Although not as well known as Mercedes' AMG badge or BMW's M, the R that Volvo uses to designate high-performance derivatives of its otherwise mainstream offerings is one that aficionados of the Swedish marque covet. I know because I'm one of them.
Over the years, I have especially enjoyed R versions of the 850 and V70 wagons, relishing the unlikely marriage of sports car-humbling acceleration and family hauler utility wrapped in a steel cocoon from a company whose name is synonymous with safety.So, it was with initial disappointment that Volvo's introduction of its R-Design package for the 2009 model year seemed to offer only sizzle, no steak. The new package ($4,200 for the T5) replaces the 2008 model year's Sport and Sport Styling packages and blings up the C30 T5 tester (base price $32,195) with all sorts of extroverted styling cues — 18-inch alloy wheels, dual xenon headlights, a skirt kit, rear spoiler and chrome mirror caps.
Inside, there are power front seats, aluminum inlays throughout the cabin, sport pedals, sport instrument dials and two-tone sport seats. R-Design models are further identified by emblems on the grille, steering wheel and embossed on the front seats. The C30 hatchback version has a decided aggressive stance to it, but where was the hairy, 300-horsepower motor under the hood?
The disappointment lasted as long as it took to start up the C30 and wheel out of Volvo Canada's parking lot. It turns out the hatch has legitimate performance bona fides going for it. What started as "Great, a factory-built wannabe tuner car for the middle-aged set" turned into "Great, a premium-priced sport hatchback for middle-aged kids." Granted, the distinction might seem a little blurry at first, but a test drive will clear things up.
A lot of the credit has to go to Volvo's stalwart turbocharged 2.5-litre, in-line five-cylinder engine that comes with the T5. With 227 horsepower on tap at 5,000 rpm and a strong 236 pound-feet of torque starting at a low1,500 rpm and holding on until 4,800 rpm, the 1,450-kilogram three-door launches with enthusiasm. One hundred kilometres an hour comes up in a quick 6.9 seconds, while 80-to-120-km/h passing acceleration is accomplished in 5.4. One letdown is that the aural sensation emanating from the dual exhaust pipes doesn't differ that much from regular Volvos.
Fuel economy for the week averaged 10.2 litres per 100 km, which, considering the tester had only 350 km on the odometer when I picked it up, isn't bad. And it will run on regular gas, although premium is required to get full use of the engine.The optional five-speed Geartronic manumatic (a six-speed stick is standard) shifts cleanly and, in manual mode, upshifts and downshifts immediately without trying to second-guess the operator. The video game generation might whine about the lack of paddle shifters, but I actually preferred the console-mounted gear lever — which had a very short throw but was stiff to use.
Tight, precise handling isn't normally a hallmark of Volvo, but the C30 R-Design proved to be surprisingly adept, gripping with tenacity on long, sweeping on-ramps and keeping body roll in check on short, tighter ones. No doubt the R-Design's P215/45R18 Pirelli rubber aided the cause, along with stabilizer bars attached to both the front and rear suspensions. In fact, the C30 R-Design reminded me a lot of the Volkswagen GTI I drove last year, although I found the Volvo to be a little more forgiving over rougher road patches than the stiffly sprung VW.
The Volvo hatch's cabin arrangement and comfort also had me flashing back to the GTI. Both hatches provide an instant feeling of belonging. Both have form-fitting buckets with lumbar support in just the right place to ensure hours of fatigue-free motoring. Both have steering wheels that are thick and grippy. Both have instrument clusters that are complete and easily scanned.
But the one thing Volvo offers that VW doesn't is the optional ($750), camera-based Blind Spot Information System (BLIS). When activated via a console-mounted button, cameras mounted beneath the side-view mirrors continuously monitor the area around the C30's back bumper. When a vehicle occupies the appropriate position, a light on the windshield pillar comes on as a warning. It's not perfect — heavy rain activated BLIS on numerous occasions, but, as someone who has reduced peripheral vision as a consequence of eye surgery, I was appreciative of the reminder.
With an overall length of 4,252 millimetres, the C30 is not really an ideal family vehicle, unless the children occupying the back seats are on the smaller side. I think of it — as I do rival Audi's A3 — as the sort of fun/practical car to get pre- or post-kids. As for the smallish opening to the cargo area — a noted complaint from C30 critics — I look at it this way: Given my better half's shopping predilections, if I can't get an Ikea box into the back, that's perfectly fine by me.
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The Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS) System Engineering Division is currently seeking a Software Engineer for a full time research faculty position in the Open Systems Development Branch (OSDB). This position supports development, implementation and applications of modular open architectures for avionics and other complex systems.
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Fox premieres a new lawyer show; Disney Channel brings a popular animation to life and Blake Shelton hosts a tribute to Elvis.
"America's Got Talent" is shaking things up this summer with new judges Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough. Terry Crews ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") will be the NBC talent show's new host, taking over from Tyra Banks. Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel will remain.
"The Handmaid's Tale," Hulu's Emmy-winning dystopian drama, will launch its third season on June 5. The new season will follow June (Elisabeth Moss) as she fights to save the children of Gilead.
Lucy Liu may be saying goodbye to "Elementary" when the series ends in 2019, but she's sticking with CBS. Liu will star in CBS All Access' "Why Women Kill," a dark comedy from Marc Cherry ("Desperate Housewives"). The series follows three women from three different decades who are each dealing with marital infidelities.
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"Proven Innocent" (Feb. 15, Fox, 9 p.m. ET/PT) is a new drama series that follows an underdog criminal defense firm. The twist to this lawyer show is that the firm is led by Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre), whose passion for justice stems from her wrongful conviction at age 18, which made her a household name. Kelsey Grammer plays the prosecutor/villain.
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Blake Shelton hosts "Elvis All-Star Tribute" (Feb. 17, NBC, 9 p.m. ET). Adam Lambert, John Legend, Little Big Town, Jennifer Lopez, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Pistol Annies, Darius Rucker, Ed Sheeran, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban are set to perform.
Winners: "Grey's Anatomy" will reach 332 episodes on Feb. 28, making it the longest running primetime medical drama in TV history.
Losers: The high school drama "All American" was the CW's only fall freshman series not to be included in the network's recent announcement of which shows have already been renewed. While it has not been officially cancelled, it doesn't look good for the already low rated show.
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Q: Is this a good practice? "/*/something/*/something//*/" /*/ comment here
do some thing.
/*/
do some thing.
//*/

Why people write code like that? Is this a good practice?

A: That confuses me and would take me time to parse, so no I don't think it's good practice.
Any ease of toggling mentioned in Kane's answer is not worth it, I think. Ease of commenting should be taken care of by the developers browser.
To me this is just confusing and definitely not standard.

A: It's usually only used when testing something out for the moment. That is, you should never commit code like that to version control, because it can be confusing.
For example, if you are testing two different computation methods, you can use this to switch between them. Personally I have rarely done this, if at all.

For those that don't know, you can toggle between the two code sections by adding one forward slash:
/*/ comment here
do some thing.
/*/
do some thing else.
//*/

//*/ comment here
do some thing.
/*/
do some thing else.
//*/

A: Everyone has there own way of doing things... I'm guessing they did this so all you have to do is add a / to the first comment and remove the last / and then it toggles the comment block to the other set of instructions.
EDIT: Actually all you have to do is add a / to the first comment and then remove it to toggle it back.

A: That's confusing and lacks programming aesthetics. A good way to do it is using the C preprocessor and coding it like:
#if 0

code block disabled

#endif

code block enabled

A: Crappy practice.  Dead code has no business hanging around in any production quality code.  If there really are situations where the old, dead code would apply, then it should be refactored into something that can be turned on/off using configuration not recompilation.

A: I would rather do
#ifdef DOIT_ONE_WAY
do one way
#else
do another way
#endif

but that's a matter of taste

A: I think this and the #ifdef method Arkadiy mentions are bad, as a multi-file search for do something both look like the code is live, while it may not be depending on previous lines.
If the code is valid #ifdef platform dependence sure do that,
but if it just testing code, etc I much prefer highlighting the lot and inserting the C++ // comment, which in VisualStudio is Ctrl-K, C

A: It's just an easy way to switch between two blocks of code (as Kane Wallmann said).
It's probably not great to leave it in production code (just delete it and get it back from source control if you need it), but while developing it's a handy way of being able to quickly toggle two implementations (or stub out some code etc).

A: Not not necessarily bad practice, but expect mixed responses from someone who reads your code. For example, I think its really cool but would never commit code like that to the repository.

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Yuvan Shankar Raja was the music composer of Vaadu Veedu. Here's the opening BGM of Jai Lava Kusa which has been allegedly plagiarized.
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Reports: Chargers' McNeil, GM Smith discuss contract issues
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Updated: July 26, 2012 at 08:40 p.m.
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Marcus McNeill, who's embroiled in a contract dispute with the San Diego Chargers, met with general manager A.J. Smith at the team's facility Wednesday, sources told The San Diego Union-Tribune, but no deal was struck.
A person familiar with the situation also confirmed the meeting to The Associated Press, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks.
McNeill, a two-time Pro Bowl left tackle, requested the sit-down, sources told The Union-Tribune, so he could better understand where the team stood on his contract. Smith has been steadfast in his stance against giving McNeill a new deal, saying in July that he had "nothing to discuss" with the left tackle and Pro Bowl wide receiver Vincent Jackson, who's also holding out from training camp.
"As I've said before, I'm done talking about Marcus McNeill until he returns," Smith said Wednesday when asked about the meeting. "If he does return, I would be more than happy to talk about him."
McNeill's agent, Alvin Keels, wouldn't confirm to the newspaper that his client met with Smith. McNeill, Keels and Smith didn't immediately return calls and e-mails from The AP seeking comment.
Keels confirmed to The AP last week that the Chargers have threatened to place McNeill on the roster exempt list if he doesn't sign his one-year tender by Friday. If he goes on the roster exempt list, McNeill couldn't play in the next three games after he signs.
Jackson, who also was offered a one-year tender, could be placed on the roster exempt list as well if he doesn't sign. He also has been suspended by the NFL for the first three games of the season for violating the league's substance-abuse policy.
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McNeill and Jackson, who want long-terms deals, are believed to be willing to sit out the first 10 games of the season, returning for the final six in order to accrue a season toward unrestricted free agency. However, being placed on the roster exempt list would force them to move up their returns, if they intend to play at all this year.
As restricted free agents, Jackson was tendered at $3.268 million and McNeill at $3.168 million. They didn't sign by the June 15 deadline, so they each forfeited approximately $2.5 million because the Chargers exercised their right to lower the tenders.
Linebacker Shawne Merriman ended his holdout last Friday when he signed his restricted free-agent tender and practiced.
Notes: Merriman sat out Wednesday's practice with a sore Achilles' tendon, but he said the injury wasn't serious and he could return to practice this week or early next week. It's doubtful he'll play in Saturday night's preseason home game against the Dallas Cowboys. ... Among others not working out were LB Brandon Siler (ankle), OL Tyronne Green (ankle) and CB Donald Strickland (hamstring). ... LT Tra Thomas, who's returning from a recent arthroscopic knee surgery, continued to impress in his second day of team drills. With the Chargers desperate at left tackle because of McNeill's holdout, coach Norv Turner is upbeat that Thomas, a 13-year pro, will be able to bounce back quickly. "It's clear he still has plenty of ability and he is an excellent pass-protector," Turner said. ... The NFL granted the Chargers a 24-hour extension in an effort to sell enough tickets to lift the local TV blackout of Saturday's game. The team has until 6 p.m. Thursday to sell the remaining 1,000 tickets.
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Ufone and PTCL and twice Pakistan Super League champions, Islamabad United, have joined hands for the sixth edition of the Pakistan Super League, starting from February 20.
Ufone and PTCL are part of PTCL Group, which is the leading telecommunication services provider in Pakistan. Both the brands serve millions of people across the country and provide services throughout the length and breadth of Pakistan including some of the remotest regions.
Islamabad United is the most successful team of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and were the winners of the first and third seasons of the HBL PSL. The franchise believes in bringing change to Pakistani sports with the introduction of international standards of practice and a commitment to continuous progress.
Speaking on this occasion Group Chief Marketing Office, PTCL Group, Adnan Anjum said, "Cricket is the heartbeat of the nation and being a people-centric company, it was natural for us to support the passion of cricket. Islamabad United, a franchise who represent the spirit of united Pakistan is an ideal partner for us to express that support. With the rise of their young Pakistani core, we are confident that Islamabad United's success will be long lasting, as will this partnership."
Reiterating the significance of the partnership, Ali Naqvi said, "We are pleased to partner with one of the leading telecommunication companies in Pakistan. Ufone and PTCL are brands known and loved throughout the country. Promoting Islamabad United and cricket is an effort to unite the nation and spread joy among the masses. We are thus delighted that Ufone and PTCL, which connect the nation, will now be official partners of Islamabad United."
Ufone and PTCL have also partnered with Islamabad United in the past. The partnership continuity is a reflection of the Group's belief in Islamabad United's slogan "United We Win" which is centered on unity and compels cricket enthusiasts to stand united.
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by Monica Hesse
The New York Times bestselling, Sydney Taylor Honor winning, critically acclaimed tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat
Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else—her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja—they went left.
Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.
But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her—or help her rebuild her world.
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Praise Sheet
Monica Hesse on writing historical fiction for young readers
If you're like me, you've spent a lot of the past two months daydreaming of "After." After covid-19, after quarantine, after stay-at-home orders, after exhausted-looking nurses begging for more personal protective equipment on CNN.
After, I'd like to go to a crowded movie theater and order buttered popcorn. I'd like to hug my best friend; she's pregnant and she informs me over the phone that she's increased in size from Pluto to Jupiter. I have a long wish list, but sometimes its hard to imagine the world ever going fully back to normal. Some things are just too wounded. Recovery will be its own journey in ways big and small; it's going to be a long time until I don't marvel at a fully-stocked toilet paper aisle.
My latest novel, They Went Left, is set in Poland and Germany in the months immediately following World War II. It's about the concept of "After," when that concept turns out to be so more complicated than anyone expected. "What did they mean, it was over?" my main character, 18-year-old Zofia Lederman thinks to herself as her liberators celebrate V-Day. "I was miles from home and I didn't own so much as my shoes. How was any of this over?" Most of Zofia's family was killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and now she must set off on a quest to find her only living relative, her younger brother, Abek.
Praise for They Went Left:
A New York Times and IndieBound bestseller
A Sydney Taylor Honor Book
Edgar Award Nominee, Best Young Adult Mystery
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
Booklist Editor's Choice
"Hesse writes with tenderness and insight about the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive and the ways we cobble together family with whatever we have. When the plot twists come, they are gut punches--some devastating, others offering hope... Crucial."—New York Times Book Review
"beautifully tragic...an incredibly impressive novel about a timeframe and group of people that history often forgets. Their stories will stay with me forever."—--Hypable
* "A heartbreaking and heartwarming story of survival, loss, and renewal. Sure to please a variety of readers; those interested in historical fiction, romance, and mystery will not be able to put this book down."—School Library Journal, starred review
* "Hesse again proves to be a master of verisimilitude, bringing the realities of existence in the immediate postwar period to visceral life through painstaking detail. Her beautifully realized, highly empathetic characters come to life, too, in the pages of this superbly crafted novel...like real life, there is heartbreaking sadness here but also hope that life, finally, will be whole and fine, A to Z."—Booklist, starred review
* "Hesse's meticulous research is evident on every page but never distracts from her propulsive plot. Combining history, romance and mystery, They Went Left is a heartbreaking yet hopeful story of what it takes to survive after trauma."—BookPage, starred review
* "Compelling."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Featuring factual locations and covering a period of time not often focused on, this is an excellent book to add to a Holocaust collection. ...This book would be valuable for all high schools and should be considered a must-purchase."
—School Library Connection, starred review
"A heartbreaking, gorgeously written story...The ending left me breathless and awed by its expression of enduring love."—Jewell Parker Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys
"Zofia's harrowing journey to find Abek and the fellow survivors she meets along the way will stay with the reader--particularly the echoes of the present evoked in a narrative of the past."—Refinery29
Select Praise for The War Outside:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick
A 2018 BCCB Bulletin Blue Ribbon Title
A 2019 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
"Once again, Monica Hesse delivers an incredibly compelling and beautifully researched novel. The War Outside vividly brings readers into an underrepresented and dark period of American history. A must-read for fans of historical fiction."
—Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling author
* "Superb.... A satisfying and bittersweet novel, perfect for those who enjoyed Markus Zusak's The Book Thief."—SLJ, starred review
"Monica Hesse takes a setting we think we understand and shifts it in an important way...a tightly plotted exploration of the consequences of fear."—The New York Times Book Review
"Timely...[Hesse] again uses a well-researched historical backdrop to tell a powerful coming-of-age story."—Washington Post
Praise for Girl in the Blue Coat:
The Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Mystery Novel 2017
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens of 2016
An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2016
A Booklist Best Young Adult Book of 2016
A Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Selection 2017
A 2017 Indies Choice Awards Finalist for Best Young Adult Book
A YALSA 2017 Best Book for Young Adults
A 2017 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year
A 2017 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award Nominee
A 2017 Washington, D.C. Capitol Choices List recommended title
A 2018 Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award Nominee
2018 All Iowa Young Adults Read
"A tapestry of guilt and acceptance, growing responsibility, and reluctant heroism, Hanneke's coming-of-age under heartbreaking circumstances is a jarring reminder of how war consumes and transforms the passions of ordinary life. Every devastating moment of this beautiful novel is both poignant and powerful, and every word feels true."—Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Black Dove, White Raven; Rose Under Fire; and the Printz Honor-winning Code Name Verity
"Taut and intelligent.... the historical setting is rendered the way only an expert can do it."—Washington Post
* "Riveting.... A gripping historical mystery."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Monica Hesse is the bestselling author of Girl in the Blue Coat, American Fire, and The War Outside, as well as a columnist at The Washington Post. She lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and their dog.
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From NOVL Nation
I was sucked in from page one and unable to put it down. This was one of the most well-written stories I've ever read... It resonated with me in a way no other story has and, dare I say, ever will.
-Shelby, a.fangirl.life_
This book was truly incredible. The mystery of finding Zofia's brother and the dash of romance running through the story kept me engaged and speeding through the pages.
-Chaya, @readingoversleeping
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This Collection Consists of Two DVD Discs and One Blu-Ray Disc.
This DVD collection of Chris Marker films consists of three works that pre-date La Jetée, the featurette that firmly planted his name as a filmmaker, as well as a series of seven shorter films that span each decade of his career thereafter. These remarkable curios reveal much about him, his ideas and his visuality, as well as his take on the modern world from an artistic point-of-view - from China, Siberia and Israel in the 1950s to the Pentagon, art collectives, Cheshire cats, haikus and early new media.


As a family dentist, Dr. Melissa Elliott treats patients of all ages, from children to seniors. Fallston families appreciate the flexibility and convenience of being treated in the same dentist office. Dr. Elliott is highly trained to handle a broad range of dental problems from routine teeth cleaning to emergency dental care. Our dentist office provides comprehensive dental procedures for all stages of oral health development.
One of the areas we focus on for children is the prevention and treatment of tooth cavities. According to the American Dental Association, over 50% of first-graders and 80% of 17-year-olds have cavities. While there are many things parents can do to ensure the health of their children's teeth, one of the best ways to prevent cavities and tooth decay in children can be through regular visits to the dentist and routine dental cleanings. Dr. Elliott and our compassionate dental care team will help to teach your children the benefits of oral hygiene. Through early visits to the dentist and healthy brushing and flossing routines, you can help keep your children's smiles healthy.
★★★★★ " Thank you for the pleasant experience you provided for my children. The atmosphere was comfortable and the whole team from front desk to hygienist to the Dr. were very orchestrated. "L.
Where a pediatric dentist is solely focused on children, our dentist office is family oriented. We encourage parents to bring their children to the dentist early so they will be comfortable and relaxed. Dr. Elliott believes in building a positive dentist-patient bond. Visiting the dentist early on in life can help to make the dentist a positive experience for your children.
It is important that parents and guardians set good examples and teach children proper oral hygiene habits early. Good oral health contributes to the overall health of a child, encourages positive self-image, and improves feelings of achievement.
The team at Harford County Dentistry helps parents and guardians by teaching proper pediatric dental care and answering common questions about thumb sucking, tooth decay, orthodontic treatment, and wisdom teeth removal.
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Paul Spurlock, age 75, of New Vienna, passed away on Friday afternoon, April 5, 2019, at Heartland of Hillsboro.
He was born December 19, 1943, the son of the late Howard "Happy" and Alice Scowden Spurlock.
His wife Carolyn (Frump) Spurlock and an infant daughter, Paula Spurlock; sister, Janet Smith, and three brothers: Guy, John and Wayne Spurlock all preceded him in death.
Paul was a retired truck driver.
He is survived by his son Jessie Spurlock, daughter Tina Parker and 6 grandchildren. Also left to cherish him memory are six brothers: Estel (Patty), Roger (Connie), Jim, Larry (Kathy), Dale Spurlock and Terry (Kim) Spurlock; two sisters: Marcie Laufer and Roxie (Sonny Morgan) Woods; along with many nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 from Noon until 2:00 with a funeral service following at 2:00 at the Littleton Funeral Home, Sabina. Burial will follow cremation at the family's convenience at New Vienna IOOF Cemetery.


Baked | Eat Well. Be Happy. Baked Loves You.
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Baked is many things. We are a classic American bakery and cafe with locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Tokyo. We are also a full-fledged lab of sorts, creating better baking mixes (alternative flours, no weird unpronounceable ingredients), delicious granola, and dreamy dessert spreads (available nationwide). Finally, we are absolute dessert enthusiasts (and cookbook authors) – perhaps even obsessives. We eat a lot of cake and cookies.
Our Double Chocolate Snack Cake is the kind of cake you might crave in the wee hours while watching a horror movie on Netflix (or basically, any time of day).
Our Mountain Maple Granola is the perfect "take-me-hiking-or-take-me-on-a-road-trip-or-take-me-anywhere" granola.


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In 2000 I searched for the best books of the past century and found this site. I placed it in my daytimer and started to read through them all.
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After logging in you can start with creating your cycling team. The first thing you have to do is to pick 15 riders of which you think they will earn the most points for your cycling team during this race. Each rider has received a certain value based on his results in the last 365 days. The 15 riders you pick are not allowed to have a combined value of more than 35 points. This combined value is different per game and is based on the riders on the startlist. For an overview of how riders can earn points please go to the stage results and the final classification sections.
Once you have picked 15 riders you also have to pick 1 team. This team can earn points if they finish among one of the top teams in the team classification of the stage result or in the general team classification after a stage. For an overview of how many points your team can earn please go to the stage results and the final classification sections.
It is also possible to get point deductions. This will happen when a rider withdrawals from the race or in the unlikely event that the rider gets suspended because of doping charges. You can read more about point deductions in the withdrawals section.
When playing our games you are automatically included in several classifications. Obviously you will be ranked in the general classification of the game you are playing, but also for every sub classification we will provide a ranking. Besides the game rankings we also have seasonal rankings. If you want to compare your scores with those of your family, friends and/or acquaintances then you can create your own league.
During and after every stage many different types of points can be earned by the riders in your cycling team. Points can be earned during the race via the intermediate sprints and categorized climbs. Depending on the profile of the stage riders will also receive points if they are among the top finishers on the finish line. After each stage there are also points given to the leaders in the provisional general and sub classifications.
The team that you have picked can earn points in every stage where they are among the top teams in the team classifications of the stage results. In case of a team time trial there is an exception. With this stage type the riders cannot score any individual points via the stage result, but only with the provisional classifications. The teams however can now score more points than usually in the daily team classifications as shown in the points table below. Another way for your team to earn points is after each stage with the provisional general team classification.
At the end of the race the final classifications are the last way for your riders to score points. These points are given to the top ranked riders in the final general and sub classifications and can make it worthwhile to invest a portion of your 50 points in all-rounders. Additionally the team you picked can score points for the last time by finishing among the top teams in the final team classification.
The extra questions are a way to score some bonus points at the end of the game. With these 6 stand-alone questions you will be asked to predict the winners of all the classifications and to predict the final time of the winner of the race.
In some rare occasions a rider is disqualified by the race organization because of the use of doping. If this happens then all of the rider's earned points will be deducted and reset to zero. However, an already published day and/or week classification will not be changed. All final classifications will be determined at midnight on the last race day. Disqualifications after this time will not be calculated in the classifications.


Andy is a graduate of the University of Florida. He has been a resident of Nevada since 1999 and a licensed real estate agent since 2001. Over the past several years, Andy has devoted much of his career to helping our Veterans attain the dream of home ownership. He also attends many functions at our local Military facilities and helps the National Guard provide special Holiday events for their children.


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They had been together for over 20 years. By anyone's standard, that is far too long to wait to take that last step and make it official, to give the relationship that final stamp of recognition.


We served Custard Pie as one of several desserts for a Memorial Day lunch. I par-baked the crust and used an egg white wash prior to adding the custard filling to keep the bottom crust intact and crispy.
I could not find small pearl tapioca in any of our local stores, so I bought it online, and the smallest quantity I could find was 1 pound. We will be eating Tapioca Pudding for the next two years.
Broiled Sole is a staple dish on many New England restaurants, and was served for years at the Glen-Mor Restaurant. The Glen-Mor prepared sole with clarified butter, but I find the fish doesn't need anything except a little pepper and a squeeze of lemon.
Boiling live lobsters is relatively straight forward provided the timing is adjusted for the size of the lobster. The most important tip (according to Jim) is to remove the rubber bands on the claws before boiling. We served a lovely lobster lunch on Saturday in Maine with Jim's mother and my sister.


No ISP Licence for Telkom Kenya - InternetNews.
[Nairobi, KENYA] - The application for a licence to act as an Internet Service Provider (ISP) by Kenyan national telecoms company, Telkom Kenya , is not likely to meet with success according to industry analysts in the country. The Kenyan government is not likely to agree to Telkom's request unless the company opens up the telecoms industry to other players, a move which analysts agree would disadvantage the national telecoms company.
Telkom Kenya recently had their three-year telecoms monopoly in the country extended by an additional two-years. Should they decide to forego this monopoly in order to enter the ISP market, this would devalue a current share offer of 49% which is being marketed to potential strategic partners by the telecoms company.
The application has also met with opposition from Kenya's licenced internet service providers. As these ISP's make use of the Telkom Kenya-controlled internet backbone JamboNet, they fear that the national telecoms company would be able to use this competitive advantage to stiffle the opposition. If the monopoly on Telkom's exclusive services is terminated, however, the company's profits would be substantially reduced as the current JamboNet monthly connection fee of $3,375 would drop to less than $1,000 in the hands of other operators.
Swift Global MD Richard Bell commented that granting the licence would undermine the Kenyan Internet industry. "It would be impossible for ISP's to deal with Telkom Kenya as a monopoly supplier of services on the one hand and as a competitor on the other," he said. The ISP's have indicated that they will pursue legal action should the application be granted.
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) confirmed that they are still studying the application as well as statements from those opposed to the application. Insiders indicate that the CCK are analyzing whether it would be possible to approve the application without opening up Telkom Kenya's exclusive services to other operators.


The Swiss parliament has clearly voted to block internet access to online money games that are not allowed in Switzerland.
The House of Representatives also decided on Wednesday that only casinos resident in Switzerland may receive an online licence.
"Blocking websites works – experience abroad demonstrates that," said Thierry Burkart from the centre-right Radical Party. The Senate had already approved the block.
Only the rightwing Swiss People's Party and the leftwing Greens showed signs of resistance.
One unresolved issue is how – and whether – to tax winnings. The Senate wants all winnings from sporting bets and lotteries to remain tax-free up to CHF1 million ($990,000); the cabinet and the House of Representatives commission want to keep all profits from gambling tax-free.
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This video explores the social and economic efficiency of small farms and their decisive impact on global food security, demonstrating the importance of land and natural resource access for small farmers.
4 months of regional discussions to make an exercise of the current situation different positions on every continent. We eagerly away your contributions!
We call on civil society organisations and governmental institutions to mobilise and launch a global forum on access to land and natural resources. It is essential to debate the analyses and proposals related to current developments and their consequential, major problems. We call for the creation of such a forum in order to identify and imple- ment the most effective solutions.


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Intelligent Machines
A Look Inside Google's New Image Format
Can Google's WebP image format really speed up the whole Web?
by Paul Boutin
Last week, Google announced that it has developed a new image file format that promises to speed up not only Google, but the rest of the Internet. The new format, dubbed WebP, could reduce the size of image downloads significantly compared to the currently widespread JPEG format. If, as Google claims, 65 percent of the traffic on the Internet consists of image files, WebP could eventually give the entire online world a speed boost.
The WebP file on the right is a third of the size of the JPEG on the right.
WebP is based on a new data compression algorithm for image files. According to Google product manager Richard Rabbat, the formula was originally developed to compress video clips, such as those Google serves on YouTube. Engineers then found that the same math could be used on static images.
It works like this: software converts an image stored in another file format to the WebP format by looking at a block of 16 pixels in the original image, and noting the color of each pixel in that block. The software then predicts what the pixel colors in an adjacent block of 16 pixels will be, based on the first block. Finally, it compares the predicted values to the actual colors of the pixels in the next block. If the WebP algorithm's educated guess is correct, no additional data needs to be added to the compressed image file. Only those pixels whose colors are different from the prediction are recorded in the file.
The result is that fewer pixel values need to be stored in most WebP image files than in a JPEG file of the same image. When an Internet user with a WebP-enabled browser downloads the image, his browser would use the same formula to predict many of the pixel values, and then fill in those pixels stored in the WebP file that didn't match the algorithm's prediction. Instead of downloading a lot of pixels, the WebP browser would mathematically calculate their colors. Predicting pixel colors turns out to be faster than downloading them, even on a high-speed Internet connection.
That's the theory, but how does WebP fare in real-world practice? In tests on one million images selected from the Internet at random, Google software developers claim that converting them to WebP format led to an average 40 percent reduction in the image's file size. The company has set up a demo page that shows typical Web images and lists how much smaller the same image would be in WebP, without visible changes to the quality of the image.
For now, you can't use WebP. The predictive algorithms need to be built into your browser. Google is adding WebP support to its own browser, Chrome. But realistically, WebP will need to be supported by nearly all of the world's browsers - that means Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari - before website operators will have an incentive to start serving WebP images en masse. It's a long-term project, not a quick fix.
Speed has always been a mantra at Google. Faster Web pages lead to more Googling by Web users. This, in turn, leads to more ads served by Google, which leads to potentially more ad revenue for the company. In a 2007 test conducted live on the site for several weeks, Google claims to have found that slowing its response to a search query from the average 400 milliseconds to 500 milliseconds lowered test subjects' search engine usage enough that (had the delay been real across the entire site) it would have cost Google $900 million in lost revenue over a year.
That's one of the reasons the company recently began serving search results to users' screens while they are still typing their search terms. If WebP gets built into everyone's browsers and the format is embraced by website operators, Google's traffic - and everyone else's – seems almost sure to go up.
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Architectural investigation at Ely. © Historic England Archive. Photographer credit Patrica Payne, image reference, DP172317.
Historic England Research and Place: the Past and the Future
Introduction to Issue 16
Roman Richborough
Archaeology From a Distance
New Survey Techniques Enhance Interpretation of a Monastic Landscape at Rievaulx Abbey
The Former Augustinian Priory of St John the Baptist Latton Essex
Geophysical Survey at Mount Pleasant Henge
The Gunnes of Warship Hazardous Prize
The London Wreck: A Kaleidoscope of Specialists Materials and Artefacts
Biodiversity and Land Use: How Ancient Practices Shaped Britain
Creating Access to Reference Collections
Researching Ramsgate
Gosport: A Town Defined by its Military Heritage
Emmets Post
Fish and Ships
Fishing for Heritage
Food For Thought: Community Involvement in a Research Strategy for the Yorkshire Wolds
Picturing Construction Constructing Identity
Researching High Street Heritage Action Zones
Heritage Place-making and Co-operative Connections in Central Rochdale
Community Engagement in the Elsecar Heritage Action Zone
Uncovering Digbeth's Heritage
The Seafront Exploring the Seasides Shop Window
The Serious Business of Holidaymaking
Thermography in Historic Buildings
Wellbeing and the Historic Environment
Researching Sunderland's Heritage Action Zone
Snodhill Castle Peterchurch Herefordshire
Tintagel and the Legend of Tristan and Yseult
The English Railway Station
Using Drones For Field Survey
The Lost Roman Road From Chichester To Arundel
Must Farm Bronze Age Timber Platform
England's Shopping Parades
Quaker Meeting Houses Assessed
Rooswijk Shipwreck Excavation The Post Excavation Phase
The London Wreck
30 Years of Flying in the North
50 Years of Flying for Heritage
Rediscovering Australia
21st Century Challenges for Archaeology
Staffordshire Hoard Update
Preserving Archaeological Remains
Introducing Organic Residue Analysis and Archaeology Guidance for Good Practice
Why the Old Stone Age Still Matters
The National Pipe Archive
Contributing Research to Enrich the National Heritage List for England
Informing the understanding, management and enjoyment of England's historic places.
Historic England and its predecessor organisations have been investigating and researching England's historic places for many years. This collective research effort has informed decisions about the protection and management of places as varied as Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, Boston in Lincolnshire and Berwick-upon-Tweed. The research has helped create effective local partnerships and shaped how communities and local authorities perceive and value their historic places.
Ramsgate Harbour with the Clock House. © Historic England Archive. Photographer credit Chris Redgrave, image reference DP084728.
Strategic programmes
Our focus on place making and our major national programmes such as Heritage Action Zones (HAZ), High Street Heritage Action Zones (High Street HAZ) and regional priority places all require a targeted research input that responds to the specific needs of the place and local partners.
As stated in our Places Strategy published in 2018 what research reveals 'about a place's significance is often catalytic to the establishment of a shared vision and informs its realisation'.
Places come in all shapes and sizes and while we focus much staff resource and research grant funding on particular landscapes and places we also research individual heritage assets at risk, and carry out a small number of strategic thematic studies of threatened and little understood building and place types, e.g. 20th-century public houses, 20th-century new towns, and a national study of the development of suburbs which is nearing completion. These strategic national projects help inform our listing programmes and provide an all-important national context for work in particular places.
In 2017 Historic England published its Research Agenda, which sets out what we see as the main research priorities for the heritage sector. Place-based research permeates many of the nine priority themes identified in the document and the topics and research questions below each, but it is particularly relevant to the #Understand theme.
It was always intended that the Research Agenda would in effect operate as a vehicle for establishing research collaborations with universities and other organisations.
Historic England became an Independent Research Organisation (IRO) in 2017. IROs are recognised by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as possessing the in-house capacity to carry out research that substantially extends and enhances the national research base, and are able to demonstrate an independent capability to undertake and lead research programmes. They are also able to apply to the Research Councils for funding.
In the light of this, establishing productive partnerships with Higher Education Institutions and Independent Research Organisations is a strategic priority for us and there is great potential to bring together our applied heritage research with that being undertaken by others. We see such research collaborations adding real value alongside our own contributions to place making programmes such as the High Street HAZ.
Our research approaches
Over the last two decades we have developed a range of approaches to assessing and characterising historic places, including broader brush characterisation programmes, such as Historic Landscape Characterisation and more urban focused and finer-grained approaches of the kind explained by Dave Hooley in his article on characterisation in London.
Sitting below these in this suite of approaches to understanding place, and finer-grained still, is that known as Historic Area Assessment (HAA). This is used to assess the historical development and character of a defined area usually a suburb, town or city centre. It combines an analysis of fabric evidence with map regression and documentary research to highlight particular character areas or buildings of interest and also parts of places that are of more limited heritage value. Core elements of the approach are incorporated in advice on undertaking Conservation Area appraisals.
Different combinations of the above approaches can be used depending on the nature and size of the place, research need and the intended application.
The HAA approach, which was deployed in many of the projects described in this issue, was developed in the course of our own internal place-based research projects and has been tested in a variety of urban contexts as well as in rural or mixed landscapes such as Alston Moor in Cumbria and the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.
Guidance on the HAA approach was produced by English Heritage in 2010 and revised by Historic England in 2017. It draws on the approach adopted in its sister document Understanding Historic Buildings: a guide to good recording practice (first published 2006 and revised in 2016) by advocating a series of levels of assessment to help those specifying the HAA and to ensure it is tailored to the research need, the nature of the place and the resources available.
The main outputs of HAAs tend to be research reports published in our online Research Reports Series or small accessible books, collectively published as the Informed Conservation Series by Historic England. 34 titles have been published in the series to date and more will emerge from our research in Heritage Action Zones. A book on the Ramsgate HAZ is the next one to be published.
The available qualitative evidence points to these books having a significant impact in terms of enhancing knowledge, building partnerships and in helping to shape local heritage strategies. A proto-HAA and research project carried out on Swindon's railway works and estate and published in the mid-1990s has been used by the local authority on a regular basis since that time to underpin the provision of conservation advice. The Swindon Railway Village and associated former GWR buildings are now the focus of a Heritage Action Zone, and the benefit of having the detailed research 'in the bank' is clear.
Swindon's Railway Village becomes a Heritage Action Zone © Historic England 29615/042
Evaluating value and impact
As part of our drive to ensure that everything we do has clear public benefit we are looking to improve the way we evaluate the impact of research projects. Consequently, we have commissioned LUC consultancy to carry out a review of our urban characterisation programmes, and further work may be required to assess the extent to which characterisation has influenced local planning policies.
We also need to review the effectiveness of our HAA projects and their output.
Very often the true impact of place-based research projects takes a long time to surface so there is a need for a long view in the process and to use this looking back to identify more effective evaluation measures for the future.
Lastly, the research resulting from placed based characterisation and HAA projects provide the new understanding that fosters community engagement, wellbeing and wider social capital, as the research in the Elsecar HAZ demonstrates so clearly with 1300 members taking part in the research and activities associated with it and many more indirectly involved. Evaluation of place-based research needs to capture this wider impact beyond the significance of the bricks and mortar and the influence on local planning policy.
All High Street HAZ projects are required to produce community engagement plans which will be fully integrated with the other part s of the project and will result in a range of sustainable community engagement outcomes.
The HAZ and High Street HAZ programmes offer us an unparalleled opportunity to demonstrate the value of research and investigation to place making, and to develop new approaches. We are incredibly excited about it.
Houses at Exeter Street in Swindon's Railway Village © Historic England Archive. Photographer credit Steven Baker, image reference DP263281.
John Cattell
National Head of Research at Historic England
John has worked for Historic England and its predecessors since 1989 in a variety of roles including Chief Buildings Historian and Research Director. He is now responsible for developing and leading the organisation's national research work. John is also responsible for Historic England's relationships with the Research Councils and leading on Independent Research Organisation engagement.
Historic England Research Issue 14
Research Strategy and Agenda
Historic High Streets


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NCAA March Madness Comes to YouTube, Google Search Results
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Google took to its YouTube blog to announce today that NCAA March Madness is now on Google Search and YouTube.
Starting with this year's tournament, you will be able to watch game highlights, pre and postgame shows, and more through the new NCAA March Madness channel. The channel will be populated with the latest news surrounding the tournament, including clips from shows on TBS, CBS, TNT, and truTV.
As for Google Search, searching for "March Madness" or the teams playing in the tournament will bring you schedules, scores, links to live streams of games, and more.
The NCAA Men's tournament kicks off March 19.
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Here at Design*Sponge, we've covered a wide spectrum of topics, from DIY how-to's, to artist profiles and studios, to recipes, to pop culture topics and essays that run the gamut in subject matter. But through the years, our main focus has always been home tours. They're our bread and butter. They're our window to the world, and after publishing, reading and editing thousands of them, we still can't get enough of them.
First, we either reach out to someone for a potential home tour, or we receive a submission (in our mailbox at submissions@designsponge.com). If the homeowner is game to have their home featured, they send us a round of what we call scouting shots — these aren't perfectly polished, but they give our team an idea as to whether or not the home will be a good fit for Design*Sponge. If the scouting shots are approved, we then ask the homeowner to submit their final images within two weeks — while following our photo guidelines. (We don't currently have the budget for an in-house photographer, so we love to work with homeowners to snap their own pictures, with our help and guidance.) Once we receive final images and approve them, we send our homeowners a questionnaire for them to complete within two weeks, and their answers to those questions heavily inform how we write each home tour.
I find home tours aspirational as well as inspirational. I never get tired of perusing interiors, which is how I came to be a loyal follower of Design Sponge. Your aesthetic resonates with me. I always look forward to clicking on to your site. Thanks for this behind-the-scenes look at your process. Stay encouraged as you continue to produce wonderful work!
Thanks for offering a peak into your process. I'm very drawn to house tours. They're one of the main reasons I read DesignSponge and other design sites. I find them incredibly inspirational. I also love how thoughtful you are regarding inclusivity and highlighting unique homes and design.
I've always assumed that participants are willing to share their homes on DesignSponge because it exposes their venture/art to a larger audience (it seems that the majority of your participants are small business owners/artists). But I'm also curious why someone might highlight their home if not promoting a business or personal brand. I assume they're not receiving monetary compensation. Do you have thoughts on a fair approach to content co-creation and compensation?
That's a good question. We don't compensate home owners. I don't think there's a clear cut right/wrong answer to how that's handled. For the history of editorial creation, most people who are the subjects of a feature are not compensated for their feature. Ie: homes shown in magazines, businesses profiles in publications, people being interviewed, etc. The understanding that has always existed is that the people receiving attention/press are being "paid" in that exposure. But as blogs and publications have advanced, the idea of "paying in exposure" has become a real problem for creatives- because creatives are usually asked to work for free, even when it's not their work that is specifically being celebrated or promoted (ie: artists, illustrators, writers, designers, photographers).
That said, there are plenty of people who love homes, design and decorating and are proud of their spaces and simply want to share them with an audience of like minded people. In the way that some poets and artists and makers share their work online just to enjoy the process of sharing and feedback, the same goes for homes. But these days, and for DS in particular, the majority of homes we feature are from people directly looking to promote a business, project or publication. Design*Sponge has always used interiors as a way to talk about other things: people, social issues, business, etc. So for me, homes are the way we essentially promote and celebrate people in our community (rather than a straight forward business/brand feature).


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After a day on our own, it was time to get a little more insider help for our adventures in Bahrain. We met up with Birgit, our host from BGIS, so she could show us around a little more.
One of Ella's favourite modes of transportation.
Our first stop was the Muharraq Souk. In a stunning coincidence, the Muharraq Souk can be found on Muharraq Island, just across the bridge from the Manama core.
This bread doesn't souk at all
With fewer narrow streets and more car access, the Muharraq Souk definitely feels like one that is more focused on daily use in the present, rather than something left over from the past. The highlight for me was definitely stopping at the local bakery for some fresh cheese filled bread. It was delicious and they invited us in to watch them make it; rolled-out and stuck to the inside of a fire oven.
Standing next to the ovens was super hot, so I can only imagine what it feels like in the 50 degree heat of summer.
Ella was more excited by the sweets shop, even if she she wasn't totally sold on what she got to taste – a traditional Bahraini dessert called Halwa. Not to worry though, she was soon given a lollipop at another shop we visited which she nursed for the rest of the day.
Old is new
From there we headed to the Sheikh Ebrahim Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture & Research. This collection of old houses in Muharraq, the former capital, have been wonderfully restored. Today these buildings serve as small museums and arts and culture venues.
The first house we visited included a beautiful little auditorium. Built into the backroom of an old building and bathed in natural light, it would be a great place to take in a lecture or performance. We got a little taste as we accidentally interrupted a Tunisian opera singer who was checking out the venue in advance of a performance later that night.
The next stop was Kurar House. Featuring a great courtyard, it was established in March 2007 to preserve the dying and unique Bahraini art of Kurar embroidery. This involves four women each playing an integral part of the process for a single garment. Unfortunately, they had just finished when we got there and the video that was playing, while interesting, wasn't quite as good as the real thing.
The third building that we visited was the Abdullah Al Zayed House for Bahraini Press Heritage and my favourite of the ones we visited. It was another great example of a refurbished older building full of natural light. It also included what might be my dream home office. Pretty much the opposite of my dark basement workspace at home.
Given it was a journalism museum, and that Al Jazeera originated from nearby Qatar, I asked our guide how free the press was in Bahrain. I took her awkward smile and muttered "pretty free" to mean that it's totally free… except for the subjects that aren't.
That's just 3 of the houses restored to date. You can check out a full list of houses here.
Invading the Bahrain Fort
Our last stop of the day was the Bahrain Fort (Qanat al Bahrain). A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the tell (an artificial mound) created by successive layers of human occupation, was inhabited from 2300 BCE to the 16th century CE.
The Fort that you can visit today is from the Portuguese but is really just a portion of the full site. With only about 25% excavated to date it's still an active archaeological site. We were almost the only ones there when we visited, which made it fun to explore.
Ahhh, shade.
The top of the fort offered some great views of downtown Manama across the bay. In a way I find the contrast between the old and new a good summary for Bahrain. Where Qatar feels like a city being built, Manama (and Bahrain as a whole) feels more like a city split between the past and the future.
After a busy few days we've all, and Ella in particular, earned a little rest and play time. So, tomorrow we're off to Al Dar Island where we plan to do little but sit on the beach.
Bahrain, Bahrain Fort, Muharraq, Sheikh Ebrahim Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture & Research, Souk
Exploring some of Manama's highlights
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Thanks for the tour! Great history!


Omnipresent plattenbau housing estates, monumental hochhäuser, cosmic milk bars; post-war East Germany was rebuilt on concrete foundations to stand for the new modernity and shape the unique and no less controversial urban landscape of German Democratic Republic.
Modern East: Build Your Own Modernist DDR is the latest offering from design studio Zupagrafika that celebrates socialist modernist and brutalist architecture of former East Germany and allows you to playfully reconstruct some of the most intriguing edifices erected between the early 1950s and late 1980s.
From the massive plattenbauten of Rostock, through to the icons of DDR-Moderne, like Kino International or Haus des Berliner Verlages, to the demolished relict of East Germany`s heydey – Mokka-Milch-Eisbar 'Kosmos'. All models feature detailed illustrations of the original facades before their renovation.
The kit includes nine illustrated paper models to cut out and assemble, a forward on the history of Deutsche Demokratische Republik architecture by Florian Heilmeyer, a short information on each building, and easy to follow instructions. Purchase your own at zupagrafika.com.


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Yesterday was not bad. That tea combination seems to have the intended effect, helps concentrate. Was flowing for over an hour, but started too late in the afternoon, so couldn't get too far before the requisite solitude ended. Still, felt much better last evening.
Also started up on my Spanish yesterday afternoon. I so want to get beyond "Yo quiero apprender la lengua de los guapos," which made me a darling of a drag queen doing a floor show at a Madrid restaurant, 3 years ago. It's an abomination for me not to know Spanish despite having lived in Texas and now, for 9 years, in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood. Going out in Jackson Heights, Queens (NYC), made that need all the more urgent...but more about that another time.
OK, once again, the chai is done, so here I go...
[flow | creativity | writing | creative writing | muse]
A thousand roads, each forking a thousand times, winding and intersecting each other, create a labyrinth of longings. Journeys along these are destinations, for sure, but none seem to lead to the desolate land of destiny.
[creativity | muse | frustration]
Finally we move forward. The first scene sorta felt like porn, which is actually kinda appropriate. All 3 principal characters have entered the screen...BTW, it's a movie script that I've been trying to get to consume me.
So...a friend called while I was doing the writing at long last. He proceeded to explain the problem he had with JSF, and it made no sense to me, since I didn't know much about it. I read about it over a year and a half ago, when I went to JavaOne. Then, my host returned from work, so that's gonna be it for today.
Still, good to have budged.
[scriptwriting | creativity | writing | creative writing | muse]
The NYT is to the words what caffeine is to the waking brain. But the words are fickle, and impatient. They will not stand still. If not released through the fingers quickly, they scatter all over the mind's wilderness. The hunt for them begins.
[words | creativity | writing | muse]
Afraid of the madness, and bored with the sanity. That's the face of the morning. Completely out of touch with the inner feelings of the day, the first hour luxuriates in its rituals. Meds with chai, followed by a motile reading of the NYT; which awakens the words and queues them up, at the threshold of coherence...
[coherence | motility | morning | ritual | creativity | writing | muse]
You're on a writing retreat of sorts -- staying with a friend, who's on an out-of-town assignment, where his hotel suite is paid for by his employer. It's near NYC, so a more exiting civilization than home ain't too far. Is it really a retreat, or a prolonged, idle vacation? You'd never know, because it feels like neither. You do little of fulfilling value with your luxury of time, and you atone for the consequent guilt by feeling miserable. How conveeeenient!
One weekend, your friend has to return home, but you decide to stay while he's gone. A better simulation of a writing retreat, you tell yourself. That Saturday, when you return with essential groceries -- cereal and tea -- you realize that you've locked yourself out of the room. The woman at the front desk will not let you get back into the room because your name is not on the reservation. That's the rule. So, you head back home, 250 miles away.
The next day, another friend's father passes away in a far off country, so it's serendipitous that you're there to be with him, and to drive him down to JFK, where he catches a flight to go the funeral.
Back at your retreat, after the hotel is told that they ignored the request to add your name to the room occupants, you hope that the events of the week will jolt you into action, which leads you to wonder why hope ain't working wonders for you like so many people swear that it does.
Perhaps you need to include other stuff in your day, like creating your résumé and resuming learning Spanish. First, however, you need to eat, shower, and make chai. Perfect, and it has only been over 6 hours since you woke up this morning.
[frustration | procrastination | creativity | writing | muse]
It's all been said, it's all been written. The end of history it may not be, but it sure feels like the end of words. History will continue to be made, but there will be nothing new to say about it.
OK, that's probably crap, but I gotta write crap. Perhaps that's what I've been doing all along. Yes, I hear those violins too, they've been playing incessantly, night and day. They get into my dreams when I sleep, and push them around. Dreaming under duress is doubly maddening; your dreams start bombing your sleep, and your waking hours become war-torn ruins. All that works when awake is your body, and it assumes control in the power vacuum. You get hungry, and you drink chai. You get sleepy, and you crave an apple. You feel sticky, and you brush your teeth. You run yourself ragged, surfing the TV channels. By sheer chance you make it to the grocery store because you're hungry, way past lunchtime, and return with bags full of all you'll need to cook a feel-good dinner.
Comical? Sure. You have to laugh, but you don't wanna. You're of course programmed to find prefabricated food that compensates for its unhealthiness by causing your wallet to lose weight.
You feel relief over getting through half of the damn afternoon before the thinking connections begin to get restored. As soon as they're fully restored, you realize that you've squandered half the day. The adrenaline is still depleted, so you try rolling the rock up the mountain again, hoping that all the unhealthy stuff you just consumed will at least give you some energy to make it budge. You can never tell how far you'll get on any given day, so you tell yourself that it's good to be surprised.
At some point you stop, for no apparent reason, and begin cooking dinner. The rock rolls back down, but you don't care, because you're making dinner, which is without doubt a good thing. Then you eat the dinner, and you make believe that it was all worth it. This takes a good deal of imagination, the claim of which of you need to validate at every opportunity. You come through, but put off going to bed as much as you can, in order to postpone the dream bombardment that you know awaits you behind your shut eyes.
[frustration | anxiety | creativity | writing | muse]
When the sun hits the window, I look out at the streets below. Perched atop eleven stories, I have my own tale to tell to the deceptively toy-like town, and the neghboring one, and the next one, and on and on, until it reaches the cities where it'll one day hit the pavement. Or not.
The sun hits all the windows, which are abundantly clear. Stray distractions pace in this bright, sterile space, and are scrutinized to their core. They have no shame. In all their nakedness, they mock the time that feeds them. They do not let up, because they know they cannot be tamed. Still, one hopes that there are at least moments when they rest, when they loosen their grip on time. And, one hopes that such moments can be accessed from this rarified outer shell of life. One also hopes that these sustaining hopes can be entered, like a worm hole whisking one away into a universe where possibilities aid, not taunt.
[distraction | creativity | writing | muse]
Laptop in lap, window into the world, regurgitated gripes, all made to fit into earmarked time. How does it work? The TV waits patiently, while I agonize over the ideas weighing heavy on my keyboard. The TV blathers on at my brain. It bickers and screams and chatters and gushes with inanities, flooding the parched crevices of my mind.
Can I be unearthed? Am I really down there? If I'm not, then where am I? They say it's not all about me, but I am the only one I am. Still, let's say it's not about me, what would I do with myself then? Can't really get rid of me, can I? And if it's not about me, then about whom?
Headphones to the rescue. The TV will stay out, but the music will drape the pregnant silence. World music. As opposed to Mars music? Hmmmm... That may very well be the ticket. Head into space. The space between me and the world.
[writing | creativity | muse]
Writing 101. Peter Elbow. No stopping to google for the link. Just gotta keep at it. Yes, this is how. Thoughts are all tied up, gotta keep from trying to untie them. Whatever strands I can get at are enough. Where do I start?
Start here, now. It can come together later. Or not. Is this how them writers do it? Wow...weird! Can this be done without caffeine? Nothing can be done without caffeine, can it? No, really...is this that brave and new a world?
So, now what? More of the same? Can't help stopping to think, look at all angles, nothing is simple...yeah, well, that's why it doesn't get written. This better help getting it written. Is it 10 minutes yet? Should I be tired now? Maybe I am and it just hasn't registered. Where do I go from here?
That's right, start a new paragraph. Now, go reheat that chai...
Took a piss while nuking the chai, left it there too long, half of it boiled over, oh well... Could write about the pissing and other bodily functions, a la Andy Sullivan...fight the urge to google that. Not going back to correct spelling errors is hard, as is going back to replace a word with a better one. Suddenly I'm hungry.
Maybe the chai will pet down the hunger. It's piping hot, so gotta wait before sipping...it's fine now. Switched my caffeine agent a couple of days ago. No more coffee, it was making my stomach upset, so I became a masala chai expert overnight. Been considerably happier (peppier?) since the switch. I like that in a disposition...well, more accurately, my disposition. And here I am just doing it, just like the swoosh wants everyone to.
Still haven't returned to the gym, though. Guess I'll be a "bear" for now. Uh-oh, is it OK to go on a tangent? I think it is, but this tangent is not a fun one. Could end up wondering about a good tangent to take, but that would be a tangent to this free flowing trajectory, and that's one tangent that's forbidden here. Thank god there's that rule, otherwise this could become an extension of my limbo, which I'd languish in, if I weren't here. Being a non-Catholic, it's not something I can rid myself of...no, don't need to google that either.
So, where can this end? How can I know when to stop? Right here is fine, I think. Not bad for a first attempt. Can I now indulge my compulsion to google and fill in the links? Yay!
[writing | free writing | Peter Elbow]
or two, or three, or as many as it takes to write my present down, as if it were a red carpet for my past to shine on. It helps not, alas, that the red of the carpet is not my color, a secret I suspect my future has discovered. Is there hope, then, that my past will adorn my present, or will it stomp my present till it is worn and tattered, and unable to ever know its color. My future is older and wiser, and gets more so each day. Will it someday become weary of the burden if it carries the colorless hopes in perpetuity?
After puttering around in the virtual and physical worlds, finally spent a couple of hours trying to get two of the characters to make out. That's where I left them, frozen in time. Gotta get back there and unfreeze them...but what do I do with them then?
Too bad I can't freeze myself that way between the short-lived productive spurts.