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Greetings from Death Valley National Park
Ten Reasons Why Death Valley is to Die For
By Valerie Coffey
Death Valley is one of America's most "to die for" National Parks, and it's one of my favorite places in the world. I've visited the park perhaps nine times in four decades. It's a must-see National Park if you like natural beauty, mountains, the desert, or history. Here's why:
Death Valley, situated about three hours west of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert, is a region of extremes — it is the lowest in elevation, the hottest in temperature and the driest in recorded rainfall in North America. It's also one of the quietest places, and perhaps the darkest region of the U.S. at night. It's not so much a single desert valley as much as a region consisting of several valleys, plateaus, and mountain ranges in Eastern California's Mojave Desert. Its name comes from pioneers (the Lost 49ers), who struggled to cross this part of the frontier in 1849. The hottest air temperature ever recorded on Earth is 134°F (57°C), which occurred July 10, 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, which is #1 on my list:
Furnace Creek Ranch: Furnace Creek was the first real settlement in Death Valley and today it still isn't quite "civilization." But something about it (quite possibly the thickest oxygen you'll encounter in this hemisphere) makes me giddy. Maybe it's the western frontier flair — Giddy-Up! The Furnace Creek Ranch and Resort is a lovely little village with a General Store, a few casual restaurants, a pool (my favorite!), a golf course, campground, cute little rental cabins and a couple of RV parks. The Death Valley National Park Visitor Center is located within walking distance from Furnace Creek Ranch. You pass through a grove of date palms to get there. From August through December, you can buy sun-warmed dates from a roadside table. In February, it's often the only place in the U.S. that is consistently above 70F. Even if it's chilly (and it's always chilly at night in the desert), you can lounge by gas firelight and watch the comings and goings. It's my happy place.
Artist's Drive and Artist's Palette: This short, scenic drive has twists and turns through canyons that are too tight for vehicles longer than 25 feet, so a motorcoach like our 45-foot-long "Love Shack" must stay behind. Hiking trails take you up through colorful canyons, great for tiring out kids young and old who like to climb.
Badwater Basin: Named for water that a prospector's mule refused to drink, Badwater is the lowest point in elevation in all of North America at 282 feet below sea level. People laughed at the first person to suggest it was lower than sea level, because it wasn't below water. But it's quite low indeed. And it does have some extremely salty water containing plenty of bacteria and little critters in it. The remarkably low white salt basin is contrasted with the equally remarkable 11,000-foot-high, snow-capped Telescope Peak of the Panamint Range.
GPS elevation: My fiance Mitch, my numbers man, got a kick out of tracking the elevation on our GPS as we drove to Badwater. It's the only place in North America where you can see your GPS go so far into the negative numbers.
Ubehebe Crater: This crater (pronounced YOO-bee-HEE-bee) in the northern part of the park was not formed by a meteor. It was formed when magma rose through a fault close to the surface a few thousand years ago and flash heated groundwater, causing a steam-fueled explosion.
You can take a trail to the bottom of Ubehebe Crater or walk around its rim to see the many angles of its reddish-orange interior.
Zabriskie Point: This scenic viewpoint is located in part of the Amargosa Mountain Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park. The surrounding maze of colored and eroded badlands makes it a popular sunrise and sunset destination.
Scotty's Castle: A charming con artist named Walter Scott, aka Death Valley Scotty, told people that he was rich from gold he discovered in secret mines around Death Valley. He brought a wealthy man named Albert Johnson and his wife Bessie to visit the region, and in spite of Scotty's tall stories, Bessie fell in love with Death Valley. Johnson built a vacation getaway home for Bessie in the Grapevine Mountains of Death Valley in 1920s and '30s. Scotty convinced people that he had built the castle with money from his secret gold-mine riches. You can tour the home today with a costumed ranger-interpreter channeling the characters of the castle, presenting an historic window into Death Valley's past. [Update 2/19/18: Scotty's castle is closed until further notice due to flood damage; it is not likely to reopen to the public until 2020.]
The two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa is located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park.
"Moonlight anywhere is a delight. But there's no moonlight in the world that can compare with the moonlight in Grapevine Canyon, our desert canyon, where the Castle stands." — Mrs. Bessie Johnson from Death Valley Scotty (1932)
The Inn at Furnace Creek: The jewel of Death Valley is a four-star historic inn built in 1927 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company as a means to save their newly built Death Valley Railroad. The Railroad was an attempt to bring tourists into this increasingly attractive location. Spring water from nearby Travertine Springs feeds the pool and waters the grounds. The Inn sits high on a plateau that gives it a view across the valley to the Panamint Range. [Update: The Inn at Furnace Creek was fully renovated indoors and out, reopening on Feb. 1, 2018 as the Inn at Death Valley.]
Devil's Golf Course: Hundreds of years ago, an inland freshwater sea called Lake Manly covered all of Death Valley. The lake was cut off from its source (the Colorado River), and gradually evaporated, leaving a thick layer of salts and minerals behind. Devil's Golf Course is a vast dry salt pan from which large halite salt crystal formations protrude.
Racetrack Playa: If you only have two hours in Death Valley, a visitor could see the Visitor Center and drive to Badwater Basin. If you have a day, you can drive north to Ubehebe Crater and take a tour of Scotty's Castle (or alternately, explore one of the numerous gorgeous hikes, like Golden Canyon, or Mosaic Canyon, or drive up to Dante's Viewpoint). If you have at least two nights beyond that, you can rent a Jeep at a local outfit and drive three hours from Furnace Creek to Racetrack Playa, a remote but beautiful salt flat featuring mysterious tracks in the mud made by rocks or "slithering stones." I had been looking forward to getting to Racetrack Playa for years to see these mysterious and remote phenomena. Mitch caught my excitement and we scheduled a rental Jeep on a Monday to spend the day going to and from Racetrack Playa.
These "sailing rocks" appear to move across the playa when conditions are right, like when it rains a lot and then gets windy. But until recently, nobody had ever seen them move. Scientists observed them for decades, speculating that maybe nobody ever sees them move because when conditions are ripe, weather conditions are awful: pouring rain and cold, gusting wind, probably in the middle of the night when nobody in their right mind is camping in this extremely remote area. So they set up time-lapse cameras to video the rocks and GPS tags to track their movement when nobody was looking.
Finally, in Dec. 2013 and Jan. 2014, the cameras and sensors caught movement in the rocks. A bout of heavy rain had caused a pond to form over the end of the playa. On a freezing cold night, the water began to ice over. The next day, the hot sun began to break up the ice, and the force of the wind against the thin sheet of ice caused the rocks to move, taking the "collared" rocks with it. The rocks were easier to move because they were semi-floating in the water. While this discovery reveals the reason that the tracks are formed, it doesn't take away from the wonder and beauty of Racetrack Playa.
But as the old saying goes, life is not about the destinations, it's about the journey. Surprisingly, the trip to Racetrack Playa was accomplished by noon. We had a Jeep and hours to go before it got dark. This is why the second half of our day turned out to be the most thrilling one of our five months on the road thus far.
The National Park Service is very clear in its bulletins and posts and brochures about taking chances in the remote, extreme environment that is Death Valley. Cell-phone service is non-existent. "Take at least two gallons of water per person per day!" their messages shout. "Take enough supplies for 24 hours and tell someone where you're going."
"Take at least two gallons of water per person per day! Take enough supplies for 24 hours and tell someone where you're going." — NPS bulletins in Death Valley National Park
We had a rough map of a vast area, dotted with abandoned mines and washed-out, one-track, four-wheel-drive dirt roads. We hadn't seen more than a few high-clearance vehicles coming to and from the maintained road to Racetrack Playa.
Mitch and I are cautious people. We want to live long lives. So what possessed us to take off and explore on these remote, sketchy roads? Well, for one, the 4WD Jeep gave us confidence that we could go anywhere there were tracks (actually a bold assumption). For another thing, we had in our possession an emergency beacon with a battery-operated GPS locator that the Jeep rental company gave us. It should perhaps be called the "Idiot Box," but we liked our chances on this cool and sunny January day. It was 75F at the Playa, and the weather forecast was for more mild weather.
Without even mentioning Dante's View, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Golden Canyon, Mosaic Canyon, Salt Creek Trail, Darwin's Creek Trail, and numerous other destinations in the park, I have only one last "must" in Death Valley:
The Death Valley Sky at Night: Because half the park is after dark. Death Valley National Park has one of the darkest night skies in the United States. The International Dark-Sky Association certifies only three places as International Dark-Sky Parks in the U.S. National Park System. The Park Visitor Center has several astronomy programs after dark. When we attended, they had seven telescopes set up to view planets, galaxies, star clusters and even Comet Lovejoy.
To qualify for the IDA Dark Sky designation, the park made improvements to external lighting at its facilities at Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells, reducing energy consumption, sky glow, and glare. The designation requires the park to continue its efforts to protect night sky resources and educate visitors. The downward-directed lighting and low-light-level guidelines preserve the natural character of the night and leave the stars visible for all to see.
Death Valley's features come in a startling variety: high mountain ranges, pristine sand dunes, huge alluvial fans, eerie salt formations and painted canyons. It's a playground for historians, geologists, and hikers. The clear desert air highlights nature's art at every turn, from the glittering saltpan basin to the snow-capped Panamint Range high above Death Valley's floor — even, or perhaps especially, at night.
Photo caption: Racetrack Playa: this is one of my favorite pictures from my trips to Death Valley, because it was so hard to get there. It's a three-hour drive (one way) in a high-clearance vehicle. We rented a Jeep for the day. Photo: Valerie Coffey
A world of extremes, Death Valley is the nation's driest, hottest and lowest place, but also features mountains over 11,000 feet high that experience below-zero weather and snow, as well as colorful badlands, sand dunes and canyons. Its dramatic mountains, valleys and dunes are world renowned for their complex and diverse geology. The park also contains a wealth of well-preserved archaeological sites and petroglyphs.
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It stretches fine, but the fill area is not respected. The contents of my layout overflow the white rectangle portion. See below, the ImageView (red rectangle) in my layout is the left-most widget):

The file is saved as "bg.9.png". I'm using it as the background of these listview items like:
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Any idea what I'm missing here?
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A: you must use an xml resource for that and place your src into the xml
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Kamikaze Douga's 2013 Demo Reel Samples Studio's Best Animation Work
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure opening, Kumi Koda's music video, Ultra Jump ad, more compiled in video
On Sunday, anime studio Kamikaze Douga began streaming a demo reel video to sample the animation work it has done in the past few years:
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Вилхелм ІV (; * 13 ноември 1493, Мюнхен; † 7 март 1550, Мюнхен) от фамилията Вителсбахи, е херцог на Бавария от 1508 до 1550 г.

Произход
Той е син на херцог Албрехт IV и Кунигунда Австрийска.

Управление
Вилхелм управлява първо под опекунството на неговия чичо Волфганг, от 1511 г. самостоятелно с водещ съветник Леонхард фон Ек.

Неговият брат Лудвиг X първо е против неговите решения. На 14 октомври 1514 г. двамата братя се разбират в Ратенберг в Долна Бавария и Лудвиг може да управлява в Ландсхут над една трета от херцогството.

На 23 април 1516 г., Гергьовден, Вилхелм издава така наречения баварски райнхайтсгебот, който определя между другото съдържанието на материалите на бирата. Затова на 23 април от 1994 г. се празнува денят на Немската бира. През 1518 г. издава реформа за земята, а през 1520 г. въвежда първия общ за всички съдебен ред в Бавария.

На 25 май 1521 г. двамата братя издават Вормския едикт в Мюнхен и Ландсхут. Всички последователи на Мартин Лутер са арестувани и изгонени от страната. На 5 март 1522 г. Вилхелм IV обнародва едикт, който осъжда тезите на Лутер, а през 1524 г. забранява печатането, продаването и разпространяването на текстовете му.

Вилхелм е първият от Вителсбахите, който се мести от Алтен Хоф в Нойвесте, първоначалната сграда на Мюнхенската резиденция. Новият му дом е украсен между другото през 1528 г. от Албрехт Алтдорфер с неговата картина Александровата битка.

През 1546 – 1547 г. Вилхелм участва на страната на Карл V в Шмалкалденската война (Schmalkaldischer Krieg), но не успява да стане пфалцски курфюрст.

Той умира през 1550 г. Погребан е във Фрауенкирхе. Наследява го неговият син Албрехт V.

Семейство и деца

Херцог Вилхелм IV се жени на 5 октомври 1522 г. в Мюнхен за принцеса Мария Якобея фон Баден (1507 – 1580), дъщеря на маркграф Филип I от Баден и съпругата му принцеса Елизабет фон дер Пфалц. Двамата имат четири деца:
 Теодо (1526 – 1534)
 Албрехт V (1528 – 1579) ∞ 1546 ерцхерцогиня Анна Австрийска (1528 – 1590), дъщеря на император Фердинанд I
 Вилхелм (1529 – 1530)
 Мехтхилд (1532 – 1565) ∞ 1557 маркграф Филиберт от Баден (1536 – 1569)

От връзката му с Маргарете Хаузнер фон Щетберг има един син:
 Ритер Георг фон Хегненберг (1509 – 1590)

Източници
 Sigmund Ritter von Riezler, Wilhelm IV. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, S. 705 – 717.

Външни препратки
 Биография и снимка

Баварски херцози
Вителсбахи

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Joura is a village located in the Thatri Block of the Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir. The area is divided into two panchayats called Joura Khurd and Joura Kalan.

The village is one of the preferred routes to the hill station and meadow Jantroon Dhar.

Location
Joura is located about 21 kilometers east of the District Headquarters, Doda, and 10 kilometers from Kahara on the Thathri–Gandoh road, which connects to National Highway 244 at Thathri.

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Villages in Doda district


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Q: Error when trying to use debugger in RubyMine I've installed all the gems needed to run the debugger in my Rails app, but I get the following error. I have require 'ruby-debug' in development.rb.
Error:
runnerw.exe C:\Ruby193\bin\ruby.exe -e $stdout.sync=true;$stderr.sync=true;load($0=ARGV.shift) C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.22/bin/rdebug-ide --debug --port 7339 --dispatcher-port 7340 -- C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/script/server -b 127.0.0.1 -p 3000 -e development
Fast Debugger (ruby-debug-ide 0.4.22, ruby-debug-base19x 0.11.30.pre15) listens on 127.0.0.1:7339
Connected from 127.0.0.1
6616: Starting control thread
6616: Processing in control: b C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/app/controllers/editing_member_jobs_controller.rb:120
6616: <breakpointAdded no="1" location="C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/app/controllers/editing_member_jobs_controller.rb:120"/>
6616: Processing in control: start
6616: Starting: running program script
before C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/script/../config/boot
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:21.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#initialize is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#initialize called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:100.
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Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
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Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
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Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
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Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
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Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
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Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/source_index.rb:91.
after C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/script/../config/boot
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead.
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.12 application starting on http://127.0.0.1:3000
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:78.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#each is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#each called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:123.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:78.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#each is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#each called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:123.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#installation_path is deprecated, use base_dir. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#installation_path called from C:/skybot/int_3_6/skybot-2.0/gui/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/vendor_gem_source_index.rb:93.
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A: If you want to debug with RubyMine, remove all debugging-related gems from your Gemfile and don't require them anywhere. RubyMine's debugger doesn't need any support from your project, and it's possible that including debugging stuff in your project could break RubyMine's debugger, perhaps due to version clashes. (I believe the ruby-debug gem works only with Ruby 1.8, and I see you're using 1.9.)


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Dr Paul White
Position: Associate Professor of Classics
Areas of expertise: Classical Latin and Neo-Latin literature, particularly poetry; Latin love elegy; comparative literature; classical reception; the classical commentary; Renaissance humanism in Europe
Email: P.M.White@leeds.ac.uk
Location: 2.17 Michael Sadler Building (Office hours THUR 11-12; FRI 1-2)
I studied Classical Latin and French at Clare College, Cambridge, and remained at Cambridge for my Ph.D and as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-09). From 2009-13 held the posts of Research Associate, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Temporary Lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Before coming to Leeds I spent a year as research fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, working on the collections of early printed editions of the classics.
Subject Research Leader (Classics)
My research focuses on Latin poetry and its reception, with a particular focus on Renaissance humanism. I have published articles on poetry, education, authorship and print culture in Latin and French vernacular contexts, and am the author of two books: on the early modern reception of Ovid's Heroides (Columbus, 2009), and on the classical editions and commentaries of the Paris-based printer and author Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Oxford, 2013).
My current / forthcoming publications include a short monograph on the reception of Gaius Cornelius Gallus; a long monograph on neo-Latin love elegy; and a piece on the subject of 'Nothing'...
Gallus Reborn: A Study of the Diffusion and Reception of Works Ascribed to Gaius Cornelius Gallus (London: Routledge, 2019)
Jodocus Badius Ascensius: Commentary, Commerce and Print in the Renaissance, British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's 'Heroides' in Sixteenth-Century France (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009)
Sodalitas litteratorum: la sodalité dans la littérature néo-latine et française de la Renaissance et de l'époque moderne (1500-1675): Études à la mémoire de Philip Ford, ed. by Ingrid de Smet and Paul White (Geneva: Droz, 2019)
Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought, ed. by Emma Gilby and Paul White, Legenda (London: MHRA and Maney Publishing, 2013)
Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France, ed. by Philip Ford and Paul White (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006)
Henri Estienne, Nundiarum Francofordiensium encomium. Eloge de la foire de Francfort. Ein Lob auf die Frankfurter Messe. Encomium of the Frankfurt Fair, ed. Elsa Kammerer (Geneva: Droz, 2017)
Articles & Chapters
'The Classical Commentary in Renaissance France: Bilingual, Mixed-Language and Translated Editions', Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 41.3 (2018)
'Ronsard's Continuation des Amours (1555) in dialogue with Muret's Elegiae (1552)', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 79.1 (2017)
'Reading Horace in 1490s Padua: Willibald Pirckheimer, Joannes Calphurnius, Raphael Regius', International Journal of the Classical Tradition 23.2 (2016), 85-107
'France' in: Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin, ed. by Sarah Knight and Stephan Tilg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 411-425
'Marketing Adaptations of the Ship of Fools' in: Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe, ed. by José María Pérez Fernández & Edward Wilson-Lee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 22-39
'From Commentary to Translation: Figurative Representations of the Text in the French Renaissance', in: The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660, ed. by Tania Demetriou and Rowan Tomlinson (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 71-85
'Humanist Printers' in: Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (eds.), Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, vol. 1: Macropaedia (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 173-184
'Poetic genres—Heroides', 'Printing Centres—Basel', 'Estienne Family', 'Printing Centres—Geneva', 'Printing Centres—Paris', 'Printing Centres—Strasbourg' in: Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (eds.), Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, vol. 2: Micropaedia (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 1141-2, 1154-7, 1161-4
'Representation and Illusion in the Elegies of Théodore de Bèze' in: French Studies 66 (2012), 1-11
'Foolish Pleasures: The Stultiferae naves of Jodocus Badius Ascensius and the Poetry of Filippo Beroaldo the Elder' in: Humanistica Lovaniensia LX (2011), 65-83
'Ovid's Heroides in Early Modern French Translation: Saint-Gelais, Fontaine, Du Bellay' in: Translation and Literature 13.2 (2004), 165-80

Research projects

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Elegia renascens: Latin love elegy collections from antiquity to the Renaissance
Fellow of the HEA
Student education
I teach modules on Roman literature, comparative and reception topics, and Latin language.
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If you've tuned into the news in 2015, then Bhakti Sharma is one name you couldn't have missed. Sharma set a world record on January 10 by swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature in the Antarctic Ocean. She became the first Indian woman to achieve this feat, beating the previous record of British open water swimming champion Lewis Pugh and American swimmer Lynne Cox. She talks to Youth Inc's Aayush Ailawadi about how she achieved this herculean feat and managed to make India proud
Who are the most important people in your life who have helped you get to where you are today?
My parents, relatives and a small (but supportive) circle of friends and a lot of strangers who contact me via various media. Most importantly, my guru who has taken me through this entire journey.
Your mother is also a national level swimmer. How much of an influence or inspiration has she been in your life for you to take up swimming as a sport?
She has been the sole reason for me to take up swimming. She has been my coach and mentor ever since the day she taught me how to swim, which was when I was two and a half years old.
When I was 14, my mother pitched the idea of swimming the English Channel to me and I decided to give it a shot. I've been doing open water swimming since then.
How was the transformation from a regular pool swimming champion to someone who set the world record swimming in the Antarctic Ocean?
Physically, the transformation was drastic. But, since I was always more comfortable with long events even in pool swimming, I could adjust to open water real smoothly. It required me to increase my stamina, get used to being alone with myself in the water for hours and hours at a stretch and cope up with the fear that comes with jumping in different seas and oceans. I trained my body by swimming non-stop for hours in the pool or in a lake back home. I increased my diet to gain body fat which gets converted into energy during long swims and I trained mostly by my mother's and my instincts.
Mentally, I had to train myself a lot as open water is mostly mental strength. For the swim in Antarctica, I prepared myself with the help of meditation.
How did you manage both studies and swimming?
At home, swimming was never an excuse to escape from studies. So, since I was a child, I had been brought up to not take studies lightly. That attitude remained with me throughout my life. So, before exams, my entire focus would be on studies. I could manage to cover up whatever I had missed during the sessions in a short span of time. It was a lot of pressure but nothing that could not be done. I wanted to get into a good college on my own merit and that's what motivated me to top the commerce section of my school in the 12th grade.
Likewise, doing a master's in communication was also my wish, so I made sure to work hard for it and over the two years managed to get a good GPA, (one of the highest actually!) I believe it is always about being sure of what you want to do at that certain point of time and focusing completely on that.
You've already covered the five oceans of the world. What are your plans now?
I have no plans as of now. I wish to stay put in my home town and work for the social cause that I have taken up for the girl child and women empowerment with the help of my sponsor. I am the brand ambassador of the two campaigns that they run – 'Sakhi' and 'Khushi' and I will be working on their agenda as well.
Give us a sneak peak as to what it felt like to achieve this feat..
The logistics of this swim were a major issue and I had gone through a lot of trouble arranging it. So, after a long journey of almost four days, when I boarded the cruise from Ushuaia that took us to Antarctica, I thought to myself, "We have made it so far, this is really happening!"
When we started entering the Antarctic peninsula, the view completely changed from seeing water everywhere to ubiquitous icebergs and ice everywhere. It was intimidating at first but the beauty makes you almost weep to see the magnificence of god's amazing creation. It was all very surreal. The journey back home was actually so tiring that for a bit, I had forgotten about the swim (laughs).
Do you have other hobbies that keep you busy, or do you devote all your time to swimming?
I love to read, watch movies and sleep. So when I am not swimming, I am doing either one of these things.
What message do you have for young aspiring swimmers in India?
Dare to dream and believe that you have it in you to achieve it. My motto is – Dream. Believe. Achieve. Repeat.
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* The most challenging swim you've ever had: Swimming 1.4 miles in Antarctica
* What you love most about open water swimming: The beauty of nature and the variety. Each sea is different and teachers me something new.
* Proudest moment of your life: When strangers tell me that my swims have inspired them to achieve their goals.
* Hobbies: I love to read, watch movies and sleep.
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The exposure of the Earth's surface to rainfall is one of the key factors that determine soil erosion. Rainfall can displace soil particles either through the physical impact of the water droplet or as a result of water running across the surface, which under certain conditions can develop into small shallow channels known as rills, or eventually gullies that can be several meters deep. The capacity of rain to cause soil erosion is known as erosivity. This term reflects the kinetic energy of the rainfall which is based on its intensity (measured as mm/hour), the amount that fell (mm) and total duration.
While the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) Status of World Soil Resources reported that soil erosion by water is the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, patterns of rainfall erosivity across the planet remain poorly quantified, and estimates are prone to large uncertainties. This hampers the implementation of effective soil degradation mitigation and restoration strategies. Quantifying rainfall erosivity is challenging as it requires high temporal resolution (<30 minutes) and high fidelity rainfall recordings.
GloREDa: Global Rainfall Erosivity Database
At global scale, this is the first time ever that an erosivity database of such dimension is compiled. The Global Rainfall Erosivity Database, named hereafter as GloREDa, contains erosivity values estimated as R-factors (refer to the method section) from 3,625 stations distributed in 63 countries worldwide. This is the result of an extensive data collection of high temporal resolution rainfall data from the maximum possible number of countries in order to have a representative sample across different climatic and geographic gradients. GloREDa has three components, which are described in the relevant publication:
The Rainfall Erosivity database at European Scale (REDES)
1,865 stations from 23 countries outside Europe (Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Iran, Kuwait, Israel, Turkey, Russian Federation, United States of America, Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Colombia, Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Algeria, South Africa, Mauritius).
85 stations collected from a literature review (12 countries)
The number of GloREDa stations varied greatly among continents. Europe had the largest contribution to the dataset, with 1,725 stations (48% of total), while South America had the lowest number of stations (141 stations or ~4% of total). Africa has very low density of GloREDa stations (5% of the total). In North America and the Caribbean, we collected erosivity values from 146 stations located in 6 countries (Unites States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica and Costa Rica). Finally, Asia and the Middle East were well represented in GloREDa, with 1,220 stations (34% of the total) distributed in 10 countries including the Siberian part of the Russian Federation, China, India, Japan.
R-factor in the World
We present the results of an extensive global data collection effort whereby we estimated rainfall erosivity for 3,625 stations covering 63 countries. This first ever Global Rainfall Erosivity Database was used to develop a global erosivity map at 30 arc-seconds(~1 km) based on a Gaussian Process Regression(GPR). Globally, the mean rainfall erosivity was estimated to be 2,190 MJ mm ha-1 h-1 yr-1 and broadly reflects climatic patterns. The highest values, which are three times greater than the mean, are found in South America (especially around the Amazon Basin) and the Caribbean countries, Central Africa and parts of Western Africa and South East Asia. The lowest values are mainly found in mid- and high-latitude regions such as Canada the Russian Federation, northern Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and southern Australia. It should be noted that high rainfall erosivity does not necessarily mean high erosion, as factors such as soil characteristics, vegetative cover and land use are also important factors.
The increasing availability of rainfall data with high temporal resolution, the growing computing power, and the development of sophisticated geostatistical models, enabled the development of a global rainfall erosivity dataset at 30 arc-seconds (~1 km) spatial resolution. We acknowledge that this achievement was only feasible through the scientific cooperation between scholars from all over the globe. The global erosivity map was possible thanks to the contribution of data providers (see the long list of meteorological services, organisations, and institutions in the Acknowledgements section), tested methodologies and geostatistical models suitable for such a scale.. Compared to previous works on global R-factor estimation, our study presents a data-driven approach including measured hourly and sub-hourly data on rainfall intensity for erosivity assessment.
The new global erosivity map is proposed for global and continental assessments of soil erosion by water, flood risk and natural hazard prevention. Therefore, the aim of the global erosivity dataset is not to challenge other local (or national) erosivity maps, developed from local data with better quality that may not have been available for the present study. Nevertheless, our global R-factor map can potentially cover gaps, where erosivity has not been estimated (due to lack of data), or where it has been calculated solely from rainfall amounts.
Panagos P., Borrelli P., Meusburger K., Yu B., Klik A., Lim K.J., Yang J.E, Ni J., Miao C., Chattopadhyay N., Sadeghi S.H., Hazbavi Z., Zabihi M., Larionov G.A., Krasnov S.F., Garobets A., Levi Y., Erpul G., Birkel C., Hoyos N., Naipal V., Oliveira P.T.S., Bonilla C.A., Meddi M., Nel W., Dashti H., Boni M., Diodato N., Van Oost K., Nearing M.A., Ballabio C., 2017. Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records. Scientific Reports 7: 4175 . DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04282-8.
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The data are also accessible in: Global R-factor
Fig 1: (a) Global Rainfall Erosivity map (spatial resolution of 30 arc-seconds). Erosivity classes correspond to quantiles;
(b) number and cumulative percentage of GloREDa stations grouped by erosivity; (c) mean erosivity by continent; (d) mean erosivity by climate zone.
Fig. 2: (a) Global distribution of rainfall erosivity stations (red dots) compiled in the Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa); (b) Distribution of rainfall erosivity stations by continent.
The authors would also like to acknowledge the following services for providing access to their data:
Australia: Bureau of Meteorology
New Zealand: Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA),
Japan: Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA),
South Korea: Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA),
China: National Meteorological Information Center of China,
India: India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences,
Iran: Iranian Meteorological Organization,
Kuwait: Department of Meteorology, Directorate General of Civil Aviation,
Russian Federation: Lomonosov Moscow State University, I
Israel: Israel Meteorological Service,
Turkey: Turkish Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs,
United States of America: U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN, NOAA),
Mexcico: Comision Nacional Del Agua, Servicio Meteorologico Nacional, Mexico,
Jamaica: Meteorological service Jamaica,
Costa Rica: University of Costa Rica (UCR),
Colombia: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café – Cenicafé
Chile: General Directorate of Water Resources (Chile),
Suriname: Meteorological organization of Suriname,
Algeria: Algerian National Agency of Hydraulic Resources.
Mauritius: Mauritius Meteorological Services (MMS)
Austria: Hydrographic offices of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria, Salzburg
Belgium - Flanders: Flemish Environmental Agency (VMM), Operational Water Management.
Belgium - Wallonia: Service public de Wallonie, Direction générale Mobilité et Voies hydrauliques, Direction de la Gestion hydrologique intégrée, Namur.
Bulgaria: Rousseva et al. (2010)
Cyprus: Cyprus Department of Meteorology.
Germany: Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), WebWerdis Service
Denmark: Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology
Estonia: Client service department, Estonian Environment Agency, Tallinn
Spain: Confederaciones Hidrográficas del Ebro, Tajo, Duero, Guadalquivir, Segura, Júcar, Miño-Sil, Cantábrico and Sur, Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, and Meteo Navarra.
France: Météo-France DP/SERV/FDP, Division Fourniture de Données Publiques
Greece: Hydroskopio
Croatia: Meteorological and Hydrological Service
Hungary: Hungarian Meteorological Service
Ireland: Data from Met Éireann, financial support from Irish EPA STRIVE Programme - SILTFLUX (2010-W-LS-4) and UCD Earth Institute
Italy: the Servizio Idrografico Abruzzo, Protezione Civile Regione Basilicata, Ufficio idrografico Bolzano, Servizio Idrografico Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Centro funzionale regione Lazio, Meteotrentino, Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo e l'Innovazione dell'Agricoltura nel Molise, Servizio Meteo-Idro-Pluviometrico Marche, Associazione Regionale dei Consorzi di Difesa della Puglia, Osservatorio delle Acque Sicilia, Servizio Idrologico Regionale Toscana, Servizio Risorse idriche e rischio idraulico Umbria, Diodato Nazzareno from Regione Campagna, Centro funzionale regionale Valle d'Aosta and the Hydro-Meteo-Climate Service of the Environmental Agency ARPA Calabria, ARPA Emilia Romagna, ARPA Liguria, ARPA Lombardia, ARPA Piemonte, ARPA Veneto.
Latvia: Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Riga
Lithuania: Mazvila et al. (2010)
Luxembourg: Agrarmeteorologisches Messnetz Luxembourg
Netherlands: KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Portugal: Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, Departamento de Monitorização de Recursos Hídricos
Poland: Banasik et al. (2001)
Romania: National Meteorological Administration
Slovakia: Malisek et al. (1992) , Jan Styk and Jozef Kobza from Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute Bratislava
Slovenia: Slovenian Environment Agency, Petan et al. (2010)
Sweden: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
Switzerland : MeteoSchweiz, Meusburger et al. (2012)
United Kingdom: NERC & UK Environmental Change Network (ECN), and British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
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Perhaps it is the recent visit of Richard Dawkins to Australia or maybe I am imagining it, but it seems to me that the atheist attack on faith and belief is fairly intense at the moment. Rather than be embarrassed to be a believer, however, i want to suggest that belief and faith are completely reasonable behaviours.
In fact, human progress is dependent upon belief. As Bernard Lonergan observes, "progress in knowledge is possible because successive generations were ready to believe". Without belief, we would feel the need to start from scratch at every turn. But this is to forget that 'truth' is a public reality and knowledge of that truth is a public and shared – beyond the capacity of any individual. To function, to move forward, to create, we thus need to believe.
This is not to say that belief is unthinking. Unthinking belief (fideism) leads to our ruin. We might believe that homeopathy can cure our ills but if we have no grounds for this belief we may kill a child by neglecting evidenced based medicine (see story in SMH). We might believe that a particular girl is in love with us, but without grounds for such belief we may well receive a slap in the face. We thus need to put our belief to the test – to make a judgment on its veracity. We do this in various ways. We might, for example, be able to justify belief according to our own experience. We believe the scaffolding will hold our weight because it has done so before. Our experience is, however, limited, so our belief is also grounded on our willingness to trust the testimony of others. In this case, we ascertain the veracity of our belief by judging the trustworthiness of the source. I trust that a builder is expert enough to safely construct my new house, because she is an expert in her field (and i cannot nail a hammer in a wood). Similarly, my own experience does not enable me to test the truthfulness of Einsteins theory of relativity. But i can make a judgment that he is sufficiently qualified and intelligent – and that his work has been investigated by other cosmic physicists. Thus, i can conclude my belief in the truthfulness of the theory of general relativity is reasonable.
Belief, although reasonable, is not certain knowledge, although it may become such. If i gather sufficient evidence, i may be able to make the judgement that my belief is true – i.e. it is something i know for certain. You might believe, for example, that Alphacrucis College had sold its property. You might have good reason to assert this belief (you saw it in a newspaper). But this belief would become certain knowledge only when you gathered sufficient evidence; when, for example, you witnessed the contract of exchange. Of course, some things can only ever be believed, since certain knowledge of everything is beyond us. I believe my house will not fall down tomorrow. I have good evidence for this. It did not fall down yesterday, and seems to be sturdily build. But I don't know the future and for all i know a plane might fall out of the sky tomorrow and come crashing through my roof.
Anyway, what has this rambling discussion got to do with Christianity? Firstly, it reminds us that Christians who believe unthinkingly are in trouble. Fideism (blind, irrational belief) leads to stupid actions – to patients who refuse medical treatment on the grounds that it would be 'lack of faith' – to people being duped into giving unreasonable sums of money to so-called health and wealth teachers; the list is endless.
Secondly, it helps us to assert that belief is not irrational. We need to remember that we have good reason for our belief (and if we don't we need to search such reasons out). We have our own experience; the transforming work of God in our own lives. We have the testimony of our friends and neighbours. And we have the testimony of the writers of the Scriptures, and of the great thinkers of the church – Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Luther etc. More than this, we can apply our own minds to the task of thinking through our beliefs – to putting our beliefs to the test.
Finally, however, we are reminded that our beliefs about God can never be certain knowledge, at least not of the sort that grounds science and that can be 'proven'. God always transcends our knowledge. God is bigger and more mysterious then we can ever know, and so our belief is not certainty ( a fact that should lead us to be generous to those with different religious beliefs). That is why belief in God is grounded in faith. Lonergan suggests that faith is 'knowledge born of religious love'. It is the knowledge that God has revealed himself; that there is meaning and purpose in the world revealed ultimately in Jesus Christ.
As i noted in an earlier post faith is not the absence of doubt but, rather, a deeply intuitive trust in the goodness of God in the face of our doubts. It is a trust that is revealed to us through Jesus, one that enables us to persevere through the hard times (even the 'godforsaken' times). It is also a trust that grounds our beliefs, which may not be 'provable' to the atheist, but which are reasonable nevertheless.
The Dawkins approach also seems to selectivly deride personal experience as a form of / basis for knowing or knowledge.
His response was astounding… he dropped his hands, seemed to sag and then said.."How can I argue against that"?


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The NFL Raided London
September 29, 2014 October 24, 2014 by anthonywootton78, posted in 2014 NFL Season, NFL London
NFL UK put on another remarkable show
The UK became a Raider Nation this weekend as the first International Series of 2014 got off to a fine start
Oakland flew into London 0&3 but were buoyed by a promising performance at New England last week. Raiders fans had hoped to see their team clock up its first win of the season and things looked good as Derek Carr oversaw an impressive first drive that ended with a three yard touchdown to Brian Leonhardt.
The Dolphins responded to that early blow by kicking a field goal and then the points kept coming. Ryan Tannehill found his groove and threw for 278 yards and two touchdowns. Not bad for a QB whose coach refused to comment on whether he was going to start him this week. By the end of the third quarter Miami saw themselves 38-7 up.
The rookie Derek Carr threw for 146 yards, 1 TD and an interception before leaving the field in the third quarter with an injury. Matt McGloin took over and had a moment to forget on his second play as he watched the snap shoot past and picked up by Miami's cornerback, Cortland Finnegan, who ran in the TD.
The Raiders will fly back to California on Monday morning with question marks hanging over head coach Dennis Allen's future.
Although The Black Hole will be disappointed with their team's performance under the arch, 83,000 football fans will have left Wembley satisfied with the event they experienced. NFL UK put on another festival that will further enhance this fine sport on our shores.
There's only four weeks until two of the NFC's biggest shooters come to town with Megatron and Julio Jones whetting our appetites.
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Enviable Dream Girl
by G Swaminathan
Many of the Gen X persons may be knowing Hema Malini just as an actor of yesteryear, probably a danseuse a politician and a BJP MP from Mathura. Yes. They might not be much aware of her filmography. One another South Indian beauty who invaded the Hindi filmdom after Vyjayanthimala was Hema Malini. In fact, she used bear a strong semblance to Vyjayanthi the time she entered with 'Sapnon Ka Saudagar' in 1968 and her hero was Raj Kapoor. That film was not a success but Hema Malini was. Her sharp facial features, height and grace brought her a number of offers; Waris, Jahan Pyaar Mile, Abhinetri, Tum Haseen Main Jawan, Sharafat and, well, the block buster 'Johnny Mera Naam' opposite Dev Anand (1970).
After that there was no turning back for Hema Malini; she turned out to be a lucky mascot for all the heroes of Hindi at that point of time. In 1972, Ramesh Sippy's 'Seeta Aur Geeta' catapulted her to the top. Though she starred opposite to Dharmendra who also later became her life partner too, she gave hits with Raj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Sashi Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor (she was the only actor who had acted as heroine to all the Kapoors except Rishi in that family), Manoj Kumar, Feroz Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.
She had the good time of successful commercial directors like Ramesh Sippy, Manmohan Desai, Vijay Anand, Pramod Chakravorty, Basu Chatterjee, Dulal Guha, KS Prakash Rao, Bhappi Sonie, Subodh Mukherjee, CV Sridhar, Mohan Seghal, Yash Chopra, KS Prakash Rao, Prakash Mehra, Sohanlal Kanwar, Sakthi Samanta, Feroz Khan, Chetan Anand, Kamal Amrohi and Gulzar. In all her commercial films her presence was felt and they invariably carried catchy songs by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, RD Burman, Shankar-Jaikishen and Kalyanji-Anandji.
Hema Malini had the credit of only appreciation from all her costars and directors as a very cordial but a slightly reserved person. No complaints or tantrums. She featured in a couple of tele serials in Doordarshan also and 'Nupur' based on the life of a Bharatanatyam dancer was notable. She was also giving classical performances notwithstanding her several film commitments. She trained her daughters Esha and Ahana too in Bharatnatyam and Kathak and the trio had given stage performances also.
Hema Malini's roles in Lal Paththar, Kushboo, Andaz, Kinara, Seeta Aur Geeta. Sholay and Tere Mere Sapne and her fag end movie 'Bhaghbaan' with Amitabh were appreciated by even her strong critics.
Hema Malini, in my opinion, is a figure of beauty and dignity. She was given the most apt title 'Dream Girl'. That she keeps maintaining even today. Her sartorial taste is archetypal and most of her appearances in the public or ads will be only in saris representing a typical Bharatiya Nari.I happened to watch her latest movie 'Shimla Mirchi' recently where she was again seen as a woman of grace and poise.
Hema Malini is a Libran and was born on 16 October 1948.
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You'll be able to take liquids through security that meet the general restrictions. When you're travelling with a baby, you may also take milk and formula in baby bottles, which can exceed the liquid measure restrictions.
Your child will have the same free checked baggage allowance as you, which will vary depending on which cabin you are travelling in.
If you are travelling with an infant (under 2), they are given one free checked bag, as per the adult weight and size limit for that travel class. This does not apply if you are travelling with your infant on a hand baggage only (Basic) fare.
You cannot combine your baggage allowances, so please make sure you know the number of bags per person, plus size and weight limits for checked bags.
If you're travelling from London Heathrow Terminal 5, check in at our family area located in Zone A. With direct access to oversize baggage belts for car seats and pushchairs, and games to keep the little ones entertained, it will make check in easier for all the family.
When it comes to pushchairs, the size is all important if you want to be able to collect your pushchair at the aircraft door on arrival.
If you have a small, fully collapsible and lightweight pushchair/stroller (with maximum dimensions of 117cm x 38cm x 38cm/46in x 15in x 15in when the pushchair is collapsed), you will qualify to take this right to the aircraft door and collect at the aircraft door at most airports.
Please arrive at your departure gate no later than 45 minutes before departure time, and prepare to pre-board the aircraft.
The staff will put your pushchair into the hold and will do all possible to return it to you at the aircraft door. Pushchairs that fold down into a carry bag, such as the Yo-Yo Zen and are within the maximum hand baggage dimensions, can be taken on board in place of, but not in addition to, your larger cabin bag. As with all larger cabin bags, this is not guaranteed to travel in the cabin, but our staff will make every effort to accommodate it so long as space is available.
Please be aware that walking distances at airports can be long, and if you bring a pushchair that does not fit within the criteria to be collected at the aircraft door, you should be prepared to transport your child to the baggage carousel by another method. Many parents find slings useful to carry their baby whilst keeping hands free for baggage.
You may take the car seat on board the aircraft, if you have booked a seat for your infant or child and intend to secure the car seat into it.
Please check car seat dimensions and safety requirements so that you know your car seat will fit safely into the aircraft seat.


Join us on the second Sunday of each month, 1:30 – 3:30 PM, at our Plants and People series, "Exploration Station," for elementary-aged children and youth to experience fun and educational hands-on gardening with a project to take home.
Join us the third Sunday of each month, 1:30 – 3:30 PM, at our Plants and People series, "Sprouts," to introduce pre-K and early elementary children to the world of plants, with a craft activity, followed by story time. Story time begins at 2:30 PM, and children must be accompanied by an adult.
Join us the fourth Sunday of each month, 1:30 – 3:30 PM, at our Plants and People series, "Science Demonstration," with Dr. Alan Stone for demonstrations and items on display. Explore the interconnection between plants, science, and even engineering.
Check back for more information about our Wednesday night series, returning this Summer to complement the Druid Hill Farmers' Market.
Call 410-396-0008 for more information.


Tom is a producing branch manager in Chicago, Illinois. He has been selling mortgages since 2002 and currently manages a branch with 4 loan officers. He has built his business through personal relationships with clients and business partners and year over year has consistently grown his business through their referrals. He and his branch close over 100M a year and are growing. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife Carrie and their 2 boys Tommy and William.