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* Balloons Play Tricks, (ar) Modern World Jul 20 1940; condensed from Western Mail, Cardiff, 1940.
* Bar L Ranch, (ss) Boy's Cinema Feb 21 1931; adapted from the movie (Buffalo Bill Jr., Betty Baker).
* The Barton Manor Mystery [by Gwyn Evans; Sexton Blake], (n.) The Sexton Blake Library #26 1925; also as "The Curse of the Santyres", by Gwyn Evans.
* Bathing as the Chinese Do, (ar) Modern Wonder Jul 29 1939; condensed from Japan Times, 1939.
* Battling with Buffalo Bill [Buffalo Bill], (sl) Boy's Cinema Feb 27, Mar 5, Mar 12, Mar 19, Mar 26, Apr 30, May 7 1932; adapted from the movie (Tom Tyler, Lucille Browne).
* Bayard the Outlaw! [by Harold J. Garrish; Cookey Scrubbs], (nv) The Boys' Friend Jul 30 1927; revised from Jester, (ex-Cookey Stubbs by Harry Belbin).
* Beau Chumps, (ss) Boy's Cinema Feb 27 1932; adapted from the movie (Laurel & Hardy).
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* Behind the Evidence, (ss) Boy's Cinema Jun 15 1935; adapted from the movie (Norman Foster, Donald Cook).
* Behind the Headlines, (ss) Boy's Cinema Nov 13 1937; adapted from the movie (Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson).
* Ben-Hur, (cs); based on the novel by Lewis Wallace.


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Thailand Princess, US professor conferred World Sanskrit Awards
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| Updated: Monday, November 21, 2016, 23:34 [IST]
New Delhi, Nov 21 Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand and George Cardona, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA, were on Monday presented with the World Sanskrit Award by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) here.
Instituting of an annual 'World Sanskrit Award' was announced by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her inaugural address in the 16th World Sanskrit Conference in Bangkok in June 2015.
On the occasion, Vice President M. Hamid Ansari said that "the case for studying Sanskrit makes itself, and there is no need at all to invoke higher spiritual incentives" in order to justify this.
Linked by an ancient language! VP Hamid Ansari presents the 1st World Sanskrit Award to Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand in Delhi pic.twitter.com/aiJ7Tbmmyo
— Vikas Swarup (@MEAIndia) November 21, 2016
He congratulated Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, who received the award for 2015, and Prof. George Cardona, an American linguist and Indologist who received the award for 2016, for being the first recipients of ICCR's World Sanskrit Awards. Minister of State for External Affairs, MJ Akbar among other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.
"Her Highness is an eminent scholar of Sanskrit and Pali, is keenly interested in epigraphy and has been a patron of Sanskrit studies in Thailand and propagation of Sanskrit. Prof. George Cardona, Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania has singularly been responsible for making the University of Pennsylvania a centre of Sanskrit learning in North America," he said.
He further said that Thai and other Southeast Asian languages have strong roots in Sanskrit, which reflects their remote past relationship with Sanskrit. In Europe and in the United States also there has been a long and valuable tradition of scholarship in Sanskrit, he added.
The awards were presented to honour eminent Sanskrit scholars and recognise their outstanding contribution to the study, teaching or research in Sanskrit language and literature.
Addressing the gathering, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn said, "It is gracious of Government of India to grant me the first World Sanskrit Award. I feel both humbled and honoured by this gesture. What I have done to promote Sanskrit is just a drop in the vast ocean of what other scholars have done in this field."
Princess Sirindhorn described Sanskrit as "the eternal legacy to mankind" and said that it is through Sanskrit that "Indian values and ethos" have been embeded in Thai culture.
She has been awarded with several Honorary Doctorates and awards, including Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature (Sanskrit) from the University of Delhi in 1987; Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development Award from the Government of India in 2004; and Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1991.
George Cardona also expressed his gratitude on receiving the award. "I am honoured to receive this award and very happy to see Sanskrit being celebrated in this manner. My debt to India is enormous", he said.
Prof. Cardona was earlier awarded President of India's Certificate of Honour in Sanskrit in the year 2012.
The Jury comprised of eminent Sanskrit scholars under the Chairmanship of Professor Lokesh Chandra, President ICCR. Nominations for the award are sought from Indian Missions/Posts abroad as well as from the Jury members.
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Aussie Gambling Reforms Close to Collapse
Aussie Gambling Reforms Close to Collapse - 3rd April 2009
(Credit: Gambling911)
The revolutionary reform of Victoria's $5-billion-a-year gambling industry, which would end Tatts and Tabcorp's duopoly control of pokies by handing ownership to venues, is on the brink of collapse.
That's the news courtesy of The Australian:
"Gaming Minister Tony Robinson warned that the Government would have no choice but to walk away from its reforms if Opposition parties continued to block them in the upper house.
"The Coalition and the Greens, whose support Mr Robinson needs, hit back, accusing the Government of trying to ram through a flawed bill by scaremongering.
"The minister said his plan to auction pokies to individual venues and slash TAB's turnover tax on racing would collapse, leaving the industry and its 100,000 employees in chaos, unless the bill to achieve it passed in the next session of parliament in early May. He threatened to renew the duopoly deal if the "Opposition and the Greens would not support the bill. A nasty political brawl looms over the deadlock. The Government is expected to portray the Opposition and the Greens as lackeys of the two gambling giants."
Gambling911.com spoke with Australian Media Man, Greg Tingle regarding the gambling reforms issue:
"Things are still heating up in Australia on the gaming front. Australian's are amongst the world's biggest gamblers be it in clubs, hotels, casinos or online casinos. You can imagine the competition for the entertainment dollar, and of course the Australian government wants their cut also. The knives are out. Australian professional sports codes are upping the ante with magazine front cover promotions, in house sports betting like Betezy's BunnyBet, and so it goes on. In the meantime the world goes through a recession but the Australian gambling market looks pretty healthy. "
Tingle deals with the online gambling community himself out of Australia and he claims times have never been better.
"Our numbers here at Mediaman are still holding up. We (Mediaman) had our recession a couple of years back but the last few years have been full steam ahead. That's an indication that the gambling sector, online gaming, igaming and the brave new world of internet portals are here to stay. Overseas operators still want in to Australia and for many like PokerStars, PartyGaming and The Bingo Affiliates, the internet is the way to go, backed up by "free to play" .net websites, complimented by live shows and offline promotions at the likes of Crown, Star City and Burswood Casino. Indications show that the industry is going to be further regulated, however as the ACMA blacklist policy shows there's going to be a few challenges and teething problems as the Australian government tries to regulate an industry that can be traced back to the underworld, 'Underbelly' days and the mob in Vegas and Chicago. If there ever was a "casino economy" the time is now."
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Spiritual light and color is used for healing the aura and the physical body for deepening meditation and to promote specific effects in the energy field. As a tool for healing, color can be gazed at, beamed as healing light, meditated on, bathed in , worn, used in art and in ritual such as candle magic and mandala work and painting.
There are many systems of color healing and mandala work that can be used for healing, spiritual development, manifestation of material and non material goals these can involve the relationships of the shapes and colors used as well as the intention for which the Mandala is created. not all Mandalas are circular in form . but can be any shape of image which is focused on in meditation or prayer and manifestation. there are many systems of color healing using the color associated with the chakra that rules a particular area of concern to strengthen the influence or the complimentary color to reduce an overcharge of energy is probably the most common method.
focusing on colors chosen to promote specific effects is one way to benefit from colors.
The energy field surrounding the physical body can be seen by some as radiating and filled with light. Here are some colors which may be seen in the aura and possible interpretations. obviously there are apparent conflicts. and people interpret differently.
injurie ,emotional pain and repressed energy, traumatic memories etc. often show up as off colors, tears and clouds dark or jangled spots and patches.
harmony than muddy colors. Colors may be vastly different of different layers of the aura . the Etheric layer next to the skin is concerned with phyicality and often runs to golds and blues. The emotional layer can carry a base color which is what people see when the say someone has a green or a blue or a red aura and patched and clouds of color due to the varied emotions and experiences of the observed person.
Vitality ,life force, assertion, forcible active urges, stalwart brave, vengeful, virile ,passion, drive, endurance. Force of will, passion, vitality, desire, physical activity, excitability, anger, intensity of experience.
fullness of experience, urge to achieve results or success.
spiritual knowledge or mental strength.
,wisdom, creativity , confidence Sunny, exhilarated, mental, power, expectancy, tenacity.
growth, change, healing, abundance, adaptable sympathetic, takes life easy , teaching, endurance, perseverance, persistence, high self esteem.
the highest ideals of unity.
deep spiritual understanding. High spiritual energy that can transmute lower energies.
spiritually; motivated; incorporates qualities of all other colors.
There is also an extensive collection of pages about colors and Color healing which has much more detail.


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NAMM 2021 – KAT MalletKAT 8.5
Discover the ease of use and innovative technology in the Malletkat 8.5 and other new products scheduled for release in early 2021.
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NAMM 2021 – RDF (Russian Drum Factory)
RDF is a family workshop that started making snare drums in 2007 and was the the first company in Russia who started to produce drum kits. In the beginning it was just an hobby, but then it became a real work and it turned to be the biggest drum factory in the Russian Federation.
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NAMM 2021 – WTS Drums
Winner of Best in Show: Companies to Watch at NAMM 2020, WTS drums are the most innovative acoustic drums on the market! Alex Simpson, owner of Rupp's Drums in Denver, Colorado, shares his experience working with Welch Tuning Systems, Inc. and their line of drums featuring the revolutionary WTS single-point tuning system.
NAMM 2021 – Tycoon Factory Tour
NAMM 2021 – Tycoon Factory Tour learn the philosophy, values, and the processes that take place in the manufacturing professional instruments.
NAMM 2021 – New Yamaha Percussion Products
Yamaha Drum and Percussion products are recognized around the world for superior sound quality and design, combining the art of craftsmanship with technology and providing music makers with the tools and freedom to perform at their highest level.
NAMM 2021 – Simple Microphone Set-Ups for Recording Drums
NAMM 2021 – Simple Microphone Set-Ups for Recording Drums featuring Cody Rahn a New York-based drummer/percussionist.
NAMM 2021 – Demonstrating the Natal Cafe Racer
Watch as Siân Monaghan, Nathan Greene and Julian Chambers show you the versatility of the Tulipwood Cafe Racer. Jamie Morrison from Stereophonics gives some tips on drumming styles and shows tonal range this kit is capable of.
NAMM 2021 – V SERIES Drum Microphones
The V SERIES FOR DRUMS were developed closely with artists and engineers specializing in everything from touring to working in studio environments and everything in between. Eddie Mapp (FOH of Evanescence, Christina Aguilera and many more), played an essential role throughout the development of the V SERIES drum mics and breaks down his experience working with sE on this ambitious project.
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NAMM 2021 – Dixon Drums
Dive into the features and benefits of not only one but two Dixon compact / convertible drum kit series that adapt to all the limitations drummers, bands and educators experience when they play and practice.
NAMM 2021 – Pearl's 75th Anniversary
2021 marks Pearl's 75th Anniversary. On April 2, 2021 we will be hosting a global event to introduce our new products for 2021 and begin a year-long celebration of our 75th anniversary.


The votes were cast, and they are all in. The winner is clear.
Congratulations go out to akaNed for winning the 1st issue of Wallpaper Of The Month, his great work on this wallpaper got him a very well deserved win.
This wallpaper has been submited to the linuxmint-art.org site, and cen be found HERE.
The submissions section for the September issue has been started, and is currently ongoing, so get your artwork ready, and post it HERE, and you could be the next winner.
At times I have been very critical of some of the graphics I've seen, but not this time. I think this wallpaper is FANTASTIC! Yes, it really floats my boat.
Mint has some wonderful artists, and this type of contest will only bring forth more wonderful artwork.
Congratulations akaNed! That is a very attractive and professional looking wallpaper.I look forward to your next wallpaper!
Good job young-son 😉 Keep up the good work man!
This is a fresh and clean design. It looks great on my desktop!
It is now one of my 5 favorite random wallpapers!
While I like this one (and already downloaded it), I really liked (and sort of miss) a lot of the wallpapers that came with Celena, particularly the one with the rotoscoped (?) Asian woman in it. Is there somewhere I can download those?


One day after reporting significant increases in both revenue and attendance, SeaWorld has decided to eliminate 125 total positions across all of their theme parks and corporate offices, which are based here in Orlando.
In a statement released Tuesday morning, SeaWorld said that the layoffs, which went into effect immediately, are part of a company-wide "cost-cutting" plan that would better position the company for "continued growth and financial success."
On Monday, the company reported one of its strongest quarters since the release of the 2013 documentary Blackfish.
SeaWorld reported a 4.8 percent increase in attendance and nearly a 4.9 percent increase in revenue, which resulted in stocks rising over 17 percent Monday evening.
It's unclear at the moment exactly what positions were eliminated, but interim CEO John Reilly did say on Monday's call that the company was looking to cut $50 million in costs.


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A Pilgrim's Progress
April 15, 2015 · by Walk About New York	· in Ephemeral New York, Things to See.	·
"Mr. J. Q. A. Ward's ideal figure of a
New-Englander for Central Park."
—from the October 12, 1884 edition of the New York Times
Under the watchful gaze of "The Pilgrim" New Yorkers sun themselves.
As is the case with many other New Yorkers, I am eager for spring to burst into full bloom across New York City and especially in Central Park. Soon cherry blossoms will paint the Park pink; and the white flowers of the Callery Pear tree will look like warm-weather snow when they fall to the ground. We include these dazzling sights on our Central Park Walking Tour [https://walkaboutny.com/the-tours/central-park-walking-tour/]. Until then, let's satisfy ourselves with past pictures of an especially pretty part of the Park.
"A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose." —Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981)
The "ideal figure" that the quote from the New York Times is referring to is the work by an American artist with a most curious name, John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910). He had no relation to the president who went by those first three monikers. The best possible speculation is that Mr. Ward's parents must have liked President John Quincy Adams, whose term in office ended the year before Mr. Ward's birth in Urbana, Ohio.
"It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over."
―John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress"
On the east side of Central Park, between 72nd and 73rd Streets, there is a rise in the terrain known as Pilgrim Hill. It got its name in 1885 when a the bronze figure of a Puritan, staring into the distance with his right hand resting on the muzzle of his flintlock beside him, was placed there. This Pilgrim seems to be making his progress through the flowering Callery Pear trees of the park. Pilgrim Hill is a favorite spot for sledding in Central Park.
"What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it."
To celebrate the 75th year of its founding, the New England Society of New York commissioned Mr. Ward to create a bronze monument to honor America's early colonists, the Pilgrims.
"A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had." ―John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress"
"The statue is thus not only a good piece of work artistically, but the cleverness or the good luck of the sculptor has made it the fittest of all representative New-Englanders for a place in Manhattan's chief park."
"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks." —e. e. cummings (1894–1962)
The presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects sent letters to the Central Park Commissioners urging that Mr. Ward's bronze be accepted. On Wednesday, the 17th of December 1884 the Central Park Commissioners voted to accept the gift of the monument.
"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."
Standing nine-feet high, the figure rests upon a pedestal made of gray granite. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt (1828–1895). The pedestal for the Statue of Liberty was being built at the same time; it too was designed by Mr. Hunt. The Pilgrim's base is decorated with four bronze bas-reliefs depicting a Sword held within the Holy Bible; Instruments of Commerce and Globe; the Pilgrim's ship, the Mayflower; and Arrows, a Quiver and a Club. The inscription on the pedestal reads "To Commemorate the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock: December 21, 1620."
"The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world."
The bronze and granite monument was unveiled on June 6, 1885. John Quincy Adams Ward personally unveiled his work of art, one of four of his bronzes in the Park. The ceremony began at 2:00 PM when 225 members of the New England Society, accompanied by the Seventh Regiment Veterans, marched 20 blocks up Fifth Avenue to the 72nd Street entrance to the park. The New-York Tribune reported the following, "His work was received with every expression of appreciation." The work was conserved in 1979.
The Holy Bible with a Sword: one of four plaques on the pedestal of "The Pilgrim"
Tools of Commerce: one of four plaques on the pedestal of "The Pilgrim"
"The couple were Germans of decent and respectable appearance, and traces of an effort at holiday making bedecked what was evidently their Sunday attire. The woman's black silk dress was trimmed with black velvet, her beaded black jersey had a neat nosegay at the throat, and the left hand was squeezed into a black kid glove. Her neat black straw hat was high crowned, as of recent purchase, and an amber-handled and silk umbrella completed her equipment."
—The New-York Sun
The Mayflower: one of four plaques on the pedestal of "The Pilgrim"
Arrows, Quiver and Club: one of four plaques on the pedestal of "The Pilgrim"
We will never know why George Bessendorf, a German immigrant, chose the site of The Pilgrim for a murder-suicide four months after it was dedicated. On October 3 he and a woman named Maria, spread a rough, black blanket on the grass. They wore their Sunday best; Maria seemed dressed for her own funeral. Like Maria, George was dressed in his best black suit and a derby hat.
"Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God." ―John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress"
At 7:30 PM, William Dugan, a policeman whose beat was Central Park, heard pistol shots that came from the direction of The Pilgrim; he hurried to that area of the park. George Bessendorf and Maria were dead on the blanket. Beside them sat a collar box with a label that read, "To the Coroner of the City of New York." Inside were letters; some concerning George's respectability, other were love letters from him to Maria. In several of them he acknowledged he expressed regret for the ruin he had brought up Maria. For this reason the couple believed suicide as the only way out.
"Follow your heart" ―John Bunyon, "The Pilgrim's Progress"
The bodies were removed to the Arsenal in Central Park, where it was observed that Maria had been careful not to damage her dress. A New York City police captain named Donovan speculated that she "had evidently opened her clothing and bared her breast to be shot. The skin was blackened and burned by powder marks, but the clothing was only marked with blood. Two bullet holes were in the body, one in the left breast and one in the right." It is thought that George buttoned her dress after having shot the woman he loved. He then turned the pistol on himself, shooting himself in the chest. He held the pistol so close to his body that his clothes were burning when Policeman Dugan arrived. This is an early and sad chapter for The Pilgrim; it stands in stark contrast to the lovely, flowering surroundings shown here, and that will soon be seen on Pilgrim Hill.
"A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers." ―John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress"
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Can it really be June already? Time to think about that perennial pleasure, the summer reading list!
Growing up, my summers were spent on an island without cars, television or phones. It was a magical place, offering up endless days of sand and sea, the feel of the warm boardwalk under bare feet and the rhythmic songs of crickets at night. In the years that followed, that thin strip of sand has never lost its purchase on my heart.
My island was made all the more wonderful by a small library. A shady room filled primarily with cast-off books deemed unworthy of being carried back to the mainland. Orphans, most of them a little worse for the wear, slightly warped by seawater or with fine grains of sand trapped between their pages.
But to me they were perfect. Because of them my summers were spent not only at the beach, but among pirates on the high seas, on windswept English moors, on the backs of willful horses, and even among the stars that shone so brightly overhead.
While my summer no longer consists of endless days by the sea, it still consists of books. I love the anticipation and promise of my summer reading list.
Thank you to the staff at Wellesley Books and to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of The Blue Bath!
As I write this, advance copies of The Blue Bath are landing on the desks of reviewers, booksellers and librarians, a milestone that makes me think about how this journey began.
One of the questions I am asked most is what was the inspiration for The Blue Bath. It all started with a face glimpsed through a window. A small moment of connection in a crowded city. I was living in London at the time, rushing to or from somewhere. As I passed by an art gallery, I caught sight of her behind the glass, mingled with the reflection of the buildings across the street. For an instant we locked eyes as the city rushed past us. And then I did what most people in that situation would have done. I kept walking—hurrying on to wherever it was that I needed to be.
But she wasn't so quick to let me go. There was something in her face that I couldn't shake. I started to think about who she was and about what it must feel like to be the subject of a portrait, to be examined so closely. And then I started to think about the artist and about the act of looking at someone that deliberately. It seemed so intimate. I started to think about all of this and then I started to write about it.
To me The Blue Bath is a reminder to pay attention to the small moments of beauty in my daily life. Not only for what they are, but for all that they might become.
Here is the cover of the Dutch edition -- out now! Mooi (as they say in Amsterdam)!


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For the Italian town, see Tombolo, Veneto.
Tombolo near Karystos, Euboea, Greece
Tombolo contrasted with other coastal landforms.
A tombolo is a sandy isthmus. A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated as ayre, is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar. Once attached, the island is then known as a tied island.
Several islands tied together by bars which rise above the water level are called a tombolo cluster.[1] Two or more tombolos may form an enclosure (called a lagoon) that can eventually fill with sediment.
1 Formation
1.1 Wave diffraction and refraction
1.2 Unidirectional longshore drift
2 Morphology and sediment distribution
3 List of tombolos
The tombolo connecting St Ninian's Isle with the Shetland Mainland
Monte Argentario, Tuscany, Italy
Chesil Beach, seen from the Isle of Portland
The Angel Road of Shōdo Island, Japan
Looking south from the summit of Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, to the city of Tauranga
The eastern end of Bennett Island with its glaciated tombolo in the background
Satellite view of Gwadar, Pakistan
A satellite photo of the isthmus of Sutton which connects Howth Head and County Dublin
The shoreline moves toward the island (or detached breakwater) due to accretion of sand in the lee of the island where wave energy and longshore drift are reduced and therefore deposition of sand occurs.
Wave diffraction and refraction
True tombolos are formed by wave refraction and diffraction. As waves near an island, they are slowed by the shallow water surrounding it. These waves then bend around the island to the opposite side as they approach. The wave pattern created by this water movement causes a convergence of longshore drift on the opposite side of the island. The beach sediments that are moving by lateral transport on the lee side of the island will accumulate there, conforming to the shape of the wave pattern. In other words, the waves sweep sediment together from both sides. Eventually, when enough sediment has built up, the beach shoreline, known as a spit, will connect with an island and form a tombolo.[2]
Unidirectional longshore drift
In the case of longshore drift due to an oblique wave direction, like at Chesil Beach or Spurn Head, the flow of material is along the coast in a movement which is not determined by wave diffraction around the now tied island, such as Portland, which it has reached. In this and similar cases like Cadiz, while the strip of beach material connected to the island may be technically called a tombolo because it links the island to the land, it is better thought of in terms of its formation as a spit, because the sand or shingle ridge is parallel rather than at right angles to the coast.
Morphology and sediment distribution
Tombolos demonstrate the sensitivity of shorelines. A small piece of land, such as an island, or a beached shipwreck can change the way that waves move, leading to different deposition of sediments. Sea level rise may also contribute to accretion, as material is pushed up with rising sea levels. Tombolos are more prone to natural fluctuations of profile and area as a result of tidal and weather events than a normal beach is. Because of this susceptibility to weathering, tombolos are sometimes made more sturdy through the construction of roads or parking lots. The sediments that make up a tombolo are coarser towards the bottom and finer towards the surface. It is easy to see this pattern when the waves are destructive and wash away finer grained material at the top, revealing coarser sands and cobbles as the base.
List of tombolos
Adam's Bridge (until 1480), between India and Sri Lanka
The Angel Road of Shodo Island, Japan
Aupouri Peninsula, New Zealand
Barrenjoey Headland, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia
Beavertail Point, Conanicut Island, Rhode Island, United States
Bennett Island, De Long Group, Russia
Biddeford Pool, Maine, United States[3]
Bijia Mountain, China
Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
Burgh Island, Devon, England
Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain
Chappaquiddick Island, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States
Charles Island, Connecticut, United States
Chesil Beach, Portland, Dorset, England
Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
Crimea, Ukraine
Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, Australia
S'Espalmador, Formentera, Spain
Fingal Bay, New South Wales, Australia
The Rock of Gibraltar
Grand Island National Recreation Area, Michigan, United States
Gugh, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, England
Gwadar, Pakistan
Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Howth Head, Dublin, Ireland
Inishkeel Island, Narin, Ireland
Kapıdağ Peninsula, Balıkesir, Turkey
Knappelskär, Nynäshamn, Sweden
Kurnell, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lake Pomorie, Bulgaria
Langness, Derbyhaven, Isle of Man
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Louds Island at Muscongus Bay, Maine, United States
Maharees, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
Mare Island, Vallejo, California, United States
Maria Island, Tasmania
Maury Island, Washington, United States
McMicken Island State Park, Washington, United States
Miquelon, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, France
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Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France
Moses' Pass (Whale Tail), Ballena National Marine Park, Uvita, Costa Rica
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Thanks for the replies. The last picture was just to show the worst it can look nowdays. I've attached a couple of pics from today: hair grown out slightly and being a fairly good hair day. I still can't help but think 500ish grafts, placed on a diagonal, filling in the yellow drawn areas will finish things off and at least take the focus off the scalp? 2500 total grafts for top of head and crown seems like a fair amount to take from donor area I would have thought? Plus, since that entire area of my head would then be covered in grafts there should be no future target look, because the only potential further loss at back could be dipping on the very back of my head (just above donor area) like LaserCap pointed out ...? Hmmm this is why filling the yellow areas might be best kept at 20 grafts per cm2 to blend at the same density of the first transplant? I guess this would provide coverage but still look a little thin if light is blasted on it.... At least it wouldn't look so bald. As for PRP, I definitely think it works for me. Not so much for growing new hair follicles, but thickening existing hair. I started off getting injections, but there is a practice nearby that uses a roller needle and is much cheaper. Getting 1-2 a year to keep hair as thick as naturally possible seems to be a plausible alternative instead of using medication.


Built in 1856, the structure served as a prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, which was erected in 1883. The Roebling Bridge, named after creator John A. Roebling, served as a pedestrian and streetcar bridge from Covington to Cincinnati and was remodeled without rails in the mid-20th century. Due to a delay in construction from the Civil War, the Roebling Bridge officially opened as a toll route in 1867. Horse and buggy were charged 15 cents and pedestrians were charged a penny. Today of course, the bridge can be used free-of-charge as visitors take in the scenic riverfronts of Smale Park in Cincinnati or the Licking River Historic District in Covington.


Cut the Rope is a downright adorable action puzzle-physics game. It's also fresh, challenging, gorgeous, and highly entertaining. It has simple rules, intuitive controls, and can be played in short bursts or blitzed through in a marathon gaming session. In short, it's exactly the type of game you want to play on your iPhone.
Cut the Rope can be enjoyed for a few minutes at a time, or for much longer.
The goal in each level is to drop a piece of candy–suspended by a series of ropes–into the mouth of a cuddly little monster named Om Nom that is located somewhere on the screen. To do that, you have to cut the ropes in a way that makes the candy swing, jump, or fall into the little guy's mouth. Along the way, you also have to try to pick up all the star items in each level.
But this is a puzzle game, so you have to put on your thinking cap to figure out which ropes to cut and in what order. To make things more complicated, you also encounter movable pegs; spikes; electricity; bubbles that make the candy float; and whoopee cushions, which send puffs of air that can blow the candy in different directions. Since Cut the Rope launched, new level packs have added gravity puzzles and broken-candy pieces to the game.
Each level is cleverly designed to make delivering the candy to the monster difficult but not impossible. Solving the levels requires precise timing and delicate precision. As you progress through the game's 150 levels (with more on the way), the difficulty mounts steadily, which results in some real head-scratchers toward the end. Both Crystal and Game Center provide leaderboards and achievements, giving the game a healthy amount of replay value.
Unfortunately, Cut the Rope does have some control issues. For instance, once sliding pegs are introduced, the game occasionally thinks you're trying to move a peg when you mean to cut a rope, or vice versa. This can get you into trouble in some levels.
Grabbing candy is what it's all about in Cut the Rope.
Cut the Rope is a game that nearly everyone will enjoy. It offers all the charm, variety, and smart level design you could hope for from a puzzle game while being simple enough to be accessible to anybody. It's right up there among the best casual games in the App Store.


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Jamie Lynn Spears Shares Terrifying Account Of Daughter's Near-Fatal Accident
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By Brooke Knappenberger/Jan. 14, 2022 11:25 am EST
In comparison to her uber-famous sister, Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn Spears' life has seemed relatively quiet as she stayed out of the headlines for a while. However, she's gaining attention for her new memoir, "Things I Should Have Said," which releases January 18. The book details Jamie's life as a child star, her journey raising her family, and her personal struggles with mental health, per Worthy Publishing. Ahead of the book's release, Jamie Lynn has spoken to news outlets and shared on social media her involvement in Britney's infamous conservatorship, which saw her back in the headlines.
Sharing her story and her part in the Britney conservatorship is all part of her personal growth, Jamie said in an Instagram post. "I know I still have ALOT of learning to do, but I feel like finishing this book gave me closure on this 30-year-long chapter of my life and hopefully helps anyone else out there who forgot their worth, lost their voice, or is trying to break an unhealthy cycle in their life." In her memoir, Jamie also shares the story of the life-changing accident her daughter had back in 2017.
Things looked grim for Jamie Lynn Spears' daughter
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In 2017, every parents' worst nightmare almost came true for Jamie Lynn Spears when her daughter, Maddie, who was 8 years old at the time, was in a horrific ATV accident. In an excerpt from her memoir shared exclusively to People, Jamie gives a heart-wrenching retelling of the accident.
Jamie and her family were at her husband's family home when Maddie went for a ride on her ATV. One way or another disaster struck when Maddie, who was strapped inside the ATV, ended up submerged in a pond. Jamie writes that first responders pulled her out of the water, but she was "unconscious, her body distended, face swollen and eerily blue." Responders tried performing CPR and pounded on her back but to no avail. "I knew what I had just witnessed. My daughter's lifeless body," Jamie wrote. Then, her husband's mother told her, "'Lynne, Maddie's not with us anymore."
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Thankfully, a firefighter was able to find Maddie's pulse, and she was rushed to the hospital where she was intubated, and Jamie said "there were no fewer than five machines performing different functions" (via People). Maddie's doctors said she wasn't responding to pain or reflex tests and that the next 24 hours were critical, so Jamie had a priest brought in. The priest recited the Commendation of the Dying and was performing the last rites when Maddie suddenly started thrashing, which prompted doctors to place her in a medically-induced coma. Miraculously, Maddie opened her eyes the next day and was able to fully recover.
Jamie told People that she started writing about the accident, and that's what prompted her to write her memoir. For Jamie, It's still very hard to revisit that accident, but she said that the life-changing moment needed to be shared. "There's a lot of dark things in this world today, and I think that putting something out there like that, that is so wonderful, is something that should be shared, especially when it made so many changes in a lot of lives for the better."


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At least 30 people have been killed, following clashes between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces, in a restive border region with China.
Some 30 people died in clashes between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces in a restive area along the border with China on Monday, the government said, dealing a blow to leader Aung San Suu Kyi's goal of reaching peace with minorities.
Suu Kyi's nearly one-year-old government is increasingly besieged by ethnic rebels, grappling with an alliance of militias in the north and a new Rohingya insurgency rebelling against decades of persecution in the northwest of the country.
The attack came after the Nobel Peace Prize winner met a delegation of ethnic armed groups last week to convince them to take part in a major peace conference.
Suu Kyi swept to power in 2015 on promises of national reconciliation and the meeting was aimed at giving fresh impetus to the stuttering peace process.


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Course Creators
The Course Creators: Pan-American Championships (Devou Park)
Andrew Juiliano
This fourth of five interviews with top U.S. cyclocross course builders features the man behind the Devou Park course at this weekend's Cincinnati Cyclocross Festival — a track previously used for the Pan-American Continental Cyclocross Championship, and now a UCI Class 1 race and part of the US Cup-CX. Mitch Graham is a Cincinnati resident and bike shop owner, and when it came to creating a championship-worthy parcours, he sought out features that would scare even the elite men and women. He spoke with now Belgium-based professional cross racer Andrew Juiliano for this feature, which first appeared in abridged form in ROAD Magazine.
Lead photo © 2015 Scott Dedenbach.
Mitch Graham
Currently Resides: Cincinnati, Ohio
Day Job: Owner, BioWheels bicycle shop
Pan-American Cyclocross Championships (2016)
UCI Continental Championship
Devou Park
Covington, Ky.
What's your background in cycling, 'cross and course design?
I picked up cycling in college when I ran cross-country and track. I was getting injured pretty regularly towards the end of college and ended up buying a mountain bike. I ended up racing said mountain bike and getting addicted. I got onto a team with the shop here [in Ohio] and then eventually got into all kinds of different racing. The shop here [BioWheels Bike Shop] had put on a 'cross race every year starting in the late '90s. At some point, the previous owner of this place moved to Asheville, N.C., to open up another shop, and he left me up here to run the shop. He left behind all these events that he used to put on. I used to race them, but I didn't know anything about what he used to do.
One day he was like, "You know all those races we do? Do you want to put them on?" I ended up just doing the 'cross events since that was in the off-season for retail. That was in 2000, up at Harbin Park, which is in the northern suburbs here. That race became the first UCI C1 event in the U.S. We no longer put on UCI events there due to lack of infrastructure [ed.: since original press time, a UCI C2 race was approved for Harbin Park this weekend], but that's where I kind of learned the ropes. I'll admit that I actually sucked pretty badly. The morning of my first race, I just got there at like 6:30 in the morning and the first race was at 9. I thought that I'd be able to set up the entire course before the first race went off. This was a long time ago when we used to use pin flags and stuff like that so I've learned a lot since then. It was definitely a rough start. But I've been putting on cyclocross events since then. I've also put on road crits and mountain bike races.
How many 'cross courses do you think you've designed and built over the years?
About 20. I designed the Devou course in 2014. That was after about two dozen site visits and endless hours of looking at maps and getting inspiration from other courses here in the U.S. and watching races in Europe. I went through a few variations before I settled on the current course, which has multiple race laps that get harder as the day goes on. When you have your beginners going off [in the] morning, they do an abbreviated and shorter loop that cuts out a lot of the prominent harder features. Those [features] get introduced at different points of time for the more advanced races. It adds some complexity, but it allows us to put on a really hard course for the elites to mimic some of the features they see when they go overseas, which is kind of the whole goal. There's no way I'd run beginners or intermediates down some of the stuff the elites do.
You're a proponent of pro-only lines and pro-only sections of the course?
If you're going to make them hard, then yeah. Even though we withhold some of the harder features to the end of the day, we still have like a dozen EMT visits even on the easy course. Even the easy course is pretty hard, so making it harder would be like death. You don't want a death or a broken spine. Some of those Cat 5 bikes and skills you see are deadly on a course like the pros ride.
What are some of the defining features of the Devou course?
To get the really hard stuff, we had to go into the woods. We kind of scattered out where the terrain was most difficult. There is a section of the park that was overgrown because it was so steep that they didn't mow it, and it was wooded. It was perfect for what we were trying to do. In the middle of one hill, there is a rock wall that used to be a little quarry. It drops straight down. As you go away from the middle it goes from steep to medium-steep so we can run down the hill and get the grade we want. We built three sections along that rock wall. The first is a downhill that is a 20 percent off-camber: It's all dirt and there's no grass to get a grip on. When it's dry, the ground is really loose, and when it's wet the ground is really slick. It's really scary.
When I designed it, I wanted to scare myself because I knew if I scared myself, it would scare the pros and that's what I wanted. I heard that when they are in Europe, they ride stuff that they are literally scared to go down. I figured if we wanted to give what they were asking for and give the pros practice for the World Cups, I needed to create sections that scared me. So after the off-camber it cuts to the right and then goes down a couple of drops. The pros can rail it, and it's beautiful to watch. It's amazing what they can do. When it's wet, like it was last year, it's pretty cool. Pretty crazy. That's called the "Pan-Am Plunge," which the announcers came up with the first year.
Then we went and built a section up the rock wall–kind of a mountain-bike-inspired off-camber up-and-down–and then there are two really steep climbs. There are maybe seven guys in the elite men that can ride up the steep one. Cody Kaiser, Jeremy Powers, and a few others can ride it, but everyone else has to run up, and then when it's wet they slide back down sometimes if they don't have good grip.
It sounds like you used to race? How does that influence your course design?
I listen to the racers, and I've been getting advice from them, so that's how the courses have been getting better. It's important that they do that. When you go through that much work to put on an event, and then have the elites that are racing UCI events all around the country give you feedback, that's pretty invaluable. I've been getting that feedback since the first year we started putting on a UCI event.
Then my own experience racing—I appreciate events that go out of their way to be good rather than half-assed. The whole experience of being there and the atmosphere and food and music—just the whole experience as a racer, I appreciate the work that goes into that. I want to do it as best as I can do it, and make it as fun of a day as possible. I loved racing [100 mile mountain bike races], and there were some that always stood out in my mind as being ones that I wanted to emulate. It was an experience being there and then everyone hung out afterwards. I loved that.
What is your philosophy or goal when building a 'cross course? What are you trying to achieve?
I want it to be fun but hard. You have to remember your customers come from different backgrounds, so one rider may consider something hard while another thinks it's easy. I've always tried to create balanced courses where the guys with road backgrounds could have fun and wouldn't think it was so crazy and then have a little something for everyone, even the mountain bikers. That goes back to the days before there were 'cross specialists. Now it seems like people are a lot more experienced, so they can handle a lot more.
Do you think courses are challenging enough in the U.S.?
They have definitely gotten harder over the years, particularly lately. I think it's hard to lump everyone into one description because there are so many different events. There are really easy weekends that the pros go to and then there are ones that are harder. Of course the weather conditions factor in since rain is a total game changer and takes a course that wouldn't have been hard and makes it really difficult. I think the courses have gotten lot harder over the years, especially at the national events.
What do you think makes a good 'cross course?
It's got to be fast, and flowy, but not the whole thing. There has to be half a dozen "oh shit" moments. Like [Devou] Park has plenty of places to create "oh shit" moments. There are plenty of places in that venue for steep drops and long climbs. In other parks there aren't any steep sections, so it's a lot harder to create those moments.
What's your favorite course domestically?
I really like the [2016] Nationals course in Asheville, N.C. I thought that was fantastic. Honestly, because of the bike shop I don't get out and travel much. I've been to Derby City down in Louisville and Worlds there–I am very familiar with that course, and I really enjoy that. I've also been to Gloucester since my brother lives up [near] there in Connecticut. That course is really cool. The Austin course at 2015 Nationals, that looked like a lot of fun. We have a lot of really good courses.
What about internationally?
I like Zolder a lot. I like watching Zolder. If there is one place that I tried to emulate with Devou, it's Zolder, because there's a lot of hard pedaling but there's also a lot of "oh shit" moments where riders have to compose themselves, coast into a section, hold on for dear life and cross fingers that they aren't going to wipe out. Namur is also one of my favorite courses and is another one that I love to watch. It would just be a very cool place to be during a race. I'm not a big fan of those Belgium courses that are out in a field where they just put down a festival in the middle of cow pasture—that doesn't excite me. But Namur, with that historical property with those quiet woods that are well maintained, it just looks really cool.
What's unique about 'cross in Cincinnati?
Compared to the rest of the country, I think the fact that we actually have two different venues on our weekend is more reminiscent of how the UCI weekends used to be back in the early 2000s in the U.S. When you look at all the C1 weekends like, Wisconsin and Providence, most of them are kind of the same course Saturday and Sunday. We actually have two different venues — Saturday is Devou Park and Sunday is Kingswood Park [ed.: this refers to the 2016 weekend]. You've got two slightly different experiences and two types of courses. One's more of a fitness course with a lot of heavy pedaling, and the other is more technical. I think that is unique. We've been putting on UCI events for a long time, since 2004, so the courses have been around for a while and are pretty dialed.
Are U.S. courses challenging enough?
That question always bugs me because some courses are really hard–there are more and more hard courses each year–and then a lot of courses are really easy. When when people generalize that all European courses are brutal and all American courses are weak, that just bugs me. We have a lot of really easy courses and then a lot of really hard ones too. Maybe seven or eight years ago, you could have generalized that U.S. courses were pretty tame, but nowadays it's getting more and more difficult. We're getting that from a lot of UCI promoters. Stuff like the sand chute at the KMC Cross Fest, you would not have seen something like that five years ago in the US. Now that's becoming more of a regular thing.
This interview has been edited and slightly paraphrased for brevity and clarity.
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 Hofs kommun – en tidigare kommun i Norge, sedan 2018 del av Holmestrands kommun
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Commentary: When partisanship trumps journalistic integrity, the truth loses
It is clear that smear has carried the day when the Press Herald's editorial page editor is willing to brand someone a liar without even calling that person.
By Stephen DiamondSpecial to the Telegram
Doing his best imitation of a liberal version of Tucker Carlson, Greg Kesich, editorial page editor of the Press Herald, wrote a facts-be-damned column May 8 accusing Sen. Susan Collins of lying when she asserted that, as Supreme Court nominees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh misled her into believing that they would not vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. With no limit on Kesich's willingness to opine on matters of which he possesses no knowledge, he dismissed her process for vetting the nominees as nothing more than a hollow ritual.
Greg Kesich: Time to reap the whirlwind
I was one of three former Collins staffers who, at the senator's request, assisted her in reviewing the Kavanaugh nomination, the other two being a law professor and a partner in a major Washington, D.C., law firm. Along with the senator and several of her staffers, we received six briefings on Kavanaugh's record as an appellate court judge from lawyers from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. The senator was an active participant in each of the briefings, which, in the aggregate, lasted at least 10 hours.
Stephen Diamond, a resident of Topsham, is a former Maine deputy attorney general and a former staffer for Sen. Susan Collins who has voted for the Democrat in the last 14 presidential elections.
Those briefings were only the beginning of the process, as I and others, including Sen. Collins, read several of Kavanaugh's more important judicial opinions, as well as some of his other writings, in connection with our group effort to formulate questions for Kavanaugh. This was all done in preparation for the senator's highly substantive two-hour meeting with the nominee, also attended by those advising her.
But even that was not the end of the process. When new information emerged, the senator had a follow-up telephone conversation with Kavanaugh lasting about an hour. It defies logic to conclude that Sen. Collins would have devoted this much of her own time and that of her staff and have enlisted the assistance of unpaid outside advisers if her vote on Kavanaugh were, as Kesich asserts, a foregone conclusion.
Maine Voices: A call for calm in the hostilities over Brett Kavanaugh
Why was none of this reflected in Kesich's column? The reason is simple. He made absolutely no effort to get the facts before branding Sen. Collins a liar and dismissing her review process as a fraud.
To the contrary, he even invented a motive for Collins' alleged dishonesty: namely, a desire to chair the Appropriations Committee in a Republican-controlled Senate. If that were the case, why would she break with her party and become the first Republican to express support for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?
And to correct yet another error by Kesich, Collins never said that Kavanaugh expressly assured her he would not vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, as that would have violated what is known in Washington as the "Ginsburg rule." What she justifiably concluded, based on their very extensive discussion of the subject, is that reversing Roe would be inconsistent with what he indicated were his strongly held views on the importance of honoring precedent.
As unfair as Kesich's column was to Collins, she will survive, as the people of Maine recently demonstrated their willingness to support her even in the face of the most costly smear campaign in the state's history. The real victim here is the public interest.
We live in extremely divisive times in which facts have become a rare commodity, a phenomenon made increasingly difficult to remedy by the popularity of social media. Responsible journalism remains one of the few weapons to combat misinformation, but when the editorial page editor of the Press Herald is willing to brand someone a liar without as much as a single telephone call to test his thesis, we might as well concede that Donald Trump's approach to the truth has carried the day.
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Q: Are null terminators good for parsing binary files I'm trying to work on a save game system and I'm stuck on trying to figure out the best way to use c-strings. I know I could use an int to mark the number of characters but I'm wondering if using a null terminator is a good idea. (Especially since currently I'm having issues trying to find the null terminator in the loading end)
TL;DR Question: Is using a null terminator in binary files best practice for strings, and if not, what do you recommend instead.
Also, if you could tell me how to find a null terminator in the middle of my memory buffer (a C string) that would be great, but I know technically it's a different question.

A: I recommend using SQLite for file format. It is easier to handle.
And you can insert blobs on it.
Think about when you need to update the file format. Using SQLite it is a piece of cake. Just add a new column to the table or use UPDATE...
Check: https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

A: The problem with using a NULL terminator to mark the ends of strings in a binary file is that binary files may contain NULL characters. If you know that you'll never be storing NULL characters in the file, except to mark the end of a string, you'll be fine.
If it is possible that you will have NULL characters in the file, then you could predefine the length of strings, but then you'd need to know beforehand the maximum length of the strings that you'll be storing. For example, you could say that ever string must take up 128 characters having the unused characters be filled with NULLs.
If none of those solutions work in this situation, you can always prefix every string with its length.

A: You should be able to provide specifications for your binary file.  In your case, you would then need to figure out how to escape the null terminator if you actually want it counted as data.  Is that worth the pain to check each character?  It is easier to do as you mentioned by having a predefined length or a length read in from the file.  If the field you are reading is actually an array of strings with null terminators, perhaps you should specify the length of the total array, and deal with the split of the strings once it is read into variables.


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Kentucky House votes to borrow $50 million for park system
by: AP
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to borrow $50 million to fix up the state's park system.
The House voted 93-6 on Thursday to pass House Bill 268. It would allow the Cabinet for Tourism, Arts and Heritage to borrow and spend up to $50 million in the budget year that begins July 1. Kentucky taxpayers would pay $2.2 million toward that debt in the same budget year. They would pay the rest of the money over the next few decades.
The bill also contains a pledge to borrow an additional $100 million over the next three years for improvements to the state's park system. But the legislature would have to authorize that borrowing next year.
The proposal now heads to the state Senate.
(This story was originally published on Feb 21, 2019)


Paris: Brandus & Cie., n.d. Plate B. & Cie. 12,811.
Note all the instrumental indications in the score... (and the fact that Worldcat entries have "orchestra or piano"- for orchestra or, if needed (or at home), piano accompaniment.) Orchestral parts are at the British Library.


The winner of Lee's book is: Mariska. Congrats, Mariska! Send me your contact info and I'll pass it along to Lee. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Lynda's guest blogger Tracey Morris gave you a brief intro into some of the supernatural happenings in the Ozarks when she talked about the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. Been there, done that – it's a gorgeous old place and I highly recommend it to anyone who can get there; the atmosphere is superb for any lover of the paranormal. The town itself is pretty interesting, too – including the church that you enter on one level and exit on another (did I mention that the streets are very steep?).
My novels are set in the Ozarks too, but in the fictional counties of Blackburn and Fulbright, where "things happen" – everything from Civil War ghosts to the wanderings of sad souls still trapped on the Trail of Tears. There are plenty of real Ozarks locations in my stories, too, like Mammoth Spring and the wonderful Blanchard Springs Caverns at Mountain View. But having fictional counties to set my tales in has worked well because sometimes my characters need a location that's just not situated properly for the action in the real Ozarks. They can always step outside their fictional homes, though, and visit the real thing when it's called for.
My novel A Dream of Drowned Hollow is a paranormal environmental thriller that draws pretty heavily on the lore and legends that saturate the region. April Rue Stoner, my heroine, belongs to a family that has special talents – each family member can do something unusual, whether it's a gift of healing or of music or of seeing the future. April Rue's particular gift involves seeing spirits, but not just that – she can capture what she sees in photographs, so that others can see them too. That turns out to be her only weapon against a ruthless developer determined to bring his own version of prosperity to the place where he grew up. His goons have resorted to sabotage and even murder to force people to sell out to him, and April Rue's photographs are the only proof of what he's doing. It's a race against time as she tries to expose him for what he is. Her grandmother has already died because of what he's done. Will she be able to stop him, or will he get to her first?
There really are Ozark families with special gifts – such as dowsers, also known as water witches. When we first moved there one of our neighbors came out and witched us a well. The beautiful thing about the Ozarks is the daily, vital presence of beliefs that many other regions of the country have left behind. It has a rich history of folklore and old customs that haven't vanished yet – old beliefs are still in practice, such as predicting the winter based on the shape of the seeds inside a persimmon: knife-shaped for knifelike cold, spoon to tell you you'll need a shovel for all the snow, fork for mild. People still get together to play music, and still gather for community potluck suppers – things city folks would be very surprised at – and the presence of ghost lights at Durdon and Crossett are still reported, variously supposed to be the ghost of a railroad man killed by a train or the lights of UFOs. In Dyer, if you put your car in neutral on one side of the bridge, something will pull the car to the other side. And at Rogers, the former site of a Civil War encampment, visitors after dark will hear the sounds of marching troops, musket fire, and galloping horses.
One of the sad things about city living is that people tend to forget that there are such gifts, or pooh-pooh them and the beliefs that grew up around them. But in the country, where there are fewer distractions, a lot of things survive because there aren't a lot of naysayers telling everyone that something's impossible. And people know what they've seen. They may not have an explanation for it, but that's the nature of the paranormal, isn't it?
Lee will give away a copy of her book to one commenter. Her winner will be selected and posted on Tuesday night. Stop back by to see if you won!
Wow! Your book sounds wonderful. I love the Ozarks (my mom was born not too far away in the town of Malden, MO) and I remember driving through the hills on our many trips to see family in the area. Hauntingly beautiful (if you'll pardon the pun). Now I want to stop and do I little ghost watching at the confederate site.


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Q: Create references in R I used the package "ref" for creating and using references to objects such as data frames (see sample code part below). That worked really good.
But now I switched over to the new R version and when trying to install the package there is an error saying this package is not available for R version 3.5.0.
Is there any other package or function to achieve referencing? Or is there a workaround for usage of the "ref" package under 3.5.0?
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for (sOneDfIntervResultName in listDfIntervResultNames) {

   #add new row if not existant
   dfRef <- ref(sOneDfIntervResultName)
   deref(dfRef)[nrow(deref(dfRef))+1, ] <- NA

   #write start and end interval datetime
   deref(dfRef)$Interv_StartDatetimeUTC[nrow(deref(dfRef))] <- startIntervalDateTime
   deref(dfRef)$Interv_EndDatetimeUTC[nrow(deref(dfRef))] <- endIntervalDateTime
}
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We think that Snoop would dig all these doggy-styled tattoos of his image, and would raise a glass of Gin & Juice to the brothers who've inked him on their skin.
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Rops, Félicien
PAINTER, GRAPHICAL ARTIST (BELGIUM)
BORN 10 Jul 1833, Namur - DIED 24 Aug 1898, Corbeil-Essonnes, Seine-et-Oise: Demi-Lune property
GRAVE LOCATION Mettet: Cimetière, Rue du Cimetière
Félicien Rops was educated as a lawyer. He inherited a huge fortune from his parents. After he had spend it he started drawing caricatures for magazines. His graphical abilities were formidable and he was well known as a book illustrator. He also used his talents to create pornographic images. His followers claimed that he had highter motives for doing so. He was influenced by Baudelaire and he met him in 1864. In 1868 he became vice president of the Societé Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
In 1857 he had married Charlotte Polet de Faveaux, the daughter of a judge from Namur. They had two children. After the marriage failed he settled in 1874 Paris with the Duluc sisters, whom he had met six years before. In 1870 Léontine Duloc (1862-1919) had born him a daughter, Claire, who married the Belgian author Eugène Demolder. The Duluc sisters were dressmakers and they both became his mistresses. In 1879 he made fashion sketches for their fashion house. Amélie Leduc bore him a son in 1892, but he died soon after he was born. Apart from the Duluc sisters he had liaisons with several other women.
In 1884 Rops bought the property of Demi Lune at the banks of the Seine in Corbeil-Essonnes, near the forest of Fontainebleau. In 1887 he travelled the USA with the Duluc sisters. When he died in 1898 on his property the Duluc sisters and other relatives were near.
Rops was a friend of Charles de Coster, whose "Tyl Uilenspiegel" he illustrated. He was a member of the freemasons.
• was influenced by Baudelaire, Charles
• was a friend of Coster, Charles de
The grave of Félicien Rops at the cemetery of Mettet.
Picture by Androom (15 Mar 2008)
"La Dame au Pantin et à l'éventail".
(1873, Namur: Musée Félicien Rops)
"Pornocratès".
"Maturité".
• De Volkskrant
• Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909
• Musée Wittert
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Вие сте на: Најзначајни вести New measles surveillance data for 2019
New measles surveillance data for 2019
New measles surveillance data is now available on the WHO website. This preliminary data is based on country reports submitted to WHO at the end of every month. Please note these are not official numbers as countries are still reporting cases to WHO. Through WHO and UNICEF's joint reporting channels, official numbers are made available annually for the previous year in July. Current estimates for total cases and deaths are released in November.
Data from this summary should therefore be reported as provisional and clearly dated (i.e. "provisional data based on monthly data reported to WHO (Geneva) as of April 2019").
15 APRIL 2019, GENEVA - Measles cases have continued to climb into 2019. Preliminary global data shows that reported cases rose by 300 percent in the first three months of 2019, compared to the same period in 2018. This follows consecutive increases over the past two years.
While this data is provisional and not yet complete, it indicates a clear trend. Many countries are in the midst of sizeable measles outbreaks, with all regions of the world experiencing sustained rises in cases. Current outbreaks include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Philippines, Sudan, Thailand and Ukraine, causing many deaths – mostly among young children.
Over recent months, spikes in case numbers have also occurred in countries with high overall vaccination coverage, including the United States of America as well as Israel, Thailand, and Tunisia, as the disease has spread fast among clusters of unvaccinated people.
Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases, with the potential to be extremely severe. In 2017, the most recent year for which estimates are available, it caused close to 110 000 deaths. Even in high-income countries, complications result in hospitalization in up to a quarter of cases, and can lead to lifelong disability, from brain damage and blindness to hearing loss.
The disease is almost entirely preventable through two doses of a safe and effective vaccine. For several years, however, global coverage with the first dose of measles vaccine has stalled at 85 percent. This is still short of the 95 percent needed to prevent outbreaks, and leaves many people, in many communities, at risk. Second dose coverage, while increasing, stands at 67 percent.
With governments and partners such as the Measles & Rubella Initiative, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF and others, response operations are underway to bring country outbreaks under control, strengthen health services, and increase vaccine coverage.
After conducting emergency vaccination campaigns targeting 7 million children from 6 months through 9 years of age, Madagascar is now seeing overall declines in measles cases and deaths.
In the Philippines, over 3 890 000 doses of the measles and rubella vaccine have been given to children aged under 5 years.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country is preparing to launch a combined response with polio vaccine.
In collaboration with local health authorities, WHO and UNICEF conducted a nationwide measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Yemen reaching more than 11.6 million (90%) children aged 6 months–16 years across the country.
Responding to measles requires a range of approaches to ensure all children get their vaccines on time, with particular attention to access, quality and affordability of primary care services. It will also take effective public-facing communication and engagement on the critical importance of vaccination, and the dangers of the diseases they prevent.
WHO also recommends tailored approaches that ensure immunization services meet the needs of everyone – making sure that clinics are accessible to all areas, at the right times and to all population groups - especially those who face systemic discrimination and disadvantage.
Coverage of the 2nd vaccine dose also needs to increase globally, to maximize a population's protection against the disease. Today, 25 countries still need to make the 2nd dose part of their essential immunization programme.
The official number of cases of measles reported by WHO member states is only available by July the following year. While providing a strong indication of overall trends, monthly surveillance data is provisional and incomplete, as many countries - particularly those experiencing major outbreaks - are still reporting data. Due to delays in reporting, there may also therefore be discrepancies between what is presented in these reports and what is reported directly from countries.
The actual numbers of cases – captured in global estimates - will also be considerably higher than those reported. WHO estimates that less than 1 in 10 cases are reported globally, with variations by region. With this proviso, to date, 2019 has seen 170 countries report 112,163 measles cases to WHO. As of this time last year, there were 28,124 measles cases from 163 countries. Globally this is almost a 300% increase. The WHO African region has recorded a 700% increase, the Region of the Americas 60%, the European region 300%, the Eastern Mediterranean 100%, with 40% increases in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Global estimates (for total cases and deaths) are generated once WHO has received and reviewed all country data for the previous year. For official data from 1980-2017, please visit our website.
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Is it possible to impliment the CCP(Can Calibration Prothocol) via eDMA.
I m just curious about if it is possible, what kind of problems will appear to achive?
And will it give me chance to reduce my CPU load. And will it give me chance to monitor more data on CAN interface program.


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Mad Max: Pirates Prospect Embraces Aggressive Mindset
BY CONOR FOLEY, STAFF WRITERApril 22, 2019 GMT
Max Kranick didn't like the feeling when he came out of the game that April 12 night.
He only got two outs against Dunedin, walked three guys and allowed a base hit. His second start of the season ended after just 32 pitches and his Bradenton Marauders teammates were left in a five-run hole before the first inning ended.
"I felt pretty embarrassed leaving the mound," the Valley View graduate said. "That's kind of in the back of my head. I don't want to feel embarrassed. I want to just go out there and pitch my game."
He went into the next game with a different mindset, one the Pittsburgh Pirates organization started to stress to him last year. Coaches reminded him about it. Even the trainer reminded him of it.
Get aggressive.
Don't just touch 95 mph. Sit at 95 mph.
Get mad.
Pitch mad.
Next start, he threw six scoreless innings against the New York Yankees' High-A team. They knocked him for just three hits. He hit 97 mph on the radar gun.
"It's still amazing," he said. "I went out there that day and after the first inning, I'm like, 'Are you kidding me? That's all it was?' Like literally everything was up two miles (per hour).
"I don't understand it, but I'm just going to keep doing it. It's working."
Kranick is three starts into his High-A career. He has a 3.38 ERA in 10⅔ innings and is holding hitters to a .162 average.
"I've felt good," the 21-year-old said. "First and second game, command wasn't great, but we looked at the video and made a little bit of a mechanical adjustment and everything feels great now. I feel completely back to normal. My delivery got more efficient, which is good. So, now I think I'm in a good spot to move forward and take the ball every fifth day."
This is his fourth season in professional baseball. He's shown he can handle it — Kranick has a 3.01 ERA for his career. At this point, it's about refinement, like tinkering with pitches or changing them altogether. Or embracing that new aggressiveness.
"I would say this is probably the right time, just because your first couple years is just getting your feet wet in pro ball and understanding the full-season workload and the toll it takes on your body," he said.
First up, he dumped his curveball for a slider. Being a three-quarter thrower, it's hard to stay on top of a curve. It's hard to keep it consistent, keep it from backing up or just flipping out of his hand. A slider feels more natural.
It's not as easy as just moving where your fingers are on the seams. It's a long process. Kranick started working on it during the 2017-18 offseason, and he didn't get it consistent until June. The last 20 tosses in his daily throwing, that's when he's able to work on the pitch.
Feeling it spin off his middle finger.
Feeling it spin off his thumb.
If it's rotating the right way, he knows it will be good when he takes it to the mound.
"I still want him to just grip it and rip it, basically," said Joel Hanrahan, the former Pirates closer and Kranick's pitching coach at Low-A West Virginia last year. "It's more of a swing-and-miss pitch for me, and I think that's what it's going to be for him. The more you use it, the more you play with it, then you're going to get that throw-it-over-for-a-strike pitch."
It looked good in his first start this year against the St. Lucie Mets. It dived out of the zone and into the dirt when he wanted it to. It settled in the zone for a strike when he wanted it to. He struck out seven in four innings.
With the slider coming along and two fastballs he's happy with — he's still working on throwing his two-seamer to the glove side, firing it inside against lefties — it's on to the changeup.
"It's just been kind of a frustrating process," Kranick said. "I'm not a very patient guy. I want results right now. That's the same thing as the slider. I've been throwing it every single day in throwing program. Trying to get a feel for it."
Since he arrived at spring training this year, he's already changed the grip twice.
The organization's original recommendation for how to throw it produced good action. It just wasn't comfortable. He couldn't throw it for strikes.
The second was a more traditional circle change. That one was too firm. Too fast at 88 mph. That wouldn't work either.
The newest one is days old. It's a product of something the analytics staff determined.
"They said that the guys with the best changeups, their last finger to touch the ball is their ring finger, which makes a lot of sense," Kranick said. "They said even the guys with good changeups, the changeups that don't move, it touches their middle finger last, like it just stays straight on them. But the ring finger is what forces it to have the action, too."
Speed differential and movement. That's what he's looking for. Now, it's about trusting the grip. That'll take some time still.
Sometime around the all-star break last year, Hanrahan left the team to work the Futures Game. Scott Elarton, the former big leaguer, came to West Virginia to fill in, and it overlapped with one of Kranick's starts.
Elarton told him to go out and pitch angry that day.
He struck out nine in 5⅓ innings against Delmarva. Allowed just one run.
"It was a pretty good day," Kranick said.
His ERA in the second half of the season was more than a run lower than it was in the first.
"Everything plays up," Kranick said. "My fastball plays up, my offspeed's much better, I'm more efficient."
It's a delicate balance, pitching mad. You can't let a base hit throw you off your game. You can't let hitters see your emotions.
"You don't want to be too amped up, because especially as a starter, you're going to be out in the second inning because you're going to air it out in the first," Kranick said. "You're going to have nothing left. So, there has to be some sort of pace that you set to start the game."
He's still trying to figure out that balance. If pitching mad keeps getting the kind of results it's been getting, he'll figure it out.
"(Last year) I saw a guy that's growing up a little bit," Hanrahan said. "He's getting stronger, bigger. In his game, that important factor of his confidence. I think the older he's getting, the more aggressive he's getting as a pitcher. His breaking ball came a long way this year. And he just went out there and pitched like a man."
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Start Compliance: Can We Prevent Corruption Within the Company?
Compliance: Can We Prevent Corruption Within the Company?
Continuing with the trend seen in the English-speaking world as well as some nearby countries, over the coming months we shall see how companies with headquarters in Spain will have to implement a violations prevention model within their organizations. This is a crucial step forward for a society intent on putting an end to the illegal behavior that we have lived over recent years, including graft, improper management, or fraud.
Just as implementing occupational risk prevention models or minding the social responsibility of companies has a direct and positive impact in the economic growth of organizations, so could the implementation of a violations model.
But in order for these models to really function, they must be implemented with the full and absolute commitment of the company, starting with its executives. A number of studies worldwide revealed in 2013 that 49% of the sales personnel believed that the anti-corruption policies of their companies were not relevant to their work. To make progress in this area is a complicated matter given the current climate of short-termism and demand for earnings at all costs.
Companies should take the opportunity afforded by the introduction of these programs or models to make their strategies regulatory compliant. They will need to verify that their employees have received training to understand and avoid graft and fraud, and that adequate checks are carried out to avoid these acts. These tasks, among others, shall be the responsibility of the regulatory compliance department.
This department, which will have to be coordinated with all the departments of the company, especially the legal affairs department, will be the charged with detecting legal or internal violations. It will inform the highest level of senior management of any non-compliance and be required to adopt the necessary measures to correct such situations as well as incorporate these new procedures or routines into the compliance program if required. In sum, it will amount to a continuous risk reduction policy.
And this, the risk reduction prism, will be the prism from which companies will have to look at compliance and, more specifically, the new forthcoming regulation. Being one step ahead with the implementation of adequate anti-corruption programs will not only prevent problems and unnecessary costs for companies. It might even turn into a competitive advantage, as the preoccupation for compliance is apparently not a short-lived trend but rather an increasingly important facet of worldwide regulation.
The entire company will be affected by this new regulation, starting with the highest executives. They will be the main responsible parties for their company's awareness of the importance of these policies, for ensuring that the policies are not merely used as a smoke screen, and for disseminating the notion that beyond compliance to the law, what really counts is why it must be complied with and how the organization will be affected.
In sum, the opportunity must be seized to apply criteria of excellence and avoid a situation whereby our programs are merely questionnaires on what we do and don't, but also serve to actually do things, thereby avoiding the trap of not complying where we seem to be saying that we do comply. If we do this, we will have turned compliance into a competitive advantage and not a high and cumbersome cost.