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2061. Beavers: A Potential Missing Link in California's Water Future
By Alastair Bland, Water Deeply, October 16, 2015
A beaver adds a stick to its lodge on Tolucay Creek in Napa, Calif., on July 23, 2015. Photo: Rusty Cohn.
On California's central coast, a region that usually receives drenching rainfall or fog for most of the year, some forests are now as arid as a desert. Streams that once ran at least at a trickle through summer have vanished in the ongoing drought, and environmentalists and fishermen fear that local salmon will disappear if climate conditions don't improve.
The landscape desperately needs rain.
It could also use beavers, according to ecologists who say the near eradication of Castor canadensis from parts of the West in the 19th century has magnified the effects of California's worst dry spell in history.
"Beavers create shock absorption against drought," says Brock Dolman, a scientist in Sonoma County who wants to repopulate coastal California with the big lumberjacking rodents.
Beavers are a hated pest and a nuisance in the eyes of many landowners and developers, and the animals are regularly killed with depredation permits and by fur trappers. However, they are also a keystone species whose participation in the ecosystem creates benefits for almost all other flora and fauna, Dolman says. This is because of the way beavers' hydro-engineering work affects the movement of water.
"Beavers aren't actually creating more water, but they are altering how it flows, which creates benefits through the ecosystem," says Michael Pollock, an ecosystems analyst and beaver specialist at the National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Science Center.
A beaver snacks on a leaf in front of its pond on Tolucay Creek in Napa, Calif., on Oct. 4, 2015. Photo: Rusty Cohn.
By gnawing down trees and building dams, beavers create small reservoirs. What follows, scientists say, is a series of trickle-down benefits: The water that might otherwise have raced downstream to the sea, tearing apart creek gullies and washing away fish, instead gets holed up for months behind the jumbles of twigs and branches. In this cool, calm water, fish — like juvenile salmon — thrive.
Meanwhile, the water percolates slowly into the ground, recharging near-surface aquifers and keeping soils hydrated through the dry season. Entire streamside meadows, Dolman says, may remain green all summer if beavers are at work nearby. Downstream of a beaver pond, some of the percolated water may eventually resurface, helping keep small streams flowing and fish alive.
Dolman, co-founder of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center in Sonoma County, says this water banking process could even, in theory, partially offset the worrying shrinkage of mountain snowpack, historically California's most important water source.
Dolman and his colleague Kate Lundquist, who are leading their organization's "Bring Back the Beaver Campaign," would like reintroduction of beavers from other regions to begin now as a measure for restoring salmon populations and building general drought resilience into the landscape.
In Oregon, something along these lines is happening. Here, a newly proposed Coho recovery plan would make it illegal to kill or harm beavers within the geographical range of the imperiled fish.
But in California, there is a problem: Government biologists aren't entirely sold on the virtues of beavers. Kevin Shaffer, a fisheries biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, believes that beavers can have benefits for a watershed that is temporarily deprived of rainfall. Eventually, though, even beavers cannot cancel out the effects of long-term drought or climate change.
"As the drought gets worse, their ponds will dry up and the animals will just move somewhere else," he says. "They won't stay because there is no more water."
Shaffer adds that introducing beavers into an environment that has been seriously stressed by drought may benefit nothing — not fish, not plant life and not the beavers themselves.
Releasing beavers can also create conflicts with people, especially in heavily populated watersheds like the Russian River, just north of San Francisco.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife classifies beavers as a "nuisance" species. That's because, Shaffer explains, the animals' activity can have direct negative impacts on people. Dams can inundate properties, and falling trees could potentially land in roadways.
In spite of agency uncertainty, the benefits of beavers on a landscape are considered fact by scientists in California's North Coast region. Sarah Beesley, a fisheries biologist with the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program, has been running a habitat restoration effort on the lower Klamath River system, where a small beaver population currently resides. Her goal is to increase the presence of year-round water, especially in slow-moving wetlands, by building stick dams that closely mimic those built by beavers. In the future, her project hopes to reintroduce beavers themselves to streams that the animals don't frequent.
In several stream systems in the region, says Beesley, the only places where salmon — especially endangered Coho — have survived after four years of below-average rainfall are beaver ponds.
"Wetland features, whether built by people or by beavers, are definitely what's getting the salmon here through the drought," says Beesley.
Beavers still live in the Klamath drainage system. They also occur, among other places, in the Central Valley, near the Mexican border and in parts of the Sierra Nevada.
A beaver eats the bark off a twig at its pond on Tulocay Creek in Napa, Calif. on May 12, 2014. Photo: Rusty Cohn.
However, there is ongoing debate about where beavers historically lived — a debate that could hinder progress in any reintroduction campaign.
Dolman and Lundquist contributed to a report published in 2013 in the journal California Fish and Game that revealed evidence of beavers having inhabited regions of coastal California where they don't live today. The evidence included beaver remains and accounts from early explorers. Similar literature has been produced making the case that beavers lived throughout the Sierra Nevada. As a prelude to reintroducing the animals, they hope to establish as fact that beavers once played key ecological roles in many watersheds.
Beaver reintroduction has seen success in Washington, where the Methow Conservancy has identified beavers as a valuable tool for restoring damaged watersheds. The organization has participated in relocating more than 300 beavers into the headwaters of the Methow River system, which feeds the Columbia River.
Heide Andersen, stewardship director at the conservancy, believes the ongoing decline of salmon on the West Coast began partly as a result of losing beavers.
"Beavers impact almost every aspect of the watershed," says Andersen. "They lower stream temperatures, retain sediment, create refuge for fish, and create groundwater percolation that reappears downstream later in the year. When beavers disappeared, streams became channelized, we lost our flows earlier in the summer, and temperatures went up."
While rain is sorely needed throughout California, the absence of beaver infrastructure could make the landscape less able to rebound should a more generous hydrological period resume. Dolman explains that, without woody debris in the creek gullies to slow water down, the land has less opportunity to soak it up when rain does fall. The result is raging floods in the winter and, once summer comes, a watershed that rapidly goes dry again.
"Losing beavers is a double whammy for a watershed," Dolman explains. "You get exacerbated flooding, erosion and sediment, and reduced groundwater recharge, in the winter. Then, in the summer, you have land that dries up faster because you didn't get that winter recharge. We've created a landscape much less resilient to drought."
Alastair Bland is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He can be reached at allybland79@gmail.com or via Twitter at @allybland.
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Labels: Beavers, California drought, Ecocentrism, Water management
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Veteran-run Rumi Spice lands Mark Cuban investment on 'Shark Tank'
By Cheryl V. Jackson
Rumi Spice co-founders Emily Miller, pictured, and Kimberly Jung appeared on ABC's "Shark Tank." (Michael Desmond / ABC)
Rumi Spice, a saffron import company founded by U.S. Army veterans, got a $250,000 investment from tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban on "Shark Tank" Friday night.
Cuban will get 15 percent of the Chicago startup, which partners with Afghan farmers to produce, process and distribute saffron internationally. Co-founders Kimberly Jung, Emily Miller and Keith Alaniz asked the sharks for that amount, but only offered a 5 percent stake at first.
On the show, the founders told of their roles in Afghanistan: Miller supported live operations on night raids, Jung was a platoon leader looking for bombs, and Alaniz was an Afghan regional expert working with tribal elders.
A fourth partner, San Francisco-based Carol Wang, was not at the taping of the show, which happened last September.
The founders had a couple of items made with the spice on hand, including a new gummy-like item called the saffron gem. Each of the five sharks was given a two-gram bottle of the spice while the team schooled the panel.
On the show, Jung said Rumi Spice would have $400,000 in sales for 2016 and $750,000 for 2017. That's since been revised to $500,000 for 2016; they're expecting more than $1 million in 2017.
One gram of saffron, which they said takes about 150 hours to make, retails for $18. The company charges restaurants $140 per ounce. It's expensive because no automation is involved in processing the spice, Jung said.
Daymond John was the first shark to bow out, saying the market for the product would be limited because of the high price.
Lori Greiner was impressed with Jung and Miller having attended West Point and Harvard Business School together, but took a pass on investing because she doesn't like saffron.
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"I think your mission is good. I think it's going to be impactful beyond your product," Cuban told the Rumi Spice team.
"Striking a deal with Mark Cuban is a game-changer for the women in Afghanistan who work for us, the farmers in Afghanistan," Miller said. "Now we're going to have the ability to scale and bring our brand to all the consumers in America."
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Q: Configuring ODBC connection to Postgres I am tasked with converting a very old Postges/PERL website to SQL Server /C#.
I have installed a current version of Postgres on my desktop and have imported most of the data from the old database (cut and paste).
Now I am trying to connect to that database using Visual Studio 2008/C#.
I have downloaded both 32 and 64 bit psqlODBC Postgres drivers. I can successfully create and test a user DSN using the 64 bit drivers, but I get an error in my C# code when I try to create the ODBC connection ("Unable to find an entry point named 'InterlockedIncrement' in DLL 'kernel32.dll'").
I have tried to install and use the 32 bit drivers, but I cannot create a DSN - they don't show up in the driver list, so I am a bit stuck.

A: If all you have to do is to convert that PostgreSQL database to other db engine then you can export whole PostgreSQL database to text using pg_dump. There is possibility to export schema only, and then you can export data from interesting tables. They may be exported as INSERT ... statements or as COPY format similar to CSV. If you will go this way no ODBC is required.

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Lately, I've been working on a project compiling a list of all the active military spouse blogs on the internet. What this means is that I've spent many hours looking at blogs.
Hundreds and hundreds of blogs.
For the most part, it's great seeing and reading what military spouses all around the world are posting. But dozens of the URLs I've clicked on, many for blogs whose very names were about the writer being in love with someone in the military, had final posts that said something like this: "I won't be posting here anymore because we've decided to get divorced."
So, trigger warning: This column is about divorce.
Having written online about marriage for nearly a decade, I know that some of you are going to hate what I have to say. I know that many of you will think, That could never happen to me.
And then you will mentally scroll through all the reasons why you think it could never happen to you. And that's absolutely fine. In fact, that's great.
It would be horrible if you thought it could happen to you. If your marriage is strong, you're happy, your spouse seems happy, and life seems good, you shouldn't be sitting around waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Between one-third and one-half of all American marriages will end in divorce. The divorce rate is roughly the same for military couples, by the way, which is an encouraging improvement from a few years ago.
Still, that means that one-third or more of the Must-Have Parents reading this column, who have made a choice to take on a larger share of parenting responsibilities in order to support their spouse's demanding career, will not stay married to that spouse.
And that means that one-third to one-half of the people reading this column will have to support their own household after months or years of putting their career on pause.
People get divorced for all kinds of reasons -- and sometimes those reasons are very good ones. I'm not going to opine on divorce here, but I will opine on preparedness.
When we talk about the so-called wage gap in America -- how American women typically earn less than men doing the same job -- a frequently cited reason for the gap is that women are more likely to accept less demanding jobs or to step off the career path entirely in order to raise children.
And it's not just women. Studies in Norway (where paternity leave is common) have shown that men who take just four months off from work in order to spend time with an infant see their earnings drop for at least the next five years.
Becoming an MHP puts you in a vulnerable earning and career development position. There's just no way around that. Your former peers will be advancing while you are parenting. For many reading this, people who don't plan on ever being the primary wage earner in their home again, that may not matter.
But life doesn't always, or even often, happen according to plan.
So, while you're MHPing, look for freelance opportunities in your field. Not only will these earn you some money and help you stay current, they'll give you something to put on your resume.
If yours is not a field where freelancing is possible, look for volunteer opportunities in your field.
That last part is vital. Volunteering is great. Volunteering is awesome. Volunteers make the world a much better place. But you aren't likely to reap much personal benefit (aside from feeling great about your efforts) if you aren't doing volunteer work that is related to your career field.
Volunteering in your field, however, will expose you to current trends and developments, and you'll get networking opportunities with people who may someday hire you, refer you, or write a reference for you.
To put an even finer point on it, it's wonderful to help out at your kids' school, but that volunteer experience is likely to help you land a job only if your desired job is in education.
It's great to volunteer at your church, or to pick up litter, or feed the homeless -- and please, continue doing all of those things! -- but if those specific areas aren't related to a field you want to work in, you should carve out additional time to donate to causes related to your profession.
It's important for everyone to have options.
If your MHP status means that you've left the full-time workforce, it's important -- essential even -- for you to stay connected to what is happening in your field.
Technology changes fast. If you aren't up to speed on the current software and developments, you'll find it extremely difficult to jump back into work when you want or need to work again.


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Dystopia Week
The Gradual Collapse of a Society: A Review of Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
Stefan Raets
Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:00pm 9 comments 1 Favorite [+]
Jasper and his tribe of formerly middle class Americans describe themselves as nomadic rather than homeless: they travel around the Southeastern U.S., scraping together the bare minimum to survive by spreading out solar blankets or placing small windmills by the highway to collect energy from passing cars, then trading the filled fuel cells for food. Fewer and fewer people want to deal with the "gypsies" who use up dwindling resources, and often they meet with indifference or even violence. Jasper was a sociology major, but those skills are no longer in demand in 2023, about ten years after an economic depression set off the Great Decline and society as we know it gradually began to fall apart. So begins Will McIntosh's excellent debut novel, Soft Apocalypse.
One of the most interesting aspects of Soft Apocalypse, and something I've rarely seen done so well in a dystopian novel, is the fact that it shows society in the early stages of dissolution. Many post-apocalyptic stories show a finished end product, an established dystopia in which the Earth has already been torn apart and people are trying to survive the aftermath. Other stories show the events right before and during the actual earthquake/meteor strike/plague, with people trying to make it through the disaster as it happens. Soft Apocalypse instead happens during a period of gradual but inexorable decline: as the back cover says, the world ends "with a whimper instead of a bang." If Robert Charles Wilson's excellent Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd America is set in post-collapse U.S.A., when enough time has passed for society to fall back into established structures and classes, Soft Apocalypse could almost be set in the same world, but a couple of centuries earlier and during the gradual collapse of the previous system.
"Gradual" is the key here: Soft Apocalypse shows normal people clinging to the shreds of life as they knew it, while things slowly go from bad to worse. Many still hope that the economy will pick up and life will go back to what it used to be. Even though the streets are filled with homeless people and unemployment stands at 40%, others can still drive a car to work. Walmart still operates its stores, even if they raise prices to extortion-like levels whenever there are reports of a new attack or designer virus. When they can afford the electricity, people still watch cable news to find out about wars and disasters abroad, and even if there's a developing pattern of widespread war, it's all distant enough to seem unreal—until it starts getting closer and closer.
Soft Apocalypse consists of ten chapters and covers about ten years, with anywhere from a few years to a few months passing between chapters. Jasper narrates the story in the first person, dividing his attention between his struggle for survival in the slowly disintegrating society and his attempts to find love—because even during a slow apocalypse, people still crave romance, improvising dates and respecting the social niceties. When it comes to his love life, Jasper sometimes reminded me of a less music-obsessed version of High Fidelity's Rob Gordon: a generally nice, sensitive and intelligent guy who isn't aware of how clueless he occasionally acts when it comes to women. Throughout the novel, Jasper tries to find love while doing his best to survive the dangers of the collapsing society around him.
Negatives? Very few, if any, and definitely all qualified with a solid "but." Early on, the novel feels more like a collection of connected short stories because so much time passes between the chapters, but Jasper and a well-drawn cast of side-characters pull everything together until a plot emerges, and even before that happens, the story is hard to put down because of the gorgeous but bleak descriptions of life during societal collapse. Also, "bleak" may be too mild a term for some of the horrors that Jasper and his friends encounter: there were a few times I just didn't expect Will McIntosh to push things that far, but at the same time, you have to admire him for not shying away from scenes that would surely be cut from the Hollywood version. The plot sometimes seems driven by random, often violent events, but then again, life in this novel's environment would probably be full of random, violent events. More importantly, even though it may not seem that way early on, all of them have a meaningful impact on Jasper's personality, leading to an ambivalent ending that I'm still coming to terms with.
Soft Apocalypse, while not perfect, is a great achievement for a debut. It took me by surprise early on and never let go. It's a short, effective dystopian novel that should go down well with people who enjoyed the aforementioned Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd America by Robert Charles Wilson or even The Rift by Walter Jon Williams. (Maybe not coincidentally, Will McIntosh participated in Williams' Taos ToolBox workshop in 2008.) The real sadness of Soft Apocalypse is seeing normal people operating under the illusion that life will still go back to what it used to be. They try to hold down a job or complete a post-grad degree, and even though the world falls apart around them, the changes are too gradual for them to lose hope completely. It's like watching rats in a maze, unaware that their paths are slowly being closed off around them and the maze is starting to catch fire at the edges. A soft apocalypse, indeed.
Stefan Raets is a reviewer and editor for Fantasy Literature.
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using TowerDefence.Mediator;

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        public StrongBeast(float speed, int hitPoints, double moveDelayMilis, IMinionDamageControl minionDamageControl = null) : base(speed, hitPoints, moveDelayMilis,
            minionDamageControl ?? MinionDamageControlManager.MinionDamageControl)
        {
            Health = 100;
            Name = nameof(StrongBeast);
            GameObjectType = GameObjectTypeFactoryProvider.GetGameObjectType("beast");
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        public override void DrawSelf(Graphics gfx, Pen pen) {
            PointF a = new PointF(Center.X - (Width / 2), Center.Y - Height / 2);
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            GameObjectType.Draw(gfx, (int)(a1.X), (int)(a1.Y), Width, Height);

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Apprentice Basinger sat expectantly, wondering with intense anticipation what Grandmaster Wolf would ask him. Entrance into the Masonic Order wasn't guaranteed, and Basinger knew that it would require more than just a sunny smile and a charming personality. Basinger had always pushed himself to be the best, wanting to be seen as capable and reliable especially by his older mentors. He knew the Masons offered him a chance to prove himself and be accepted into a larger fraternity of men much like himself. Of course, like anything else, he did his best to prepare for the challenge and come with a strong, confident presentation. But once he saw Grandmaster Wolf, his fortitude was shaken. The tall, handsome older man stood a solid foot taller than the young initiate. He had a stern yet not unwelcoming appearance, reinforced by the fine white suit he wore. He was practically like an archangel, delivering a message of warning and caution. Basinger felt he should tread lightly, not wanting to disappoint his interviewer, but deep down, he found himself distracted by the way he looked at him. The questions started simple at first. Information about school and sports and activities fell out of Basinger's mouth like they were pre-recorded deep in his lungs, set to auto-response from a lifetime of regurgitating the facts and details of what made him stand out amongst his peers. But what struck Basinger strange, setting him off his routine, was when Grandmaster Wolf began to ask him about his sexuality. The older man didn't come out directly and ask him if he was gay, but he hinted at the idea by asking if he'd ever been attracted to men. Basinger felt like this was a trap, one he had to avoid at all costs in order to get what he wanted. He denied any such feelings, knowing full well that he was in that very moment trying to suppress his arousal to the questioner. Grandmaster Wolf was no fool, however. He knew that Basinger was hiding something. He could see the subtle ways in which Basinger would steal glances at his body, eyeing the space between his thighs, even parting his lips ever so slightly as if in thought about what that spot concealed. Wolf knew he had to put Basinger to the test. He told him to remove his clothes, leaving just his sheer, white underwear on. Basinger was confused and reluctant at first, but Wolf's words were delivered with such authority, Basinger was compelled to comply. And of course, Basinger was unexpectedly happy to do so. Wolf could see that Basinger was sporting a pretty substantial member beneath his sheer underwear. The thin white fabric draped delicately over an impressive size of manhood sprouting upward. Apprentice Basinger didn't know what to do, knowing that any objection could put his position in the order in jeopardy. So he went along with Grandmaster Wolf's instructions, answering his questions and sitting still in patience. When Grandmaster Wolf tied the young man's hands behind his back, Basinger knew the interview was taking a direction he had not prepared for. He'd heard rumors of the crazy various rituals and ceremonies the Masons performed, but he didn't think they were still in practice. He had imagined a number of archaic formalities would have been lost to modernization, keeping the organization more aligned with occupational pursuits and tradecraft. But as Basinger's assumptions began to shatter, he saw a dark spot appear on the cloth covering his cock. It was a small, wet droplet forming against the white material of the underwear. Precum. Basinger was leaking precum onto his shorts, stimulated and aroused by the intimate way Grandmaster Wolf tied him to the chair, keeping him in place. Basinger was confused and alarmed, but no more so than when Grandmaster Wolf placed the tip of his long, powerful finger down on the spot, catching the liquid on his skin and gently pulling it away in a silky, thin string. Apprentice Basinger didn't know if Wolf would cast him out for that, but then, to his complete shock, Basinger watched as Grandmaster Wolf took the tip of his wetted finger and placed it in his mouth. The boy trembled, not knowing what the older man was capable of, but finding himself unquestionably desperate to find out...
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José Miguel Echavarri García (born 10 October 1947 in Abárzuza) is a Spanish former racing cyclist who was the team manager for  from its inception in 1980 as Reynolds until 2008 as Caisse d'Epargne.

Major results
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1970
 8th Clásica de Sabiñánigo
 10th Grand Prix Navarre

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1947 births
Living people
Spanish male cyclists
Movistar Team (men's team)
People from Estella Oriental
Cyclists from Navarre
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Billesdon Brook (right) scores a surprise victory in last year's 1000 Guineas.
Our expert takes a look through the ante-post betting for first fillies' Classic of the season and provides readers with his tips for Newmarket on Sunday 5th May.
Guineas weekend comes to a close in dramatic fashion on Sunday afternoon, as a field of the finest fillies in the sport line up in the second Classic of the 2019 campaign. The list of previous winners of the 1000 Guineas reads like a who's who of British flat racing - with greats like Pretty Polly, Sweet Solera, Oh So Sharp and Minding adorning the incredible roll of honour. Our expert has taken a look through the ante-post betting for this year's renewal to find his best bets.
The strangle-hold Ireland have on the 2019 1000 Guineas is evident when you look at the British contenders sitting closest to the head of the market. Ralph Beckett's Dancing Vega (14/1 William Hill) carries the shortest odds of any of the home contingent, despite the fact she only ran once during her juvenile season.
That solitary outing may have been an impressive one, with Dancing Vega sauntered to a simple victory in an eight-furlong maiden at Doncaster. Her performance in this weekend's Fred Darling Stakes will decide whether she enters the Guineas or not. Whatever happens, however, it's clear Dancing Vega has the quality to contend for major honours when she eventually steps up in class.
Pretty Pollyanna (20/1 Betfair) sat happily atop the ante-post betting for the Guineas last summer, following back-to-back triumphs in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes and the Group One Prix Morny over in Deauville. Results drifted towards the end of the season, with Michael Bell's filly losing out in the Cheveley Park Stakes and the Fillies' Mile, but Pretty Pollyanna still had an exceptional two-year-old season and shouldn't be written off in 2019.
Like Dancing Vega, Fashion's Star (20/1 Paddy Power) only appeared once in 2018, comfortably winning a 10k prize over seven furlongs at Newbury. This daughter of Sea The Stars is entered in the Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket next week and it will be after that Grade Three when Roger Charlton decides whether Fashion's Star is ready for the Guineas.
Pretty Pollyanna destroying her rivals in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes.
The news that Patrick Prendergast was to surrender his training license and join forces with two-time Derby winner, John Oxx was a big talking point in Ireland over the summer. Skitter Scatter (10/1 Coral) is one of those now stationed in the former trainer of Sea The Star's stable and Oxx will be an integral cog in her Guineas preparations.
Skitter Scatter progressed beautifully in 2018 - beating Sergei Prokofiev over five furlongs on her second start, before beating Lady Kaya to the Moyglare Stud Stakes on her seventh and final outing of the season. Skitter Scatter brings some of the best form figures with her to Newmarket and seeing out the extra furlong should be no trouble for this four-time Group race winner.
As with practically every major race on the level, Aidan O'Brien is the name to be feared in the 1000 Guineas. While it's often very difficult to get a handle on which of the Ballydoyle entrants is the best, Just Wonderful (10/1 William Hill) has been touted as O'Brien's leading hope on the Classic front this term and the Shadwell Rockfel Stakes winner has valuable course form in the bag.
So does stablemate Fairyland (12/1 Betfair), who successfully held off The Mackem Bullet in a trilling finish to the Cheveley Park Stakes. Fairyland lost just one of her five appearances as a two-year-old, ending the season with two Group race victories and she looks to have the right blend of strength and speed to succeed over a mile.
Skitter Scatter (left) romps home to win the Moyglare Stud Stakes.
The first Guineas Trial of the season went the way of Lady Kaya, who saw off a handful of Guineas entrants in convincing fashion at Leopardstown. Sheila Lavery sent her stable star over to Newmarket for the Cheveley Park and she would be a big danger were she to make the trip once again. Lady Kaya's current lengthy odds, however, suggest the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh will be her primary target.
So Perfect is the only Ballydoyle resident entered into this Saturday's Fred Darling Stakes and she's a horse I followed with intrigue last term. In a recent stable tour, O'Brien said So Perfect isn't a guaranteed stayer over a mile and the big sprints will be on her agenda during the first half of the campaign, so I'd be surprised if she turned up at Newmarket – unless she demolishes the field at Newbury.
In the very same stable tour, O'Brien spoke in glowing terms of Pink Dogwood and he feels this daughter of Camelot could challenge for Classics this term. The master of Ballydoyle seems to have the Oaks in mind for Pink Dogwood, making an outing over eight furlongs in the Guineas highly unlikely.
Just Wonderful (left) cruising to Shadwell Rockfel Stakes glory.
Hermosa (20/1 Coral) is another who will thrive over trips further than a mile, but she could be an integral part of Aidan O'Brien's Guineas team. The Galileo filly impressed with her consistency last season, winning two of her seven starts, with three placed efforts in Group Ones to her name. Hermosa was positioned perfectly to challenge in the Fillies' Mile before fading in the final furlong, but she will return to Newmarket a year older and a year stronger.
After a smart maiden victory over Zagitova and a Group Three triumph at Goodwood, Antonia De Vega (33/1 Ladbrokes) was a fancied 5/1 shot heading into the Fillies' Mile. As soon as the gates were flung open, however, it was clear Ralph Beckett's filly wasn't on a going day and Harry Bentley was easing his mount down well before the line. The style of her victory at Goodwood suggests Antonia De Vega will get further than eight furlongs and she's got the ability in her to contend for major honours.
Star Terms (40/1 Paddy Power) could be included in the final section of this piece, as her current odds do not currently reflect the form Richard Hannon's filly produced as a juvenile. Star Terms was good value for her narrow victory in a handicap here at Newmarket during the summer and she was able to transfer that form into Grouped races, following Fleeting home in the May Hill Stakes before losing out in the Prix Marcel Boussac. A mile may be a little on the short side for this improving sort, but Star Terms is one to side with moving forwards.
Star Terms (second left) finishing a close second to Fleeting (centre, blue) in the May Hill Stakes.
Iridessa (16/1 Betfair) may have fallen to a comfortable defeat behind Lady Kaya on her reappearance, but Joseph O'Brien's filly shaped with plenty of promise and shouldn't be written off after just one run. Wayne Lordan's mount was an unfancied 14/1 shot heading in last year's Fillies' Mile, before cruising to a surprise victory. Iridessa carried herself like a classy horse that day and the O'Brien team are confident she will come on from that unsuccessful return.
Dandhu (20/1 William Hill) progressed with each of her runs last season, claiming a maiden victory at the third attempt on the all-weather at Kempton. Few expected David Elsworth's filly to make an impact in the Shadwell Rockfel Stakes in the autumn, but the daughter of Dandy Man crossed the line closest to Just Wonderful and more improvement is expected during 2019.
East (20/1 Ladbrokes) carried an unbeaten record into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf, having secured two comfortable wins at Hamilton and Saint-Cloud. Newspaperofrecord was in imperious form on the day but, despite landing a horrible wide draw, Jamie Spencer's mount made up stacks of ground late on to finish a seven-length runner-up. A turning track like Ascot or Goodwood may suit better, but East is not a challenger to be overlooked.
Main Edition (right) flying home to win the Albany Stakes.
Despite having much better form than many of the horses ahead of her in the market, Main Edition (33/1 Paddy Power) sits on a huge price with practically every bookmaker. Mark Johnston's filly won the Albany at Royal Ascot and carried a penalty to victory in the Sweet Solera Stakes. Convincing defeats may have followed in the Moyglare Stud and the Shadwell Rockfel, but there's plenty of reason to suggest Main Edition will step up to a mile comfortably and she did her best work during the first half of the season last year.
Mot Juste (33/1 Ladbrokes) heads the betting for next week's Nell Gwyn Stakes, so I'm surprised to see Roger Varian's filly sitting at such long odds for the Guineas. The Distorted Humour filly romped to victory from an unfavourable draw in a maiden at Beverley and upset Angel's Hideaway to win the Oh So Sharp Stakes at odds of 12/1. That course form could prove pivotal over the coming days and weeks.
No runner of Aidan O'Brien's can be written off in a Classic and Fleeting (66/1 Betfair) looks highly likely to be part of Ballydoyle's Guineas squad. Stepping up to a mile really suited Fleeting at the end of last season, with a third-place finish behind Just Wonderful at the Curragh and a victory over Star Terms at Doncaster putting the Zoffany filly in a lovely position heading into the new season.
Fairyland surging to victory in the Cheveley Park Stakes.
Skitter Scatter could be the best of the Irish battalion on last season's form. I do fear, however, that connections may chose to swerve a return to Newmarket, where she didn't run particularly well in the Cheveley Park, in favour of a tilt at the Irish 1000 Guineas instead.
Iridessa (centre) bursts through to beat Hermosa (left) and Pretty Pollyanna (right) in the Fillies' Mile.
Main Edition is considerably overpriced in the current betting and could run well in the Guineas, even if she's beaten this weekend – something Billesdon Brook did 12 months ago. To see last year's Top European Filly, Pretty Pollyanna sitting at 20/1 is a surprise and she offers plenty of value. I'm still a little doubtful whether she truly stays a mile, so I'm going to go with a proven stayer in IRIDESSA for my second selection.
I was really impressed with the style in which Iridessa put the Fillies' Mile to bed back in the autumn. Wayne Lordon tracked Pretty Pollyanna for much of the contest, before making her moveas the runners came out of the dip. Iridessa had to muscle her way into contention, but once she pierced a gap between the leaders, the result was never in doubt, with Iridessa pulling clear of Hermosa to win rather comfortably.
Yes, she suffered defeat on her reappearance, but there was no shame in losing out to a speedy sort in Lady Kaya, especially over a seven-furlong trip which was clearly a little stiff. Returning to a mile will definitely suit and Iridessa has some valuable course form to fall back on. She will be my big each-way ante-post punt!
Our expert takes a look through the ante-post betting for first fillies' Classic of the season and provides readers with his tips for Newmarket on Sunday 5th March.


Walter Brennan was one of Hollywood's most memorable Hollywood character actors.
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KFC has arrived in Côte d'Ivoire, opening its first outlet in Abidjan during April. Meanwhile, another subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Pizza Hut, has entered the Tanzanian market, opening a restaurant in Dar Es Salaam.
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Story Behind the Song: Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name'
Before they rocked stadiums, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were writing future classics in Sambora's parents' basement. Desmond Child was there.
Story Behind the Song: Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name' Before they rocked stadiums, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were writing future classics in Sambora's parents' basement. Desmond Child was there. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/story-behind-the-song/2019/06/14/bon-jovi-you-give-love-bad-name-story-behind-song-desmond-child-jon-bon-jovi-richie-sambora/1413417001/
Dave Paulson, Nashville Tennessean Published 10:00 a.m. CT June 14, 2019 | Updated 1:58 p.m. CT June 24, 2019
Before they were rocking stadiums, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were writing future rock classics in Sambora's parents' basement — in a house that sat at the end of a cul-de-sac, next to a "brown, deadly looking marsh."
That's the scene songwriter Desmond Child walked into when he met up with Bon Jovi and Sambora to try to write a hit. He had a killer title in his back pocket: "You Give Love a Bad Name."
Inspiration struck fast, and soon the three had created what would become the band's first chart-topping hit in 1986. Child recalled the "Story Behind the Song" in a conversation with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Bart Herbison: We'll talk about this song in just a second, but we did a previous episode of the "Story Behind the Song" with your first mega hit that you wrote with KISS from Paul Stanley, "I Was Made for Loving You." Now, "You Give Love a Bad Name," how did that happen? It had something to do with the other song.
Bon Jovi was opening for KISS, in Europe. They were a young band, and Paul (Stanley, KISS frontman) was very nice and suggested that Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora co-write with me. So, I get the call and I go out to New Jersey to Richie Sambora's house where he lived with his parents.
BH: Yeah, his parents' house in the basement.
DC: Well, that's where the music was made, with the washing machine and the dryer. But I walk in, it's a little wooden house and it's the end of a cul de sac. The backyard was a marsh as far as the eye can see, this brown, deadly looking marsh. And then an oil refinery that looked like Emerald City popping up at the end, like the most toxic place on earth.
You can't even make this up!
DC: So I walk in, and I make a left, and then there's Richie's little bedroom off the kitchen. There's, you know, the Farrah Fawcett red bathing suit poster, and KISS posters, just like a typical teenage kids room, messy. Then I go into the kitchen and Jon is there, with this big giant hair like from Louis XIV, the jeans cut off at the knees and all kinds of bling. He's on the phone, the wall phone in the kitchen, avocado green.
BH: We all had that phone man, with a long cord.
DC: He just, like, nods, and then Richie shows me downstairs to this forbidden kind of "Silence of the Lambs" basement. There's this Formica table and a little electronic keyboard, kind of teetering, a space heater buzzing and some amps buzzing. … He finally comes down, and I had brought a title in my back pocket, "You Give Love a Bad Name," because I love titles that have irony. ... So that's what sparks the interest, and he had had a song called "Shot Through the Heart" on his previous album, and that song sparked him to say "Shot through the heart and you're to blame," and then the three of us said, "You give love a bad name."
BH: And then it was on!
Desmond Child, left, talks to Bart Herbison about songwriting. (Photo: Submitted)
DC: That was the first big, you know, high five. And that was the very first song we wrote.
BH: Did it happen pretty quickly?
DC: It happened very quickly, and I started playing a riff on the piano and then Richie said, "Well, that doesn't sound like rock." I said, "Just play the riff. But chug it with kind of, like, distorted guitars."… It was just magic. One of the wonderful things that can happen, you walk into a room, and you have chemistry with people you've never met before. It just is instant. With me and Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, we had instant chemistry.
BH: So, maybe you told me this, maybe I read it as part of some urban legend on the internet, but at some point I heard you guys were talking about pitching this to Loverboy.
DC: Well, you know, one of the things that I heard Jon say in an interview was that he had no intention of writing a song with me for Bon Jovi. The idea was that because I'd had a hit with KISS, that maybe we could write a hit for someone else. But then the songs started coming out so good, he kept them for himself.
In partnership with Nashville Songwriters Association International, "Story Behind the Song" features Nashville-connected songwriters discussing one of their compositions.
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Diwali celebrations to be held at Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's new house, party details revealed
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Diwali 2022: Today the festival of Diwali (Diwali 2022) is being celebrated with great pomp across the country. At the same time, Diwali celebrations are in full swing in B-Town too. This year Kriti Sanon, Manish Malhotra, Taapsee Pannu, Ayushmann Khurrana and Tahira Kashyap, Ramesh Taurani, Anand Pandit, Bhumi Pednekar and Ekta Kapoor have hosted a grand Diwali party. In which many big stars participated. Meanwhile, famous actor Randhir Kapoor revealed that the Kapoor family is going to celebrate Diwali at Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's house this year.
Will celebrate Diwali at Saif-Kareena's house – Randhir Kapoor
In fact, while talking to Pinkvilla recently, Randhir Kapoor said, "Many of us are not there anymore, so we are celebrating it amongst ourselves. We are meeting each other, but when we meet it is itself." It becomes a party because our family is one big family." He further said, "We are going to Saif and Kareena's house tonight. They are having a party, so our whole family will be there."
Let us tell you that Shilpa Shetty Kundra also hosted a Diwali party last night. In which many celebs participated. Apart from this, Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja, who recently became parents, also have a big birthday today i.e. on October 24. Diwali Planning a party.
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On the work front, Kareena Kapoor Khan was last seen in Laal Singh Chaddha, which also starred Aamir Khan in the lead. Now she will soon be seen in OTT project, The Devotion of Suspect X along with Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma. On the other hand, Saif was recently seen in Vikram Vedha opposite Hrithik Roshan.
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Dr. RAMEGOWDA. C.C graduated in MBBS and MD Pathology, from Mysore Medical College and Doctorate from Europian Continental University(DCD Clinical Pathology). He has served as Director of Laboratories in India and abroad. He has presented seminars and papers at National and International conferences. He established Rashi Diagnostic Center in Bangalore, which has a full-fledged high tech laboratory directly under his supervision as well as complete Radiology services. The quality of service offered is well appreciated and acknowledged by the medical fraternity as well as the patients. This is a result of his hard work, dedication and an in unfailing commitment to his vision. Rashi is an ISO 9001 certified laboratory and only NABL accredited lab in Bangalore North East which is the highest rating for quality of laboratories in India. Rashi is also awarded the prestigious "International Star for Quality" from Switzerland. For all these Achievements Dr. Rame gowda C.C has been feted with many Awards and accolades.
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Bigfoot Biomedical said today that it inked a commercial supply deal to include Owen Mumford's Pentips line of pen needles with Bigfoot's injection system subscription bundles.
Milpitas, Calif.-based Bigfoot is working on monthly subscription packages for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company said it selected Owen Mumford's pen needle because of the needle's compatibility with all disposable insulin pens and availability in popular lengths and gauges.
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When you add a module to a regular project, you have to add it to the .uproject. Is there something similar for the source engine? I went into my project's properties, looked at the "Include Search Path" for "All Configurations", and there my module is, exactly how every other module with generated files is. So I have to be missing something on set up. I've looked around and found no info, so the only thing I've down is copied my runtime module into the runtime folder, and my editor module into the editor folder. Is there another step?
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Azia's Picks 11-1-19
By Azia Wiggins Friday, November 1, 2019 1:34 p.m. CDT
You know what really grinds my gears? Constantly hearing from fellow Jacksonians, "There is nothing to do in Jackson." As soon as those words leave condescending lips and meet my Capital City loving ears, it's an immediate trigger for eye-rolling. Jackson has certainly paid its dues when it comes to enduring challenges such as poverty, crime and corruption, but instead of gripping and becoming numbed by negative perspectives force-fed to our communities, we must take control. I have decided to become part of the solution—help change the narrative. This weekend, like most weekends in the Capital City, is chock full of gems for various audiences. Let me pique your interest and give you just a sample of what's popping this weekend with my top five picks!
Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Nov. 1, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Jackson State University's Johnson Hall Art Gallery (1400 John R. Lynch St.). Jackson State University Margaret Walker Alexander Center hosts a Civil Rights photography exhibit open to the public until November 1st. Free admission; call 601-979-3935; email mwa@jsums.edu; jsums.edu.
Offbeat Friday Night Live Nov. 1, 8 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The weekly event features live music from various alternative acts in genres such as hip-hop, indie-rock and R&B. Doors open 7 p.m. $5 cover charge; call 601-376-9404; email veryoffbeat@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions vs. Jackson State Tigers Football Game Nov. 2, 6 p.m., at Mississippi Veteran's Stadium (2531 N. State St.). SWAC football game including concession and half-time band performances. $25 general admission tickets at ticketmaster.com; gojsutigers.com.
Southern Komfort Brass Band Nov. 2, 10 p.m., at Martin's (214 State St.). The event features New Orleans-style street jazz, food and drinks. $10 general admission; call 601-354-9712; martinsdowntownjxn.com/music.
Sunday Brunch and Beats Nov. 3, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at ISH (5105 I-55 N.). the restaurant features Chef Tina, a DJ and bottomless mimosas. Free admission; call 769-257-5204; find it on Facebook.
To learn what else is going on this weekend, check out the JFP Events Calendar at jfpevents.com or our music listings page at jfp.ms/musiclistings.
Let Editorial Assistant Azia Wiggins learn what you did this weekend by emailing her at azia@jacksonfreepress.com.
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