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Scorpions Announce Rescheduled 2021 Las Vegas Residency With Queensryche [Update]
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UPDATE: The Scorpions have postponed their 2020 Las Vegas Residency with Queensryche due to the coronavirus pandemic. They promise to reschedule the dates some time soon. Read their full statement further below.
UPDATE 2: The Scorpions have now revealed the dates for their 2021 residency with Queensryche. See their latest update below:
In case you haven't had your dose of rock and roll in Sin City yet, here's another chance. Scorpions have just announced a 2020 residency in Las Vegas with Queensryche, dubbed Sin City Nights.
The residency will take place at Planet Hollywood Resort's Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip, and kicks off July 4. Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 24 at 10am PST.
"We're looking very much forward to share some wild 'Sin City nights' with all of you on the famous Strip," said Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine. "Let's get ready for the Sting!!!!"
This year marks 55 years since the legendary German rock band formed in Hanover. Since residencies in Vegas appear to be the new trend among classic rock acts, and Scoprions have toured with Queensryche in the past, the nine-date series of shows seems fitting. Watch a trailer for the run below.
Other rockers playing residencies in Vegas this year include Aerosmith, David Lee Roth and Billy Idol.
Scorpions' latest album, Return to Forever, was released in 2015, and was the last to feature former drummer James Kottak before he was replaced by Motorhead's Mikkey Dee. In December, guitarist Matthias Jabs confirmed in an interview that the band recruited Metallica and Slipknot producer Greg Fidelman for their next studio release.
Scorpions' 2020 Las Vegas Residency Postponed - Official Statement
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Hope's Crossing Book #4
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Available in: Paperback, Audio, e-Book
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If you build it, love will come…to Hope's Crossing.
Alexandra McKnight prefers a life of long workdays and short-term relationships, and she's found it in Hope's Crossing. A sous chef at the local ski resort, she's just been offered her dream job at an exclusive new restaurant being built in town. But when it comes to designing the kitchen, Alex finds herself getting up close and personal with construction foreman Sam Delgado….
At first glance, Sam seems perfect for Alex. He's big, tough, gorgeous—and only in town for a few weeks. But when Sam suddenly moves into a house down the road, Alex suspects that the devoted single father of a six-year-old boy wants more from her than she's willing to give. Now it's up to Sam to help Alex see that, no matter what happened in her past, together they can build something more meaningful in Hope's Crossing.
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Q: isKindOfClass returning nil inside PromiseKit? My colleague and I are building an async data layer heavily based on PromiseKit v1.5.3. We've noticed in certain circumstances, when returning a promise (call it X) from a block passed to then, the next then block actually passes Promse X as the argument to the block, rather than what the former promise actually resolved to. Chaining thenable promises is a pretty important feature for most Promise implementations, so we were pretty surprised.
After some pretty lengthy debug sessions, we've found the problem to be within PromiseKit. During the resolution process, an IsPromise call fails to identify the object as a promise, which is really a simple call to
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This call returns nil, and an incorrect branch is executed. Here's the source
The baffling thing about this, is that I don't see any reason for this to happen. I don't think this is a bug in PromiseKit since their code appears to be sound. I've confirmed the underlying object is indeed a PMKPromise since it responds to promise methods such as value and fulfilled. I've even pushed it through the correct branch using the debugger and it executes correctly from there!
Here's an interesting log from some tests while halted at the given line.
Given that isKindOfClass is returning nil, it sounds like that object isn't responding to the message... but it's certainly an NSObject.  I'm curious if this may be a weird compiler setting or something. I currently have my optimizations set to none if that's relevant. Has anyone ever seen anything like this or know what's going on? What should I check?

A: isKindOfClass returns unexpected results when you manage to have the same class twice in your project. So you may have an object of class PMKPromise, but it is a different class (with exactly the same class name, exactly the same behaviour, just a second class). Maybe that's what happens. Obviously setting a breakpoint and checking what the object is would help.

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See Jennifer Lawrence as the Spring Face of Miss Dior
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One of our favorite Oscar nominees Jennifer Lawrence will likely top plenty of best dressed lists come Sunday when she attends the Academy Awards as a Best Actress contender for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. Something that's also likely is that she'll wear a gown by Christian Dior — she donned a Dior Haute Couture gown at the both the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards last month — since she is the newest face of Miss Dior. Following in the footsteps of other award-winning actresses Marion Cotillard and Mila Kunis, Lawrence stars in the just-released campaign for Spring 2013, wearing Dior ready-to-wear by Raf Simons and showing off the brand's iconic handbags. Shot by Willy Vanderperre against a stark white backdrop, Lawrence's photos are the epitome of Old Hollywood glamour, but we wouldn't expect anything less from such a talented (and gorgeous) actress.
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Kylie Castle - Nothin's Botherin' Me [9 - 13 Jan 2017]
Kylie's successful album Dusty Bottle (Darryl Kirkup Award 2014, Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards Female Vocal 2014 & 2015 and TSA nominations) prompted her to return to the studio - the resulting album is Nothin's Botherin' Me.
Kicking off with Old Time Lovin' and progressing through a diverse range of song styles including traditional Australian bush ballads and warm laid-back stories through to contemporary bluesy, and up-tempo country.
Listen back to Walshy chatting with Kylie about the new record below.
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VPN and FTP are down today, so there's little I can do here at the office for our company.
I guess the quandary is have I REALLY tried hard enough to find work to do that doesn't require uploading and testing it – I guess probably not, or I wouldn't be feeling so morally ambiguous about it. Guess I'll look at some research work I can do.
The last level of humor and adverbs.
I see humor as having levels. We talk about low-level humor correctly — it's the bottommost level in the humor heirarchy. And while I don't have time to collate all my thoughts on the other levels, I think that low-level humor is stimulus-response. We make funny faces at babies, they laugh. We make it again, and they laugh again. We all become conditioned to laughing at certain things.
But that's a digression, right smack-dab in my first paragraph. What I wanted to talk about is the HIGHEST level of humor.
Everybody makes jokes. Some are better at it than others. Satire — making fun of something — is almost the last level of humor available. Note that I said 'almost'. Take anything that others deem important, sacred, or special. There's a line drawn around those things, and crossing that line is considered going "too far" by the more tactful folks. But in terms of humor, it's the final frontier — that which should not be laughed at is the last area that hasn't been made fun of.
Or so the jokers would believe. It's certainly the last area that SHOULD be made fun of, but crude humor and jokes that resort to shock-value to get a laugh, are ubiquitious. If the heart of humor is surprise, then there's no easier way to surprise someone than to go where it's forbidden.
For the record, satire in general — taking something serious and making a joke out of it — is not as loathsome as satire of that which is holy or reverenced. It will often get the same response — some audiences will be offended, others will laugh — but satire is certainly the penultimate level of humor, with Satire of the Holy being the sublevel at the highest point in that region.
Note that I'm using 'high' in terms of 'the most surprising or shocking,' not in terms of higher quality of value.
But there's one level higher, and fortunately, it doesn't cross any lines to gain its surprise. That is meta-satire, or satire of satire. A person who makes a racist joke is making one attempt at humor. A person who makes fun of a person who makes a racist joke is the farthest you can go. You can't satirize any farther.
Why? Because, while you could try to make a joke about someone making a joke about someone making a racist joke, you're still just indulging in satire of satire. It's just that the satire you're mocking is, itself, satire of satire.
This is probably pretty dry, but I'm almost done.
You can't go any farther out than adverbs. You can have an adverb that describes an adjective or verb, but anything describing it is just another adverb.
You can have satire that mocks something good or something bad, but anything mocking it is just more satire. Meta-satire. Satire of satire.
Hence, I can make a joke about somebody making a dumb joke, and it gets a different response than any other type of joke I might make, but if anybody tries to make a joke about ME making a joke about somebody making a dumb joke, they're at best trying to elicit the same response. At worst they're falling and crashing and burning, because there's just no ground to joke from at this height. We've gone out as far as we can go.
Now, it's pretty hard to make a good joke about a good joke. It can be done, but it's much easier to make a good joke about a bad joke. Or, more specifically, a bad joker. That's my favorite form of humor these days — pretending to be the guy who tells bad jokes, than laughing at him with everyone else.
Anyways, just some thoughts I had here at work and decided to share.
My business idea is taking more shape. Simultaneously, Rebecca has an idea for an invention that would be fantastic, if we can get it to work. By "we", I mean her dad, as he's a biomedical engineer. But if we can secure a patent and show its viability, then WHEEEEE!
And I started writing some more, and blah blah blah, I'm into a zillion projects again. Fun feeling.


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The seventeenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, and winner of Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award…
When private eye V.I. Warshawski is called out to a derelict drug house in a rural town just south of Chicago she discovers something she…
During a routine stake-out of a major client's former home, V.I. stumbles upon something she didn't expect to find: a body. The police immediately dismiss…
When V.I.'s close friend Lotty Herschel is approached by a man claiming to be a fellow Holocaust survivor, she's forced to recall a painful past…
While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street.…
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All the Rockers è un album di raccolta del gruppo rock canadese April Wine, pubblicato nel 1987.

Tracce
Tutte le tracce sono di Myles Goodwyn eccetto dove indicato.
 Anything You Want, You Got It – 4:42
 I Like to Rock – 4:30
 Roller – 4:17
 All Over Town – 2:55
 Hot on the Wheels of Love (Goodwyn, Steve Lang) – 3:11
 Tonite – 4:11
 Future Tense – 4:08
 21st Century Schizoid Man (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) – 6:24
 Crash and Burn – 2:32
 Oowatanite (Jim Clench) – 3:50
 Don't Push Me Around – 3:14
 Get Ready for Love – 4:14
 Tellin' Me Lies – 3:01
 Blood Money – 5:22
 Gimme Love (M. Goodwyn, Hovaness "Johnny" Hagopian) – 3:58
 Weeping Widow (Robert Wright, AKA. Art La King) – 3:53
 Victim for Your Love – 4:17

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Art Deco square decanter
1920s / Art Deco / floral - £9.99
Spectacular rectangular liqueur decanter in blown glass with enamelled flowers in red, blue, green and yellow; vintage English Art Deco 1920s. Ideal for serving whisky and flavoured liqeuers.
Condition: vintage - in fine condition
Size: 14.5 cm H; 13 cm W; 5.7" H; 5.1" W; Volume: 0.5 l.
Art Deco style — the famous novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was written in 1925 and is set in the contemporary Art Deco period. The story perfectly catches the opulent lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties with its spectacular parties. It was also known as the Jazz Age.
Facts of Lavish Did you know? We operate an extended 14-day return policy — just tell us within two weeks that you wish to return an item.


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Провинция Чаньяраль  () — провинция в Чили в составе области Атакама. Административный центр — Чаньяраль.

Провинция административно разделена на 2 коммуны.

Территория — 24 436,2 км². Численность населения — 26 144 жителя (2017). Плотность населения — 1,07 чел./км².

Административный центр — город Чаньяраль.

География
Провинция расположена на севере области Атакама.

Провинция граничит:
 на севере — с провинцией Антофагаста,
 на востоке — с провинцией Катамарка (Аргентина),
 на юге — с провинцией Копьяпо.
На западе провинции — побережье Тихого океана.

Административное деление
Провинция административно разделена на 2 коммуны:
 Чаньяраль. Административный центр — Чаньяраль.
 Диего-де-Альмагро. Административный центр — Диего-де-Альмагро.

Демография
Согласно сведениям, собранным в ходе переписи 2017 г.  Национальным институтом статистики (INE),  население провинции составляет:

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Провинции Чили


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EVERYBODY LOVES A picnic. When the weather is warm and the sun is shining, we naturally think of packing up the cooler and heading for the beach or the park. Enjoying a picnic with friends and family is laid-back and fun. It's also an economical, easy way to add a festive note to summer.
While picnics are no-fuss affairs, you'll want to do a little planning first to make them even more foolproof.
The right location adds to the charm, but only if you're not too tired when you get there. You'll likely carry everything in to your picnic site. If it's a significant walk from your vehicle, keep your load light. Ensure that the site allows for cooking equipment if you plan to cook when you arrive. And check the weather forecast a few days ahead of time; rain can wash away the best of plans.
Gather supplies. You'll want blankets or folding chairs for comfort, a tablecloth for the picnic table (or a portable table) and two coolers (a beverage cooler that you'll open and close often and another cooler filled with ice and food that stays shut until it's time to eat).
Set the tone with plates, cutlery and glassware. A romantic picnic for two might call for beautiful plates, wine goblets and a decorative centerpiece, while plastic utensils and colorful paper plates are more practical for a family get-together. Remember the bug spray and sunscreen, and don't forget trash bags, paper towels, hand sanitizer and wet wipes.
sandwiches, cookies, wraps, veggies and dip.
meat can be partially prepared.
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The Costco Connection Costco warehouses carry all of the ingredients for an unforgettable summer picnic: coolers, storage containers, bug spray, disposable dinnerware and, of course, a variety of outdoor-friendly fare.


Wow! We can't believe our fulltime RV life is hitting the six-month mark. The lessons we've learned are numerous and reach from technical trailer stuff to relationship growth. We'll post a few of those lessons and tips over the next few weeks.
Today we're headed to New Orleans to enjoy a sunny weekend and then we'll land in our hometown (Fairhope, Alabama) to visit friends and family before we begin our summer adventures.
One of the first lessons we learned is that traveling fast wears us out. During our first month we moved from Alabama to California! After that haul, we slowed down and spent the entire winter in the southwest. Over the last month we've moved more quickly than we prefer in order to reposition ourselves for the summer.
Here's our complete travel log of the first six months (linked with corresponding videos & blog posts)!
December 30, 2015 – Anza Borrego, California – NYE Party!
January 11, 2016 – Quartzsite, Arizona – XSCAPERS!
Thanks! We can't wait for the journeys to come!


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What is climate fiction for?
By Nicholas F. Stapleton on	 October 6, 2021 English Class Online
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We start the Outside Book Club this week, and to celebrate, we're releasing a series on how the booming genre of climate fiction is helping us see our changing planet in a new light. You can learn more about the book club Here, or join us Facebook to discuss our October selection, Confusion, a new fictional climate work by Richard Powers.
In the 2017 novel New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson described impressive scenes of people driving through a flooded New York City. That September, kayakers soared through flooded city streets in the northeast after Hurricane Ida. In 1993 Octavia became E. Butlers Parable of the sower drew a forward-looking picture of inequality, corporate greed and racism amid climate change. Today these issues have only become central in the climate crisis, and in Trump we even saw something of the President-elect of dystopian society, Christopher Donner, who describes the minimum wage, environmental regulations and labor protection laws as "too restrictive". Since then, dozens of new books have appeared in the genre of climate fiction, which can roughly be defined as literature on climate change, often with elements of speculative fiction. But in the past few years alone, the experience of reading Kli-Fi has grown stranger as real life becomes more and more similar to some of the dark futures presented in these novels.
I write about culture for a living so I read a lot of novels about the end of the world as we know it, often in the context of climate disasters, both on and off the clock. For years I've been following new cli-fi releases (often for this post) as I soak up daily headlines about drought, forest fires, climate migration, floods, historic storms, heat waves, and ocean acidification. I tend towards speculative books set in a world that is at least partially recognizable as our own (no space cities or magic!), But which take creative liberties to ask how bad it would have to get for us, for us to change life? How would we live if it was too late? These range from mostly realistic (Imbolo Mbue's How beautiful we were) a little bit out there (Diane Cook's The new wilderness) too pretty awesome (Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy).
When I look up at the world around me from these novels, I have a lingering feeling of exhausted, confused fascination. I first realized it around this time last year when I started reading Ling Ma's severance pay during quarantine. I couldn't explain why I was drawn to a book about a fictional catastrophic pandemic in the middle of a real pandemic, and I was almost ashamed to admit it in front of everyone (even though I wasn't alone). At best it seemed like staring into space; At worst, it felt like I was looking for some sick form of escapism by reading about a strangely similar disaster while I was fortunate enough to suffer minimally from the tremendous losses of COVID-19. Since then, I've wondered if my fascination with cli-fi is purely nihilistic. Books don't always have to be beach reading, and they don't always have to be useful, but can we learn something about our situation or ourselves, or at least feel something other than the horror, in the eerie valley of fictional climate change? If we are already going through a climate catastrophe, what is the point of wallowing in all the possibilities presented that it could go under?
Most cli-fi readers don't need to be convinced that climate change is real and urgent.
Of course, there are smarter people who spend a lot of time grappling with this question. "In a way, climate literature is a very old genre. The great biblical story of Noah's Ark is the story of a climate catastrophe, "says Tyler Harper, assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College, who describes himself as an innate optimist (but not one who would deny that we could actually be). lost). This outlook contrasts with one of his main research interests: science fiction about the possibility of human extinction. "What is special and interesting about contemporary climate sci-fi is that it was only in the last 150 years that Western civilization really realized that we can produce our own catastrophe," he says. Cli-Fi creates a rich historical record of our chickens coming home to sleep, and as it grows in popularity, it has been sold to the public to deal with our troubles. A series of short stories by well-known authors commissioned by Amazon, called Warmer, happily sells every morbid plot: "In a climate-ravaged future, it is not easy to grow up." "After the earth has been destroyed, the age of man is over. For some it is a blessing in this tender and tragic cautionary fable. "
But that blunt message now feels inadequate. Most cli-fi readers don't need to be convinced that climate change is real and urgent, and Harper fears that an impulse to read future narratives into those narratives will only lead to hopelessness. What does someone who already understands the real effects of climate change need from a fictional report? Elizabeth Rush, professor of English at Brown University and climate journalist, recently reported on how rising sea levels are changing US coasts for her nonfiction book Rising: Shipments from the New American Shore. In addition to this work, she reads Cli-Fi, but looks for the kind that goes beyond the dark messages of our damnation without denying reality. Fiction can be a way to get out of the repetitive headlines about record-breaking storms, floods, and heat waves that make us think the conclusions are pre-programmed, she says. "I started deliberately looking for fictional climates that took the opportunity to write the book as an opportunity to imagine how climate change could not only be a catastrophe, but also needs for other types of human relationships with the more than … human world. "She refers to Claire Vaye Watkins Gold glory citrus and James Bradleys Clade, Books in which the characters start out in a pretty screwed-up world, but are still looking for love, meaning and new ways of life. "These are not blindly optimistic books, but they play the story out in ways that are different from the way we think," she says.
The idea of giving up a break in thought made me reconsider my doubts about the ability of climate fiction to be escapist. The cli-fi books I love don't make me forget the world around me – they hold a mirror to the dynamics of climate change, which seems most insurmountable, and urge me to break out of fatalistic thought patterns. The best cli-fi of course tells us something about the real world, especially when it comes to understanding that some people are already disproportionately affected by climate change. "There is often the notion that when the disaster happens, the starting conditions are suddenly even," says Harper, referring to books like Cormac McCarthys The street in which an extinction event puts everyone on earth into survival mode with no mention of race or class. "A climate catastrophe will not wipe out the racial and class divisions, but deeply intensify them." There's a reason Octavia E. Butler is so often upheld in cli-fi canon; she portrayed these dynamics so precisely in her fiction. Shelley Streeby, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in science fiction and ethnic studies, recalls reading files Butler kept about news clippings from disasters. Butler writes: "I cannot wish for the kind of catastrophe it would take to distract the tiny minds of world leaders from ideology and power struggles. Such a disaster would probably kill me. Me and millions of others. "
Butler models a kind of climate fiction that takes an honest look at reality, but also points the way to hope and action. Parable of the sower, About a black teenage girl who founds her own religion in the hope of literally escaping her dystopian society (and earth), is about redefining community, stepping outside the boundaries of an exploitative society, and promising black feminist leadership and indigenous science . In Streeby's new book Imagine the future of climate change She writes about how speculative fiction can influence real activism and vice versa. "If we want to get the social movement, to change something, we basically make worlds," says Streeby. "We imagine how the world will be different. We plan it. We tell a story about it. It's a kind of bridge to activism. "Authors like Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown both create and champion a kind of climate fiction that goes beyond empathizing with the struggle of a particular character; Instead, it envisions the collective action necessary to live in another future. Environmental movements, led mainly by indigenous peoples and other colored people, do exactly the same.
By imagining how we might live in a disastrous future, we remind ourselves that the present does not have to be what it is now, and that the real shaping of the future is now available to us in the real world.
Speculative cli-fi can build a world, not in the traditional sense of science fiction or fantasy of invented languages and stories, but by really rethinking what is possible beyond the limits of the economic and political systems that perpetuate our current crisis. Harper points to Frederic Jameson, a literary critic who is often quoted for arguing that science fiction is not about the future. "Science fiction circles back to our present because by giving us a picture of the future, it also tells us that the future has not yet happened, that changes are still possible," says Harper. Whether a utopian or apocalyptic vision of the future, the message is the same: this future is still not there (even if it comes close). "I would encourage any reader to read it as a genre that prompts you to do something in the present," he says. This, as I now realize, is what I got wrong with Cl-Fi: the qualities that make it feel so awful can also confirm it. By imagining how we might live in a disastrous future, we remind ourselves that the present does not have to be what it is now, and that the real shaping of the future is now available to us in the real world. Brown says: "Everything organizing is science fiction".
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Ready for Business Commercial Real Estate for Rent in Shanghai.
In here (this section) SHPlace will highlight the commercial properties that are available in the French Concession and around right now.
See more details to all available commercial spaces on our www.shanghaioffices.com website!
Crazy Restaurant and Bar Space in Jing'an
This huge space is located in the downtown area of Jing'an, it's a commercial Restaurant and Bar Space in Shanghai for rent.
It has a total lot size of 2100 square meters lot size, a total garden area of 1700 square meter space, with 770 square meter indoor area.
Fully renovated, with furniture, bar, restaurant gas supply, kitchen and terraces.
more pics of this commercial space in Shanghai on shanghaioffices.com
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Unique French Concession Office Building
This is a superb 800 square meter french concession villa that has been converted to a premier office space in the hottest french concession area on Huaihai Road near Fuxing West Road (with neighbors such as the american, french, iranian, japanese and australian consulates).
Renovated in office style, complete with receptionist office, 2 indoor parking spaces, 1 outdoor carparking space and a garden.
Complete 4 floors, 1 terrace and several storage units.
Central�Air conditioners, �complete rewires and highly presentable�entrance hall to make a true impression.
See Pictures below.
Asking 275'000 Rmb.
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This wonderful Cultural Heritage Property from the early 20th Century is newly available for rent.
A full Commercial Property the new tenants will be able to run most kinds of business in this historic Mansion including;
Restaurant, Night Club, Bar, Recreational Business, Office, Galleries and many more,
as long as the architecture of the building is not altered.
The Place has an indoor area of 430sqm, about 5 private car parking spaces, a guest house and an approximately 500sqm Garden.
The Mansion would be perfect for boutique upper class restaurants due to it's proximity to Hengshan Rd and many upper class residences and shops.
Asking Rental is 180'000 Rmb / month.
(Available!)
(rented out)
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This huge Commercial Office Building is located on Yongfu Road and Wuyuan Rd atop a popular Shanghai Club.
The Space is very well cut, with basically a squared room to the south and one to the north on each floor.
The Area covers a total of 1600sqm and the Building will rent at about 120'000 Rmb a month.
Besides Restrictions on Restaurants basically any business can be registered here.
Yongfu Road is one of Shanghai's finest locations, and your neighbors will be the German Consulates,
several goverment
agencie's, the exclusive Yongfu Elite Club and the Shanghai Film Academy is right across the street.
It's a 10 Min Walk to the Changshu Road Metro Station and there are several bus lines about.
Parking is convinient with about 10 spots along this Building. (rented out)
A unique small property located on Fuxing Road and Wulumuqi Road.
The House has been an office to a marketing company for the past few years and is already officelike renovated.
It's got a large Yard, and is simple cut with two big rooms.
The Unit is for office use only, and can not be registered for business.
But it's a charming spot for creatively involved companies looking for something unique.
It's in a superb location and features several parking spots.
The House is about 160sqm spacious, and features a 120sqm private Garden.
It's about 5minutes walk from Changshu Road Metro Station and on the intersection Wulumuqi and Fuxing
are several bus-stops.
Nearby a plenty of cafe's and Restaurants.
Asking Rental is 32000 Rmb a month.
A wonderfully unique Mansion on Fuxing Road and Yongfu Road.
The Commercial Property is a culturally protected old Garden House from the 1930′s.
It's about 380 square meters large and currently occupied by a very exclusive Restaurant that will
be moving to a bigger venue by chinese new year.
A property perfect for opening a Restaurant since this one has been running for several years.
It rises three floors high, has 2 terraces and features an 80 square meter private yard.
Wires, Gas/Waterpipes and Kitchen are already built out for Restaurant use.
Several Parking Spots are available and the Location is very convinient (see 1st property)


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Upcoming Higgins Hotel & Conference Center Names Virgile Brandel Executive Chef
The highly anticipated Higgins Hotel & Conference Center has announced the appointment of award-winning Chef Virgile Brandel as Executive Chef. The National WWII Museum's New Orleans property is slated to open early December with four dining outlets and a distinct 1940s theme.
Brandel brings more than 25 years of culinary experience to The Higgins Hotel and will spearhead menu development, culinary innovation and operations of the various dining outlets, which include the Hotel's signature restaurant Café Normandie, a lobby lounge named Kilroy's Bar and Lounge, rooftop bar Rosie's on the Roof and Provisions, a marketplace ideal for grab-and-go options. As Executive Chef, Brandel will also lead catering for the Hotel's Conference Center, which will serve as a meeting and event space for private rentals, educational programming and various conferences and symposia hosted by the Museum.
"Chef Brandel brings indisputable talent and passion to The Higgins Hotel, which will set a distinguished tone for the property and its diverse array of dining options," says Daniel Rhodes, General Manager of The Higgins Hotel & Conference Center. "We are pleased to have a chef of his caliber lead the culinary team for this unique hotel, set in a city with such rich culinary history."
Most recently, Brandel served as the Executive Chef at Atrio Restaurant & Wine Room at the Conrad Miami and Banquet Chef at the Loews Hotels in Miami Beach. He also served as Executive Fine Dining Chef at several Ritz-Carlton properties around the country. A native of France, Brandel began his career in French kitchens, serving as Senior Chef de Partie at the Park Lane Hotel and then as Sous Chef at The Dorchester Hotel.
Brandel credits his grandmother with inspiring his culinary pursuits—she owned a restaurant in his hometown of Champagne, France, where he was able to develop basic skills early. He eventually went on to study culinary arts at École Hôtelière en Marne and completed his apprenticeship at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Champagne. Following his apprenticeship, Brandel served as Chef de Tournant at a French and Italian restaurant named Boccaccio in Nice.
Mixing his French heritage with New Orleans flavor, Brandel's goal is to create menu items that tell the story of how American culinary culture was inspired by the war era. Café Normandie's seasonally changing menus will include modern takes on traditional French dishes, such as Poulet Normandie and Normand Fricassee, and guests will also find New Orleans Creole-inspired dishes, including a vegetarian Jambalaya and Cajun flatbread.
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Here is what I'm making- Christmas ice-skating figurine out of paper mache`.
I bent the wire using pliers into the shape of my desired position for the "skeleton"
I shaped the foot that touches the ground into a circle just big enough to fit the screw.
and I drilled the "skeleton" to the wood block via the circle in the foot.
I also reinforced the scarf with wire to get the effect of it blowing behind her.
added some pretty colors and voila`!
she is still needing touch ups but this gives you the general idea of how she will turn out. Sorry about the shortage of informative photos. I'll remember to take more during the actual sculpting and pasting of paper mache` next time. Hope you enjoyed it!
It looks really simple when you do it! I don't think I could accomplish anything nearly as cute!
AWESOME LJ!! Way cool idea to figure out how to do it yourself and the tutorial how nice of you! what I thought was impossible is now sudenly possible! I'm all happy for you!!


The two will operate as separate entities, with Pressman developing its own products, but employing Goliath's R&D, purchasing and TV campaigns internationally.
Goliath Games is continuing its designs for global expansion having acquired North American toy giant, Pressman Toy Corporation.
Founded in Netherlands in 1980, the game manufacturer now sells to over 75 countries with offices now reaching across France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal and Spain.
The firm also enjoys a strong presence in Poland, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and the US.
Following the acquisition, the two companies will continue to operate as separate entities, with Pressman developing its own products, but employing Goliath's R&D, purchasing and TV campaigns internationally, reports Kidscreen.
Jim Pressman will continue to serve as president of Pressman Toys and oversee licensing for both companies globally.
Goliath is famed for its hit games Pop the Pig and Doggie Doo. Pressman is renowned for titles including Mastermind, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and games and puzzles based on Skylanders, How to train Your Dragon 2 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.


Detail view of the belly. The skid is in the same color as the lower side of the aircraft; most wartime Komets showed a dark-colored skid. The modified towing connection is shown clearly. An electrical connector appears to be hanging to the right of it. That would mean that the US test pilot was in direct radio contact with the B-29 tow plane.


Computer programs for prediction of optical signatures of targets and backgrounds are valuable tools for signature assessment and signature management. Simulations make it possible to study optical signatures from targets and backgrounds under conditions where measured signatures are missing or incomplete. Several applications may be identified: Increase understanding, Design and assessment of low signature concepts, Assessment of tactics, Design and assessment of sensor systems, Duel simulations of EW, and Signature awareness. FOI (the Swedish Defence Research Agency) study several methods and modeling programs for detailed physically based prediction of the optical signature of targets in backgrounds. The most important commercial optical signature prediction programs available at FOI are CAMEO-SIM, RadThermIR, and McCavity. The main tasks of the work have been: Assembly of a database of input data, Gain experience of different computer programs, In-house development of complementary algorithms and programs, and Validation and assessment of the simulation results. This paper summarizes the activities and the results obtained. Some application examples will be given as well as results from validations. The test object chosen is the MTLB which is a tracked armored vehicle. It has been used previously at FOI for research purposes and therefore measurement data is available.


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ROLE OF NON-CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS OF THE EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIES
Ahmed Awadh Bahomail Dept. of Paraclinic, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Yemen
Buthaina Saeed Ahmed Alaghbari Dept. of Paraclinic, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Yemen
Khaldoon Ali Salem Hitham Dept. of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Yemen
Formation of atherosclerotic plaque in the carotid arteries is the leading factor of hemodynamic disturbance in the cere-bral arteries. Visualization and characteristic of these plaques are most important factors from the viewpoint of preven-tive treatment- surgical or conservative. The goal of this study was to assess sensitivity and specificity of non-contrast MRA in evaluation and characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques in the extracranial carotid arteries. Our data was ob-tained from 130 patients: 38 were female (29.2%) and 92-male (70.8%). The middle age is 54.8 years (range 17-78 years). Patients were subjected to 3 diagnosis procedures, namely 85 patients were investigated by Doppler USG & 45 patients by MRA method. All patients underwent selective cerebral arterial angiography by DSA as a gold standard method. From 130 patients 27 patients had no atherosclerotic disease; 57 had bilateral atherosclerotic changes; 46 pa-tients had monolateral carotid atherosclerotic process. From 260 investigated carotid arteries 51 arteries were detected with complete occlusion (22 right and 21 left occlusion), in 4 patients (8 carotid arteries) bilateral occlusion was seen. 54 carotid arteries had severe degree of stenosis. From this stenosis 27 arteries were more than 90%.32 carotid arteries had moderate degree of stenosis. In 23 carotid arteries mild degree was seen, but in a 100 carotid arteries had complete pa-tency. We concluded that complex noninvasive methods- colored Doppler USG and non-contrast MRA distinguished good accuracy (90%) and may be used as an alternative to DSA.
Keywords: Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), Ccarotid arteries, Digital Subtraction angiography (DS), Doppler Ultrasonography (USG)
Bahomail, A. A., Alaghbari, B. S. A., & Hitham, K. A. S. (2022). ROLE OF NON-CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS OF THE EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIES. Electronic Journal of University of Aden for Basic and Applied Sciences, 3(4), 253-262. https://doi.org/10.47372/ejua-ba.2022.4.194
Copyright (c) 2023 Ahmed Awadh Bahomail, Buthaina Saeed Ahmed Alaghbari, Khaldoon Ali Salem Hitham


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In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careering off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.
Actors : Ian Sheepie Smith, Jamie Quinn, Karen Gillan, Kristopher Blair, Lee Pace, Lesley Harcourt, Matthew Beard, Matthew Zajac, Paul Higgins, Rachel Jackson, Siobhan Redmond
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Seal Team Eight Behind Enemy Lines
Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
Country: South Africa, USA
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened with Riley's frequent work trips and her intuition tells her something is amiss. When Riley leaves for his next job, Cathy follows him…all the way to another family's home! When Cathy storms in to confront him, she finds a dead body and receives a call from Riley saying she must confess to the crime or her son will be killed. With the police hot on her tail, Cathy goes on the run to unearth the truth before it is too late to save her son.
Sabrina Friends Forever
Sabrina must prove that she is worthy of attending an academy for witches.
Three young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
Liza the Fox-Fairy
Liza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?
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In an Alaskan fishing town, a local crime boss suspects a local fisherman knows where his stolen money is, but this fisherman is no regular Joe.
Fasten Your Seatbelts
Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to. This dramedy on relationships also gets a very credible performance from Paola Miraccione, who plays the tragic, albeit funny, character Egle.
Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.
All About the Money
Two "down on their luck" buddies are convinced by a third to take a vacation. Only after landing in the third world country do they realize that they are there to attempt to capture the United States' most wanted criminal – with no military training.
A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an outlaw to take down an evil witch bent on claiming the magic bow for evil.
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Taken by Grace
An ex-con kidnaps a Christian couple in a bid to avenge his son's murder in this faith-based thriller starring Angus MacFayden and Haylie Duff. Years ago, Lucas Blackstone (Macfadyen) watched helplessly as his son was killed in cold blood. Years later, upon being released from prison, Lucas determines to see justice served at the business end of a .357. After kidnapping Shawn Everett (Bradley Dorsey) and his wife Carrie (Duff) from a campsite, Lucas instructs them to drive him to the town of Trinity so he may carry out the execution. Now as the trio drives to their grim destination, Lucas learns that Shawn and Carrie have put their trust in their faith to save their broken marriage. Unmoved by their devotion, he threatens to take their lives if they try to stop him. Later, a shocking discovery about his intended target leaves the grieving father questioning everything he ever thought he knew.
When the Starlight Ends
An eccentric writer must choose between his work and the love of his life. Looking back, he reflects on whether he has made the right decision.


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On October 10th…
October 10, 1855: Relief of Agra by Col. Greathed. [SIGN]
Illustration from History of the Indian mutiny : giving detailed account of the Sepoy insurrection in India, by Charles Ball (1859)
Well, there's no use my telling you gentlemen what came of the Indian Mutiny. After Wilson took Delhi and Sir Colin relieved Lucknow the back of the business was broken. Fresh troops came pouring in, and Nana Sahib made himself scarce over the frontier. A flying column under Colonel Greathed came round to Agra and cleared the Pandies away from it. Peace seemed to be settling upon the country, and we four were beginning to hope that the time was at hand when we might safely go off with our share of the plunder. In a moment, however, our hopes were shattered by our being arrested as the murderers of Achmet.
October 10, 1889: Holmes confronted James Windibank AKA Hosmer Angel. [IDEN]
Illustration by Sidney Paget for The Strand Magazine (September, 1891)
Holmes stuck his feet up on the corner of the mantelpiece, and leaning back with his hands in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, than to us.
'The man married a woman very much older than himself for her money,' said he, 'and he enjoyed the use of the money of the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable sum for people in their position, and the loss of it would have made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her step-father do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of keeping her at home, and forbidding her to seek the company of people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not answer for ever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball. What does her clever step-father do then? He conceives an idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself.'
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A very special limerick from My Limerick's corner.
The Sign of the Four
Muttered Holmes, "Never mind Cocaine's pleasure.
Let us seek out the famed Agra Treasure."
Answered Watson, "No pearls
For myself—Only Girls;
And it's Mary who's made to my measure."
Composed by Isaac Asimov,BSI
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A friend told me that you can make Vitamix sorbet using only watermelon. It's true! Just cut, freeze, and blend.
The result is light and refreshing on a hot summer day. It's also the sort of thing that could be served between courses of a fancy meal to cleanse the palate.
I slightly prefer watermelon agua fresca, but making sorbet adds some nice variety, especially if you have a big watermelon to use up.
The batch in the the photo did not need to go back in the freezer to firm up to form rounded scoops.
Cut watermelon into 1–2-inch chunks, then spread out on a baking tray or similar, and freeze. Make sure pieces are not touching so that they don't freeze together. Freeze for at least a few hours, overnight is convenient. If you want to have an easier time blending, you can reserve about ¼ of the amount of watermelon and keep it in the fridge instead of the freezer. Then put the unfrozen chunks in the bottom of the container to help it start blending. I generally just use all frozen, but it makes blending slightly more difficult. Blend on high, and use the tamper to push watermelon into the blades. It's ready about 5 seconds after you hear the blades consistently encountering more resistance (you'll hear a lower pitch).
If you use all frozen pieces, when you first start blending, you will have to push the tamper down with a fair bit of force. The blender will make some disconcerting sounds, but just keep pushing. Hold the container with your other hand to keep it steady as you push the ingredients in the corners down.
Leftovers in the freezer will freeze hard, since this has high water content, without too much sugar or other things that keep it soft. For that reason, I recommend freezing leftovers into single serving amounts. If you have freezer pop molds, this is a great use for them.
You could add any or all of the above, although I don't think I would add both mint and basil at the same time.


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Editor's Note: The photo credit for the feature image above belongs to Cindy Hurt.
This is our continuing coverage of the current Chicago tour featuring Walfredo "Wally" Reyes, Jr. As Wally tells us, one of the frequent questions he gets asked is what does he do on days or time off while on tour. After all, even the hard working band Chicago does get some time off from their busy schedule.
Editor's Note: The time frame for this discussion is October 27 and 28. On October 27 the band had actual time off with no performance scheduled for that day. On October 28 Chicago appeared with Earth, Wind & Fire at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The Bell Centre is the home of the Montreal Canadiens (NHL) and it sports a healthy seating capacity of 21,273.
Editor's Note: The KoSA Academy is amazing and to find out more about this wonderful establishment please check out their website here. To find out more about Christian Legueux, check out his website here.
While in Montreal Wally also tells us that he had to grab a coffee (actually two) at Montreal's fabulous Olimpic Cafe. (If you are in Montreal visit them! Délicieux! Here's their website).
In addition to that, Wally tells us that he also takes time to relax in that great amenity known as the tour bus and for this tour, there are plenty of them!
Inside the bus, Wally and his bandmates get to travel in comfort. Check it out.
Finally, being the guy he is Wally always seems to gather others for a tour selfie outside the bus. As Wally tells us, you always have to have fun. Indeed!
We will look forward to hearing more from Wally after tonight's show in Montreal. Good stuff Wally.


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Rich Whincup: New challenges and overcoming hurdles
Written by emmetoc on Tue, 02/05/2019
After two and a half years with Gloucester-Hartpury, Rich Whincup was recently announced as the Worcester Valkyries' kicking coach. Joe Harvey spoke to the 38-year-old about his coaching philosophy and the personal obstacles he has dealt with. "I've been on the McGuire Programme since I was 19," began Rich Whincup.
Rich Whincup is now part of the coaching set-up at Worcester Valkyries
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"Beforehand, I'd always found quiet corners in the changing rooms, listened to the humorous discussions that went on, but without joining in, because I couldn't get a lot of words out.
"I joined McGuire after my first year away at college which was quite challenging as I was away from my support network. People used to speak for me a lot, but when you're living on your own, you've got to front up a little bit and I couldn't really do it. It was a tough year, but after joining the programme, I never looked back really."
Whincup quickly rose through the ranks at the McGuire Programme (a stammering treatment programme/course run for people who stammer by people who stammer) and became an instructor at a young age. This year will mark the 20th year in his association with the organisation and some may even know Whincup from his role on the Channel 4 documentary 'Stammer School: Musharaf Finds his Voice', where the coach taught Educating Yorkshire star Musharaf Asghar the same speech techniques that changed his life.
Another well-known former student of Whincup's is former Saracens player, Kelly Brown: "He did his course whilst he was captaining Scotland. It was a busy time for him and then he has moved forward with his speech. Now he's the Academy coach at Saracens.
"Now he's using his voice to earn him a living. He still phones me up when he's got a particular challenge and I help him prepare for it. But we mainly talk about rugby stuff these days."
Whincup had always played rugby, starting out as a five-year-old at Stow-on-the-Wold Rugby Club and he went on to play for Camp Hill in Solihull and Cirencester, with a brief spell at Birmingham Moseley in between. But, after moving to London, Whincup became a casual observer of the game he had played for much of his life.
It wasn't until after having his first child in 2006 that Whincup considered returning to the game; "I remember saying to my wife, 'wouldn't it be great if he played rugby and maybe I could coach him?'. When he was five there was the opportunity for me and him to join Tewkesbury and when he played with the U7s, I took that team on.
"I'd always kicked as a player and I'd always admired the way that Dave Alred went about his business. A few parents asked me if I could coach their children. I did some kicking sessions and it went really well.
"From there I was invited to become a Gloucestershire coach for the women's and girls' section. Kicking wasn't part of their programme. I identified very quickly that it was an under-recognised area of the women's game and a lot of points were being left out on the pitch."
Whincup went on to approach Gloucester-Hartpury to offer his services as a specialist kicking coach and after enjoying two and a half years with the club, he took the decision to leave the set-up after being impressed by the player-centric focus of the Worcester Valkyries.
"It's more than just the skill, or the game," he said. "There's a person behind the skill and I think that you have to get to know that person. People have said that our kicking sessions have made them feel happier, because we move away from everything else and they can forget everything that's going on in their lives."
Worcester currently prop up the Tyrrell's Premier 15s table with four points, but Whincup is hopeful that his coaching will be able to add a different dimension to the Valkyries' game that could change their fortunes.
"Where the points are on offer, we just need to make sure that we take them. Where I can hopefully galvanise things is around kicking to space and focusing on some of those finer motor skills, hopefully that will go into match scenarios. But that's the challenge isn't it?
"We're all working hard to get those points up as much as we can. So, wherever I can help with that, I jolly well will!".
Whincup will be reuniting with former Gloucester-Hartpury player, Megan Goddard, who was also part of the inaugural female Barbarians side last year. With the women's game now reaching professionalisation, Whincup believes that the need for specialist coaches, like himself, will be increasingly required.
"I'm grateful to Worcester for the opportunity and I think they're being quite progressive in their move of bringing me on board. I think in a general sense, I'm hoping as it's my passion, kicking will be more noticed. Even in England games, it can be hit or miss sometimes. So, if we can start building it from the bottom up from around communities then we can move forward."
As well as being a kicking coach for the Valkyries, Whincup holds several other roles. He is a consultant kicking coach with the Swedish national teams, McGuire Programme instructor, ambassador for the Duke of Edinburgh Award and a lecturer at Hartpury College, just to name a few.
Whincup believes that by keeping so vocally active it prevents his stammer from taking over; "It's been a nice little journey and one of the main reasons is because it keeps my mind on it's toes, speech wise. If I stop putting myself in these pressurised situations, then I'm giving my stammer too much of an opportunity to come back at me."
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EAGLES EDGE OILERS TO GET BACK IN THE WIN COLUMN
For the 3rd time over the last 7 days, the Canmore Eagles were facing the same team they had yet to solve this season, the Okotoks Oilers. In the 6th and final meeting between the 2 teams this season, the Eagles were able to get the best of their South Division rivals, as they edged the Oilers by a score 3-2 to snap a 4-game losing streak in front of 533 fans this afternoon at the Canmore Recreation Centre. A big win for the Eagles as it allows them to leapfrog the Calgary Mustangs and move to 5th Place in the AJHL South division with a record of 28-23-5 for 61 points. The Eagles are 1 point up on the Mustangs, however, they remain 5 points back of the 4th place Camrose Kodiaks who won their games yesterday and today. The final home-ice advantage spot is 4th place in the 1st round of the Playoffs.
Eagles' Head Coach and General Manager Andrew Mile was certainly very happy to see his team get rewarded with the big win this afternoon saying, "I thought we did a lot of things right here in the last couple of games. We played Sherwood Park to a 3-1 game, one of the highest scoring teams in the league, I thought it was a great game defensively. Realistically we played Okotoks on Saturday to a 2-1 game for 57 minutes. Tonight we were good again defensively, we were smart and we capitalized on the chances we got. We had some skill to score those goals. We had great goaltending, great defensive play and we had the offence we needed."
The Eagles got on the board first as Brent Schuldhaus (6th) fired a shot from the right point that found the back of the net at 17:53 of the first. Finn Withey and Aidan West picked up the assists. The Oilers tied the game 1-1 at 5:58 of the 2nd period on a goal from Louis Jamernik. Before the end of the middle frame, the Eagles were able to regain the lead as team Captain Colton Young (25th) scored a Power Play goal when he was on a partial breakaway. Mark Drohan got the assist and the Eagles went back to the dressing room up 2-1.
In the 3rd period, after the Eagles survived some big pressure from the Oilers in their own end, Finn Withey (5th) was able to find the puck on his stick in the offensive zone, he dangled, undressed an Oilers' defenceman and beat Oilers goalie Brady Parker to extend the Eagles' lead to 3-1. Michael Spafford picked up the assist. The Oilers were able to get within one with 1:48 left in regulation on a goal from Austin Wong, who's a Winnipeg Jets draft pick. However, the visitors were unable to tie the game and force Overtime as the Eagles hung on for the win.
It was Thomas Davis who was between the Eagles' net for the 2nd consecutive game. The 20-year-old from St.Albert stopped 28 of the 30 shots he faced to improve his record to 13-8-3. The shots on goal were 30-26 in favour of Okotoks.
"That's the goalie we wanted, that's the goalie we needed, that's Thomas, he's a good goaltender," said Coach Milne. "He's had a couple of rough starts, but I thought his last 2 games were his 2 best games of the year."
Thomas Davis spoke after the game and he gave a lot of credit to his teammates in today's win saying, "I think we had a really defensive mindset, I think we took our chances, we got them and didn't try to force them. We were on the right side of the puck for most of the game and it helped me out a ton to keep those goals against down." Davis also mentioned that his teammates blocked the shots he could not see and they let him stop the ones he could see and he was grateful for that.
The Eagles who just had a busy stretch of their schedule having played 6 games in their last 11 days get to enjoy a lighter schedule as their only game over the next week is on Friday, February 22 when they host the Drumheller Dragons (33-18-4) for their final home game of the regular season. The game could be the preview of a 1st Round matchup between the two teams.
"We're gonna get healthy first," said Coach Milne. "I think that's the big part of utilizing the time off we have. Obviously, Max Giangualano, Quinton Ong and Carter Coles were out tonight with some sickness, so to get healthy is important, so that's what this week of rest will be all about. Get healthy and get back to it. We're late enough in the year in which our guys have proven in the last couple of games that they can play on both sides of the puck offensively and defensively. We just have to play for 60 minutes and have mental control against Drumheller."
After Friday night's game, the Eagles will play their final 3 games of the regular season on the road, before the start of the playoffs on Thursday, March 7.
Update on the playoff race in the South Division:
The Brooks Bandits who have an impressive record of 53 wins and 3 losses and are on a 29-game winning streak, an AJHL record, have clinched 1st Place in the South Division and 1st Place overall. After they play their final game of the regular season, the RBC Cup hosts will have to sit until the start of the 2nd Round of the Playoffs, which will be on March 15.
The Okotoks Oilers are in 2nd place with a record of 37-17-2 for 76 points. With 4 games left to play, the Oilers are 6 points up on the 3rd Place Drumheller Dragons. Drumheller, however, has a game in hand on Okotoks. It is safe to say that Okotoks should finish 3rd at worst.
The Dragons with a record of 33-18-4 for 70 points are trying to catch up Okotoks with 5 games left to play. The team that is chasing them are the 4th place Camrose Kodiaks who have a record of 30-19-6 for 66 points. The Dragons should have home ice advantage as the 5th place Canmore Eagles can no longer catch up the Dragons for 3rd Place as they trail Drumheller by 9 points with 4 games left to play.
The 6th Place Calgary Mustangs can still mathematically catch up Drumheller, but they will have their win all of their remaining 5 games and have Drumheller lose all of their games in regulation. Drumheller should get home ice advantage for the 1st round by finishing somewhere between 2nd and 4th.
Camrose can still mathematically finish 2nd, but they will have to win all of their remaining 5 games and have Okotoks lose all their remaining games in regulation. If the Kodiaks don't catch up the Dragons, they will look to hold off the Canmore Eagles (28-23-5, 61 pts) and the Calgary Mustangs (26-21-8, 60 pts) for the last spot for home ice advantage. Speaking of the Eagles and the Mustangs, they both have their eyes on 4th place to get home ice advantage for the 1st Round of the Playoffs. The Mustangs trail the Kodiaks by 6 points with 5 games left to play, but they are no matchups left vs Camrose. The Eagles on the other hand trail the Kodiaks by 5 points with only have 4 games left to play, but the luxury they have over the Mustangs is that they get to play to Kodiaks twice in the final weekend of the regular season.
Finally, for the final playoff spot in the South (the only playoff spot still up for grabs in the AJHL) is the Calgary Canucks (9-46-1, 19 pts) who have a 4 point lead over the Olds Grizzlys (6-47-3, 15 pts). The 2 teams don't have any more matchups between each other, which makes it hard for Olds to get the final playoff spot. There are only 2 weeks left in the regular season and it should an exciting finish! Go out and support your team!
EAGLES' FUN FACTS:
– It was the Eagles' 1st win over Okotoks since March 4 2017. Technically it was, because last season, the Oilers won all 6 meetings between the 2 teams, but the Eagles were awarded a default win because in one of the meetings, the Oilers had an ineligible player.
– In their 3 games vs Okotoks this past week, the Eagles held the AJHL's leading scorer, Oilers forward Dylan Holloway (50 GP, 36 G, 48 A- 84 pts) to only 1 assist. Coach Milne gives credit to his players for being able to identify him and contain him.
– It has become a tradition for the Eagles to host an afternoon game on Family Day with a skate with the players after the game. Since 2013, the Eagles have hosted a game on every Monday Family Day and their record on those games is 4-3.
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Neither the first, half-forgotten DC production from the Nineties nor the 2007 vaguely Broadway-bound U.S. tour actually reached Broadway, but this show's flop status in the U.S. is, to be completely honest, more genuinely deserved than its modest success in the UK; Webber shows tend to be hits in London simply because of the Webber name, whereas he's always needed a good show to have a hit in America.
The show was an odd idea, based on a semi-classic English film about a mysterious stranger who might be Jesus, or he might be an escaped serial killer, and the struggles between the children who shelter him and the adults who try to hunt him down. Still, it could conceivably have worked…I can name half a dozen successful musicals with weirder premises off the top of my head, and I'm sure you can too. I think what did it in was overmusicalization: the show is almost sung-through, but there's very little sung dialogue advancing the plot, with most of the songs being self-contained "numbers" that stop the action cold. With so much of the show devoted to this stop-and-sing material, the actual plot had to be rushed through around the edges, and while that may work in some shows, it doesn't work for an idea this odd, and the show ends up being off-putting and emotionally confusing.
Still, you'd expect the greatest compensations in such a show to be musical, and you wouldn't be wrong. This show teams Webber with rock composer Jim Steinman, who provided the lyrics and, according to some plausible-seeming rumors, a few portions of the music as well. The two composers have a significant intersection among their fanbases, so I'm not the only person who viewed this as his own personal Elvis-meets-the-Beatles. Granted, neither of them is at their absolute best here: there are a few weak songs and one outright floppo number, the dreadful "Annie Christmas".
But the bulk of the score is excellent, and Steinman's lyrics are some of the best in any Webber show. The two most beautiful songs, "No Matter What" and "A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" actually did some hit tune business, which was almost unheard-of for a show tune at that point. The title song is ravishing, and there are two more lovely ballads, "If Only" and "Try Not to Be Afraid".
The mysterious Jesus/serial killer figure gets a superb solo called "Unsettled Scores", whose lyrics make sense no matter which one you believe him to be. The menacing music for the parents is suitably terrifying, and the songs for the kids, including the catchy anthem "When Children Rule the World", have genuine charm. The score is less successful when it ventures into outright rock, but "Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts" is a fine Steinmanesque teen-rebel anthem, and "Cold" is a lot of fun ("They're evacuatin' Satan, who's waitin' for Hell to freeze over").
This show began a string of failures for Webber, but it's hardly the disaster some make it out to be, and it wouldn't become clear until later just how far off course Webber was headed.
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Amid complaints that the e-commerce company does little to fight fake goods, China's Alibaba Group is giving foreign vendors a direct line to report any counterfeit products spotted on its retail sites.
The e-commerce giant has introduced an English-language version of its counterfeit reporting system, the company said on Friday. This will better allow foreign companies to file complaints, so that Alibaba can take down the infringing goods on its Taobao and Tmall sites.
Both Taobao and Tmall are two of China's largest online retail platforms, and host products from foreign vendors including Apple, Calvin Klein and Uniqlo, among many others. However, Alibaba's e-commerce sites have often faced criticism for promoting knock-off goods made by local Chinese sellers.
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2011 was the first year of the Hungarian Public Administration Internship Program and it was financed entirely by the European Union. Since 2012 the program has been financed by the central government budget which also shows the dedication and support of the Hungarian Government.
The Program has already has been highly successful among interns and host institutions. Despite the fact that hiring freeze was introduced in the public sector at that time and significantly reduced the number of advertised jobs, through the Program interns could start their career in public administration. Interns gladly share their experiences about the Program with potential candidates.


See the video below for an introduction to WINDTRUST, or click to see the full WINDTRUST Video Playlist.
WINDTRUST aimed to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of innovative and more reliable solutions for multi-MW wind turbines in order to improve the competitiveness of wind energy technologies. The selected components of the wind turbines for improvement included the rotor (specifically the blade), power electronics (specifically the converter), and control and communication system.
The project demonstrated the reliability of the proposed solution on an onshore 2MW prototype turbine and extrapolated conclusions to larger wind turbines and off-shore locations.
Greenovate! Europe led the Work Package on Dissemination & Exploitation.
For more information, contact Guillaume Corradino. (Tel:+ 32(0)2 400 10 08) or visit the WINDTRUST website.