As Barack Obama makes his slow but steady way toward the Democratic nomination, the assumption in the admiring precincts of the press corps is that voters have dismissed as irrelevant his longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that may prove as mistaken as the assumption, back in 1988, that voters would not be impressed by Michael Dukakis's 11-year support of a law granting weekend furloughs to convicts sentenced to life without parole, an issue brought up in the primaries by Al Gore but largely ignored in press coverage at the time.
Evidence for this comes in the exit polls from the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries on May 13 and 20. In both, about half the voters -- and these are voters in the Democratic primary -- said that they believe Obama shares Wright's views either somewhat or a lot. And slightly under 50 percent of these voters said that Obama is honest and trustworthy.
To be sure, these were primaries in which Obama was beaten, and beaten badly, by Hillary Clinton -- 67 percent to 26 percent in West Virginia, 66 percent to 30 percent in Kentucky. So they would be inclined, one might believe, to think ill of Obama. Yet it is not universally the case that voters who choose one candidate in a hotly contested election doubt whether the other candidate is honest. You can oppose someone who you believe to be trustworthy. Only 38 percent of Americans voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George McGovern in 1972. But probably a higher percentage believed that they were basically honest.
Which leads me to ask why these voters declined to say Obama is honest. When have they seen him lie or being caught in a lie? The response to the question on Wright may provide the answer. They know that he attended Wright's church for 20 years. They know that he said, both on March 18 when he refused to renounce Wright and on April 29 when he did renounce him, that he was not aware of his pastor and spiritual mentor's incendiary comments. Yet half of these voters also think that, despite those statements, Obama agrees with what Wright has been saying.
It's a little dangerous in interpreting polls to assume that voters' thinking proceeds along logical lines. People who aren't professionally involved in politics, whose knowledge comes from bits and snippets of news, can hold beliefs that are contradictory or in tension with each other. They don't feel obliged to resolve contradictions. But even granting that, it seems to me that about half of West Virginia and Kentucky Democratic primary voters were saying that Obama lied about not knowing what Wright has been preaching and that he agrees with him a lot more than he has let on.
Now West Virginia and Kentucky are not typical primary states. They, together with Arkansas, where Hillary Clinton was first lady for 12 years, were Obama's weakest states in this year's primaries. And some percentage of registered Democrats in these states have been voting Republican in recent presidential elections. Nevertheless, the negative verdict these voters render on Obama's honesty and his relationship with Wright is likely to be typical of some significant quantum of potential Democratic voters this year. And not just in states like West Virginia and Kentucky, which he will certainly lose, but in marginal states which he must carry in order to be elected.
I find confirmation from this in a recent focus group conducted for the Annenberg Public Policy Center by pollster Peter Hart (for whom I worked for seven years) of non-primary voters in Charlottesville, Va. As Hart and Alex Horowitz note in their analysis of reactions to Obama, "When asked to recount any two memories of the total presidential campaign so far, seven of the 12 participants cite Rev. Wright by name. So far, clips of Rev. Wright clearly are the one 'key defining moment' of this campaign."
Most reporters are liberals, whose circles of friends and acquaintances have included people with views not dissimilar to those of Wright or William Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground bomber with whom Obama served on a nonprofit board and at whose house his state Senate candidacy was launched. Such reporters don't find these views utterly repugnant or particularly noteworthy. But most American voters do. And they wonder whether a candidate who associates with such people agrees with them -- or disbelieve him when he says he doesn't.
Though most in the press won't admit it, that's a problem -- for the Obama candidacy and for the whole Democratic Party once it nominates him.


2019 promises to be another very active year for independent power producers and energy projects throughout Africa.
There is huge international investor focus on African energy projects and the role of IPPs due to the power shortages and load shedding in the various regions and the increasing demand for energy amongst the growing economies. Opportunities for projects using both renewable and thermal technologies are expanding. South Africa's Department of Energy's Renewable Energy Power Producer's Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) launched an IPP development boom in the region; now there is investment across the continent in various technologies.
The 6th Independent Power Producers and Power Purchase Agreements Conference (IPP & PPA Conference) will once again take place alongside the annual Africa Energy Indaba conference in Johannesburg on Thursday 21st February as an official side event.
The IPP and PPA day will be relevant across the board to those involved or interested in IPPs, regardless of technology and country.
Africa needs power, with only 25 percent of the population currently with electricity access, and poor supply the rule, not the exception. The cost of meeting Africa's power sector needs is estimated at $40.8 billion a year, equivalent to 6.35 percent of Africa's GDP. The lack of power infrastructure is proving a bottleneck to growth and is an urgent problem which needs to be addressed. More than 30 African countries are now experiencing power shortages.
Governments are becoming more sophisticated and increasingly opening up to private-sector and foreign investment. Monumental gas discoveries in East Africa between 2010 and 2012 have attracted investment and increased fuel-supply options for power generation. The United Nations' Sustainable Energy for All initiative has attracted more than $120 billion in commitments for the sector in Africa. Most recently, in 2013, the United States announced its Power Africa initiative, underscoring the importance of the opportunity.
The IPP & PPA Conference will unpack the elements needed to understand structuring a bankable power purchase agreement (PPA) with the necessary knowledge on the key features of a PPA and when to use one. Added to this will be discussions relating to the African Independent Power Producer (IPP) market, what we need to know about energy projects in Africa, financing the projects as well as understanding the legal and regulatory environments. The growth of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) will also be expanded upon in the conference and understanding how an IPP can successfully engage in a PPP.


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Frank Kitchen (birth registered third quarter of 1931) is an English World Cup winning former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Leigh (Heritage No. 606), as a , i.e. number 2 or 5.

Background
Frank Kitchen's birth was registered in Prescot district, Lancashire, England.

Playing career

International honours
Frank Kitchen won caps for Great Britain while at Leigh in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup against Australia, and New Zealand (World Cup 1954 2-caps, 3-tries).

Frank Kitchen played , i.e. number 5 and scored a try in Great Britain's 28–13 victory over Australia in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup first group match at Stade de Gerland, Lyon on Sunday, 31 October 1954, and scored two tries in Great Britain's 26–6 victory over New Zealand in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup third group match at Parc Lescure, Bordeaux on Thursday, 11 November 1954.

Mick Sullivan moved from  to replace Frank Kitchen on the Wing for Great Britain's 13–13 draw with France in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup second group match at Stade Municipal, Toulouse on Sunday 7 November 1954, and Great Britain's 16–12 victory over France in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup Final at Parc des Princes, Paris on Saturday 13 November 1954, with Albert Naughton replacing Mick Sullivan at , i.e. number 4.

County Cup Final appearances
Frank Kitchen played , i.e. number 5, in Leigh's 22–5 victory over St. Helens 1952–53 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1952–53 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 29 November 1952.

Genealogical information
Frank Kitchen's marriage to Florence T. (née Riley) was registered during third quarter 1954 in St. Helens district. They had children; Raymond Kitchen first quarter  in St. Helens district), Susan Y. Kitchen second quarter  in St. Helens district),  and the twins;
Michael Kitchen third quarter  in St. Helens district), and Stephen Kitchen third quarter  in St. Helens district.

References

External links
!Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk (statistics currently missing due to not having appeared for both Great Britain, and England)

1931 births
Living people
English rugby league players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Leigh Leopards players
Rugby league players from Prescot
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I have a domain local security group in domain A which contains 1 user from a domain B and several from domain A.
On a server in domain A, I can add this domain local group to the local machine administrators group via 'net localgroup', however, after doing this I notice that the members of that group aren't being given local admin permissions (can't remote login, etc).
When I look at local groups via the computer mgmt gui I can see the domain local group. I tried to delete and add it back via the gui, however, the domain local group can't be found. I can see all the global groups, but not any domain local.
I've searched and can't find anything that indicates this shouldn't work.
Should I be able to add a domain local security group to a local machine administrators group? If so, why would I not be able to find the object using the group management gui?
Workstation SAMs act in many ways like separate domains with a one-way trust relationship. So while I can't find it explicitly documented, I don't find it surprising that this doesn't work, as it is analogous to adding a domain local group from one domain into a domain local group from another domain, which isn't allowed (see table 7-1).
In any case, you should be able to solve your problem by changing the domain local group into a universal group. Assuming you are at least running in Windows 2000 native mode and not Windows 2000 mixed mode, universal groups are supported, and they are specifically designed for this sort of scenario.
I've had a similar issue: I could add a domain local group to a local group on a domain member (e.g. "net localgroup administrators /add NameOfDomainLocalGroup") but the membership didn't display (e.g. in output of "net localgroup administrators") and the membership didn't take effect.
Look up Microsoft's AGDLP design best practice. Your Accounts should go into Global groups, and your Global groups should go into Domain Local groups. You then assign Permissions to Domain Local Groups.
So in your case, create a DL group called "ServerX Local Admins" and add that to the local Administrators group on the server. Create a Global group with a meaningful representative name and add the account from Domain B to that group. Then, add that group to the DL group.
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Fraud is an important source of risks that can affect the safety of food and feed. Also because fraud undermines exactly the system that was built to assure that safety. Just like the food industry, the feed sector acknowledges the necessity to put it on the agenda and take action accordingly. To contribute to this, GMP+ International has drawn up a manual. The feed fraud information document provides guidance for recognizing fraud, describes the impact of fraud and describes measures that companies can take.
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Companies can prepare for fraud. In the information document, GMP+ International gives companies tools, which are briefly and concisely discussed in the information sheet about feed fraud. What's important, is to know what 'the standard' is (in terms of price, quality, levels etc). Based on that, deviations can be detected, which can be a signal for fraud. The company must be able to deal with these signals adequately. In addition to an open culture to report and discuss signals, this means that people know what action is required and who bears what responsibility. These elements for a proprietary approach are also discussed in the training day about feed fraud. GMP+ International organizes this day next summer.
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Pete Crow-Armstrong
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Acquired from the Mets for two months of Javier Baez at the 2021 trade deadline, Crow-Armstrong is now one of the Cubs' best long-term building blocks. He needed shoulder surgery in early 2021 and returned last season with a vengeance, slashing .307/.372/.520 with 16 home runs, 32 steals (74.4% success rate), a 21.4 K% and a 7.8 BB% in 476 plate appearances, with over half of those coming at High-A. His approach was significantly better at Single-A (0.67 BB/K) than at High-A (0.20 BB/K), but he put his power and speed to use with regularity in games at both stops. His 39% groundball rate at High-A was particularly strong. The lefty-hitting center fielder has clear big-league tools, it's just a question of whether his bat will belong in the top third of a lineup or in the bottom half. His plus speed is even more evident when he's covering ground in center field than when he is on the basepaths, and his excellent defense should protect against a platoon or inconsistent playing. He should spend the bulk of his age-21 season at Double-A. Read Past Outlooks
League A+
Throws L
Drafted 1st Rd 2020
$Signed a $3.36 million contract with the Mets in June of 2020. Traded to the Cubs in July of 2021.
Shows promise in 2022
OFChicago Cubs A+
Crow-Armstrong hit .312/.376/.520 with 16 homers, 32 steals (on 43 tries) and a 36:102 BB:K over 101 games split between Single-A and High-A in 2022.
Crow-Armstrong was much better across 39 games in Single-A (.998 OPS) than in the 63 games he played in High-A (.832 OPS), but he closed out the season on a heater, batting .362/.408/.543 over his final 23 games. Notably, Crow-Armstrong struck out at just an 18.4 percent clip over that stretch -- a huge improvement over the nearly 30 percent figure he was sitting on in High-A before then. That said, he also drew just three walks in that span, so he clearly still has some work to do. Nonetheless, Crow-Armstrong has impressive tools and makeup, making him one of the Cubs' top prospects. He's still a couple years away from the big leagues, though.
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The Cubs did a nice piece of business when they acquired Crow-Armstrong from the Mets in exchange for Javier Baez and Trevor Williams at the trade deadline. He only played in six games at Low-A before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury, but he may not have been available for a Baez rental had he stayed healthy. Crow-Armstrong couldn't have performed much better in his limited action, notching 10 hits (including two doubles) with more walks (seven) than strikeouts (six) in those six games. He also attempted five steals but was successful just twice. He gets rave reviews for his defense in center field and plus speed on the bases, but Crow-Armstrong has a sneaky high offensive ceiling -- there is more power potential than he is given credit for by some evaluators. If it all comes together, he could be a 20/20 threat who leads off or bats second. Given his limited pro experience, his stock could swing significantly in either direction in his age-20 season, depending on how he performs at the plate.
Crow-Armstrong, one of the most famous prep players in last year's class, has a chance to be a five-tool player if his bat maxes out. The Mets selected him with the 19th overall pick and he now profiles as their center fielder of the future. He should hold plus speed into his late 20s and could be a plus defensive center fielder with a plus arm. While he will probably always be hit-over-power, Crow-Armstrong has plus bat speed and a good swing plane, so if he develops a plus hit tool, he should be able to tap into 20-homer power. He didn't live up to expectations in the summer of 2019, but the left-handed hitter was off to a great start last spring, and he could have risen back into top-10 consideration had he played a full senior season at Harvard-Westlake. He started tapping into power during the fall instructional league, driving the ball to both gaps and hitting one out at 107 mph.
Heavy strikeout numbers in High-A
Crow-Armstrong has hit .253 with eight homers, 13 steals and a .791 OPS in 42 games since his promotion to High-A South Bend, but he's also struck out 51 times in 196 plate appearances -- a 28.6 percent clip.
Returning to action Saturday
Crow-Armstrong (hand) will return to the lineup at High-A South Bend on Saturday, Patrick Mooney of The Athletic reports.
Dealing with hand injury
Crow-Armstrong is dealing with a bruise on the back of his hand and is expected to be sidelined for a week or two, Maddie Lee of the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Decent start at High-A
Crow-Armstrong is slashing .238/.238/.571 with two doubles, a triple, a home run, three RBI and four runs scored through five games with High-A South Bend.
Advances to High-A
Crow-Armstrong was promoted to High-A South Bend on Monday, Tim Stebbins of NBC Sports Chicago reports.


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Although the play wasn't quite as jaw-dropping as Beckham's was last year, it was pretty amazing to see, nonetheless, especially considering it came from a middle linebacker.
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Le Carlottin anglais (Parophrys vetulus) est une espèce de poissons plats de la famille des Pleuronectidae. C'est la seule espèce du genre Parophrys.

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Refugee program cuts take a toll on Colorado's resettlement agencies
Program in limbo
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Mani Dahal says with fewer refugees, employer demand for workers is high.
A decade after Mani Dahal, his wife and their two children arrived at the airport in Denver, the 47-year-old Bhutan native works at the same resettlement agency that helped him escape a refugee camp in Nepal, where he had lived for 16 years.
Dahal fled ethnic persecution in his South Asian homeland, immigrating to the U.S. in the midst of the Great Recession. Now the sustainability program manager at the African Community Center (ACC), Dahal says the problem for these refugees isn't jobs — he says there are far more openings than people to fill them in metro Denver. Last year, ACC set up almost 400 refugees with jobs. But as those workers move up the ladder, employers struggle to find new recruits.
A May report from the state's Office of Economic Security showed that for every $1 in refugee assistance, $1.68 is generated in state economic output. Most refugees join the workforce less than three months after they arrive in the U.S.
But there are difficulties now that Dahal didn't have to face: the anxiety of waiting years overseas to gain approval for protected status, the sting of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the uncertainty over whether family members left behind will make it here.
"People get jobs within the first month of their arrival, but there's an emotional kind of challenge, a lot of talk going around about immigration, immigrants and things like that that will probably not give a positive feeling to the new arrivals," Dahal says. "I might feel like, 'Maybe I was wrong to come to this country.'"
With President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance policy along the southwestern border now on hold, another of his administration's policies is making ripples in communities all over the country. There are tens of thousands fewer refugees arriving in the country this year than at any other time since 1980, when the United States' refugee resettlement program was established, according to the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
Before leaving office, President Barack Obama set the 2017 cap at 110,000 refugees. Trump's Jan. 27 executive order, titled, "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States," cut that number in half.
This year, Trump set the cap at 45,000. But in reality, with less than 15,000 refugees accepted as of May 31, the Office of Refugee Resettlement is now on pace to reach less than half of that total, according to news reports. Normally, the total number falls no more than a few thousand short of the cap, but changes at the administrative level overseas, including a longer vetting process, have caused a shortfall unheard of since right after 9/11.
The cuts have had a dramatic effect on the refugee resettlement program from the administrative level down to local communities, says Cathy Verdier, volunteer coordinator for Lutheran Family Services' Colorado Springs office. The office provided services to 111 refugees last year, and only 40 so far in 2018.
The organization, which has offices throughout Colorado and New Mexico, is one of nine national resettlement agencies that works with the federal government to set up refugees with housing, employment services, medical care, English classes and more. The Colorado Springs office sees a high percentage of refugees with Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, from Iraq and Afghanistan. These visas are granted to people who work with the U.S. military, often as translators or interpreters, who would consequently face persecution in their home countries.
Verdier says that since the drastic change in the number of refugees coming through, the agency's Colorado Springs office has seen a slight decrease in federal funding, but has mostly been able to make up for it with grant money and donations.
Another change Verdier had noticed earlier in the year was a lack of people interested in volunteering. "I think that [was] due to the fact that people think refugees aren't coming," she says. "They [didn't] realize there's still a need out there."
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Then the crisis at the border began making headlines, as Trump's immigration policy separated thousands of children from their parents, placing parents in detention awaiting legal proceedings while children were housed in shelters. The recently rescinded policy impacted families seeking protection from persecution and gang violence in their home countries.
Verdier believes that's why her lag in volunteers recently reversed: She had nine people sign up for this month's training, but already has 30 signed up for next month. "That's a very visible way of seeing how just the knowledge out in the public has affected us."
At the ACC, Dahal helps refugees adjust to a new life in Denver. Managing Director Melissa Theesen says the agency has resettled 134 of the 400 refugees it had planned to accommodate this year. Two years ago, it resettled 581.
A lower cap can take a toll on agencies' programs, Theesen says, because the amount of federal funding is partly determined on a per-person basis.
"The hard thing for organizations like ours is there's sort of those minimum functions, that no matter if we get 100 or 400, we're going to need just some basic functions happening here," Theesen says. "So we've been leaning a lot more on private funding."
The agency has shifted its focus to the refugees already here, Theesen says, and finding new ways to help them adjust. For example, ACC recently launched a privately funded bike-riding education program for refugee women.
There is a difference between refugees, who come through resettlement agencies, and asylees, such as the parents and children being separated at the border.
While refugees go through an extensive vetting process overseas, and must have their paperwork approved before entering the United States, asylum seekers ask for protection when presenting themselves at a port of entry or submit an application from within the U.S.
Refugees and asylees must meet the same requirements, set out in the Immigration and Nationality Act, including proving a "well-founded fear of persecution" in their country of nationality on the basis of race, religion, nationality or social group. While there's a cap each year on refugees, there's no official limit to the number of people who can receive asylum status each year.
Lutheran Family Services can't provide services for asylees until they are approved for protected status, but Catholic Charities of Central Colorado's Springs office often works with both refugees (after they've been in the U.S. for a year and can apply for green cards) and asylum seekers, including the parents and children separated at the border. Catholic Charities also helps refugees through the family reunification process, through which refugees' family members overseas may sometimes join them in the U.S.
Eric Pavri is the director of family immigration services at Catholic Charities. He says his office hasn't yet seen the full effect of the lowered refugee cap, because it usually works with refugees at least a year after they immigrate.
Pavri emphasizes that lower arrival numbers are about more than just the cap — they're also a result of staffing cuts and directives from the State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
"There are sort of a million little ways that our immigration agencies — even if officially the law hasn't changed or the policy hasn't changed — have just been instructed to sort of slow things down," Pavri says. "So this isn't just a crackdown on undocumented immigrants or unlawful immigration, it's a crackdown on people trying to do things the legal way."
Like Catholic Charities, ACC helps refugees through the family reunification process, an area in which Dahal has also seen a major slowdown.
"Their families are back there in the refugee camp," Dahal says. "We are serving this community and they come with all these questions, 'When will my family come?' ... And we don't have the answer for them."
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Texas Falls to Visiting Houston 4-2
Posted by Stephen Meserve on November 26, 2011
It was the same story, but just a different weekend for the Stars this Saturday. Following a nice OT win in Houston last night, Texas returned home for another matchup with the Aeros and dropped it in regulation. The Stars again had a mixed bag night. "I know it's cliched," said winger Luke Gazdic, "But we're not playing a full 60." Coach Pyle added to that, looking to the veteran players to provide consistency to the younger ones. "Our best players have got to be our best players, and right now, they're not."
The Stars gave up a goal in the first minute of the game but gained the lead in the first minute of the second at 2-1. Texas gave up the lead with two goals against in the second and trailed all the way to a 4-2 loss. "We get what we deserve, if you're not totally committed every shift you're going to struggle"
The first shift starting things off on the wrong foot for Texas. "Veterans guys make a mistake and didn't cover a guy in the slot," said Coach Pyle. That guy in the slot, Joel Broda, made them pay, sneaking down and gunning one past Richard Bachman just 42 seconds into the first. Texas had the quick answer with Mike Hedden's first of the season exactly two minutes later. The fourth line was really earned the goal with Brenden Dillon and Ondrej Roman picking up assists on the tying goal.
The Stars jumped ahead on the power play just 34 seconds into the second period. Jordie Benn blasted one from the point to score his 6th of the season. Glennie and Sceviour assisted, and Texas was in the driver's seat. Texas gave Houston a 5-on-3 opportunity six minutes into the period, and the Aeros made them pay. "The penalty to give them to 5-on-3 was a game changer," said Pyle. "You're only going to kill off so many penalties." Texas Stars-killer Jon DiSalvatore had the goal.
Penalties have been a going concern for Texas. "It's one thing if a guy's battling and maybe he makes a hit like the Wathier penalty in the third period," said Gazdic. "But the trips and the little things, that's just not working hard."
Houston got the next one as well on another missed coverage play by Texas's veterans. The Stars got cuaght watching the puck in their zone and Bachman had no chance to stop a puck off the stick of Chad Rau, which went five hole and set the score at 3-2. "You've got to be able to read and react, head on a swivel. You can't blame [Bachman] for [the third goal]."
Houston added another in the third period, again from Joel Broda. Texas pulled Bachman for the final two and a half minutes of the game in an attempt to get things back to even to no avail.
The Stars now head on the road for two games against the Checkers, a team they've never played before. Charlotte will then travel to Texas for their first game in the Cedar Park Center.
Tonight's lines:
Garbutt-Morin-Sawada
Gazdic-Sceviour-Tousignant
Glennie-Wathier-Fraser
Schultz-Roman-Hedden
Benn-Dillon
Labrie-Fortunus
Spang-Lukowich
Injuries, scratches, and notes:
Coyle, Godard (scratched)
Larsen, Vincour (callup)
Tonight's attendance was 6,274.
AHL Gamesheet - Texas v. Houston - November 26 2011
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Travis Morin and Colton Sceviour celebrate Morin's first goal of the night. (Credit: Christina Shapiro/Texas Stars) Despite some late game goals by the Comets, Texas secured its franchise-record ninth straight home win thanks to a natural hat trick from the league's leading scorer, Travis Morin. After the Dowling, Hedden, Ritchie line led the team to victory last night, it was Morin's line doing all the scoring in this 5-3 win. "We have a lot of guys capable of scoring," said Coach Desjardins. "We're going to need that. We need all the lines going, and it's good to see different lines lead us every night." Morin added, "You get down to the playoffs and the grind of the season, you can't count on just certain guys to score. Everyone has to contribute." The veteran center, Morin, put in the first three of the night in succession over the first and second period while Colton Sceviour added another to make it 4-0 in the second
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Angela Bassett-Led Series '911' Renewed For Season 2
Congrats to Angela Bassett and the whole cast!
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Angela Bassett has a big reason to celebrate and it's all thanks to the love that fans and viewers are showing her new series 911. It has just been announced that the freshman drama series has officially been renewed for a second season.
Just two episodes in, @FOXTV has renewed hit drama series #911onFOX for a second season https://t.co/mV1ssgFZj3
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After airing only two episodes, FOX is feeling so good about mid-season replacement series 911 that they have given the greenlight for season two. Deadline reports that due to positive reviews and even better ratings, 911 being renewed should come as no surprise, as the show has been killing it on Wednesday nights despite some stiff competition.
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Written and executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear, '911' is coming off record ratings for its series premiere. The debut episode has drawn more than 15 million viewers in seven-day multi-platform viewing for Fox's largest premiere since 'Empire' in 2015, excluding post-Super Bowl premieres, according to the network. In Nielsen Live + 7, the show drew 10.7 million viewers, up 57% from L+SD. On social media, '911' is this season's No. 1 new broadcast drama series and the most engaging new broadcast program on YouTube, with more than nine million views.
In week two, '911' delivered a three-day multi-platform audience of 11.6 million viewers, including its encore. The show posted a 2.5/9 L3 rating in adults 18-49, up 67% vs. L+SD, tying 'Modern Family' as the night's No. 1 program for the second consecutive week, while also winning the 9-10 PM hour.
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Ask Mommy: How Do You Know Your House Isn't Haunted?
I was convinced our house was haunted when I was fourteen & fifteen. We lived in a century-old bungalow near what used to be called Subiaco Oval in Perth, Western Australia. We'd moved from Canada at the beginning of 1992 on a teacher's exchange. An Aussie teacher was to take my mom's job and house back in Canada, while my mom took her job and house in Australia.
On our way to Perth, we travelled through South East Asia for about a month. In the pre-cell phone and pre-email era, there was no foolproof way for anyone to contact us while we bounced from one city to the next and so when there'd been bad news, we had no idea until we landed in Perth. As we waited at the luggage carousel to collect our bags, we were approached by people from the exchange organization. They told us that the woman who was to go live in our house in Canada could no longer go because her fiance had been thrown from a bus on New Year's Eve – the only one standing, having given up his seat for someone else – and killed. We wouldn't be moving into her house.
It struck me as a little odd, because a year prior, we'd been planning the same sort of exchange with a family in Sydney, Australia. It fell through just weeks before we were to leave when the mother was diagnosed with cancer.
It almost felt like the universe just didn't want this exchange to happen.
However, in the time we'd been snorkelling in Thailand, shopping in Indonesia, and wandering the narrow streets of Hong Kong, the exchange organization managed to find us another suitable exchange partner. And so, we collected our bags and headed to Wembley, a suburb of Perth.
As soon as I entered the creaky, old house, I felt a chill. The door had a stained-glass window that cast an eerie glow on the century-old hardwood floor inside. There was the main house, built in 1904-ish, which had ornate crown moulding and elaborate ceiling medallions around each light fixture. Off the dining room, there was an addition with two extra rooms. This addition was built sometime in the 70s.
The master bedroom and my brother's bedroom were in the main part of the house. I was to sleep in the addition, separated from the main house with a large wooden door, another haunting stained glass window and a deadbolt lock. Of course, my parents would never have locked it on me, but it made me feel uneasy, nonetheless.
As we toured the house that first day, I felt afraid and I didn't know why.
The first night was no different. It was the middle of summer in Perth which could reach 40° C some days. Sat there right on the balmy Indian Ocean, it was almost always hot and humid. There was no air conditioning in the old house and so there was no reason why, in January, that house should have been cold at all, but that first night I slept out in the addition, it was freezing. I felt as though I was not alone. I swore I felt eyes on me. I shivered under my covers all night, without getting a wink of sleep and when I woke up the next morning, I told my parents I couldn't sleep out there anymore.
I was a fourteen-year-old girl and I voluntarily chose to share a bedroom with my 9-year-old brother for an entire year. This is how truly afraid I was.
As the year unfolded, I would experience increasingly unsettling things. There was the wailing in the pipes. There was the window that smashed spontaneously next door. There was the image of a woman holding a baby that I was convinced I saw in my full-length mirror. There was the one morning when the door that separated the main house from the addition began swinging back and forth rapidly and unnaturally as my brother and I ate breakfast before school. We ran to my dad in the living room for comfort, both of us terrified.
By the time I left to move back home to Canada, I'd had enough. I was done. I needed out. To this day, twenty-six years later, I still cannot explain to you what I'd seen, heard and felt in my time at that house in Australia. I shared these stories with my friends as I grew into adulthood, scaring them with the idea of ghosts and poltergeist and other unexplained phenomena. In greater detail, these stories are extremely unsettling.
Of course, I always left out the bit about me not wanting to go to Australia at all. I left out the fact that I was angry at my parents and felt as though I was being done horribly wrong by being dragged to Australia just as I started high school. When I told these ghost stories, I didn't think to tell people how totally certain I was that the entire year was going to be a disaster, even before we left Canada.
I also neglected to tell people that I was miserable at school in Perth. That I was bullied and depressed and got so down that I contemplated ending my own life. I had a dog back home I missed more than I could express in words, and friends who would write to me from Canada but just not often enough. When I told people the stories of our haunted house in Australia, I didn't think I needed to tell them how totally committed I'd been to being miserable that year. I didn't think these things were related.
As I got older, though, and my skepticism began to blossom, I started to question my own memories. Had they been real memories? The lady in the mirror, for example. I recall waking up and looking across at the full-length mirror in the room I shared with my brother and seeing a woman holding a baby. How awake was I, though? Could I still have been sleeping? Could I have seen a shadow that merely resembled the figure of a woman holding a baby? How accurate was my perception of this event when it happened and how accurate is my memory of it, now?
Thanks to science, we know that our memories rewrite themselves. They shift and morph and change. That's why the same stories you've heard your mom or dad or best friend say over and over again, seem to change slightly with each retelling. They're not trying to deceive anyone with their minor edits, rather, their memory of it is just changing.
It wasn't until I was in my 30s, though, that I began to suspect my state of mind played a huge part in the haunting of our house in Wembley. My misery was desperate for company. I had huge voids left by my friends and my dog and my extended family back home and I needed to fill them with something. Perhaps I was seeing these events the way I wanted to see them, rather than in an objective way.
The fact is, there were strange things that happened in that house but they probably weren't as strange as my memory would have me believe. In the time since moving back to Canada, I've also realized that by saying "I cannot explain these events, therefore they must be paranormal", is the equivalent of saying that I expect to be able to explain everything myself. This is utterly ridiculous. I don't have the education nor skill to investigate these events scientifically. It's true that I cannot explain them, but it doesn't mean they are inexplicable. It doesn't mean that we can't investigate and discover the answers.
Yesterday, I got a question from a reader who has been experiencing phenomena in his home that some might describe as a poltergeist. Just general trolling of the living, breathing humans who occupy the home. Cupboards flying open, lamps hovering in mid-air. The person who wrote to me also explained that he is an atheist and then described a few traumatic events he's experienced in his lifetime. He wanted to know my opinion on the activity that has been going on in his house.
My opinion is that there is a natural explanation and it's right there for you if you choose to investigate it with an open mind. Can you capture this activity on camera? What happens if you bring in a skeptic to investigate, preferably one with a science degree of some kind? Have you considered that your own perception could be flawed, perhaps based on your state of mind, as I am sure mine was?
If you go through all of this, honestly and objectively, and you find that there is still no explanation, then the answer is simply "I don't know". It's the single greatest phrase in all language because it is the springboard from which all human knowledge begins.
It means I don't have enough information.
That's the only answer there is, really.
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Back when I was a student, I lived in a flat which my flatmate believed was haunted. It was certainly cold, but this was a Wellington student flat. We would have suspected mysterious forces were at work if it wasn't cold. And then one night I saw a ghost standing in the corridor outside my room. She had dark curly hair and a white dress like a nightgown, but I couldn't make out her facial features because most of her face was rotted away.
It was a disturbing sight, but I'm proud to say it didn't bother me particularly because 1) somewhere in the back of my mind I realized it was likely related to the ridiculous quantity of hash cake I'd recently eaten, and 2) I'd recently eaten a ridiculous quantity of hash cake.
There was an abandoned dorm at my college that was "haunted". I did feature report about it for the campus TV station — we even got in to film at night. It was a little creepy, but mainly just dilapidated. They tore it down the following year. No reports of poltergeist moving into the TV sets.
What people back then thought was 'luxury' or 'fancy' to us now seems ugly.
If you ever get the chance, tour an old theater or the like. Especially back stage or up above the ceiling, everything seems weird. Same with some very old churches.
It may seem odd, but I can recall no incident that even made me wonder about any supernatural cause. I don't think I'm unimaginative in general; I run D&D sessions that friends and even strangers enjoy, I've had elaborate fantasies and written stories, and sometimes conduct hypothetical conversations in my head with fictional and historical characters. But no ghosts, no ESP, no weird premonitions.
I don't know that my house isn't haunted, but if it is the spectres are very quiet. Unless you count cats. Now they sometimes freak out for no reason I can tell, but my naturalistic explanation for that is that they're crazy.
Back in my early 20s, when I was a devout New Ager, I would have said the best thing to do is try talking to the ghost. See what feelings you get from it and try having a discussion with it to see what is wants. I had a few friends of similar views who claimed to have ghosts in their house. They claimed to have chatted with them often enough that the ghosts weren't disruptive in any way. Supposedly, you could help them move on if you got them to look up.
These days, though, I'm not really sure where I fall on the whole ghost issue. I experienced enough weird stuff when I was a practicing New Ager to make me think there's something to it, but it never ended up being all that useful for anything. I feel a bit like GM in that regard. Some of it defies easy explanation, but I can't help but wonder how much I missed back then.
Near my childhood home, there was a hillside that had been sheared away so that the highway could pass by it without having to go around, over, or under it. So driving down that highway, you'd pass by a bare face of sandstone.
There was one time in my childhood when my mom drove past that hillside and as I looked at it from the back seat as our car passed, I remember seeing a solid stream of lava running down the sandstone. It's something that I remember to this day. It seems worth noting that this hill is not and has never been a volcano or a hot spring or any other natural wonder that might have lava coming out of it. It's an ordinary hill. There was no news report that night about a spontaneous local lava flow that would defy everything we thought we knew about geology.
And yet I have this childhood memory that is just as real to me as any other memory from that time. Could I have seen a rock slide happening and not know how to interpret what I was seeing and my brain concocted the lava story to make sense of confusing input? Sandstone is notoriously crumbly. Had it just rained and maybe I saw a river of muddy water running off the hillside? I can't say. The objective truth is lost to history.
But here's what I can say with confidence: There was not lava running down that hillside. But my mind has a memory of that ridiculous event happening in spite of this fact. So when someone tells me that they have a memory of seeing a ghost or experiencing some other supernatural event, I believe that it's possible that the person has an absolutely "true" memory of that event, while that event is simultaneously untrue. It's amazing what the human brain can do in an attempt to make sense of confusing, contradictory, or otherwise-incomplete data. And it does it with a bunch of mechanisms that the conscious brain isn't even aware of.
In my younger years, I was part of a ghost hunting group. After some time, I became the persistent naysayer of any of the "experiences" we thought we had. People started hating having me along because I could deflate the mystery just by simply not actively participating in the agreed-upon narrative that we were in the midst of something paranormal. I think that this was my last vestige of belief breaking loose because I hit a point where I thought "What's more likely: That this is real, or that we're experiencing mundane things and transforming them into something more because we're looking at them through a certain lens?" Once I started applying that sort of critical thinking to all of my beliefs, it was like opening my eyes to the world for the first time.
When I was in high school, I woke up one night and heard heavy breathing coming from UNDER my bed. I was terrified. I lay there paralyzed for several minutes, totally convinced that if I moved so much as a muscle–much less attempted to get out of bed to flee the room–a fearsome monster would dart out and devour me. Then, quite suddenly, I realized that the sound wasn't coming from under my bed, but was in fact my father in the room across the hall, doing some heavy breathing just short of a full-on snore. It was a watershed experience: I learned that your mind can play tricks on you and make you believe in the existence of things that are not really there. It took me several more years to understand that that held true for everything, up to and including the ultimate make-believe–God. This is the main reason I like about being an atheist, because while there are many, many bad things in the world, it's a relief to know that I don't have to worry about imaginary monsters under the bed, too.
Most common explanation for these phenomenons : sleep paralysis, which appears often during teenage years, and can be triggered by brutal lifestyle change, anxiety, stress, irregular sleep schedule (like the one due to jetlag), etc.
Plus the fallibility of the memory, and one can genuinely think to have had a supernatural experience.
I work in a building that was built in 1725. Many generations of people lived and presumably died there. It was also a stop on the Underground Railroad. If we talk about it enough, we can imagine a dozen things that may be "ghosts".
The first house my husband and I bought was previously owned by a young couple with a toddler. The husband OD'd and died in the bathtub. I never encountered ghosts.
I don't believe in supernatural activity which is probably why I never encountered activities I associated with ghosts or the supernatural in either situation where I certainly could have.
This one was easy. I told my daughter if she caught a ghost it was worth a million dollars via the James Randy Foundation. If she didn't want to catch it, to call me, I would split the cash with her.
How do I know there are no ghosts? Randy still has his money.


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J Fresh shows us his 'Special Powers' as a producer on the new high-energy single from 'The Banana E.P'.
Featuring Koder, the tune blasts out vigorous verses before flipping in to a mellow breakdown on the hook. With a scattergun, aggy flow, the emcee works perfectly with the J Fresh production as it draws on original raw grime vibes and synths that send this record in to the grime stratosphere.
Having stepped out as a producer with the release of his debut 'Pineapple E.P' earlier in the year, the skilled DJ and sought after radio host received an impressive response and numerous co-signs, seeing him complete a series of high profile sets including a Back to Back with DJ Target on BBC Radio 1Xtra, an excusive guest mix for Kiss FM and a number of festival appearances.
Boasting a weekly syndicated show to over 50 stations as well as a residency with DJ Charlie Sloth on his BBC Radio 1Xtra show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0580wrx), J Fresh is more than suitably qualified when it comes down to music production. His lengthy resume, which includes interviewing some of the biggest names in the industry, including: 50 Cent, Jeremih, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign, Kid Ink, Kano, Skepta and creating content for the likes of Rinse, SBTV and LinkUp TV makes him dynamic and refreshing in his craft.
As the second track to be taken from 'The Banana E.P', J Fresh teams up with Risky Roadz to drop the video, which you can check out below and also includes a hefty club remix of 'Special Powers' from Dots Per Inch.


Results of the exhibition "INTERPOLITEX-2017"
Main News Results of the exhibition "INTERPOLITEX-2017"
GC "Omega-microdesign" thanks all visitors, exhibitors and organizers of the exhibition for their interest in our company and our products.
One of the main thematic areas of the exhibition within the framework of the International Exhibition "INTERPOLITEX-2017" was "Specialized Exhibition of Technical Means of Border Guard "Border Guard ".
GC "Omega-microdesign" has provided Russian and foreign state customers and power and industry departments, private individuals with unique technical means for perimeter protection of their own design and production.
Special attention was paid to the new small aesthetic two-position micro-wave detector "Prizma-3-24" with a narrow detection zone operating at 24.15 GHz, which is constructed on the basis of Patent RU 2348980C2 and is intended for placement closely to barrages, walls, roofs and other constructions.
Following the results of the International competition "National Security 2017" our company received a Diploma and a Medal "For the innovative development of a two-position perimeter detector" Prisma-3-24 "with the possibility of working close to the barrages."
Also NEW - two-position micro-wave detectors "Prizma-2 / 100M" and "Prizma-2 / 300M" with adjustable sizes of the detection zone, with the degree of protection IP67- allowing to use detectors in water areas of large ports and reservoirs, in difficult storm conditions was presented to visitors of the exhibition.
The detector is constructed on the basis of Patent RU 2348980C2 and is designed for placement closely to barrages, walls, bridges, overpasses, piers and other constructions.
In the detectors of the series "Prizma-2" and "Prizma-3" there is no influence of radio waves reflected from foreign objects. Today, we can propose the formation of a detection zone by radio wave detectors in practically any conditions. The determining factor is a providing the direct visibility of the receiving and transmitting units themselves at the perimeter sections.
In a series of wirewave detectors, the novelty was introduced - "Impulse-20/350" - a wire-wave detector to monitor protected boundaries with turns and elevations, as well as on rough terrain, which allows to determine the direction of the intruder's movement when overcoming the detection zone.
The last upgrades of waveguide perimeter detectors with the use of the latest signal processing methods allowed to improve the quality of detection and noise immunity.
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In the second part of our Northern Lights blog series, Dr. Robin Catchpole reveals the best time and place to see the Aurora Borealis.
When and where is best to see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)?
On two hundred or more nights a year there will be some activity inside the auroral oval. This is a broad ring of sky cantered on the Earth's magnetic pole, which lies in North Canada and does not coincide with the Earth's rotation axis. In Norway the outer edge of the oval more or less coincides with the Arctic Circle. Activity is seen predominantly on the side of the oval opposite the Sun, in other words from maybe ten in the evening until the early hours of the morning.
Because activity takes place between 60 and 1000km above us, it means that the Aurora can be seen outside the oval, towards the north.
Even on a night with auroral activity there can be quite long periods of time when nothing is visible, followed by ten or more minutes of intense activity. Ideally stay up all night, otherwise from 10pm to 3 am, or more realistically watch the sky for at least two hours.
It is only possible to see the aurora during winter months from October to the end of March. Outside this time the sky does not get dark enough at night.
The aurora can be seen at full moon, as we did in January 2015. Many people think this is the best time to take pictures, with the surrounding country and trees visible, giving a sense of place and scale.
Occasionally, perhaps a few times a year, there will be a spectacular Aurora that extends far south of the auroral oval and aurora have been seen as far south as the Caribbean. These displays are caused by out-bursts or 'coronal mass ejections' (CME) from the surface of the Sun, when millions of tons of the Sun's atmosphere is hurled into space.
The surface of the Sun is threaded by magnetic fields. Where these concentrate and break through the surface, they prevent convection, making a small patch of the Sun, cooler and darker, which we call a sunspot.
Associated with sunspots, arches of magnetic field writhe above the Sun's surface creating solar flares as they split and connect, they can launch material from the surface of the Sun into space. These clouds of plasma, weighing millions of tons, called 'coronal mass ejections', splay out from the Sun into space in curved paths like water from a spinning rose. It is not immediately obvious if a patch of plasma is going to collide with the Earth. But if it does and the magnetic field of the plasma couples with the Earth's field, it buffets the Earth's field and some of the plasma leaks down the Earth's magnetic field and can cause dramatic aurora, visible way beyond the magnetic oval.
The number of sunspots and dramatic coronal mass ejections follow an approximately 11 year cycle. The current solar cycle reached an initial maximum at the end of 2011 and a broader maximum at the beginning of 2014. Although we are at solar minimum, this does not mean that aurora can only be seen at solar maximum.
Read Part 3 of Robin's blog – How to photograph the Aurora Borealis?
This blog post was written by astronomer and researcher Dr. Robin Catchpole, who recently hosted our Arctic Explorer adventure as a guest astronomer.
What causes the Aurora Borealis?
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Daniel Quine Auerbach (né le ) est un musicien américain multi-instrumentiste, plus connu pour être le guitariste et le chanteur du groupe The Black Keys, un duo de blues rock originaire d'Akron en Ohio. Depuis 2015 il est également le leader du groupe The Arcs. Il fut marié à Stephanie Gonis jusqu'en 2013, avec qui il a eu une fille nommée Sadie Little Auerbach en 2008. Son fils Early Auerbach est né en 2015 de sa relation avec Jen Goodall, leur mariage se terminant en 2019.

Jeunesse

Daniel Quine Auerbach est le fils de Charles Auerbach (né en 1950) et de Mary Little Quine (née en 1948). Auerbach a grandi dans une famille enracinée dans la musique. Il s'est pris de passion pour le blues après avoir écouté les vieux vinyles de son père durant son enfance. Il a été influencé très tôt par sa famille du côté maternel, avec en particulier son oncle qui a joué du bluegrass. Auerbach se décrit lui-même comme un lycéen normal, qui fumait de la marijuana et qui était capitaine de l'équipe de foot du lycée. Il a été largement influencé par la musique de Junior Kimbrough à l'université, ce qui l'a presque poussé à arrêter ses études pour s'investir sérieusement dans la guitare. "Je l'ai tellement écouté, c'est comme si je l'entendais… je l'ai tellement scruté… je recevais des F à l'université parce qu'au lieu de réviser, j'écoutais la musique de Junior Kimbrough." Ses autres influences majeures incluent Robert Johnson, R.L. Burnside, Clarence White, Robert Nighthawk, T-Model Ford, Hound Dog Taylor, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Kokomo Arnold et Son House.

The Barnburners

Auerbach a été membre du groupe The Barnburners avant de former The Black Keys en 2001 avec le batteur Patrick Carney. Les deux autres membres de ce groupe étaient Jason Edwards et Kip Amore. The Barnburners était un groupe de blues qui jouait dans les clubs du nord est de l'Ohio et qui a sorti l'EP The Rawboogie contenant 6 morceaux. L'album inclut le morceau de Junior Kimbrough, Meet Me in the City, qu'Auerbach a repris par la suite avec The Black Keys dans leur album studio Chulahoma.

The Fast Five

Auerbach a joué avec le groupe Fast Five en 2009. Le reste du groupe était composé des membres du groupe Hacienda et du percussionniste Patrick Hallahan de y Morning Jacket qui remplace Bob Cesare. C'est en partie avec eux qu'Auerbach enregistra son premier album solo Keep It Hid.

Récompenses

Au cours de sa carrière, Auerbach a reçu 8 Grammys Awards :

 2010 : Meilleur album de musique alternative avec Brothers
 2010 : Meilleure prestation vocale rock par un duo ou un groupe avec Tighten Up
 2012 : Meilleure prestation rock et meilleure chanson rock avec Lonely Boy
 2012 : Meilleur album rock avec El Camino
 2012 : Meilleur album de blues avec Locked Down de Dr. John (en tant que producteur)
 2012 : Producteur de l'année, non classique
 2016 : Meilleur album rock avec Tell Me I'm Pretty de Cage the Elephant (en tant que producteur)

Discographie

Albums solo
 Keep It Hid (2009)
 Waiting On A Song (2017)

Avec les Black Keys
 The Big Come Up (2002)
 Thickfreakness (2003)
 The Moan (2004)
 Rubber Factory (2004)
 Chulahoma (2006)
 Magic Potion (2006)
 Attack and Release (2008)
 Brothers (2010)
 El Camino (2011)
 Turn Blue (2014)
   Let's Rock  (2019)
   Delta Kream  (2021)
   Dropout Boogie (2022)

Avec The Arcs
 Yours, Dreamily, (2015)

Blakroc
 Blakroc (2009)

Collaborations musicales
 Jessica Lea Mayfield avec Blasphemy So Heartfelt – producteur, ingénieur son, mixeur, arrangeur, guitares acoustique et électrique, basse, batterie, chœur, piano, synthétiseur, orgue Hammond, piano jouet, lap steel, percussion
 Shivering Timbers : We All Started In The Same Place – producteur, ingénieur, batterie, mixeur
 Cadillac Sky : Letters In The Deep – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
 Hacienda : Loud Is The Night – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur, chant de fond, guitare
 Hacienda : Big Red & Barbacoa – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
 Radio Moscow : Radio Moscow – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur, guitare acoustique
 Buffalo Killers : Let It Ride – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
  : Danger Is EP (2 songs) – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
 The Ettes : Do You Want Power (1 song- No Home) – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur, piano
 Nathaniel Mayer : Why Don't You Give It To Me – coproducteur, comixeur, guitare, batterie, chant
 Nathaniel Mayer : Why Won't You Let Me Be Black? – coproducteur, comixeur, guitare, chant
 Brimstone Howl : Guts of Steel – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
 Black Diamond Heavies : A Touch of Someone Else's Class – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
 Patrick Sweany : Every Hour Is a Dollar Gone – producteur, ingénieur, mixeur
 SSM : SSM – enregistrement, ingénieur
 SSM : EP1 – enregistrement, ingénieur
 Ultraviolence (Lana Del Rey) - Producteur
 Nomad (Bombino) -Producteur

Équipements

Guitares
 Fender Jerry Donahue Telecaster
 Harmony Stratotone
 Gibson Firebird VII
 Harmony Heath TG-46
 Supro Martinique
 Rickenbacker 360
 Ibanez SG copy
 National Newport 88
 Guild Thunderbird

Amplification
 Fender Quad Reverb
 Marshall JTM45 and vintage Marshall 8x10 cab
 Fender Twin|Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue
 Fender Musicmaster Bass
 Fender Super Reverb
 Ampeg Gemini

Effets
 Ibanez Standard Fuzz
 Shin-ei Fuzz
 Marshall Supafuzz
 Sovtek Big Muff
 Gibson Maestro Fuzz Tone
 Tubeplex tape delay
 Fulltone Tape Echo
 Boss TR-2 Tremolo
 Boss Digital Reverb RV-5

Références

Notes

Chanteur américain de rock
Guitariste américain de rock
Naissance en mai 1979
Naissance à Akron (Ohio)
Producteur américain de rock
Lauréat du Grammy Award
Étudiant de l'université d'Akron


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Xavier Pentecôte (ur. 13 sierpnia 1986 w Saint-Dié-des-Vosges) – francuski piłkarz występujący na pozycji napastnika. Obecnie jest zawodnikiem OGC Nice.

Kariera klubowa
Pentecôte jest wychowankiem Toulouse FC. Początkowo grał w jego ekipach młodzieżowych, a do pierwszej drużyny, wówczas występującej w Ligue 1 został przesunięty w sezonie 2004/2005. We francuskiej ekstraklasie zadebiutował 16 kwietnia 2005 w przegranym 1-2 pojedynku z SC Bastią. Wszedł wówczas na boisko w 83. minucie meczu, zmieniając Nicolasa Dieuze. Było to jednak jedyne spotkanie rozegrane przez niego w tamtym sezonie. W ciągu dwóch następnych sezonów w lidze wystąpił łącznie dziewięć razy. W sezonie 2006/2007 uplasował się z klubem na trzeciej pozycji w lidze i wywalczył z nim awans do kwalifikacji Ligi Mistrzów. Jego klub został tam jednak pokonany w dwumeczu 5-0 przez Liverpool FC.

Latem 2007 Pentecôte został wypożyczony do drugoligowej SC Bastii. W jej barwach pierwszy ligowy występ zanotował 10 sierpnia 2007 w przegranym 1-3 meczu ze Stade Brestois 29. 17 sierpnia 2007 strzelił pierwszego gola w ligowej karierze. Było to w wygranym 1-0 pojedynku z FC Gueugnon. Przez cały sezon 2007/2008 Pentecôte rozegrał w Bastii 32 spotkania i strzelił 12 goli. Po jego zakończeniu powrócił do Toulouse. W sezonie 2008/2009 uczestniczył z klubem w rozgrywkach ekstraklasy, nadal był tam jednak rezerwowym. W 2010 roku ponownie był wypożyczony do Bastii. W sezonie 2012/2013 grał w OGC Nice.

Bibliografia
Profil na stronie lequipe.fr

Francuscy piłkarze
Piłkarze Toulouse FC
Piłkarze SC Bastia
Piłkarze OGC Nice
Urodzeni w 1986