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This list contains home stadiums that China national football team have used in international competitions / qualifications.

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Stadium
China plays in various stadiums in the country, and doesn't have a permanent home stadium.

Workers' Stadium, opened in 1959, located in the Chaoyang District in north-eastern Beijing, is the most renowned one. Its capacity is 66,161, and it covers a land area of 350,000 square meters. It is used both for international matches and by the China Super League team, the Beijing Guoan, and for the national team. However, China also plays in other stadiums around the country. Tuodong Stadium on the city of Kunming has the capacity of 40,000 and was used in previous 2010 and 2014 World Cup campaigns. Yellow Dragon Sports Center in Hangzhou served as China's main stadium for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification and Shaanxi Province Stadium in Xi'an served as Team Dragon's main stadium for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification.

Previously, Shenyang's Wulihe Stadium was served as the base for China's historic 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign, which saw China qualified, and their only, World Cup appearance.

In smaller tournaments like EAFF E-1 Football Championship, Chongqing Olympic Sports Center in Chongqing, and Wuhan Sports Center Stadium in Wuhan were used as home stadiums for Team Dragon. The recent China Cup also represents Guangxi Sports Center in Nanning as the team's main stadium. Some friendlies are also played in Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou.

Home stadiums

As of 1 February 2023.

See also

List of stadiums in China
List of football stadiums in China

References

China national football team
Football venues in China
Lists of association football stadiums
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The Ancient Power of Chanting (Mantra) Validated by Modern Science
June 6, 2017 by Edward Morgan
Chanting (mantra) is an ancient technology that modern science reveals connects us in a very real way to the farthest reaches of the universe.
I love chanting mantras, and I do so daily as an integral part of my kundalini yoga practice. I don't need to know the specifics of how it produces a calming and sometimes even transcendent effect on my consciousness, but I've always been deeply curious about the mechanisms that may be at play beneath the surface of my awareness.
This is why I am both deeply grateful and amazed by the work of John Reid, the UK inventor of the cymascope — a technology that renders sound visible. In an article published on his website titled, "Cymatics — A Bridge To the Unseen World," John and his wife Annaleise reveal facts about sound that are simply mind-blowing and worthy of far greater dissemination.
First, did you know that sound is actually not a wave but spheroidal phenomenon? In their words:
"Before looking at cymatics more closely let us dispel the popularly held misconception that "sound is a wave": It isn't. All audible sounds are, in fact, spherical in form or spheroidal, that is to say audible sounds are sphere-like but not necessarily perfectly spherical. For the sake of simplicity we'll call these spheroidal sound spheres "Sound bubbles."
Take a look at the ultrasound beam produced by dolphins:
As you can see above, the sound is not produced in wave form but as a spheroidal beam. If you were to slice horizontally into the beam and look at the cross section it would appear to contain geometric patterns that contain a type of cymaglyphic information analogous to hieroglyphs. In other words, these sound structures carry information as real and meaningful as words do in human language.
John's dolphin research using cymatoscope has revealed groundbreaking information about how dolphins communicate and "see" with sound. If you are interested, you can drill deeper into this discovery by reading his landmark paper published in the Journal of Marine Sciences: Research and Developmenttitled, "A Phenomenon Discovered While Imaging Dolphin Echolocation Sounds."
John and Annaleise go on to explain one of the most amazing facts about the 'sound bubbles' that we produce, which I find most compelling in connection to many powerful experiences I have had with mantras, both listening and reciting them, in the yoga tradition:
"Our world is teeming with beautiful holographic sound bubbles that envelop us in shimmering patterns of acoustic energy, each bubble rushing away at around 700 miles an hour as new bubbles form from the source of the sound. Whether the sound is emitted from your voice or from some other source, such as a musical instrument, this 'bubble-in-a-hurry' leaves a fleeting vibrational imprint on the surface of your body: every cell in the surface tissues of your body actually receives sound patterns from the bubbles that surround you."
Did you get that? When we speak or chant, we are producing sound bubbles that attain speeds of 700 miles per hour. But it gets better. Check this out:
"You create infrared light even when you speak…The atoms and molecules of air within this expanding bubble are bumping into each other, each collision transferring your voice vibrations to the nearest atom or molecule. As these 'bumps' occur they cause infrared light to be created due to the friction between the magnetic shells of the air particles. The infrared light carries with it the modulations of your voice that rush away at the incredible speed of 186,000 miles per second. Unlike the sound of a voice, which becomes inaudible after about one mile, the infrared light created by your voice rushes out into space where it travels for eternity, carrying your words or songs to the stars.
Thus, there is a direct relationship between sound and light and in fact there can be no light in the Universe without sound because light is only created when atoms collide with each other, and such collisions are sound. So light and life owe their existence to sound."
What I find so amazing about this is that kundalini practitioners have long made claims about the power of mantra to connect us to the universe that on the surface may appear like pseudo-science. But the science that John Reid is speaking to — the actual empirical phenomena — now lends scientific support to at least some of these claims.
Here is Yogi Bhajan, founder of the American tradition of kundalini yoga, making statements that make more sense in light of the mechanisms discussed by John Reid:
"Every element of the Universe is in a constant state of vibration manifested to us as light, sound, and energy. The human senses perceive only a fraction of the infinite range of vibration, so it is difficult to comprehend that the Word mentioned in the Bible is actually the totality of vibration which underlies and sustains all creation. A person can tune his or her own consciousness into the awareness of that totality with the use of a mantra. By vibrating in rhythm with the breath to a particular sound that is proportional to the creative sound, or sound current, one can expand one's sensitivity to the entire spectrum of vibration. It is similar to striking a note on a stringed instrument. In other words, as you vibrate, the Universe vibrates with you."
"What is a mantra? Mantra is two words: Man and tra. Man means mind. Tra means the heat of life. Ra means sun. So, mantra is a powerful combination of words which, if recited, takes the vibratory effect of each of your molecules into the Infinity of the Cosmos. That is called 'Mantra.'"
"By vibrating in rhythm with the breath to a particular sound that is proportional to the creative sound, or sound current, one can expand one's sensitivity to the entire spectrum of vibration. It is similar to striking a note on a stringed instrument. In other words, as you vibrate, the Universe vibrates with you."
"Mantras are not small things, mantras have power. They are the mind vibration in relationship to the Cosmos. The science of mantra is based on the knowledge that sound is a form of energy having structure, power, and a definite predictable effect on the chakras and the human psyche."
We live in a remarkable time where what was once purely the stuff of myth, and considered magical thinking and "woo" by skeptics the world over, is starting to receive validation through the 'hardest of sciences.' For instance, the concept of the body radiating light is now also accepted through the discovery of biophotons which we reported on in a previous article, and even the ritual of burning medicinal herbs sage to 'ward off evil spirits' likehas been found to have powerful cleansing properties.
That said, the most powerful way to understand information like this is toexperience it directly. I encourage readers to experience the tradition of mantra directly. Listen or recite them, and visualize the sound actually moving at tremendous speed, and producing light that is extending out into the farthest reaches of the universe. Perhaps then the aphorisms of spiritual masters like Yogi Bhajan will no longer seem strange and unattainable.
For more evidence-based research on the therapeutic value of chanting use our database on Chanting.
To learn more about the CymaScope and a related project Sayer Ji and John Reid are partnering on, take a look arc SystomeBiomed.com.
Try the kundalini mantra lesson below to directly experience the power of mantra.
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Listen to one of my favorite mantras below:
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Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Co-founder and CEO of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation, Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO Foundation.
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4 thoughts on "The Ancient Power of Chanting (Mantra) Validated by Modern Science"
Madhav Ananda
good article in many ways -but you need to post kirtans by people with BHAKTI -makes chanting much more potent!
Deborah Kimsey
Do you see the bushes and trees responding to the couple? Wow, the spirits are in and out of the bushes like crazy. The wind is blowing their energy in more. It is so magnificent to watch this.
Thank you for the explanation of sound, light, and energy, both of spiritual and physical. I figured that God made the creation thru the WORD, WHICH IS SOUND, WHICH MAKES LIGHT, WHICH MAKES PARTICLES. I thought that the first sound (big bang) was thunder and lightening.
Marian Baghor
It's a nice synchro that I've posted several mantra changing videos in the coeo.cc page recently.
This is one of my favorites, Deva Premal singing the Gayatri mantra around the world in cities and on ocean's shores. Affecting all the spaces and people in it, that she visited. Her father sung the Gayatri mantra to his unborn child, during the entire pregnancy. 35 years later Deva Premal sung the Gayatri mantra to her father in his last days, sending him on his way by singing this mantra to him, while he took his last breath. Isn't that a beautiful circle of life?
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It started when Catherine was but a child. The daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, she was betrothed to the future King of England, Arthur, eldest son of King Henry VII, and moved to England to marry him when she was still a teenager. Unfortunately, just a year into the marriage, Arthur died before ascending to the throne. Next up: Henry. After obtaining special permission from the Pope to marry his brother's widow, Henry and Catherine became husband and wife, shortly after Henry was crowned. She was five years older than he.
There's a common misconception that the marriage went south almost immediately. In fact, they were married for about 23 years before Henry, frustrated with their inability to produce a male heir, decided to break with the Catholic Church and thereby have his marriage annulled. Catherine disagreed with the decision, pointing out to him that she had been everything she was supposed to be as a good and obedient wife. She was also concerned about the impact the annulment would have on their only living child, Mary. Henry wasn't moved. The marriage was annulled and he went on to marry Anne Boleyn, a favorite mistress.
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Unlike Anne, and other wives, Catherine lived on, "demoted," as History phrases it. According to the UK's History Learning Site, Catherine was given the title "Dowager Duchess of Wales," though she (and her servants) continued to consider herself Queen of England until her death. She refused to acknowledge Anne's place in the monarchy, going so far as to refuse to send the crown jewels to Henry's second wife. Catherine was well-beloved by the people of the kingdom — Anne wasn't — and Henry tried to remove her from the public eye and acclamation by essentially banishing her to a series of castles and estates. She was forbidden to see their daughter. Her final resting place was Kimbolton Castle, where she lived out her days, according to Britannica. She did penance and refused to leave her room, except for prayer. It was there she died, age 50, of cancer. Neither Henry nor Anne attended her funeral, and he forbade Mary to attend.
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It might not look it... but this old Cork pier is steeped in history
The American Pier in Trevor Laffan's home town dates back to 1917 and requires immediate attention before it disappears completely
The American Pier in Whitepoint, just outside Cobh. A group has been set up to try to save it from the ravages of time
IF you ever find yourself down by the river in Whitepoint, just outside the town of Cobh, you will see the remains of an old pier sloping into the water.
It doesn't look like much. In fact, you would hardly recognise it as a pier because it has fallen into disrepair over the last 50 years or so. You shouldn't dismiss it though because it has a serious piece of history attached to it.
It's known as the American Pier because it was extended by the United States armed forces in 1917. It was needed to bring the sick and injured ashore for treatment in the hospital they had also built to cater for their wounded servicemen.
To get a better understanding of this, we need to go back in time to 1917 and World War I.
At that time, the British had imposed a 'distant blockade', blocking off the North Sea to most shipping and cargoes, to cut off supplies bound for Germany.
In early 1917, the Germans retaliated by doing the same thing to Britain and used their U-boat fleet to defend it. They declared the area around the British Isles to be a war zone and warned that any ships entering that space would be sunk without warning.
The German submarine campaign was already worrying the United States, but this new development had them even more concerned. They were afraid Britain would be overrun by the Germans, so they decided to send support to the British Navy who were already operating out of Cork Harbour.
On May 7, 1917, a flotilla of destroyers arrived in Queenstown under the command of Commander Joseph Taussig, captain of the USS Wadsworth.
In The US Navy At Queenstown, by Daire Brunicardi, he describes how the flotilla of unusual vessels appeared off the Daunt lightship at the approaches to Cork Harbour. They were destroyers of the United States Navy.
With their low profile and four stubby funnels, they looked different to the ships of the British Navy, so familiar in Cork Harbour after almost three years of war.
The small naval dockyard on Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour and other dockyards and facilities in the area struggled to cope with the number of ships and men of the British and US navies.
The naval hospital on Haulbowline and the local hospital in Queenstown were also overwhelmed by the amount of U.S personnel needing treatment for minor injuries and illnesses, so they created their own medical facility in Whitepoint.
They built a naval hospital, recreational facilities, stores and radio communications, which extended from the town right out to Whitepoint.
There was no shortage of equipment either. There were two depot ships, dozens of large motor-launch 'sub-chasers', tugs and even a squadron of submarines.
Soon after, naval aircraft arrived, with air stations at Aghada in Cork Harbour, and on Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay.
There must have been a huge buzz in Cobh at the time with all that activity and in The Queenstown Patrol 1917: A Diary Of Commander Joseph Taussig, the author described the scene when he first arrived in Cork Harbour.
"We landed at the naval pier (Haulbowline) where the American Consul met us. The streets were full of curious people and there seemed to be a great many men for a country supposed to be at war. I have learned since that the Irish people have generally held aloof from any participation in the war and do not consider themselves a party to it."
Taussig had some observations on the Irish countryside too as he later sailed up the river to Cork to call on the Lord Mayor. "The ride up the river is a beautiful one and took only forty minutes. Judging from the outside appearance, Ireland has not been affected in any way by the war. The country is green and dotted with cattle. The wharves at Cork were busy and the streets of Cork were crowded."
He also described the task ahead of them.
"The problem before us was a serious one. As soon as we pass beyond the defence of the harbour, we face death until we return. We must presume that a submarine is always watching us, and although we may go for days without seeing a submarine or anything suspicious, we must not relax for an instant or we might lose our opportunity to destroy a submarine, or it may give the submarine a chance to fire a torpedo into us."
According to Brunicardi, the Americans departed Queenstown and Ireland in early 1919 and left little lasting effect. Many of the buildings were temporary timber structures, and most of these were removed.
There are a few indicators to be seen today: the flying-boat bases at Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay and Aghada in Cork Harbour have left concrete aprons and slipways, and at Aghada there are two small concrete gateless gateposts, with 'US Naval' engraved on one and 'Air Station' on the other.
The pier in Whitepoint is a lasting reminder of the American presence in Cobh. Everything else was dismantled and shipped back to the States. Since then, the pier has been used by generations of Cobh families for swimming at this beautiful and sheltered beach area close to the town.
It has deteriorated over the last half century and requires immediate attention before it disappears completely.
The American Pier Cobh Association has been set up to try to save the pier. The group is made up of residents of Whitepoint in association with Cobh Tidy Towns and other community groups and they want to return it to its former glory.
They have commissioned a report by a group of consultants and are now looking for funding to repair the structure. Further information can be found at http://americanpiercobh.com/
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After her unhappiness with the way the Lynx played defense in Sunday's loss to Tulsa at Target Center, it's no surprise that when the Lynx returned to practice Tuesday, coach Cheryl Reeve spent most of it stressing that part of the game.
But there is no question Sunday's loss is still bothering Reeve. After all, it was the first time in her time as Lynx head coach that the team has shot better than 50 percent in a game and lost. They are now 49-1 in that department.
I'm betting that will change when the team plays in Seattle Thursday.
The Lynx did that in the first quarter of Sunday's game, when the team had 10 deflections while building a nine-point lead. When the Lynx players are playing good defense, it makes things easier for everyone on offense. Reeve said playing more in transition is a way to loosen things up for players like Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen.
The Lynx will practice again Wednesday before heading to Seattle.
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It has become the norm for students to possess smartphones and tablets, but how many are using them to enhance productivity at school or college? Here are seven superb Android applications that can make learning significantly easier and fun.
If you don't have Wolfram Alpha, you're definitely missing out. It's an app that can solve difficult math problems and even show you how to work out the answer for yourself. You also get access to expert knowledge on a wide range of topics such as Statistics, Engineering, Science, Astronomy, Physics, and Chemistry.
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Real-Calc Scientific Calculator is a definite must for any student's mobile toolkit. With over 10 million downloads on the Google Play Store, it has a very good reputation and performs just like a physical handheld calculator. It supports all the standard scientific functions plus unit conversions, constants, binary, or hexadecimal calculations and more. There's also a full built-in help included in the app to help you get the best out of your calculator.
My Study Life is available as a cross-platform planner designed to make your school life a lot easier to manage. It allows you to save your assignments, classes and exams in the cloud and synchronizes them across all your devices so you can access them wherever you are. My Study Life also allows teachers to create and share their timetables securely with students in the same school, although this feature is still in beta. All in all, My Study Life is an awesome app to keep your student life organized and perhaps even more exciting.
MyHomework is another very useful application for students of all levels which could help increase your study habits significantly. What it does is keeps track of your outstanding assignments and keeps you up to date with what needs to be done. You can also enter your class schedule so you never miss a class, and with a free MyHomework account, you can synchronize your reminders across all your devices.
Chegg is a very useful application for instant study or homework assistance as well as buying or renting eTextbooks on the go. With Chegg you can access a plethora of textbook solutions for your course, and in the event your problem is not found in any of those, you can simply submit a picture of it to get answers from community experts or simply search for an online tutor who can help out.
Experience the power of Mathway on your Android device and get solutions to your math problems without needing a network connection. Mathway supports solutions for Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry and more. Receiving answers to problems on the app is free, but you need to subscribe to get step-by-step workings and explanations.
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Hi, I'm Maria Marlowe, a Certified Health Coach and author of Detox without the Deprivation. In my weekly "Ask Health Coach Maria" series, I answer frequently asked questions related to health and wellness. Have a question? Ask me here.
I am a generally healthy woman, who eats well and exercises, but for years I have faced something that has been uncontrollable: late night eating. I have heard there is something called Night Eating Syndrome (NES), and I think I may have it. I don't crave or eat anything weird but there have been times that I don't remember that I've eaten something until the next morning. I've mentioned it to my doctor, but she just blows it off. Help!
Constant late-night eating is a rare but serious disorder that should definitely be dealt with, not brushed off!
Because you mentioned that there are times when you don't even remember that you ate something until you find the remnants the next morning, it is possible that you have sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), which is similar to but not the same as Night Eating Syndrome (NES).
People with SRED eat while they are in a twilight state between being asleep and awake, which explains why they don't remember having eaten until they see the candy wrappers next to the bed. It is even possible for a person with SRED to walk in to the kitchen to prepare and eat a meal with no recollection. This is considered a sleep rather than eating disorder.
People with NES, on the other hand, are fully awake and know exactly what they doing, and tend to eat the majority of their calories after dinner. They often feel guilty about their eating habits. NES is considered an eating disorder.
While the exact cause of SRED and NES is still a bit of a mystery, a study published in JAMA noted that these disorders may be brought on by a type of depression. Certain medications, including commonly prescribed sleeping pills, can also trigger night eating. Even restricting your calories and intake during the day can leave you unsatisfied, prompting your body's desire to eat late-night.
While I am not an expert on either sleeping or eating disorders, as a holistic practitioner, I do know that the body and mind are inextricably connected, whether you are aware of it or not. If you rule out other factors, I would suggest you take a pulse check on your life in general. How do you really feel? Are you happy? Are you depressed? Are you stressed? What is really going on under the hood?
I find a little self-prodding may turn up stressors you didn't even know you have. I have my clients complete this circle of life exercise, which is an excellent starting point for identifying imbalances in your life and figuring out what may be causing stress. It explores all the sources of "primary food" in your life, which are all the non-food factors that nourish us. Everything ranging from our career and relationships to living situation and spirituality can take a toll on our health.
In general, things like yoga, meditation, journaling, and exercise can all be helpful, but I find sometimes all it takes is a shift in perspective or dealing with the stressor head-on for the best result. For example, if you realize you job is stressing you out because you've taken on too much at work, see if you can hire an assistant, share or delegate the workload, or perhaps just learn to say "no" so that you don't bite off more than you can chew.
I know, it may not be the silver bullet you're looking for, but learning to deal with stress head-on has helped many of my clients overcome a variety of afflictions–from digestive issues to anxiety and depression–and I have a feeling it may help with SERD as well.
Additionally, you may want to ensure your kitchen and bedroom are set up to inhibit nighttime eating. Don't keep junk food in your house, period, so even if you do make it to the kitchen, there won't be anything unhealthy to eat. As for your bedroom, turn it into a cozy sanctuary that you don't want to leave, and develop a routine to destress before bed: shut off all electronics (including the TV and iPhone!) at least two hours before bed, spritz your sheets with a calming and restorative lavender spray, and perhaps play some soothing music to help you unwind before bedtime.
Has anyone else experienced SERD or NES? If so, please share your experience and how you have dealt with it in the comments below.


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At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
It's the year 2045, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday's icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes's oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
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"The grown-up's 'Harry Potter'…the mystery and fantasy in this novel weaves itself in the most delightful way, and the details that make up Mr. Cline's world are simply astounding. READY PLAYER ONE has it all."—Huffington Post
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EXCLUSIVE: Two pros — director Barry Levinson and comedy giant Billy Crystal — have come aboard a new feature film comedy called Revival. Written by Phil Primason (5 Doctors), the premise is hi-lar-ious: A once-legendary Broadway composer who, after a bitter public divorce, gets stuck composing jingles to make ends meet finds out that a Staten Island high school is staging his most famous musical, and he becomes obsessed with shutting it down.
In the meantime, all the money he earns writing stupid jingles goes to keep his only friend — his comatose dog Julius — alive. Oh, yeah, and Crystal's character, who is trying to kick his smoking habit by using electronic cigarettes, finds himself becoming addicted to the smokeless replacements.
We hear that the script is great, so much so that Crystal is now attached to star, Levinson to helm and both are coming on as producers. The project has not been set up, but with this package it probably will be snatched up in a hurry.
Surprisingly, Levinson and Crystal have not worked together before, though they were two of five executive producers on the comedies Analyze This and Analyze That in which Crystal starred with Robert De Niro.
Levinson's highly anticipated The Wizard of Lies, which stars De Niro as Bernie Madoff and tells the story of the fraudster and his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, will bow May 20 on HBO.
Crystal, who was just in The Comedian and is a beloved comedic actor on the big screen, also won critical raves for his heart-touching, Tony Award-winning 700 Sundays. The autobiographical one-man show about Crystal and his dad also aired on HBO.
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Things come quickly to Barack Obama.
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Students returned to school in Prince George's County Monday -- some to Barack Obama Elementary and the all-male charter school.
But Graham has now reintroduced the measure, days shy of the second anniversary of Obama's inauguration. While the D.C. Council is dominated by Democrats, it remains unclear if Graham can get six of his colleagues to join him on the idea.
However, the real question is not whether it is too soon for a D.C. park to be named after Obama. The question is whether Obama deserves it.
As WTOP's Mark Plotkin wrote in the Washington Post a few months ago, "this president has shown no gratitude to the D.C. residents who overwhelmingly voted for him," and "goes out of his way to ignore us." Obama rejects even symbolic support of D.C.'s rights and aspirations, such as putting the "Taxation Without Representation" license plate back on the presidential limo. It was good enough for Bill Clinton, but not for Obama.
Indeed, veteran D.C. voting rights activists are upset with the president. Last month, D.C. shadow representative Mike Panetta, a Democrat, told me that Obama "needs to lose the D.C. primary" in 2012.
Before the renaming legislation gets any sort of serious consideration, Graham and his colleagues should insist on a public expression of support for D.C. voting rights from the president.


Last night we finished reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Dicamillo, once again, is simply amazing. Although the style is simple enough for kids, the character is believable, and the book is heartbreaking all the way to the last page. It's a story of a toy rabbit who gets lost, and learns what it means to love. To tell you more would be unfair. You've got to read it for yourself.
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More and more retailers are responding to the online retailing boom by looking at smaller industrial facilities near densely populated areas to better cater for tight delivery windows.
Occupancy in industrial pockets across Sydney's south-western and 'inner' sub-markets, as well as precincts in Melbourne's inner and south-east sub-markets, have risen dramatically over the past 12 months.
Take up of space in the inner Sydney market specifically by e-commerce businesses has increased seven-fold between 2015 to 2017, according to JLL Research.
Rents and underlying land values have "cranked up dramatically", says Tony Iuliano, JLL's Head of Capital Markets for Industrial and Logistics in Australia.
"Parramatta in particular is absolutely rocketing at the moment and that comes down to strong population growth and e-commerce companies needing to fulfil shorter delivery requirements," he says.
As well as Parramatta—known as Sydney's 'second CBD'—areas in Sydney's middle and outer ring locations, including Chullora, Wetherill Park, and Erskine Park, which have traditionally been occupied by local businesses and state-based operations, are also in the frame for major e-commerce businesses.
Major real estate investors including Goodman, Dexus, Logos, GPT and Charter Hall are already heavily bought-into Western Sydney, as are many smaller domestic investors backed by big overseas funds.
Reflecting the demand for "last-mile" distribution infrastructure, industrial warehouses are increasingly being built in Sydney's West without pre-commitments from tenants.
Increased demand has also seen A-Grade net rental increases of 5.5 per cent in Sydney's outer west, and 5.4 per cent in the south west, since January 2017, reflecting an average rent of A$118 per-square metre and A$111 per square metre respectively.
Melbourne's topography means demand is more widely spread, taking in the city fringe suburbs in addition to Tottenham and Brooklyn in the inner west, and Clayton and Mulgrave in the south east.
While stock in these areas is mainly classed as secondary, demand has been further driven by a limited supply of industrial stock in Australia overall.
Currently online retail sales make up around four percent of all retail sales in Australia. By 2025 this share is projected to rise to 9.9 per cent, which equates to approximately A$38 billion.
Based on historical industrial supply ratios, JLL Research estimates that 1.57 million square metres in additional developments per year will be required over the next decade. If online retail sales continue to grow, that number could increase to 1.88 million square metres over the next decade.
"If this occurs, certain markets could face the challenges in delivering these levels of supply, particularly those with existing limitations in the supply of development land," the report said.
More than A$17 billion of capital has failed to find a home in the Australian industrial property market.
"In the year to date there have been A$1.6 million worth of transactions, which is less than 50 percent of last year's volumes. Warehouses are in thin supply," Iuliano says.
Prime and secondary net face rents in Sydney's South West have increased 0.3 percent year-on-year, and 6.8 percent respectively while Melbourne's City Fringe, they have increased 56 percent and 30 percent respectively. The prime average yield for industrial property in Sydney is 5.7 percent, at the half-year point, and in Melbourne it is 6.2 percent.
The current level of demand in the industrial sector reflects a trend happening across Australia's eastern seaboard, which is also where the largest population growth has occurred.


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This is his classmates, teachers and teacher-adviser.
I congratulate you for having your son in a Montessori school. I have heard very good opinions about this method of teaching.
Maybe there they can talk to the children about blockchain ?. I think this because we know that now and tomorrow is and will be blockchain.
Yes, they have an advance curriculum compared to the public schools.
In terms of promotion of the blockchain, I do it with my senior high school students, though I focus more on the social media aspects since it is the one easily understand, and quite appealing to them.
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The FDA ruled on Thursday that dozens of active ingredients can't be used in hand sanitizers, but the agency still wants answers about one that is used - ethyl alcohol.
Ethyl alcohol is the most common ingredient in hand cleaners.
The FDA says it wants more studies to determine if it is safe and effective.
Hand sanitizers are used by millions every day.
The FDA did ban tri-clo-san, which some say can be absorbed through the skin.


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Ro 13:1-14. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED--POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS--MOTIVES.
1, 2. Let every soul--every man of you
be subject unto the higher powers--or, "submit himself to the authorities that are above him."
For there is no power--"no authority"
but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God--"have been ordained of God."
2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power--"So that he that setteth himself against the authority."
resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation--or, "condemnation," according to the old sense of that word; that is, not from the magistrate, but from God, whose authority in the magistrate's is resisted.
3, 4. For rulers are not a terror to good works--"to the good work," as the true reading appears to be
but to the evil.
4. he beareth not the sword in vain--that is, the symbol of the magistrate's authority to punish.
5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath--for fear of the magistrate's vengeance.
but also for conscience' sake--from reverence for God's authority. It is of Magistracy in general, considered as a divine ordinance, that this is spoken: and the statement applies equally to all forms of government, from an unchecked despotism--such as flourished when this was written, under the Emperor Nero--to a pure democracy. The inalienable right of all subjects to endeavor to alter or improve the form of government under which they live is left untouched here. But since Christians were constantly charged with turning the world upside down, and since there certainly were elements enough in Christianity of moral and social revolution to give plausibility to the charge, and tempt noble spirits, crushed under misgovernment, to take redress into their own hands, it was of special importance that the pacific, submissive, loyal spirit of those Christians who resided at the great seat of political power, should furnish a visible refutation of this charge.
6, 7. For, for this cause pay ye--rather, "ye pay"
tribute also--that is, "This is the reason why ye pay the contributions requisite for maintaining the civil government."
for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing--"to this very thing."
7. Render therefore to all their dues--From magistrates the apostle now comes to other officials, and from them to men related to us by whatever tie.
tribute--land tax.
custom--mercantile tax.
fear--reverence for superiors.
honour--the respect due to persons of distinction.
8. Owe no man anything, but to love one another--"Acquit yourselves of all obligations except love, which is a debt that must remain ever due" [HODGE].
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law--for the law itself is but love in manifold action, regarded as matter of duty.
9. For this, &c.--better thus: "For the [commandments], Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and whatever other commandment [there may be], it is summed up," &c. (The clause, "Thou shalt not bear false witness," is wanting in all the most ancient manuscripts). The apostle refers here only to the second table of the law, as love to our neighbor is what he is treating of.
10. Love worketh no ill to his--or, "one's"
neighbour; therefore, &c.--As love, from its very nature, studies and delights to please its objects, its very existence is an effectual security against our wilfully injuring him. Next follow some general motives to the faithful discharge of all these duties.
11. And that--rather, "And this [do]"
knowing the time, that now it is high time--literally, "the hour has already come."
to awake out of sleep--of stupid, fatal indifference to eternal things.
for now is our salvation--rather, "the salvation," or simply "salvation."
nearer than when we--first
believed--This is in the line of all our Lord's teaching, which represents the decisive day of Christ's second appearing as at hand, to keep believers ever in the attitude of wakeful expectancy, but without reference to the chronological nearness or distance of that event.
12. The night--of evil
is far spent, the day--of consummated triumph over it
is at hand: let us therefore cast off--as a dress
the works of darkness--all works holding of the kingdom and period of darkness, with which, as followers of the risen Saviour, our connection has been dissolved.
and let us put on the armour of light--described at length in Eph 6:11-18.
13. Let us walk honestly--"becomingly," "seemingly"
as in the day--"Men choose the night for their revels, but our night is past, for we are all the children of the light and of the day (1Th 5:5): let us therefore only do what is fit to be exposed to the light of such a day."
not in rioting and drunkenness--varied forms of intemperance; denoting revels in general, usually ending in intoxication.
not in chambering and wantonness--varied forms of impurity; the one pointing to definite acts, the other more general.
not in strife and envying--varied forms of that venomous feeling between man and man which reverses the law of love.
14. But--to sum up all in one word.
put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ--in such wise that Christ only may be seen in you (see 2Co 3:3; Ga 3:27; Eph 4:24).
and make no provision--"take no forethought."
for the flesh, to fulfil the lust thereof--"Direct none of your attention to the cravings of your corrupt nature, how you may provide for their gratification."
Note, (1) How gloriously adapted is Christianity for human society in all conditions! As it makes war directly against no specific forms of government, so it directly recommends none. While its holy and benign principles secure the ultimate abolition of all iniquitous government, the reverence which it teaches for magistracy, under whatever form, as a divine institution, secures the loyalty and peaceableness of its disciples, amid all the turbulence and distractions of civil society, and makes it the highest interest of all states to welcome it within their pale, as in this as well as every other sense--"the salt of the earth, the light of the world" (Ro 13:1-5). (2) Christianity is the grand specific for the purification and elevation of all the social relations; inspiring a readiness to discharge all obligations, and most of all, implanting in its disciples that love which secures all men against injury from them, inasmuch as it is the fulfilling of the law (Ro 13:6-10). (3) The rapid march of the kingdom of God, the advanced stage of it at which we have arrived, and the ever-nearing approach of the perfect day--nearer to every believer the longer he lives--should quicken all the children of light to redeem the time, and, seeing that they look for such things, to be diligent, that they may be found of Him in peace, without spot and blameless (2Pe 3:14). (4) In virtue of "the expulsive power of a new and more powerful affection," the great secret of persevering holiness in all manner of conversation will be found to be "Christ IN US, the hope of glory" (Col 1:27), and Christ ON US, as the character in which alone we shall be able to shine before men (2Co 3:8) (Ro 13:14).
Jamieson, Robert, D.D. "Commentary on Romans 13". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory
on the Whole Bible". <http://classic.studylight.org/com/jfb/view.cgi?book=ro&chapter=013>. 1871.


A picture of a cardboard box with the word CHESS on it.
This charming wee book dropped into my lap a few days ago.
page 40 has this to chapter.
along with this problem which a 1961 computer took 12 minutes to solve.
OK you have 12 minutes. Beat the 1961 computer.
A modern computer solves it in one or two seconds.
Page 40 also has this delightful problem.
found the White solution the Black solution will be practically instant.
Again the solutions will be at the bottom of the page.
This position with White to play and win is discussed on page 36.
To win this, which I will explain, White must get this position.
....with Black to play. Look at the following attempt.
White must lose a tempo and he can only do that by going onto a light square.
but that would allow a Bishop check and f2-f1=Q. However, there is a solution.
Two Bishops Are Better Than a Queen.
believing their eyes in his game against the Ethiopian player Haftom Ghebremedhn.
going to take on a8 next move White decided to under promote to a Bishop!
The Black Rook took the Bishop and White won with ease.
Black saw the threat of Qg7 mate so captured the f1 Rook taking a Knight CHECK!
having a wonderful time in a foreign country often going abroad for the first time.
However look at this from White who is (was) a 1400 player.
Now how about what I think is the coolest finish of the 2018 Olympiad.
White tries to get the Queens off. He succeeds but is mated in the process.
Do you want to see what time trouble does to a good player over the board.
Black to play his 39th move. Time control is move 40.
This one has the clammy stench of time trouble all over it.
Black played 39....Nd7 (OOPS!) 40. Rc8 Checkmate.
And now another good player playing a move that will keep him awake at night.
Black to play. How about playing e4. Make White work for his win.
Black played 43...Bc4 to protect the b-pawn. White replied.
White or Black to play and mate in two moves.
White: 1. e8=Knight and 2. Nc7 Checkmate.
Black: 1. d1=Knight and 2. Nc3 Checkmate.


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Vaknin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Sam Vaknin (born 1961), Israeli writer
Yitzhak Vaknin (born 1958), Israeli politician and member of the Knesset


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Q: Android onStop/onDestroy - when might these be used? Looking at the Activity Life Cycle diagram, I notice that onPause() and onStop() can both lead to the "process" being killed. This would require onCreate() to be called when the user wants to resume their application. The point being that onStop() is not necessarily called, nor is onDestroy(), but that onPause() may be the only event that the Activity may see. This being the case, onPause() must handle saving the application status so that the user can return back to it later, regardless of whether onStop() is called or not.
I can see onDestroy() being used to clean up Activity specific resources that would naturally be eliminated in a process kill action. Is there anything else that onDestroy() would be good for?
And what would onStop() be good for? Why would I want to override it for?

A: If I got your question right: It depends what you want to do with your application. Let's say you are programming application that uses GPS. In the onStop() which is called when the activity is no longer visible to the user, you can remove these requests. Or you can stop the some service if your application is running any. Or you can save preferences (not recommended, do it in onPause() instead), or you can close permanent connection to a server.....If I think of anything else, I'll add more...

A: If you have read the doc further, you'll see following:

Saving activity state
The introduction to Managing the Activity Lifecycle briefly mentions
  that when an activity is paused or stopped, the state of the activity
  is retained. This is true because the Activity object is still held in
  memory when it is paused or stopped—all information about its members
  and current state is still alive. Thus, any changes the user made
  within the activity are retained in memory, so that when the activity
  returns to the foreground (when it "resumes"), those changes are still
  there.
However, when the system destroys an activity in order to recover
  memory, the Activity object is destroyed, so the system cannot simply
  resume it with its state intact. Instead, the system must recreate the
  Activity object if the user navigates back to it. Yet, the user is
  unaware that the system destroyed the activity and recreated it and,
  thus, probably expects the activity to be exactly as it was. In this
  situation, you can ensure that important information about the
  activity state is preserved by implementing an additional callback
  method that allows you to save information about the state of your
  activity and then restore it when the the system recreates the
  activity.

Summary: After completing onStop() Activity object is still alive in memory. And this will help the system to restore the activity.
Very basic example: consider you are showing your activity to user, and suddenly your friend calls you! Rest you can understand..
So now it it up to you that, which are the resources/objects/connections should be released on which event.

A: Another example would be to register and unregister a broadcast receiver.
Note that usually these things are placed in onResume and onPause, the difference is subtle though, onResume/onPause are called when the activity gets placed behind another activity, onStart/onStop are called when the activity is no longer visible in the screen.

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Many products in the market are now becoming 'smart' from microwave, refrigerator, dryers and much more. Whether you live in a rented flat or in your own home, it is not difficult to adapt to the modern technologies and make your life an amazing living experience. This article throws light on smart home technologies that you may use in your daily life.
Replacing the old and traditional appliances with the new and smart home technologies is a move to make your life more convenient and give your home a different look. Nowadays, many developers in big cities like Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai are offering residential apartments that include smart home technologies. Washers, dryers, showers, etc. use smart home technology to give a positive impact in your life.
If you are planning to buy a house or moving to another rented house in Hyderabad or Mumbai, adding new smart home technologies is not difficult. However, the selection of technology will depend upon your need and liking.
Smart home technology is a technology, which is used to make electronic devices used in daily work at home more automated or 'smart' to work efficiently. It is a technology that makes electronics and appliances more useful and convenient to use. Whether it is kitchen, toilet, living room or entertainment devices, such smart technology products give a new definition to comfort living.
Light Fittings and Switches: The networked light fittings, power sockets and switches can be easily dimmed, switched off or on by using a central timer. These automatic switches or fittings can also be automatically monitored by motion sensors.
Automatic Blinds and Curtains: Curtains and blinds used in your home are now available with a smart automation system that controls them as per lighting and weather temperature. This feature offers several advantages such as automatically opening the curtains on a sunny day, protecting from bright sunlight, reducing energy loss, climate control, and protecting your empty house from outside prying eyes.
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This article was written By John Berra on 15 Oct 2015, and is filed under Reviews.
Akaji Maro, reviews, Sion Sono, The Room, Yoriko Dagouchi
About John Berra
John Berra is lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Renmin University of China. He is the editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Japan (Intellect, 2010/12/15), co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (Intellect, 2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (Intellect, 2014). He has also contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (BFI, 2014), Ozu International: Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (EUP, 2019).
The Room (Japan, 1992)
Navigating the rental property market in a major city can be a patience testing experience, but Sion Sono turns the search for the right apartment into a sustained piece of existential dread with his minimalist black-and-white early feature The Room. If the prolific director's recent work can be summarized as a cinema of excess, then this threadbare two-hander between an ageing criminal and a young property agent makes a considerable impression through sparse compositions and disquieting atmospherics. Aesthetic restraint aside, the director's nihilistic tendencies are very much in evidence in this often overlooked entry in his canon, as signaled by an opening card that reads, "April is the cruelest month. Goodbye, Twentieth Century."
The client is a world-weary hitman (Akaji Maro), first seen looking out to sea and wearing a rumpled raincoat that make him look like a leftover from a Nikkatsu yakuza 'B'-movie special. He goes to a letting agency where he lists his rental requirements to a withdrawn agent (Yoriko Dogouchi), who is identified only by her employee number – 8499537. His needs are very specific – a room that goes will with an April breeze so he can smell the cherry blossoms, a view that is not obscured by a nearby tall building, and as quiet as possible – and she listens intently to his criteria. Traversing dilapidated areas of the metropolis via subway, she shows him various apartments that seem to be satisfactory, succinctly listing the prices and the benefits of the respective districts, but none are quite right. Taking a break for the evening, the client ruminates on a recent assignment in flashback and meets with an even older former associate, who laments that he has killed so many people that he now hears the dead whispering to him. The following day, the agent shows her client another option, before realising that the space he is searching for may not be one that most people would consider to be comfortably habitable.
This slight narrative is told with the bare minimum of camera set-ups, as if Sono has assigned himself the task of making a 90-minute feature with as few shots as possible (44 to be precise), but The Room has a hypnotic quality that makes it more than an stylistic exercise. It's very much a 'Tokyo story', albeit a consciously alienating one, with the client and the agent crossing the city by public transport or a truck that the client acquires, maintaining a socially correct distance from one another when on the subway by sitting on opposite sides of the carriage. Tokyo here is a ghost city with the eerie wind of the opening credits sequence – which depicts a wasteland with the title of the film displayed on a rotting signpost – carried over to a city that does not appear to be that much more inhabited. Sono finds ways to inject a sense of urgency to the search without breaking the deliberate rhythm, such as the sound of a ticking clock when the client returns for another round of viewings and quickening of the agent's footsteps as she resumes her task.
Although the two leads are given limited dialogue, a gradual bond, or at least mutual acknowledgment, develops between the client and the agent. The social positions of these two people (grizzled outsider with a dubious past and mid-level professional defined by plain uniform and work ID) mark them as being from different worlds, but the innate manner in which the agent appreciates her client's needs reveals a shared sense of disillusionment and quiet desperation. The client speaks as if every sentence is being uttered with his dying breath, while the agent is a reserved professional, hushed and polite, only showing some personality in the final scene. En route to their final viewing, the client comments that the agent's eyes are like the room that he is looking for, and Sono's fixed frames allow the viewer to be similarly drawn to her downcast expression.
As with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sono has always had a flair for finding the strangeness in ordinary spaces, shooting mundane locations in a matter-of-fact manner that serves to accentuate their potential for isolation. Lately, he's revelled in set design that borders on the garish, but it's hopefully just a phase that he'll eventually get out of considering that he makes more films in a few years than most contemporary directors manage in an entire career. Those who were drawn into Sono's twisted world by such intense accounts of social dysfunction as Suicide Club (2001) and Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) but have become infuriated with the unwieldy nature of genre riffs like Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) and Tokyo Tribe (2014) should track down a copy of The Room as it exhibits the unwavering focus on the human depths that he has recently forsaken in favor of unhinged chaos.
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