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Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun: Friday, September 10, 2010
A photo taken during a B.C. SPCA investigation in 2006 into Siberian Magic, a tourist attraction in Bridge Lake, B.C. The SPCA had a number of an welfare concerns but were unable to find a new home for the tigers. One of the tigers mauled and killed Tania Dumstrey-Soos, girlfriend of owner/operator Kim Carlton.
Photo Credit: Handout, B.C. SPCA
Exotic-animal law to see fines of up to $250,000, two years in prison for non-permitted pets
A man whose girlfriend was attacked and killed in 2007 by a Bengal tiger he kept in his backyard is the first person to be convicted under new B.C. regulations restricting ownership of dangerous exotic animals.
Kim Carlton was fined $500 Wednesday after pleading guilty in Williams Lake Provincial Court to keeping two African lion cubs at his Bridge Lake home without a permit.
B.C.'s controlled alien species regulations came into effect last year after the death of his girlfriend, Tania Dumstrey-Soos.
Carlton's conviction relates only to the possession of the lion cubs — not the tiger or Dumstrey-Soos' death. The legislation can't be applied retroactively to the tiger attack.
Carlton was charged with possession of a controlled alien species contrary to the B.C. Wildlife Act earlier this year, when the cubs were seized from his home and relocated to an undisclosed facility outside B.C.
A breach of the regulation carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and/or up to two years in jail.
"The fine could be much higher, but this is a step in the right direction," Environment Minister Barry Penner said Thursday.
"I hope it reminds people that they need to have a permit issued by the ministry of environment if they are going to own these animals, so we know they can properly take care of them."
The regulations prohibit individuals from possessing certain species "that pose the most serious threats to public safety" unless the animal was in B.C. before March 16, 2009.
The regulations also include restrictions on possessing, breeding, transporting and releasing animals in B.C.
Since the legislation came into effect last year, the ministry has received 73 permit applications — 43 of which have so far been approved and three denied — to possess animals on the controlled species list.
The list includes 415 species, ranging from the African buffalo to the bat-eared fox, the snow leopard and the nose-horned viper. Dozens of mammals, snakes and reptiles, three types of poison dart frog and three varieties of cassowary are listed.
Penner said he did not know whether any more charges are pending under the regulations.
Peter Fricker, of the Vancouver Humane Society, said he would have preferred a heavier penalty for Carlton but was happy the ministry is enforcing the new regulations.
"It could probably have been higher in our view, but just the fact there's been a conviction sends a strong message out," he said.
"What is astounding to us is that Mr. Carlton attempted to resume his activities with exotic animals, considering what happened to his girlfriend."
Dumstrey-Soos was saying good night to three tigers that were part of an exotic zoo Carlton ran called Siberian Magic when one of them, an animal named Gangus, grabbed her leg.
She was reportedly killed by one swipe of the tiger's paw. She was pronounced dead in hospital in 100 Mile House.
Carlton has since started a new business called Vanishing Kingdom, which offers "animals for film and live productions."
Its website continues to promote the two lion cubs, while videos on the site show animals, including tigers, wrestling with humans.
The phone at Carlton's home went unanswered when The Vancouver Sun tried to contact him Thursday.
"He didn't seem to understand that he was going to be in violation of the new regulations, even though he was the one who [sparked] them," Fricker said.
Carlton and his exotic animals have long been criticized by the humane society and the SPCA.
The single father of a boy and twin girls, Carlton pursued a career as a magician, after retiring from mixed martial arts, before turning to exotic animals.
ksinoski@vancouversun.com
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Annals (annālis, yearly from annus, a year) are a concise form of historical representation which record events chronologically, year by year. The Oxford English Dictionary defines annals as `a narrative of events written year by year`. In The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Hayden White discusses annals in c.....
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• (n. pl.) The record of a single event or item. • (n. pl.) Historical records; chronicles; history. • (n. pl.) A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. • (n. pl.) A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as `Ann...
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(from the article `Tacitus`) ...1, 69, with Galba in power and proceeded to the death of Domitian, in 96. The work contained 12 or 14 books (it is known only that the Histories ... [4 related articles]
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[Tacitus] The Annals (Annales) by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14-68. The Annals are an important source to modern understanding of the history of the Roman Empire during the first century. The Annals is Tacitus` final work, and modern historian...
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An'nals noun plural [ Latin annalis (sc. liber ), and more frequently in the plural annales (sc. libri ), chronicles, from annus year. Confer Annual .] 1. A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which i...
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Annals are a history of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it occurred. The name is derived from the first annual records of the Romans, which were called annales pontificum or annales maximi, drawn up by the pontifex maximus (chief pontiff). The practice of keeping such annals was afterwards adopted al...
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The limitations of Facebook "frindship."
Sarah Bird
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For many years I had a fairly basic operating definition of what a real friend was. If I got thrown into jail in Arkansas, a real friend would come and bail me out.
No one has very many stalwarts in her life. I was lucky that I acquired five by birth—two sisters, three brothers—because, growing up, I didn't make many friends of any variety outside the gene pool. As a military brat, I was uprooted constantly. Many such brats become kudzu-like in their ability to take over whatever alien landscape they are repotted into and be elected head cheerleader by the end of second period. I was the other type: a twitchy introvert with a number of "nervous complaints," more shrinking violet than kudzu.
Dreaming of busting into hot games of four square and red rover, I asked my mother for the secret to making friends. "To have friends," she answered, "you must be a friend." Though I existed in a state of vigilant friendship preparedness, no actual friends were forthcoming. This left me to conclude that her strategy probably worked a lot better if you were a beautiful, charismatic Army nurse who had been engaged half a dozen times—once to a boy-general who played the saxophone.
If you haven't figured out by now where I'm going with this, you are not one of the "members" who recently helped Facebook hit the 200 million mark. I signed on last summer after my publisher suggested that I needed to do some "social networking" to promote my new novel. Wanting to find out what sorts of vaccinations and prophylactics might be needed before I began working my nets, I consulted Shri Googlenami. He directed me to the Polynesian guru Wikipedia, who enlightened me thusly: "Social network analysis views (social relationships) in terms of nodes . . . " This made me worry whether my lymphatic system was up to such an activity. Fortunately, I had a human of the teen persuasion right in my own house to give me a fuller understanding of the phenomenon. "Don't worry, Mom. I'll make a Facebook page for you."
Facebook? Wasn't that the colossal time sink for the terminally narcissistic? The instant I was up and running, however, I wondered why I had ever resisted. Guess which FB demographic is growing most rapidly? If you said "women 55 and older," hurray! You just won a collagen injection into the body part of your choice.
A medium that is about nothing but connecting with other people and sharing the most microscopic minutiae from your life? Where use of your cat's photo as a stand-in for yourself is acceptable? My people, the mom/grandmom demo, should have invented Facebook. That young, techie males beat us to it is as if video games had been created at book clubs—as if we'd all put aside The Memory Keeper's Daughter in favor of cobbling together Grand Theft Auto. But since we read Water for Elephants instead of inventing Facebook, I have to say thank you to the wizardly young ones of the tribe for bestowing upon your elders the magic of the Friendship Weaver. We honor you for sharing with us the power to learn which Led Zeppelin song we are and how our best friend in third grade feels about the Spicy Chicken Go Wrap she had for lunch.
Once I became a "member," I rapidly acquired a gazillion friends. This made me feel popular until I noted that some of my new pals had names like KGSR-FM and the Toronto Quarterly—and that not a single one of them is on my Arkansas bail list. (Toronto Quarterly, have I misjudged you?) Further examination also revealed that the bulk of my posse was composed of other writers. Like particularly dim rug merchants, we had all elbowed our way into this teeming marketplace, then ended up trying to sell rugs to one another.
Since a pulse and absolutely zero discrimination seem to be the only requirements, I probably need to think of a new name for all my virtual buds. Maybe "frind"? (So close to "friend" yet still so far away.) Perhaps I should crib from Kurt Vonnegut and call my frinds a "granfalloon." In Cat's Cradle, the sainted visionary described a "granfalloon" as a bunch of people who believe they have a connection where no real connection exists. He uses the example of Hoosiers, people from Indiana. Since they have no true spiritual destiny in common, they actually have nothing in common.
Though, really, when you think about it, aren't all friendships virtual? Say, for example, one were to have a best friend in high school who was a major badass and responsible for introducing one to Ripple Pagan Pink and pot of such a low quality that it came in the handy shoe box size, as well as the concept of phoning the attendance office of one's penal colony of a high school and pretending to be one's mother to inform them that one had cramps and would not be attending classes that day. Then, just theoretically, imagine that one were at a twentieth high school reunion. Let's say that one is eating a meat-derivative snack item skewered on a toothpick frilled with red cellophane fletching when one looks up and discovers said soulmate approaching. Imagine now the ball-shaped nugget lodging in one's throat because one has inhaled it in one's astonishment at seeing badass friend dressed in a floor-length, appliquéd corduroy jumper, sporting a Gibson Girl-esque hairdo, which one would not be exposed to again until one glimpsed footage of Child Protective Services raiding the Yearning for Zion Ranch. Would one not be justified in concluding that one had never really known this person any better than one knew one's gazillion new frinds?
I turned again to the ultimate authority, my human of the teen persuasion. He clued me in thusly: "It's kind of a loser thing to be on Facebook updating your status every five minutes and to have a million so-called friends."
"Really? Why?"
"Because it shows that you're just on Facebook all the time and not seeing your real friends."
Whew. This attitude was a big relief to me. I could see that my dreams for my son might come true: He might actually acquire a real friend to bail him out when he gets thrown into jail in Arkansas.
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A very persistent brother in law.
I hope you share what the ideal plan was and then the reality, just to prove your are in fact human. 🙂 I look forward to it. I dont mind copying the good ideas for my family, even if I am down to one at home.
I think we neglect to name Tim among our pets because he's not *really* a pet. He comes and goes as he pleases, but hangs around because we feed him. He sits on the couch and watches movies with us. He enjoys the kids' company, but gets annoyed by them sometimes.
He's more like a brother-in-law.
will look forward to the new Thursday posts… no trying to sparkle up the image. we want the real deal. no delusion that it's always orderly and efficient around there… we don't need that kind of pressure!
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Looking forward to this venture with you, and I love your hypothetical!!
I will definitely come back to read more. I feel overwhelmed with my three I cannot imagine how you do it with ten.
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Union Government launches Startup India portal and mobile app
The Union Government has launched the Startup India portal (http://startupindia.gov.in) and mobile application. It was launched by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) Ramesh Abhishek in New Delhi as an integral component of the Action Plan of the Startup India. Key features Information Availability: The portal and mobile app provide up-to- date information ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2016
Topics: Current Affairs 2016 • DIPP • Government Inititives • National • Startup India
DIPP notifies 49% FDI under automatic route in Insurance and Pension sector
The Union Commerce and Industry Ministry has notified foreign direct investment (FDI) upto 49% in insurance and pension sector will be under automatic route. In this regard, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has issued official notification to liberalise its FDI policy in insurance and pension sector. However, FDI above 49% will be subject ..
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Month: Current Affairs - February, 2016
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DIPP gives nod to set up India's first Defence Industrial Park at Ottappalam
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) of Union Government has given its final approval to Kerala Government's approval to set up India's first Defence Industrial Park at Ottappalam. Proposal in this regard was forwarded by Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra), a Kerala government owned Public Sector Company. Key facts The proposed defence park ..
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Government sets up 'Japan Plus' team
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What a New Yorker Writer Knew About Christmas That We Often Forget
The fashionable and secular writer Dorothy Parker saw something in Christmas we often forget, but should remember
The Nativity window in Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels, Belgium.
By David Mills Published on December 25, 2020 •
She wasn't all that funny, though she got off some very good lines. The historian Will Durant said he dashed off his first novel "by a way of a holiday." Dorothy Parker replied, "Dr. Will Durant should stick to business."
She seemed to have guessed that he was either playing a cheap trick to avoid criticism or bragging at how easily he wrote a novel. She nailed him for it.
Parker did that well. Snark, sarcasm, cuts, putdowns, she was a master. She was a writer most famous in the twenties, and maybe more famous for being a personality than for being a writer. As a writer, she made her name as a reviewer and short story writer for The New Yorker. She made fun of people who were easy to make fun of. She often did that by making them even shallower than they were in real life. Her personal life was a mess.
I'm not a fan. Sarcasm gets boring. Other people think more of her writing than I do, and they could be right, and certainly there was more to her as a person than appeared in her writing, at least in the writing she's best known for. She had more heart than her most well-read writing suggests. And it came out in three beautiful Nativity poems.
A Sense of Pain
She had a sense of the pain in the story. She knew, as we sometimes forget, in the joy of celebrating Christmas, that Bethlehem led to Calvary. The Creche led to the Cross. She knew that, as the Prophet Simeon told Mary, "a sword will pierce your soul."
That's part of the Christmas story, though not a part most of us think about much. Jesus's incarnation and birth changed the world, but it didn't change the world without great suffering — not only Jesus's, but those who loved Him. And those who love Him now, all who obey when He says, "Take up your cross and follow me."
For more on Christmas, see David Mills' You Stink. That's Why We Have Christmas. And his take-down of secular attempts to take down Jesus, Tis the Season to Knock Down Jesus.
As Pope Benedict XVI writes in his Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus came as a sign of contradiction, "challenging us to make a choice." He makes us choose between loving and serving the Lord and serving our own "freedom" (as we foolishly think it), our lies, and our pride.
God is love, he says. "But love can also be hated when it challenges us to transcend ourselves. It is not r0mantic 'good feeling.' Redemption is not 'wellness,' it is not about basking in self-indulgence; on the contrary it is a liberation from imprisonment in self-absorption. This liberation comes at a price: the anguish of the Cross. The prophecy of light and that of the Cross belong together."
That seems a bit of a downer on Christmas. And it would be, except that it gives us more reason to rejoice at the Child in the Creche. The Creche points to the Cross — which points to the Empty Tomb. And that points to the new heaven and earth, in which the risen Jesus "will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
She Didn't Know This
Parker doesn't seem to have known this, or at least never wrote about it. Or maybe she just didn't take it seriously. She doesn't seem to known the promises the angel Gabriel made to Mary and her own declaration of praise and liberation in the prayer we call the Magnificat. She seems to have seen the irony of the birth we celebrate, but not seen that the Resurrection reverses that irony.
Which is sad. Believing in the Resurrection would have changed Dorothy Parker's life. (And deepened her writing.) But what she saw is something for us to remember, and reflect upon.
Here's one of her three poems about the birth of Jesus, and I think the best. The other two are The Gentlest Lady and Prayer for a New Mother.
The Maid-Servant at the Inn
"It's queer," she said; "I see the light
As plain as I beheld it then,
All silver-like and calm and bright —
We've not had stars like that again!
"And she was such a gentle thing
To birth a baby in the cold.
The barn was dark and frightening —
This new one's better than the old.
I mind my eyes were full of tears,
For I was young, and quick distressed,
But she was less than me in years
That held a son against her breast.
"I never saw a sweeter child —
The little one, the darling one! —
I mind I told her, when he smiled
You'd know he was his mother's son.
It's queer that I should see them so —
The time they came to Bethlehem
Was more than thirty years ago;
I've prayed that all is well with them."
David Mills is a senior editor ofThe Stream. After teaching writing in a seminary, he has been editor of Touchstone and the executive editor of First Things. He edits the site Hour of Our Death and writes the monthly "Last Things" column for the New Oxford Review.
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Last week, my wife had to reboot our Mac mini, and she got… the blinking file folder icon. For the uninitiated, the blinking file folder is the OS X equivalent of the blue screen of death. I spent an evening trying all the tricks on Apple's support pages and trying to get it to boot from the OS X install disc, but no dice.
So today the Mrs. and I took a trip up to the Apple Store to get a Mac Genius opinion. The verdict was what I suspected: the hard drive is dead. Fortunately we don't keep a lot of critical data on the hard drive (the iPod has all our iTunes stuff, and our photos and movies are on an external drive) so the data loss is not catastrophic. We could possibly replace the hard drive, but we'd be looking at spending $400+ on parts and labor to fix a computer that's four years old and was showing its age. So we're declaring the Mac mini deceased.
It looks like we'll be replacing it with the low-end current model of iMac. We'd get another Mac mini, but after seeing the iMac's gorgeous monitor up-close, both my wife and I suddenly couldn't deal with the 8-year old CRT we were using as the mini's monitor. Just the 20 inch size for us — after spending all my time on a 17-inch laptop monitor I kind of got lost in all the space on a 24-inch monitor.
While at the Apple Store, we got a good look at the Macbook Air. It's not the machine for me — I need more stuff on my laptop than the MBA has — but it is certainly very impressive and visually striking. It is so light, you'd almost think it was not a real computer at all but just a prop.
And the Apple Store itself is something of a marvel. While so many mall stores are foundering and depressingly empty, there were at least 100-150 people in the Apple Store and they were all buying stuff. (Well, we weren't.) It was crowded, loud, and active — more like an exclusive club on a Saturday night than a mall store on a Saturday afternoon. I think Apple, as a company, is in pretty good shape these days if this is the pace of their business.


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"After researching online for a solicitor that could deal with a transfer of equity I approached Jackie Scott who was extremely friendly and helpful and really made the process simple and stress free"
"Jackie Scott did an outstanding job in handling a complex series of transactions for me as an ex-pat living in Canada. Jackie first handled the sale of my deceased mother's property in Bognor Regis, and then assisted us with a protracted purchase (with my daughter, who lives in London) of a flat in London. Jackie showed immense patience with both processes, always gave us excellent advice, responded professionally to every challenge thrown up, and was 100% reliable in every way. I was so impressed with her good grace under pressure and with her competence. I am delighted to highly recommend her to any potential client."
"I was recommended to Jackie Scott by a friend and am glad that our paths crossed. Jackie is extremely professional and has a lovely personality which made the process of selling my home much easier. She was very helpful and her guidance was appreciated as it had been many years since I last sold and purchased a property. I would not hesitate to recommend Jackie and, in fact, I have done so many times!"
Jackie is a Licensed Conveyancer with more than 10 years experience in conveyancing. Jackie trained with a local firm in Chichester and worked hard to qualify at the age of 21.
After a brief sabbatical volunteering at a primary school in Kenya, Jackie returned to take up a post another local firm based in their Bognor Regis office.
Having moved away to experience the bright lights of Brighton & Hove, Jackie returned to the local area and is now looking forward to the new challenge of nurturing the business to grow into a thriving and successful practice, whilst developing a client base she can grow old with.
Jackie understands that moving house can be one of the most stressful life events and prides herself in dealing with transactions efficiently and effectively in order to achieve the best possible outcome - moving day!
Chelsea joins our team with a wealth of experience in account management and client relations.
Chelsea has always lived in the local area and having undertaken several property developments herself, fully understands the importance of choosing the right team to assist the move. Chelsea is also a mother of three young children and therefore has excellent organisational skills and copes very well under pressure.
Like Jackie, Chelsea fully understands that moving home has the potential to be a stressful experience. However, Chelsea's ability to manage the requests of each individual client will ensure your move is a straight forward one.
With her approachability and attributes combined, Chelsea is a welcome addition to the team and Jackie is delighted to have an Assistant who shares the same client care ethos and who will also be invaluable in helping the Company continue to grow.
Director and Licensed Conveyancer: Jackie Scott.
Jackie Scott Limited is a Limited Company incorporated in England and Wales, No. 10563028.


I really need help here!
At first instinct I saw that it resembled the triple angle identity for cosine so I had cos3x=-(1/sqrt2), arccos(1/sqrt2) gave me pi/4 and then cosx is pi/12. However, the answer had cos(11pi/12) and cos(5pi/12), how did they get that?
2.) Solve x^3 - 3sqrt(3)x^2 -3x + sqrt(3) = 0. I couldn't see how it represented any of the triple identities. I thought tan3x is possible but I have problems with the coefficients, they don't tally!
Please help me, thank you so very much!
(1).� Let x = cos(u), then cos(3u) = -1/?2.
� � � � Hence 3u = �3?/4 + 2k?, where k is an integer.
� � � � Three possibilities are 3u = 3?/4 or -3?/4+2? or 3?/4+2?, giving u = ?/4 or 5?/12 or 11?/12.
� � � � Hence x = cos(u) = 1/?2 or 1/(?2 + ?6) or 1/(?2 - ?6).
(2).� The equation can be rearranged as (3x - x�)/(1 - 3x�) = ?3. Let x = tan(u), then tan(3u) = ?3, etc.


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NextIntroducing the Couchbase Spark Connector
Hortonworks and Couchbase: NoSQL Fueled Hadoop
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase on September 1, 2015
Building a big data architecture doesn't mean choosing between NoSQL or Hadoop. Instead it's about making NoSQL and Hadoop work together. Hadoop is engineered for batch and streaming analytical workloads. NoSQL databases are engineered for enterprise web, mobile, and IoT operational workloads. The operational big data in NoSQL databases is fuel for Hadoop.
The key to unlocking the value of operational big data is streamlining the flow of it between NoSQL databases and Hadoop, and that's why Hortonworks and Couchbase announced a strategic partnership today. Couchbase Server 3.0 introduced the database change protocol (DCP) to stream data not only to internal destinations (e.g. nodes / clusters), but also to external destinations (e.g. Hadoop). Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.2 includes not only Sqoop for data import / export, but Kafka for high throughput messaging and Storm for stream processing.
Couchbase Server can stream data to external destinations. HDP can ingest data from external sources, and process it as a stream. These capabilities enable enterprises to export and stream data to HDP from Couchbase Server and vice-versa.
Couchbase Server Hadoop Connector
The Couchbase Server Hadoop Connector, certified by Hortonworks, leverages MapReduce to export data from Couchbase Server to HDP and vice-versa. The data in Couchbase Server is stored in logical partitions with nodes owning a subset of them. Built on the Apache Sqoop subproject, it will generate a MapReduce job in HDP to import data from or export data to Couchbase Server. This enables Hadoop to import and export data with multiple tasks, in parallel, by connecting to multiple Couchbase Server nodes. It's a batch process, but it's effective – particularly when the goal is to enrich and refine operational data.
Documentation | Source Code
Couchbase Server Kafka Producer
The Couchbase Server Kafka producer leverages DCP to stream data mutations (insert, update, delete) in a Couchbase Server to a Kafka topic. The producer receives multiple streams from multiple nodes, one per logical partition, and merges them. As it receives mutations, it sends them to the topic. This enables high throughput, low latency ingestion of data into HDP via Kafka. Whereas Sqoop enables enterprises to import data from Couchbase Server via batches, Kafka enables them to import data via streams. The data can be written to HDFS with LinkedIn's Camus, for example, or consumed by Storm or Spark Streaming for real-time processing.
Source Code (Example)
PayPal open sourced a Couchbase Server Kafka producer for Couchbase Server 2.5.
Couchbase Server Storm Bolt
Storm can process a stream of data in real time, but it can't persist data and it can't provide access to it. However, it can write data to Couchbase Server via a bolt. Storm requires a high performance database to meet high throughput, low latency requirements. That's why enterprises like PayPal create Couchbase Server bolts. It enables them to process streams of data in real-time and write the processed data to Couchbase Server. The key to real-time analytics is low latency. It's low latency input, analyzing data in motion, and low latency output, accessing the results for reporting and visualization.
Couchbase Server Storm Bolt (Example #1)
Real-Time Big Data
Enterprises like PayPal are leveraging Kafka, Storm, and Flume to create real-time big data solutions by streamlining the flow of data between Couchbase Server and Hadoop distributions like HDP. It's Couchbase Server to Kafka to Storm to HDFS. It's Kafka to Storm to HDFS and Couchbase Server. It's up to you. HDP includes all of the components necessary to support the flow of data to and from Couchbase Server. What will your real-time big data architecture look like?
Strata+Hadoop World
Couchbase will be presenting with LinkedIn today on Couchbase Server and Kafka. Couchbase to Hadoop at Linkedin: Kafka is Enabling the Big Data Pipeline
PayPal Presentation at Couchbase Connect 2014
Big Data Central
Posted by	Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
Shane K Johnson was the Director of Product Marketing at Couchbase. Prior to Couchbase, he occupied various roles in developing and evangelism with a background in Java and distributed systems. He has consulted with organizations in the financial, retail, telecommunications, and media industries to draft and implement architectures that relied on distributed systems for data and analysis.


The Visual Arts program is a two-year pre-college program that prepares students for additional research in art. Throughout the visual arts is a class known as the decorative arts That is art that's more utilitarian and has a function however retains a creative model and nonetheless requires talent to create. The Visible Arts department additionally boasts a dedicated Digital Arts multi-media lab.
Programs in visible arts provide both a breadth and depth of expertise—offering intensive hands on experience in a range for processes and mediums. Your lecturers and technicians are all skilled artists who foster a spirit of artistic pondering and experimentation.
The Australia Council has a protracted historical past in constructing the resilience and sustainability of the arts sector by strengthening its leaders. If you want to be a professional artist contributing to the modern arts and culture sector, Emily Carr's Visual Arts Main will present an excellent basis.
Photographers could grow to be digital artists Illustrators could change into animators Handicraft may be laptop-aided or use computer-generated imagery as a template. Upon getting completed the Quotation in Visible Arts Fundamentals, you are eligible to continue your research by making use of to the Visible Arts Certificates.
See the B.F.A. in Visual Artwork Degree Guidelines (doc) and the Educational Advisor for specifics. These programs are in style choices for personal growth or as a transferable arts elective, or when you're waiting to get into the total-time program. Teaching the humanities must be included in each academics every day lesson plans as a result of, based mostly on these studies, college students who are taught via the humanities raise their check and learning levels.


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'A.D. The Bible Continues': The Church is Growing
A few inaccuracies and a little kitsch, but an active and thriving community nonetheless in the series' fourth episode.
Peter Chattaway| April 28, 2015
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Pilate (Vincent Regan) forces Caiaphas (Richard Coyle) to eat the ashes of his dead soldier.
Alissa's Note: A.D. The Bible Continues began airing on Easter Sunday, and during its run, Peter Chattaway recaps episodes as they air. Recaps involve spoilers, especially if you're not familiar with the Bible story.
Episode 4: 'The Wrath'
Peter (Adam Levy) and John (Babou Ceesay) at their trial.
It would be a mistake to say that life is getting back to normal for the apostles—nothing will ever be "normal" for them again, after what they've experienced—but the fourth episode of A.D. The Bible Continues just might be the first one we've seen that isn't built around a major supernatural event (and the special effects that come with it).
The first three episodes all peaked with spectacular sequences like the resurrection of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This episode, on the other hand, gives us a sense—just a small sense, but a sense nonetheless—of how the Church is beginning to grow and work as a community.
People are baptized, property is shared (with former tax collector Matthew in charge of the bookkeeping), and a new base of operations is found when Barnabas gives the Church a plot of land where they can live and work far from the hostile authorities in Jerusalem. (Acts 4 says Barnabas sold a field and gave the Church the money, but never mind.)
The episode is incorrect when it indicates that the Church amounted to only a "handful" of people prior to Pentecost—Acts 1 tells us there were about 120 believers, or nearly ten times what this series showed us, before the Holy Spirit came—but it captures well the joy and enthusiasm that accompanied the growth of the Church in the early chapters of Acts.
Thomas (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson) baptizes Stephen (Reece Ritchie).
It also captures the troubling fate of new believers like Ananias and Sapphira, who try to game the system by claiming that they have given all of their property to the Church when they have really given only part of it.
The Bible says these people simply "fell down and died" when they were confronted by Peter, but A.D. can't resist the urge to make their deaths a little more gruesome, so it shows blood pouring out of their eyes and noses as they keel over. It's the closest this episode comes to having a major special-effects sequence of its own, and you can't help thinking the producers were looking for a "cool" way to kill these people off.
There's plenty of violence in the other subplots too, of course. Cornelius interrogates and ultimately kills a Zealot in an unsuccessful attempt to find the man who tried to assassinate Pontius Pilate in last week's episode. Pilate, for his part, starts crucifying ten Jews every day, and says he won't stop until the assassin has been handed over to him.
Peter (Adam Levy) at the early Church's new camp site.
And when Cornelius leads some of these Jewish victims through the streets to their deaths, he bumps into Stephen, the future martyr, and beats him up for getting in his way. That's right, we're four episodes in now, and there's still no sign of the devout, generous, God-fearing man that Acts 10 says Cornelius was before he became a Christian.
Meanwhile, Pilate develops a weird obsession with the ashes of his former officer, the one who was killed by the Zealot in last week's episode. He sits in his office and makes shapes with the little piles of ash on his desk, and eventually, of all things, he force-feeds some of the ashes to the high priest Caiaphas, who has already covered himself in sackcloth and ashes of a different sort as part of his mourning for the Jews who are being crucified.
Blood pours from the face of Ananias (Peter De Jersey).
Caiaphas, incidentally, is turning into quite the complicated, and at times even sympathetic, character. Yes, he is still very hostile to the followers of Jesus. But it's hard not to share his grief when he visits the crosses of his fellow Jews, or to be moved by the prayer he recites there, which calls for empathy for both the oppressor and the oppressed.
There is no moment in this episode that goes the full Thomas Kinkade, but bits of kitsch remain, like the repeated gusts of wind that flutter across Peter's face during his trial before Caiaphas. It's an oddly repetitive and quasi-literal way to interpret the line in Acts 4 about Peter being "filled with the Holy Spirit" when he speaks to the high priests.
So, as always, it's a mixed bag. But it's good to see the series finally settling into the rise of the early Church, after all the dramatic turning points of the previous episodes.
Peter T. Chattaway writes about films in general, and Bible films in particular, at FilmChat.
How we watch matters at least as much as what we watch. TV and movies are more than entertainment: they teach us how to live and how to love one another, for better or worse. And they both mirror and shape our culture.
Alissa Wilkinson is Christianity Today's chief film critic and assistant professor of English and humanities at The King's College in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn.
Previous Watch This Way Columns:
First Love, Last Love: Courtship Culture and the Teen Cancer Romance
When Art Doesn't Make Us Better People
Twenty Movies That Stuck With Me in 2015
Film | Television
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In Christian Publishing, 'Platform' Is Being Weighed and Found Wanting
Favoring big-name authors and "influencers" might be good for the bottom line, but not always for the books—and readers—themselves.
Collin Huber
Christian Fiction Queen Says Goodbye to Hallmark, Hello to Karen Kingsbury Productions
As novelists embrace entrepreneurship, they find ways to take more control.
Daniel Silliman
Peter (Adam Levy) and John (Babou Ceesay) at their trial.Thomas (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson) baptizes Stephen (Reece Ritchie).Peter (Adam Levy) at the early Church's new camp site.Blood pours from the face of Ananias (Peter De Jersey).


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The area around the Afar-Somali Regions border experiences frequent violent conflict due to long-running disputes over contested territory. Conflict is centered around three Kebeles inhabited by ethnic Somalis from the Issa Clan. These three Kebeles are located in Afar's Zones 1 and 3 and Somali's Sitti Zone. The areas include Adaytu Kebele of Mille Woreda, Undufo Kebele in Gewane Woreda, and Gedamaytu Kebele in Amibara Woreda.
Conflict Background
Ethnic Somalis who inhabit the contested territory want to join the neighboring Somali regional state in Ethiopia, an action that the Afar regional authorities strongly oppose. The disputed areas have important resources, including the Awash river and the highway and railway between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. Violent conflict over these resources has increased since 2018, with major clashes occurring in the context of heightened political tensions during the run-up toward the national elections in 2021.
Both Afar and ethnic Somalis need the Awash river for their livestock and trade routes between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. According to John Markakis (Review of African Political Economy, September 2003):
"[s]ince the beginning of the colonial period the Afar have been pushed northwards by their Somali neighbours…the Ise [Issa] pushed the Afar from Dire Dawa northwards to claim the eastern portion of the Alighedi plain and came within sight of the Awash river; which the Afar believe is the Ise [Issa's] ultimate goal" (p.447).
When ethnic federalism was introduced in 1991, both Somali and Afar became regional states with their own state council and constitutions. The allocation of political power based on ethno-federalism divided communities further, and like other locations in Ethiopia, conflict has expanded beyond disputed locations and is fought between both formal and informal militias.
In 2014, an agreement was signed between the two regional states granting Somalis residing in the disputed territory greater political autonomy as "special kebeles" within the Afar regional state. However, the agreement failed to resolve the conflict, as elders of the Issa clan continue to oppose the arrangement and demand integration into the Somali regional state.
In February 2021, ACLED recorded three incidents between the Afar and Somali militias in Mile, Adaar, and Amibera Woredas of the Afar regional state. Intense violence in 2019 left more than 30 people dead in the same area. Violence escalated in April 2021.
Current fighting between the two regional states was reignited after the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) listed 30 polling stations in these three areas under the Somali regional state. When the Afar regional state disputed this decision(Ethiopian Reporter, 21 March 2021), NEBE decided to cancel the disputed 30 polling stations and instead advised residents in the contested areas to register and vote in neighboring Kebeles (NEBE, 24 March 2021). The Somali regional government rejected NEBE's decision and warned of the "difficulties of participating in the upcoming election" if these polling stations remain closed (Somali Communications, 25 March 2021).
Fighting on 2 April and 6 April 2021 resulted in an estimated 100 fatalities (BBC, 6 April 2021; Al Jazeera, 7 April 2021). As the conflict has intensified, so too has the dialogue between warring parties who each accuse the other of instigating the violence (VOA, 6 April 2021; Somali Communications, 6 April 2021; DW Amharic, 7 April 2021). The Afar regional state communication office claims that soldiers from the Somali regional state special forces attacked Hanruk, Gelano, and Gewanew Woredas on 2 April and 6 April 2021. Meanwhile, the Somali regional state Communication Office insists that it was the Afar region special forces, along with other militias (called Uguguma (ኡጉጉማ)), which attacked civilians in Deawdi, Kerefa, Deawdid, Gewrean, Kelale, and Denlehe Kebeles.
To resolve the conflict, the Ministry of Peace invited both parties to meet with participants from the country's peace and security institutions for dialogue on 8 April 2021. Presidents of both regions attended the dialogue conference with their delegations. At the end of their discussion, both parties agreed to stop the violence, remove their respective forces from the disputed territory, and to respect and abide by previous agreements. They also agreed to allow the federal government to investigate the latest round of conflict in order to identify the perpetrators of the recent clash (Ministry of Peace, 8 April 2021).
Between 2 and 6 April 2021, clashes along disputed territory between the Afar and Somali regional states resulted in an estimated 100 fatalities (BBC, 6 April 2021; Reuters, 7 April 2021).


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Fernando Sanchez
Chair of Health Informatics
Fernando Martin Sanchez holds PhDs in Informatics (Artificial Intelligence) and in Medicine (Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disease); an MSc in Knowledge Engineering and a BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is The University of Melbourne's Chair of Health Informatics and the inaugural Director of the University's Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre (HaBIC). He has worked in the Joint Program in Biomedical Engineering between Emory University Hospital and Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA, and in the National Institute of Health Carlos III in Madrid, Spain, where he was the CIO and then Founding Director of the Medical Bioinformatics Research Unit. He has served as a Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and his research has been funded by some 30 grants from the European Commission, the Spanish Ministries of Health, Science and Defense and the Australian NHMRC, Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) and Department of Health and Ageing. His research interests cover a wide range of topics related to the role of informatics in translational research (data linkage and integration), precision medicine (genome and exposome data processing), participatory health and active ageing (social media, quantified-self, mobile apps).


14/47 Amanda Jones Once I suspended every single bit of my disbelief, this movie did not disappoint.
25/200 Max Braden Putting the science aside, this is an engaging time-travel thriller.
76/159 David Mumpower Much purer sci-fi movie than advertised, it offers several good performances but little memorable in terms of story.
Deja vu features Denzel Washington as an FBI Agent who falls in love with a woman after he is sent back in time to prevent her murder.
It is produced by blockbuster master Jerry Bruckheimer and helmed by veteran director Tony Scott. Initially, Scott dropped out of the production due to logistical concerns as some of the film was to be shot in still recovering New Orleans. But upon reassurances he was persuaded to continue on as the director.
The film reunites Scott and Denzel Washington, who have worked together previously on such successful films as Crimson Tide ($159 million) and Man on Fire ($118 million). The film also stars Jim Caviezel and Adam Goldberg.
See the latest developments for this project on the Deja Vu Movie News page.


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IMO GHG Strategy – What does it mean?
Applicability: Shipowners, operators and managers
A clear signal of the industry's commitment to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping by ending the use of fossil fuels by mid-century
At least 50% reduction by 2050 which equates to 85% reduction in carbon intensity
Broad Government and Industry support for decarbonisation
Under 5 years to deliver initial GHG reduction plan
Will be reviewed in light of further evidence for example IPCC 1.5oC report in September this year
A revised Strategy is to be adopted in 2023
How ambitious is this?
Shipping currently accounts for 2.3 % of global CO2 emissions. However, all the future scenarios in the IMO Third GHG study 2014 anticipate rising emissions; from 50-250% by 2050 under a business as usual scenario. The Paris Agreement temperature (stabilising temperatures to well below 2oC and aiming for 1.5oC) goals place a challenging decarbonisation burden on all sectors.
This sector deal represents a significant ambition for the shipping sector by setting a GHG reduction pathway of at least 50% by 2050 based on a 2008 baseline, with a strong emphasis on reducing to 100% by 2050 if this can be shown to be possible. This puts the shipping sector on course for a 2oC pathway, as shown in Low carbon pathways 2050.
This deal provides a clear signal to the industry that the overarching aim is ending the use of fossil fuels. In order to achieve this zero emission vessels need to be entering service by 2030. Anyone planning to finance, design or build a ship in the 2020s will need to consider how it can switch to a non-fossil fuel later in its operational life.
Is a 1.5oC pathway still an option?
The Strategy leaves open the possibility of being able to keep global average temperature increases within this limit. Short-term measures to implement the Strategy will be needed to urgently peak and reduce GHG emissions in line with a 1.5oC pathway before 2023. This will be dependent on future IMO meetings and the ability to agree to implement policy measures.
The Strategy will be reviewed in light of the UN IPCC 1.5 Report in September this year, which will likely be helpful in strengthening it.
What does 'at least 50%' mean?
This means at least 50% reduction in GHGs by 2050 from a 2008 baseline. Under a 2oC pathway, 50% means shipping's share of net CO2 emissions is likely to grow from current 2.3% share to around 10% by mid-century. This is a significant reduction relative to the growth under a business as usual scenario.
A 50% reduction could help achieve the 'well below' 2oC temperature goal if other industry sectors and countries are able to reduce emissions faster to compensate. Further strengthening of the Strategy could result in a commitment of 100% reduction by 2050 depending on evidence available over the next 5 years.
How will we deliver 'at least 50%'?
IMO is expected to start developing legally binding measures, which could include increases to ships technical and operational efficiency, a low and zero-carbon fuels implementation programme, national action plans and market-based measures. These would be in addition to existing measures on energy efficiency (EEDI and SEEMP).
The IMO fuel consumption data collection scheme which entered into force on 1 March 2018 requires all ships to monitor and report fuel consumption.
Voluntary action by the industry and governments will also help deliver technology and infrastructure to deliver the Strategy objectives.
When does this start?
The adoption of the initial Strategy agrees to achieve GHG reductions with short term measures being implemented between 2018 – 2023. This will require rapid development of regulations.
The IMOs 4th GHG study is due to be completed in 2020 and the first data collection reporting period is 2020 – both of these will provide evidence to define immediate policy action.
Will we see carbon pricing in the near future?
The Strategy lists market based measures as one of the candidate measures in the long-term (beyond 2030).
These have benefits for making the business case to move to a potentially more expensive fuel / technology, whilst also raising funds for R&D programmes, infrastructure development and deployment.
Other policy measures will also be explored that could achieve the same outcome, so a carbon price is not certain.
What will ships of 2050 look like?
They will look very different to today. It is hard to predict the future but we expect to see a diverse range of zero-carbon technologies / fuels deployed across the world's fleet. For example; batteries, hydrogen, ammonia, sustainable biofuels and sail.
There are a range of innovative technologies already being piloted and deployed and we expect the curve of technological innovation to increase with the adoption of this strategy.
Contact katharine.palmer@lr.org
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Big Show Marriage and Family: Big Show's Wife as well as Daughters within Actual life.
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Paul Donald Wight II or Big Show is a wrestler for pretty much two decades. When he first signed an agreement with WCW, Paul was with Melissa Ann Piavis. This is in 1995, and the couple got married on February 14, 1997. However, it became clear that Paul was a wrestler before he was a husband or boyfriend.
Wight made his debut on a single day as their second marriage anniversary. Yes, we're referring to what is known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1999 in WWE history. Big Show won the title that year, losing it in 2000. Later in 2000, he also lost Melissa. The couple got divorced in 2002, that will be ironically when Big Show regained his title.
Big Show met Illinois born Bess Katramados while he was separated from Melissa. The 2 started dating over the past months of his marriage to Melissa. Thus, Bess and Big Show wound up getting married big show wife and kids in February 2002, only days after his divorce with Melissa was finalized. Bess and Big Show remain together, and she's even introduced him in the ring a few times. In accordance with reports, Bess is just a homemaker, promoter, and fitness trainer living in Miami, Florida.
Big Show's Children:
Big Show has a child from his first marriage with Melissa. Her name is Cierra Wight. It would appear that Big Show were able to secure custody of Cierra when she was 14. She lives her father, and Bess now. Big Show and Bess have two children of their particular as well. While not much information is known about Big Show's children from his second marriage, we've had the opportunity to dig up a photo of Big Show along with his kids on Pinterest. You are able to take a look below.


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The NBL ladder didn't change too much with the recent round, but the New Zealand Breakers did lose the advantage they had over the Wildcats.
Losses to Perth and Brisbane last week saw the win gap close to one game and it's shaping up to be another closely-contested season in the NBL.
There are seven games for punters to sink their teeth into this week, which starts with the rematch between the Breakers and the Bullets.
The New Zealand Breakers will be looking for revenge after losing to the Bullets 76-81 on Sunday.
Having led the competition for the majority of the year, the Breakers reign at the top is under threat, but things should get back to normal this week.
Home court advantage should help the Breakers avoid losing three straight games and the Bullets don't travel well.
Bookmakers have the Breakers as dominant favourites and it's hard to see that changing.
Perth got back on track last week with a commanding 89-73 win over the league-leading Breakers.
That win came away from home and we're quite surprising at the bookmakers' odds this week.
They've favouring the Wildcats by only 5.5 points against a 36ers team which is improving, but Perth Arena is the hardest venue to play NBL ball.
Adelaide scored a one-point victory over the Bullets last week and although getting the win pointed them in the right direction, more will be needed to cause an upset here.
Back Perth and watch the quality team in action.
Not much has gone right for the Sydney Kings this season, but they have looked better with American import Jerome Randle.
The speedy point guard was the difference in the Kings' win against the Taipans in last week's first meeting, but they weren't able to travel to Cairns and repeat the dose.
Home advantage will help as the Bullets face their second away game in three days, which won't help their season.
If the Kings are to make a late run at the playoffs, a win against the Bullets is a must this week.
United might have got their season back on track with a win over the Hawks on Monday and punters are expecting them to kick on now.
Melbourne have been a disappointment this season, with only six wins and five losses, but this team was always going to need time to gel and they may have clicked into gear.
The 91-73 win was a one-sided affair and the Taipans will need to be at their defensive best this Saturday.
Winning in Cairns isn't easy for opposing teams and they're coming off a stout win over the Kings, but United is such a stacked team talent wise and it's tough to look past them here.
It's not surprising to see the Wildcats favoured in this situation, but they could be overvalued by bookmakers.
They will be coming off a long trip from Perth to Sydney and the Hawks are a team that can catch fire quickly.
With only five wins on the season, coming up against a team with eight, it's hardly a shock to see Perth favoured, but there is only upside with this Hawks side and they usually get hot at this part of the season.
Coach Rob Beveridge will be in no mood to drop a game against his former team and we're predicting an upset here.
This game will largely depend on how these teams perform earlier in the week, but we're giving the advantage to the Breakers.
After a tough week losing two games, the Breakers will be desperate to show why they're still the team to beat in the NBL and the 36ers might be caught in the sights this week.
If the 36ers are able to beat Perth in Perth, we might have to change our minds, but the Breakers have more talent across the board and they're currently paying better than odds on, which is great value on this occasion.
Once again, we're surprised at the bookmakers' odds for this game.
United is favoured by only 4.5 points and we were predicting a line around the 8.5 mark. This line could move depending on how these teams perform earlier in the week, but grab the value while it's on offer now.
United is a team that we're predicting to get hot and although the Kings have added Randle to the mix, they still don't have a winning record with him in the side.
Playing at Hisense isn't easy and the Kings should struggle to get close.


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Stage 2: A Close Victory for Haedo
Photo by Ken Conley
Tour de Georgia Stage 2 Photo Gallery
JJ Haedo sprinted right through the middle of the pack to take a close, close victory of High Road's Greg Henderson. A bandaged hand from a recent break seemed to be no impediment to Haedo, who is a familiar rider atop the podium at the Tour de Georgia. Ivan Dominguez put in a good effort to take third and protect his leader's jersey. Despite talking about how heavy the yellow jersey is, his Toyota United team has done a good job of holding onto it. Justin England spent a lot of time off the front in a breakaway that kept the other teams working and Toyota United rested. In a bit of a surprise, England didn't get the Most Aggressive Award, and instead it went to Marco Polo rider Pollock, who bridged up to England.
Slipstream put in a lot of work for young rider Tyler Farrar. Farrar took the first intermediate sprint to make up for his stage 1 deficit (due to a flat), but Haedo, Henderson, and Dominguez controlled the sprint today.
The best move of the day probably goes to Health Net's Frank Pipp. With no KOMs tomorrow, or Stage 4's TTT, Health Net gets to fly the KOM jersey for three straight stages -- all for a puny Cat 4 on the South Carolina side of the river.
Dominguez takes Stage 1
on April 21, 2008 11:20 AM | Permalink
Stage 1 Photos
With his baby due any moment, Ivan Dominguez must have decided that getting a stage win early was important. Dominique Rollin set him up well for the sprint and Dominguez's jump was well-timed -- despite not being able to see the finish line until 100m to go. Dominguez now has the overall lead at the Tour de Georgia, but he noted that "it's heavy" and that he'd prefer one in green. His teammate Stevic was already out on the road today trying to sweep up as many sprint points as he could to protect Dominguez.
In an odd break during the day, Danielson, Julich, and Horner jumped off the front. Julich and Horner are easy to understand as they haven't been tapped as team leaders, but Danielson's jump either means his lieutenants failed to cover or that that he isn't their leader... or maybe he was just having fun. Either way, the break didn't hold and Nydam, Meier, Van Ulden,and Pipp had the honor of being the last break on the road. Nydam's effort put him in the familiar position of donning the Most Aggressive Rider jersey at the end of the day.
Today's stage was beautiful, brief, and flat. Chris Baldwin joked with a CSC rider before the stage that the route was a criterium. The KOM jersey won't be donned until tomorrow after riders are sent over a small climb on the finishing 5 mile circuit.
Stage 4: Big Day for Dominique Rollin, Miserable Day for All
on February 21, 2008 7:25 PM | Permalink
Stage 4 Photo Gallery
Dominique Rollin took the stage, sprinter's lead, and most aggressive award with a well-timed attack from a break that the Astana was content to leave hanging 2-3 minutes off the front of the peloton for most of the stage. Rollin's exuberance after the stage made up for the gloom, rain, and snot that marked the faces in the rest of the peloton. "It was a crappy day," in the words of Danny Pate.
It was the longest stage in Tour of California history, clocking in at just over seven hours, and the riders spent it in un-Californian conditions. The winds were high enough to shake my car on Highway 1 near Bixby Bridge and sandblast my skin. The rain got worse rather than let up and a dozen riders abandoned on a day that most seemed just interested in surviving. Jackson Stewart left with hypothermia after putting himself into the virtual KOM lead. Sprinters Ivan Dominguez and Henrich Haussler also abandoned as did Slipstream's Tom Danielson. The peloton may have little legs with which to race tomorrow's decisive time trial. I'll have to see if my camera equipment survives the night -- my autofocus was on the fritz at the stage finish.
VeloNews Stage 4 Summary
CyclingNews Stage 4 Results
2008 Tour of California Teams
on January 17, 2008 10:21 AM | Permalink
The teams were announced today and the list should provide many storylines: polar opposites Slipstream and Rock Racing, Hincapie leading Team High Road against Leipheimer/Astana, Gerolsteiner in its final year, Health Net defending their NRC crown, Scott Moninger directing Toyota-United against his former team BMC, etc...
Astana (LUX)
Bissell Pro Cycling Team (USA)
BMC Racing Team (USA)
Bouygues Telecom (FRA)
Crédit Agricole (FRA)
Gerolsteiner (GER)
Health Net Presented by Maxxis (USA)
High Road Sports (GER)
Jelly Belly Cycling Team (USA)
Kelly Benefit Strategies/Medifast (USA)
Quick Step (BEL)
Rabobank Cycling Team (Netherlands)
Rock Racing (USA)
Saunier Duval-Scott (ESP)
Team CSC (DEN)
Team Slipstream Powered by Chipotle (USA)
Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team (USA)
Last year the Tour of California overall was been dominated by Discovery vs. CSC, but with the spread of Discovery's American talent to High Road and Slipstream, as well as the CSC's loss of Zabriskie and Vande Velde to Slipstream, this should be a more balanced competition. This could even be the year of Slipstream's ascension in American tours.
Favorite ToM rider: Justin England
on September 14, 2007 7:38 PM | Permalink
Justin England has been my favorite rider this Tour. He's like Dave Zabriskie, except completely unshy. England was the first rider to start at the Branson time trial, and he got the crowd completely jazzed up by hamming it up with facial expressions and asking the crowd to cheer louder.
Today's start was a similar experience. School kids assigned to cheer on Toyota United showed up at the team bus. England was the first off the bus and immediately had the kids squealing as he shouted, "I can't hear you!" England and Chris Wheery worked their way through the excited kids, signing dozens of autographs. England later hammed it up in the high-five line as he approached the start -- he was the only rider I saw criss-cross the starting area to make sure he gave high-fives to kids waiting on both sides.
The kids had no idea who the cyclists were. They don't know who Levi Leipheimer is. They were just happy that people were rewarding their efforts to show support. It was great to see that riders like England -- and his team Toyota United -- recognized this, unlike, say, some more famous teams.
Tour of Missouri Stage 1: Ivan Dominguez takes the sprint
Ivan Dominguez has had plenty of first-place finishes racing in the US this year, including Stage 7 of the Tour of California. He can now add the inaugural stage of the Tour of Missouri to that tally.
Tour de Georgia Stage 2
Toyota-United and CSC have two of the best sprinters at the TdG -- Ivan Dominguez and JJ Haedo -- but both decided to mix things up by sending a rider off the front with a couple kms to go. Dave Zabriskie went first by attacking on the climb but got reeled in. Ivan Stevic of Toyota United then took his chances and held off the pack for the victory -- no need for the Cuban Missile today. JJ Haedo took the sprint for second.
VeloNews Stage 2 Report
Casey Gibson Stage 2 gallery
TdGBlog Stage 2 gallery and links
Tour of California: Stage 4
Haedo again! Wow, and to think that after his first victory Bob Roll was still having trouble pronouncing Haedo and now the rider has two of the five stage victories so far. I know that this is early in the season for the pro teams, but second-place Freddie Rodriguez and the other big pro sprinters have got to be feeling a little stung, especially as Haedo rode Fast Freddie's wheel to victory out of the final bend.
The live text feeds for this race were crazy to follow The hilly Pacific Coast Highway provided endless opportunities for riders to attack and there seemed to be an endless barrage of attacks. The peloton wasn't letting most of the attacks last very long, but a ten-man breakaway managed to sneak away that was whittled down to a two man break of Discovery's Gusev and Navigators' Chadwick. It was Toyota and CSC that reeled in Gusev and Chadwick with about 6km to go so that their sprinters would have a chance -- Toyota's effort was the most rewarded. A partial list of riders who attempted a breakaway includes: Horner, O'Grady, Barry, Danielson, Voigt, Raisin, Creed, Bak, Zampieri, Savoldelli, Pinotti, McCormack, Ekimov, Kreipel, Gusev, Chadwick, Lewis, Johnson, Frattini, and Marino. Don't even ask me to count how many breakaways there were.
The race organizers definitely didn't expect the queen stage of this Tour to be so fast. The official site lists the finish ETA at 3:22-4:19 PM. The actual finish time was about 3:10, which is a screaming pace (25mph) for such a long and undulating stage. Apparently the Broom Wagon collecting riders abandoning got full enough that it had to dump riders off at a feed point.
In the stages mini-KOM battle, Leipheimer outbattled Kohl for the first KOM point, which may mean that Levi is interested in walking away with a KOM jersey before all is said and done. Levi gained one point on Kohl and is now trailing 20-15.
CSC has three stages left to pull something off. CSC rider Lars Bak was voted Most Aggressive for his presence in five breakaway attempts, but Chris Horner's presence ruined the break with the best chance. CSC also did a lot of work up front near the end protecting Julich/Zabriskie and trying to setup Stuart O'Grady for the sprint, but was unable to place.
Stage links: * VeloNews Stage 4 Summary * Stage 4 Results * Daily Peloton Stage 4 Rider Comments * Levi Leipheimer Stage 4 journal * Graham Watson Stage 4 photos * Grassy Knoll Stage 4 media
Stage profile (from offical Amgen Tour of California Site):
The collective wisdom today was that today would be a finish for sprinter's and that Freddie Rodriguez would make a go of it. The pre-race analysis was correct, but I don't think anyone put Juan Jose Haedo of Toyota on their short list of potential winners. The sprint setup was led by Fast Freddie's Lotto Davitamon team, which couldn't keep the pace fast enough. T-Mobile took over going into the final bends and seemed to have the advantage, but, as the sprinters emerged from the small dip before the finish, it was Haedo who was far in front of the rest of the pack and took the win easily (online video ). T-Mobile's Davis took a distant second and CSC's Stuart O'Grady third. Toyota is a brand new team and this is a very big first victory.
Kodak's Jackson Stewart made a go of it today. Stewart's name was already getting ingrained in my head as he was the first rider up the hill during the prologue and also one of the two Kodak/Sierra Nevada riders that was at the introduction of the San Jose stage routes. Stewart and Jean Marc Marino of Credit Agricole broke away from the pack today and built up a lead of over three minutes. Discovery's Gusev and McCartney attacked the peloton on the final climb before Santa Rosa, which pretty much spelled the end of Stewart's/Marino's breakaway as their lead was slashed. Stewart and Marino were caught as the peloton reached Santa Rosa.
If it's any sign of the popularity of the Tour of California, I'll note that both CyclingNews and Amgen's official Tour site had trouble keeping their live update feeds running. Amgen's site was completely knocked out and CyclingNews was up and down. The crowds were reportedly huge in Levi Leipheimer's hometown of Santa Rosa -- possibly in the 30,000-50,000 range -- and Leipheimer's home crowd got to see him don the leader's jersey for another day as he was able to finish with the pack and maintain his overall lead.
No Flickr photos from me for this stage. I had to pass on this stage as four hours of driving for a probable sprint finish was a bit too much and I'm already taking time off work to watch Stage 2 and 3 in person.
Stage 1 Results
Graham Watson Stage 1 Photos
Levi Leipheimer Stage 1 Journal * Grassy Knoll Stage 1 Media


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The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico – review
Either Pacifico's wit hasn't crossed over to English, or his book just isn't funny
Wed 24 Apr 2013 06.00 EDT First published on Wed 24 Apr 2013 06.00 EDT
"Rosini never goes anywhere in Rome without telling us about the facilities" … Rome's Colosseum. Photograph: Image Broker / Rex Features
Imagine Holden Caulfield, 20 years on. Imagine him married, Italian, living in a suburb of Rome, and you have Piero Rosini, the narrator of Francesco Pacifico's novel The Story of My Purity, the first of his books to appear in English. Pacifico works as a translator of American literature and it's not difficult to guess who his favourite authors are. Mixed in with the bewilderment and disaffection of The Catcher in the Rye is a generous helping of breasts and onanism (step forward, encomiast of the bust, Philip Roth).
Pacifico's protagonist works at a far‑right Catholic publishing house in Rome, Non Possumus, and he's not a happy bunny. "I was totally committed, in my own way, to becoming a saint," Rosini confides. Unsurprisingly, there are many obstacles. His main problem, apart from his general dissatisfaction with the progress of his life (he lives opposite an Ikea store), is that he is tormented by incessant thoughts about the pulchritudinous breasts of his virginal sister-in-law, Ada (a nod to Nabokov?). Rosini is horrified by the glimpse of the middle-class, middle-aged hell he is in the process of entering.
One wonders what Pacifico had in mind when he sat down to write this novel. The opening chapters, dealing with Rosini editing a book revealing that Pope John Paul had Jewish family roots, and that there is a Jewish conspiracy at work to undermine civilisation, are presumably meant to be humorous. But there isn't much incongruity and conflict in a devout Catholic working for a devoutly Catholic organisation. That's not how comedy functions. A Jewish atheist, a gay satanist or a Muslim suicide bomber correcting copy for hardline Catholics, now … And so what if John Paul II was as circumcised as the chief rabbi? What, like Saint Paul? Or Saint Peter? Or Jesus himself?
It could be that Pacifico's Italian has a luminosity that hasn't crossed over in translation, but in terms of content, the book doesn't amount to much. There is an attempt at a sort of existential cri de coeur when Rosini moves to Paris to work for another Catholic publishing house. He hangs out in clubs and meets slackers 'n' stoners (cue shades of Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney) but doesn't actually fornicate much since he's clinging on to his Catholicism. It's the Hampstead adultery novel without the hiding of the salami. "She likes you, you live together … I don't understand why you haven't fucked her yet," remonstrates one of the characters to Rosini, and I'm with her 100%.
Rosini has an affable voice, and a novel doesn't need much action to be powerful, but if you're writing an introspective book, it's wise to keep it succinct. Rosini never goes anywhere in Rome or Paris without telling us about the facilities, shops, cafes, monuments, adjoining streets. Fifty pages fewer would have made The Story of My Purity a punchier read.
The publicity material that accompanies a review copy is usually written by work-experience school leavers, so it's customary to put it straight in the bin, but the heap of endorsements collected here was a bracing reminder of how such effusions bear no actual relation to the book. When Gary Shteyngart writes "the novel fell on my head like a bowling ball and knocked me the hell out", I sincerely hope he is giving us an account of a book falling from a high shelf and causing concussion.
Pacifico has talent (his frothing ire over the shortcomings of Ryanair is a delight), and it's not his fault that nonsense has been written about his book, but if it was meant as a comedy, or to be comic in parts, it's not; and if you want a serious consideration of hairshirt Catholicism, Graham Greene and David Lodge have done it better. Towards the end, Rosini's sister surveys the manuscript of struggling novelist and secondary character Corrado, and comments, "No, there's no novel here." Amen.
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Detroit Lions chat recap: How many wins to make playoffs?
Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett talked all things Detroit Lions on Friday and gave his best guess for the wins needed to make the playoffs.
Detroit Lions chat recap: How many wins to make playoffs? Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett talked all things Detroit Lions on Friday and gave his best guess for the wins needed to make the playoffs. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2018/10/11/detroit-lions-live-chat-submit-questions/1594972002/
Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 p.m. ET Oct. 11, 2018 | Updated 2:12 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2018
The Detroit Lions upset the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Nope, it wasn't a dream. With only two undefeated teams, some teams under performing (Eagles) and over performing (Browns), Dave Birkett's power rankings have some big moves this week. After upsetting the Packers, how high do the Lions move up?(Photo: Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press)
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The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
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Listening Big
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
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Big Expanding
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
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Surprise Big
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
- Neil Armstrong
'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
- Olivier Megaton
Celebrity Big
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.
- Robert Englund
Big Nine
I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.
- Steve Burns
Wait Big
My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.
- Rumer Willis