he realizes that the school is more than it appears and that it may hold the secret to his missing mother. To rescue her, he will have to reveal powers never before seen in all of history.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466303-star-child?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=pcy5PvHidR&rank=3
5)	Caped: The Omega Superhero Book One-Darius Brasher
Scrawny seventeen-year-old Theodore Conley shocks himself and everyone else by tossing three big bullies around like they are wads of paper and Theo is aiming for the trash can.
Now that he has superpowers, suddenly everyone expects Theo to do great things. He doesn't want to do anything great, however. It's too much work and too dangerous. Unless it's safe and involves Theo finally getting a girlfriend, he's not interested.
Theo gets more danger than he can handle when a supervillain attacks. In self-defense, Theo is forced to pursue a hero's cape in superhero school, a frightening place of grueling humiliation, intense combat training, and deadly tests. Theo soon finds that even just a potential superhero gets an archenemy. The problem is Theo's doesn't want to just defeat him. His archenemy wants to kill him.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/32759309


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New Evidence, Old Lies on the Murder of Haren Pandya, Modi's Early Rival
A 15-year wait for suspects in Haren Pandya's murder case may come to an end as a witness testifies in open court that Sohrabuddin was responsible for the killing and had told him the contract was given by top cop D.G. Vanzara.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narendra Modi and D.G. Vanzara.
Sarita Rani
This is the first of a two-part story. The second part is here.
Hyderabad: Small-time gangster Azam Khan's surprise testimony at a CBI special court in Mumbai last Saturday proved one thing beyond doubt: That he was still alive. He must thank god for small mercies, though spending a dozen or so years in and out of jail must hardly count as a life.
Fifteen years after the event, Azam Khan testified in open court that former crime branch cop and then-chief minister Narendra Modi's blue-eyed boy D.G. Vanzara had given the contract to kill the former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya in March 2003.
It is important to understand exactly what he said.
He said Sohrabuddin claimed Pandya's supari was given to three people and one of them was Sohrabuddin Sheikh. The other two were Naeem Khan and Shahid Rampuri, another gangster whose name has figured in the Pandya matter for the first time. Azam Khan said that "at Sohrabuddin's instance", Pandya's killing was carried out by Sohrabuddin's associate, Tulsiram Prajapati, and "one boy".
For 15 years, this has been the rumour thanks to secret probes that have never seen the light of day. This is the first time, however, that testimony has been given in open court. Both Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati are dead. Naxalite-turned-police informant and real estate thug Nayeemuddin, aka Naeem, who also played a role in the drama, is dead too. All three were conveniently killed in police encounters between 2005 and 2016. Former home minister Amit Shah once complained that the spotlight on the Gujarat police was unfair and that the Hyderabad police has missed the attention it should have got. In that, he has been right.
However, several important questions now raise themselves.
Is Azam Khan telling the truth? And whatever it is, why now?
If yes, why would Vanzara give out the contract?
Who was the other "boy"? Is he still alive? If yes, where?
Where is Shahid Rampuri and is he still alive?
And finally, what was Vanzara's connection to the Pandya case?
The whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Azam Khan's father was a small time visa agent who died without giving his son a decent education. Khan himself wasn't particularly interested in studies and entered into crime with small cricket bets, much the rage in the late '90s and early 2000s. This was also how he was introduced to local cops, and picked up a rowdy sheet. As with the stories of most men, it's about who you end up meeting.
In the early '90s, Abdul Latif was Gujarat's favourite gangster. People loved him or loved to hate him. One way or another, most had a relationship with him they didn't want the world to know about. When Latif was killed in an encounter by the Gujarat anti-terror squad (ATS) in 1997, he left behind two lieutenants, Sharif Khan and Rasool Party. Salim Anwaruddin Shaik was Sharif Khan's driver. Once while checking into a hotel for Sharif he'd used an alias that he liked and used forever after that. The alias was Sohrabuddin.
Also read: Mystery over Haren Pandya Killing Deepens After Witness Says Top Gujarat Cop Gave OrderAzam Khan had the misfortune of meeting up with Sohrabuddin around 2001-2002. At the time, Latif was dead, Sharif Khan and Rasool were on the run in Dubai, and Sohrabuddin was out on bail in the famous 'AK-47 case' from the time of chief minister Suresh Mehta.
Growing up in the mob
In passing interest: a very young Geeta Johri had arrested Sharif Khan after Congress leader Rauf Valiullah was murdered in 1992 in almost similar circumstances as Haren Pandya. But surprise, surprise. Sharif Khan escaped. Several police constables were charged, convicted and removed from service for the failure.
The police later arrested Sharif Khan's driver, Sohrabuddin, and discovered 26 AK 47s hidden in a dry well in Sohrab's native village in Jhirniya, Madhya Pradesh. The initial number was believed to be 48, but by the time the case got to court, the number became 26.
Sharif Khan got away and Sohrab got entangled with the next generation of Crime Branch and ATS (Anti Terrorism Squad) cops.
Latif's major business had been illicit liquor. With him dead, the illicit liquor business had moved from Muslim gangs to Hindu gangs in Gujarat. This left Sohrab without a portfolio. Most of the Muslim gangs had moved to Udaipur including one of Latif's sons.
For reasons best known to him, the senior Gujarat police officer Abhay Chudasama kept Sohrabuddin invested by pivoting him towards the real estate and inter-state marble mafia. For a long time, Sohrabuddin was really Chudasama's man, and Vanzara only chanced on him accidentally. According to a source who was once close to the case, at one point when Sohrab's brother, Rubabuddin, chose to re-appeal his brother's case, he specially asked that Chudasama be kept out of the appeal.
Conveniently dead
The sum of which story is: Azam is definitely telling the truth when speaking of Sohrabuddin's closeness to the Gujarat police in general, and Vanzara in particular (and Chudasama too, as Azam Khan said in an earlier statement). Sohrabuddin has a long history with them – not all of it on the other side of the fence.
Is it the whole truth, though? His formal testimony is over but the story isn't. For instance, Azam, Sohrabuddin, Tulsiram and others were arrested for allegedly killing another gangster called Hamid Lala on December 31, 2004. That is how Gujarat police got Sohrabuddin and Tulsi back into custody – Sohrabuddin's was off the books, Tulsi's was not – and finally bumped them off.
As Azam told the court, he himself was acquitted in the Hamid Lala case in 2009. What has not yet been mentioned is the fact that Sohrabuddin was also cleared of the murder charge. Hamid Lala's murder also remains unsolved.
So another question then arises: Who killed Hamid Lala and blamed it on Sohrabuddin, the man so conveniently dead that he can now be held accountable for almost anything?
The incomplete man
What is also manifestly clear is that a contract to kill Haren Pandya was given.
The CBI at the time made an attempt to cover up the case in a manner that was so amateur and conspicuously silly that when the forensic world really hears about it, it really ought to enter some kind of world record.
Haren Pandya
Twelve men were charged with Pandya's murder along with an attempt to kill a small-time VHP functionary called Jagdish Tiwari.
Despite holes in the prosecution story that a bulldozer could breeze through, POTA judge Sonia Gokani found everyone guilty as charged in 2007, even as the key accused, Rasool Party and Mufti Sufiyan, conveniently disappeared. She sentenced the allegedly guilty to life. In 2011, high court justices D.H. Waghela and J.C. Upadhyaya, more mindful of the presented and missing evidence, acquitted all the accused in the Haren Pandya case.
At the time, Pandya's wife appealed to the Supreme Court to reinvestigate. Guess who opted to appeal the acquittal instead? The Manmohan Singh government, after the CBI reportedly made a presentation to home minister P. Chidambaram and law minister Salman Khurshid. Whether the CBI briefed the ministers about what Azam Khan had told them is not known. That appeal is still lying with the court.
In sum: As of now, officially, no one killed Haren Pandya. Certainly not those accused of the murder.
Asgar Ali, acquitted in the Haren Pandya murder case, was re-arrested recently by the Telangana police, for his alleged involvement in the 'honour' killing of a Dalit groom. In the photo above, he is wearing a blue shirt with white checks. Credit: TV18 Telugu.
However – and this is a big one – the main accused in the case, Asgar Ali, was recently re-arrested in another completely unrelated case, from his home district Nalgonda in Telangana. In September, a honour killing briefly held the limelight when a local hotshot, Maruti Rao, participated in killing his own Dalit son-in-law. He and the man who allegedly did the actual hacking, Subhash Sharma, were picked up along with a few others. Among them was Asgar Ali and and Abdul Bari, both accused and acquitted in the Pandya case. They are now accused of being masterminds behind the honour killing.
Also read: The Many Questions Still Unanswered 15 Years After Haren Pandya's KillingAsgar Ali, also a history-sheeter with a record like Sohrab, remains one of three petty criminals alive who sit on the real story of Pandya's murder. If these men are killed in an encounter, it is possible that the story of Pandya's real killers will die with them, in so far as the possibility of court testimony is considered. (So the first concern of anyone interested in the truth should be the security of these witnesses.)
This still leaves Vanzara holding the baby.
But why Vanzara? He had no skin in the game as far as Haren Pandya was concerned. He had to have been acting on behalf of someone else. Politicians don't hobnob with petty criminals – cops do.
D.G. Vanzara has the oldest, most open and most precarious connection to Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, now prime minister of India, which he foolishly loved to flaunt. Some men are meant to be in the spotlight, and some in the shadows. Vanzara was always meant to stay in the shadows, but unlike his colleagues, Dahyabhai Gobarji never understood this critical maxim.
Amit Shah was once caught on a contested CBI sting saying, "Sohrabuddin sealed his own fate". It is quite possible this is how he looks at Vanzara now, that Vanzara may well have sealed his own fate. After all, while he was in jail in 2013, frustrated with Modi's silence, Vanzara did tell CBI's Sanjay Tamgadge that Pandya's murder was a political conspiracy. The same Tamgadge also took Azam's deposition at one time. Vanzara was released on bail a few months after that.
Yet the man from Illol, where Sohrabuddin's wife Kauser Bi was burnt and buried, is nothing if not unpredictable. And he's had more lives than a cat. Despite, or perhaps after his seven years in jail in Sohrabuddin's case, the Bombay high court upheld his discharge by a sessions court this year.
To clarify, this is the CBI special court that is hearing the case. The stakes are much higher now that Pandya's murder has been brought into it.
The question is, was Vanzara connected to the Pandya case at all?
The official story is he had nothing to do with it. The official story is a lie.
Sarita Rani is an engineer turned reporter of 18 years. She is currently engaged in research for an independent project.

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NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields drifted lower on Wednesday after data showed the first drop in August producer prices in 1-1/2 years and ahead of an auction of $23 billion in new supply of 10-year notes.
Treasury prices rallied modestly after the Labor Department reported that the producer price index fell unexpectedly last month, as declines in the prices of food and a range of trade services offset the higher cost of energy products.
Yields typically fall in step with inflation, as expectations ease that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to cap inflation.
The market's response on Wednesday was muted, however, because overall inflation is steadily rising, driven by a tightening labor market and robust economy. The Fed is expected to raise interest rates later this month for the third time this year.
The two-year yield, which reflects market expectations of Fed interest rate hikes, was slightly off the decade peak hit on Tuesday, and was last at 2.740 percent.
The U.S. bond market's gauge of investors' inflation outlook - the yield spread between 10-year Treasury inflation-protected securities and benchmark 10-year notes - held its earlier gains even after the PPI data, up 0.2 basis point from Tuesday, last at 2.12 percent.
The market will be awaiting the release of consumer price index data on Thursday to see if it confirms the increased inflation expectations suggested by strong job opening numbers reported on Tuesday and wage gains reported last Friday.
Later on Wednesday, $23 billion of 10-year notes will be auctioned by the Treasury Department.
The offering is lower than the $26 billion auctioned in August, but still above the average offer at that maturity of $21 billion, said Justin Hoogendoorn, head of fixed income strategy at Piper Jaffray in Chicago, Illinois.
New supply of Treasuries has surged in 2018 as the Fed has reduced its bond buying and the Treasury has issued new debt to pay for President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion tax cut.
"One of the things we're looking at as the Treasury builds up supply, is how the market soaks that up," said Hoogendoorn.
At 10:24 a.m. ET (14:24 p.m. GMT) the 10-year yield was at 2.961 percent, down from Tuesday's close at 2.979 percent. The 30-year yield was last at 3.107 percent, below its last close at 3.124 percent.


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Q: Comparar Datas - PHP - CodeIgniter Olá, tenho o seguinte caso estou com uma data no banco de dados salvando assim:
(02-12-2016). A ideia seria pegar a data atual e caso ela seja menor que 2 dias que a data citada acima faça tal coisa. Eu tentei fazer assim:
        foreach ($teste as $row) {
        $data_validade = $row->data_validade;
        echo $data_validade;
        $data_atual = date('d-m-Y');
        $diferenca = strtotime($data_validade) - strtotime($data_atual);
        $dias = floor($diferenca / (60 * 60 * 24));

        if ($dias < 2) {
            redirect('Painel_voluntario/index/?aviso=4');
        } else {
            $dados['status_vaga'] = 'Voluntário Desistiu...';
            $data = array(
                "excluir" => $this->Vaga_model->aceitarOuRecusar($id_vaga, $id_voluntario, $dados)
            );
            redirect('Painel_voluntario/index/?aviso=3');
        }

    }

Neste caso até está funcionando, mas por exemplo se eu digito uma data muito alta como 29-10-2998, não vai funcionar(está caindo no if que ele é menor que dois dias, o que logo está errado).

A: Tente isto:
foreach ($teste as $row) {
    $data_validade = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($row->data_validade));
    echo $data_validade;
    $data_atual = new DateTime(date('Y-m-d'));
    $diferenca = $data_validade->diff($data_atual);

    $dias = $diferenca->format('%a');
    $op = $diferenca->format('%R');

    if ($op == "-" && $dias > 2) {
        redirect('Painel_voluntario/index/?aviso=4');
    } else {
        $dados['status_vaga'] = 'Voluntário Desistiu...';
        $data = array(
            "excluir" => $this->Vaga_model->aceitarOuRecusar($id_vaga, $id_voluntario, $dados)
        );
        redirect('Painel_voluntario/index/?aviso=3');
    }

}

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The beer is stuffed into pretzel-like dough and flash fried for about 20 seconds.
So an inventor in Texas has done it. He's successfully fried a liquid. Mark Zable will unveil his deep-fried beer covered in a pretzel coating at the State Fair of Texas.
Ravioli-like pockets of pretzel dough are stuffed with Guinness (Zable says he may try and use a pale ale later) and then flash fried for a few seconds. The result – an ooey, gooey concoction that you'll need to have your driver's license for.
Yes, you will need to be 21 to indulge in the deep-fried beer. Authorities say there is enough of the alcohol left, even after frying. For $5 you get 5 pieces of deep-fried goodness. Git on down to the Lonestar State – the fair starts Sept. 24.
Oh, another creation that the Texas fair will have – a deep-fried margarita. Another inventor has stuffed lime-flavored tequila goodness into a funnel cake and covered it in powdered sugar.
Wanna learn more? Check out this story from the Dallas News!
This entry was posted in Food - General, Foodie Firsts and tagged fried beer, fried margarita, funnel cake, Guiness, Lonestar, Mark Zable, pretzel, state fair, Texas by Christina. Bookmark the permalink.
Neither of those sound good to me. I'll stick to my plain old beer and pretzels and blended margaritas. However I'm curious what they would taste like.
Amy – I think if they had an Auntie Anne's pretzel it would be fabulous!
And, darnit, I'm on a DIET during the Texas fair this year — and we're only about 10 minutes away from the fairgrounds! I didn't get to try the deep-fried butter last year, either. Sad.
AJ – I think you need to take one for the team and go off the diet for this once!


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Manos Chatzopoulos
Emmanouil (Manos) Chatzopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in the February of 1986. He is the son of an air force pilot and an accountant. He went to school in the beautiful southern Greek town of Kalamata where he started been interested in the science of astrophysics at an early age.
During these years, he had the chance to represent Greece to the International Space Camp held annually in the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center facilities in Huntsville, Alabama. This experience boosted his interest about astronomy even more, so that he decided to pursue a physics Bachelor's degree, with focus in astrophysics, in the University of Crete. As a result, he spent his undergraduate years in the beautiful island of Crete where he had his first astronomy related research experience during his Senior year that resulted in the publishing of two papers. By that time, he was certain he wanted to pursue a career in Astrophysics research and he decided to apply for Graduate Studies to various U.S. graduate programs.
He decided to come to the Department of Astronomy of the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 to start his PhD studies in Astrophysics under the supervision of Professor J. Craig Wheeler studying exploding stars (supernovae). In 2010 he received his Master of Arts (MA) degree in Astronomy for studying models of supernova light curves and reporting the discovery of the Super Luminous Supernova 2008am.
Manos obtained his PhD in Astronomy in May 2013 and subsequently accepted a position as an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the FLASHCenter of Computational Science at the University of Chicago. He currently works in a variety of challenging numerical simulations of massive stars and supernovae some of which are run on Argonne's National Laboratory Mira supercomputer, one of the biggest computing machines in the world.
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Garber: The secret behind every great shot
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The secret behind every great shot
Greg GarberSenior Writer
Greg Garber joined ESPN in 1991 and provides reports for NFL Countdown and SportsCenter. He is also a regular contributor to Outside the Lines and a senior writer for ESPN.com.
The shot gets all the love.
That's the way it is in the bottom-line business of sports. The sweet pass that leads to the overtime goal? The crushing block that springs the running back for a touchdown? The gritty foul balls that allow an at-bat to blossom into a run-scoring double?
No one really cares about what came first. To the eye of the casual fan, this is especially true in tennis.
"Everybody talks about weapons -- the big serve, forehand, backhand," said Sam Sumyk, who coaches No. 4-ranked Victoria Azarenka. "These are isolated shots. Why not movement? It can be a huge weapon, as well. It's the key to every stroke."
Ah, movement. It is the very rhythm, the baseline (so to speak) of the game. Movement is everything that happens before the ball strike. It's how the elite players arrive at the desired point of impact -- hence the term "being on the ball." It allows you to take the ball earlier and put yourself in position to hit your best shots, such as running around the backhand.
"It is much more important than ballstriking, that's for sure," insisted three-time French Open champion Mats Wilander. "Usually, the best players in the world are the best movers.
"Movement is why [Novak] Djokovic is the best player right now. It's why Rafa [Nadal] is the best player ever. It's also why Robin Soderling hasn't won a major, or Tomas Berdych, for that matter."
It's all about the journey. Because it is the most cloying of surfaces -- Did you ever try to run on the beach? -- movement on clay is more important than on any other surface. As the French Open unfurls next week, balls will bounce higher, points will last longer -- and more miles will be logged.
Movement has many components. It is the fitness and flexibility of Novak Djokovic and Kim Clijsters. The jaw-dropping speed of Gael Monfils. The world-class acceleration of Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams or the startling anticipation of Caroline Wozniacki. Or the eerily cat-quiet footwork of Roger Federer.
Some players move better from baseline to net, others from side to side, still others diagonally. Some move better on clay, others on hard courts. The sum of all these moving parts: court coverage.
Jose Higueras, the USTA's director of coaching for elite player development, has coached a number of the world's best movers, including Federer and Jim Courier.
"Because you are very quick doesn't mean you will move quickly on a court," Higueras said from his home in California. "Movement is more about how you perceive the bounce of the ball, assimilate where you are, where the ball is going to be -- and how you are going to get there."
The journey to get to the ball is as important at the shot itself. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images
The importance of court coverage
Think of the Olympic sprinter. Pure speed is the only concern. Point A, the starting blocks, to Point B, the finish line. For the 100 meters, it's a straight line, the 200 meters involves a single curve. No major changes of direction; fast-forward only.
Now, consider the degree of difficulty involved in the tennis player's craft: Elevate for a serve, rotate through the ball, check your forward momentum, push off to the left to retrieve the return, stop, execute a swinging backhand, start the feet moving to the right, with chopping steps to get back to the middle of the court, recognize a drop shot, sprint forward, angling to the right, decelerate and chip a forehand into the open court. And that's merely a five-stroke rally.
In the semifinals of the 2009 Australian Open, Nadal defeated Fernando Verdasco in five sets. In a match that consumed 5 hours, 14 minutes -- the longest on record Down Under -- according to the Oradsport tracking mechanism, Nadal ran a total of 2.13 miles. The logistics were staggering; the Spaniard sprinted in all directions, stopping, starting, lunging, jumping, swinging for a total of 1,473 strokes. Then he beat Federer in a five-set final for his first (and only) Australian crown.
Let's see an Olympic sprinter do that.
Todd Martin, who reached the Australian Open in 1994, is one of the game's most cerebral players. He says the technological advances in rackets and strings make movement a critical element.
"The technology -- the advent of polyester strings -- and the skill of the players have promoted just ungodly amounts of topspin without sacrificing pace," Martin said. "The effect is that the court has become much bigger, much wider than it used to be. More balls are in play, and they are tougher to reach.
"As a result, lateral movement is more important now than it's ever been."
Said ESPN analyst Darren Cahill, "If you can't play great defensive tennis, you can't survive. All of the top players, when the shots aren't dropping, they back it up with a Plan B and Plan C."
As ESPN's on-court reporter, Pam Shriver witnesses the speed of the players firsthand.
"Some of these guys are 6-foot-2, and to see their acceleration -- it takes me aback," Shriver said. "The swoosh that they make -- you can almost hear it in the air."
Fitness, the foundation
The best players, particularly on clay, can run for days.
No one preaches fitness -- with such overwhelming success -- more than Pat Etcheberry. He has worked with, among others, Pete Sampras, Monica Seles, Andre Agassi, Courier, Martina Hingis, Jennifer Capriati, Justine Henin, Jelena Jankovic and, currently, Daniela Hantuchova.
"You have to train very hard to play well on clay," said Etcheberry, who also consults for the USTA. "And that means running, lots of running. Nadal does it, Courier and Justine Henin and Sergi Bruguera did it, and it helped them all win the French."
Brad Gilbert, who coached former No. 1 players Agassi and Andy Roddick, thinks Nadal has the best court coverage on clay.
"Rafa's lung capacity is unbelievable," Gilbert said. "The most important things in movement are balance and efficiency. Rafa is not really efficient, but his sheer speed is incredible and he's well-balanced."
Djokovic, according to Gilbert, is the better mover on a hard surface.
"I've never seen a guy with the flexibility that he has," Gilbert said. "He's like a ballerina. He made some insane gets at Key Biscayne -- not only getting there, but doing something with it. On hard courts, no one covers more court than Djoker."
Djokovic's fitness level has been criticized in the past; he has had some notable retirements in the majors. No one was criticizing him when he won his first four tournaments of the year. The difference? Djokovic, who suffers allergic reactions to gluten, has cut out pizza, pasta and breads from his diet.
"I have lost some weight," he told reporters at the recent event in Belgrade, Serbia. "But it's only helped me because my movement is much sharper now."
Speed = commitment = confidence
Nick Bollettieri, only a few months shy of his 80th birthday, has been up since 5 a.m., and he's got more juice than a double espresso.
"You want to know where speed comes from?" Bollettieri says from his tennis academy in Bradenton, Fla. "Let me tell you a story: People see the Williams sisters play and say, 'Holy mackerel, look how quick they are. They just seem to know where the ball's going.'
"Well, 22 years ago, Richard Williams told his daughters back in California, 'I want you to get every ball.' Serena and Venus chase every ball like it's match point. If you see something with your two eyes, and then wait for your brain to react, it's too late. When you play aggressive, there's no room for hesitation. The ball is hit, and you just go."
Shriver sees this in the evolution of Djokovic.
"Speed is a lot about your attitude," she said. "When you're at your most confident, you're at the best of your ability. To be a free-mover, you have to be very clear, no gray areas, otherwise you're inhibited.
"Djokovic, he's always been a great mover. With this newfound confidence, he seems to be reading the court and his speed is even more deadly. That's because he's not tied up, not worried about his serve and what his forehand's going to do. It's all flowing."
Monfils, by a broad consensus, is the fastest player in the sport.
"The guy's speed is off the charts," Gilbert said, "but he plays so far back that he's not efficient enough."
Added Martin, "There's not a ball in the world he can't run down, but a majority of that is raw explosiveness. He does not recognize opportunity when it's there, or else he'd be way, way more successful. He's got a big forehand, backhand is adequate, good serve. But he's playing five, 10 feet behind the baseline and never budges.
"In today's game, you better be explosive and efficient. But if you can't get to where the play is in athletics, you can't play."
Happy, efficient feet
Federer, the No. 1 player for 237 consecutive weeks from 2004 to 2008, has seen Nadal and Djokovic slip past him in the rankings.
But there's still one thing he does better than anyone on the planet.
Listen to Higueras, who tutored Federer in 2008:
"The most economical mover, in terms of how he approaches the ball and sees it, will be Federer. Nadal is incredibly effective, with more force and muscle-driven speed, but Federer is still so fluid.
"His feet are very, very quiet. He never takes more steps than he needs to."
Another piece of the movement puzzle, according to Wilander, is tactical.
"The smart players," he said, "hit shots to their opponents and have a pretty good idea what their corresponding shot will be. That always makes you a little quicker out there.
"Roger Federer obviously knows that Robin Soderling has problems running forward, which is why he picks him apart all the time, with drop shots and short-angled balls. Nadal has an unbelievable ability to catch opponents off guard. He always counterpunches at right time, hits behind guys, throws a curve ball that even David Ferrer can't get to."
Observed Martin: "They all do [footwork] so well now. It's the main reason why there aren't holes in the ground game of the top players. It used to be that one guy moves well to the right but not to the left. Or vice versa. These guys today are just so good from 80 feet away, so adept at handling everything.
"The best players know if you hit certain shots, it's real difficult for your opponent to hit the ball where you don't want them to."
Anticipation (is making me wait)
Perhaps no one in the game anticipates as well as Wozniacki.
Many players can run for days, but Caroline Wozniacki's success derives from her world-class anticipation. Julian Finney/Getty Images
"She moves unbelievably," said Sumyk, who has coached Vera Zvonareva and, currently, Azarenka -- both top-five players. "Wozniacki sees and reads the ball really well. The toughest players -- Nadal, Djokovic, Federer -- they touch every ball."
Wozniacki is not blindingly fast, but somehow the 20-year-old Dane seems to get to everything.
"I would say that Caroline is one of the great anticipators of the last decade," Shriver said. "It's amazing how often she guesses right. She'll be seemingly out of the play and, boom, she's back in it."
Bollettieri, who has worked with no fewer than 10 No. 1 players, said that movement is Wozniacki's greatest asset.
"What she does is she gets so many balls back the opponent says, 'Screw you,' and overhits into a mistake," Bollettieri said. "It happens all the time, and it's because she moves so well."
It's one thing to run down a ball, but completely different to do something with it from a compromising position. The best players -- Nadal, Clijsters, Djokovic Serena Williams -- do this consistently.
"Rafa's ability to transition from defense to offense, to make something happen from a ridiculous position, is amazing," Cahill said. "Fed is great at it on clay -- doesn't get enough credit for it. Ferrer is lightning fast and recovers well.
"The best players are recovering before they even finish hitting the shot. In this game, that kind of movement is imperative."
Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


Home / Alloggi gay / Cile / Las Condes / Room with private bathroom and overlooking the mountain range.
Room with private bathroom and overlooking the mountain range.
excellent location steps from the subway: Tobalaba, close to the most central places of the city of Santiago, such as the Mall Costanera Center, restaurants, bars, Bicentennial Park, cable car, among other attractions, nearby locomotion and metro one block away from the apartment.
The room has a bed and a half square, TV and private bathroom, you can use shared space such as: kitchen, living room, pool and gym.
Arrival time is from 2:00 p.m.
It is in an excellent location, in a quiet and safe neighborhood, you can walk to all points of interest, locomotion at the door of the building, metro Colón (L4).


Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. Dress by Alessandra Rich.
"In a dark Mexican restaurant in the Valley..." is how Kirsten Dunst predicts I will start this profile of her. So here we are, in a dark Mexican restaurant in the Valley, eating chips and salsa under a chandelier shaped like a cactus. It's one of her regular haunts, the kind of homey, low-lit, AC-heavy place that's perfect to escape into on a white-hot, 90-degree Los Angeles day like today.
Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. Dress by Valentino.
I speak to Kate and Laura about their first on-screen Dunst sighting as they drive back to Pasadena from the airport. It was the actress's breakout role as an 11-year-old in Interview With the Vampire, a film whose style feels deeply in tune with Rodarte's California gothic aesthetic: cobwebs, ghost towns, and decaying Victorian mansions—the dark fog lurking beneath the sunshine. They talk in a sisterly overlap, often finishing each other's thoughts. "It makes me really nostalgic for a time when the big blockbuster would be Interview With the Vampire," Laura recalls. "I remember thinking, 'Who is this person who can be the best performer out of all these incredible actors?" Dunst's otherworldly maturity was a panacea to child-star affectedness. Here was a young actress so gifted she could believably play an ageless adult trapped in a child's body, holding her own against box office ruler Tom Cruise and hot rising star Brad Pitt.
Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. Dress by Moschino Couture.
Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. All clothing by Prada.
Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. Dress by No. 21, necklace by Erickson Beamon.
Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. All clothing by Rodarte.
Photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. Jacket by Dolce & Gabbana, sunglasses by No. 21.
On the cover: Kirsten Dunst photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Styled by J. Errico. Hair: Laini Reeves at A. Spiegelman Mgmt. Makeup: Fiona Stiles using Fiona Stiles Beauty at Starworks Artists. Nails: Emi Kudo at Opus Beauty using Chanel Le Vernis. First Photo Assistant: Colin Smith. Second Photo Assistant: Ed Mumford. Stylist's Assistants: Leonard Murray and Chase Osborne. Dress by Alessandra Rich.
NYLON's September issue is on newsstands 8/22. Buy it now.


OVTI is down sharply again off a strong quarter but big cut in forward guidance. I've never covered or even owned OVTI. They have a strong position in a growth segment of semiconductors (cameras) and have done well in many ways as a company. But the problem with OVTI is the same problem that exists for MU (at least for the last decade or so) – margins are low, capital needs are high and their customers view the product as a commodity. We wrote about the issues we had with memory back in 2007 (Struggling with Memory) and the challenges facing a cyclical industrial player like Micron in 2010 (When will Micron buy into some growth?) OVTI seems to face the same structural issues.
CNN is firing more skilled workers like editors and photographers and leaving more work to "user generated" methods. They already seemed to be absurdly unprofessional and now the story will be complete. Pretty soon www.cnn.com will just forward to YouTube.
Long suffering Affymetrix AFFX made a pretty big acquisition. $330M for eBioscience which is said to have $70M in sales at 70% GM with a 30% EBITDA margin. Is it transformational? AFFX has been in the single digits for 3 years and now trades at $4.73. Recently even the poster child, Ilumina (ILMN) hit an air pocket. Is the $100 genome a thread or an opportunity for these companies?
AAPL looses some patent battle to Samsung. Is it a trend?
AT&T is calling off the T-Mobile acquisition. Should be good news for VZ.
CRIS is an interesting small cap biotechnology company. They seem to be making headway. The "hedgehog" pathway shows some promise in cancer treatments. Genentech is a collaborator on it. $250M market cap at $3.22.


Euroquip was established in 1977 and for more than forty years have been manufacturing forklift attachments, skips and recycling banks, supplying a wide range of users in industry and waste management.
We are proud of the many repeat customers who value both the quality of our products and the reliability of our service.
We have built up a solid reputation with many customers in many business sectors due to the quality of our work and the consistency of the service we provide. They continue to return to us year after year and many have now integrated us into their processes.
All our forklift attachments are CE marked and comply with UK health and safety guidelines. In addition to mild steel we also manufacture in stainless steel and can supply our range of Forklift Tipping Skips in a hot dipped galvanized finish.
We also offer an excellent refurbishment service for all your skips, hooklifts and recycling banks and are able to arrange collection from site, shotblast, carry out required repairs, respray/relivery and return to site at the minimum of inconvenience to you.
The Products selection from the top menu gives some indication of the wide variety of skips, forklift attachments, stillages, recycling containers and general fabrications available.
We are able to fulfil and manage large orders and projects and have the capacity to manufacture large production runs.
Located near Newent in Gloucestershire, our factory is convenient to both the M5 and M50.
We remain committed to providing a professional, experienced and reliable source to turn to for the material handling and waste management industries and to maintaining our reputation as one of the UK's leading solutions providers.
From M50 - Junction 3 (signposted Newent) approx. 3 miles through 30 mph zone to traffic lights and turn left, down hill and first turn right (by Complete Utilities yard) into Tewkesbury Road, turn left (signposted The Scarr/Redmarley) for approx. 1.5 miles to small crossroads and turn right, Euroquip approx. 300 yards on left hand side.
From M5 - Junction 11A Take A40 out of Gloucester towards Ross-On-Wye. Dual carriageway with Toby Carvery on right, cross over dual carriageway and turn off right signposted B4215 Newent. When approaching Newent (approx. 7 miles after turn) do not take slip road left to Newent, stay on bypass to traffic lights and turn right and right again (by Complete Utilities yard) into Tewkesbury Road, turn left (signposted The Scarr/Redmarley) for approx. 1.5 miles to small crossroads and turn right, Euroquip approx. 300 yards on left hand side.
6 cu.yd. & 8 cu.yd. Builders Skips Available in stock for immediate delivery.
Therefore no 4-6 week lead-times from us!
We keep a large range of skips in stock from 2 cu.yd. Mini's right through to 40 cu.yd. R-O-R-O's along with a selection of Enclosed Lockable Skips.
Please contact us on 01531 820545 for our latest stock list & prices.
Adapt your forklift to a crane in seconds.
Can be moved anywhere along the length of the forks.
To retain to forks simply tighten down screw bolts.
Tested and supplied with certificate.
Suits Forks up to 140 x 60mm.
* Swivel Hook & Latch and Galv 'D' Shackle available separately and not included in sale price.


Functionize Health and Physical Therapy seeks to promote a more knowledgeable and healthier community where access to a high quality of care and maximizing one's functional well-being is the top priority.
We see treatment differently at Functionize Health and Physical Therapy. We feel that our hands are our most effective tool. Rather than rely primarily on modalities and exercise, we prefer a hands-on approach where we can feel and treat your problems. Providing you with individualized exercises that you can then complete at home will reinforce your treatment. You can expect to receive extensive one-on-one hands-on treatment followed by instruction or review of functionally based exercises. Time for questions and discussion is also allotted. Through this approach, our clients can achieve better results in a much faster time period.
When you consider the time savings of fewer trips to the clinic and the value of resolving your problems more quickly than average, you are truly getting the "biggest bang for your buck" at Functionize Health and Physical Therapy.
Lauren has a Masters in Physical Therapy and is an experienced Manual Therapist. She founded Functionize Health and Physical Therapy out of a need for a higher standard of physical therapy care where the focus is on treating the whole person through their life span, rather than treating one injury at a time.
A native Pennsylvanian, Lauren obtained a Masters in Physical Therapy and a BS in Health Sciences from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 2000.
During her career, Lauren has specialized in diverse Manual Therapy techniques. She strengthened her skills through Continuing Education courses and has trained with many experts in the field. Through years of experience, Lauren has refined and broadened her Manual Therapy skills for fast, effective results. In addition to her extensive background in Manual Therapy, Lauren is also certified in Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA), Trigger Point Dry Needling, Women's Health, and Stott Pilates. This broad background allows for a comprehensive approach to treating injuries.
Lauren lives with her husband and 3 children in Dunwoody, GA. She enjoys running, traveling, and spending time with her family.
Jake earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from Mercer University after graduating from the University of Alabama with a B.S. in Exercise and Sports Science. Following the completion of his doctorate program, he completed a clinical residency in orthopedic physical therapy at Mercer University as well.
Jake holds memberships with the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT).
Jake's expertise in athletic and sport performance rehabilitation can be traced back to his own background as a 4-year member and team captain of the University of Alabama Men's NCAA Swimming and Diving program. Jake has 20+ years of experience in swimming, which includes beginner and elite level training, competing, coaching, and stroke analysis. Jake's orthopedic clinical residency focused on advanced clinical reasoning, pain science education, movement analysis, and manual therapy. His combined athletic qualifications and educational training are what drives his passion in helping individuals from all athletic backgrounds and experiences attain their goals.
Outside of work, Jake is an avid runner, swimmer, and overall workout enthusiast. Leisurely, Jake enjoys trying new restaurants around Atlanta and listening to podcasts.
Functionize Health and Physical Therapy.
wild places Georgia has to offer.
Remi received her BS in Exercise Science with a minor in Public Health from the University of South Carolina. While in school, Remi participated in clubs, intramurals, and a sports medicine program that traveled to Australia in May of 2016.
She is currently applying to graduate programs in pursuit of a Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree. Since starting at Functionize Health & Physical Therapy, she has become interested in the field of pelvic health and hopes to specialize in pelvic floor rehabilitation one day.
Remi lives in Old Fourth Ward with her Holland Lop bunny, Jax. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, listening to records, and kickboxing.
Amanda is a veteran Pilates instructor and dancer. She holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University. She is certified in Pilates through the Kane School of Core Integration (NYC) which offers a unique approach to realignment through proper biomechanics and manual touch. Her teaching offers clients an opportunity to explore their movement habits and restore balance.
She is also certified in GYROKINESIS® instruction. Through these two methods, her teaching philosophy pulls from her diverse dance and fitness backgrounds to provide an educational and creative movement experience.
While she specializes in Pre- and Post-natal fitness, nothing compares to the education she has received these last 18 months as a new mama.
Allyson has 20 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian, working in a variety of settings providing nutrition counseling and education to individuals and groups with a multitude of nutrition needs. She enjoys helping others embrace a healthy and realistic approach to eating through a positive and solution based approach.
Allyson received a BS in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 1996. After completing her dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, she relocated to the Washington DC area, where she began working as a clinical dietitian, and eventually transitioned to outpatient counseling for several years. She is certified in Adult, Child and Adolescent weight management.
Allyson has Masters in Public Health from The George Washington University, and became a consultant for a non-profit organization that was committed to providing access to high quality health care to all individuals.
After moving to Atlanta in 2005, Allyson has worked with private clients with a variety of nutrition related health issues, consulted for local fitness clubs, and has spent the last 5 years in public health, specifically focusing on patients with HIV and compromised immune status.
Allyson lives in Smyrna, GA with her husband, 3 children and her newly adopted black lab. She enjoys running, cooking, and family time.


According to a brochure published by the Federal Association of Renewable Energies (BEE), Germany's umbrella organisation for the renewable energy industry, a combination of pellet boiler and solar thermal system provides the lowest primary energy requirement. Gas and oil boilers are the least effective.
At 200 o C and pressures above 750atm there is an almost 100% conversion of reactants to the ammonia product.. Since there are difficulties associated with containing larger amounts of materials at this high pressure, lower pressures of around 200 atm are used industrially.
Section-al cast iron boilers appeared around 1850. John Mills invented a successful watertube boiler in the 1870s. Early boilers (and furnaces) were encased in brick, but by 1900, steel-encased furnaces and free-standing cast iron boilers appeared. Early steam and hot water systems used pipe coils mounted on walls or in various places in a room.


just keep your chin up!! I'm trying to.the kids are fighting.I had london broil marinating,fresh veggies for steaming,ad garlic potatoes i planned on having for dinner,but didn't.My 11 yr old said she wasn't eating then 5 minutes later she had a bowl of spagetti o's.my 8 and 9 yr old were peeling the potatoes for me,but when I went into the kitchen,my 9 yr old was eating a microwave meal.I planned on a good meal and they go and eat something else.I yelled then cried.So me and my 8 and 6 yr old ate the potatoes and veggies.i put the meat back in frig to eat tomorrow. what to do? Monday is coming and i'll have abreak then.
My hubby works nights half the year...I usally tell him that ear plugs are cheap way to not hear the daytime noise when he complains.
I feel you on the overwelming day. I hope tommorrow is better!
Im not coping....any advice for me?
how do you get your toddler eating veggies?
Is any if your babies on solids yet?


Alan Titchmarsh is the celeb face of lawn care/gardening and we're pleased to see he's writing advice for everyone on how to care for lawns in spring.
We do a monthly lawn care blog post (this month's is a little late but is on its way, promise) and in addition to this we like to add information/news articles from other sources too – so to give you a wide spectrum of advice not just from us. We feel a bit repetitive sometimes!
Alan mentions scarification, aeration and fertilising; all of which we carry out on a daily basis in April/May (scarification in particular.) You can get prices for these treatments by having a FREE survey conducted on your lawn in the Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield and Doncaster areas. You get on the spot prices and loads of advice from Richard!
Alan Titchmarsh – caring for your lawn.


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Oosterzee (en frison : Eastersee et en stellingwerfs : Oosterzee) est un village de la commune néerlandaise de De Fryske Marren, situé dans la province de Frise.

Géographie
Oosterzee est situé dans le Zuidwesthoek, la région sud-ouest de la province, sur la rive méridionale du Tsjûkemar, à  au nord-est de Lemmer.

La localité comprend deux villages, Oosterzee-Gietersebrug et Oosterzee-Buren.

Histoire
Oosterzee est un village de la commune de Lemsterland avant le , date à laquelle celle-ci fusionne avec Gaasterlân-Sleat et Skarsterlân pour former la nouvelle commune de De Friese Meren, devenue De Fryske Marren en 2015.

Démographie
Le , Oosterzee comptait 905 habitants.

Références

De Fryske Marren
Localité dans la province de Frise

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				Pro-Secretário:
				Sr. Ruben Drocchi

				Tesorero:
				Sr. Antonio Silva Lima

				Pro Tesorera:
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				Sra. Lidia Eliades de Mississian

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				Sra. Fernanda da Silva Passos

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Domingo 16 de Setembro, a partir das 12hs na Avenida de Mayo e Bolivar.

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The Moses Basket-During my 9 months of preparation and research, I knew I wanted to find some sort of bassinet for Emmet to sleep in at night next to our bed for the first few months of his life. I thought that the Halo Bassinet Swivel Sleepers were super cute, but they were also a little bit out of our budget. Instead I found this moses basket and this Jolly Jumper Rocking Moses Stand on amazon for a better price! What we didn't realize is that it would be the most used item for more than just sleeping at night! We take this basket into the living room and kitchen during the day so that little Emmet can always be near us. He naps and there and plays in there while I get the laundry done and make my coffee! It has been a life saver. Since finding and falling in love with our basket I also found these moses baskets from Plum and Sparrow that I absolutely love (this one is my favorite!!). I would definitely recommend the moses basket route!
Burp Rags-Holy smokes, Burp Rags! We go through at least 4-5 a day. Luckily we stocked up on them AND we do laundry nearly every day so we always have enough. I not only throw them over my shoulder when burping him, I also use them to protect my clothes and his when nursing him, to wipe up the little dribbles that fall out of his mouth, to catch the stream when he falls asleep, and, thanks to my sister in law for the sweet tip, I stuff them in my bra at night so that I'm not changing my shirt 20 times. We got these cute Rosie Pope Burp Rags as well as some Gerber Cloth Diaper inserts for more utility purposes.
Nursing Bra Pads and Breast Shells- I wasn't prepared for how much I would leak! Just throughout the day and also when nursing, I was leaking through bras and shirts like crazy and it was driving me nuts! I go through, not even kidding you 8-12 nursing bra pads a day. I found these Medela Washable Cotton Nursing Bra Pads at Target that I use and love. Having the washable ones makes me feel just a little bit better about choosing disposable diapers and destroying the earth slowly. I also found these Philips Avent Comfort Breast Shells from Amazon that I use to catch the leakage while nursing the other side! It has been a life saver! I collect any extra for the occasional bottle and it also prevents me from using quite so many nursing bra pads.
Swaddles- We don't swaddle Emmet all of the time, but we do use it often to comfort him. Our current favorites are Muslin Swaddles and these adorable swaddle sacks from Mint and Arrows. Both work equally well to comfort our little guy when he starts getting fussy! The muslin swaddles are great because they have so many functions! We use them to swaddle him when giving him a bath, to cover up his little legs from the sun in his carseat and stroller, and as we head into the summer months, as a lightweight blanket to throw over him. We received these beautiful Aden and Anais swaddle blankets from Amazon but I also LOVE these ones from Spearmint Love! I just ordered this one the other day. I couldn't help myself when I saw a swaddle blanket covered in Bison. It tickled my little Kansan heart.
Baby Bath Towels and Burt's Bees Body Wash and Shampoo- Bath time is one of my favorite times of the Day/Week. I do a quick washcloth wash every day and a full bath 2-3 times a week. I love the way Emmet smells after a bath with Burt's Bees Body Wash and Shampoo as well as a rub down with their lotion afterwards. I can't help but smell his little head when I'm burping him- he just smells so good! When bath time is over I love wrapping him up with the shark robe or lobster hooded towel that we got at our baby showers. He just looks so cute in them!


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Q: Is there a problem using xdotool to direct keystrokes to Java windows? I'm running Fedora 22 (Linux) and have a Java application written by others that I want to send keystrokes to. I have tried to use xdotool in various ways, but I can neither set focus to the Java app nor send it keystrokes.
The app is started with javaws with the following command line:
javaws -J-XX:MaxPermSize=512M -J-d64 -J-Xms1G -J-Xmx1G /path/to/java/file

My first attempt to send it keystrokes was with this command:
xdotool search --name 'Window title' windowraise windowfocus --sync key H e l l o Return

But nothing happened. The Java window did not gain focus or see my keystrokes.
So I looked up the Java process's PID and tried identifying the process by its PID.
xdotool search --pid 1234 windowraise windowfocus --sync key H e l l o Return

Same result. Finally, I tried identifying the window with 'selectwindow'.
xdotool selectwindow windowraise windowfocus --sync key H e l l o Return

After issuing the command, the cursor changed to a square. I moved the mouse to the Java window and clicked, but this didn't work either.
To investigate further, I ran a different Java application with the following command:
java -jar appname.jar

xdotool could not set focus or send keystrokes to this window either.
Having read the xdotool documentation, I know that some programs won't accept its input. Is there something I can do, such as passing different command line arguments, to these Java apps to get them to listen to xdotool's keystrokes?
Here is some information about the versions of Java and xdotool I'm running:
$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_65-debug"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-debug-b17)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01-debug, mixed mode)

$ xdotool --version
xdotool version 2.20110530.1

A: Window focus is the job of the window manager. I presume you are using one.
The best way to focus a window is:
xdotool search --name 'Window title' windowactivate

xdotool uses 2 mechanisms to send key events, the XTEST extension for events to send to the current focus, and XSendEvent() to send events to a given window. The latter generates events with a synthetic flag, which some applications decide means it is a security risk, so ignore the event.
However, you can still send "real" key events using xdotool, but you must not explicitly provide a window. After moving the focus to your window, use
xdotool type Hello; xdotool key Return


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Q: How to attach multiple images? I have a script that resizes up to 5 uploaded images. These are written into an array and I'd like to attach all of them to an email. I have the following script but it is only attaching 1 image, where do I need to loop to attach all of them?
$path = "./uploads/";
foreach ($filenameresized as $filename) {
    $file = $path.$filename;
}

$content = file_get_contents( $file);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
$uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
$subject = "ENQUIRY - Evolve My Boiler (" . $name . " - " . $date . ")" ;
$from_name = "Evolve Maintenance Ltd";
//$from_mail = "info@evolvemaintenance.co.uk, mail@helenlee.co.uk";
$from_mail = "mail@helenlee.co.uk";
$replyto = "";
$cc = "";
$bcc = "";
$mime_boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(mt_rand())."x"; // generate a random string to be used as the boundary marker
$file_count = count($filenameresized); //count total files attached
$boundary = md5("specialToken$4332"); // boundary token to be used

// header
$header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n";

// message body
$message = "Hello";

// message & attachment
$nmessage = "--".$uid."\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";
$nmessage .= $message."\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= "--".$uid."--";

if (mail($from_mail, $subject, $nmessage, $header)) {
    return true; // Or do something here
} else {
    echo 'Oops something went wrong - please try again';
}

A: You haev to repeat this line for each file
$nmessage .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";

So remove these lines off the top
$path = "./uploads/";
foreach ($filenameresized as $filename) {
    $file = $path.$filename;
}

$content = file_get_contents( $file);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));

And your // message & attachment block becomes
// message & attachment
$nmessage = "--".$uid."\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";
$nmessage .= $message."\r\n\r\n";

$path = "./uploads/";
foreach ($filenameresized as $filename) {
    $nmessage .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
    $file = $path.$filename;
    $content = file_get_contents( $file);
    $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
    $nmessage .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n";
    $nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
    $nmessage .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";
    $nmessage .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
    $nmessage .= "--".$uid."--";
}


Awesome read. The Real Deal.
He allows us to walk with him on His journey through the grace of God in missions, by challenging us to leave our comfort zones. He asks pointed questions to challenge us not to be comfortable, but to be about God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. Chase God on your knees is what Carlos challenges us to do, well he challenges me to do. I fall so short in ministry and I am thankful for a brother who cares enough to challenge the status quo and call people out of the pews and motivates them to ministry, no matter where it takes them. May God bless you as you read this one Missionary families journey through the rocky road of life with an amazingly awesome God who provides, even through storms.
In the past, I have primarily connected God's Grace with the story of the cross and the suffering and death of Jesus to provide eternal life for believers. But, in their book, "Living the Great Commission", the Llambes explain that God's Grace is not just about what He has already done … God's Grace is on-going and active TODAY, especially through the power of His Holy Spirit working in us! In church planting, Carlos and Liliana and their children have experienced this in their own lives. So, I want to thank them for this book that expands one's definition and understanding of God's Grace to now include Him being there to love and empower us to be brave enough to pass on His Grace to our neighbors – even if it means we must leave our comfort zones. I encourage you to read "Living the Great Commission". I promise its' message will strengthen you to obey His call in your own life!


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telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule tests the German knowledge needed for success at an advanced academic level. The examination is suitable for adults who are interested in studying at German institutes of higher education, for adults who have already begun their studies at an institute of this kind or for adults who are working in an academic field and have the desire or necessity to demonstrate their German skills.
At level C1 you can express yourself spontaneously and fluently. You are familiar with idiomatic phrases and can vary your style of language as appropriate. You can use the language with a high degree of grammatical accuracy.
You can find out the details of the exam by looking at the mock examination telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule. This is a complete test (with answer key), which you can try out at home or in your lessons. In addition, you can read about the exam procedure and how the written test and oral performance are rated.
Using the new app telc Deutsch C1 Wortschatz, learners can practice exam-relevant vocabulary with texts on topics related to their studies. The app includes all reading and listening texts from the textbook Einfach zum Studium! Deutsch für den Hochschulzugang C1. The app can also be used for independent learning at level C1.
You'll find detailed information about all the types of subtests in the exam in telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule, Tipps zur Prüfungsvorbereitung. You'll also find examples of candidates' written and oral performance with comments on the rating. The printed version is available in the telc shop.
A handbook with a description of the learning objectives and the specification for the examination is available for download. In it you will find detailed information about the necessary skills for the test and about the corresponding subtests.
The printed version can be found in the telc shop.
Gain language competence in language courses or study on your own. Bookshops have course books that prepare you specifically for the language level C1.
Familiarise yourself with the procedure and types of subtests of the telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule examination. The mock examination will help you with this.
May I use a dictionary during telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule?
Yes, as often as you wish. If you have failed just the oral exam or just the written exam, you do not need to take the whole examination again. You will find details on this under § 5 of the examination regulations.


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"Firework" is een nummer van de Amerikaanse zangeres Katy Perry. Het is de derde single van haar derde studioalbum Teenage Dream, en is geproduceerd door Stargate, Sandy Vee en Ester Dean. Het nummer is gebaseerd op On the Road van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jack Kerouac.
Het lied gaat over mensen die zelfvertrouwen krijgen, dit zie je door het "vuurwerk" dat uit hun hart schiet.

Stijl
"Firework" is een poplied op elektronische invloeden door een (electro)-dancebeat.

Videoclip
In de videoclip van "Firework" loopt Katy Perry door allerlei straten met vuurwerk. De zangeres kreeg er een MTV Video Music Award voor, voor : Beste Videoclip.

Tracklist

Download
 "Firework" – 3:47

Andere versies
"Firework" (The Wideboys Radio Edit) – 3:41
"Firework" (Liam Keegan Radio Edit) – 3:59
"Firework" (Liam Keegan Club Mix) – 5:58
"Firework" (Bombs Away Electro Dubstep Remix) – 6:33
"Firework" (Stardust Remix) – 3:56
"Firework" (Rachel Berry/ Lea Michel- glee)

Hitnoteringen

Nederlandse Top 40

Nederlandse Single Top 100

Vlaamse Ultratop 50

Radio 2 Top 2000

Single uit 2010
Nummer van Katy Perry


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Tag: SSTL
Surrey Satellite to Lead UK Space Agency Project to Study Active De-orbit of Space Debris
December 11, 2021 December 10, 2021 News 0
Novel technology will be required for these ambitious steps, which are proposed as part of the new 'Protect' Accelerator, one of three currently being defined to help shape Europe's future in space. (Credit: ESA)
The LEOPARD (Low Earth Orbit Pursuit for Active Debris Removal) study will define concepts for de-orbiting 2 uncooperative UK space assets from low earth orbit
GUILDFORD, UK (Surrey Satellite PR) — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected to lead a UK Space Agency study to define the mission requirements for a complex mission to de-orbit two non-operational space debris targets. SSTL is a world-leader in the manufacture and in-orbit operation of small satellites, and has valuable experience in two previous Active Debris Removal (ADR) demonstration missions; RemoveDEBRIS, which concluded a series of debris retrieval demonstrations in January 2019, and Astroscale's 2021 ELSA-d mission for which SSTL supplied the Client "target" satellite.
SSTL Signs Up ESA as Anchor Customer for Lunar Pathfinder Communications Relay Satellite
September 16, 2021 September 18, 2021 News 0
Lunar Pathfinder satellite (Credit: Surrey Satellite)
LONDON, September 15, 2021 (SSTL PR) — The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for communications services from Lunar Pathfinder, due to launch in 2024. The Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services contract was signed between ESA's Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, Dave Parker, and SSTL's Managing Director, Phil Brownnett, on 15 September 2021 at The Royal Society in London. Amanda Solloway, UK Government Science Minister, Josef Aschbacher, ESA's Director General, Paul Bate, Director of the UK Space Agency, and SSTL's Executive Chairman, Sir Martin Sweeting were also in attendance.
New Government Funding Helps UK Companies Lead the Way for Future Moon Missions
May 22, 2021 May 21, 2021 News 0
SWINDON, UK (UK Space Agency PR) — UK companies are developing new communication and navigation services needed for future missions to the Moon, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency
In what will be the world's first commercial servicing of its kind, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Inmarsat and MDA UK are among those who won contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA), worth just over £2 million in total, to shape the infrastructure for future lunar exploration.
SSTL Lunar to Lead Consortium for ESA Moonlight
GUILDFORD, UK (Surrey Satellite PR) — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead a Phase A/B1 Study under ESA's Moonlight initiative that will shape the service provision and infrastructure to provide sustainable commercial Lunar data-relay services for communication and navigation around the Moon.
The Moonlight Phase A/B1 Study will define the service infrastructure and clearly lay out the development path for a constellation of Lunar communication and navigation satellites. The Study will characterise the complete end to end system, including the Lunar Space Segment, the Moon Surface Segment, the Lunar User Segment and the Earth Ground Segment.
Momentus and Qosmosys Announce First Singaporean Lunar Mission on Momentus' Ardoride Service Vehicle
February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021 News 0
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Momentus PR) — Momentus Inc. ("Momentus" or the "Company"), a commercial space company offering in-space infrastructure services, and Qosmosys, a new space venture founded in Singapore last year, announced today a service agreement to deliver two cubesats to low lunar orbit as early as 2024 via Momentus' inaugural lunar mission.
The new contract builds and expands on the agreement announced in January 2021 for delivery of up to four cubesats in low Earth orbit by Momentus' Vigoride service vehicle, starting in 2022. Qosmosys will expand its novel business ideas to the Moon using a specific bus named Zeus-MS, a version of its Zeus platform it has been developing in cooperation with NuSpace from Singapore, and made specific for lunar missions. Zeus-MS is the precursor to a series of multi-mission platforms that will allow organizations and businesses to host their payloads, and will offer individuals a bespoke, unprecedented line of services to the Moon on regularly scheduled flights.
SSTL Demonstrates New GNSS-R Capabilities
4 Delay Doppler Maps (DDMs) collected by DoT-1 that show signal reflections from 4 GPS satellites. (Credit: Surrey Satellite Technology)
GUILDFORD, UK (SSTL PR) — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully demonstrated GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) from its 18kg DoT-1 satellite. SSTL has pioneered the new field of GNSS-R with successful payloads on board TechDemoSat-1 and the CYGNSS constellation, and is continuing to develop the technology and data analysis in pursuit of this new science.
The latest GNSS-R payload on-board the DoT-1 satellite is incorporated within the new small form factor Core Avionics module integral to all SSTL's future satellite platforms. This innovation paves the way for any SSTL satellite that can accommodate a nadir pointing antenna to become part of a GNSS-R small-sat constellation.
Surrey Satellite Ships Target Satellite for Astroscale End of Life Mission
Target satellite for the ELSA-d mission. (Credit: Surrey Satellite Technology)
GUILDFORD, UK (Surrey Satellite PR) — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has shipped a 16kg Target satellite for Astroscale's End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission to Tokyo, where it will be bolted to the Chaser satellite for environmental testing ahead of launch in 2020.
UK Government to Back Virgin Galactic Satellite Launcher
February 19, 2009 space tourism, virgin galactic 0
UK government to back air-launched satellite launcher
Flight International
The UK government is prepared to fully support the development of the air launched micro satellite carrying rocket proposed by Virgin Galactic and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL).
Virgin Galactic Developing Small Sat Launcher to Take on Pegasus
February 4, 2009 Orbital Sciences Corporation, virgin galactic 0
Plans for UK satellite launcher
Two British companies are involved in discussions about developing a low-cost rocket capable of putting small satellites in orbit. The idea is being promoted by SSTL, a firm in Guildford, Surrey, best known for its Earth observation spacecraft, in conjunction with Virgin Galactic.


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Q: Visio Addin Where / When to Register WindowTurnedToPage I am developing a C# VSTO Visio Addin. In the addin I want to detect and trigger a page turned event handler when the user selects a different page in a given document. I have seen the following thread concerning registering the event:
Catch WindowTurnedToPage Event in a Visio AddIn project
Copying this logic I have tried the following in ThisAddIn.cs:
        private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        Application.ActiveWindow.WindowTurnedToPage += new Visio.EWindow_WindowTurnedToPageEventHandler( Window_WindowTurnedToPage);
    }

     public void Window_WindowTurnedToPage(Visio.Window Window)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("Window changed to {0}", Window.Application.ActivePage.Name ));
    }

However, when I try and register the event handler as part in the call to ThisAddin_Startup I get a NPE because the "ActiveWindow" has not been set. It seems that there is a timing issue between registering the event handler and a Document / ActivePage being registered.
In summary I want my Visio Adddin to detect and respond to the user event when the active page in the loaded document changes.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Andrew

A: I have discovered that registering a "document opened handler" first achieves the outcome that I was looking for.
        private void Ribbon1_Load(object sender, RibbonUIEventArgs e)
        {

          ThisAddIn addin = ThisAddIn.getInstance();

          if (addin != null )
          {
            addin.Application.DocumentOpened += Application_DocumentOpened;
          }
      }

    private void Application_DocumentOpened(Visio.Document doc)
    {
        if (doc.Application != null)
        {
            Visio.EApplication_WindowTurnedToPageEventHandler appHandler = new Visio.EApplication_WindowTurnedToPageEventHandler(Application_WindowTurnedToPage);
            doc.Application.WindowTurnedToPage += appHandler;
        }
    }

So when a document is opened the window turned to page event handler is registered. However, I had to make the ThisAddIn class a singelton to get a handle to the Application instance to register the document opened handler. Not sure whether there are unintended side-effects.


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Colors may be different in real life due to different computer monitors.
– She has sculpted mouth, sculpted nose and phyltrum, and some other modifications to give her her unique expression.
– Eyelids painted with acrylic paint.


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HIV Drug Offers Long-Lasting Viral Suppression with Single Dose
By Laurie Toich, Associate Editor
Novel HIV treatment protected immune cells against HIV for nearly a month.
A single-dose of an experimental compound was observed to suppress HIV for weeks, which may greatly improve medication adherence and reduce the occurrence of new infections as a result.
Some patients with HIV struggle to take their maintain their antiretroviral medication regimen due to forgetfulness or adverse events. Significant research and development efforts have been made towards developing a long-acting treatment in hopes of addressing medication adherence concerns.
The novel drug was also found to protect immune cells against HIV, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The results of the new animal study suggest that the investigational therapy may be a favorable add-on to current HIV treatment regimens without increasing the risk of toxicity and adverse events, according to the authors.
In previous studies, the authors used a computational and structure-based design to develop a class of drugs that target an HIV viral protein needed for replication. This class of drug was then altered to increase efficacy, reduce toxicity, and amplify other beneficial properties, according to the authors.
In the new study, the investigational HIV drug candidate was analyzed in HIV-positive mice that were transplanted with human blood cells.
Treatment with the compound resulted in viral suppression and protected immune cells against HIV, according to the study. The drug was also found to boost the efficacy of current HIV drugs.
Most notably, the drug was found to have long-lasting benefits. A single dose of the investigational drug delivered by a long-acting nanoparticle was observed to have positive effects for up to a month, according to the study.
The authors caution that the drug needs to be explored in additional studies, but it shows great promise for improving HIV treatment.
"Our drug candidate works synergistically with all current classes of HIV drugs, as well as some that are also being tested in clinical trials. It enhances their potency and could be a better combination medication," said senior co-author Karen S. Anderson in a press release.


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Recap Wednesday's Reading FC transfer news plus Championship news as Stam talks Bradshaw and Leeds join race for Hugill
Keep up with the latest information going around the Championship
Jonathan LowReading FC Reporter
Welcome to the Reading FC live blog for Wednesday, January 10 where we will be keeping you up to date with the latest transfer news and rumours.
Royals were linked with free agent David Cotterill on Tuesday afternoon although chief executive Ron Gourlay says fans should not expect too much activity this month.
Keep up with Wednesday's developments for Royals and the rest of the Championship in the live blog.
Championship transfer gossip including Fulham frontrunners for Grabban and Leeds to sign defender
Reporter Jonathan Low will be providing updates throughout the day so keep an eye on the blog as much as you can.
Don't forget you can keep track of all the Reading FC news on the getreading website and through Jonathan Low's Twitter account @jonathanl50 .
You can also stay up to date with news through Jonathan's Facebook page .
Jordan Hugill latest 09:41
16:19 Jonathan Low
That's it for today's blog.
Thanks for following today and we'll be back tomorrow morning with the latest news and rumours, as well as the latest Royals news.
Enjoy the rest of your evening.
Joseph Mendes
We got an update from Reading boss Jaap Stam on the fitness of Joseph Mendes.
The striker has been out virtually all season with a knee injury
Stam worth
With Van Dijk joining Liverpool for £75m earlier this month, what would that make Stam's worth in his prime we wonder..!?
The young Manchester United striker had been linked with Reading in the past, but he's now joined up with the Blades for the remainder of the season.
Blow for Leeds
Leeds defender Luke Ayling will miss the rest of the season due to injury.
The 26-year-old underwent surgery on his ankle after picking up a problem against Nottingham Forest on New Year's Day.
The former Bristol City player has made 30 appearances for Leeds this season and signed a bumper deal last summer.
Leeds United's Luke Ayling (left)
Gourlay on Moore
Reading FC chief executive Ron Gourlay says defender Liam Moore will only be sold on the club's terms.
Moore has been linked with a move away from the club in the past couple of months, with West Ham United and West Brom keen on the defender.
The centre-back has admitted he is eager to play in the Premier League and with Royals struggling in the Championship, the former Leicester City man could be tempted by a move away.
Reading's Liam Moore (Image: Get Reading)
Stam on left-backs
Stam when asked about several left-backs in his press conference earlier today...
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson: "We've mentioned his name in passing but he's not being mentioned at the moment."
Sam McQueen: "He has been mentioned.
Ben Coker: "We spoke about him last season but not now."
Tom Bradshaw
Jaap Stam when asked about the rumour linking Reading with Barnsley striker Tom Bradshaw:
"There are certain players in the league we are looking at but it depends on what we can do financially.
"We haven't got money lying there where we can say we can buy players of I don't know how many millions. It's not going to happen"
Jaime Mata
Norwich are interested in Real Valladolid striker Jaime Mata.
Spanish media report the Canaries are considering a bid of around £1m for the striker who has scored 18 times this season.
Nottingham Forest midfielder Ryan Yates has agreed a new two-year deal at the City Ground.
His contract was due to expire in the summer.
Bobby Reid
Southampton are chasing Bristol City star Bobby Reid.
West Ham and Leicester City are also tracking the player but it's the Saints who are favourites to sign him.
Bobby Reid - right
Jonathan Low
Preston loan
Preston North End midfielder Ben Pringle has moved to Oldham Athletic on loan.
The 28-year-old will play for the League One side for the rest of the 2017/18 campaign.
Pringle has only played 14 times for the Lilywhites since joining the club in the summer of 2016.
Club Brugge defender Laurens De Bock has arrived in England ahead of a medical with Leeds United, according to Sky Sports.
The left-back is a former Belgium U21 international but has made only six appearances this season.
De Bock would be Leeds' third signing of the transfer window.
Aston Villa striker Keinan Davis could be heading for the Premier League.
Brighton boss Chris Hughton is keen on taking the youngster to the Amex Stadium, according to The Sun .
The 19-year-old has also attracted interest from AFC Bournemouth.
Andre Silva
Wolves have had a bid for AC Milan striker Andre Silva rejected.
Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera says the bid from Nuno Espirito Santo's side was rejected immediately.
Silva, a Portugal international, has scored eight goals in 23 games this season.
PL pair eye striker
Premier League pair Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are weighing up a move for Nottingham Forest striker Ben Brereton.
The 18-year-old starred for the Reds in their FA Cup win over Arsenal on Sunday and is set to have a big future ahead of him.
Leicester City and Crystal Palace have also shown interest in the player, but the Daily Mail says it is Spurs and Everton who are most likely to make a bid for him.
Lewis Grabban
Fulham are leading the race to sign in-demand AFC Bournemouth forward Lewis Grabban.
The Cottagers face a fight to land the player's signature, however, with Wolves and Cardiff also keen on landing him.
The Mirror say Fulham hope a bid of around £7m will be enough to prise Grabban away from the Vitality Stadium.
Darren Bent
Burton boss Nigel Clough has had his say on speculation linking Derby striker Darren Bent with the Brewers
Villa target duo
Steve Bruce wants Aston Villa to sign Leicester City duo Leonardo Ulloa and Daniel Amartey.
Both have been out of favour with the Foxes and would enhance Villa's promotion push.
But any deals could be dependent on meeting FFP restrictions.
Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce (Image: Get reading)
Pep on the Championship
Some interesting views on the Championship from Man City boss Pep Guardiola last night after his side's 2-1 win over Bristol City.
Gary Madine
Bolton have turned down an offer from Cardiff for striker Gary Madine.
The bid is reportedly a 'seven-figure' fee for Madine, who has hit nine goals this season.
Sunderland have also been linked with a move for the player.
Rowett signs deal
Derby County boss Gary Rowett has signed a new deal with the club.
It ends speculation of him being targeted by Stoke City.
Rowett has signed a three and a half year deal.
"Originally this was the job I wanted out of all the jobs out there," he told Derby's website.
"I'm massively committed to trying to finally get this team back into the Premier League.
"If you do what's perceived as a good job, there's always going to be speculation about other positions.
"There's always going to be press speculation and stuff about other jobs, but my focus has always been on achieving something with this club. And that's going to remain the focus."
Jordan Hugill latest
Leeds United have joined the race for Preston striker and Reading target Jordan Hugill, according to Football Insider.
The frontman has scored 10 goals this season already and the Whites are keen on adding the player to their ranks.
Hugill is in to the final 18 months of his contract and Preston could be tempted to cash in on their prize asset.
Preston North End's Jordan Hugill (Image: PA)
Carl Jenkinson
Arsenal right-back Carl Jenkinson could be recalled from his loan spell at Birmingham City to go out on loan again at another club.
The defender joined the Blues in August but after picking up an injury, has not played since.
The Daily Mail say Jenkinson will be recalled by the Gunners.
Carl Jenkinson (Image: BCFC.com)
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