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Dulek je kultivar zimske tikve koja je okrugla sa glatkom, blago rebrastom korom, i najčešće tamno žute do narandžaste boje. Debela kora sadrži seme i pulpu. Vrsta koji se najčešće koristi za kultivaciju je -{Cucurbita pepo}-, mada se neki kultivari vrsta -{Cucurbita maxima}-, -{C. argyrosperma}-, i -{C. moschata}- sličnog izgleda isto tako ponekad nazivaju "dulekom".

Etimologija i terminologija

Engleski naziv -{pumpkin}- potiče od reči -{pepon}- (πέπων), što je grčki za "velika dinja", nešto okruglo i veliko. Francuzi su adaptirali ovu reč u -{pompon}-, što su Britanci izmenili u -{pumpion}-, a kod kanijih američkih kolonista se ustalila reč -{pumpkin}-.

Izraz dulek nema usaglašeno botaničko ili naučno značenje, i upotrebljava se za bilo "tikve" ili "zimske tikve". U Severnoj Americi i Velikoj Britaniji dulek se tradicionalno odnosi samo na određene okrugle narandžaste sorte zimske tikve, pretežno izvedene iz vrste -{Cucurbita pepo}-, dok se u novozelandskom i australijskom žargonu termin dulek generalno odnosi na sve zimske tikve.

Opis

Duleci, poput drugih tikvi, vode poreklo iz severoistočnog Meksika i južnih Sjedinjenih Država. Najstarija evidencija su fragmenti duleka koji su datirani na period između 7.000 i 5.500 pne nađeni u Meksiku. Plod duleka je tip botaničkog povrća poznat kao bobica.

Tradicionalni -{C. pepo}- duleci generalno teže između 3 i 8 kilograma, mada najveći kultivari (vrste -{C. maxima}-) regularno dosežu težine od preko .

Boja duleka je izvdena iz narandžastih karotenoidnih pigmenata, uključujući beta-kriptoksantin, alfa i beta karotene, svi od kojih su jedinjenja provitamina A koja bivaju konvertovana u vitamin A u telu.

Taksonomija

Svi duleci su zimske tivke, zreli plodovi određene vrste iz roda -{Cucurbita}-. Karakteristike koje se obično koriste za definisanje "bundeve" uključuju glatku i blago rebrastu koru, i tamno žutu do narandžaste boje. Od oko 2005. godine, bele bundeve su počele da postaju sve popularnije u Sjedinjenim Državama. Postoje i druge boje, uključujući tamno zelenu (kao i kod nekih vrsta koje se koriste radi ulja bundevinog semena).

Kultivacija

Bundeve se uzgajaju širom sveta iz različitih razloga, od poljoprivrednih namena (poput hrane za životinje) do komercijalne i ukrasne prodaje. Od sedam kontinenata, samo Antarktik nije podesan za proiznju bundeva. Tradicionalna američka bundeva koja se koristi za džek-o'-Lanterne je sorta konektikatskih poljskih duleka.

Produkcija

U Sjedinjenim Državama

Kao jedan od najpopularnijih useva u Sjedinjenim Državama, tokom 2017. godine proizvedeno je preko 6,8 × 109 kilograma (15 milijardi funti) bundeve. Savezne države sa najvećom proizvodnjom duleka uključuju Ilinois, Indijanu, Ohajo, Pensilvaniju i Kaliforniju.

Prema Ministarstvu poljoprivrede Ilinoisa, 95% američkih useva namenjenih za preradu uzgaja se u Ilinoisu. Preduzeće Nestle, koje posluje pod robnom markom -{Libby's}-, proizvodi 85% prerađene bundeve u Sjedinjenim Državama, u svojoj fabrici u Mortonu, Illinois. U jesen 2009. godine kiša je u Ilinoisu opustošila Nestleov usev, što je u kombinaciji sa relativno slabim rodom iz 2008. iscrpelo rezerve te godine, rezultirajući nestašicom koja je pogodila čitave SAD tokom praznične sezone Dana zahvalnosti. Još jednu nestašicu, nešto manje ozbiljnu, uzrokovao je na usev iz 2015. godine. Usev duleka koji se uzgajaju u zapadnim Sjedinjenim Državama, a koji čini sačinjava 3-4% nacionalnog useva, prvenstveno je namenjen organskom tržištu.

Dulek formira muške i ženske cvetove. Oni moraju biti oplođeni, što obično čine pčele. Bundeve su istorijski bile oprašivane domaćim skvoš pčelama, -{Peponapis pruinosa}-, ali je zastupljenost ove vrste pčela opala, verovatno delom usled njene osetljivosti na pesticide (imidakloprid). Prizemne pčele poput skvoš pčela i istočnog bumbara pogodnije su za prenos krupnih čestica polena koje bundeve stvaraju, ali danas većina komercijalnih zasada biva oprašena košnicama medonosnih pčela, koje takođe omogućavaju proizvodnju i prodaju meda proizvedenog od polena bundeve. Ministarstvo poljoprivrede SAD preporučuje jednu košnicu po akru (4.000 m² po košnici, ili 5 košnica na 2 hektara). Ako nema dovoljno pčela za oprašivanje, vrtlari često moraju da vrše ručno oprašivanje. Neadekvatno oprašeni duleci obično počinju da rastu, ali pobacaju pre potpunog razvoja.

Gigantski duleci

Divovske bundeve su velike tikve sa izgledom poput bundeve koje narastu do izuzetne veličine, sa najvećom čija težina premašuje jednu tonu. Većina su sorte -{Cucurbita maxima}-, a razvijene su naporima botaničkih društava i poljoprivrednih entuzijasta.

Ishrana

Količini od 100 grama sirove bundeva daje 110 kilodžula (26 kilokalorija) energije hrane, i izvrstan je izvor (20% ili više dnevne vrednosti) provitamina A beta-karotena i vitamina A (53% DV) (tabela). Vitamin C je prisutan u umerenom sadržaju (11% DV), ali nema drugih hranljivih sastojaka u značajnim količinama (manje od 10% DV, tabela). Bundeva se sastoji od 92% vode, 6,5% ugljenih hidrata, 0,1% masti i 1% proteina (tabela).

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Talikote and the Vijayanagara apocalypse
Lately, war history has become a bit of a pet subject.
Specifically so, Talikote. This war is about an empire that is very close to my heart and culture. Backed with some assorted readings of Robert Sewell, Krishnaswamy Iyengar and Jadunath Sarkar, I present some thoughts, questions and answers of my own on the battle that changed the history of the south.
** Ramaraya, culpable to all.
Traditional lore and history has always taken to blaming this man, the son-in-law of Krishnadevaraya and the ruler incumbent of Vijayanagara after the death of Krisnadevaraya (or more specifically, after the demise of Achyutadevaraya) as the prime cause of the downfall.
His charges?
That he meddled more than necessary in the internal affairs of the Deccan Sultanates thus causing them to unify and destroy Vijayanagara.
That's a sweeping allegation at best and a hopeless judgment at worst.
Factually speaking, Ramaraya was probably the same age as Krishnadevaraya. It may be assumed that he had fought many a war on the side of Krishnadevaraya himself as well as proved himself to be a strong ally in multiple ways to solicit a marital relationship with him.
Beyond Krishnadevaraya's passing, it is true that Ramaraya made no pretences about his eye for the throne of Vijayanagara, but that does not discount the political tactfulness that he displayed throughout his reign. He was by no means, a tyrant.
As far as his interference in the Deccan Sultanates and their internal affairs goes, it was absolutely necessary to be political in the midst of so much potential hostility. His predecessor Krishnadevaraya had shown the same traits of diplomacy to a preference over war whenever possible. It suffices to say that Ramaraya had the best interests of Vijayanagara in mind and that when all else failed, he didn't shy away from the prospect of a decisive war.
Ramaraya has also been accused for favoritism when it came to important positions in the government and the army. This might be true to some extent, but this was the inevitable course that royal families had to take to in order to assure loyalty.
For what it is worth, Ramaraya governed a mostly stable state that he built with and had inherited from Krishnadevaraya, quite well. This does not discount him from the obvious mistakes in diplomacy and strategy that occurred preceding the war.
** The war was lost even before it began
Jadunath Sarkar quotes that during Krishnadevaraya's reign, Vijayanagar would annually buy a stock of 13,000 well-bred horses from the Portuguese. This good practice, had however been abandoned during the relatively less ambitious times that followed, perhaps due to Ramaraya's conquests with the Portuguese themselves. It may be remembered that this was also the time when the infamous Inquisition of Goa was taking place.
By the time of Talikote, the Vijayanagaran cavalry was in such an abysmal state that Ramaraya had conscripted nearly every person in possession of a horse to come join his ranks. These poor ponies were no match to the well-mounted and well-bred Arab horses which were on the fighting stocks of the Irani and Turani forces on the Sultanates' side.
Although numerically superior, the Vijayanagara infantry (like any in a medieval battle) would prove to be little more than cannon and cavalry fodder.
** Defensive war and rout
Ramaraya was defensive from the onset. The only ploy to survive lay in strategic defense and he would promptly encamp on the southern bank of the Krishna, with the stock of artillery and defensive trenches.
The plan would have been to wait and watch (or perpetrate) for a break in the enemy alliances. This would have been on the cards, since the Adil Shah had been in a dilemma about his loyalties. Unfortunately for Ramaraya, this didn't happen.
The only option that remained then was to keep the enemy at bay north of the Krishna and deny them a crossing. The enemy wouldn't dare a crossing in the face of fire at the risk of severe casualties (Adil Shah would've known a thing or two about the rout his ancestor had suffered from Krishnadevaraya in the Battle of Raichur a few decades back).
In a fit of brilliant military strategy however, the enemy staged a decoy march eastward along the river prompting Ramaraya to lift camp and follow. This was followed up with a lightning fast march-back to the ferry at Tangadgi where they would secure a crossing easily.
Ramaraya could've chosen to give siege immediately to the tired Mussalman forces, but he chose otherwise. This would prove critical as the Vijayanagara forces were routed the following day by the superior and well-rested enemy forces.
Jadunath Sarkar mistakenly mentions that Tirumala and his son Raghunatha died in battle whilst Venkatadri deserted the battle to rescue the treasury of Hampe and carry it to Penukonda, while it was actually the other way around.
Other contentions for failure he points out are:
* Antique guns, in comparison to the more modern Persian artillery possessed by the Mussalmans. The Vijayanagar army also possessed a stock of rockets, which Sarkar says were merely "playthings".
* Superior leadership at levels: The Mussalman army was led by seasoned veterans of war who led their troops with far more valor and independence. In contrast, the Vijayanagar army had but three leaders in the Aravidu brothers, two of who perished in the battle causing large-scale retreat of their troops in confusion.
* Rama Raya was too old to lead a battle. In his age, he lacked mobility and his death which came as a result of a committed charge by the enemy to kill or take him prisoner, proved to be the last nail in the coffin as the Hindu forces were routed mercilessly.
** Hampe and the aftermath
While Firrishta estimates the Hindu toll of losses at absurdly high figures, Jadunath Sarkar records that 16,000 slain and thrice as many injured would be a more sober estimate. It seems like a hopeless and humiliating lack of will and wit that the Vijayanagar forces made not even the attempt to defend Hampi.
Tirumala would arrive two days ahead of the victorious armies to carry away the treasury to the safer fortifications of Penukonda by road. Hampe would be left astray to hordes of pillages and plunderers for the next six months.
Some apologist historians assert with highlight that Hampi was looted continuously by hordes of Kurubas and Banjaras before the victorious armies arrived. While there may be some grain of truth in this, it doesn't emphasize the carnage unleashed by the Mussalman armies for the next 6 months. The duration is completely believable for the magnitude of desecration that has been carried out in Hampi.
I've wondered a bit about the driving factor behind the wanton destruction. You could say it was politically and psychologically motivated as to raze to ground the bitter enemy of two centuries and suppress even the thought of a resurgence in their own bastion. You could say that some destruction occurred in revenge and some in frustration for the lack of sufficient returns (read loot) that was denied to them, although this is probably not so much the case (they could have set off on Tirumala's tail right away if there really wasn't anything on offer at Hampi).
Beyond all these factors, it is undeniable that the Islamic religious dictum for iconoclasm was definitely a key motivation. Or perhaps, the human tenet of jealousy awakens the ugliest senses. I can almost imagine one of the victorious generals surveying with bewilderment the pompous city of the losers, from atop the Matanga and saying to one of his sidekicks, "Hey, this city is giving me a burn in the guts. Let's bring it down to ground!".
Anybody who sees Hampe today (atleast from the ground) will not be able gauge the size or splendor of it's times. It's highly recommended to see it with some relief, from atop the Matanga or one of the surrounding hills, or even better - from atop the Anjanadri on the other side of the Tungabhadra.
Likewise, seeing the structures as in their form today gives no indication of the *actual* scale of desecration. For this, you must see some of the photographs in the Archaeological Survey of India's museum in Kamalapura, or some of the photographs from older books about Hampi (The Digital Library of India is your friend).
For instance, the royal enclosure of which little remains today, actually lay in a heap of rubble and ruin for the last 5 centuries before the ASI "cleaned" it up. This is pretty much the story of every other monument around. There is a phenomenal density of temples in the area, quite understandable given the city's capital status during it's times, but it only leaves you wondering how much of the past reality has been lost in reconstruction and restoration.
The only temples that survived the post-ordeals of Talikote were the two hill temples of Anjanadri (on the Anegundi side of Tungabhadra) and Malyavanta Raghunatha which too is sufficiently far away from the epicenter. This ofcourse with the notable exception of the main deity of Hampe - Virupaksha.
It's quite interesting how this solitary temple survived in the face of destruction everywhere else. While some of the older constructions of the Chalukya era in the hEmakUTa don't seem to have taken too much of a hit, the Krishna temple where Krishnadevaraya setup a statue that he brought back from his Orissa campaign is damaged quite badly, and it's just around the corner. There is also the other exception of uddAna vIrabhadra, but I suspect this was probably not from the same era, going by the construction.
Legend has it that varahas (boars) appeared in the temple complex and drove away the invading pillagers. This might be quite true since the Mussalmans could have perceived the pig as a bad omen for their deconstructionist pursuits. Or perhaps, it might have been ransomed for a price (by who and how?) but this doesn't really seem like the brightest possibility in a city that must've been in the mercy of it's captors.
Whatever it maybe, the Mussalmans managed to permanently destroy a city which was of incredible splendor and pomp, as desribed consistently by all foreign travelers to the country (Razak, Nuniz, Paes), the latter two's accounts being available to us thanks to the translation by Robert Sewell, who can't be credited enough for this truly great work.
To this day and despite all else, Hampi still appeals to the history enthusiast, or the other ordinary South Indian like me for it's nostalgia that I've only heard cultural legends of. Hampi still has the charm of it's old city, although the guDaseTTi street no longer has any courtesans, the markets in the vicinity of Achyutaraya and Vijaya Vitthala temple no longer have any vendors. The main market area however has little hamlets of "hotels" that now serve Thai food!
In some way, I guess history averages out. For Vijayanagara was an empire that grew beyond it's bounds of time, space and commerce. I'm quite serious when I say I can imagine the markets of Hampi putting the malls of today's tier-I city to shame by contrast. Perhaps, Hampe had come to lack the soul of a place that we see occurring in our cities today.
That was possibly why Hampe died a quick death and failed to live on, in comparison to many other cities that survived repeated destruction of invading armies. Maybe it was the loss of faith in the regime as well, that the people who built and ruled it to it's pinnacle could run away without defending it as shamelessly and listlessly as they did. As history has it, the Aravidus now at Penukonda *do* capture Hampi again, briefly for a few years after Talikote, but fail to repopulate or restore it. Maybe they got as depressed as I did!
Gone glory was never to return.
But that's not the right conclusion to be drawing. In it's existence at Hampe and beyond, Vijayanagara despite imminent hostilities around it was enterprising enough to setup and rule a state well ahead of it's time for a period two full centuries and more. That's an achievement of phenomenal proportions.
Even in loss, they showed tact and grit to defend themselves against the unified Muslim invaders for another half century till Penugonda finally fell.
Whatever may have been their internal strifes, they would represent another pawn of Hindu resistance in the era after Malik kafur's rampage in the south, culminating to the highs of Krishnadevaraya's rule and finally in new resurgence by the marAThas less than a century later.
While Hampe remains close to my heart, a more dispassionate perspective actually leads to the conclusion that it lived and served it's purpose even in it's ruins.
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Niosh chairman unhappy with unhealthy attitude towards OSH
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KUCHING: Industrial accidents can only be reduced and avoided if all quarters do away with the 'hangat-hangat tahi ayam' (not following through) attitude towards the importance of occupational safety and health (OSH).
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said such "unhealthy habit" must be changed to avoid recurrence of the same incident in the future.
"One thing that I am very unhappy about is this habit of 'hangat-hangat tahi ayam' attitude.
"Over the years, these three words "siasat" (investigate), "kaji" (analyse) and "lapor" (report) will surface whenever there is a catastrophe or accident.
"After a while, issues beleaguering this mishap will quiet down. The same three words will resurface when there is recurrence of a similar incident.
"In the end, lesson was never learned. We must get rid of this bad habit," he said when delivering his keynote address during the Public Works Department (PWD) Second Safety Forum here today.
State PWD director Datuk Ir Zuraimi Sabki was also present.
The call for change, Lee said, not only meant for government agencies but also the private sectors and the people at large.
On a related matter, Lee said the increase in activities in the construction sector, which created higher risk over safety issues, was a call for action for developers to put in place hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control (HIRARC) principle in their operation.
"This will help workers and their supervisors to identify hazards and risks and find ways to avoid them," he said.
He said the latest fatal incident at a construction site at Lengkok Lembah Permai, Tanjung Bungah, in George Town on Oct 21 was another example where safety was taken for granted and was the result of poor OSH practices at worksite.
"There are others who do not want to invest in safety and health at the workplace because of the cost factor. But when accidents occur leading to either injuries or fatalities, such tragedies bring pain and agony especially to the families of the victims," he said.
Although the government authorities enact laws and enforce them, Lee said the responsibility for implementing a safety system at the construction site lied mainly with the main and sub-contractors.
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I'm so happy I stumbled upon these linen joggers earlier this year. They are the perfect cross between lounge wear and clothing I would wear out of the house - even to work (often to work). So comfortable, and the wrinkle issue is lessened by the fact that they are a blend rather than 100% linen. I don't typically buy multiples, but since I adored these pants so much in the green, when I spotted the blush pair on the sale rack, how could I say no? True to form, and the reason I always tell myself not to buy multiples, I really do prefer the green pair!
Do you believe in purchasing multiples, or would you rather have a closet of only unique pieces?
Adorable joggers on adorable you!
I rarely buy multiples, because I always want something new and different. I'd probably be better off this way though, especially if I know they are perfect!!
I am such a sucker for blush anything, and what is better than a great pair of joggers. Love this feminine look, styled to perfection!
I do buy multiples, I've done it with jeans and black trousers and had one pair hemmed for flats and the other for heels. I have also bought multiples of tee shirts.
I'm digging these blush joggers- a pretty combo!
Love those adorable pants on you! I sometimes buy things in multiple colors... when you find something that is really great, why not??
These soft pink pants are a great find and I love the pretty ruffled top you styled it with.
I love those joggers! The blush color is so pretty.
These are so cute! I love the blush. I would totally wear this outfit any day. I tend to not buy multiples because I like to change things up and have unique pieces. However, these would totally work for spring and summer while the green could be brought into the fall!
I love the blush color of that joggers. It makes a casual piece seem more delicate and feminine!
I love your bag so much. What a beautiful color. And great styling.
Those are darling on you! I have a pair of blush pants I can't wait to wear again!
Such an adorable outfit. That bag is really a trend right now, I must get myself one asap! ha!
That bamboo bag is to die for!!!


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Behavioral Development
Stop the Stalling: How to Help Kids Stop Wasting Time
Tired of hearing "I'll do it later"? For older kids, procrastination often becomes a problem as they start to have more responsibilities and more power over their own time. Happily, you can nip it in the bud before it becomes a lifelong habit by thinking about what's behind the behavior, and trying these strategies.
By Sharlene K. Johnson July 08, 2008
"I don't want to."
Kids often procrastinate for the simple reason that they have different priorities than we do. So if your son's must-do list includes beating his brother's video-game score and doodling dragons on his notebook, studying spelling words and writing birthday thank-you notes are not going to get done without your involvement.
How you can help: Forget about making your child want to do the more important task. Things like good grades and manners are abstract concepts to school-age kids, and no amount of nagging is going to change that. Instead, move the task up on your child's priority list by connecting it to a privilege he values, suggests George M. Kapalka, PhD, author of Parenting Your Out-of-Control Child. For example, if you allow TV and video games only after the day's homework is completed, your child will learn that privileges come with responsible behavior.
"I can't do it."
Don't take a "can't" at face value -- find out what's really going on behind your child's negativity. If the project is something you know she can do -- say, cleaning her room -- she may be dragging her feet because the size of the task seems daunting and she doesn't know where to begin. But if she's perpetually putting off homework and seems to struggle with what she does do, you need to investigate. Procrastination with schoolwork can sometimes be a sign of a larger problem, such as a learning difficulty, according to Dr. Kapalka.
How you can help: First discuss the situation with your child's teacher. If you've ruled out a possible learning problem and "I can't do it" really means "I'm intimidated but totally capable," it's a matter of teaching Project Management 101. "Show her how to break things down into small tasks," says Rita Emmett, author of The Procrastinating Child. Instead of saying "Clean your room," help her identify each step along the way -- making the bed, picking up the trash, clearing off the dresser -- and then ask her to focus on one thing. "Tell her to ignore everything else," says Emmett. "If you're picking up clothes, this is not the time to stop and sort through your books." The same goes for multiple homework assignments: Ask her to pick one very specific task and forget the rest until that one is done.
"I have plenty of time."
Yes, your son really does plan to put on his pj's and get ready for bed -- in his own good time. Truth is, it's easy for children to postpone things indefinitely when they don't feel any sense of urgency (yours doesn't count).
How you can help: Help your child set deadlines, and then dole out extra incentives for finishing before the agreed time. "We're quick to punish for getting things done late, but we're not always quick to praise for getting things done early," says Joseph R. Ferrari, PhD, professor of psychology at DePaul University, in Chicago. If your son is supposed to be ready for bed by 8 p.m. and he's done by 7:45 p.m., you might say, "We have time to read an extra book tonight because you got ready for bed so quickly." Eventually, he'll learn that doing something on time is good, but doing it early is even better.
"I might do it wrong."
Your child may be putting off learning or doing something new -- even things she enjoys -- because she's afraid of not doing it perfectly. So even if your daughter begged for music lessons, she might postpone practice because she doesn't play as well as she thinks she should or imagined she would.
How you can help: "Let your kid know that making mistakes is part of doing anything well," says Emmett. "Excellence is doing our best, and that's achievable. Perfection isn't." Also make sure that you yourself aren't caught up in results over process. Emphasize the point that the getting there is more than half the battle in anything you undertake.
Helping Kids Manage Their Time
"You have to help children learn to be organized and manage their time, but you don't want to be too rigid," says Laura Stack, a time-management expert in Highland Ranch, Colorado. Here's the strategy that works with her three children, ages 6, 8, and 12:
Set clear expectations. Print a chart that outlines each child's responsibilities every day of the week, from piano practice to putting away the silverware. Your kids know exactly what they have to do each day. When it's done, they check it off.
Encourage them to do the worst first. Tell them to get dressed before breakfast and that homework must always be completed before the TV is turned on.
Make it easy. If your kid is having trouble getting ready for the day, create a checklist with pictures of things to do in the morning. Sometimes what appears to be procrastination is really confusion.
Originally published in the August 2008 issue of Parents magazine.
Parents Magazine
By Sharlene K. Johnson


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VIDEO: Israeli student stabbed in synagogue
The 22-year-old student is in stable condition at a Brooklyn hospital.
The knife-wielding man was fatally shot by police on scene.
Maggie Lit | Former Script Writer and Production Assistant, Herring Networks
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 12:41 PM
An Israeli student was stabbed in the neck in an anti-Semitic attack while praying in a Brooklyn synagogue early Tuesday morning.
Levi Rosenblat, 22, was inside Chabad-Lubavitch—the Brooklyn headquarters of an international Jewish organization—when Calvin Peters, 49, entered the building around 1:40 a.m. yelling "kill the Jew" and stabbed the student in the neck, according to ABC News.
Others were in the synagogue when the incident occurred, but fortunately no one else was hurt. Those on scene managed to flag down a nearby patrol officer to stop Peters.
Peters, who initially complied with NYPD orders to put down the weapon, retrieved the knife and began approaching the officers, who then shot him in the stomach. He died at Kings County Hospital around 3 a.m.
Officials have confirmed that Rosenblat is in stable condition at a local hospital.
"I'm told that the attacker came earlier that evening, too. He was stalking the scene. Thank God he didn't inflict more harm nor do more damage to more people," Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) wrote in an email statement to ABC News.
Hikind says officials are unsure what might have motivated the attack.
"We commend the heroic efforts of the individuals who were present and took immediate action. If not for their intervention the outcome could have been, God forbid far worse," said Rabbi Chaim Landa.
"While we are very pained by everything that has unfolded, we are very grateful to the police for their quick response and are working closely with the authorities in their ongoing investigation."
NYPD say Peters had a criminal history.
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The 'Verve' of melancholy; "It's just a feeling I carry inside"
TEHRAN, Mar. 16 (MNA) – Argentinean multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Plano talked to MNA about his life as a neoclassical musician, and believes that the melancholic vibe to his compositions stems from having stepped into a rich world of experiences so young, and the need to create music at the time he couldn't.
The first thing you think you have learned from the young Argentinian-born, multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Plano by watching his live performance is that he is charismatic, self-assured and sophisticated. A first impression that may as well be true, given his impressive classical upbringing. It may somehow throw you for a bit though, catching the Berlin-based musician off the stage for a short, friendly talk, as you realize he is also incredibly down-to-earth and would as readily play a grand, extravagant venue for ostensibly highbrow audience as he would for a small, hungry crowd at a pizzeria.
Plano performed for two consecutive nights on 7th and 8th March in Tehran, both of which receiving an enthusiastic response and standing ovation from the Iranian audience, who were bewitched by the sweet, and yet melancholic melodies that the young musician gave life to on stage. The concert, called 'In Between Worlds', was organized by the 'RooBeRoo Mansion', an artistic-cultural institute in the heart of Tehran, as the third installment of the 'Resonance Project', an initiative started by RooBeRoo in December 2016 with 'Autumn Light' concert by Ólafur Arnalds, followed by the 'Blue Hour' concert by Italian composer Federico Albanese in 2018.
First of all, how did you arrange all those sounds on the stage? Because from where I was sitting, things looked totally crazy. How did you make all that coordination look so easy and perfect?
That's a good question. It's a long work over the years in the way of trying out different things and finding things that don't work and sticking to things that work. Having one hand on the cello and the other on the keyboard…that makes the coordination rather tricky. But then, when it comes to having the audience watching your performance, it seems very natural, like some kind of a choreography that's being practiced over and over for several times, so then you get this natural flow of playing the set.
There's another element that makes the performance tricky; I am moving all the time on the stage, and not sitting down to play the cello, which makes it a bit more difficult because you have to balance your body depending on if you have to play the cello, or if you have to press something with your foot, or if you are going to play the keyboard. It's a choreography in a way.
So how does it feel like to be in a one-man show as opposed to playing with a band? And why did you decide to go solo?
It's very fulfilling, because you're just by yourself, so everything is riding on you; all the, let's say, pressure, and in a way that's beautiful. Because it's exciting. I'm mostly playing by myself, but I have also played with a string quartet many times. So I have done it both ways.
There's a difference when you go on stage with a band. The whole ensemble lending you their support, and the music relationship that you maintain with other musicians on the stage is wonderful. I have to say both playing solo and performing with a band are really nice in their own ways.
You had a classical upbringing. How do you describe the transition into contemporary, minimalistic and electronic music?
Well, I started playing cello when I was seven. I come from a family of classical musicians, playing in symphonic orchestra at home. At the age of 11 or 12, I got into electronic music and I started making electronic music on software. But it was all a hobby, so I continued my studies. Writing electronic music was just a hobby for me at the time. I just made, like, ten copies of an album, and gave it to my friends, so it was a private thing. When I finished my master's degree in San Francisco, I decided not to continue that road of classical music. I didn't want to perform. I wanted to make and release my own music. At that point, I started to collect the best tracks I had and released them as part of my debut album 'Arrhythmical Part of Hearts'. So basically, it all happened really organically. Because originally, I wasn't planning to release an album. I had other plans. But then suddenly I knew that I didn't want to perform classical music and wanted to make my own music.
Would you say that people nowadays connect more easily and readily with your kind of music than they would with the classical genre? Is this the reason why many musicians like you, with classical upbringing, decide to venture into electronics?
Yeah, definitely. There would be a difference with the audience. Speaking for myself, I didn't want to continue performing classical music, because I didn't want to be an interpreter. I wanted to become a writer. And I was writing music since I was 12, and it was always growing and growing, until there was a voice inside my head that said okay, you need to do this. You don't need to play Beethoven, Mozart, or Haydn anymore. You need to play your own music.
How long did that take for the voice to appear?
Long. It was a long process of ten years. Maybe even more; ever since I started playing music. I asked myself why I became a cello soloist, playing concertos with orchestras. I played those concertos, Dvorák, Elgar, etc. And then I started to notice that the whole thing, the whole world of the classical music, was not for me.
Sebastian Plano's live performance in Tehran, 8th March 2019
Your music has been compared to works by Ólafur Arnalds, Sigur Rós, Nils Frahm, Max Richter and the like. What do you think about the comparison? Would you call them as your inspiration?
Yeah, I was firstly inspired by a different type of musicians, such as Vangelis. And then later on, I was listening to Max Richter, and he was quite a strong influence on me. Of course, I got to listen to a lot of Sigur Rós, and my colleagues, like Ólafur and Nils. Definitely there is an influence, but I also pay attention to developing my own unique sound.
It's hard not to notice that most of the music made in the neoclassical genre nowadays has this distinct 'melancholic' vibe to it. Why is that, exactly? What does this shared melancholy reflect?
Well, that's something I don't know for sure. It's just a feeling I carry inside. But it may have something to do with my life experiences. I left home when I was seventeen, and I have been going around the world ever since. The only thing that was taking me from place to place was the cello. It was always for music. I think, if you leave a place so young, there is going to be a lot of experiences, emotions and feelings following you. And how are you able to process all of those things? You're not, and you shouldn't. I mean, it's all of these that shape you as a human being. But then, the need to create has been always there. I remember getting anxious when I was 14 or 15, or even at 20 when I was not writing music for quite a while, but I needed to. So I think this sort of vibe comes from that need.
It's lovely, though, whatever the reason. This melancholy is something I always look for when I'm discovering new music. It's like it speaks more directly to people's hearts.
Life is short. And I look for things that move me; whether it's in a conversation, or a walk in the park, or a piece of music, a piece of art, a book, anything. I guess there is a lot of care in me for that quality, for finding things that are not just on the surface, but have depth.
What is your most favorite track that you have composed so far? And why is that your favorite?
It's very difficult to pick one, because they're quite different. But if I had to choose, then the one from the new album, 'Verve', has to be it. It has a lot of history behind it. This new album, 'Verve', that has just come out, I wrote it in 2013. And then I got my computer stolen, so I lost everything I had written, and I had to redo it all. And the track 'Verve' was the strongest one on my memory out of all the tracks that I had lost, so I thought I need to do that track first. I hadn't written any notes, hadn't recorded anything. It was just in my head. So it has that story behind it. And also, in my opinion, it came out as really different and interesting as a piece of music. The structure is pretty unique. I don't even know how it came to be. Because of the piano playing, it's frantic – there's three pianos going at the same time. I find it quite different from anything I've done so far, and for that, I liked it the best.
What brought you here to Iran, though?
(Points to a girl sitting with us during the interview) They brought me here (laughs). The RooBeRoo Mansion is doing these projects and different acts promoting neoclassical music. They got into contact with me and told me they want me to play in Tehran.
What was your first reaction when you were approached with that proposal?
I was surprised, yeah. But I also wanted to play. My wish is to share my music with people. It doesn't matter where, it doesn't matter how long it will take me to get there. I could even play at a pizzeria, for friends, you know? It was definitely exciting to come to Iran. It's a place that I've never been, and it's a completely different culture. Then we kept talking and the project evolved and we got to make it happen.
How did you find the experience of playing for an Iranian audience?
It's great. I mean, you feel what you feel when you are on the streets and talking to people. There is a lot of heart in cultures like this. I was also in Morocco and I felt the same thing. People have so much care. And there is a lot of kindness. There is a difference when you compare these with, let's say, European countries, or North America. I noticed that on a personal level, but I also noticed that when I was on stage. It's beautiful. People release this energy that you feel. And it's the first time that I got someone in the audience shouting to hear a song. Remember that guy that called, 'we want All Falling Skies'? That never happened in my previous shows. It's amazing. I liked that. I like the audience to come out from being just an spectator. This musical kinship has to be a mutual experience. So they should do whatever they feel like doing – even stand up and dance. It's not only about the stage. There is no musician and a stage without the audience.
How have you found your experience in Tehran so far?
I have found many similarities between Tehran and my hometown Buenos Aires in Argentina. You know, small similarities on the streets, the shops and the people. That's nice. Then again, I haven't had much time to go sight-seeing yet, but what I've seen so far has been really nice. Tehran is a massive city. I'm staying on the 12th floor of my hotel, and it's a horizon of houses from where I look (laughs).
If you were to compose a piece for Tehran based on the feedback you received from the audience, or the interactions you've had with the people you've met here, what would you call it, and how would it sound like?
Well, I actually made one already, and you heard it.
The improvisation on the stage, you mean, right.
Yeah, the improvisation I played on the cello and the base notes I played on the keyboard. I prepared a piece for this concert based on what I felt the music to sound like in this place; how I imagined it to be, and how it resonates inside me. If I were to write something particular, though … well, to write music, you don't have to think (laughs). It's one of those things that just comes to you. The most powerful tool is your intuition. Of course, your intuition can be surrounded by your experiences. When I go back to Berlin, I'm bringing back so many new experiences with me, and some of them are probably going into my creative process.
Any words for you fans in Iran?
Thank you! And I hope to come back.
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ALLAN Beswick has been a radio broadcaster for more than 30 years, the past 20 of which he has presented a daily programme on BBC Radio Manchester.
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How have those jobs helped you be a success in what you do?
Without the experiences of our past none of us would be who we are, that applies to the Queen, the refuse collector and a little fat red broadcaster.
Are you a typical redhead?
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Weren't you nominated for a Mr Manchester award once? What was that all about?
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What was different about what you did on Red Rose?
At the time the two big names in late night phone-ins were James Stannage and James Whale. My name is not James but also they tended to be right wing, crabby and not that funny; I was left wing, crabby and occasionally mildly humorous. Phone-in presenters should be as pompous as is necessary, arrogant enough to think that anybody cares a stuff for what they have to say and sensible enough to remember that they are just another lucky dog getting paid for knowing nowt and saying plenty.
What are your most memorable broadcasting moments?
My favourite caller is hard to pick, there are so many to choose from but I did like the bloke who rang in to complain after I suggested that to reduce the number of unwanted pets, pet shop owners should take a deposit equal to one week's food costs on any pet a person wished to buy and then hold that pet for a week. When the purchaser returned in a week he took the pet and no one was harmed, if he did not return then the pet shop owner had lost nothing. The caller's complaint was that he had adopted this policy in his tadpole business but by the time the purchase came back a week later they were frogs and the bloke didn't want them. Brilliant! Lateral thinking at is best and its barmiest. The great thing about phone ins is that all human life is there but it is often surpassed by the not quite fully all there human life.
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The Better Homes and Gardens Hinged Ottoman in Chevron is adorable and practical to for my small space!
I'm really digging the Better Homes and Gardens 16 Cube Organizer. I've never liked the look of cube shelving, but I am officially converted. I'd love to win a gift card to put towards one. I collect vintage typewriters and I think this would be the perfect storage solution for them. Also I am insanely lusting after that gold printer! Thanks Monica!
I'd so love the 12 cube organizer for my office!!!!
We just started to redecorate the living and the Better Homes and Gardens Langley Bay Coffee Table, Gray/Sonoma Oak would be perfect!
I would buy Better Homes and Gardens 8-Cube Organizer with 4 Collapsible Fabric Storage Cubes.
I like The Better Homes and Gardens Medallion Indoor/Outdoor Area Rug. It would go nice with my current decor.
I like the sedona honey hamper set, it's nice!
Better Homes and Gardens Sullivan Pointe 3-Person Outdoor Swing with Gazebo is beautiful! I would really love to have that!
I'd love the Azalea Ridge Storage Ottoman!
I think the Better Homes and Gardens Canopy Crushed Voile Drapery Panel would like nice in my home.
You've really created the best home office I've ever seen.. Everything is so organized an glam touches are everywhere.
I would purchase the Sedona Honey Hamper with Liner Set!
I would definitely want some of the Better Homes and Gardens Extra Absorbent Bath Towel for my guest bathroom!
I would buy the Better Homes and Gardens 9-Cube Storage as the storage where I live is so limited that I have everything in boxes.
Your office is fantastic!!! I love it. So pretty and girly. It's making me wish my office/craft room was finished.
I'd get the Better Homes and Gardens 50" x 60" Velvet Plush Fringe Throw.
I would like Better Homes and Gardens Ash wood Road Coffee Table.
I'd love to buy the 16 cube organizer!
I am getting ready to refresh our living room décor. Would love the chance to win and pick up some of their beautiful pillows and mirrors.
I would buy the multi colored storage cubes for toys!
I would love to get the Better Homes and Gardens 400 Thread Count Egyptian Cotton Sheet Set.
I'd get the 8-Cube Organizer with 4 Collapsible Fabric Storage Cubes.
I would like to have a couple sets of Better Homes and Gardens 400 Thread Count Egyptian Cotton Pillowcase Collection. I would pick several different colors.
Oh so many things to love, I really like the Better Homes and Gardens 16-Cube Organizer.
I have a 9×9 cube in transit to me now. 🙂 I love the totes, too. I use them everywhere. My nightstands have shelves but no drawers underneath, so I bought a couple of the totes and they fit perfectly.
I would like to try some of the bedding and I could definitely use a cube organizer!
I would like to buy the BHG 35" Slate Fire Pit so I can roast marshmallows in my backyard!Erika W.
I would buy a floor rug!
I would get the Better Homes and Gardens Grayson linen headboard with nailheads.
I need a dinnerware set so bad. Love the Better Homes and Gardens square 16 piece porcelain set. thats what I would buy.
I would like to buy the cube organizer.
Love the gold and black! I need to get more cube organizers.
I recently moved into my own apartment so I'm still in the decorating phase and I would love to buy this cube storage as well as the storage cubes! They would go great in my apartment, especially since they hold so much!
Love the colors in your office and the cubes are perfect storage!
The giveaway app won't let me comment 🙁 but i LOVE those storage cubes!
Curtains! I need curtains in my bedroom baaaaad!!!!! Haha! Thanks for the chance to win, Monica!!
I'd love to get the Better Homes and Gardens Faux Leather Storage Ottoman!
I think I would get some curtains!
Oh I would love to buy the Better Homes and Gardens 11-Cube Organizer! That would help so much with organizing!
I love the organizing products!
I like the BHG 4 cube organizer in black.
I would love the storage cubes. They are so handy to own.
I love BHG selection of organizing products. If I could I would have it all and then life would be easier because everything would then be organized. Love their shelfs and totes the most.
I like the Cheetah Print Rug.
Love these cubes – chic and serving a purpose!
The BHG collapsible fabric storage cubes would be great to have.
So many great items to choose from, love the cubes !!!
I would like to get the Better Homes and Gardens Square 4-Cube Organizer with 4 Collapsible Fabric Storage Cubes as a storage spot for my grandsons board games, etc.
I would buy the Better Homes and Gardens 8-Cube Organizer to do a bit of reorganization.
I love the look of the cubbies. My craft room could definitely use some of them!
I would love to have two of the 4-part white storage cubes to display my favorite shoes, decorative boxes and other fun and colorful decor pieces! It would be fun to have that blank space to style! Thanks for posting all your ideas!
Love the cute cube organizer! I need to pick up some of those collapsible cubes too, great price!
All that storage in such a cute spot, love it and that color palette. Another job well done!
I'll take any of them! Love that they each come with a magazine subscription.
Love all these ideas! I need a book shelf for sure in my space and I love their pillows too!
I'm in the process of redoing our home office and just bought a cube organizer, so those bins are at the top of my list.
I would buy a BHG comforter for my bed!
Could your office be any more beautiful? Ugh. Love love love. If you ever get bored and want to come to SA and give me some tips, I will give you all the coffee and catching up there is to have!
I love the baskets you have in your closet. I need a ton of those in my life.
I would get the Better Homes and Gardens Cheetah Print Rug.
i love those cubbies in the weathered finish, that just be the most perfect fit for my bedroom redesign!
I would love to get the Better Homes and Gardens Pine Creek Desk in Espresso color. I need a new computer desk!
I'd get storage, such as the Hyacinth Cube Basket.
I would like Better Homes and Gardens Ashwood Road Coffee Table.
I need new bedding, and the Better Homes and Gardens Indigo Paisley 7-Piece Bedding Comforter Set is perfect for my room! It is so pretty!
I want a couple sets of cubes for my boys! The same things you used from BHG for a home office would be perfect as toy storage for toddlers!
Want a set of cubes for toys!
I definitely want a set of cubes for storage!
I would want to buy the Better Homes and Gardens 9-Cube Storage in Espresso.
I need storage cubbies like those for my kids play room! For some reason I was under the impression that Ikea was the only one that made those. Thanks for letting me know and your office space looks amazing…that gold printer is HOTT…got to show that off! LOL!
Looks great, fabulous storage. I love a pretty workspace and this looks amazing.
Those striped totes are perfect! I adore black and white and gold! Speaking of gold… I didn't know they made gold printers! How fabulous is that?


This phone promises a lot of features in a small package but in utilizing the AT&T network it fails to deliver on them. My primary reason for purchasing this phone was for data access. I later found out that AT&T's software did not support this phone and Siemens offers no support either. AT&T told me in April it would be a month for the update, as of today 5-22-02 there is no update available. As for coverage, unless you are in a strong GSM coverage area, I would avoid this phone. The phone does not seamlessly switch between GSM and TDMA. It will not automatically switch to TDMA even when the GSM signal is too weak to complete the call. Another flaw is that voice mail and text messages do not follow from the GSM to TDMA side, in fact, callers trying to reach me from a Bellsouth land line were often routed into someone else's AT&T voice mail box instead of my private voice mail. As mentioned in an earlier post, the phone has a way of powering off without warning if it loses a signal, not an idea feature when you are expecting an important call and later find that your phone has been off. In the end I tried two Siemens phones and after 30 days I gave them back to AT&T and switched back to TDMA. None of these issues had been corrected when I returned the phone even though trouble tickets had remained open for several weeks. I find the coverage and reception to be far superior using the Motorola V60. In conclusion, I would wait at least a year until AT&T works the bugs out on this one as this phone should still be in beta tests, even the engineers are just beginning to realize the multitude of problems experienced with this new service.


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Marshal Dutton -Vocals Mark King - Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Joe "Blower" Garvey - Vocals, Guitar Mike Rodden -Bass, Vocals
Cody Hanson - Drums
Former Members: Austin Winkler (left in '13)/Nolan Neal ('14)
Nearly all '80s music trends actually started in the late '70s, including Punk and New Wave. The lone exception was Hair Metal (Motley Crue, Poison, Skid Row, Ratt, etc.). It was extremely popular and it took nothing less than Grunge to kill it. But like a phoenix (or hydra) it rose again.
'05 saw Motley Crue successfully tour the North America only slowed by surgeries and aliments usually associated with old age. In early '06, Crue was awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Well, you can't become more establishment or ancient than that. New blood was needed to carry on the wayward decadence bound and tied to the '80s. And that left the door ajar for Hinder.
The group came together shortly after the turn of the century in the hinder lands of Oklahoma City, under the "misery loves company" ethos. Personal lives were a mess and the group, especially with its smirking attitude, helped keep the pain at bay. It was sex, drugs and Rock n' Roll, not as a motto, but a lifestyle. Of course, that's hard to pull off in dusty confines of their hometown, so the idea was to get out.
Hinder built a strong regional following and went the indie route releasing "Far From Close." The CD sold over 5,000 copies which led to a major label signing. They ventured north to Vancouver's Armoury Studios to record their '06 release "Extreme Behavior," featuring lead single, "Get Stoned."
Not only is it a struggle to be successful, it's a battle to keep it rolling. A track from "Extreme Behavior," the ballad "Lips Of An Angel," managed to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 (pop chart). The song nearly didn't make it on the album, much less get released as a single. "Our label guy was like, 'Nice song, it sounds like a B-side to me,'" recalled frontman Austin Winkler. "This is not a B-side." No kidding.
Things took a comic turn when Hinder tore into OK Go for their treadmill-dancing antics at the '06 MTV Video Music Awards. "That's not f**king Rock & Roll," claimed Winkler. "They're a bunch of fairies." Just to keep the ball rolling, Hanson slammed Thursday's Geoff Rickly. "That dude has got to be the worst singer I have ever heard in my entire f**king life." Kiss goodbye any chance of a Hinder-OK Go-Thursday world tour. Later, the cameras rolled as Hinder performed live at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN. They filmed the concert for both a DVD and for a live video for their single, "How Long."
The following year, the video for Hinder's take on Steppenwolf's classic "Born To Be Wild" made its debut on NASCAR.com. The song promoted TNT's coverage of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. Next, the group showed up on Stage Z, a virtual festival that coincided with the Live Earth shows to promote positive action regarding the climate-change crisis. "We're going out there to fight the complacency and apathy people have about what's going on in the world," said Winkler. The group also was also on The Badboys of Rock tour with Buckcherry and Papa Roach.
Hinder issued "You Can't Make This S**t Up" in October, '07. This was a deluxe version of "Extreme Behavior" with concert performances, music videos and bonus tracks, including their cover of "Born To Be Wild." Speaking of which, Winkler and actress/model Jami Miller were married in late July '08. The pair met while filming the "Born To Be Wild" music video.
They released their sophomore album "Take It To The Limit" on Election Day '08 (Obama v. McCain) so that fans could "go vote and buy the . . . record," said drummer Cody Hanson. "It's such an exciting day for the rest of the country. We figured we'd give our fans something else to be excited for as well." Produced by Brian Howes, "Use Me" was the lead single.
While on tour in support of "Take It To The Limit," first as part of Motley Crue's Saints Of Los Angeles trek, then on Nickelback's Dark Horse Tour, Hinder composed songs for their third album. "We wrote 70 or so songs, recorded about 50 and cut it down to 12," Winkler explained. "It's something that we've never done before, so it's like our ultimate baby." "All-American Nightmare" dropped in '10.
Two years later, "Welcome To The Freakshow," containing the single "Save Me," was Hinder's fourth studio effort.
On a subsequent North American tour, Saving Abel's Jared Weeks did a fill-in stint for Winkler who dropped out for personal reasons. "Instead of canceling shows and leaving our die-hard fans hanging, we're going to keep the good times rolling on the road this summer," read a band statement. "We have some guests filling in to help us out and promise you won't be disappointed." Drankmore's Marshal Dutton also handled vocals for a couple of the shows.
The "Winkler" issue was resolved in '13 when Hinder announced that the singer had officially left the band. "We hold no animosity towards Austin, and wish him the best," said Hanson. "Although it was a difficult decision, it was the best thing for everyone involved and time for us to move on."
"I want to thank each and every one of you all for your love and support over the years, and especially over the last 4 months on my road to recovery," wrote Winkler a short time later. "All the messages you sent me on Twitter and Instagram really helped me get through this difficult time in my life. I'm happy to say I've been sober for 150 days."
"I'm really passionate about the new project I'm working on," continued Winkler. "I have been in the studio nonstop and can't wait to share this new music with you."
Dutton must have done a good job filling in for Winkler because Hinder recruited him after parting ways with Nolan Neal, who became the group's full-time vocalist in '14.
"Marshal has been a part of the family since 2009 when he began co-writing/producing on the "All American Nightmare album," said a band statement. "He has been a co-producer on every Hinder release since, and truly loves this band as we do."
"When The Smoke Clears" was Hinder's first album without Winkler and their debut with Dutton, who co-wrote all the songs, usually with Hanson. The '15 album was supported by summer and fall tours. On the latter trek, their bus was involved in a crash outside Cookeville, TN. Bassist Mike Rodden suffered broken ribs. But a couple of months later the group resumed the tour.
With the tour completed Hinder put out "Stripped," an 'unplugged' EP. The '16 set featured the song "Not An Addict."
Studio Albums:
2005	Extreme Behavior
2008	Take It To The Limit
2010	All American Nightmare
2012 Welcome To The Freakshow
2015 When The Smoke Clears
2016 Stripped (Acoustic EP)
Hinder populates an anti-P.C. (politically correct) world. It's still a place where you can be sexist, arrogant or "lewd with a smile" and get away with it. Sometimes it works to be all three. Winkler provides the suggestive, occasionally emotional lyrics as the group shifts through chords with admirable precision.
After going triple-platinum with their debut Hinder has absolutely no reason to leave the '80s and "Take It To The Limit" doesn't. There is even an appearance by Crue guitarist Mick Mars on the title track (what goes around, comes around).
When they crank it, Hinder, whether singing about relationships (both sweet and sour), the perils of fame or just being wild and reckless, has an unbridled exuberance. And they can deliver a hook. Even when the verses drag, lag or sag, they save the song in the chorus.
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live right. love well. — Live Right. Love Well.
That's my response when the Lord is asking me to step out and do something so totally above my pay grade. I know that what He is asking of me is for my good and my obedience is always the open door. I just need a hot minute to get my heart and mind around all this means. I need to give Him space to prepare me for what comes next.
What a great, comforting promise from the Lord Almighty. But some days, I don't wanna be strong and courageous. I wanna crawl back under the covers and be very, very not brave. Writing is a passion of mine and something I LOVE to do. When it's just me and my laptop, I am on Cloud 9. It's fabulous with a side of awesome sauce. Then there is the day that my writing goes live for all the humans to read and I instantly feel like I'm walking around without my skin on. I don't write for acceptance or approval, but I also don't love the idea of rejection on a massive scale.
So why do it? Because obedience is the price of admission to the amazing things God is doing. I can sit in the cheap seats way in the back and watch thru binoculars or I can pay up and sit front row to the healing, redemptive work He is doing in me and my people. I cannot play it safe and make a difference in the world.
Obedience. That is the heart behind Live Right Love Well. Living right means following God's design for my life. Loving well means giving all the people the same love Jesus gives me. This is the space I feel the Lord has asked me to share my journey, both the victories and the colossal failures. We're all just broken people. If you expect polish or perfection here, bye Felicia. My life is broken and beautiful and complicated and wonderful and messy. That is what you will find here.
I'm just a girl, standing in front of a mirror, asking God if He can use me. His answer for me is the same answer for you. Yes. Absolutely. There is nothing He can't and won't use. Obedience is the ticket to ride. If He can use my addiction, my financial failures, my rebellion and my horrible taste in men, He can use whatever you bring Him too. First, He shows us the reality of our mess. He gently works with us to bring healing and wholeness to the broken places. Then He makes us brave and asks us to share it so we can bring others to the same place of freedom. Come be brave with me, please. Its way more fun than being brave alone.


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When is COVID-19 Work-Related?
We believe that in Iowa, an employee will be deemed as having sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of employment if they can prove that they contracted the disease from a work exposure. The key issue for you is whether the employee was actually exposed at work, given the facts that we know about COVID-19. We know there can be a long incubation period. We know that it is prevalent throughout our community (we will have a better idea later about how many people were actually affected). We know that it is very easily transmitted and can live on surfaces for a significant amount of time. We also know that people are contagious even though they appear and feel healthy.
The key issue is whether the claimant can prove that they actually obtained the infection at work versus away from work. With COVID-19, we believe it will be scientifically impossible in most cases to determine where the exposure actually occurred. The analysis then becomes whether claimant has met his/her burden of proof to establish the injury occurred at work under circumstances where it is not possible to prove the source for an individual's disease.
The current Workers' Compensation Commissioner seems to be holding claimants to their standard of proof in these types of cases. In the past few years, he has issued several decisions denying benefits. In Douglas v. Vermeer Mfg., File No. 5062611 (App. Oct. 23, 2019), the claimant alleged an exposure to airborne particulates at work. Commissioner Cortes reversed the deputy's finding that the pulmonary condition was work-related. He acknowledged that the workplace exposure possibly caused the pulmonary symptoms, however, he acknowledged that the exposure could have just as likely occurred at church, at the grocery store, etc. Therefore, he denied benefits. In McDonald v. EZ Payroll, File No. 5043916 (App. July 27, 2017), the Commissioner again reversed a deputy's decision finding that the claimant had contracted Legionnaire's disease through contaminated water spray at work. In this case, the defendants' infectious disease specialist explained that it was impossible for the claimant to prove how or where he contracted the disease. Also, he explained that there were many non-occupational potential exposure areas. The Commissioner denied benefits.
It would appear that a mere possibility of exposure at work is not sufficient under the current Commissioner's rulings to result in a compensable exposure claim.
If you receive a claim, we think it is very important that you evaluate two different things. First, why the claimant thinks he/she was exposed at work. It is important for you to evaluate all additional potential sources of exposure during the two weeks before claimant became sick. Second, ask them about personal contacts, people they have visited, whether they picked up prescriptions, groceries, had their car repaired, etc. We would suggest that you take a statement and talk with them about each and every person they came into contact within the days leading up to them feeling sick, all places they've traveled to, and all surfaces they've touched.


It's the time of year we prepare for our Victorian tea party at Old Timers Cabin to celebrate Mother's Day and support a cause. This year sales from the tickets will benefit The Rainbow Society of Alberta, a charity that grants wishes for children in Alberta diagnosed with a severe chronic or life-threatening medical illness.
The event will include high tea service and a Victorian setup for souvenir family photos. Each participant will receive their photo through email. Last year we had the pleasure of hosting a full house tea party that we all enjoyed and remember through beautiful photos. View the our gallery to get inspired.
The tickets cab be purchased through our Square store. The poster below has details. If you have any inquiries, call us at780-465-2139.
We look forward to this event every year and hope to see you there!


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HotS Hero E.T.C. :: Heroes of the Storm E.T.C. stats and strategy.
5099 Enoch The fact he's banned so often in ESL games at the moment should say a lot. He's one of the best tanks in the game, hell maybe just overall best characters. Absurdely high life, a gap closer that stuns, an AOE, a self regen, and either an AOE stun/root that lasts for en eternity or the ability to go anywhere on the map. He's like Shen on steroids. lol A Rock god.
I will always get Mosh Pit.
83 UnknownPandr [quote][i]Forces enemies to dance.[/i][/quote] I will always get Mosh Pit.
So much CC. It's obvious this is Blizzard's persona of being trolls.
78 MadDanny So much CC. It's obvious this is Blizzard's persona of being trolls.


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Q: Question related to toplogical sorting Now the question is related to online banking. It states that like in online banking for security banks never ask the whole password but instead they may ask for 3 random numbers in their password.
For example if the password is 52842 and the bank asks for the $1^{st}, 2^{nd}$ and $4^{th}$ number one has to enter 524. Now the bank can ask for any 3 random numbers but they will always be in order.
So if one enters 743. Then 7 comes before in the password. Then comes 4 and then 3.
Now one is given about 50 3 digits numbers and one has to come up with an algorithm that analyses the file and determine the shortest possible password.
Now I just analysed the file and through brute force was able to come with the shortest password in under 5 minutes.
Now they've given a hint alongside the question: "The problem can be set up as a topological sorting problem if you can construct the appropriate DAG." I don't know how to do this method through the method mentioned in the hint and write the specific algorithm for it.

A: Assuming that the valid characters are the ten digits, set up a $10\times10$ array $G$. Read the list of $3$-digit numbers; when you read $ijk$, set $G(i,j),G(i,k)$, and $G(j,k)$ to $1$. When you're done, $G$ is the adjacency matrix of a transitive DAG in which there is an edge from $i$ to $j$ if and only if $i$ must precede $j$ in the password. Now apply any topological sorting algorithm to this graph; the first one described here is simple and easy to understand.


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"Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxim 39, trans. Stopp Variant translation: A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe79
escritor alemão 1749 - 1832
"He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship…"
— Mary Renault English novelist 1905 - 1983
Phaedrus as translated in the novel, p. 104
"... even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see."
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
"Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images."
— Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker 1889 - 1963
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 159
"Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link."
— Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
"Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face."
— Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
"Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks."
— Oscar Wilde, Salomé
"Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror."
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
Context: Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror. For the first is something in itself, and the other nothingness. — Folks little indebted to Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herds of beasts.
"Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists."
— Wendell Berry author 1934
"There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal."
— Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012
"A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles", in Rhodomagnetic Digest (May 1950)
"The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind … is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. … That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial."
— John Carroll Australian professor and author 1944
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
"It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly"
— Anish Kapoor British contemporary artist of Indian birth 1954
On his Tall Tree And The Eye bubbled towards the heavens in the courtyard of The Royal Academy of Arts in London. Quoted in "Anish Kapoor Opens the Door:Modern Artist Creates Monuments that Transcend Space & Time."
"When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror — for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us — the dignity of man."
— Harold Pinter playwright from England 1930 - 2008
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
"It will then be a state of enlightened anarchy in which each person will become his own ruler. He will conduct himself in such a way that his behaviour will not hamper the well-being of his neighbours."
— Махатма Ганди pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948
Context: Political power, in my opinion, cannot be our ultimate aim. It is one of the means used by men for their all-round advancement. The power to control national life through national representatives is called political power. Representatives will become unnecessary if the national life becomes so perfect as to be self-controlled. It will then be a state of enlightened anarchy in which each person will become his own ruler. He will conduct himself in such a way that his behaviour will not hamper the well-being of his neighbours. In an ideal State there will be no political institution and therefore no political power. That is why Thoreau has said in his classic statement that "that government is the best which governs the least". [From Hindi] Sarvodaya, January, 1939 The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi "Enlightened Anarchy - A Political Ideal" Volume 74 p. 380.
"We have a good image among the population - we should distinguish between voting and image, not everyone who appreciate us actually votes for us."
— Raid Jahid Fahmi Iraqi politician 1950