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Aulia Muswara
Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 1 Padang Panjang West Sumatera
Muhammad Zalnur
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Design of Character Building for Learners in Boarding Schools in West Sumatera
Aulia Muswara, Muhammad Zalnur
This study aims to see how the school management in developing the character of students in one of the boarding school in West Sumatera. This study uses qualitative methods with a case study approach. Sources of data were taken to 38 informants consisting of 8 elements of the school namely the principal, teacher, boarding supervisor, security and cleaning service, canteen keeper, students and parents. All data obtained by in-depth interviews with all informants, the authors also took data through direct observation at the research site. Overall the results of the study show that there are seven character values instilled by the school, namely religious character, curiosity, discipline, confidence, responsibility, independence and honesty. The seven character values are instilled through twelve activities such as tahsin and tahfidzd Al-Quran, worship services, prayers in congregation, learning clinics, training and guidance, Arabic and English communication programs in the dormitory, motivation, joint sports, mutual cooperation and daily activities. Character building design as implemented by the school, it turns out that it is able to change the behavior of students in a more positive direction such as manners, discipline, obedience to worship, obedient to the rules, clean and tidy life, daring to appear, regular life, and honest behavior. This means that the school has succeeded in fostering the character education of students through various activities and all these activities are well planned by the cooperation of all elements of the school. The author considers the design to be emulated by other schools as a guide in fostering the character of students
Design; guidance; character building; boarding school
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Q: EDM2 (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics from Japan Math. Soc.) and updates The Japan Mathematical Society has published their Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics 2nd edition (EDM2) some time ago.
I was wondering if there were a digital version online or any updated versions of this, past the 1993 third printing of that second edition, or any collaborated works to update this specific text.
There are some very well written articles in there.

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/*******************************************************************************
  Analog to Digital converter API (blocking, single channel) for PICDEM FS USB
  demo board.

  Company:
    Microchip Technology Inc.

  File Name:
    adc.c

  Summary:
    Provides basic ADC interface for demo purposes.

  Description:
    Provides basic ADC interface for demo purposes.  This implementation is
    blocking.
*******************************************************************************/

// DOM-IGNORE-BEGIN
/*******************************************************************************
Copyright (c) 2013 released Microchip Technology Inc.  All rights reserved.

Microchip licenses to you the right to use, modify, copy and distribute
Software only when embedded on a Microchip microcontroller or digital signal
controller that is integrated into your product or third party product
(pursuant to the sublicense terms in the accompanying license agreement).

You should refer to the license agreement accompanying this Software for
additional information regarding your rights and obligations.

SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS OR LOST DATA, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS, TECHNOLOGY, SERVICES, OR ANY CLAIMS BY THIRD PARTIES
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// DOM-IGNORE-END

#include <adc.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <xc.h>

#include <adc.h>

#define PIN_ANALOG    1
#define PIN_DIGITAL   0

#define PIN_INPUT     1
#define PIN_OUTPUT    0

/*********************************************************************
* Function: ADC_ReadPercentage(ADC_CHANNEL channel);
*
* Overview: Reads the requested ADC channel and returns the percentage
*            of that conversions result (0-100%).
*
* PreCondition: channel is configured via the ADCConfigure() function
*
* Input: ADC_CHANNEL channel - enumeration of the ADC channels
*        available in this demo.  They should be meaningful names and
*        not the names of the ADC pins on the device (as the demo code
*        may be ported to other boards).
*         i.e. ADC_ReadPercentage(ADC_CHANNEL_POTENTIOMETER);
*
* Output: uint8_t indicating the percentage of the result 0-100% or
*         0xFF for an error
*
********************************************************************/
uint8_t ADC_ReadPercentage
    (ADC_CHANNEL channel) {
    uint8_t percent;

    switch(channel)
    {
        case ADC_CHANNEL_1:
            break;
        case ADC_CHANNEL_2:
            break;
        case ADC_CHANNEL_3:
            break;
        default:
            return 0xFF;
    }

    //A very crude percentage calculation
    percent = (ADC_Read10bit(channel) / 10);

    if(percent > 100)
    {
        percent = 100;
    }
    return percent;
}

/*********************************************************************
* Function: ADC_Read10bit(ADC_CHANNEL channel);
*
* Overview: Reads the requested ADC channel and returns the 10-bit
*           representation of this data.
*
* PreCondition: channel is configured via the ADCConfigure() function
*
* Input: ADC_CHANNEL channel - enumeration of the ADC channels
*        available in this demo.  They should be meaningful names and
*        not the names of the ADC pins on the device (as the demo code
*        may be ported to other boards).
*         i.e. - ADCReadPercentage(ADC_CHANNEL_POTENTIOMETER);
*
* Output: uint16_t the right adjusted 10-bit representation of the ADC
*         channel conversion or 0xFFFF for an error.
*
********************************************************************/
uint16_t ADC_Read10bit(ADC_CHANNEL channel)
{
    uint16_t result;

    switch(channel)
    {
        case ADC_CHANNEL_1:
            ADCON0bits.CHS = 0x0;
            break;
        case ADC_CHANNEL_2:
            ADCON0bits.CHS = 0x1;
            break;
        case ADC_CHANNEL_3:
            ADCON0bits.CHS = 0x2;
            break;
        default:
            return 0xFFFF;
    }

    ADCON0bits.GO = 1;              // Start AD conversion
    while(ADCON0bits.NOT_DONE);     // Wait for conversion

    result = ADRESH;
    result <<=8;
    result |= ADRESL;

    return result;
}

/*********************************************************************
* Function: bool ADC_Enable(ADC_CHANNEL channel, ADC_CONFIGURATION configuration);
*
* Overview: Configures the ADC module to specified setting
*
* PreCondition: none
*
* Input: ADC_CHANNEL channel - the channel to enable
*        ADC_CONFIGURATION configuration - the mode in which to run the ADC
*
* Output: bool - true if successfully configured.  false otherwise.
*
********************************************************************/
bool ADC_Enable(ADC_CHANNEL channel)
{
    switch(channel)
    {
        case ADC_CHANNEL_1:
            TRISAbits.TRISA0 = PIN_INPUT;
            return true;

        case ADC_CHANNEL_2:
            TRISAbits.TRISA1 = PIN_INPUT;
            return true;

        case ADC_CHANNEL_3:
            TRISAbits.TRISA2 = PIN_INPUT;
            return true;

        default:
            return false;
    }
}

/*********************************************************************
* Function: bool ADC_SetConfiguration(ADC_CONFIGURATION configuration)
*
* Overview: Configures the ADC module to specified setting
*
* PreCondition: none
*
* Input: ADC_CONFIGURATION configuration - the mode in which to run the ADC
*
* Output: bool - true if successfully configured.  false otherwise.
*
********************************************************************/
bool ADC_SetConfiguration(ADC_CONFIGURATION configuration)
{
    if(configuration == ADC_CONFIGURATION_DEFAULT)
    {
        ADCON0=0x01;
        ADCON1bits.PCFG = 0b1100;
        ADCON2=0x3C;
        ADCON2bits.ADFM = 1;
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

/*******************************************************************************
 End of File
*/


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Eloise Wellings (née Poppett) (born 9 November 1982 in White Plains, New York, United States) is an Australian long-distance runner. She represented her country at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, the 2010 edition in New Delhi and the 2014 edition in Glasgow, and the 2012 Summer Olympics.  In 2016, she made the finals of both the 5,000m and 10,000m races at 2016 Summer Olympics.

She was the gold medalist over 5000 metres at the 2003 Summer Universiade. She has also competed internationally in cross country running – her best finish to date was 22nd in the long race at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

She won two consecutive titles at the Zatopek 10,000 metres in 2009, 2010 and 2015.

Personal life
Wellings is a Christian. She stated that she missed out on the Sydney 2000 Olympics due to an injury and thought her God was punishing her. She went to church with a school friend and began to understand her God's love for her. She stated, "Once I found Jesus I was free to use the gifts he had given me and it didn't matter if I succeeded or not." Wellings also missed out on the Athens and Beijing Olympics due to injury. However, she states, "All of my disappointing results and disappointing injuries and heartbreak missing three Olympics, there was always this belief and faith that my identity is in Jesus and that's my foundation. When you've got that, you can't be shaken. Every time I get up to train, I just ask that he be glorified, that he give me the strength to do it, that he help give me the right thoughts to think – and not necessarily that I win but that he would be made known to people as I run."

Achievements

Personal bests
1500 metres - 4:13.63 min (2006)
3000 metres - 8:41.78 min (2006)
5000 metres - 14:54.11 min (2006)
10,000 metres - 31:14.94 min (2016)
Marathon - 2:25:10 (2022)

References

1982 births
Living people
Australian female long-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Sportspeople from New York (state)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Australia
World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Australian Christians
Universiade gold medalists for Australia
People from White Plains, New York
20th-century Australian women
21st-century Australian women

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By Marc Savlov
French director Louis Leterrier is to Luc Besson as Michele Soavi is to Dario Argento: an apprentice to an acclaimed European auteur of genre filmmaking who's never quite risen to the level of his mentor. In Leterrier's case, however, he's come close, assistant-directing 2002's Corey Yuen-helmed The Transporter, featuring Guy Ritchie regular Jason Statham as a no-questions-asked courier of underworld merchandise whose curiosity gets the better of him with impressively explosive results. Argento prot & eacute;g & eacute; Soavi, on the other hand, made his last big splash with 1994's Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man), based on the popular Italian series of Dylan Dog horror comics. It retains a rancid, off-kilter charm that is uniquely its own -- any film that features the corpulent Fran & ccedil;ois Hadji-Lazaro (a Jean-Pierre Jeunet regular) falling ass-over-tombstone in love with the severed head of Fabiana Formica is aces in our book -- but it's hardly what anyone would call a masterwork.
Unleashed (entitled Danny the Dog during its European release) is Leterrier's bid to sever the apron strings that tie him to Besson. Bonne chance, mon ami. As scripted and produced by Besson, Leterrier's debut feature is something of a wild card, a tale of a feral wild child Danny (Jet Li) who has been raised by murderous Scottish mobster Bart (Bob Hoskins) to act as his semi-human enforcer. Danny lives in a cage, his neck encircled by a totemic collar that, when slipped off by big bad Bart, sends him into berserker mode, a whirling, hyper-kinetic dervish of wickedly pinwheeling limbs and merciless, Alsatian-frothing bloodlust. When Bart and his goon squad are removed from the picture by a rival gangster, Danny finds himself freed from captivity. The only problem with this state of affairs is his utter lack of social skills. (Living practically your entire life in a cage will do that.) Out on his own, Danny is taken in by blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman) and his daughter Victoria (Kerry Condon), who recognize the innate decency behind Danny's scarred and savage facade.
From here on out, the film becomes a literal unleashing and re-humanization drama, punctuated by some genuinely affecting moments involving Danny's embrace of music and the stripping away of a lifetime of hyper-violent deconditioning. It's as though A Clockwork Orange's droogy Alex, in lieu of being brain-raped into social norms, were instead re-weaned on ice cream and the loving bond of a decent family. And then, of course, Hoskins' Bart reappears, anxious to get his attack dog back in fighting form. Mayhem ensues.
Though Unleashed comes equipped with a bold if cloying script, courtesy of Besson, fight choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping spares no expense when it comes to utilizing Li's impressive physicality as his weapon of choice. Hoskins, the cockney cad in his Saville Row suits, is something of a clich & eacute; here, but he's been doing this sort of blustery role off and on since The Long Good Friday and he nails it to the wall with gleeful professionalism. Li, too, has come a long way since his Shaw Brothers and Tsui Hark days, although echoes of Once Upon a Time in China's Wong Fei-Hung's iron fists and tender heart inform the character of Danny. Unleashed suffers from a surfeit of sentimentality at times -- blame Besson for that -- but it's Li's first major Western role of any depth and he acquits himself admirably as both mad dog and melancholy master.
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New space launch capacity and technological advances are making satellites cheaper to launch and operate, and are providing new ways to provide data networks anywhere in the world. We'll explore the technological, economic, and political ramifications of new types of networks, on the ground and (not always so very far) above it.
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Vientiane – Vung Ang Railway
August 30, 2021 By James Clark 1 Comment
The Vientiane – Vung Ang railway is a proposed railway that would connect Vientiane in Laos to the Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam. Vung Ang is the closest feasible seaport to Vientiane, thus the railway would enable landlocked Laos access to a deep seaport for shipping. The railway would also interchange with Vietnam's North-South railway, opening up the prospect of a Hanoi-Vientiane railway service.
The line would connect to the Laos-China railway in Vientiane, so the catchment area for freight shipment would extend into Northern Laos and Southern China.
The proposed line is 555 km in total – 452 km in Laos and 103 km in Vietnam. Each country has pledged to finance and build their own section. The total estimated cost is over 5 billion USD.
The Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam's central Ha Tinh province will be jointly developed by the two countries. Laos would hold a 60% stake in the project, and Vietnam with 40%.
A feasibility study was commissioned in 2015 by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and in 2017 it was announced that the project was viable.
In 2019 an Indonesian consortium announced it begin work on the Laos section in 2021. The leaders of Laos and Vietnam met in August 2021 and pledged to accelerate the Vientiane-Vung Ang railway, though no dates were given.
In March 2022 it was announced that Laos would assume management of Vung Ang seaport in July, and then it was announced that the railway would begin construction in November 2022.
Vientiane – Vung Ang Railway Map
This map shows the locations that are part of the project but not the actual station locations.
[Map of Vientiane – Vung Ang railway.]
Feasibility Study for Railway Link between Laos and Vietnam
Construction of Thakhek-Vung Ang seaport railway link expected to begin early next year – [22/12/22]
Vietnamese group Deoca, foreign partners aim to build railways in HCMC, Laos – [10/07/22]
"Deoca Group is working with foreign partners to study construction of Ho Chi Minh City's Metro Line 2 and a railway connecting Vung Ang Economic Zone in central Vietnam to Vientiane."
Laos-Vietnam railway project to link Vientiane with Thakhek – [01/07/22]
FLC Group to help build $5bn railway From Vientiane to Hà Tĩnh – [23/03/22]
FLC and Petrotrade sign investment and construction contract for railway project connecting Laos and Vietnam – [23/03/22]
Work on Vientiane-Vung Ang railway expected to start in November – [18/03/22]
"The railway, estimated to cost US$5 billion, is a proposed line that the Lao and Vietnamese governments have agreed to jointly develop…A feasibility study on the 554km railway has been completed, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company (PetroTrade), Mr Chanthone Sitthixay, told the President of the National Assembly, Dr Xaysomphone Phomvihane, recently."
Laos-Vietnam friendship and solidarity year to be celebrated next year – [10/08/21]
"Laos and Vietnam have agreed to celebrate 2022 as Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year."
Vietnam, Laos ink series of agreements – [10/08/21]
"In the working session with Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on the same day, the two leaders talked about measures to promote trade and investment, and the acceleration of some projects including Vung Ang No.1, 2, 3 port projects, the Hanoi-Vientiane Expressway, Vientiane-Vung Ang Railway, Lao-Vietnam Friendship Park in Vientiane, Nongkhang Airport and hospitals in Lao Houaphan and Xiangkhouang Provinces."
[Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) and Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on August 9. Photo: VNA]
Laos: Vientiane Logistics Park project prepares for soft opening, linking with Laos-China railway – [24/07/21]
"The TDP and VLP are set to connect to a number of mega trade infrastructure projects that are also part of the Laos Logistics Link. These include the Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam's central Ha Tinh province, which the Lao and Vietnamese governments have agreed to jointly develop, the planned railway to link the Lao capital of Vientiane with the Vung Ang seaport".
Viet Nam, Laos agree to seek investments for strategic transport projects – [26/06/21]
"Viet Nam and Laos have agreed to work together to seek investments for strategic transport connectivity projects, including the Ha Noi-Vientiane expressway and Vientiane-Vung Ang railway."
Vietnam's tug of war with China over Laos – [12/05/21]
"…Laos also has a strategic interest in maintaining a warm relationship with Vietnam. Being landlocked, Vietnam provides the best route for Laos to access the sea for trade. Infrastructure projects to connect Laos with Vietnam's key economic centres, including a proposed railway from Vientiane to the central Vietnamese deep-water port of Vung Ang, are being considered. Chinese infrastructure financing has also left Laos with a heavy burden of debt and vulnerable to Beijing's manipulation. Vietnam offers a counterweight to this trend. The best strategy for Laos is to walk the line between its two bigger neighbours and benefit from both."
As China-Laos railway nears completion, infrastructure poised to transform Lao economy – [22/02/21]
"The future of the Lao national railway will also play a role in shaping economic ties to neighboring Vietnam and Thailand, both key partners in the country's economic development. Construction on a 500-kilometer rail line from Vientiane to Vung Ang, Vietnam is slated to begin later in 2021 and would give Laos much quicker access to a port as well as connecting it to Vietnam's rail system."
Study set for Laos-Vietnam Railway Project – [13/10/20]
"Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company (PetroTrade) has signed an agreement with the National Consulting Group Sole Co Ltd to conduct an environmental and social impact assessment to ensure the Laos-Vietnam Railway Project is developed in compliance with international environmental and social standards."
3rd Meeting of Working Group on Dry Ports [PDF] – [13-14 November 2019]
Logistics Strategy and Logistics Development Plan in Lao PDR.
Indonesia announces start date for $1.9bn Vietnam-Laos rail link – [22/10/19]
"The Indonesia Railway Development Consortium has announced plans to begin work in 2021 on a 400km rail line between Vietnam and Laos for a price of $1.9bn"
Indonesian consortium plans $2 billion Vietnam-Laos railway link – [22/10/19]
Laos plans to begin work on Laos-Vietnam railway in 2021 – [17/10/19]
"The Lao Government has entrusted the Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company (PetroTrade) to conduct a feasibility study on a Laos-Vietnam railway project, the Vientiane Times reported."
Lao, Vietnamese PMs push for mega infrastructure projects – [05/06/19]
"The governments of Laos and Vietnam have agreed to jointly develop the Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam's central Ha Tinh province.
It was reported previously that Laos would hold a stake of up to 60 percent in the project, while Vietnam will hold the remaining 40 percent. The Lao government envisages that the seaport will be a key trade route for the landlocked nation.
The two sides signed an agreement earlier this year pledging to work together to fuulfil the planned project, known as the Vientiane-Vung Ang railway.
The 555-km railway will cover 452km in Laos and 103km in Vietnam.
Each side pledged to seek financing to build the section of railway on its soil, according to the agreement on exploring potentials to realise the railway project."
Experts question need for proposed Laos-Vietnam rail link – [08/03/19]
"A railway connecting the Lao capital Vientiane with the port of Vung Ang on Vietnam's coast may have trouble finding lenders to finance the project, plans for which were announced at the end of February by Lao and Vietnamese leaders, experts say."
Laos, Vietnam seek funds for cross-border railway – [27/02/19]
"The two sides signed an agreement in Vientiane on Sunday, pledging to work together to realise the planned project, known as the Vientiane-Vung Ang railway, local daily Vientiane Times reported yesterday."
Lao-Vietnamese Presidents agreed to further strengthen ties – [26/02/19]
"The Two sides agreed to further strengthen their great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with the signing of 9 cooperation agreements related to financial cooperation, construction of Vientiane-Vung Ang railway, electricity and mines development and other relevant agreements were also signed."
Vientiane – Vung Ang railway needs over 5 billion USD – [04/05/18]
"More than 5 billion USD is needed to build a railway linking the Lao capital of Vientiane with Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam, according to research conducted under a technical support project for the railway's feasibility study."
Feasibility study says Laos-Vietnam railway doable – [11/12/17]
"Two years ago, Lao, Vietnamese and Korean experts and officials met in the capital of Laos to commence a study on the feasibility of a proposed 555km railway that would link Vientiane, passing through Thakaek (Khammouane) to Vung Ang Port in Vietnam. Last week, that feasibility study was declared complete. The railway was announced to be a viable project, worth pursuing."
Study recommends 150km speed for Vientiane-Vung Ang railway. – [01/12/17]
Govt takes step to develop VungAng Seaport – [25/05/17]
"During last month's visit to Laos by Vietnam's Prime Minister, the two governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to work together to develop the Vientiane-Thakhaek-Muya railway, linking Vientiane with the VungAng seaport."
Plans gather steam for railway linking Vientiane to Vietnamese seaport – [18/05/17]
Vietnamese Prime Minister pays an official visit to Laos – [26/04/17]
"The two Prime Ministers also signed and witnessed the signing of several cooperation agreements on a joint venture project to develop Vung Ang Port as a Lao-Vietnamese port; the building of a railway stretching from Vientiane through Thakhek, Mayu, and Ton Ob to Vung Ang".
A Vietnam-Laos railway could be on the horizon – [10/03/16]
"The study, funded by the International Cooperation Agency of Korea (KOICA), will review the planning, potential railway site, traffic demand forecast, economic analysis and financial feasibility of the proposed railway".
Feasibility study for Laos-Vietnam railway begins – [25/02/16]
"A feasibility study for a railway linking the Lao capital of Vientiane with Vung Ang seaport in central Ha Tinh province of Vietnam has begun, a senior Lao official has said."
South Korea to help Laos with rail link plan – [19/10/15]
"The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide US$3 million (Bt106 million) in aid to help Laos conduct a feasibility study for a railway link from Vientiane to Vung Ang, Vietnam."
Vietnam to add new line to China-Southeast Asia rail network – [08/10/15]
"A rail link is now being planned between the central province of Ha Tinh and Laos capital city Vientiane, as part of a network between China and Southeast Asian countries."
The Study on the Development Plan of Thakek-Vung Ang Gateway between Lao PDR and Vietnam – [March 2010]
(The New East-West Corridor for North-Eastern Thailand, Lao PDR, and Vietnam) Study Report
Filed Under: Laos, Railways, Vietnam Tagged With: laos, vientiane, vietnam, vung ang
Wisarut says
Vietnamese government said it will implement the 103-km line from Vũng Án Deep Sea Pt – Tân Ấp – Mụ Giạ (at Cha Lo checkpoint) by the end of 2030. Let's see of Lao – China railway would like to implement this line at all.
https://vnexpress.net/quy-hoach-9-tuyen-duong-sat-moi-den-nam-2030-4374137.html
https://english.thesaigontimes.vn/nine-new-railways-expected-to-be-developed-by-2030


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CFP Semifinal: Playstation Fiesta Bowl—Clemson Gets What It Wants And Hands Urban Meyer Something He's Never Had
Posted on January 1, 2017, by Travis Pulver
Everyone likes to claim "We Want Alabama" but most say it with the knowledge that they will more than likely never have to act on the claim—but not Clemson. They are probably the one team that said it, meant it and going into Saturday night's CFP Semifinal game against Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl were a game away from getting it.
All they had to do was take care of business against Urban Meyer and his Ohio State Buckeyes—and they did with a dominant 31-0 win.
Via @ClemsonFB
A Deshaun Watson interception gave Ohio State the chance to take an early lead, but what it did was give fans an indication of how the game was going to go. A short pass gained two yards, and another resulted in a two-yard loss. An incomplete pass set up a long field goal attempt—which was missed.
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Ohio State had no answer for the speed and size of Clemson's front seven. The Tigers ended up sacking Barrett three times and kept him on the run throughout the game. Normally, being on the run would be a good thing for Barrett, but his speed was not enough to escape that of Clemson's defense. His 11 carries—which included a long of 11—resulted in a total of negative two yards.
The Buckeyes offensive production did not look much better. Clemson held one of the nation's best offenses (No. 20 total yards; No. 9 in scoring) to just 215 yards and nine first downs, and no points. It was the first time an Ohio State team had been shut out since 1993, and the first time (out of 194 games) a team coached by Urban Meyer had been shut out.
"I thought we were going to go compete for the national championship in 10 days or whatever it is," Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said after the game. "I really did. That comment I made [about maybe being a year away] was prior to the season — not today.
"Shoot, I thought we were ready to go. And I didn't anticipate this at all."
Watson looked good overall completing 23 of 36 passes for 259 yards, a touchdown, and two interceptions. He added another 57 yards and two touchdowns on the ground (15 carries). Neither interception ended up costing the team. The first resulted in a missed field goal and the second a punt.
"If I throw a pick or make a mistake, I'm not going to shy away and not just going to throw it. I'm going to take my chances, take my shots," Watson said after the game. "I feel like the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. I have guts and have that trust in my arm and my receivers I try to do that. … I just go out there and play ball and don't worry about mistakes. The great ones make mistakes, too."
He may want to be a little warier about taking on risks against Alabama. The Crimson Tide have scored 11 touchdowns on defense, five on fumbles returned and six off interception returns.
The early line has Alabama favored by seven in the first national title rematch since the national championship game was established in the BCS Era (1998). Alabama won last year 45-40.
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...I get 5 empty records without values in returned List (screenshot is below).
I'm doing something wrong or is there a bug?
Can not be a problem with custom SqliteDialect.Provider.NamingStrategy?
Mapping "Id" to "id" and "RecId" to "rec_id" .... "underscore separeted"
What does the results look like when you query the generated SQL? Also please provide the class definition for Entities.Menu and what RDBMS are you using? Looks like it may be PostgreSQL.
And are you using any custom OrmLiteConfig or naming strategy?
Yes the custom naming strategy is likely the issue. What naming strategy are you using?
Can you provide the class definition of Entities.Menu and a screenshot of running the query in a GUI (generated in the debug log) so it shows the returned resultset.
Can you provide a view of the resultset returned when running the query, i.e. so we can see what data is meant to be populated.
Maybe I also have the question why is GUID stored in char (36) as "binary"?
I'm unable to repro this issue with the code provided in this commit, which passes in both .NET Framework and .NET Core.
SQL: SELECT "id", "rec_id", "name"
The one change that was needed for OrmLite was making UserId public and removing the ForeignKey reference since no User class was provided but as it's not apart of the query it wont have any effect on the test.
If you haven't already please upgrade to the latest version of OrmLite, if it's still an issue please upload a stand-alone repro on GitHub I can run locally to repro the issue.
It looks good and the code seems to be equally.
In my project the problem still exists. Look at this bellow - two same identical entities (Menu), first Select whole entities, second only some columns.
I'm assuming OrmLite was used to create the tables right?
If so, I'd need a small stand-alone repro in order to be able to investigate further. Please post a standalone repro to GitHub I can run locally to repro the issue.


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On the southeast side of the parking area, you will notice a triple black-diamond-on-teal blaze, marking the start of a connector trail to the Highlands Trail. Follow the black-diamond-on-teal blazes, which head east along Saffin Pond. Several side trails on the right lead to viewpoints over the pond.
At the southeast corner of the pond, turn right and proceed along the dam until you reach the bridge over its outlet. Do not cross the bridge; rather, bear sharply left onto a gravel path – the route of the teal-blazed Highlands Trail. Contnue to follow the Highlands Trail as it ascends gradually along a woods road. At the top of the climb (marked by a bench), bear right at a T-intersection and continue to follow the teal diamond blazes as they descend along an eroded woods road. At the base of the descent, bear left and continue along a relatively level stretch of the Highlands Trail, with Weldon Brook – the outlet of Saffin Pond – to your right.
After bearing left, away from the brook, the trail crosses a stream on a wide wooden footbridge. It bears left again but soon bears right and begins to climb. At the crest of the rise - just beyond a large boulder topped with ferns to the left of the trail - you'll reach a T-intersection. The white-blazed Beaver Brook Trail begins on the right, but you should turn left to continue on the teal-diamond-blazed Highlands Trail. The trail descends to cross a tributary stream, climbs over a knoll, then descends to cross the main stream on rocks. The trail now climbs through a rocky area – with interesting rock formations on the left – and descends to again cross the main stream on rocks.
The Highlands Trail now begins to climb. Several steep ascents are interspersed with level sections, some of which cross ope n rock ledges. After crossing a yellow-blazed woods road in a large clearing, the trail resumes its climb on a moderate grade. Soon, you'll reach a broad overlook to the southeast from a rock ledge to the right of the trail. Except for a few power line towers, no civilization is visible from here; you see only forested hillsides, with Lake Hopatcong visible in the distance to the right. After a slight dip, the trail climbs through a canopy of mountain laurel to reach another viewpoint. This viewpoint, marked by a bench and designated on the map as the Headley Overlook, is more popular because it is nearer the road, but the first overlook provides a less obstructed view.
Continue ahead on the Highlands Trail, which now descends on a woods road through more mountain laurel, and bear right at the next T-intersection. As the trail approaches Weldon Road, it bears right at a fork, then crosses the paved road and soon emerges onto a parking area.
Follow the teal diamond blazes of the Highlands Trail as they continue along a paved service road from the end of the parking area, passing a sign that marks the start of the white-blazed Pine Swamp Trail. The road heads through a picnic area. When the paving ends, proceed ahead on a gravel road, continuing to follow both white and teal blazes.
Soon, you'll reach a T-intersection, which marks the start of the loop of the Pine Swamp Trail. Turn left, leaving the Highlands Trail, and follow the white blazes along a woods road. At a Y-intersection a short distance ahead, bear left, leaving the white-blazed trail, and follow a blue-blazed trail ahead to a camping area.
When you reach an open field, bear left and follow along the left side of the field, then bear right onto a park road, passing a restroom building. Immediately bear left at the next fork, and follow the road for about 100 feet. Opposite Campsite #4, you'll notice a sign pointing to the Pine Swamp Trail. Turn right here and follow the blue-blazed trail into the woods.
In about a third of a mile, bear right at a fork, joining a yellow-blazed bike trail. Just ahead, bear left, continuing to follow the blue markers, but in 50 fee t turn right, now following white blazes. You are back on the Pine Swamp Trail, which follows a winding woods road up to the highest point in Morris County (1,395 feet), marked by a bench to the left of the trail and (just beyond) a sign to its right.
The trail now descends to reach a junction in a hemlock forest. Bear sharply left here, leaving the white-blazed trail, and follow an orange-blazed woods road. To your right is the unusual Pine Swamp, with its tall spruce, hemlock, rhododendron and mountain laurel.
In another two-thirds of a mile – after a steady descent – you'll reach a junction with the railbed of the Ogden Mine Railroad. Built in 1855 to transport the ore from local mines, it was abandoned in 1930. Turn left and follow this nearly-level railbed through rock cuts and over embankments. In about a third a mile, you'll pass the start of the blue-blazed trail on the left and (just beyond) a large wetland on the right. Then, in another 750 feet, you'll pass a large wetland on the left. The hill visible (on the left) beyond the wetland is the one you climbed earlier in the hike to reach the highest point in Morris County. Continuing ahead, the railbed begins to parallel Weldon Brook on the left. After passing another large wetland (Toomey's Pond) on the left, you'll reach Weldon Road. The parking area where you began the hike is across the road to the left.
Highlands Trail/Pine Swamp Trail/Ogden Mine Railbed Loop
Mahlon Dickerson Reservation
This loop hike climbs to the Headley Overlook, goes over the highest point in Morris County, passes the unusual Pine Swamp and follows the railbed of the historic Ogden Mine Railroad.
Web Map: Morris County Park Commission Mahlon Dickerson Reservation
Take I-80 to Exit 34B. Proceed north for 5.0 miles on N.J. Route 15, and get off at the exit for Weldon Road and Milton. After about 1.3 miles on Weldon Road, you will pass a sign marking the entrance to the Saffin-Rock Rill area of Mahlon Dickerson Reservation. Continue for another 1.5 miles (2.8 miles from Route 15) and turn right into the Saffin Pond parking area.
Hike has been updated
Today, I walked the entire hike and updated it as necessary. As to your comment regarding the railbed of the Ogden Mine Railroad, it should be noted that the park map shows this railbed as a green-blazed trail. There is a single green blaze just south of the intersection with the orange-blazed woods road, which shows that you are on the correct route, but as of this writing, there are no other green blazes along the railbed.
time for an update
This needs a few corrections. Where it says "The trail descends to reach a junction in a pine forest...", that is a hemlock forest. Also, the trail going sharply to the left in the hemlock forest is now blazed orange - there are three orange blazes to indicate where to make the left. There are no longer blue blazes on this segment, and only a couple of yellow markers. The railbed is not so obvious (could be a woods road), but there are three orange blazes to indicate the end of that segment - "when you see the orange blazes, turn left onto the Ogden Mine railbed". This reservation is a beautiful spot.
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CNBC, Cooperman Double Down On 'Pity The Billionaire Curmudgeons' Strategy To Counter Liz Warren
November 4, 2019 November 4, 2019 6 min read therealheisenberg
The more momentum Elizabeth Warren gets in the Democratic primaries, the more aggressive is CNBC in their campaign to spread misinformation among the electorate.
Frankly, the network's coverage of Warren now borders on the bizarre, even when you account for their target audience, which they like to imagine is rich people, although you could pretty easily make the case that their daily programming is consumed primarily by hapless day traders hoping to get a leg up via a hot options tip from one of the Najarians or some ostensibly incisive fundamental analysis from Stephanie Link.
Their obsession with Warren manifested itself on Monday in an interview with Leon Cooperman, a frequent Warren critic, who last month accused the Senator of "sh—ing on the f—ing American dream". That, despite the fact that Warren has spent her entire career trying to figure out why it is that middle-class Americans have seen that same American dream slipping further and further away.
Read more: Leon Cooperman Has Some Things He Wants To Say About Elizabeth Warren
Of course, the "interview" wasn't really an "interview". Rather, Scott Wapner just asked Leon the questions that Leon wanted to be asked.
"You're not the only one who makes that point, in fact I was going through Twitter this morning before, you know, in preparation for our interview and Mark Cuban said the other day a very similar thing… [he] wonders about the impact of the stock and other liquidity markets", a completely serious Wapner began.
https://heisenbergreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/BajMswuFQVp9CF7o.mp4
(Wapner's quote starts at 0:31)
Now, for one thing, that is not "a very similar thing" to what Cooperman was saying, which Leon was quick to point out. But beyond that, it isn't true, something we drove home last week in "What Liz Warren's Tax Policies Would Really Mean For Stocks And The Economy".
"The reduced asset demand [from Warren's 'Ultra-Millionaire Tax'] on the margin, would negatively affect equities but the magnitude is likely to be limited", Barclays wrote, in an expansive take last week. "Only a portion of the $2.75tn is invested in equities and the demand reduction per year is not significant relative to equity market capitalization (~ $30tn U.S equities and ~$60tn global equities)", the bank went on to say.
Somehow, that didn't make it into Wapner's "preparation" process. See, he was too busy getting to the truth about the ultra-millionaire tax by parsing the Twitter feeds of billionaires.
Cooperman also claimed that Warren is "screwing around with the wrong guy", which sounds like some kind of silly threat until you listen to the context, which funds Leon explaining that if you'll just let him alone, he's more than happy to give all of his money away:
https://heisenbergreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2oW-m0pHRkKtOcfb.mp4
"I want to give it all away, but I wanna control the decision", he explains. "The idea of vilifying wealthy people is so bogus. You know, they're appealing to the… you know… to the masses".
Correct! Warren is appealing to "the masses" or, put differently, to regular people, who aren't billionaires and who might not have health insurance or who, because of a broken system, can't enjoy the American dream that Leon swears Warren is "sh—ing on".
He went on: "Every billionaire I know made their money by providing a productive useful service or product and that's why they made their money".
That is entirely dependent upon one's definition of "useful service or product". While we can all agree that Amazon is useful, I'd be willing to bet that Leon Cooperman knows at least a half-dozen billionaires whose money was made in pursuits that in no way, shape or form would be described as "useful" by the average American.
Of course, he doesn't mention any of those people. Rather, he mentions Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, because, you know, those are the easy ones and he's on TV! (To be fair, Leon mounted a much more trenchant defense of his point in a letter to Warren, which you can read below).
The "best" part from the whole interview came during the exchange shown in the first clip above.
"What she's suggesting is morally wrong, I paid taxes on my income while I was earning it", Leon said. "What I have left is taxed income and she wants to take another bite at the apple – it's wrong".
Hopefully, everyone can see the problem with this.
It doesn't matter who is "right" or who is "wrong" here. This is not a fight that Leon can win.
What he doesn't seem to grasp (and CNBC is so swept up in their own anti-Warren hysteria that they're apparently blind to it too) is that it is not a good look to have billionaire curmudgeons show up on business television and whine about how "morally wrong" it is to tax 2% of their vast wealth in order to pay for healthcare, child care and college for people who can't afford it.
This is the same mistake CNBC made earlier this year when Wilbur Ross's ghostly visage materialized on screen to express his incredulity that federal workers affected by the government shutdown couldn't just walk into a bank and get loans to make ends meet.
The point: This all comes across as hopelessly out of touch, irrespective of whether Cooperman is sincere about Warren, and even if, back in January, Ross really was confused at the prospect that anyone would be living paycheck to paycheck.
But none of these people seem to understand this, and Warren is more than happy to exploit their apparent aloofness. Cooperman wrote her a long letter late last month (embedded in full below), and instead of address it, she simply retweeted CNBC's coverage of it, and reiterated that he needed to "pitch in more".
Leon is wrong. I'm fighting for big changes like universal child care, investing in public schools, and free public college.
We can do all of that with a #TwoCentWealthTax. Leon can and should pitch in more—so that every kid has the same opportunities he did to succeed. https://t.co/38fJSXKKCJ
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 31, 2019
See that tweet from the network's Brian Schwartz announcing the letter? That tweet got 47 retweets and 121 likes.
Warren's "Leon is wrong tweet" citing Schwartz's tweet garnered 1,000 retweets and 5,301 likes.
In case it isn't clear enough, allow me to break it down: If CNBC and guys like Cooperman are serious about preventing a Warren presidency, the best thing they can do is keep their mouths shut.
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November 4, 2019 at 3:03 pms Reply
Beware of super rich people saying taxing them is going to ruin the economy worse than a few hundred people compulsively hoarding the vast majority of the country's entire wealth. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go — I just got a text that one of my yachts has turned up at Lake Erie and I didn't even know if was missing.
mfn
Cooperman: "Every billionaire I know made their money by providing a productive useful service or product and that's why they made their money." What's the productive service Cooperman has provided over his career. I'd love to hear it from the horse's ass..er, mouth.
How many billionaires are hedge fund managers……what the heck do they contribute to
the lives of average American workers?
November 5, 2019 at 7:53 ams Reply
Lol he is trying to garner sympathy because his income was already taxed? Seriously how stupid is this viewing audience. The average CEO salary is like 15mm. There is no fucking way he became a billionaire off income rather than capital. Capital gains are taxed a fraction of Income, and the income tax itself was probably manipulated so his effective rate was less than the average.
Continue to sow divisiveness, that has worked out so well the past few years.


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Sketchy rumor suggests Google to launch 8-inch Nexus tablet at the end of April
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DigiTimes, a site whose supply-chain-based rumors have a rather variable record of reliability, claims that Asustek is working on a new 8-inch Nexus, to replace the Nexus 7 at the end of April.
Google is no stranger to the form factor having just recently Play-editioned the LG 8.2″ G Pad which has gotten some stellar reviews.
It's suggested that Google feels the 7-inch market is too crowded, especially with 5- and 6-inch phablets cannibalising some of the 7-inch market …
Even if the rumor were true, it's unlikely that anyone in the supply-chain would be privy to Google's reasoning. We're skeptical, but we'll keep our ears open.
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Two Researchers Disprove Government Geoengineering Initiatives Demonstrating They Do Not Reduce Climate Change
in Environment, Geoengineering
Many geoengineering techniques are focused on ways of reducing the sun's rays by blocking them spraying chemical compounds into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from earth. At least this is the claim by government scientists justifying global operations of this kind to reduce climate change and global warming. However, two German researchers are debunking the claim using a simple energy balance analysis to explain how the Earth's water cycle responds differently to heating by sunlight than it does to warming due to a stronger atmospheric greenhouse effect.
The researchers are also showing that this difference implies that reflecting sunlight to reduce temperatures may have unwanted effects on the Earth's rainfall patterns. The results are now published in Earth System Dynamics, an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
They've been called chemtrails, aerial spraying, aerosol emissions, cirrus clouds, among many other terms. The largest reports come from Canada and U.S. but it happens all over the world including countries such as France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom among many others. Thousands of planes spray chemicals, salt or other particulates into our atmosphere in an attempt to curb global warming (so they say).
Comparing Israeli sunlight records from the 1950s with current ones, researchers were astonished to find a large fall in solar radiation. There has been a staggering 22% drop in the sunlight. Sunlight was falling by 10% over the USA, nearly 30% in parts of the former Soviet Union, and even by 16% in parts of the British Isles. Although the effect varied greatly from place to place, overall the decline amounted to one to two per cent globally every decade between the 1950s and the 1990s.
The goal is that these stratospheric aerosols will be engineered to migrate to particular regions (e.g. over the arctic) or to rise above the stratosphere.
The warming of the planet alters the water cycle since more water evaporates to the air as temperatures increase. Increased evaporation can dry out some regions while, at the same time, result in more rain falling in other areas due to the excess moisture in the atmosphere. The more water evaporates per degree of warming, the stronger the influence of increasing temperature on the water cycle. But the new study shows the water cycle does not react the same way to different types of warming.
Why Geoengineering Will Never Work
Axel Kleidon and Maik Renner of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, used a simple energy balance model to determine how sensitive the water cycle is to an increase in surface temperature due to a stronger greenhouse effect and to an increase in solar radiation. They predicted the response of the water cycle for the two cases and found that, in the former, evaporation increases by 2 percent per degree of warming while in the latter this number reaches 3 percent. This prediction confirmed results of much more complex climate models.
"These different responses to surface heating are easy to explain," says Kleidon, who uses a pot on the kitchen stove as an analogy. "The temperature in the pot is increased by putting on a lid or by turning up the heat — but these two cases differ by how much energy flows through the pot," he says. A stronger greenhouse effect puts a thicker 'lid' over the Earth's surface but, if there is no additional sunlight (if we don't turn up the heat on the stove), extra evaporation takes place solely due to the increase in temperature. Turning up the heat by increasing solar radiation, on the other hand, enhances the energy flow through the Earth's surface because of the need to balance the greater energy input with stronger cooling fluxes from the surface. As a result, there is more evaporation and a stronger effect on the water cycle.
In the new Earth System Dynamics study the authors also show how these findings can have profound consequences for geoengineering. Many geoengineering approaches aim to reduce global warming by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface (or, in the pot analogy, reduce the heat from the stove). But when Kleidon and Renner applied their results to such a geoengineering scenario, they found out that simultaneous changes in the water cycle and the atmosphere cannot be compensated for at the same time. Therefore, reflecting sunlight by geoengineering is unlikely to restore the planet's original climate.
"It's like putting a lid on the pot and turning down the heat at the same time," explains Kleidon. "While in the kitchen you can reduce your energy bill by doing so, in the Earth system this slows down the water cycle with wide-ranging potential consequences," he says.
Kleidon and Renner's insight comes from looking at the processes that heat and cool the Earth's surface and how they change when the surface warms. Evaporation from the surface plays a key role, but the researchers also took into account how the evaporated water is transported into the atmosphere. They combined simple energy balance considerations with a physical assumption for the way water vapour is transported, and separated the contributions of surface heating from solar radiation and from increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to obtain the two sensitivities. One of the referees for the paper commented: "it is a stunning result that such a simple analysis yields the same results as the climate models."
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Kelley Bergman is a media consultant, critic and geopolitical investigator. She has worked as a journalist and writer, specializing in geostrategic issues around the globe.
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Characters, Ten Who Were Taken, Wizards
Nightcrawler was one of the immensely powerful sorcerers known as the Ten Who Were Taken and a key enforcer in the Lady's Empire. He was one of three of the Ten (the others being Moonbiter and the Faceless Man) who were not observed personally by Croaker the Annalist, so no details about his appearance or abilities are found in the Annals. However, Croaker did record several of Nightcrawler's key military undertakings in The Black Company: his swift crushing of Whisper's planned Rebel insurrection within the city of Lords; his and Soulcatcher's failed defense of Lords against the besieging Rebel armies of Harden; his capture of the giant eastern Rebel city of Thud; and a few details of his actions at the Battle of Charm, where he was killed in combat.
Before Croaker's Annals Edit
The Domination Edit
During the era in the northern continent known as the Domination, Nightcrawler was initially an independent wizard-king. Then, a superior and infamous sorcerer known as the Dominator somehow discovered Nightcrawler's true name, and used it to enslave him in an agonizing ritual known as the Rite of Taking. Nine more of the Dominator's most powerful competitors and enemies suffered the same fate. They became known as the Ten Who Were Taken: the chief enforcers and generals of the Dominator and his wife the Lady. Except that his sigil depicted a snake, no other details specific to Nightcrawler during this time period were recorded by Croaker.
Diagram of the Barrowland. Nightcrawler was imprisoned in the southeastern outer barrow
After about a century of the Dominator's tyranny, they were all defeated (but not killed) by a mysterious woman called the White Rose and her armies during her famous rebellion in the Great Forest. Nightcrawler, alongside the other nine Taken, the Lady, the Dominator, and a considerable number of horrendous demons, were all imprisoned in the Barrowland. Nightcrawler specifically was imprisoned in the southeastern "outer barrow", the barrow numbered "5" by Bomanz centuries later. The imprisonment was meant to last for eternity.
Liberation and the Lady's empire Edit
Thirty-seven years before the end of The Black Company (and 370 years after being interred in the Barrowland), Nightcrawler, the other nine Taken, and the Lady were freed from their barrows under the light of the Great Comet by a group known as the Resurrectionists. To keep power to herself, the Lady orchestrated this event such that the Dominator and his "pet" demons remained imprisoned. Nightcrawler and the other Taken went on to help the Lady build the Tower at Charm, and next, to establish her own empire by prosecuting the consolidation wars.
Defense of Lords Edit
During The Black Company, Nightcrawler was in charge of the major Imperial city called Lords. When the Black Company fortuitously uncovered Whisper's battle plans to capture Lords using a battalion of Rebels secretly embedded throughout the city, they shared it with Soulcatcher. She quickly warned Nightcrawler, who used the valuable intelligence to hunt and execute them:
" It was all over in Lords when we got there. Nightcrawler had moved fast and had hit hard. You could not go anywhere without finding Rebels hanging from the trees and lampposts. "
Not long afterward, Nightcrawler and Soulcatcher attempted to defeat Harden's massive Rebel siege of Lords. Harden and other members of the Circle of Eighteen besieged, circumvallated, and bottled Lords in a double fosse. The two Taken fought Harden and the Circle in a ferocious sorcery duel that manifested in the form of a supernatural thunderstorm. They failed, and Lords was captured by the Rebel. Nightcrawler escaped, but did not seem to accompany the Black Company in their fighting retreat across the Windy Country.
Capture of Thud Edit
Nightcrawler was next mentioned in the context of the rapid collapse of the Rebel in the east. He led his army across the Plain of Fear and eventually recaptured the formidable city of Thud, ahead of the Faceless Man who was marching toward Barns. Shortly before this, Whisper (now Taken by the Lady) reconquered Rust, then Frost, for the empire, and the Circle general Parcel reportedly committed suicide at Ade to avoid capture by Bonegnasher, an 8-foot tall cannibal among the Taken.
At the Battle of Charm Edit
Nightcrawler played a major role in the defense of the Tower during the climactic Battle of Charm. At the onset of the battle, Nightcrawler, the Faceless Man, and the Howler were situated on the second of the three earthen walls outside the Tower. They each commanded a division of 2,000 veteran archers from the eastern armies. As the fighting progressed, the Faceless Man and the Howler went down to the first tier to replace Stormbringer and Bonegnasher, leaving the second tier to Nightcrawler.
When the Rebel made major progress on the first tier, a significant number of weaker-willed Imperials attempted to flee to Nightcrawler's level. He was forced to distribute some men to throw the fugitives back, and then to fight the overbold Rebels who made it over the wall.
During the same night that Moonbiter and the Faceless Man killed one another, Nightcrawler was reportedly killed by unspecified members of the Circle of Eighteen in a violent, sorcerous "battle of powers". Although Otto and Hagop found his grave to be empty many years later in Bleak Seasons, Nightcrawler was never heard from again, and the report of his death is presumed to be accurate.
Soulcatcher • The Howler • The Limper • Shapeshifter • Stormbringer
The Hanged Man • Bonegnasher • Nightcrawler • Moonbiter • The Faceless Man
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Football Fridays – Frustrated Tom Brady and Week 2 Matchups
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Well, Geno Smith and the Jets' one game winning streak has been broken! Most of us were in suspense regarding the game: Who would win?
Despite the gutting of the Patriots' offense by free agency, injuries and (alleged) murder, the Jets suffered from poor performance on both sides of the ball.
I am not a Pats "fan" per se. I admire their work ethic and the coaching of Belichick, but I simply cannot abide a team that uses cheating tactics to win. Don't they have enough film to study?
On the other hand, I am not a Jets' fan, nor am I a fan of Geno Smith. So when it comes to these two teams, I go with the more mature QB.
That being said, the game was sloppy on both sides. Dropped passeds turnovers (not the tasty kind) and interceptions made the game a disappointment to watch. I expect more from Tom Brady, though I understand that he's working with super-brand new players. But Tom showed his frustration, yelling on the sidelines about his immature receivers.
Either way, the Pats won and Tom Brady didn't put up many fantasy points.
Let's take a look at this weekend's matchups:
Weekend Matchups –
(note…I only comment on the games that will probably be shown in the New York metro area. Your mileage may vary.)
Chargers at Eagles
The Chargers like to give away games and the Eagles seem like they are on a serious mission. With the addition of coach Chip Kelly, the Iggles are a team to be reckoned with. I pick the Eagles.
Saints at Buccaneers
Drew BREES! As a former New Orleans resident, I like Drew Brees. As a current New Jersey resident, I do not like former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano. But I do like former Tampa Buccaneer, Warren Sapp. Hmmmmm. I pick the Saints.
Redskins at Packers
I am neutral on the strength of both these teams, but I like RGIII much better than Aaron Rodgers. Despite my affection for the running quarterback, I have to pick the Packers.
49ers at Seahawks
I laughed this morning when the fellas on WFAN reported that someone on the 49ners called the Seahawks, the "Shehawks". Juvenile? Yes. Fun? Most definitely. This will be a hard fought game between two tough teams. I can't even venture to pick a winner.
The Manning Bowl – Broncos at Giants
What else can be said about this matchup? I don't do point spreads and stuff like that, but let it be said that Peyton has won every Manning bowl so far. In addition, the Giants defense isn't what it used to be – but the Broncos offense is hot! Either way, it should be a good game to watch.
Let it also be said that the Eli does have two championship rings to Peyton's one.
Who's your team? Who's your player? Comment and let me know!
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Football Fridays – Running Backs
Running backs, also known as halfback or fullbacks (this depends on the size of the player), is sometimes the most visible player on the field. Overall, they also may have the best physique (read: hot bods) in the NFL. Wide receivers are a close second.
From the Free Online Dictionary:
n. Football
An offensive back, such as a fullback or halfback, who has the responsibility of advancing the ball by running with it on plays from the line of scrimmage.
Whenever you see the quarterback hand off the football, it's usually to a running back. If you polled a hundred football fans and asked which was the sexiest position on the team, excluding the quarterback, I reckon most would say the running back. Good running backs are hard to come by and they wear themselves out quickly on the field. The position is a taxing one because it is the most prone to taking powerful hits in addition to the wear and tear on the body, especially the knees.
However, running backs are the ones that usually provide the most exciting plays on the field.
Emmitt Smith, of recent "Dancing with the Stars" fame was the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,400 in five consecutive seasons. He holds the NFL record in career rushing yards with 18,355, breaking a record held by Walter "Sweetness" Payton of Chicago Bears fame.
Adrian "All Day", "Purple Jesus", Peterson is a running back for the Minnesota Vikings, hence the moniker "Purple Jesus" because those legs have saved the Vikings a time or two. In his first pro season, he set an NFL record for most rushing yards (296) in a single game.
Peterson is what we think of as a running back. His lean physique and fast legs give him the ability to weave and move through the defenders on the field, taking off like a rocket when the coast is clear.
Stats: Height: 6 ft 1 in Weight: 217 lb
Peyton Hillis
If you like your running backs with a side order of grits and cowboy hats, Peyton Hillis is your man. From Conway, Arkansas, this Razorback running back honed his skills at the University of Arkansas beside Felix Jones (of the Dallas Cowboys). Pulling pickup trucks is a part of his workout routine.
Due to his weight (250 lbs on a 6'2″ frame) Hillis is more fullback than traditional running back. A fullback can either block for the faster, more agile running back or he can rush through the defense, using his weight to make short yard plays. Fullbacks don't gain much yardage during games, so aren't very good for fantasy football points (I learned this lesson last year, sadly.) Hilis is good-looking, but doesn't give much points on the fantasy board.
Hillis has played for the Denver Broncos (227 overall pick in the draft), the Cleveland Browns and the Kansas City Chiefs. And, interestingly if my sources are right, he is the only white running He is currently a free agent (which is a nice way of saying he's "NFL unemployed"). He was also the cover boy for Madden NFL 12.
Arian Foster
Considered to be one of the best running backs in the NFL, Arian Foster is one of the driving forces behind the Houston Texans' offense. Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Texans in 2009, Foster made his debut against the Tennessee Titans as a member of special teams. He scored his first NFL touchdown against the Miami Dolphins (of course). His first career start was against the New England Patriots where he rushed for 119 yards and scored two touchdowns.
In a 2010 start against the Indianapolis Colts (and Peyton Manning) he broke the record for the most rushing yards by a Houston Texans in a single game in addition to securing the most rushing yards given up to a single player by the Colts.
Stats: 6 ft 1 in, 228 lb
Rice hails from my home state of New Jersey – a graduate of Rutgers University where he was the starting tailback during his freshman year. A current Baltimore Ravens (drafted 55th overall), Rice earned his first Super Bowl ring against the San Francisco earlier this year. In a 2010 wildcard playoff game against the love-to-hate New England Patriots, Rice scored an 83 yard touchdown on the first offensive play, the longest play for the Raves that season, the longest rush of hi NFL career and the second longest rush in NFL post-season history. The longest rush record in the post season is held by Fred Taylor at 90 yards.
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There's your crash course on running backs. Now that you know the positions (if you didn't know before) which running back is going to smash records this year? Peterson came close, just nine yards shy of breaking Eric Dickerson's record of 2,106 rushing yards during the regular season.
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Football Friday – Wide Receivers
After I watched a few football games with my husband, I decided that I wasn't going to solely depend on his knowledge and seek out some information on my own. Plus, asking a ton of questions during the game can cause you to miss a lot of action.
So, for my readers who love the game, but don't quite get it, Fridays are the day for you. It'll be short, it'll be sweet and hopefully it'll help you understand and enjoy the game better. Yes, we love the spandex and the occasional flash of flat abdomen (I'm looking at you Eric Decker), but knowledge will continue to be power.
Short and simple – these are the players that run downfield, away from the quarterback and catch "the long ball". That's my definition.
From about.com
Definition: An offensive player who lines up on or near the line of scrimmage, but split to the outside. His primary job is to catch passes from the quarterback.
Also Known As: receiver, wideout, split end, flanker
Easy peasy. The player who (usually) catches the ball thrown by the quarterback.
Note that the receivers who get the most press and exposure are those that play with a quarterback who is known for passing and who is also known for winning. Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Matt Stafford, Eli Manning…these quarterbacks throw to "known" wide receivers.
This all depends on what region of the country you're from. I'm from the Nawth-East, so these are the teams that are highlights.
Though I watch Eagles games, I cannot name their wide receiver off the top of my head. Vick is a running quarterback and only throws when he can't run it out.
Wide receiver news – Long time Tom Brady target Wes Welker is now playing for Brady's top NFL "rival" Peyton Manning. It will be fun to see the two teams come together in Week 13. I wonder if Welker is letting Manning in on any Brady secrets?
Now for the fun part. "Famous" wide receivers.
Danny Amendola : 5'11" , 188 lbs
Wes Welker: 5′ 9″, 185 lb s
Calvin Johnson: 6′ 5″, 236 lbs
Victor Cruz: 6′ 0″, 204 lbs
Eric Decker: 6′ 3″, 218 lbs
Who's your team's wide receiver? Who's your favorite out of my picks? Comment below!
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Meet the Editors! Part One
As we prepare to re-open to digital submissions at midnight tonight (as in 12 pm EST on February 1, 2018), we thought it a good time to give you all a little glimpse into the people behind the curtain at Fairy Tale Review.
This week, we're looking at the core digital squad, who read your work in 2017 and are the force behind our renewed effort to publish original work online. Next week, we'll follow up with the rest of our editors, many of whom are hard at work on closing up production on The Charcoal Issue.
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Emrys Donaldson
Managing Editor, Digital
As an editor, I am looking for voice-driven fairy tales that act as cartographers of new spaces, whether that means a map of a new world the size of that world or something found in the interstices of the known. I find power and surprise in tales told from a variety of perspectives, both authorial and narrational. Too, the act of retelling opens a dialogue that occurs across centuries, which is in and of itself a magical act.
Sarah rockin' the rooftops.
Sarah Murray
Associate Editor, Digital
Technically I'm one of the prose editors, but I've also been reading some of our poetry submissions. It's important to me to publish marginalized voices and stories, and it is very easy for me to be hypnotized by the voice of a piece, let's say. Or ownership: nothing is sexier than a voice that takes a fairy tale and makes it its own, says "I have the right to be here." I don't really look for surprise so much as subversion, and I particularly love stories about bodies, or stories where the language offers a spatial experience.
Nix thoroughly enjoying a very fairy-tale environment.
Nix Thérèse
I particularly enjoy retellings that shift to POVs & tensions overlooked or downplayed in the original. Challenging and remixing what's already presented works in tandem with creating anew: we should consider "why this voice?" to deepen our literary canon. Because nothing we make exists in a vacuum, I find it necessary to consider location, how the dynamic of a poem is able to ping forward and backward while also sitting presently. The magic of fairy tales, for me, comes from complicating "harmless" objects & "simple" moments. In Snow White, for example, glass becomes a means of surveillance and a snack becomes her best-known poisoning. In this way, any story can become transformative or surreal. How can we elevate "the small"?
Mikko and some… steps!
Mikko Harvey
I'm especially interested in surrealism, dark little fables, and the poem you are currently worried is too strange to show anybody—that strangeness may be where the freshest material is. I'm always happy to see poems that (like fairy tales) appreciate the existence of other animals, and don't assume humans are the only heroes on this planet. And, like Nix, I look for poems that elevate the small, the overlooked, the hidden. In the words of Dean Young, "Do not confuse size with scale: / the cathedral may be very small, / the eyelash monumental."
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Joel Hans
My greatest pleasure in editing Fairy Tale Review is becoming slowly acquainted with the massive, talented, but under-respected population of writers who embrace oddity, surrealism, impossible logic, and magic in their work. In the last few years, I've become particularly interested in work that imagines our world's future through these most ancient storytelling styles and techniques, but I also just have a good-sized soft spot for anything that gets unexpectedly anthropomorphized. I love unique retellings—the more tangential and extreme the thread between your version and the original, the better—and like Emrys, I'm looking for prose that's driven by voice and language. My time with Fairy Tale Review has always been bound by certain questions: What is a fairy-tale story? or, What is a fairy-tale poem? or, What is a fairy-tale essay? I'm excited to see how writers can stretch the definitions I already think I have.
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Rumor Suggests 12-Inch Retina MacBook Air Could Launch During March 9 Apple Watch Event
Tuesday March 3, 2015 2:36 pm PST by Juli Clover
Apple could be planning to introduce the much-rumored 12-inch Retina MacBook Air during its March 9 Apple Watch event, according to one site that claims to have sources within Apple. The Michael Report believes Apple will use the event to debut the ultrathin MacBook, which is rumored to have a Retina display and a redesigned chassis.
Many are expecting Apple talk more about the Apple Watch. However, sources familiar with the matter within Apple have exclusively told The Michael Report that Apple plans to unveil the long-awaited Retina MacBook Air at the same event. The Michael Report has independently verified this information to be highly credible.
While there have been no concrete rumors from major sites linking the Retina MacBook Air to Apple's March 9 event, previous rumors have indicated that Apple is planning for a spring release. Apple supplier Quanta is said to have begun mass production of the notebook in January, and KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted a March launch for the MacBook.
Rendering of the 12-inch Retina MacBook Air created by Martin Hajek
When taking these rumors into account, along with the fact that the MacBook Air is due for an update, the introduction of the Retina MacBook Air at Apple's March 9 event does seem like a possibility. It's also possible Apple will introduce new models of the existing 11 and 13-inch MacBook Air at the event -- the last update was in April and there was a rumor suggesting an update in February was imminent. Core M Broadwell chips believed to be appropriate for the 12-inch Retina MacBook have been available since November, and chips appropriate for the standard MacBook Air began shipping in January.
Along with a Retina display, the 12-inch MacBook Air is rumored to come without a fan assembly for silent operation, made possible by the aforementioned Core M chips, and it may also include a revamped trackpad that does not incorporate a mechanical button. It is said to feature smaller bezels in a Retina MacBook Pro-style black, a keyboard that stretches right to the edges of the machine, and speakers that are located above the keyboard.
The Michael Report has a mixed track record when it comes to rumors. The site accurately predicted some design elements of the iPad Air 2, but its predictions may have been based on dummy models that were circulating around the Internet at the time. The site also shared details on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus ahead of their launch, inaccurately calling the iPhone 6 Plus the "iPhone 6L" and suggesting the iPhones would come with quad-core processors and sapphire displays.
More details about what Apple plans to unveil at its Monday, March 9 event may come out through the week. Thus far, many sites have agreed that the focal point of the event will be the Apple Watch, with Apple unveiling new details about the device like its price and its official launch date.
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MrXiro
Hey look it's an actual Mac Rumor! :D :eek:
Crosscreek
Not interested in the watch but may watch if a new Air will be announced.
Roessnakhan
There should be a 12" and a 14" (or larger) model. An 11" display is too small.
Well, I personally love my 11" MBA.
tom vilsack
Speakers at top,really thin bezel? I think I already own it. :cool:
AngerDanger
The March 9th media event has "Spring Forward" as its tagline, so if the Air refreshes are included, it's safe to assume the magnets will be replaced with spring mechanisms, allowing your computer to jump open at the slightest touch.
Mr. Savage
"Spring is in the Air"
Need a new Air. Will be stoked with either a 12" or a 13" as long as it's retina.
mjs402
Not interested in the watch but may watch if a new user serviceable Mac Pro tower with internal storage is announced.
I'll save you 2 hours of your life: it won't.
Yes!! I have been looking forward to this computer since last summer!
Way more excited about this than the watch personally.
I think it will be:
12" rMBA
13"cMBA <-- possibly updated to retina at somepoint but remain at the same form factor
13+15" rMBP
What do you guys think? I am genuinely interested in y'alls opinions.
I think they're going to introduce this 12" Air with a retina display, the 11" and 13" Air will be [after being offered in parallel to the 12" for a few months] discontinued, then I think Apple will actually offer the Pros in 14" and 16". Three retina machines, 12" Air, 8GB, 512GB SSD max, 14 and 16" Pros with full port allotment, discrete GPUs, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD option (maybe a shift to 16GB max for Air and 32GB max for Pros when the chipset/design/etc. allows for it).
Clear differentiation between the Air and Pro.
That my crazy prediction :)
catalyst07
The 11" has that initial "cool factor" where you realize it's so small, thin and light -- but the way Apple has sold the 11" Air to date, it's still "second class" from the perspective of offering as much power as possible. We standardized on only issuing our employees the 13" version, for example, because we wanted the larger screen resolution, faster processor and option for as large an SSD as possible. Lately, we've only gone with the custom build with 8GB of RAM too -- since our users are generally involved in graphics or video editing work.
This is not true. You can get all the same options on the 11".
The 11" has been marketed as the "lesser model", probably because there are more profits on the 13", but in reality when you look at the benchmarks, the 11" is more powerful than the 13". This is because it doesn't have to push as many pixels.
I used to build computers for performance and am currently a software engineer, and I use the 11" i7 8GB 512GB version every day, and it is an absolute little beast. It even has a higher pixel density than the larger unit.
The trade-off is that the 13" can(and does) fit a larger battery and gets 12+ hours of life. I get 8hrs in real world use out of mine which is enough for my day, so this is a non-issue.