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The International 7 Group Stage Day 3 Is About to Start, Prepare for a Crazy Dota 2
Angel Kicevski Follow on Twitter August 4, 2017Last Updated: August 4, 2017
The biggest event in Dota 2's history, The International 7 is ongoing as professionals around the world measure their skills in a LAN Battle in Seattle. Currently, The International Main Event hasn't started yet as teams are battling to qualify for the upper bracket.
We've been able to witness some amazing matches so far, as Team OG and their very known resilience failed to recover after the first loss against Virtus Pro. Currently, Virtus Pro and OG are very confident on placing in the Upper Bracket as they are sharing the third spot in Group 2, while they're also one of the favorites to win this year's The International.
It's going to be an amazing event, and the groups are just a warm up for what's about to come. Currently, after the second day of the group stage, the standings are as following:
The International 7 – Group 1 – Day 2 Standings
It's time for the third day of the group stage, and LGD.Forever Young seem to surprise everyone's expectations of the group stage. In group one, Team Liquid seems like a very tough opponent to beat, while Evil Geniuses are on the edge of a failure. EG cannot let themselves to lose more games, as they might be put down in the lower bracket of the main event.
Overall, every team will get a taste of the highest Prize Pool in the history of The International, so the underdogs that have somehow qualified with luck, they're now failing hard.
Hopefully, we'll witness the very best Dota 2 gameplay ever, and our favorites as always are Team OG. They are the most resilient team in the history of Dota 2, as they're able to turn the game in their favor by just winning one crucial fight. Their execution is on place, as well as their success. Group Stage day 3 is about to start in 30 minutes, so do not forget to watch it.
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Mehdi Amar (32-4-2) and Serhyi Demchenko (16-9-2) clash for the vacant EBU 175 lb title in Paris on a MK Event's show. Amar was set to fight then champ Igor Michalkin on this date but then Michalkin tested positive (the case is under appeal so stay tuned for more) for a forbidden substance and was stripped of the title and thus Demchenko, reigning EU ruler, got the chance.
On the same bill EBU superwelter champ Cedric Vitu (44-2) defends the title against mandatory challenger Isaac Real (15-1-1) from Spain.
Superlightweights Franck Petitjean (16-4-3) and Samuele Esposito (21-3) square off for the vacant EU title.


After we shot outside for about an hour we ducked into the chocolate shop in downtown Naperville to get our little model a treat. While they sat there goofing around I continued taking pictures. I love some of these shots as well and perhaps they'll be used for another advertisement sometime down the road.
One thing I forgot to mention about the underwater housing is that it weighs about 12 pounds. So it's like lugging around a bowling ball. I certainly don't think I'll be specializing in underwater photography anytime soon. It's a cumbersome thing to do, but I'm glad I had the chance to give it a try. Here are some of the test shots I took in the murky water off Ft Lauderdale Beach. They're not perfect, but I enjoyed the dream-like outcome.
What an interesting week. I'm helping to document a series of luxury retirement resorts in the Boca Raton/ Ft Lauderdale area. Forget what you know about sad nursing homes where people sit around waiting to die. These are gorgeous high-end condos where people are having a great time and the staff takes care of every need and whim.
One of the photographs we had planned was of a resident enjoying a nice swim. This required us to find a underwater housing unit. So just days after buying my new camera I was faced with the prospect of having to go underwater with it. There is a high degree of 'user error' when it comes to these units and I was afraid that we'd screw it up somehow and I would have a soggy, dead paperweight that looks just like a 5D Mark II.
The device was difficult to use. There are knobs, dials, and plungers that all connect with the buttons on the camera locked inside. Of course many of them are not labeled and not in the location you would expect them to be. It took me hours of practice before I felt comfortable using the thing, and even then there was a number of wasted shots. But when it all came together it was wonderful. I'll post more photos of the underwater experiment tomorrow.
By the way- that is my first Youtube video ever. I'm sure there will be many more to come.
I like adding new things to this blog to show everyone. But lately I've been luckily that I've been too busy to post about all the fun things I've been doing!
I'm typing this on a hotel bed in Ft Lauderdale, FL. I'm down here on a project which is challenging, but difficult to explain. But there are some funny stories so maybe I'll post some soon. The day before I left for this trip I made my way to the local camera story and purchased a Canon 5d Mark II. Unfortunately I didn't have time to test out my new toy before I left. So I sat on the plane, messing with the settings for about 45 minutes until I had everything just like I wanted it.
This is the first photograph I took with my new camera. I think it looks quite nice, thank you very much. I'm just glad I had a window seat.
The weather was perfect and we even had some free time on the schedule. I took Cathy to the Cocoa Beach Pier where they were setting up for the 46th Annual Easter Surf Festival. The end of the pier is the perfect venue to catch the surfers in action. At times you can almost look straight down on them. Plus the bar at the end has cheap drinks and it's an ideal spot for people-watching.
Overall it was a great weekend. I got to talk about photography trends and Ipod apps with Dennis, visited my parents for a bit, and even got to see my good friend Rhonda one evening and tour her new studio. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that a few more trips will present themselves in the next couple of months.


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Exeter triple killer found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity
Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, 28, was insane when he killed three men in Exeter
Paul Greaves
A 28-year-old paranoid schizophrenic was insane at the time he bludgeoned to death three elderly people in Exeter, a murder trial has found.
Alexander Lewis-Ranwell battered Anthony Payne, 80, in Bonhay Road and then used a shovel to kill brothers Roger and Dick Carter in Cowick Lane.
The killing spree, which he described as a 'whirlwind of destruction' took place over a few hours on February 10.
The defendant, a privately-educated cannabis user, was suffering from a severe mental illness at the time and later told doctors he thought he was uncovering a paedophile ring.
He experienced multiple delusions, including that he was rescuing a missing girl, and that he was working as an undercover investigator for the police.
The evidence in his murder trial at Exeter Crown Court also revealed a disturbed and violent paranoia and a belief that police were persecuting him.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to murder on the basis he was insane at the time of the killings.
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The defence, rarely run in legal trials, set out to prove that at the time of the killings Lewis-Ranwell was so mentally ill that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.
The prosecution accepted he was seriously ill but said he should bear some criminal responsibility for the killings.
The jury took just over six hours to find that Lewis was not guilty of murder by reason of insanity on all three counts.
Alexander Lewis-Ranwell (Image: Alexander Lewis-Ranwell/Facebook)
Mrs Justice May said the defendant will be detained in hospital.
The trial heard that Lewis-Ranwell, who was 27 at the time of the killings and had been living in a caravan in Croyde, travelled to Exeter from North Devon on February 10.
He got off a bus at St David's train station and walked a few hundreds yards along Bonhay Road before stopping at a run down looking house at number 65.
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Anthony Payne had lodged at the house for 50 years but had been looking to move out. He had put a handwritten note on the door asking if anybody had accommodation for an 80-year-old man and his cat.
Lewis-Ranwell read the note and went inside. He later claimed to doctors that he was acting under the belief that he was uncovering a paedophile ring and a missing woman was being held at the address.
He had never met Mr Payne before and soon after entering bludgeoned him to death with a hammer he found inside.
A few minutes later he was seen by CCTV in nearby Lewes Road having left number 65 by the back door.
The killer then wandered into Exeter, encountering a number of people along the way. He chased a man near St David's churchyard, was removed from the grounds of Exeter University after claiming to be a policeman and reduced a woman to tears in Northernhay Gardens by harassing her and her boyfriend.
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Almost three hours after the attack in Bonhay Road Lewis-Ranwell killed the Carter brothers at 109 Cowick Lane.
The defendant did not give evidence in the trial but the jury was read extracts from interviews he gave to psychiatrists.
He said: "I went inside and there were two old men in there. To begin with I didn't say anything to them. I went outside again and looked around, then I picked up a spade before going in. That was after I realised that the girl was definitely there.
"I was convinced they had kept someone and her life was in danger and that's when I hit them with a spade. I went upstairs and went through all the rooms into the garden. I thought the police would come after I had left and they would search it.
"I thought they would let people know I was working for them. I thought they would let people know because I was saving the girl from torture."
After the killings Lewis-Ranwell tried to calm his mind by stroking horses in a field.
"It's not like I've done anything like this before," he said.
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He visited the Twisted Oak, the Huntsman Inn and The Poachers in nearby Ide, before retracing his steps and heading back to the town centre.
Police were able to track his movements that day through CCTV. He was seen after the killings in several pubs in the town, including the Hole in the Wall and the Stand Off. The defendant spent the night sleeping rough near Exeter Castle.
The next morning he walked into the Rougemont Hotel in Queen Street and assaulted the night manager with a glass bowl. He then chased the chef and a female night manager around the car park with a lamp stand.
Police arrived and tasered him.
Anthony Payne, known as Tony (Image: © Payne family / SWNS)
The body of Mr Payne was discovered on February 11, the Carter brothers the next day. Lewis-Ranwell was arrested on suspicion of murder while in hospital.
It emerged during the trial that before arriving in Exeter Lewis-Ranwell had been arrested and released by police on two occasions shortly before the killings.
On February 8 he was arrested for breaking into a farm and letting free a pony. Despite his mum telling police she had 'grave concerns' he was let out the next morning and spent a few hours at a homeless shelter.
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On February 9 he was arrested for attacking an 82-year-old man at a farm in Goodleigh near Barnstaple. The victim thought he was going to be killed with a saw being swung by Lewis-Ranwell
The defendant was then taken back into custody at Barnstaple.
He was held for almost 24 hours. Police were convinced he was suffering a mental health crisis and tried to arrange for doctors to see him. One officer recorded that he thought the defendant presented a risk to public safety.
A forensic medical examiner did see him but it was decided that a Mental Health Act assessment was not needed because he was not suicidal or psychotic.
He was released the next morning by police without seeing a mental health professional.
A few hours later he arrived in Exeter and killed three men.
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More work needed for people with learning disabilities | UK News
By Gerard Tubb, north of England correspondent
A cafe set up to teach life and work skills to youngsters with Down's syndrome is calling on employers to give a helping hand to people with learning difficulties.
The 21 Co cafe has just been opened in Headingley, Leeds, by local charity Sunshine and Smiles which helps 120 local families.
Down's syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects 60,000 people in the UK.
Only 17% of adults with learning difficulties are in paid employment.
Ailith Harley-Roberts, service manager at Sunshine and Smiles, wants more firms to give them a chance.
"There is support available if employers aren't sure," she said.
"There are certain things that might need changing, but it isn't impossible and everybody should have that opportunity."
The cafe is housed in a commercial unit that had been empty for the past two years and the charity hopes to make it a permanent feature of Headingley's coffee culture.
Roisin Prior, 18, is one of the seven youngsters with Down's syndrome who have been paid the national living wage to work shifts at the cafe.
The workers are all given the chance to learn administration skills, taking orders from customers, and preparing and serving food and drinks.
Roisin's mother Celine, who works for the charity providing early years support, says the work has made a difference to her daughter, regardless of whether she ultimately finds a job.
"If she doesn't work, that's fine, but she is still learning and she's being given the opportunity to see that she can work in a cafe, and I think that in itself is important," she said.
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Artists from Lady Gaga to Paul McCartney signed the letter.
Nearly 200 artists and music industry executives have added their signatures to a letter to Congress pleading to "Stop Gun Violence Now" in America. The letter was organized by Billboard for its latest cover story. The magazine's staff reached out to the artists and executives it covers to tell the U.S. government "to close the deadly loopholes that put the lives of so many music fans, and all of us, at risk." The letter arrives the day after House Democrats staged a sit-in in opposition to the GOP's refusal to vote on gun control. Read the rest of Billboard's open letter here.


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Q: My subscription is not handling errors I have a subscription to a service where I request image URLs from an external API and store it in a shared service.
The Logic:
1. Empty the current images array
2. Request images from API, and push it to the (newly cleared) array   (response =>)
3. If the URL returns an error, fill up the array with default (placeholder) images (error =>)
For some reason, the error isn't being handled despite there being one.
I have posted my component and error messages for context.
Component.ts
  getImages(vehicleID: number, color: string): void {
    this._carConfigService.car.colors.exterior.urls = [];
    this._FAPIService.getImagesForColors(vehicleID, color)
      .subscribe(
        response => {
        response.products[0].productFormats.forEach(pF => {
        this._carConfigService.car.colors.exterior.urls.push(pF.assets[0].url);
        });
      },
        error => {
          this.errorMessage = <any>error;
          if (this._carConfigService.car.colors.exterior.urls.length === 0) {
            this._carConfigService.car.colors.exterior.urls = this._carConfigService.defaultImages;
          }
      });
  }

I receive the following errors:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 422 ()
EXCEPTION: Response with status: 0  for URL: null
Uncaught Response

A: You need to handle them using a regular approach of having exception handling
export class TaskService {
    private _url = "api/products/datanew.json";
    constructor(private _http: Http) {
    }
    getTasks(): Observable<any[]> {
        return this._http.get(this._url)
            .map((response: Response) => <any[]>response.json())
            .do(data => console.log("data we got is " + JSON.stringify(data)))
            .catch(this.handleError);

    }
    private handleError(error: Response) {
            console.log(error);
            return Observable.throw(error.json().error || 'Internal Server error');
    }
}

Also, I have a question.

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*you are getting data but you are not assigning to any object? No return type

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This sports car was sold at Bonham's Quail Auction on August 14, 2014 to US communications magnate Craig McCaw. The famous & unique car from the past was put up on an unreserved auction where it could have also been sold at $1. Ferrari only built only 39 of these racer cars and all were sold on the blink of an eye soon after the bookings open. The car features a 5 speed manual transmission.
The Mercedes-Benz W196 was a Formula One racing car, sold for a whopping amount of $29,975,742 on July 12, 2013 at Bonhams, England. The car was produced by company for only 1 year specially dedicated to Formula 1 racing. The car won 9 of 12 races entered and captured the only two world championships in which it competed. The racer featured a supercharged 1.5-litre 64.0×58.0 mm V8 that produced 278 BHP at 8,250 rpm with about 2.7 atm pressure.
Kellner is the fifth luxury car built under Bugatti Type 41 or Royale category. Royales are20% longer and more than 25% heavier than Rolls Royce Phantom. The car was built exclusively for a period of six years only & were reserved for only 25 piece which were meant to be sold to the European Royalty. The engine was built from a single block & is one of the largest engine ever built.
The Ferrari TR, or 250 Testa Rossa, is a race car model designed by Scaglietti. The phrase "Testa Rossa" means "red head." It was sold at Gooding & company on August 21, 2011. The cars dominated their competitors, with variations winning 10 World Sports Car Championship races. The racer came with a 3.0 liter engine & power of 223.7 kw / 300.0 bhp @ 7200 rpm.
Introduced at the 1936 Paris Motor Show, the Friedrich Geiger designed car was a development to the 500K, itself a development of the SSK. It was one of the largest cars of the time, with 5,401 straight - 8 engine and 4- speed or optional 5- speed manual transmission.
While all these super racers attracted huge money at their auction. Shriram Automall in India offers the most exciting bid catching event to buy or sell pre-owned vehicles & equipment of all segments including used commercial vehicles, construction equipment, agricultural equipment, two & three wheelers.
Shriram Automall – India's largest service provider for exchange of used vehicles & construction equipment has a strong presence all over the country, currently the company operate through 56 well structured Automalls ranging from National highways to even remotest corners. Talking about the Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities we are planning to expand in cities like Agra, Aligarh, Coimbatore, Dhanbad, Mangalore, Nagpur, Nashik & Solahpur, where people from these locations will get benefit through our professional services.
60 inaugurated Automalls is the number the company aims to achieve by the end of FY 15-16 & 70 by the end of FY 2016-17, in both Tier-II & Tier-III cities the strong presence with top performing Automalls like like Trichy, Madurai, Pondicherry, Salem, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, Vijayawada, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Hubli, Nellore, Patancheru and Rajahmundry generates majority of the business. We see a good demand for Agricultural Equipment, Passenger Vehicles & Two Wheelers in these cities.
When we talk about cities of different tiers we find huge difference in the mentality of customers. Talking about the customers from metro cities, these people are relatively easier to convince & persuade. They don't come with a specific vehicle requirement in mind & can opt for other vehicle options in case of unavailability of a specific model. They prefer to communicate in English & takes less time in making a buying decision. Mostly we see they demand for used PVs, Fleet of Trucks etc.
On the other hand the customers from the tier 2 & tier 3 cities are more rigid on the choice of vehicle they want, they prefers to communicate in their regional language, takes time in deciding the vehicle of their choice. They consider price as one of the most important factor before buying a vehicle. Majority of vehicles they demand are tractors & Passenger vehicles.
Shriram Automall aims to strengthen its presence in these areas through our upcoming Automalls in cities like Agra, Aligarh, Coimbatore, Dhanbad, Mangalore, Nagpur, Nashik & Solahpur, where people from these locations will get benefit through our professional services.
Automobiles like bikes, cars, scooters, public transport, and auto rickshaw will now cost more in Maharashtra as the government has proposed to hike the Motor vehicle tax on all vehicles in order to fight one of the worst draughts in the state's history.
Under the revised system of tax, private vehicles of up-to 99cc will have 8 per cent tax, those between 100cc and 299cc 9 percent while the ones above 300cc will be taxed 10 per cent. In case of a company or any undertaking the vehicles will attract just the double of the new proposed tax. For example a company vehicle above 300cc will attract a tax rate of 20 per cent now.
The state will continue to tax more on petrol & diesel due to draught in state & aims to earn overall net additional revenue of Rs. 363 Cr.
With the rise in the tax structure for new automobiles we will see a positive incline of people to buy used automobiles in order to save them from paying the extra amount. The ratio between new & used vehicle ratio has always been 1:1 most of the times, however with these changes in tax we can expect the ratio to change & used vehicle segment to attract more buyers.
If you are looking to buy a usedvehicle in Maharashtra than Shriram Automall is the right place to come. The company offers widest range of all used vehicles & equipment including construction equipment, commercial vehicles, agricultural equipment, passenger cars and two & three wheelers.
You can visit the companies Panvel, Aurangabad, Chandrapur and Mumbai Automall to buy the best used vehicles easily.
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers the most elite body of the Indian vehicle industry has cut down the growth rate in its forecast for both current & FY 2016-17. The society has earlier forecasted that the passenger vehicle has will grow at 8% this year & 12% in FY 2016-17. However as per its recent update it cut down the growth in this fiscal to 6-8% & FY 2016-17 to 11%.
"Although we had forecast initially in the beginning of this fiscal that we expect growth of PVs to be 6-8 per cent, we have increased it to around 10 per cent when sales picked up during the year. Now due to the infrastructure cess we are revising it back to 6-8 per cent," Siam Deputy Director General Sugato Sen told PTI.
It's been two consecutive months where we saw the decline in passenger car sales, latest it fell 4.2 percent in February, lowering the overall growth outlook for the year to end-March.
As an aftermath of the announcement most of the automobile manufacturers have already started revising the prices of all their models.
This announcement is expected to give a push to the used cars segment as more people are likely to get inclined towards a used car. This will help buy the choice of their car by paying fewer price.
If you are looking ahead to buy a used car than paying a visit to Shriram Automall will certainly be helpful as the company offers the widest range of used cars, SUVs & taxis etc. at competitive price.
The company started its voyage in the year 2011 & since then there is no looking back. Today Shriram Automall ranks as the No.1 platform for buying & selling used vehicles & equipment in India through its Physical & Online Bidding, Private Treaty & OneStop Platform. It offers the widest line up of used assets under a single roof with its process certified by ISO & CRISIL standards.
Within a short span of only four years the company has conducted over has organized 21,000+ bidding events, serving over 3,00,000 satisfied customers resulting in generating over 4,50,000 transactions. The company has embraced 2016 on a winning spree as it enters into Limca Book of Records by creating two National Records. The company has conducted highest nos. of bidding events in a financial year in both Physical and Online platforms. It organized a record 2,466 Physical Bidding Events and 6,683 online bidding events all over the country for acquisition and disposal of pre-owned vehicles during the financial year 2014-15.
Unavailability of organized dealers in pre-owned vehicle segment in the country had kept people away from investing in the used vehicles for very long, however Shriram Automall with its transparent & safe process has completely changed this perspective as more & more people are coming to bid on their dream vehicle. Shriram Automall is India's first and only company that deals in used vehicles & equipment industry with such an organized approach to facilitate transactions between its customers. Shriram Automall serves a platform to customers from where they can acquire vehicles of their choice through bidding; transparency in dealings is also one of the most important factors that have attracted people. The company aims to provide hassle free transactions and well planned process of deals. In the last financial year 2014-15, SAMIL has transacted around one lakh pre-owned vehicles and equipment that also includes pre-owned cars, three wheelers and two wheelers.
Shriram Automall, India's leading service provider for the exchange of used vehicles & construction equipment. The construction equipment business with Shriram Automall is witnessing a year on year increase in this business segment with excavators, loaders & backhoe being the largest in demand under the segment. Due to the economic slowdown most construction business owners now prefer to search for used construction equipment instead of going for a new one that have a major difference in price. Built on the bedrock of trust and transparency, the pre-owned construction equipment segment of Shriram Automall is riding on a positive growth track. Construction equipment do not only makes it easier to complete the project but also ensures the efficient use of labor, time and money.
Shriram Automall caters to the every need with a wide variety, including hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, loader backhoes, cranes, motor graders, crawler tractors, piling rigs, forklifts, Off-highway trucks and other mining machineries. Company has now started its voyage towards capturing the interests of international buyers for the construction equipment segment.
Shriram Automall is the only company working towards organizing the highly unorganized market dedicated towards exchange of used vehicles & equipment for over 4 years. Thus, the company brought forward innovative approach for the acquisition and disposal of pre-owned vehicles and construction equipment through its unique bidding platforms especially Physical and Online Bidding along with Private Treaty and OneStop Kiosk. Its unique bidding platforms has helped all; an OEM or an individual, SAMIL's professional services has touched the lives of many.
Transparent, Efficient, Safe & Reliable; that's how our customers regard our bidding process as. Shriram Automall has improved the purchase capacity of people in the zone by providing them with wide range of used vehicles and construction equipment at fair price through our unique physical bidding platform & easy finance options.
ShriramAutomall India Limited (SAMIL) India's largest service provider for buying & selling used vehicles & equipment started its voyage by inaugurating its first Automall in Chennai on February 26, 2011. Over the time, it has successfully inaugurated 56 Automalls across India (from busiest metro cities to remote corner of villages). The company celebrated its 5th business anniversary on February 26, 2016. To make the event grand, it has conducted 46 bidding events across all zones and unveiled Limca Book of Records as it is now holding two national records for conducting highest bidding events in both platforms Physical (2,466 events) and Online (6,683 events) during the FY 2014-15. In the same, all the events received overwhelmed response from customers as it recorded 3,500+ customer registrations in all those 46 events.
The company organized a mega bidding event at 46 locations from its 56 inaugurated Automalls to mark the event in a grand way. The company chose its Manesar Automall for the prime event in presence of Mr. Bhim Wadhwa, (President - All India Motor Transport Congress), Mr. Tarlochan Singh Dhillon (President – Delhi Goods Transport Association), Mr. Manjinder Pal Singh Lovely (Chairman - Delhi Goods Transport Association), Ms. Vijaya Ghose (Editor - Limca Book of Records), Mr. Karl Werner (Chief Operations Support and Development Officer - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers), Mr. Rob McLeod (Chief Business Development Officer – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers), and Mr. Umesh G. Revankar (MD - STFC).
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The reconstruction of the Peoria Street Bridge for the Circle Interchange project will bring a new pedestrian walkway from the CTA Blue Line station to the campus entrance on Harrison Street.
Improvements to the Peoria Street CTA Blue Line Station will bring a more park-like entry to campus.
As the Illinois Department of Transportation reconfigures the Peoria Street Bridge as part of the Circle Interchange project, the pedestrian walkway from the Blue Line to campus across Harrison Street will change. Trees were removed and temporary fences are up, but the result will be an improved campus entrance, said Michael Landek, executive associate vice chancellor for administrative services.
"The idea behind the reconfiguring of that space is to make access more appealing, to make it safer and bring the three crosswalks that we have going to Harrison Street down to one," Landek said. "It's really a bonus for UIC because we're not funding a dime of this project, and yet IDOT is creating a very attractive entryway."
Consolidating the three walkways that link pedestrians to campus from the CTA Blue Line will also make it easier for drivers on Harrison Street.
"It's difficult to navigate if you're a driver because you're constantly wondering where students are coming from," Landek said. "This funnels all of the pedestrian traffic."
Consolidating the three crosswalks into one across Harrison Street to campus will increase pedestrian safety, planners say.
Trees that were removed for the construction work will be replaced with new plantings, he said. "It will make it more than a walkway, but a pleasant entry space where people can congregate and visit."
Other Circle Interchange updates:
The Morgan Street Bridge and CTA Blue Line Station are scheduled to reopen Friday. The partially completed bridge will provide temporary access to the station.
The Peoria Street Bridge, its CTA Blue Line Station and the pedestrian walkway to CUPPA Hall are scheduled to close for construction June 2.
The structural beams to the Halsted Street Bridge spanning the Eisenhower Expressway have been removed and reconstruction of the support columns should begin soon. The Halsted Street Blue Line Station is scheduled to remain open during the bridge's renovation.
Utility work on westbound Harrison Street will continue for several weeks and lanes will be closed temporarily. Eastbound traffic lanes will remain open.
— Sam Hostettler contributed to this story.
Christy Levy
christyb@uic.edu
Chicago transportation, Circle Interchange, construction, public transportation, traffic, transportation


This split was officially released on September 7th, but as Debemur Morti wasn't active for some time it was available only on October 5th.
The track "Paysage Mauvais" is available as a bonus on "Folkfuck Folie" CD with a different mix.
Cover art by Gustave Doré. The same artwork has also been used by the band Artefact on their "Ruins" album.


Bottom line: If you like the original NEO then you will love the NEO 2. The NEO 2 is a dependable lighting system for both still photographers and video shooting with enough light performance to satisfy light duty photography work. Rotolight stepped up their game with this updated NEO 2 continuous LED and Strobe lighting solution now with a built-in trigger, no recycle strobe and higher light output.
Let me be blunt - It is expensive but at the same time it is good quality with a company that stands behind the product.
My Set Up: I bought two NEO 2 with an Elinchrom Skyport for my Nikon Z mirrorless cameras to maximize my flexibility and focus accuracy with good lighting. I also incorporated a Sekonic L858 with the Skyport module to trigger the NEO 2 to allow excellent measuring for the light output & control the light output in LED mode - this is an optimal setup for use with a Rotolight NEO 2 setup or the bigger brother Aeos.
Rotolight handles for hand holding the light or two small ball heads to mount on the light stands.
- What is the NEO 2 - A small light measuring 5 1/2 inches across, slightly more weight and mass than a standard flash, but not heavy. NEO 2 is a nice LED light solution allowing photographers to shoot with continuous lighting but adds the flexibility with a built-in High-Speed Sync (HSS) flash strobe when needed. Keep in mind not all cameras support HSS, I must mention the NEO 2 is a manual strobe, not a TTL but as a manual flash, the strobe output is adjustable from the Skyport.
- Build quality is very good, NEO 2 has a solid robust feel that is mostly all plastics, the shoe mount is a metal cold style, if you are so inclined to remove the cold shoe altogether you can then attach a handle (sold separately). The NEO 2 has three total attachment points. The Knobs are very firm and responsive including the on/off switch, the A/C input has a rubber weather sealed cover. ONE Negative - the power button is very sensitive and during routine use and holding - I un-intentionally reset the NEO 2 - FIX THIS ROTOLIGHT!
- Power - Normal Alkaline batteries are not recommended - I use the Eneloop pro batteries to maximize lighting you should use good batteries. The kit includes the battery recommendations. The unit requires 6 AA batteries or A/C power, if you use a good set of 2700mah rechargeable batteries - you get an estimate of 80,000+ flashes. So, battery life is extremely good if you are just using the flash, the unit comes with a carry case that has slots for six spare batteries. In Continuous Light Mode, you can expect 2 hours of life in real-world life. I have not tried counting the number of flashes for a set of batteries, but I believe what Rotolight states, In continuous lighting, I get a hair over 2 hours, but that will depend on your battery brand and output. The NEO 2 does have a battery level reading via the menu - too bad it is not a built-in visual indicator.
- Flash/Strobe, NEO 2 has zero recycle time for shooting in flash mode, The strobe will fire continuously for as long as your camera can fire or your batteries run dead, be aware the strobe output is not as powerful as a dedicated flash such as an SB-5000 or SB-910. Understanding the limitation of LED light fall off you will soon understand when and how to use this great little NEO 2. This NEO 2 has many benefits in a small and very portable light. Rotolight claims that setting the color temperature of the continuous LEDs the strobe will also fire at the same color - which is a nice feature. If you are looking to use the NEO 2 as your primary flash - I would recommend you consider other options, The NEO 2 is better suited for those without high light output strobe needs, the NEO 2 does a good job of fill light, and in most cases is all that is needed.
- The menu, Accessing the Menu is a button push away so making changes is easy using the rear buttons once you get the hang of it - press both at once and you are in the menu, the other adjustments are based on turning and pushing the rear buttons - very intuitive. Brightness and color adjustments are both at your fingertips without the need to go into the menu. The light is easy enough to understand in operation without needing to study a manual which is a big plus.
- Built-in Elinchrom EL-Skyport receiver Rotolight offers an optimized EL-Skyport transmitter for the NEO 2 to control color and output, but regular Elinchrom Skyports work as a trigger and some can support HSS IF your camera does. To fully enjoy the NEO 2 with the built-in receiver you need to shell out $250.00. If you already own a Skyport you are in luck - keep an eye open for new firmware updates for older Skyports to support NEO 2. If you use 3rd party triggers having a flash sync cable port, you have access to remote fire with limitations no controlling LED output or color adjustment - At least that is my experience.
- Elinchrom Skyport NEO 2 delivers the best usability paired the optimized NEO 2 Skyport, Other 3rd party triggers may not be able to change the color and settings remotely. The NEO 2 does support pluggable flash PC Sync, which should be sufficient for most 3rd party triggers. I recommend after you buy your NEO 2 and fall in love with it, you go buy the Elinchrom Skyport (the one made for the NEO) this combo will allow you remote control and menu access from the "specialized" Elinchrom. If you have multiple NEO/Rotos which you will eventually, it makes sense to invest in the Elinchrom Skyport made especially for the lights.
- Final Thoughts and Recommendation, I use two NEO 2 for what they are best suited for - to compliment my portable lighting needs. The NEO 2 is not a replacement for dedicated Flash/speedlights due to the limited strobe output and lack of TTL control - the NEO 2 has enough lighting bang to cover many lighting situations and with the many special effects and continuous LED output, the NEO 2 works well overall for both still and video shooters. Yes, there are much cheaper LED solutions available that offer smartphone and Bluetooth connectivity without strobe. If you only need a continuous LED system and are on a budget, you may wish to shop around.
- If you can stomach the price for an NEO 2 and already have an Elinchrom Skyport - go for it. It is too bad the NEO 2 does NOT support TTL and in my opinion, is a concern for a company promoting FLASH.
If you mostly do strobes and are looking at an NEO 2 for that purpose consider using your money for adding MagMod modifiers to enhance your existing flash setup or buy a dedicated flash outright if you do not have a flash yet, you will be much happier. If you need a well-rounded lighting solution the NEO 2 fits the videographer needs with enough output for still photographers in many lighting situations, your decision should be based on what you do most often and prefer in your lighting and no the NEO 2 is not the answer to everything in lighting.
Do you own a Sekonic Light meter with a Skyport module - You can remote fire and adjust the NEO 2 right from the Sekonic Light Meter - I use an L858 and Sekonic 478 - both have nice touch interfaces to ensure you get the proper exposure at the touch of a finger.
My Rebuttal to TTL - TTL is a wonderful, fast, easy to acquire the most useable flash shots in very fast order - It is not perfect and neither is manual mode. Take time to discover how TTL is employed in a photo shoot - watch a few Joe McNally videos, he is a lighting genius. When someone says I do not use TTL, I think they may not really understand how to control light with TTL - which you can, TTL light is fully controllable in camera or at the back of the strobe, you can adjust output down or up for each flash, this puts you in the ballpark faster, and you are not obligated to go with the settings - just that simple. TTL works, and as the manual mode, you need to master it, not let it master you.


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The Russia World Cup 2018 has come to a successful end, and we all look forward to a well-deserved summer vacation and we will take some time to reflect on this amazing event. My own World Cup impression has been a long great work experience, just like an adrenaline rush, comparable with my previous work experience from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel & Business Center was an official FIFA venue accommodation. In the hotel the scenery changes every day, no two days in the hotel business are the same. We hosted lots of football fans from many corners of the world; mainly from Colombia, Switzerland, England, Poland, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and a few Swedes, whom all travelled to Moscow – Russia to support and cheer for their team with big hopes to win the exquisite FIFA World Cup trophy.
At the same time, we had many media companies in-house such as BBC radio, talkSPORT, Netflix, and many more. All of these guests with different nationalities mixed perfectly well together in the hotel, hanging out in the Lobby bar during the day, using our well-equipped gym for an early morning swim in our 25-meter swimming pool, visiting one of our three restaurants, or going outside for a smoke and taking selfies with our man-sized Zabivaka located in the garden, but mainly watching the football games from our big TV screens in the Lobby Bar zipping on a large cold beverage and some snacks.
And I'm certain that most of all these football fans travelled to Russia for the very first time, not knowing what to expect from this big cold eastern country, except for what they had read from newspapers in their home countries or been told third hand.
I have spoken to many of my international hotel guests during the Championship and I must say, that I have heard only very positive things about the Championship, how well-organized and great everything has been. Fantastic comments on Moscow and other Russian cities, on how friendly the atmosphere has been everywhere and how helpful people have been, even TV screens in metro wagons, free transportation, free WI-FI in many places, and what a great feeling it has been in the FAN FEST area overlooking the seven sister Moscow University and beautiful Moscow City from Sparrow Hills, or crowded and festive Nikolskaya Street close to the Red Square with many ecstatic fans from all over the world, not to mention the weather that has shown its best side.
Many of the well-known footballers and pundits, who stayed in the hotel, had experienced previous World Championships, but they all claimed that this World Cup in Russia was the best one so far.
I've had the opportunity to host many famous English Premium League footballers, but I guess, the most well-known footballer in the hotel during the World Cup was bad-boy Diego Armando Maradona, who visited our hotel daily for one week where he participated as a commentator in a South American radio show and danced his way out of our hotel after the show.
Russia and Russian people has shown their warm and gracious hospitality to everyone who visited Russia during this World Cup, so for all above reasons I'm confident that Russia will experience a tourist's boom next year and beyond, many tourists who want to come back to explore and experience more of this extraordinary country. Well-done and congratulation, Russia.
Mac Karlsson – Sweden – GM Radisson Slavianskaya
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I go to the supermarket, grab the case of water and put it in the cart. And the buffalo chicken by the door looks AMAZING, so I grab that too. Along with a side of coleslaw. I start walking to the register, turn around and put away the chicken and coleslaw – can't have it, been too good this week. I grab a Chicken Caesar Salad, and head to the register. I walk PAST the register and head towards the hot dogs, because I decide my 1pt hot dogs are gonna be my dinner instead of the salad. I grab the hot dogs and head over to the hot dog buns, grab them… and then decide that the hot dogs aren't a great idea so I immediately put the buns back and take a short-cut down to the frozen food aisle. Which is where I saw my all-time favorite food – Soft Pretzels.
I stop. I stare. I open the freezer and figure out the points per pretzel. 4 points… not bad. I put them in my cart and close the freezer. I get back to the hot dog section and put back the hot dogs, look down at my cart and see water, the salad… and pretzels. The gahdamn pretzels. WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?!?! I go and put back the pretzels… think about it… then put them back again. I'm now disgusted at myself, put the salad back and just buy the water. 35 minutes in the supermarket – $3.78.
So I'm on the way home, and decide that the ice cream and frozen yogurt I saw when I went down the frozen food aisle looked DEE-licious, so I stop by the convenience store on my way home to see if they have anything. Park… pull in… straight to the freezer.
Between travel to and from location I spent an hour out and about in the monsoon that's engulfed us in this area and spent $3.78 on water. AND I'M EXHAUSTED – physically, but even moreso, mentally.
This is something that happens to me every so often. It's not always easy, but I need to be a little smarter when I do things like go to a grocery store when I'm hungry. Not a good move for someone in my position.
Phew! That felt good. I feel better now.
Oh, and what did I FINALLY have for dinner? As I type this – in front of a bottle of water and some baby carrots – I just don't know yet. What I do know is that it won't screw up my progress this week… so that's a plus!
How Do YOU Stay Motivated???
Since I started this blog, I have received some amazing feedback and support… and even met a few new people along the way. It's been great! But, as I said when this first started – this blog is an accountability for all of my actions. I will not hold back, even when I don't do well… like now.
I had a REAL tough week last week. My running was terrible, my WeightWatchers – although I still stayed on track – could have been better, and I was very snippy with people. Problem is… I don't know why. Could've been the real big dinner I had with Mom and Dad when they came down, could be that I'm slow right now at work and I'm not used to hitting valleys like this, could be that I'm just very lonely right now… I really don't know.
So… I decided I need to reach out to some of the people that have motivated me in my quest to Total Health. These three individuals are some of the most positive people I have ever been blessed to know. I asked them the same question: "What is it that keeps you motivated every single day?" I can't begin to tell you how amazing their answers were, so I'll let them tell you with their own words.
These gentlemen are all really amazing people… and they're just normal dudes! They have fantastic core values, amazing focus and determination I can only hope to gain someday.
* I am not perfect, and I will stumble… but it's how I react to that stumble and what I do afterward that will ensure I may have lost a battle, but will not lose the war.
Finally – to Jordan, Scotty and Demetrius… thank you. You're all true inspirations to me and I am fortunate to call each of you a friend. Thank you for allowing me to post your words of wisdom… I know they helped me and I am sure they will help others as well.
* WEIGHT – I'm officially 296 as of the writing of this blog – 42 lbs thus far. I haven't been under 300 lbs in a long time, and the last time I was I was on a crazy fad diet that was VERY unhealthy for me (there will be a separate post about that experience in the near future) so I'm excited that I'm doing it and, so far, doing it right by eating healthy and exercising.
* WORKOUTS – I'm signed up for two more 5K's with my awesome running partner… one at the end of October on the Jersey Shore (no, it's not the Beat That Beat Down 5K… but if there was one of those I'd TOTALLY run it…) and a second, a Turkey Trot, on Thanksgiving day. Hopefully by early next year I'll make a move up to 10K's but for now, the 5K's are plenty challenging for someone as big as me. I'm doing a combination of running and P90X, and soon I am going to do a full P90X cycle instead of just filling in certain workouts on off-days for running.
* AWARDS – Yes, I'm not kidding… I actually won a contest regarding this quest! My friend Dana from HS had a 6-week Weight Loss Challenge, which coincidentally started on the same day I started Weight Watchers. I decided to enter, and the challenge was who could lose the most % of weight in the 6 weeks…. and although I had a VERY formidable challenger in Lauren, I won – Yaayyy!!! My prize? INSANITY! It's essentially P90X on steroids… and definitely not something I'm gonna be using any time soon. But – as I get closer to the Mudder, this is definitely gonna come in handy. I got to choose this prize because Dana works for BeachBody and sells their awesome products – so if you want some, hit her up here and she can talk to you and get you hooked up with P90X, Insanity, Slim in 6, Shakeology and so much more. Let her know I sent you!
SUPPORT – You guys have been really amazing – I need to make sure y'all know how much I appreciate it. So many people have reached out to me to help me out… it's actually kinda humbling. I've got great tips on recipes (thanks Lori for the best snack ever… 2 pt. Onion Rings!), diets (Ericka sent me an amazing diet that looks like might be my diet on the last half of this journey), gear (i finally found something to carry my car keys… Thank you, Nancy!), workouts (too many people to list… but video of the foam roller WILL be coming when I get one lol!). But, and most importantly, PLEASE keep all the support and advice coming. I really need all the help I can get. I'm learning and welcome all types of feedback – good and bad… uhh, I mean… constructive… so by all means if you see something that you can help with or think I might be doing wrong – LET ME KNOW!
I guess that's it… if I think of anything else I'll add it. Again, y'all rock. Thank you so much for reading… and I'll reach out again real soon!
Football Sunday – Funday… or is it?
Football Sundays used to be fun. SO MUCH FUN. But when football season 'officially' started this past Sunday, it had a slightly different flavor for me… literally. You see, as goes the diet so go all of the dee-lish foods I normally bury myself in while watching Eli and the Giants hand the 'Skins another obvious, yet fully entertaining, defeat. Bye bye Doritos, Salt 'n' Vinegar Potato Chips, amazing beers, Fire Wings, etc. So what's a man to do in such a situation?
Well the first thing I realized was a lot deeper than I thought: Football Sundays was a trigger for my binge eating, just like boredom and stress are. For a long, long time I really thought that it was all stress and boredom… if I could find a way to work through those issues w/o eating it was gonna be SMOOTH sailing. Well, apparently that isn't the case.
I kid you not – when Sunday NFL Countdown came on, my mouth started watering and I immediately started thinking about "what was I gonna eat" later – and it was all REALLY yummy. I started getting ready to head to the store to stock up, and then it hit me that all the work I have done so far didn't prepare me for this unexpected cause of gluttony… The Pigskin.
I'm now at a crossroads in more ways than one – not only do I need to figure out what the hell I'm gonna eat on Sundays (which you all will help me with :)…), but also now that there may be more triggers that could send me off the deep end. And that's huge.
Realizing that there are gonna be more triggers – things I have never realized wold put me in that mindset – is actually VERY scary to me. More therapy fodder for sure, but for the last few months I was convinced I had two – stress and boredom. I could say 'no' around my friends (hell, my best friends have turned my Weight Watchers points into a game), I can easily choose healthier options when eating out, going to a movie and food shopping. I honestly thought I had made GREAT progress. It's progress, without a doubt, but far less that I apparently have.
So I come to you, my readers, for a little help. Gimme some good healthy snack options, recipes, etc… Gimme some eating out options if I need to go to a bar to watch the Giants, Steelers (my loyalty is to my G-Men, but I'm a bandwagon Steel Curtain fan due to many people close to me being fans), etc… or at least gimme some advice as to how so many of you, my healthy friends, have managed to deal with this situation.
Thanks, friends… I'm looking forward to your feedback – and enjoy your Sunday Funday!
I know it's been a week… sorry about that. Got some things I'm workin' on which I will share with you all soon enough – exciting things – so stay tuned!
Tough Mudder is the TOUGHEST one day event on the planet. This is not your average mud run or boring, spirit-crushing road race. It's Ironman meets Burning Man: our 7-12 mile obstacle courses are designed by British Special Forces to test all around toughness, strength, stamina, fitness, camaraderie, and mental grit.
There are 17 obstacles in all, but here are some of the highlights… I will be shot with water cannons, crawl under barbed wire, climb 10 foot walls, run up as well as carry tree stumps up and down high grade hills, swim through underwater tunnels and end by running through fire. But – there's a cool adult Slip-n-Slide in the middle!!!…???…?!?!
As you all know I do love to do things for a great cause, and this is no exception. While, this year, many of you generously donated to the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life on behalf of me and my team The Pineapple Avengers (PIIIIIIIIIIIINE… APPLE!), next year I will be doing this for the Wounded Warrior Project (info on the WWP can be found here).
But, there are selfish reasons I chose the Tough Mudder as my goal. I need to do a lot more than just lose weight, or get in shape, or see a therapist. I am going to need to make these types of things MAJOR FOCUSES in my life if there is any way I am going to complete something so difficult. I know it's cliche, but I need to master – and embrace – 'mind, body, and soul' if I am going to accomplish this and join the fraternity of Mudders. I'm not fooling anyone – myself included – when I realize that by the time I run this race I will be 37 years old. I have no idea how idea how young or old most of these competitors are going to be… I'm just hoping that the camaraderie piece of this event comes into play and these young'ns decide to help the old guy out if he needs it!
Anyhow, I hope this answers some of the questions you guys had. I'm tellin' ya – check out the website here and you get some great info as well.
As always, you can find me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to this here post as well… thanks so much for the support!
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Nationals vs Rockies MLB Prediction – September 28th
Written by Jordan Walters on September 28, 2018
Two teams with very different motivations on Friday night. The Washington Nationals just want this mega-disappointing season to end. The Colorado Rockies, meanwhile, are battling for both the NL West title and a wild-card spot. So who do you think is favored on the MLB Odds?
How to Bet Nationals vs Rockies MLB Odds & Game Info
Trea Turner hit .308 and set a new #Nats SB record… pic.twitter.com/8RxPT5IFNC
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) 27 de septiembre de 2018
When: Friday, 8:10 PM ET
Where: Coors Field, Denver
Probable pitchers (away/home): Joe Ross/Kyle Freeland
TV: MLB Extra Innings
Radio: Washington / Colorado
MLB Odds: Colorado Rockies -182 / Washington Nationals +172 (10.5)
MLB Specials
Clear: 12°C/53°F
Wind: 8 mph E
Why Bet on Washington?
The Nationals bring a three-game winning streak into this one to get three games over .500 so they are at least guaranteed not to finish with a losing record. Wednesday's game, a 9-3 win over the Marlins in eight innings (shortened by rain), was most likely Bryce Harper's last-ever home game as a National. He didn't do anything of note.
Harper is having a fine season, though. He has scored 101 runs, recorded 100 RBI and 129 walks in 2018. He is the first player in Nationals history (2005-pres.) and the seventh player since 2014 to record at least 100 runs, RBI and walks in a season, joining Jose Ramirez (2018), Joey Votto (2017), Aaron Judge (2017), Mike Trout (2016), Paul Goldschmidt (2015) and Jose Bautista (2015, 2014). He is just the 23rd player in baseball history to put together a season of at least 100 runs, 100 RBI and 125 walks. On the season, Harper ranks in the National League in HR (T2nd, 34), OBP (4th, .393), runs (T5th, 101), RBI (7th, 100), OPS (9th, .892) and extra-base hits (11th, 66).
The big star Wednesday was young Victor Robles, who went 4-for-5 with a homer, five RBI and a steal. Robles that possibly could have been bigger if the game wasn't called due to rain after seven innings. The homer was the third in 18 games for the 21-year-old. Robles is one of the best prospects in baseball, and he's one of the reasons the Nats aren't expected to break the bank and bring Harper back.
Ryan Zimmerman left Wednesday's game against the Marlins with tightness in his back and was replaced by Mark Reynolds. With Washington eliminated from playoff competition, they won't rush the 33-year-old Zimmerman back and he might be done for the year.
It's Joe Ross (0-1, 4.09) on the mound. Ross will make his third and final start in what has been a solid 2018 after missing 14 months with Tommy John surgery. In 11 innings, Ross has given up six runs (five earned) with three strikeouts and three walks.
Why Bet on Colorado?
The Rockies could win the division, be a wild-card team or miss the playoffs altogether. Over their last eight games as of Thursday, Rockies starters are 5-0 with a 1.43 ERA. They have pitched seven innings or more in five of those games with quality starts in seven of those contests, not allowing more than two runs in any of those games.
The Rockies' starting ERA of 4.19 is the second-lowest figure in franchise history, trailing only 2009 (4.10) team. The team's overall ERA of 4.34 ranks fourth in club history and is the lowest since the 2010 squad posted a franchise-low 4.14 mark. The 2.54 ERA by the bullpen this month ranks second in the National League and in the Majors behind Milwaukee (1.98). The Rockies' 45 come-from-behind wins are second in the NL (third in the Majors) and tied for the third-most in franchise history.
Charlie Blackmon's .348 batting average in September ranks fourth in the NL with the center fielder hitting safely in 21 of 24 games. Trevor Story is tied for second in the NL this month with eight home runs, despite missing five days of playing time with elbow soreness.
It's lefty ace Kyle Freeland (16-7, 2.84). He is 7-0 with a 2.10 ERA (64.1 IP, 15 ER) in his past 10 starts since Aug. 6. He earned the win his last time out on Sept. 23 at Arizona, pitching seven shutout innings with seven hits, one walk, and six strikeouts. Freeland has recorded 10 consecutive quality starts, 23 quality starts on the season.
Freeland has gone 9-2 with a 2.36 ERA (87.2 IP, 23 ER) in 14 starts at home this season, with the Rockies going 12-2. He will be making his third career start against the Nationals, second this season. Freeland did not factor in the Rockies' 2-1 win at Nationals Park on April 13 (4.2,4,1,1,3,4). In two career starts against Washington, both at Nationals Park is 1-0 with a 3.72 ERA (9.2 IP, 4 ER), three walks and eight strikeouts.
Latest Nationals vs Rockies MLB Betting Trends
Nationals are 1-4 in their last 5 during game 1 of a series
Nationals are 0-4 in their last 4 Friday games
Rockies are 7-0 in their last 7 vs. National League East
Rockies are 4-0 in Freeland's last 4 starts during game 1 of a series
Washington is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Washington is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington's last 5 games
Colorado is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Colorado is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Colorado's last 5 games at home
Expert MLB Betting Prediction for Nationals vs Rockies
Freeland has been one of the NL's best pitchers for several weeks – this won't be close. Take the Rockies on the run line.


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FV432 Armoured Personnel Carrier Lapel Pin
This is a lapel pin badge with two rear butterfly clasp fixings.
The pin badge is made of high quality metals and is 40mm in length.
The FV432 is the armoured personnel carrier variant of the British Army's FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles. Since its introduction in the 1960s, it has been the most common variant, being used for transporting infantry on the battlefield. In the 1980s, almost 2,500 vehicles were in use, with around 1,500 now remaining in operation - mostly in supporting arms rather than front-line infantry service.
Although the FV432 Series was to have been phased out of service in favour of newer vehicles, such as the Warrior and the CVR(T) series, 500 have been upgraded to extend their service into the next decade.[1]
In light of the army's need for additional armoured vehicles in the Afghan and Iraqi theatres, the Ministry of Defence announced in August 2006 that an extra 70 vehicles would be upgraded by BAE Systems in addition to the 54 already ordered as part of their force protection initiative. The improvements take the form of an engine upgrade, a new steering unit and a new braking system, as well as improvement in armour protection to a level similar to that of the Warrior. In addition, plates lined with Kevlar have been added to the bottom hull. This is intended to provide better protection against improvised explosive devices. It is intended that these FV432s will free up the Warrior vehicles for provision of reserve firepower status and/or rotation out of theatre. The updated version is called the Bulldog.
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It's well known that in order to lose weight, you have to create a calorie deficit: burn more calories than the number you eat. If that is indeed the case than what could be easier than to just decrease the calories you eat to almost nothing? This seems to be an easy and logical way to create a enormous calorie deficit which should lead to losing weight, right?
Starving yourself to lose weight is the absolute wrong thing you should do in order to achieve a long term weight loss. In actuality, you may be endangering your health and making it very tricky for yourself to shed weight and keep it off for a long time to come.
1. Palm Bay Rat Removal – Have ever tried going without food for at least 1-2 days, or even going on very little of it? It's not fun. In actuality, it can quickly become quite depressing. This is precisely what you don't want to happen when you are trying to drop weight. You want to remain motivated so you will have the ability to stick to your diet plan for the future. Starving yourself will make this very tricky.
2. Disrupting your health – Just like a car can not run without fuel, your body can not run without food. You could be risking your health if you're trying to starve yourself. You may experience tiredness, lack of energy, loss of muscle, hair loss. Trust me, this is insecure.
3. In terms of weight loss, starving yourself might be counterproductive. The reason is that when you cut down your calorie intake too low, your body goes into starvation mode. It slows down your metabolism to reduce the speed in which you burn calories. This is done to preserve whatever calorie stores your body has. It's trying to make sure you are going to be able to survive without food for as long as you can. It is a survival mechanism.
If your metabolism slows down, your body loses weight more and more slowly until you just can't drop weight anymore because you're burning so few calories.
I hope that I have convinced you not to go on a starvation diet. It's not a wise way to try to lose weight.
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Size & Structure Pt 2 - Fair Education Foundation, Inc.
The part of the whole Biblical concept of the size and structure of the universe that stumped me the most involved the "waters above" the firmament. It seemed readily apparent that these waters not only could provide a reflective surface for all the stars below, but that; indeed, there could be no way that such reflection could be avoided.
Also, it seemed equally apparent that--given the enormous possibilities involved in the dispersion of those reflections--that some very great percentage of all the stars ever allegedly seen are really reflections... either of real stars or of other reflections. The effect of such an understanding upon the actual number of stars there are, and the corresponding dramatic shrinkage of the size of the universe could be missed by no one. Then, with corroborating evidence that star reflections are not only Biblically, but also scientifically capable of producing a viable model of the universe that would scrap all of modern cosmology since Copernicus, the true size of the universe could indeed be spectacularly sanforized and tailored to somewhat less than a radius of one light day...as we have already begun to see.
Fine, I thought. But how could the stars and their reflections always be where they actually are if they were reflected off of "water" ...unless somehow the water was perfectly undisturbed? If, however, the water itself were perfectly still with the starry "stellatum" of the 3rd heaven in the firmament revolving nightly around the Earth and the "waters above" synchronously revolving with it, such a structure would definitely fit the Scriptures and would seem to satisfy all that is actually seen and known.
Yet, since only about 6000 stars can be seen with the naked eye in both hemispheres, and since it would be certain that these would be reflected off of those "waters above", we would probably conclude that only one reflection per star would be produced off of water that is perfectly still. That would only give us 12000 points of light--half stars and half reflections--in the entire universe. Modern cosmology claims there are billions of galaxies with trillions of stars in each galaxy.
The obvious solution? Well, scoff at this or any other small number, of course!
Well, Kabbalic Kosmology masquerading as "science" is Biblically scheduled to get its mask ripped off "one hour" after a One World Government is seated (Rev. 17:12-14; 18:2; 13:2b-8), that's so what.... It's called "The Fall of Babylon", i.e., "The Fall of Confusion" (Rev. 14:8; 17:5, 14, 18; 18:2, 4, 8-19).
The only thing holding the whole mountain of cosmological deceptions together is the belief that all of them are safe and secure because "science" has put the stars so far away from the Earth that even God couldn't get them around nightly...as the Biblical Model and observation demand. Ipso facto, the Devil says smugly: 'The Copernican foundation to all the rest of my deceptions can never be convincingly defeated and Bible credibility can never be restored. The hold that the Bible has on a dying generation of its faithful followers is doomed to collapse in short order, dragging Jesus and New Testament Christianity down with it!' (This is the assessment of all attempts to expose and defeat the powerful forces upholding Satan's Empire of Babylon in the world today as expressed in Revelation 18:7: "...for she [Babylon- Satan's Empire] saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow". And, even after Babylon is brought down - Rev. 17:14-18 - and regroups - R. 18:2 - and becomes overtly Satan-worshipping - R. 13:4 - there is only defiance - v.4).
Now, although the geocentric Machian Model of the "solar" system and the universe may be just as good mathematically as the current Kabbalic Model, it will never attract more than a few windmill tilters as long as a 15 billion light year thick universe holds the fort and prevents an intelligibly small universe model from getting those stars close enough to go around nightly as observed. A demonstrably viable "Small Universe Model" would change all that very quickly. It would, in effect, remove the only objection to validating the non-moving Earth model and would pull the plug on the entire Kabbalic Kosmos and all the Bible-bashing lies riding on it.
The first row of enhydro (water within) crystals can be found on pages 1 and 2 at this web site: http://www.kacha-stones.com/crystals_enhydros_himalayan.htm.
The second row of water crystals comes from the Adhikara Art Gallery and can be viewed at this web site: http://www.akhikara.com/pagine/water-6.htm (& 3.htm-8.htm).
There are hundreds of other such pictures on the net. Each one has a unique geometrical design, and each one is not ice, but nevertheless is water in solid form.
Obviously, the Designer behind such designs can do anything! (The argument that no such Designer exists is over [See: Atheism - ID Pitfalls]). When the Bible describes the structure of the universe as containing "waters above" the firmament, i.e., as something that exists at the furthermost extremity from the Earth (a Biblical 8 billion miles at most, not 15 billion light years! [See: Size-Structure Pt 1]), we are clearly talking Designer with a capital "D". And just as clearly, those "waters" could just as easily be crystalline as liquefied and still fit the Biblical description perfectly. Water is water, whether it be crystals, ice, or liquid! Indeed, as we proceed with some exceptional Scriptural references in Part III, we will see that water crystals supply the precise feature in the Biblical structure of the universe that allows it to have a radius of no more than one light day while simultaneously revealing how the Kabbala Kosmoligists can falsely claim 15 billion light years thickness and trillions of stars.
Before that, however, it behooves us to realize that scripturally and logically--Big Bang mythology notwithstanding--there is an outer spherical shell or dome which covers and encases all material objects in the universe within it. We recall the second reference in the Hebrew for "firmament" (#7554) given on page 8 in Part I.... That definition is: "...to expand by hammering; by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)...spread abroad (...into plates)."
It is plain that the connotation of the word "overlay" fits with the Hebrew connotations of the other relevant words in Genesis. More, it was established semantically and grammatically that the firmament is "against" but separate from the spherical integument encasing the universe. Notice now how the Hebrew connotations describe a global dome through the word "overlay": 1)"to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another. 2) "to cover [to place something over or upon], overspread [to spread or diffuse over], or surmount [to be on top of or above] with something...."
c) Next is: The 3rd part of the heaven/firmament--of no greater than equal thickness to the 2nd part (another 3,670,000,000 miles)--contains ALL of the stars. This starry realm of the 3rd heaven/firmament (the Stellatum) revolves around the Earth every 23 hours and 56 minutes as observed. (See Part IV [See: Size-Structure Pt 4]).
e) Next and last: A global dome encases all that is in the universe. Its under surface is covered (or strategically embedded) with highly reflective water crystals (sample of shapes on p. 2). Obviously, such incredible designs are capable of sending innumerable scattered reflections...accompanied by a full range of spectrum colors for our Redshift Theorists to play with and continue to expand their Expanding Universe fantasy. Reflections from multi-angled facets of these precisely embedded crystals off of a comprehensible number of actual stars are sent to locations of non-luminous entities (e.g., our moon without the sun, asteroids, and nebulae). There in the blackness of space where many are retro-reflected off of the crystalline dome and are seen or captured by spectrographic technology and are yet other innumerable reflections that are being counted as actual dim stars or "night lights" behind nebulae, etc. The thickness of this global "dome" overlaying the present universe is vaguely suggested in the Hebrew connotation of "firmament" (#7554) that we just saw, viz., "...to expand by hammering, by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)...spread abroad (...into plates)...." So, how thick?? "Hammering" and "thin sheets" suggest not thick at all...perhaps measurable in inches or a few meters.... Who knows? Whatever it is, it is certainly not a figure that plays any substantive role whatever in the overall thickness of the Biblical Universe.
Anyway, the point is that each water crystal--regardless of size and shape--has been set jewel-like in "hammered" bezels on the underside of the global encasement with a supernatural precision that makes the finest 21 jewel Swiss watch of old about as sophisticated as a mud pie. Thus affixed and perfectly arranged these crystals reflect the light from whatever number of real stars there are. That real number of stars is multiplied (and even magnified) and scattered reflectively with all of the spectral array that is precisely positioned and timed to produce the number and specific locations of individual points of light and all other deep space phenomena that is actually known to exist.
With those thoughts in mind, those interested will want to examine some other astonishingly pertinent Scriptures which fit the Biblically described structure of the universe seen thus far. As far as I can tell, the application of these Scriptures to an understanding of the size and structure of the universe has not been made before now, as is evident by their absence in the Models of the universe proposed by Medieval Churchman.
Nevertheless--considering that not even a telescope was available--those earth-centered models with a "stellatum" containing all of stars diurnally revolving around the earth as in the Ptolemaic Model--were not that far off the true mark! The errors that were built into those models because of technological deficiencies were quite small really. For example, the planets Uranus, Neptune, and "Pluto" had not been discovered and were not included in the model and thus the starry zone called the stellatum began after Saturn, rather than after Pluto [now itself in question].
Again, this was not far off the mark considering the times and even all that is actually known today! If it had been realized that the 3rd heaven where God's Throne--and hence God--is located according to Scripture (II Cor. 12:2), then God wouldn't have been placed beyond the "Waters Above" and the door wouldn't have been closed on the search for and discovery of other Scriptures which would complete an understanding of the size and structure of the universe that no true knowledge of the heavens denies today.
As we are seeing, those mis-applied and underappreciated Scriptures plainly put God and all His operations in a revolving 3rd Heaven just beyond the starry realm (stellatum) and Biblically contiguous with the Scriptural "waters above". Furthermore, those Scriptures decree that those "waters above" be crystalline starlight reflectors embedded in the underside of a thin but substantive dome encasing our entire temporary universe (Isaiah 65:17;66:22; II Pet. 10-13; Rev. 21:1), and beyond which there is no created entity.
To most people today it will seem utterly ridiculous to even consider that a Biblical Model of a Small Universe with the Earth at the center could be the true state of affairs. Surely, we reason, it cannot be that four and a half centuries of progressively ignominious defeat of the Biblical Creation Scenario and its triumphant replacement by another "holy book's creation scenario"--certified in all learning centers and hyped relentlessly in all the media by a Theoretical Science Establishment--has been a deception so grand in its scope and purpose as to rule out purely human plotting and conniving!!
Yet, the closer one studies what has happened, the more certain it becomes that the fruits of this massive deception provide all the evidence that is needed to identify the perpetrator. As it is beyond argument that what people believe about the Origin of the sun, moon, earth, stars, and themselves is foundational to all other beliefs and philosophies, it is equally beyond argument that the Kabbalic Kreation Model is diametrically opposed to--and hence the implacable enemy of--the Biblical (and Koranic) Creation Model.
Are the Talmudist/Kabbalists the sole perpetrators? Certainly not! Are they the primary perpetrators? Yes. They have been the initiators, the facilitators, the undercover perpetrators probably since their Babylonian Captivity. But the scheme is too focused on a single-minded goal over too many centuries not to have been derailed a thousand times by circumstances if it were not supernaturally conceived, directed, and promoted by a host of people (non-scientists and church leaders included), virtually all of whom have had no known allegiance to Talmudism/Kabbalism.
Likewise, of all the major religions, Judaism is the only one that mocks and hates Jesus and His New Covenant with a deadly passion and claims that their spiritual leaders (Rabbis, Rebbes) are smarter than g-d. [See: Talmud, (p.4)] These are those whose single-minded mission is the destruction of the Bible's credibility from Creation to Jesus to Heaven. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..." (Rom. 1:22; Is.44:25). And that goes for all of us in the non-Jew masses who also have been deceived by the utterly insane Kabbalist "creation scenario" which tells us that a "cosmic egg" exploded 15 billion years ago and created all that exists!
But now the hour draws very close when the Biblical God of Creation--first revealed to the world by the Hebrew Moses--is going to restore sanity about the Origins and nature of all that exists and thereby set in motion the final scenes of the Last Act of God's End Time Drama for this old Earth. [See: God's End Time Drama] Compared to the factless fantasizing of Big Bang Kosmology founded upon and fueled by observation-denying assumptions from start to finish, the Bible's Cosmology is a model of clarity, simplicity, and scientific realism. No "quarks", no "black holes", no "superstrings", no evolving Klingons and E. T's swarming through the universe in space ships; no hidden occult religion disguised as science deceiving its devotees... who then, in turn, employ every device to deceive the rest of the world! In place of all that, we have an intelligible structure of our universe from the "waters below" to the crystalline "waters above", a structure which conforms to all that is actually known, a structure which was described in writing through men by the Almighty God Who can and will bring it all to pass as promised in His Infallible Word.


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Q: Rails 5.1 width Devise gives a 401 using Sendgrid on Heroku when a password is reset I'm building a new Rails 5.1 app
Authorization is handled with Devise
I'm using sendgrid for mail delivery
I have made one normal mailer to test my configuration and it's working as expected in both development and production so I assume the email configuration is ok.
When i commit the reset_password form no email is send, from the console i get this

Started POST "/da/users/sign_in" for 127.0.0.1 at 2017-06-30 08:32:01 +0200
Processing by Devise::SessionsController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"0rR2m6lffy0/eExucO0tv/7Rj1mg6rtEDoL7U6EI4jSwXg8LPoGhPRf+0iVs8Ug3Vu2X+3VNyISzcFjjFHgDAQ==", "user"=>{"email"=>"max@synthmax.dk"}, "commit"=>"Send reset password link", "locale"=>"da"}
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms (ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)

One thing i noticed is that rails 5.1 mailer inherits from ApplicationMailer but devise inherits from ActionMailer::Base
I have tried to configure devisie using configure/initializers/devise.rb
config.parent_mailer = 'ApplicationMailer'and restart the app without any effect
I have uploaded the project to github https://github.com/maxgronlund/samso


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Q: Install EJabberd on Windows Azure Is it possible to install EJabberd XMPP Server on my Azure Cloud App? I want to do this for the testing purpose. If it is possible, then how do I open ports which are required to communicate with the Jabber Server.
Thanks in advance.

A: If you mean Azure Cloud App as "Windows Azure Cloud Service" you will not be able to run it due to several application specific limitation.
However if you decide to use Windows Azure Virtual Machines either Linux or Windows as it does support both Linux and Windows OS, you sure can get it running. You can configure virtual machines ports as needed for your EJabberd server to support TCP/IP based communication to external users. Here are directions for setting endpoint in Windows Azure  Virtual Machine.


There it is! The last page of "CYMK!" We're working on the final draft and extras for the actual book version right now, and it will be available very soon!
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Q: Prove/Disprove that the set of rational numbers is uncountable (Real Analysis) Cantor digonalization method is used to prove that an open interval for real numbers $(0,1)$ is not countable. Since rational numbers also have decimal expansions, we could try to use this same method to prove that the set of rational numbers in $(0,1)$ is not countable. Explain why we could not conclude that the set of rational numbers in $(0,1)$ is uncountable using this method.
What i tried
Cantor diagonalizaton works by writing all the real numbers in the interval $(0,1)$ as an array of matrix and then finding a real number that does not belong to this set of array of matrix by making the diagonal entries of the real number different from that of the set of array of numbers in the matrix thus a contradiction. While for the set of rational numbers it can be expressed in the form of $\frac{a}{b}$ where gcd(a,b)=1, We do the same thing as for the rational numbers but i think this set of rational numbers somehow always tend to appear in the array of matrix no matter how we try thus this method of proof dosent apply for the case of rational number. But im unsure how. Could someone explain this to me. Thanks

A: Its not the process but the conclusion of the process that fails.  When you write real numbers in the interval (0,1) as an array of matrix and then find a  number  by making the diagonal entries of the real number different from that of the set of array of numbers in the matrix, the resulting number is again a real number.
When you apply the same trick to the rational numbers the resulting number may not be rational. Remember being rational means the decimal expression either terminates or repeating. How do you ensure these properties in the resulting number?

A: Proof that the set of decimal expansions from $(0,1=.99999.....]$ are uncountable:
If they were countable we could list them all.  Then we could manipulate them all to get a number not on the list.  That new number is a decimal expansion.  But that contradicts that all decimal expansions were on the list.
Proof that the set of rationals in decimal representation from $(0,1=.99999.....]$ are uncountable:
If they were countable we could list them all.  Then we could manipulate them all to get a number not on the list. $\color {red} {\text{ That new number is a rational in decimal representation.}}$  But that contradicts that all rationals in decimal representation were on the list.
!!!BUT!!! There is no reason to believe that bit in red is true!
So instead we'd have to write:
If they were countable we could list them all.  Then we could manipulate them all to get a number not on the list. If $\color {red} {\text{ that new number is a rational in decimal representation.}}$ $\color {blue} {\text{then that would}}$ contradict that all rational in decimal representation were on the list.
And from that we can conclude the true (but wimpy) result:
Either the rationals in decimal representation for $(0,1=.99999....]$ are uncountable OR if they are countable then there exist decimal representations in $(0,1]$ that are not rational.

A: The rationals are countable.
Here is a intuitive sketch.
Make a table.  Put natural numbers across the top and down the left column.
the body of the table is the ratio of the number at the top of the table over the number in the right column.
This is a representation of the full set of $\mathbb Q+$
Now you can run a serpentine line that runs through every entry in the table.  this maps the rationals to $\mathbb N$
More formally:
There exists an injection from $\mathbb Q\to \mathbb Z\times \mathbb N$
i.e. $\frac pq = (p,q)$
the Cartesian product of countable sets is a countable set.


"Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it's in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows."
- Opening line of an AFP article on a study by Duke University and Howard University professors that tries to explain the different successes people of different geographic origins have in sports. The article is focused on sprinting and swimming but for some reason has a picture of a distance runner in it.
Brasschat: Results: Molly Huddle 4:09 1500m Win, Jeff See 3:40 Win, Shannon Rowbury 2:03 800m Chris Solinsky remains the world leader at 10k as the 10k was won in 27:30.
USA Track & Field Announces Men's 8 km Championship to Be in Carmel, IN in 2010 $20k in prize money is all it takes to get a national championship in our sport.
Sexual Abuse Claims Against a Prominent Athletics Coach in Ireland Coach and athlete are unnamed.
UC Irvine Sophomore Charles Jock Runs 1:45.65 To Win By 2-Plus Seconds Jock is the guy who ran a 1:46.17 in the semis at NCAAs but somehow didn't make the final. Since then, he made the USA final and now is a 1:45 man. In additional action, other collegians put up some big marks. Highlights included a 19.99 200m semi (and a 20.06w win in the finals) from Curtis Mitchell, a winning 12.98w from Ronnie Ash and a 17.42m (57-2) shot put win for Oklahoma freshman Karen Shump. On The Boards: CHARLES JOCK 1:45.6 AS COLLEGE SOPHOMORE!
Both Course Records Fall at Boilermaker 19 year old Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa (a 59:59 half guy new to the scene, he also won at Bolder Boulder, and Ottawa 10k) got the men's record, and Edna Kiplagat (LA Marathon winner in 2:25) got Catherine Ndereba's women's record. Each picked up $7000 for their wins.
Alistair Cragg Runs 7:44 As Lopez Lomong DNFs In 3,000.
Semenya To Compete In Low-Key Meet In Finland On Thursday The world champ recently recorded lackluster 1:35 times in a couple of 600s in practice, but will line up against a 2:03 800m runner nonetheless.
Dayron Robles Withdraws From Paris Meet With Sore Legs Maybe he didn't want to get beat by David Oliver.
Bolt Confident He Will Get World-Leading 100m Time In Paris Showdown With Powell This is a former Golden League meet so you know it is top tier. Andrew Wheating's European debut in the 800m vs KD, Nick Symmonds, and Kaki. Plus all 3 American female finalists at 1500m from worlds last year, plus Molly Huddle in 5k, Jeremy Wariner, Allyson Felix.
Usain Bolt Heading to Australia in September to Party, Enjoy the Australian Women, DJ, Oversee a Race Between Footballers, & See a Kangaroo Plus he may get $1,000,000 from Gatorade regardless if he races the footballers. The dude likes to party. At Worlds, last year, we left a party where Bolt was DJ'ing and dancing with Asafa Powell with his shirt off at 3 am. Not sure if we posted this last year, but video of Bolt-Powell dancing here.
Pat Butcher: Should Saudi Arabia Be Barred From the Olympics Until they Permit Women to Compete? We think it's a good idea. Fortunately, much of the world was outraged when South Africa treated non-whites like crap 20 years ago. Somehow however, 20 years later it's ok to treat women as second class citizens.
The big news in Lausanne was the return to action for Usain Bolt in 2010 from an Achilles injury, and he ran a world-leading 9.82. Up next is a confrontation with Asafa Powell in Paris (Powell has run 9.82 unaided as well this year but also 9.71, 9.75, 9.81 wind-aided and 9.83 into the wind). However, we know the LRC faithful are most interested in the mid-d and distance action and we break down every race for you, including inspired runs by Morgan Uceny and Dan Huling, who now are both in the US top 10 all-time, as Uceny is #10 and Huling now #5.
In American distance news, steepler Dan Huling continued his steady improvement with an 8:13.29 PR (#5 all-time US - he ran 8:14.69 last year) for 4th and former Cornellian Morgan Uceny ran a 4:02.40 PR (#10 all-time US) ahead of last year's sub-four runner Christin Wurth Thomas. The distance race of the evening may have been the men's 800, as David Rudisha won again, turning back Olympic champ Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and 2007 World champ Alfred Yego, as all 3 went 1:43. Walter Dix went sub-20 in the 200, Bershawn Jackson won the 400m hurldes, Brittney Reese won the long jump and Debbie Dunn had another sub-50 clocking in the 400.
More Brief AP Recap: Vuvuzelas come to track and field and Bolt on showdown with Powell: "It's going to be something big."
On The Boards: Dan Huling 8:13 PB!
*Lausanne 1500m KEMBOI 3:31.52 World lead!
Training Talk #9 With Featured Guest Tim Broe Broe was the best in the US 5k ranks earlier this decade and now is starting a new pro training group.


Queensland Health has advised of an immediate food recall of pre-packed lettuce products (including baby spinach, baby rocket, cos and kale) grown and distributed by the Victorian-based company Tripod Farmers.
The recall comes after an increased number of Salmonella anatum cases in Victoria.
At this stage, we have been advised that the recalled product was not distributed to Coles and Woolworths supermarkets in Queensland.
However, the products are distributed to some trade outlets in Queensland and a number of businesses are affected.
Queensland Health is liaising with companies who may have incorporated the recalled product into other foods sold to the public.
We are receiving frequent updates from Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and the Department of Health and Human Services Victoria regarding increased numbers of Salmonella anatum, linked to the recall.
Since 1 January 2016, Queensland Health has been notified of eight (8) cases of Salmonella anatum. We are currently investigating whether these cases of infection are related to the recalled products.
There may be other cases of Salmonella anatum that have not been notified to Queensland Health, because the patient has not sought medical advice or been tested for Salmonella anatum.
We advise Queenslanders should not consume the recalled products. These products should be disposed of or returned to the place of purchase. If you become ill, please seek medical advice.
Symptoms of Salmonella infection include fever, headache, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms usually develop six to 72 hours after exposure to the bacteria, but sometimes up to two weeks.
Symptoms typically last between four and seven days but can sometimes last much longer.
Salmonella can make some people (particularly young children, older people, and people with impaired immune systems) seriously ill.


Comcast has identified a firmware defect with the SMCD3GCCR devices that results in intermittent network issues that could potentially impact the experience of our Business Internet customers. To remedy the issue we unfortunately must rollback IPv6 support for the SMCD3GCCR. After rollback the SMCD3GCCR will no longer be operating in dual stack mode for broadband or Internet facing communication. The SMC product will be operating in IPv4 mode only.
Customers that prefer to keep IPv6 can schedule a service call to replace the SMCD3G device with the Technicolor 3941B device.