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1962 Magic Valley Cowboys
1961 Season 1963 Season
Classification: C
League: Pioneer League
Affiliation: Philadelphia Phillies (NL)
Manager: Jack Phillips
Location: Twin Falls, ID
Pythagorean W-L: 65-64, 831 Runs, 824 Runs Allowed
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1962 Magic Valley Cowboys Statistics
Team Fielding - 1B
Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer
Hank Allen 21 130 588 509 118 176 29 5 37 140 8 5 69 127 .346 .421 .641 1.061 326 2 1 7
Bernard Belan 23 34 55 51 6 10 4 0 0 6 0 0 1 19 .196 .208 .275 .482 14 0 2 1
Don Bessey# 21 27 49 42 6 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 24 .143 .234 .143 .377 6 0 2 0
Robert Carmo 23 115 501 443 81 123 27 8 20 87 7 5 50 91 .278 .352 .510 .862 226 2 4 2
James Couch 19 130 583 488 87 138 27 2 23 108 12 7 86 117 .283 .391 .488 .879 238 3 3 3
Teddy Dillard 21 32 48 41 4 7 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 23 .171 .261 .268 .529 11 0 2 0
Peter Dragalin 19 6 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0
Alden Fitzwater 19 8 9 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0
Robert Hellmer* 21 28 62 48 10 7 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 20 .146 .293 .188 .481 9 0 4 0
Vernon Kemp* 21 5 11 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 .143 .400 .143 .543 1 0 1 0
Fred Laningham 23 18 77 60 14 13 3 0 2 9 0 1 17 13 .217 .390 .367 .756 22 0 0 0
Tell Lott 24 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0
Douglas Medlin 21 8 20 18 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 .111 .200 .167 .367 3 0 0 0
Jerry Messerly# 19 42 97 85 11 17 1 0 1 7 0 0 12 31 .200 .299 .247 .546 21 0 0 0
John Morris 20 27 76 69 7 13 3 0 0 3 0 0 5 15 .188 .243 .232 .475 16 0 2 0
Adolfo Phillips 20 112 498 409 135 135 34 5 33 79 46 4 68 123 .330 .439 .680 1.119 278 14 4 3
Mickey Phillips* 22 123 468 391 54 100 14 0 4 42 2 1 72 109 .256 .373 .322 .695 126 2 1 2
Frankie Rubino 19 60 263 236 34 51 6 0 2 19 1 2 22 37 .216 .290 .267 .557 63 3 1 1
Jim Stouder* 19 31 58 55 4 10 5 0 1 6 0 0 0 16 .182 .196 .327 .524 18 1 2 0
Mike Timson# 19 89 307 273 28 65 14 0 10 50 0 1 27 85 .238 .305 .399 .704 109 1 2 4
Fred Walters* 24 105 482 385 91 132 21 4 27 94 5 3 89 70 .343 .462 .629 1.091 242 0 4 4
Darrell Weber* 21 25 61 58 4 9 4 0 1 9 1 0 1 36 .155 .167 .276 .443 16 0 1 1
Gene Weston 18 130 623 539 100 139 30 5 3 40 2 4 71 59 .258 .346 .349 .695 188 2 10 1
Don Wilson 22 6 7 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .143 .143 .143 .286 1 0 0 0
Richard Yencha 20 55 235 194 29 51 6 1 4 21 0 3 35 51 .263 .376 .366 .742 71 2 1 3
25 Players 20.6 130 5186 4422 831 1206 232 30 169 724 85 35 654 1084 .273 .368 .453 .822 2005 77 32 46 32
* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown, for minors bold indicates they appeared in majors or are a HOFer
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Edward Ericson Jr., the bearded, bespectacled Baltimore City Paper staff writer, took the stage just after 5 p.m. during the final session of Friday's TEDxBaltimore event to pose three questions. When confronted with any problem:
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"I'm only trying to help," she said, staring at her hands.
Of course she was. Hannah was far too sweet to be stuck as my emotional punchbag, but PR was too harsh a world to start pulling my blows.
I looked at the jar again. On the inside of my contact lenses, a readout provided facts about Veng biology, such as how they laid their eggs and how much mucus they secreted in a week. The thought of swallowing all that slime and tentacles made me shudder.
"This must be a violation of my human rights," I said.
Canning sighed. "Are you really going to try that one on?"
"No." I slumped in my seat.
"Good. Now open wide and swallow the Veng emissary."
"This isn't fair!" Even I was embarrassed by my petulance.
"Life is not fair, Mister Atticus. We make of it what we can."
She took the lid off the jar and pushed it towards me. The Veng representative raised the part of itself that came closest to a head – a cluster of tiny, writhing limbs. It wasn't even a conscious being in its own right, just an appendage of a portion of a vast collective intelligence, one of many that shared Veng space. I reached in and picked it up, my skin crawling as it pulsed beneath my fingertips.
I gave Canning one last pleading look, then tipped my head back and dropped the Veng into my mouth. It squirmed for a moment and then writhed at alarming speed back along my tongue. I gagged, then choked, then almost vomited as it wriggled down my throat and into my belly.
I couldn't feel it anchoring itself within me, or the tendrils that reached out to tap into my nervous system. What I felt was a coldness spreading through my guts, and tangled, nonsensical thoughts spilling across my brain, images that were not my own. Far away creatures and places that made me sigh wistfully even though I had never been there. I slumped in my seat as a sudden lethargy overtook me.
"Good man," Canning said. "And remember, caffeine disrupts the mental bond, so no coffee until this is done."
I was still half present for the initial negotiations the next day, listening numbly as the Veng consciousness used the parasite to control my body, my mouth conveying its message, my eyes and ears taking in the response. There was talk of reparations, border demarcations, and future trade relations, setting out the crude picture which the next few days would refine.
I had hundreds of questions about what was happening to me and no chance to ask any of them. Instead, I sat like a passenger in my own body, brooding on how I could avoid having to do this again – a career change, a better assistant, perhaps some sort of drug problem that would make my body unusable. It wasn't exactly productive, but what else was I going to do?
I watched events around me as if they were happening on a distant screen. The longer the talks went on, the further I drifted, greyness descending like the gentle touch of sleep. I was aware of Hannah giving my shoulder a reassuring squeeze and of Canning's look of approval. After that, it was someone else's life.
I had known in advance that there were going to be blackouts. You don't play host to another consciousness and always get to be yourself.
What I didn't expect was to be left hungover.
The first time was fine. I lost two days, then found myself sitting back in the conference room, mouth dry and head fuzzy, Canning giving me an uncertain look.
"That is you, isn't it, Julian?" she said.
I nodded, blinked, and looked around, assessing my environment as I pulled my consciousness back together.
"I thought so. There's a different look to those eyes when they belong to the Veng."
"Belong," I said with a frown. "Huh."
I didn't like the idea of belonging to anyone. Even my loyalty is my own, not the property of His Majesty's Government.
"The talks seem to be going well," Canning said. "How does it look from the other side?"
"No idea." My thoughts came slowly, as if I had had just one too many drinks the previous night. It seemed that downing a Veng was not so different from downing tequila shots – there was the same memory loss and the same aftermath of distant and unaccountable sadness, but with less of a headache.
I reached for the coffee pot in the middle of the table, then remembered the sacrifices I was making and slammed the pot back down.
"As I said when you first fielded this plan, the talk of "shared consciousness" is a mistranslation," I said. "That idiot Hemming can barely get French right, never mind Veng. This isn't a team-up. The brain slug replaces me."
"That's a shame," Canning said, her brow crumpling. "I had hoped to gain some insider insight, but at least you get to feel vindicated."
"What a huge comfort."
"It's better than nothing." She smiled slightly. "Alright, you go rest. And you might want to check in with Hannah – she's been worried about you."
"All the more reason not to see her." I didn't want to encourage my assistant's personal interest in me. In less senior company I would have said as much, and not politely. But Canning, as well as my boss, was a smart lady who could read between the lines.
"Go," she said. "Sleep."
I went back to my room, had a shower and a meal – carefully avoiding any trace of caffeine – and waited for the thing to take over again. Normally when I was that tense I would have put on a porn movie and given myself some biological relaxation, but the thought of someone else turning up in my body mid-wank was just too embarrassing.
The second time around was different. I woke up in my usual slacks and black shirt, but this time I was in bed. The damned slug hadn't bothered getting undressed.
"What is this bullshit?" I shouted, leaping to my feet. The room spun around me and I collapsed back in a heap.
I smelt like a nightclub toilet, all stale booze, week-old sweat and dead cigarettes. My head was pounding – part pain, part the sound of knocking on my door. According to the digits on the inside of my contact lens, a week had passed.
Strangely, I didn't feel like I'd had a lot of fun. The Veng was somewhere in the back of my brain, looking out through my eyes, but there was no joy in it, just a sense of distance, even disappointment, as if it had turned up to a much-anticipated party and found that it didn't like the rest of the guests. And for some reason, my arm was aching.
I crawled out of bed, moving more carefully this time, and pulled myself upright using the bookcase in the corner of the room. Someone had emptied all the bottles from the top shelf, leaving only the dregs of something sickly in the bottom of the cocktail shaker. I staggered to the door and swung it open.
Hannah looked up at me with big, concerned eyes. I sighed. I did not want to be doing this.
"Are you alright, Mister Atticus?" She gestured towards a stain on the carpet. "Warren said you were bleeding when you came in."
I rolled up the sleeve of my aching arm and looked down at a thick, ugly scab.
"What the…?"
My pulse quickened as I stared at the wound. That bastard Veng had done this, and not even bothered to get it treated.
"The ambassador wants to see you," Hannah said.
"The ambassador can sod off," I snapped.
Hannah took a step back, lip trembling, and some of my fury turned inward. This wasn't her fault, it was the Veng's.
"Can I shower first?" I asked.
"The ambassador called you Mister Atticus."
"You call me Mister Atticus."
"But I think it's a nice name."
I sighed and followed Hannah out of the room. The door closed behind me, its click like a dagger in my skull. In the back of my mind, the Veng was feeling sorry for itself, but I didn't think that was about how it had messed with me. The bastard was in a sulk and I was on the receiving end.
When I got to Canning's office, with its empty desk and plain walls, the ambassador was stood by the window, looking out across the skyline of Herrje. It was a spectacularly eclectic sight, human skyscrapers standing amidst the vaulted arches of the shoji sector, low groundling domes running up against the battered blocks of the k'kiri markets. I might get frustrated at this place, angry even, but I never got bored.
"Close the door," Canning said.
I turned to obey. Warren, the head of security, was there ahead of me. Gone was his usual affectation of a twentieth century tie. At least he still wore the smugness he showed whenever I was in trouble.
I sank into a chair. My stomach sank with me.
"Where have you been?" Canning turned to face me. She held a cup of coffee, the most delicious thing I had ever smelled. Between the hangover and a fortnight without caffeine, I would have killed for a cup, but just thinking that set the Veng writhing angrily inside me.
"Where have you been?" she repeated as I stared slack-jawed at her cup.
"I don't know," I said, snapping back to reality. "Isn't it Warren's job to keep track of me and my passenger?"
"You lost him three days ago," she said. "After a particularly fruitless day of negotiations. It's almost as if the Veng don't want peace."
It was a chilling thought. The war hadn't been lost, but there was no doubting that we had suffered the most. If the Veng decided to push on, thousands more soldiers would be joining Canning's brother in floating mausoleums far from home.
She sipped at the coffee and narrowed her gaze as she watched my reaction. Was she still hoping that I would remember something the alien had thought?
"Maybe they don't want peace." It was a dark idea, but I was in a dark place, full of the hollowness that follows an epic night out. I'd put my body through some hellish hangovers, but none that left me as despondent as I felt now, with the tendrils of Veng thought trailing through my brain.
"They put too much effort into making this happen," Canning said. "Even choosing a fragment of a Veng consciousness to send took weeks. Something else is going on."
"I pity the poor Veng that got stuck with this job," I said. "When you're used to sharing in a collective consciousness, it's got to be lonely only having a single human's thoughts for company."
"Especially when that human's you," Warren said.
I ignored the taunt, closed my eyes, and tried to feel the Veng's presence in my mind. It did seem a little sad, though that could just have been home sickness or a hangover. I wondered what was getting to it and whether there was anything I could do to help. With a little effort, maybe I could bridge the gap between us and be a better host.
"Shit!" I jumped as Warren stuck a needle in my arm, pulled it out and read the syringe's electronic display.
"How sexually active are you, Atticus?" He looked up from the readout with a grin.
"Far less than I'd like." I stared despondently at the syringe. Was my parasite getting lucky behind my back? "Tell me the worst."
"K'kiri vein crabs." Warren passed the syringe to Canning. "A couple of psychotropic drugs too. Your body's been living the high life."
"I didn't think you could catch vein crabs off humans." The ambassador put down her coffee and examined the syringe.
"You can't," I said, frozen in my seat. Now I was glad for the mercy of full blackout. Inter-alien fun-times might be a turn-on for some people, but I was a one species man. I felt violated in the worst possible way.
"Increase the guards," Canning said to Warren. "We need to get these negotiations on track."
"Whoah whoah whoah!" I staggered red-faced to my feet. "I've been turned into a pervert by the damn Veng brain slug. You're getting it out of me, right?"
"Once we're done."
"Screw that." I had to do something to avoid another takeover. Still befuddled, I snatched the coffee cup and downed its lukewarm contents.
The scab on my arm cracked, blood dripping on the carpet. Canning looked at me with cold, dead eyes.
"Pray that does not cause a problem, Mister Atticus," she said. "Warren, lock down the east wing apartments. He won't be going out."
I woke to the strangest sensation. I'd been dreaming about having sex with Hannah, her pasty little body wobbling around beneath me. As consciousness took hold, I could feel myself moving on her still, and then I realised that my eyes were open.
Oh sweet horror, it was real.
I tried to jerk away but my body wouldn't respond. I could feel someone else in there with me, grinding away in a desperate hunt for a pleasure it barely felt. A half-empty bottle of whiskey lay beside the bed and the room smelled of pot. Someone was having a wild time, and they were using my body to do it.
"Oh, yes," Hannah gasped. "Oh Julian, you don't know how long I've wanted this."
This was bad. This was very, very bad.
Not the sex itself. What I felt through the dreamlike haze was surprisingly good. Not the weed and the booze either, though I wished I'd been around to enjoy the high.
No, doing this with Hannah was bad. The admin pool had bets on when I'd give in and hook up with her. Warren had sworn to break my legs if I broke her heart. I didn't want to be with my soppy, soft-hearted assistant, and yet some treacherous part of me was enjoying this.
Screw Canning's failed negotiations, this was my diplomatic hell.
I tried again to take control of my body, but the Veng sensed me now. It paused in its activities and I could feel its attention bearing down on me. Its thoughts whirled through the same space as my own. I struggled to make sense of the words and images, too wild and disjointed to have meaning for me, and I could sense a similar frustration on its part.
Frustration. I might not recognise its thoughts, but I recognised its feelings.
I probed deeper. There was loneliness, disappointment, a grey fog of loss all revolving around this time with me. The highs it had sought were nothing compared with the lows of being here. The poor bastard.
As I stared into the alien's feelings its gaze was drawn there too, sucking it deeper into its own depression. I let it ride that desolation, let it wallow, and took the moment to take control.
"Julian?" Hannah looked up at me uncertainly, raised a hand to stroke my face. "Julian, is something the matter?"
I got to my feet, stumbled naked and woozy towards the kitchen. The damn thing had been fighting deep sorrow, cut off from the rest of its hive mind just as I had been from my body. But how much whiskey had it drunk trying to cheer itself up?
Enough was enough. I needed this thing out.
I moved for the kettle, but there wasn't time. The Veng mind was stirring in me again, trying to take control. Tentacles of desperation battled with my own determination to be free.
"Julian?" Hannah rose. "Julian, what's the matter?"
No time. I yanked the fridge open, grabbed a bag of coffee beans and tipped them into my mouth. I chewed those acrid brown seeds like they were candy. They popped and crunched, and I swallowed the jagged, caffeinated shards. Chewed and swallowed, chewed and swallowed, the caffeine buzz breaking the Veng's hold.
In the last moment of connection, it seemed to be pleading with me, reaching out for something I didn't understand. Tears ran down my face and I sobbed at the terrible loneliness of it all.
My stomach lurched. I fell to my knees, vomiting up coffee grounds and the black, slug-like blob of the Veng.
Hannah crouched beside me, rubbing my back.
"It'll be OK," she murmured. "Whatever it is, it'll be OK."
I leaned in towards her, and it felt surprisingly good.
"That's it?" Canning asked.
I nodded and sipped at my tea.
"Separation from the hive took away all its pleasure," I said, peering at the slug-like blob in its jar on the desk. I felt sorry for it now, having felt what it did during those final shared moments in my room. But unlike the Veng, I was glad not to have anyone else in my thoughts. "Must be something to do with human bodies, or a lifetime of dousing myself with coffee. Once it realised, it spent the whole time seeking other thrills. Send it back. It'll be so relieved we'll have peace within days."
"Without a host, we can't talk with them." Canning frowned and tapped a finger on her desk.
"We don't need to," I said with confidence. "After that experience, they won't want anything we've got."
Canning turned toward Warren. For all his petty failings – and there were many of them – even I acknowledged that he knew security issues.
"Makes sense, given their other priorities," he growled, giving me the filthiest look I've ever received. "It's not like the talks were working."
"Very well." Canning turned from us back to her computer. "Thank you, gentlemen."
We rose to leave.
"I warned you, Atticus," Warren said as he followed to the door. "You hurt Hannah and now I'm going to break both your legs."
As we stepped out of the office, Hannah appeared and took my arm. Warren glared. I smiled and kissed the top of Hannah's head.
"We're off out for dinner," I said. "Don't wait up."
I didn't turn to see his expression, just enjoyed the feeling of having my thoughts to myself and of having Hannah beside me. Alone in my head, but not in the world.
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Hai Trieu Food Earns Friend of The Sea Certification for Sustainable Wild-Caught Yellowfin Tuna.
Hai Trieu Food is one of Vietnam's top seafood producers exporting yellowfin tuna and dried seafood products worldwide.
Friend of the Sea, the global certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, is pleased to announce the certification of Hai Trieu Food for sustainable fishing practices. Consequently, the company can display the Friend of the Sea eco-label on its products, highlighting its efforts to protect and preserve the environment.
Hai Trieu Food was established in 2006 in Vietnam and, after 13 years in business, has become one of the leading seafood companies in the country. With a seven vessels fleet, Hai Trieu Food specializes in processing and exporting wild-caught yellowfin tuna products with high-quality international standards.
Yellowfin tuna is one of Vietnam's most important exports, surpassing a total annual value of more than 300 million dollars. However, as the national tuna industry grows, so does the need to protect the country's magnificent marine biodiversity from the impact of unsustainable fishing practices.
Hai Trieu Food demonstrates its deep-rooted commitment to sustainable wild catch practices by applying to the Friend of the Sea international certification scheme. Friend of the Sea fisheries & fleets program aims to promote sustainable management that reduces the impact on the ecosystem and avoids over-exploitation of the resources.
Friend of the Sea criteria for sustainable fisheries includes: respecting fishing stock limits as determined by the FAO, as well as by regional and national fishery authorities; minimizing the impact on the seabed; using selective fishing gear and non-entangling FADs; preventing the bycatch of endangered species; refraining from shark finning; and ensuring appropriate waste and energy management.
Throughout the certification process, Hai Trieu Food demonstrated compliance with Friend of the Sea's requirements. The company's fishing methods – handline and pole-and-line – help minimize bycatch, discard, and impact on the seabed. In addition, fishermen use fresh purpleback flying squid to attract ocean tunas, thus reducing accidental catches, and the hook size helps control juvenile catch.
Hai Trieu Food, which also obtained the Friend of the Sea Traceability certification, does not incur in fishing activity in protected marine areas.
"From its creation, Hai Trieu Food has relentlessly worked to establish a sustainable fishing model that raises to high-quality international standards. For us, it's crucial to preserve the environment while meeting export market standards and customers' requirements. Obtaining the Friend of the Sea certification is an important step towards these goals," said a company's spokesperson.
"As the global tuna market continues to grow, fisheries have an enormous responsibility. They are key players in the efforts to protect and preserve the ocean and its resources. We welcome the certification of Hai Trieu Food as another step forward to achieve a more sustainable fishing industry," said Paolo Bray, Founder, and Director at Friend of the Sea.
"Tuna is an important export-oriented seafood commodity of Vietnam & the top three markets for Vietnamese tuna are the US, Italy, and Israel. The trend of consuming sustainable seafood is rising and growing faster, particularly since the onset of Covid-19. Hai Trieu Company Ltd from Vietnam has successfully achieved Friend of the Sea sustainable certification, and we welcome them on board with us in promoting sustainable seafood," said Amod Ashok Salgaonkar, International Advisory Board Member at Friend of the Sea.
Sustainable seafood includes products that are caught or farmed using methods respectful of the long-term viability of the species, the integrity and health of the oceans, and the dependent communities' livelihood. Certified products and services that carry the Friend of the Sea logo are subject to strict independent audits verifying environmental and social standards.
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PARIS (ESA PR) — When satellites reach the end of their working lives, they may pose a threat to other spacecraft as they continue to orbit in a dormant state for many decades. But now a new way to deorbit ageing satellites in a safe manner is nearing its first test in space.
In the future, satellites might carry a packaged ultra-lightweight 'gossamer sail' to open as they head towards retirement. The increased aerodynamic drag would pull the craft out of orbit to burn up in the high atmosphere, reducing the risk of catastrophic collisions and creating a sustainable space environment for future generations.
At launch, the Gossamer Deorbit Sail is extremely compact, occupying 15x15x25 cm and weighing only 2 kg. It would expand in minutes to 5×5 m – enough to bring down a satellite of up to 700 kg.
A frame of extremely lightweight carbon-fibre booms supports a sail of aluminised Kapton only a few thousandths of a millimetre thick – a fraction of the diameter of human hair.
The sail was developed at the University of Surrey's Space Centre, funded through ESA's Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme. It is primarily intended for satellites in low orbits, some 700 km up, such as those belonging to Iridium, Orbcomm and Globalstar, who provide satellite phone, low-speed data communications and messaging services.
Under the European Code of Conduct for Space Debris Mitigation, created in 2008, ESA is committed to freeing up orbits within 25 years. However, a dormant satellite in 750 km altitude without such a sail could remain in orbit for a century or even longer like a speeding bullet endangering new satellites.
In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to generate the needed drag thanks to the large sail size. Even with the sail, it could take up to 25 years for the satellite to reenter and disintegrate, but to deorbit in the same time frame using traditional thrusters would require ten times the equivalent mass in propellant.
For satellites in higher orbits beyond the atmosphere, the sail could potentially use solar radiation pressure to descend with the help of an attitude control system – 'solar sailing'.
The gossamer sail has been subjected to rigorous testing, including thermal, vibration and vacuum tests. The team hopes to see it validated in orbit using a demonstration satellite by the end of 2014 on a piggy-back launch opportunity.
Once in orbit, the sail will be deployed for testing. The initial tests taking 2-3 weeks will demonstrate solar sailing propulsion. After this, the sail will be rotated to increase the effect of atmospheric drag and so deorbit the satellite. At an altitude of 600 km, there is enough atmosphere to cause re-entry and burn up in a mere 2 to 12 months.
The sail would ensure that decommissioned satellites could be retired well within the quarter-century deadline. It could also have other uses, such as deorbiting any adapter that is jettisoned in the course of launching multiple payloads.
Professor Vaios Lappas from the University of Surrey commented: "We are delighted to have completed the design, manufacture and testing of ESA's Gossamer Deorbit Sail, the first of its kind internationally.


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Where Was Something From Tiffany's Filmed?
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Based on the eponymous novel by Melissa Hill and directed by Daryl Wein, Amazon Prime's 'Something From Tiffany's' is a romantic comedy movie that revolves around a young woman named Rachel Meyer who is unsure of her relationship with her boyfriend, Gary Wilson. In the meanwhile, Ethan Greene purchases a ring to propose to her girlfriend, Vanessa. However, Ethan and Gary somehow mix up each other's identical shopping bags at the same store. This confusion results in Vanessa receiving a pair of earrings meant for Rachel and Rachel getting an engagement ring meant for Vanessa.
Due to this mix-up, Rachel meets Ethan; hence, they understand what it's like to be in true love as they fall for each other. The chance meeting of the two protagonists and the budding romance between them makes for a heartwarming love story, keeping the viewers invested throughout the film. Moreover, the bustling and crowded streets of New York City in the movie make one wonder if it was actually shot in the Big Apple or not. Well, we are here to clear all your doubts regarding the same!
Something From Tiffany's Filming Locations
'Something From Tiffany's' was filmed in New York and California, specifically in New York City and Los Angeles. As per reports, the principal photography for the romantic film commenced in December 2021 and wrapped up in late February 2022. Interestingly enough, at the movie's premiere, Shay Mitchell (Vanessa) revealed that she was pregnant during the rom-com's shooting. She added, "It was definitely very fun. I was also very pregnant. So, it was fun. The ever-expanding costume pants I was wearing; it was a great time." Now, let's traverse all the specific sites that appear in the Amazon Prime film!
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Many pivotal sequences for 'Something From Tiffany's' were lensed in New York City, the most populous city in the United States. During many stages of production, the cast and crew members were spotted taping several scenes, exterior as well as interior, at various sites across NYC. Central Park on the Upper East Side and Bryant Park are a couple of primary locations that served as filming sites for this romantic comedy movie.
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Located at New York State's southern tip, New York City has a significant amount of influence on several sectors, such as art, fashion, sports, technology, entertainment, tourism, education, politics, and dining, to name a few. Moreover, there are many districts and monuments across the Big Apple that are considered major tourist attractions. Some of them are Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations Headquarters, and the Rockefeller Center.
For shooting purposes, the filming unit of 'Something From Tiffany's' also set up camp in Los Angeles, the largest city in California and the second most populous city in the United States. The production team supposedly utilized various sites and locales across the city to tape different portions against suitable backdrops.
For instance, in early February 2022, Zoey Deutch and the rest of the crew members were spotted recording some key scenes around Clifton's Republic at 648 South Broadway in Los Angeles. Over the years, LA has hosted the production of many movies and TV shows besides 'Something From Tiffany's.' Some of the notable ones are 'The Holiday,' 'Licorice Pizza,' 'Modern Family,' and 'Friends.'
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After the success of our first time strawberry picking at Cattows Farm, we went back for more. Only this time, we were on the hunt for the newly ripened raspberries and blackcurrants.
The strawberry fields had literally been obliterated. Many locals had come down to grab theirs and turn it into a family day out. Attention now turned to the long awaited fresh red fruits and berries.
The same rules apply for picking. Grab a punnet and head over to the bushes, which on this occasion, were on the opposite sides of the farm shop. We began over by the raspberries where we were only one of three people picking.
Some of the raspberries needed a little longer to ripen, but as a rule of thumb, head to the middle for the best ones. We have never picked raspberries before but it's so easy to do. The fruits should just delicately release from the branch with the slightest pull.
The smell of freshly picked fruit is unlike anything you get in a plastic tray from a supermarket shelf. It took a long while to fill the entire punnet but it was all worth it in the end. 750g of freshly picked raspberries, as it turned out.
From the raspberry bushes over to the blackcurrants. I have been looking out for blackcurrants for ages but they have always eluded me. There's a good reason for that – they are a bugger to pick! How the folks at Ribena cope I have no idea.
Blackcurrants grow on a vine, but in that vine there are both decent sized plump blackcurrants and some that are tiny or shrivelled. Getting the right quality was tricky but eventually we got the hang of it. A kilo of these took around 45 minutes to harvest.
We had got what we came for but then we spotted redcurrants. Vibrant red in colour – there were loads of them! I had an idea for a sorbet that was part of a dish belonging to Marco Pierre White. I decided to go ahead and grab a kilo in preparation for the 'Gratin of Red Fruits' from 'White Heat'.
The whole haul, plus a few other bits, came to £11.55. Yet another bargain for top quality local food. We had great fun picking these fruits for the first time – they went on to make amazing sorbets for the most part. As for the redcurrants, see for yourself below. Yum!


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Massive opposition rally held in Pakistan after PM's resignation
Thousands gathered in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Sunday in support of opposition party leader Imran Khan before a meeting of parliament on Tuesday which will see a new Prime minister elected.
The crowds joined Khan in celebrating the ousting of former leader Nawaz Sharif, who resigned on Friday following a decision from Pakistan's Supreme Court to disqualify him from public office.
Addressing the rapturous crowds, Khan, who is Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said: "The Supreme Court verdict gave us a hope. It has done the job I dreamed for, it have laid the foundation for a new Pakistan."
Sharif stepped down after a probe into his family's wealth – following the Panama Papers leak in 2015 – linked his children to offshore companies.
Now his brother the Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has been mooted as his potential successor, fueling rumours of nepotism within the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.
Former Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will act as interim Prime Minister until elections are held.
Protests in Pakistan after girl's rape and murder
Exiled former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death for treason
Pakistan train fire death toll rises to at least 46


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As people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues like anxiety, depression, stress and physical ailments like chronic pain, they're resorting to remedies that don't involve pharmaceuticals. Health experts say while advanced yoga practice is as good for your health as any other form of exercise, it is particularly effective in relieving lower back pain and reducing inflammation in the body, thus helping stave off ailments.
However, aside from the health benefits, a surprising number of people are taking to advanced Yoga teacher training and meditation for its beneficial aspects in the workplace(?!!) While mindfulness can mean different things to different people, there are several benefits meditation can bring to your work-life. We have a couple of ways on how to meditate at work for you.
Perhaps one of the most popular and well-known meditation practices, concentrating on your breath can help deal with anxiety and stress. You can turn practice it at any time, and don't even need to breathe in any special manner.
Allow the body to breathe naturally; don't control the breath at all. Focus your attention on a part of the body where you can feel the breath. It can be the belly, the chest or the nostrils. Concentrate on whatever part of the body feels most natural and accessible to you.
Using some sort of mantra like "in" and "out" with each breath initially can help you heighten awareness of the experience. You can discontinue the words after a few breaths. Once comfortable, you can tune into the breathing process while doing almost anything. Simply bringing your focus on your breath can help keep yourself grounded in the present and help regulate heart rate.
Whether yoga or some other spiritual practice, even something simple like a walk outdoors can help you be at your best, most productive mindset. Walking meditation is one of the best ways to begin practicing meditation at work, a powerful practice that can be used at any time and any place. Try it out on a break or even while walking to and back from the cooler!
To start off with, simply tune into the feeling of your feet as they touch the floor. Pay attention to the heel-to-toe movement as they come into contact with the ground. Then the experience of the feet lifting to take the next step, the sensations in the ankles, calves, thighs and onto the torso as you move.If you are chained to a desk all day, it can be a welcome relief to get away for even a few minutes.
With the above methods, you can do so easily at your desk or on a short break, without anyone knowing that you are even meditating!Meditating for even a few minutes can provide relief from anxiety, improve concentration and boost your productivity! Try these simple methods of meditation at work and let us know how it worked out for you!
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Q: Google Kubernetes private cluster: Google Compute Engine: Exceeded maximum supported number of secondary ranges per subnetwork We are attempting to make several private Kubernetes clusters. We can find limited documentation on specific settings for the private cluster, therefore we are running into issues related to the subnetwork IP ranges.
Say we have 3 clusters: We set the Master Address Range to 172.16.0.0/28, 172.16.0.16/28 and 172.16.0.32/28 respectively.
We leave Network and Subnet set to "default". We are able to create 2 clusters that way, however, upon spin-up of the 3rd cluster, we receive the error of "Google Compute Engine: Exceeded maximum supported number of secondary ranges per subnetwork: 5." We suspect that we are setting up the subnetwork IP ranges incorrectly, but we are not sure what we are doing wrong, or why there is more than 1 secondary range per subnetwork, to begin with.
Here is a screenshot of the configuration for one of the clusters:

We are setting these clusters up through the UI.

A: This cluster has VPC-native (alias IP) enabled, which use 2 secondary ranges per cluster.
See https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/alias-ips#secondary_ranges
According to
Google Compute Engine: Exceeded maximum supported number of secondary ranges per subnetwork: 5.
the max is 5. That's why the 3rd one failed to create.

A: The best approach is to create a new subnetwork for each cluster. This way, each subnetwork only requires 2 secondary ranges, and you won't hit the limit of 5.

A:
For anyone who lands here from Google and is wondering how to list / see the subnet names that have been created using GKE as described in OP's question:

To list subnets for a region (and potentially modify or delete a Subnet, since you won't know the name) use the beta gcloud command:
gcloud beta container subnets list-usable
I landed here while looking for the answer and figured others trying to determine the best way to structure their subnets / ranges might be able to use the above command (which took me forever to track down).

A: (Can't comment on Alan's answer due to low reputation)
You can create a new subnetwork:

*

*go to the "VPC network"

*click on "default" (under name)

*click on "Add subnet"

*define the subnet range / zone

Then on GKE when you create a new cluster, select your new subnetwork.
This should allow you to create more clusters without running into the error Google Compute Engine: Exceeded maximum supported number of secondary ranges per subnetwork: 5.

A: You can create clusters via gcloud and add --create-subnetwork "".
See: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/create#--create-subnetwork
This will create a new subnet with each new cluster so the "5 Secondary IP ranges per subnet" quota won't be reached.

A: I run into the same issue with a error message below
ERROR: (gcloud.container.clusters.create) ResponseError: code=400, message=This operation will exceed max secondary ranges per subnetwork (30) for subnet "default", consider reusing existing secondary ranges or use a different subnetwork.

I think the problem is we create GEK clusters that shares the same subnet "default" and eventually they exceed the max secondary ranges.
I think the best practice would be to create dedicated subnet for each cluster.
You Creating a cluster and subnet simultaneously
gcloud container clusters create cluster-name \
    --region=region \
    --enable-ip-alias \
    --create-subnetwork name=subnet-name

see below to find more subnet configuration
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/alias-ips#creating_cluster_and_subnet
NOTE: GKE tries to clean up the created subnetwork when the cluster is deleted. But if the subnetwork is being used by other resources, GKE does not delete the subnetwork, and you must manage the life of the subnetwork yourself.

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Cosker, D., Campbell, N., Lutteroth, C., O'Neill, E. & Yang, Y.
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DUXBURY − Two children, a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, are dead and an 8-month-old was flown to a Boston-area hospital with serious injuries after they were discovered inside a Duxbury home Tuesday night.
Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz said first responders rushed to the home at 47 Summer St. just after 6 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from a male resident.
Cruz said the man reported the attempted suicide of an adult female resident who had jumped out a window in the home.
First responders discovered the three children, all unconscious with obvious signs of trauma, Cruz said.
"A 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy were transported to a local hospital where they were pronounced deceased," Cruz said at a news conference. An update on the condition of the 8-month-old was not immediately available.
"This is an unimaginable, senseless tragedy and it is an ongoing investigation," Cruz said.
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He said the woman was the mother of the three children, but no more information was released.
Duxbury resident Tom McGrath said, "It's sort of like, how can this happen around here? But you put yourself in the man's place, and can't imagine how devastating that is."
Cruz would not comment on whether the children's mother is a suspect.
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He said authorities were still in the process of notifying next of kin.
Cruz said the woman was alive, but did not elaborate on her condition.
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