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Benn's 3-point game leads Stars past Islanders 5-2
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By LARY BUMP
DALLAS (AP) Jamie Benn scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and had two assists, and the Dallas Stars beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Saturday night.
Mason Marchment had a goal and an assist, and Radek Faksa, Jason Robertson and Jani Hakanpaa also scored to help Dallas win its second straight game and increase its lead to three points on Colorado and Winnipeg in the Central Division.
Tyler Seguin and Joe Pavelski each had two assists, with Seguin topping 700 points for his career.
Benn and Seguin were reunited on the same line against the Islanders after spending most of their first nine seasons together in Dallas as linemates.
"They kind of got out there on a line change, and made the first goal happen," Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. "I decided to keep them together. That line was great tonight."
Jake Oettinger stopped 27 shots to improve to 7-2-1.
Mathew Barzal scored his first two goals this season for New York, which has lost two straight after winning nine of their previous 11 games. Semyon Varlamov finished with 31 saves.
"We didn't finish strong enough," Islanders coach Lane Lambert said. "Defensively in our zone, we had a couple of breakdowns, and when we broke down they took advantage of us."
Benn gave the Stars a 3-2 lead at 8:17 of the third when he got a pass form Marchment from behind the net and flipped a backhander up high to beat Varlamov for his eighth.
"He's playing fantastic," DeBoer said.
The Islanders had a chance to tie the game with four minutes to play and Oettinger lying on the ice outside the crease, but defenseman Ryan Suter scooped the puck away with his stick before it could cross the goal line.
Robertson whirled clockwise at the top of the right faceoff circle and whipped the puck inside the left goalpost to give Dallas a two-goal lead with 3 1/2 minutes remaining. Hakanpaa sealed the win with an empty-netter with 21 seconds left.
DeBoer wouldn't say whether he would keep Benn and Seguin together.
"It's tough to ignore that chemistry and that success that they had tonight," he said.
Benn said he enjoyed the linemate reunion.
"It's fun. We've been together for 10 years now." Seguin said, "It feels good. ... That was a gutsy win tonight. It was just another way to win. We've opened it up a little bit. In the past, it was a grind game."
Barzal got the Islanders on the scoreboard first at 1:30 of the second, tipping Alexander Romanov's shot from the left circle past Oettinger for his first of the season.
Faksa tied it at 6:57 when he got a pass from Seguin and snapped a shot past Varlamov from in front for his second.
Barzal's second goal, on the power play, followed a pass from Brock Nelson to Barzal in the slot to give the Islanders a 2-1 lead with 5:41 left in the middle period.
Just 40 seconds later, Benn set up Marchment in the slot to beat Varlamov with a wrist shot to tie it 2-2.
Scott Wedgewood returned as the backup goalie for the Stars two days after he was taken off the ice on a stretcher. ... Roope Hintz, who scored two goals on Thursday, was a late scratch Saturday with a lower-body injury.
Barzal ended a 22-game drought, dating back to April 23 against Buffalo. ... Seguin has 309 goals and 392 assists. He is the first NHL player from the 2010 draft to reach 700 points. "I feel pretty young. Two games ago, I realized where I was, There's never been an internal goal where to finish," Seguin said. ... Islanders C Kyle Palmieri played in his 700th NHL game and D Adam Pelech skated in his 400th. ... Robertson extended his points streak to 11 games.
Islanders: At Toronto on Monday night to complete a four-game trip.
Stars: Host Colorado on Monday night in the second of a four-game homestand.


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Here Comes the Boom: Ireland v New Zealand – Preview
November 16, 2018 Bill LonerganIreland v New Zealand, IREvNZL, Irish Rugby Leave a comment
After Irish journalists and 'rugby' people took turns hopping off Bundee Aki and CJ Stander in the last couple of years, it seems the Kiwis are miffed at the fact that European sides – particularly England and Ireland – are displaying the temerity to pick the players New Zealand don't want. We're largely unmoved by the rule either way. International rugby is a pretty closed shop – you'd be pushed to name ten top-tier international sides- so if a rule exists to allow players experience international rugby, so be it. To assist the slightly myopic aspect of our argument, it's worth noting that Ireland have, thus far, taken advantage of the residency rule by moving for players who had been overlooked in their own countries.
If Brad Shields last week and now, Aki, this week are to be at the core of Kiwi whining then why not look to the age-old hypocrisy stemming from New Zealand when it comes to international selection policies. The "All Blacks continue to cynically and systematically loot the Pacific Islands of their best players. It's an old and depressing story and nobody in New Zealand has been able to give a convincing defence of their actions."
These are not in fact the words of our learned Minister for Sport, Shane Ross, but an article written by Brendan Gallagher which appeared in the Daily Telegraph during the grim Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005. There is the caveat that British and Irish folk were becoming dispirited and bitter after being beaten and humbled from the deep south up to Auckland and everywhere in between.
Nevertheless, Gallagher argued that New Zealand have long been happy to lure the best talent of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga to their rugby nurseries and ultimately give them an opportunity to don the most famous jersey in world rugby. During that summer, we were lucky enough to witness Sitiveni Sivivatu, , born and bred in Fiji, give one of the most dominant wing performances ever, dominating an all-time great in Shane Williams and helping New Zealand decimate the Lions in Wellington. Yet even when joking, it stung any Kiwis when you accused them of poaching the best players their neighbours had to offer.
Sitiveni Sivivatu from Fiji's Yasawa Islands is regarded as one of the best wingers to ever wear the New Zealand jersey. (photo Getty Images)
The bare facts don't lie, though. It suits New Zealand and Australia for the Fijians, Samoans and Tongans to produce incomparable raw talent without ever possessing the financial strength to keep their players from moving to the richer pastures of Auckland and Sydney. With the three island nations so close in proximity to the Antipodes, surely it would behove the traditional powerhouses to foster the well-being of the international game. Perhaps when it comes to the notion of teams naturalising or poaching players, are teams are equal but some are more equal than others.
In any event, if Ireland are going to prevail on Saturday night in what promises to be an all-time atmosphere, Aki and, particularly, Stander need to excel. Aki has grown into his role as the anchor of the Irish midfield and while he does not possess the wide passing skills of some of his counterparts, he has the ability to beat the first tackle, brings the rare attribute to the Irish midfield of a potential offload and displays unwavering enthusiasm in all facets of his game.
New Zealand can lay claim, whether they like it or not, to changing the rules of the game the last time they visited Dublin. Malakai Fekitoa and Sam Kane in particular got away with some high stuff but amidst the furore over the high shots, Kieran Read managed to avoid one of the most blatant yellow card/penalty try combos in rugby history.
Stander was one of the players on the receiving end of Kane's indiscipline with his night ending earlier than anticipated. Given his recent lull in form, he really needs a big performance against the best team and number eight, respectively, in world rugby. Stander has been exceptionally consistent since the 2015/2016 season, when he seemed to take ownership of the man of the match award in any Muster game, but he has failed to ignite thus far this season. That statement is made in light of the fact that he is still among the top tacklers and carriers in every game but the thrust of his ball carrying has been blunted.
Sean O'Brien's absence means that Stander now, more than ever, must dominate the contact area and give Ireland go forward ball. He made two of the most important plays in Chicago, a powerful burrow through three would be New Zealand tacklers for Ireland's second try and a subtle check of Owen Franks in the built up to Conor Murray's now iconic score. Ireland won't necessarily require Stander to put his name on the score sheet but in tandem with Peter O' Mahony and Dan Leavy he can at least gain parity against a Kiwi trio that doesn't quite hold up to the exceptional back-rows of New Zealand past.
Joe Schmidt thankfully put the great Conor Murray debate to bed on Monday but it's difficult to ignore just how important the Limerick man was to victory to Ireland in Soldier Field. Admittedly, he got skinned early doors by Beauden Barrett two weeks later but Murray's decisiveness in attack and defence was probably the difference in the Second City. This is the deepest squad in Irish history but every dominant team – think Brazil 1958-1970 with Pele or Barcelona with Messi – has its MVP and Murray is that for this Irish team. No one is crying for Ireland's injury issues, obviously, but it would be in many ways their greatest ever achievement if they could overcome the World Champions without their most important player.
Having said all that, New Zealand come to Dublin on the back of a pretty patchy run of form by their standards. Their patented late game heroics saw them scrape home in South Africa and a frankly unfair, or at least inconsistent, call against Courtney Lawes last week likely spared their blushes in Twickenham. The team is still stacked to the brim with quality but when you look at the dream team that won the last World Cup – they too only scraped by South Africa – this looks like a good but not great iteration of New Zealand.
As has been pointed out this week, New Zealand's line out was immense for the last hour in Twickenham and Ireland's was about as bad as anyone can remember for a number of years with Argentina always competitive on Rory Best's throws. Brodie Retallick confirmed last week that he still sets the bar when it comes to second row forwards. The intro to Ghostface Killah's 'The Champ' – "He's a bulldozer with a wrecking ball attached, he'll leave a ring around your eyes and thread marks on your back …." – aptly describes the Kiwi lock's destructive abilities and he is probably the most complete forward in world rugby. Ireland simply have to improve to compete and Devin Toner's selection sees a return to fundamentals. Parity in the lineout will be a victory for Ireland.
There is just the slightest feeling that New Zealand were complacent going to the junket in Soldier Field and that Ireland caught them unawares. They would have been satisfied two weeks later when a show of equal parts brilliance and brutality restored the normal order. However, just nine months later the core of that Irish team played a vital role in earning the Lions a draw in New Zealand and proving for the first time to this New Zealand team that there's more to the Northern Hemisphere than Sky Sports embarrassingly hyperbolic pre-match coverage. It feels as if Joe Schmidt's side want to use Saturday night to show that this team is here to stay as a threat to New Zealand and that all has changed utterly.
Gerry Thornley rightly pointed out earlier this week that this encounter should be enjoyed as a standalone contest and thoughts of the World Cup should be eschewed for the night. And, while this is a fair point everyone will remember England's statement victories over Australia and New Zealand in 2002 en-route to their victory in Australia the following year. Ireland have already ticked the box of a series victory south of the equator so imagine the impact a victory over the double world champions would have a mere ten months out from the World Cup in Japan. Particularly when you consider that if everything goes according to plan, the sides will be meeting again on an autumn night in Tokyo.
New Zealand will try to step on Ireland's throat early and silence what will be a rarely animated home crowd so Ireland need to be prepared for brutality in the opening exchanges. More importantly the home team need to solidify the set piece as if they get on the wrong side of Wayne Barnes, Jonathan Sexton and Peter O' Mahony will become crankier than usual.
It's hard to remember an Irish rugby match being so hyped. These occasions rarely deliver on expectations, though, and the feeling is that New Zealand will shade this contest by the width of an offside line.
S.U.S. Prediction – New Zealand by 3
Ireland +6 @ 10/11
Ireland half time/New Zealand full time @ 6/1
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Seconds Out, Round Two!
November 18, 2016 Bill LonerganIreland v New Zealand, Irish Rugby, Rugby, Rugby Union Leave a comment
As it turns out, all Ireland needed to do was get New Zealand on neutral soil, in a city sprinkled with a little magic and, most importantly, put in an outstandingly accurate and intense performance for nigh on two hours.
Bizarrely, considering the meeting between the sides in 2013, Ireland managed to fly into Chicago somewhat under the radar. AIG had gone to typically, ludicrous American lengths to promote the game as a showcase for the 'AIG New Zealand All Blacks' – the stadium announcer was unintentionally hilarious – with Ireland seemingly appearing to make up the numbers.
Now, we'll never know how distracted New Zealand's players were or whether they really did underestimate Ireland but the pre-match atmosphere, punctuated by the atrocious violin rendition of the almost equally atrocious, Ireland's Call, gave no intimation of an Irish victory. It is interesting afterwards, that even amongst the burgeoning, Irish 20:20 hindsight community, few were deluded enough to claim that they had predicted a win for Rory Best's team.
And that, thankfully, is what separates we supporters from Joe Schmidt, his management team and this ever improving, Irish squad. Offensively, Ireland got almost everything right, virtually all of it premeditated, and while there some defensive lapses, Ireland's discipline meant the New Zealanders were afforded few opportunities to attack in broken play. As Eddie Jones succinctly pointed out that for all their abundant qualities, "the Kiwis aren't as good off structured possession."
And, unstructured attack is the essence to New Zealand victories, particularly in the final quarter. When Scott Barrett ploughed straight through the middle for his 63rd-minute try, even the most optimistic Irish supporter must have had visions of the standard, New Zealand late flurry and a scoreboard that might suggest a relative stroll home. However, Ireland's defence remained both calm and confident, typified by Andrew Trimble's rush inside that forced an awkward pass to Julian Savea's back shoulder and Conor Murray's nation-rousing smash of Julian Savea behind the Kiwi goal-line.
Ireland's, Munster contingent celebrate Ireland's historic victory in Chicago (courtesy of the Telegraph)
Ireland did not hang on but, rather, finished emphatically with Robbie Henshaw's try – one that just gets better with repeat viewings – so there is no sense that Ireland fluked a victory. That said, Irish people, not necessarily the Irish team, need to temper their excitement. Appearing on Off The Ball last Friday night, Brian O' Driscoll good-naturedly observed that the Irish public really only seem to view this team in extremes after the presenters mulled over just how amazing Ireland might be. And, let's not pretend we didn't get caught up in that euphoria for a few days.
Meanwhile, on Second Captains Matt Williams – alumni of the same school of nonsense as Michael Owen – rambled endlessly about how important his views were while somewhat ludicrously suggesting injuries had nothing at all to do with Ireland's World Cup exit. If you listen carefully enough, you can almost hear Williams suggest that Ireland are now playing to their true potential because Schmidt, at last, has seen the light and begun to heed the Australian's advice. Some man, Matt!
Anyway, back to our visitors. New Zealand have never found themselves in this position before against Ireland so, as Brent Pope noted on RTE 1 Radio on Sunday, the real pressure is on Steve Hansen's side, particularly back home where the expectations are exacting. Obviously, Ireland will be focused and determined but the longstanding, historical pressure has been alleviated after the victory in Chicago. New Zealand, having lost their undefeated record to Ireland may well feel the heat from their supporters if they lose consecutive tests to Ireland, despite only weeks ago being championed as the greatest team of all time.
After some amateur research, we figured that New Zealand's win percentage when facing a team who has beaten them in their last encounter stands at 71 percent. Now, two weeks ago Ireland had a 0 percent success rate against New Zealand so, in relation to the largely unhelpful application of statistics to different teams through different eras, a 29 percent chance of success sounds just fine. Anyway, while we don't know how Joe Schmidt's mind works, one suspects he cares little for the historical response of New Zealand sides to defeat and more what they will bring to this particular contest on Saturday.
The return of the world's best, though assuredly rusty, second-row pairing of Brodie Retallick and Sam Whitelock is a major fillip and it would be errant to think Ireland will enjoy the lineout dominance of Soldier Field. The returning duo offer the traditional skills of a lock, and in Retallick in particular, excellent ball handling skills in midfield, akin to Connacht's 2015 star, Aly Muldowney.
The returning Sam Whitelock (l) and Brodie Retallick (r) could have a decisive effect on the outcome of Saturday's match. (courtesy of http://www.lintottphoto.co.nz)
In midfield, New Zealand are down to their last men standing, Anton Lienert-Brown and Malakai Fekitoa, which may actually prove to their advantage as this is a more balanced 12-13 combination. Ireland, however, can claim superiority in this area of the field, as Robbie Henshaw and Jared Payne have developed a superb understanding, the odd rush out of the defensive line excepted. Even during the Rugby Championship, where New Zealand enjoyed near, total dominance, the feeling was that their midfield was relatively average, particularly compared to those who had come before.
Israel Dagg's return will strengthen the back three, particularly in the aerial battle, but you get the feeling that if New Zealand are to win, the returns of the aforementioned second-rows and Aaron Smith's form will have a far greater influence. Conor Murray's outstanding performances of late have called some to label him the best nine in the world , so Smith will hope to put his toilet issues behind him and remind those watching of his sublime, pre-summer form.
To counter this, Ireland need to find new points of attack, and for this reason, it is objectively, understandable that Sean O' Brien starts for his near unmatchable ball-carrying skills. Josh van der Flier, excellent in his 55-minute shift in Chicago, is the one to miss out but, Schmidt picks players to do a job for the team. So, outstanding as van der Flier was a fortnight ago, the head coach obviously believes O' Brien can offer more to the team from the off. Detached and simple. While van der Flier will care little for the irony of the situation, he was the man who replaced Tommy O' Donnell in the starting line-up against England in this year's Six nations after the latter had performed superbly off the bench in Paris in Ireland's previous outing.
Sean O' Brien's return should provide explosiveness and a new point of attack. (courtesy Getty Images)
Joe Schmidt will already have drilled all the fundamentals – accuracy, intensity, discipline- into his side, so it will be very interesting to see what new plans he devises, particularly with the likely negation of the set-piece as an offensive weapon.
If Ireland are to cause serious problems for the world's number one side then Rob Kearney will need to back up his best offensive performance in years, supplemented by another career-best outing from Simon Zebo. The same could be applied to most of the Irish side, but the reality is they will somehow need to improve upon the performance of a fortnight ago.
Oddly enough, despite winning a fortnight ago, Ireland are the ones with more questions to answer, but this comes with the territory when facing New Zealand. The visitors are close to full strength, have a score to settle in their minds and will feel they owe themselves and their coaching team a vastly improved performance. Ireland were so deservedly victors on that incredible afternoon on the south side of Chicago, but we all knew that Retallick and Whitelock's absences presented a huge opportunity.
While we wrote about intangibles and the atmosphere in a city gone mad, clutched at straws basically, to suggest we could even get close last time, the argument for Ireland should be more compelling this weekend. Also, any suggestion that Ireland will tire in the final quarter seems moot as the entire team bar O' Brien had last weekend off and the chances are the Tullow man may only be used for an hour. New Zealand, however, have been badly stung and they will not be complacent this time.
Still, Ireland have the opportunity to be the first side to go back-to-back against New Zealand since South Africa in 2009 and a lot of this Irish team will be facing the Kiwis in a red jersey next June. New Zealand's players assuredly cannot imagine or allow for a scenario where they could lose three in a row to the same opponents. They should escape with a victory, but only just.
SUS Prediction: New Zealand by 6
Tips: Ireland +8 (2/1)
Ireland to win (6/1)
New Zealand -16 generally.

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Кеннет Аллан «Кен» Андерсон (, род. 15 февраля 1949 года) — американский профессиональный игрок в американский футбол, выступавший в Национальной футбольной лиге в клубе «Цинциннати Бенгалс». По окончании игровой карьеры работал тренером в «Бенгалс», «Джэксонвилл Джагуарс» и «Питтсбург Стилерз».

На момент завершения карьеры Андерсоном в 1986 году ему принадлежал рекорд НФЛ по количеству сделанных подряд успешных пасов (20), по проценту успешных пасов в одной игре (20 из 22 — 90,9 %) и по проценту успешных пасов за сезон (70,6 % в 1982 году), а также рекорды Супербоула по проценту успешных пасов (73,5 %; в настоящее время рекорд принадлежит Филиппу Симсу) и количеству успешных пасов (25; в настоящее время рекорд принадлежит Тому Брэди — 37). Во время выступления в НФЛ он дважды был лидером по итогам регулярного чемпионата по количеству успешных пасов и пасовых ярдов. Андерсон занимает седьмое место по постсезонному рейтингу квотербеков — 93,5.

Андерсон несколько раз номинировался на включение в Зал славы профессионального футбола и дважды входил в число 15 финалистов (1996 и 1988 году), однако так и не был выбран.

В 2008 году NFL Network поставило Андерсона на 10 место в списке 10 лучших игроков, которые до сих пор не включены в Зал славы.

Карьера тренера
С 1987 по 1992 года Андерсон работал телевизионным аналитиком радио-трансляций игр «Бенгалс», а с 1993 по 1996 год работал в Цинциннати тренером квотербеков. С 1996 по 2000 год он работал координатором нападения, а в 2001 и 2002 годах вновь тренером квотербеков. В 2003 году он стал тренером уайд-ресиверов «Джексонвилл Джагуарс», а позже и тренером квотербеков. После сезона 2006 года руководство «Джагуарс» решило кардинально поменять тренерский состав и Андерсон вместе с координатором нападения Карлом Смитом и тренером специальных команд Питом Родригесом был уволен. В январе 2007 года новый тренер «Питтсбург Стилерз» Майк Томлин нанял Кена на пост тренера квотербеков. 5 января 2010 года Томлин объявил, что Андерсон уходит в отставку. В составе «Стилерз» Андерсон получил чемпионский перстень после того, как его команда победила в Супербоуле XLIII.

Примечания

Игроки в американский футбол США
Игроки «Цинциннати Бенгалс»
Квотербеки НФЛ
Выпускники Колледжа Августана

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El municipio de Viola (en inglés: Viola Township) es uno de los doce municipios ubicados en el condado de Audubon en el estado estadounidense de Iowa. En el año 2000 el municipio tenía una población de 196 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 2,1 personas por km².

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\section{Introduction}

An inhomogeneous compactification of a higher dimensional spacetime with
compact extra dimensions may result in the production of dimension
bubbles\cite{BG}-\cite{JM1} inhabiting the effective 4d spacetime. A dimension
bubble may be either of the type I or type II variety, depending upon the
parameters of the effective potential\cite{JM1}. From a 4d perspective, a type
I(II) dimension bubble is a nontopological soliton characterized by a scale
factor for the extra dimensions which becomes much larger (smaller) inside the
bubble than outside. For example, if the characteristic size of the extra
dimensions varies from a Planck size to a TeV$^{-1}$ size across the bubble
wall, the scale factor can change by roughly 16 orders of magnitude with the
size of the extra dimension remaining everywhere microscopic. Massive fermions
and bosons in the effective 4d theory have masses varying inversely with the
extra dimensional scale factor\cite{JM1}, so that they tend to become trapped
inside a type I bubble, as in the case with the\ nontopological soliton of the
type studied by Frieman, Gleiser, Gelmini, and Kolb\cite{NTS}. Associated with
the rapidly varying extra dimensional scale factor within a type I bubble wall
is a very strong, short ranged attractive force. Therefore, massive particles
that are incident upon a type I bubble tend to be absorbed by it. As energy is
absorbed by the bubble, its mass and size both increase.

An interesting astrophysical situation can emerge if a type I dimension bubble
is situated within an environment of high particle density, such as the core
of a neutron star. As with the case of a Q-ball lodged within a neutron
star\cite{Q1,Q2}, the soliton may consume the star or form a black hole which
then consumes the star. However, the solitonic properties, particle absorption
rates, and energy absorption processes for dimension bubbles are quite
different from those for Q-balls, and we focus attention here upon the
consumption of a neutron star by a type I dimension bubble. We begin with an
expression for the mass absorption rate $\dot{M}$ for a type I dimension
bubble at the center of a neutron star, in terms of the Fermi momentum $p_{F}$
and the bubble radius $R$. The Fermi momentum can be related to the neutron
number density $n$, so that we obtain a simple approximate proportionality
between $\dot{M}$ and $R^{2}$. For a bubble that rapidly adjusts its radius so
that it is approximately in mechanical equilibrium, the bubble mass $M$ is
proportional to $R^{2}$, and $\dot{M}/M$ becomes a constant which depends upon
the bubble wall tension $\sigma$. Different scenarios can ensue, depending
upon the value of $\sigma$.

\section{Spherical Accretion of Neutron Star by Dimension Bubble}

For convenience we take a simplistic view of a neutron star as a ball of
neutrons with typical mass $M_{NS}\approx1.4M_{\odot}\approx1.57\times
10^{57}GeV$, a typical radius $R_{NS}\approx10km\approx5\times10^{19}GeV^{-1}%
$, with a neutron volume number density $n\approx\frac{M_{NS}/m}{(4/3)\pi
R_{NS}^{3}}\approx\pi\times10^{-3}GeV^{3}$, where $m$ is the neutron mass. (We
use natural units where, approximately, $1$fm $=5GeV^{-1}$, $1GeV^{-1}%
=6.6\times10^{-25}\sec=2.1\times10^{-31}$yr.) A slow moving dimension bubble
that gets gravitationally captured by a neutron star (NS) will be accelerated
to a high speed (near the escape speed for the NS) at its surface. Associated
with the high speed impact will be a large frictional force dissipating the
bubble's energy, and we will assume that the bubble quickly finds itself at
the center of the NS. The various simplifying assumptions are made to allow us
to extract some of the essential features characterizing the interaction
between the dimension bubble and the NS.

Now consider a type I dimension bubble of mass $M$ and radius $R$ sitting at
the center of the NS, spherically accreting the star's mass. We consider the
NS to be a degenerate Fermi gas with a volume number density of particles with
energy between $E$ and $E+dE$ given by $\mathcal{N}(E)dE$. Within a time $dt$
a volume $dV$ of a spherical annulus of the NS falls into the bubble at a rate
$\dot{V}=dV/dt$, carrying with it an amount of energy $dM$ which increases the
bubble mass by an amount $dM$ at a rate $\dot{M}=dM/dt$. We can then write the
rate of energy absorption by the bubble per unit of particle energy as%
\begin{equation}
\frac{d\dot{M}}{dE}=\mathcal{N}(E)E\dot{V} \label{e1}%
\end{equation}
\noindent For the radial infall of neutrons we have $\dot{V}=4\pi R^{2}v(E)$
with particle velocity $v(E)=p/E=(E^{2}-m^{2})^{1/2}/E$, so that%
\begin{equation}
\dot{V}=4\pi R^{2}\frac{(E^{2}-m^{2})^{1/2}}{E} \label{e2}%
\end{equation}
In the previous analysis one has to correct however by two effects: only half
of the particles move in the direction of the bubble (this gives a factor of
one half). Second, of those particles that move in the direction of the
bubble, they do so at an angle. Given that the average of the cosinus of the
angle between the normal and the velocity is also a half, eq.(\ref{e1}) is to
be corrected by a factor of $\frac{1}{4}$. The number density $\mathcal{N}(E)$ is%

\begin{equation}
\mathcal{N}(E)=2\cdot\frac{1}{2\pi^{2}}\frac{E(E^{2}-m^{2})^{1/2}}%
{e^{\beta(E-E_{F})}+1} \label{e3}%
\end{equation}
where the factor 2 represents the number of spin degrees of freedom per
particle and $E_{F}$ is the Fermi energy. We consider the low temperature
$\beta\rightarrow\infty$ limit where%
\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{e^{\beta(E-E_{F})}+1}\approx\left\{
\begin{array}
[c]{cc}%
1, & E<E_{F}\\
0, & E>E_{F}%
\end{array}
\right\}  \label{e4}%
\end{equation}
Integrating (\ref{e1}), corrected by the aboved mentioned factor of $\frac
{1}{4}$, and using (\ref{e2})-(\ref{e4}) we obtain%
\begin{equation}
\dot{M}=\int_{m}^{\infty}\mathcal{N}(E)E\dot{V}~dE=\frac{p_{F}^{4}R^{2}}{4\pi}
\label{e5}%
\end{equation}
where $p_{F}=(E_{F}^{2}-m^{2})^{1/2}$ is the Fermi momentum. The Fermi
momentum is related to the volume number density $n$ of neutrons by
$p_{F}=(3\pi^{2}n)^{1/3}$. Taking $n\approx\pi\times10^{-3}GeV^{3}$, we have
$p_{F}\approx.45~GeV$, $E_{F}\approx1.04~GeV\sim m$, and (\ref{e5}) gives%
\begin{equation}
\dot{M}\approx~8n^{4/3}R^{2}\approx(3.7\times10^{-3}~GeV^{4})R^{2} \label{e6}%
\end{equation}

The result in (\ref{e6}) can be compared to a rough estimate obtained from the
simple expression%
\begin{equation}
\dot{M}\sim\frac{1}{4}\rho_{NS}\dot{V}\sim\pi R^{2}\rho_{NS}v \label{e7}%
\end{equation}
where we take $\dot{V}\sim4\pi R^{2}v$ and again insert the above mentioned
factor of $\frac{1}{4}$. Using $\rho_{NS}\sim nE_{F}\sim mn$ for the average
energy density of particles in the neutron star and $v\sim p_{F}/E_{F}\sim.43$
for a typical velocity of a particle falling radially into the bubble, the
simple expression in (\ref{e7}) gives $\dot{M}\sim(4\times10^{-3}GeV^{4}%
)R^{2}$, which is very close to the result in (\ref{e6}).

\subsection{Quantum Reflection}

If the size of the extra dimension(s) is much larger inside the bubble than
outside, the mass of the particle is greatly reduced inside the bubble. In
effect, at the classical level, the particle experiences an enormous
attractive force toward the bubble's interior within the bubble wall. Quantum
mechanically, we can consider an associated attractive potential for the
bubble's interior due to the decrease in particle mass. But even an attractive
potential will generally give rise to some probability of reflection, with a
corresponding reflection coefficient $\mathcal{R}$. Here, we wish to get a
rough idea of how important this quantum reflection might be for particles
being absorbed by a dimension bubble.

To do so, we ignore particle spin and polarization effects and consider, for
simplicity, a one dimensional problem of relativistic spinless bosons obeying
the Klein-Gordon equation $(\square+m_{eff}^{2}(x))\phi=0$ scattering from a
flat bubble wall located at $x=0$, which separates the bubble
\textquotedblleft exterior\textquotedblright\ for $x<0$ and the bubble
\textquotedblleft interior\textquotedblright\ for $x>0$. We approximate the
position dependence of the boson mass with a step function, $m_{eff}%
^{2}(x)=m^{2}[1-\theta(x)]$. In the \textquotedblleft
exterior\textquotedblright\ region ($x<0$) we assume there to be a beam of
particles of mass $m$ incident upon the wall from the left, propagating in the
$+x$ direction, along with a reflected beam propagating in the $-x$ direction.
For the \textquotedblleft interior\textquotedblright\ region ($x>0$) there is
a beam of transmitted massless particles propagating in the $+x$ direction. We
then have the plane wave solutions%
\begin{equation}%
\begin{array}
[c]{lll}%
\phi_{ext}=\phi_{0}+\phi_{1} & =A_{0}e^{i(Et-px)}+A_{1}e^{i(Et+px)}, & (x<0)\\
\phi_{int}=\phi_{2} & =A_{2}e^{i(Et-p^{\prime}x)}, & (x>0)
\end{array}
\label{a2}%
\end{equation}
where $E^{2}=p^{2}+m^{2}=p^{\prime2}$. Demanding continuity of $\phi$ and
$\partial\phi/\partial x$ at $x=0$ leads to%
\begin{equation}
\frac{A_{1}}{A_{0}}=-\left(  \frac{E-p}{E+p}\right)  ,\ \ \ \ \ \frac{A_{2}%
}{A_{0}}=\frac{2p}{E+p} \label{a3}%
\end{equation}
We define the reflection coefficient $\mathcal{R}=j_{1}/j_{0}$ as the ratio of
the reflected current density $j_{1}=i\phi_{1}^{\ast}\overleftrightarrow
{\partial_{x}}\phi_{1}$ to the incident current density $j_{0}=i\phi_{0}%
^{\ast}\overleftrightarrow{\partial_{x}}\phi_{0}$, giving%
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{R}=\left(  \frac{E-p}{E+p}\right)  ^{2} \label{a4}%
\end{equation}
Similarly, the transmission coefficient is found to be $\mathcal{T}%
=j_{2}/j_{0}=4Ep/(E+p)^{2}$ with $\mathcal{R+T=}1$. Taking typical values
$p\sim p_{F}\sim m/2$, $E\sim E_{F}\sim2p_{F}\sim m$, we obtain $\mathcal{R}%
\sim1/9$, $\mathcal{T}\sim8/9$. Although the reflection probability may be
near 10 percent, we will neglect it in what follows.

\section{Near-Equilibrium Bubbles}

We \ again consider a type I dimension bubble where the size of the extra
dimension(s) inside the bubble is much greater than that outside the bubble,
i.e., $B_{in}\gg B_{out}$, where $B_{in(out)}$ denotes the scale factor of the
extra dimension(s). Massive particle modes then have masses $m_{in}\ll
m_{out}$, and we can focus on the effective radiation modes comprised of
photons as well as particles with masses $m_{in}\ll|\vec{p}|$ that tend to
stabilize the bubble against collapse. (We assume that the energy density of
any nonrelativistic massive modes is negligible in comparison to the radiation
energy density $\rho_{rad}\propto T^{4}$, where $T$ is the temperature inside
the bubble.) We also assume that the energy density $\lambda$ associated with
the value of the effective potential inside the bubble is negligible in
comparison to the radiation energy density $\rho_{rad}$. The mass $M$ of such
a bubble in mechanical equilibrium is given, approximately, in terms of the
bubble radius $R$ by\cite{GM,JM1}%

\begin{equation}
M=12\pi\sigma R^{2} \label{e8}%
\end{equation}
where $\sigma$ is the surface energy density of the bubble wall. If we
consider a bubble consuming matter that adjusts its radius sufficiently
quickly to be considered in a state of near-equilibrium, we can use (\ref{e8})
so that (\ref{e6}) gives%
\begin{equation}
\frac{\dot{M}}{M}\approx0.2\frac{n^{4/3}}{\sigma}=\frac{K}{\sigma_{GeV}}
\label{e9}%
\end{equation}
where $\sigma_{GeV}$ is a dimensionless number given in terms of $\sigma$ by
$\sigma=\sigma_{GeV}(GeV^{3})$ and%
\begin{equation}
K=0.2n^{4/3}\approx1\times10^{-4}GeV\approx1.5\times10^{20}\sec^{-1}%
\approx5\times10^{27}~\text{yr}^{-1} \label{e10}%
\end{equation}
On dimensional grounds, we take a typical time scale associated with bubble
equilibration to be $\tau_{eq}\sim\sigma^{-1/3}$, so that (\ref{e9}) is
assumed to be roughly self consistent for $(\dot{M}/M)\lesssim\tau_{eq}^{-1}$,
or $\sigma^{1/3}\gtrsim10^{-1}~GeV$. An integration of (\ref{e9}) indicates
that the bubble acquires a mass $M$ after a time%
\begin{equation}
t=\frac{\sigma_{GeV}}{K}\ln\frac{M}{M_{0}} \label{e11}%
\end{equation}
where $M_{0}$ is the initial bubble mass.

\section{Black Hole Formation, Core Collapse}

We must consider the possibility that a growing dimension bubble will form a
black hole before consuming the entire NS. For a spherical nonrotating bubble
this occurs when the bubble mass reaches a value $M_{crit}$ such that
$R=2GM_{crit}$. Using this in conjunction with (\ref{e8}) gives%
\begin{equation}
M_{crit}=\frac{M_{P}^{4}}{48\pi\sigma},\ \ \ \ \ \frac{M_{crit}}{M_{NS}}%
\sim\frac{4.2\times10^{16}}{\sigma_{GeV}} \label{e12}%
\end{equation}
where $M_{P}=G^{-1/2}\sim10^{19}GeV$ is the Planck mass. From (\ref{e11}) the
time required for the bubble to evolve into a black hole is%
\begin{equation}
t_{crit}=(\sigma_{GeV}/K)\ln(M_{crit}/M_{0}), \label{e13}%
\end{equation}
provided that $M_{crit}\lesssim M_{NS}$, or $\sigma^{1/3}\gtrsim
3.4\times10^{5}~GeV$. For $\sigma^{1/3}\lesssim3.4\times10^{5}~GeV$, the
bubble can devour the entire NS within a time%
\begin{equation}
\tau\sim(\sigma_{GeV}/K)\ln(M_{NS}/M_{0}) \label{e14}%
\end{equation}
without first forming a black hole. (The logarithmic functions $\ln
(M_{crit}/M_{0})$ and $\ln(M_{NS}/M_{0})$ are slowly varying functions of
$M_{0}$, with $\ln(M_{NS}/M_{0})\lesssim130$ for $M_{0}\gtrsim1\ GeV$, and are
therefore relatively insensitive to $M_{0}$.)

Table \ref{t1} \ presents some values (with $M_{0}=1GeV$) indicating
$M_{crit}$, along with $\tau$ (amount of time required for bubble to consume
entire NS without formation of a black hole) or $t_{crit}$ (amount of time
required for bubble to grow within NS before formation of a black hole) for
various values of the bubble energy scale $\sigma_{GeV}^{1/3}$.

\bigskip%

\begin{table}[htbp] \centering
\begin{tabular}
[t]{|c|c|c|c|}\hline
$\mathbf{\sigma}_{GeV}^{1/3}$ & $\dfrac{M_{crit}}{M_{NS}}$ & $\tau$ (yr) &
$\dfrac{t_{crit}\text{(yr)}}{\ln(M_{crit}/M_{0})}$\\\hline
10$^{-1}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{19}$ & 3$\times$10$^{-29}$ & --\\\hline
10$^{0}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{16}$ & 3$\times$10$^{-26}$ & --\\\hline
10$^{3}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{7}$ & 3$\times$10$^{-17}$ & --\\\hline
10$^{6}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{-2}$ & -- & 2.2$\times$10$^{-10}$\\\hline
10$^{9}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{-11}$ & -- & 2.2$\times$10$^{-1}$\\\hline
10$^{12}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{-20}$ & -- & 2.2$\times$10$^{8}$\\\hline
10$^{16}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{-32}$ & -- & 2.2$\times$10$^{20}$\\\hline
10$^{19}$ & 4.2$\times$10$^{-41}$ & -- & 2.2$\times$10$^{29}$\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Some characteristics associated with a type I dimension bubble inside a
neutron star }\label{t1}%
\end{table}%

If we use the Bondi-Hoyle accretion formula\cite{BHL}%
\begin{equation}
\dot{M}=4\pi G^{2}\rho_{NS}M^{2} \label{e15}%
\end{equation}
to describe the spherical accretion of the NS remainder by the black hole, we
find that the amount of time $t_{BH}$ required for the black hole mass to
evolve from $M_{crit}$ to $M_{NS}$, i.e., the amount of time needed for the
black hole to consume the entire NS, is%
\begin{equation}
t_{BH}=(4\pi G^{2}\rho_{NS})^{-1}\left(  \frac{1}{M_{crit}}-\frac{1}{M_{NS}%
}\right)  \label{e16}%
\end{equation}
which may vary from $t_{BH}\sim10^{-3}\sec$ for $\sigma_{GeV}^{1/3}=10^{6}$ to
$t_{BH}\sim10^{8}$yr for $\sigma_{GeV}^{1/3}=10^{12}$ to $t_{BH}\sim10^{15}$yr
for $\sigma_{GeV}^{1/3}=10^{19}$.

It is possible that a neutron star will become destabilized by an evolving
dimension bubble or black hole and a core collapse of the NS may lead to an
observable photon burst from the collapsing/exploding star. However, the
ultimate astrophysical outcome and phenomenology will be highly dependent upon
the particle physics model parameters such as $\sigma$, as well as the
astrophysics connected with the NS collapse and the potentially ensuing explosion.

\ \bigskip

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The moral of the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' isn't don't lie, it's don't tell the same lie twice.
Renewables rent-seekers continue to stick with the same grab bag of lies, myths and furphies, despite mountains of evidence revealing their marketing pitch is just so much polished propaganda.
South Australia (Australia's so-called 'wind power capital') is held up by wind worshippers as the example of how to transition to a 100% renewable energy future.
When the wind blows for a few hours at a stretch (see above) the wind cult claims victory, and seizes the high moral ground. However, woe betide anybody with the temerity to point out that SA's obsession with wind power has left it with the highest power prices in the world, retail power prices rocketing, year-on-year, at 20% and a tripling of power costs to business in just on two years. Oh, and heaven forbid, don't mention state-wide blackouts and mass load shedding, caused by total and totally unpredictable collapses in wind power output (see above).
The problem for the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is, and has always been, the facts. STT can only admire their ability to reinvent them, refashion and varnish them, as they try to deflect attention from the bleeding obvious. However, over time, each new 'explanation' put forward in the face of rocketing power prices seems to hit a brick wall.
One minute, they're claiming that rising power costs are all about 'gold-plated' networks, the next, rocketing gas prices. The range of excuses is only limited by their imagination and the naïveté of a willing and gullible mainstream media.
Now, the Global Policy Warming Foundation has taken Britain's wind industry to task for telling the same lie, more than once.
The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) has lodged a formal complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) concerning the current poster campaign for offshore wind at Westminster tube station.
The campaign was launched by what the media has described as a "coalition of companies and civil society organisations" (including Dong Energy, GE, ScottishPower Renewables, Siemens Gamesa, SSE, Vattenfall, Greenpeace, Marine Conservation Society, and WWF).
This is untrue. In most cases the prices paid for electricity from the UK's offshore wind fleet have not fallen at all, and though there were small cuts to subsidies for new offshore projects built from 2015 on, this amounted to a reduction of around 5%.
The GWPF's complaint shows that the campaign is playing fast and loose with the facts. The ads are deliberately misleading MPs and the wider public into thinking that existing wind farms have been cutting their prices. In fact, the allegedly lower prices are only related to auction bids in so-called Contracts for Difference which apply to tentative future wind projects that will not start generating until 2021/2022 and may in fact never be built — or never generate at these low prices.
As a recent study has shown, the capital costs of new offshore wind do not appear to be falling and may even be rising as they move into deeper waters. The CfD bids made are just investor speculations on future policy changes.
Of course, repeatedly lying about wind power being free and getting cheaper all the time brings with it the inevitable risk that policymakers might just take you at your word, and slash those massive subsidies, for good.
"It is challenging but possible to simultaneously put downward pressure on prices and enhance the reliability of the system, while meeting our international emissions reductions targets," he will say at the start of the two-day summit that begins on Monday.
The speech will signal a possible shift away from plans to design and implement a CET from 2020 onwards, in the belief emissions reduction can be achieved without such a scheme.
Mr Frydenberg will place great emphasis on reliability. Apart from already flagged reliability measures such a strategic power reserves over the next four summers, and the push to keep open the Liddell coal-fired power station, Mr Frydenberg will flag the introduction of "day-ahead commitments" to apply to the renewable energy industry.
Currently, a wind farm, for example, produces power on the same day it sells it into the market. Under the change, it would have to commit to provide the power the day before, meaning it would need either back-up storage or an agreement with a gas generator, for example, to meet the commitment should the wind not be blowing.
"It is against this backdrop of a declining cost curve for renewables and storage, greater efficiencies that can be found in thermal generation and the need for sufficient dispatchable power in the system that we are considering the Finkel review's 50th recommendation to which we'll respond before the end of the year," he will say of the plans for a CET.
Sadly existing subsidies will be maintained for now, but at least at face value this announcement by the Australian federal energy minister appears to provide a roadmap for the eventual complete elimination of renewable subsidies, and a normalisation of the relationship between renewable providers and other energy providers.
If this announcement is followed by swift action to axe all renewable subsidies, and remove all special privileges for renewables in the marketplace, it pretty much eliminates my objections to renewables. All I ever demanded is that renewables compete on a level playing field. If renewables businesses are now able to compete due to plunging costs of renewable installations and energy storage, good luck to them.
Of course, if claims of renewable and energy storage cost parity with fossil fuels all turn out to be a pack of marketing spin, with market normality restored most existing Aussie renewables businesses will die by the invisible hand of Adam Smith.
Interesting dichotomy. If they are so brilliant they don't need subsidies. If they need subsidy they are an uneconomical method of providing intermittent power. I would go one step further. If we need standing reserve for when the wind doesn't blow than wind farmers should pay a heavy penalty when they fail to provide power. Never mind constraints payments which are a farce. If the wind is so strong that they need to constrain off generation wait half an hour and the turbines will get closed down anyway and you can make the weasels pay for failure to supply.
I struggle with the suggestion, well it's seems more than a suggestion, there's a supposition of certainty that offers to supply made "the day before" rather than in the 5 minute intervals on the day of supply, will add to reliability. What penalties are proposed for any (no doubt wind-powered) generator that fails to meet its day-before commitment on the day of supply? If there are significant penalties involved, the policy might mean that a wind-operator will be more likely to under-offer on its supply and this may provide some relief for base-load generators. But what I can't see is how sufficient electricity will be available if base-load has been run down to, say, 65% of supply potential and only, say, 10% of wind's, say, 60% of the 35% of renewables is possible on a given day i.e. instead of supplying 21% of the total electricity required intermittent wind would only be able to manage 2% leaving an enormous shortfall of 19%. Having supplanted coal as the reliable base-load generator there doesn't seem to be any sanction intended for wind power generators who simply do not offer to supply on any given day.
So called 'Renewables', should never have had a handout from the public purse, they are a business with massive international backing, why do they need our money handed to them for no real return to us – in either power security or financial return.
While 'Watts up with that', is happy to see the demise of the subsidies, I want to see the complete removal of these things from our environment.
They not only strip us of our money, they also strip far too many people of the life they cherished, their home and their health. Until this industry is purged from our Nation these people and possibly far more in the near future if even a few of the projects proposed and approved go ahead, will suffer.
I always thought the reality of the financial cost of these things would eventually wake people up to the madness of this form of energy production.
Anyone with a claim to have a human brain could see the dangers and the falseness of the claims made by the industries promoters.
The manner in which the followers of the industry shunned peoples pain and concerns, the manner in which they went after those trying to open the door on the industries lies shows just how far down the road of depravity people were and still are willing to go to ensure the survival of this industry.
That this behaviour transcends borders is testimony to the skill of those liars and money hungry proponents – that their lies are now so very slowly being brought into the open, all be it on the back of the financial cost can only assist the deeper lunacy and depravity of this industry being exposed to the broader community. Even if those who with gusto while in deep denial handed out our money to industry sharks is taking time, they are beginning to see their mistake but want to hide behind the removal of subsidies as being what is needed to rid us of this damaging industry.
Sooner or later and for the sake of those suffering hopefully it will be sooner they are going to have to accept this industry should be destroyed never to be able to re-emerge.


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Similarly, we don't have any information on his children. We will update the information as soon as possible. Majed has a huge following on his social media account like Facebook and Twitter. Abdullah has an athletic and fit body even at this old age of 63. Being a professional football player, Majed maintains his diet and exercise routine, making him one of the most remarkable people in the country's sports history.
Majed Abdullah Style of Play and Playing position
The two time Arabian golden boot winner, former Saudi Arabian footballer is one of the iconic football players to ever play in the Saudi Arabian premier league. His shooting, crossing and dribbling qualities in his playing days made him one of the best attackers in the league in his old football playing days. In his prime time, he was unstoppable as he had a brilliant first touch and good football skills.
Majed Abdullah played as center-forward or striker
The Arabian Cup winner was also very famous for his excellence at the one vs one situation against opposition defenders and the goalkeeper. He has won several individual honors and major trophies at that time like the Saudi Arabian premier league title and the Arabian golden boot in his professional football career. Legendary Asian footballer Abdullah has played mostly as a central forward, striker, and sometimes as the winger in his professional football career.
Majed Abdullah social media presence
According to our research, we could not find any Facebook and Instagram accounts owned by the former Saudi Arabian international footballer. But, he uses a Twitter account and has a huge following on his Twitter account. Majed keeps updating the fans about the matches, and, his announcements. This footballer posts pictures of his vacations in different places and his family members earning him huge fan followings worldwide.
Twitter: 1.2 million followers
Majed Abdullah FIFA 22 rating
Abdullah, a famous Asian footballer, is a retired professional footballer. He does not have a FIFA 22 player rating since he is no longer a member of any club or nation. In the future, FIFA may issue a premier icon card for the renowned footballer. Legendary footballers like Diego Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Pele have top icon cards in the FIFA 22 game. However, it is unclear if FIFA would issue a FIFA card to the former Saudi Arabian footballer.
Growing up in the suburbs of Jeddah, Majed Abdullah had excellent football skills from his childhood days.
His father was a trainer at the Al-Nassr football club, so he used to play and train football with his father.
Even though he was planned as a goalkeeper, he impressed his football coach and secured his position as a forward.
After being promoted to the senior side of Al-Nassr football club, he scored his first goal when he was given a chance in the starting lineup.
During his time with the Saudi Arabian football club, he became the top scorer in the league for an impressive six times.
He spent his whole career with the Al-Nassr football club, before hanging out his boots in 1998.
Abdullah has played in 194 occasions and has scored 189 professional goals for his football team Al-Nassr.
Majed Abdullah is the Saudi Arabian all-time top scorer and 14th-highest all-time international goal scorer in football history. (As of 2022)
The iconic western Asian striker has scored 72 goals in 117 total appearances for his national football team.
Four-time Saudi Arabian premier league title winner with Al-Nassr football club
Four time Saudi king Cup winner with Al-Nassr football club
Gulf Club Cup and Asian Cup winner with Al-Nassr football club
Two time AFC Asian Cup winner with his Saudi Arabia national football team
Asian Super Cup winner with Al-Nassr football club in 1998 ( as the coach/manager of the team)
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Update - July 29, 2021
Updated Campus Mask Policy
As you may be aware, the Delta variant of COVID-19 is rapidly circulating across the nation, causing a rise in cases at the local, state, and national levels. Throughout the pandemic, the University of Evansville has adhered to the guidance and recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On Tuesday, the CDC provided updated guidelines for masks, recommending that fully vaccinated individuals wear masks in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission.
Effective Monday, August 2, masks will be required indoors on our campus (including the Stone Family Center for Health Sciences), regardless of vaccination status. We will also require social distancing of at least three feet. This policy will remain in force until public health data and vaccine status indicate that face coverings are no longer necessary.
We continue to encourage our campus community to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Current data shows that 97.9% of cases, 98.6% of hospitalizations and 98.2% of deaths occur among unvaccinated individuals. The vaccination rate of our campus community will be a primary factor in determining when it will be safe to remove or modify the mask mandate. You can register to make a vaccine appointment with local healthcare facilities and retailers.
Our task force will continue to closely monitor the situation and update the campus as decisions are made. We also ask you to remain vigilant and take protective measures to help slow the spread of COVID-19. We are very thankful for your patience and understanding as we continue to weather this pandemic together, and we look forward to welcoming new and returning students in just a few weeks.
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Please sign up on bulletin board with your entrée selection. Cost $25. For more info see The Ganskopps.
Our guest speaker for our March program is Jim Alexander. His presentation will focus on the growth of America's Railroads and the role New Jersey played in it's beginnings. Jim will also include comments on some of the problems he sees in the industry, including New Jersey. Bring your lunch and enjoy our tasty desserts; beverages will be provided.
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides.
We met in January and all enjoyed our book "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. We discussed remembering our own childhoods and how different and similar some of our lives have been. Rev. Peggy Marks, retired pastor and member here, has accepted leadership role of this group. We hope you are able to attend at our March discussion.
If you can knit we need baptism blankets. We have lots of yarn and you can knit one purl two from home. Can you crochet a granny square? Please help yourself to our yarn in the library and triple stitch a small 3-4 foot granny square baptism blanket. The parents and sponsors truly cherish these specially made blankets to commemorate their child's baptism. Also lap blankets are needed for Lutheran Cross-ing and other assisting living homes. For more info, contact Liz Miller.


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Census • Person • George Chinnery
Bio Links Gallery Timeline Contemporaries
1774, Jan 5 1796-1840s 1852, May 30
Born in London, studied at the Royal Academy Schools. Moved to Ireland in 1796, where he established himself as an artist. Married Marianne Vigne in 1799 and then left her (and two infant children) in 1801. He went to London for a year and then to India, becoming the leading artist of the British community. By 1813 he joined the freemasons. In 1825 he moved to Macau, living there (with some travel to China and Hong Kong) until his death.
Macao Magazine
Thomas Beale
Thomas Richardson Colledge with patients
Gilbert Eliot, 1st Earl of Minto
Howqua
Wealthy Hong merchant
An Indian Herdsman On A Bank, Cattle Watering In A River Below
Catherine Sherson nee Taylor
Watercolour on ivory
Street Scene, Macao, With Pigs
Oil on canvas, 20.6 x 24.4 cm© / Victoria and Albert Museum, London
01/05/1774 - Painter George Chinnery is born in London
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Wikipedia: George Chinnery
04/19/1799 - Artist George Chinnery marries Marianne Vigne in Dublin
Wikipedia: George Chinnery: Early Life
09/29/1825 - English artist George Chinnery arrives in Macau from Calcutta
Macao Magazine: George Chinnery - a Life on Canvas
05/30/1852 - English artist George Chinnery dies in Macau
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Januarius Zick 1730, Feb 6 1750
a painter and architect. He is considered to be one of the main masters of the Late-Baroque. Janu...
Lemuel Francis Abbott 1760/61 1780
an English portrait painter, famous for his likeness of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (curr...
John Mare Jr. 1739 1765
an American painter, businessman, and public figure. Not much is known of Mare's training, althou...
Francisco Agustin y Grande 1753 1770
a Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style. In 1799, he became a member for the Royal Academy of S...
Matthew Pratt 1734, Sep 23 1764
an American "Colonial Era" artist famous for his portraits of American men and women. He was appr...
Thomas Morris [2] 1750 ca 1780
Rienk Jelgerhuis 1729, Apr 13 1744
a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman. Jelgerhuis was born in Leeuwarden. He mainly made his fa...
William Winstanley [2] 1775 1793
an English painter of landscapes and portraits who worked in the United States from the early 179...
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard 1743, Sep 11 1764
a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ...
Peter Rushton Maverick 1755, Apr 1 1770
American silversmith and engraver. After training as a silversmith, he responded to the growing d...
Charles Willson Peale 1741, Apr 15 1770
an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remember...
Henry Benbridge 1743, Oct 1769
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early American portrait painter, was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James and Mary (Clar...
George Engleheart 1750, Oct 26 1773
one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures, and a contemporary of Richard Cosway...
Benjamin Thompson 1753, Mar 26 1766
an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory w...
Andrea Appiani 1754, May 31 1776
an Italian neoclassical painter; fresco painter active in Milan and a court painter of Napoleon. ...
John Singleton Copley 1738 1752
an American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston,...
Daniel Caffe 1750, Jul 21 1770
a German pastel painter of portraits. Caffé was born in Küstrin, and began his career as a pain...
Friedrich Bury 1763, Mar 12 1780
a German artist born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a gol...
Robert Fulton 1765, Nov 14 1793
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Frederick Kemmelmeyer 1752/53 1782
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Marcello Bacciarelli 1731, Feb 16 1750
a Polish-Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods. He painted a set of portrait...
Josef Abel 1768, Aug 22 1801
an Austrian historical painter and etcher. Among his famous works are paintings and etchings of K...
Benjamin Greenleaf 1769, jan 13 1803
painter was once thought to be identical to Benjamin Greenleaf (1786-1805) the prominent American...
Jurriaan Andriessen 1742, Jul 12 1760
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William Bartram 1739, Apr 20 1773
an American naturalist. He was born in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a boy, he acco...
Martin Drolling the Elder 1752 1810
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Benjamin West 1738, Oct 1 1746
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Henry Fuseli 1741, Feb 7 1761
a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his...
Ezra Ames 1768, May 5 1795
a popular portrait painter in Albany, New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mor...
John Scott 1774, Mar 12 1788
an English engraver, known for his work on topics showing animals. At the age of twelve he was ap...
Andries Cornelis Lens 1739, Mar 31 1759
Flemish painter and draughtsman
Joseph Steward 1753, Jul 6 1786
an American minister, portrait painter and museum curator. Steward was a largely self-taught arti...
Francisco Goya 1746, Mar 30 1786
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a notable English painter and sculptor of the 19th century. He exhibited at the Royal Academy fro...


Traumatic experiences as a teenage outsider have shaped the filmmaking of Ben C. Lucas, writes Adam Fulton.
None of the parents working on the film wanted to believe their children were capable of such horrors. But Ben C. Lucas's look at the dark side of high school in Wasted on the Young, the only wholly Australian film in the Sydney Film Festival's $60,000 competition, had them concerned.
"Violent and horrible and bitter" ... Adelaide Clemens and Oliver Ackland in Ben C. Lucas's dramatic examination of adolescent cruelty.
The film, set in a fictional high school, depicts an obstacle course of peer politics in a realm where interaction can be cruel, social status paramount and pecking orders brutally enforced. It continues the focus on young people that runs through much of Lucas's work.
Why his fascination with that age group? ''I just don't know,'' the 33-year-old filmmaker says. ''Inherently a lot of what I do tends to deal with young characters. It's just a personal preference - I can't think of any huge reason why.
Dig into Lucas's life, however, and the origins of his leanings seem clearer. He grew up on a boat with his parents. His father charted coastlines and wrote cruising guides for a living. He was home-schooled on board as they circumnavigated the globe.
Lucas did not set foot in a school until he was 13 (apart from once in Italy), when his parents returned to Australia and settled on the central coast and he was sent to high school.
''It was a hell of a culture shock,'' he says. ''I had no clue, none at all. I found myself in school and just astounded - I thought they were so violent and horrible and bitter and just, if I can say it, ignorant.
Things improved when he changed schools but that initial shock looks to have left its mark.
Wasted on the Young, which has its world premiere on Sunday, revolves around two half-brothers - the uber-cool Zack (Alex Russell) and geeky Darren (Oliver Ackland) - who fall for the same girl, Xandrie (Adelaide Clemens). A party the three attend leads to ''anarchic horror'' - guns are involved - in a movie compared with the work of Gus Van Sant (Elephant) and Michael Haneke (Hidden and Funny Games).
Their embrace of today's communication tools - mobile phones and text messaging, internet chat rooms and social networking sites - is reflected. Cyber bullying is one aspect.
Lucas wrote Wasted on the Young after a producer friend, Aidan O'Bryan, commissioned him to write a script. It morphed into a more ambitious project and, after securing funding, was shot over five weeks in Perth, where Lucas lives.
His background in video games and comic books looks to have informed its stylised, ''hyper-real'' look and feel. His first steps in that direction came as a child on the boat playing with his father's eight-millimetre camera.
He went to film school, did any crew work he could get on Sydney film sets and later assisted directors on short films, commercials, music videos, anything, before directing himself. Perseverance was key, he says.
Lucas admires directors such as David Fincher (Fight Club) and the South Korean Park Chan-wook (the Vengeance trilogy) and has lofty goals of eventually making ''big conceptual fables''. He sees Wasted on the Young as a stepping stone.
Wasted on the Young screens on Sunday and Monday at the State Theatre. Lucas and others from the film will be in conversation at lunchtime after Monday's screening.


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Lucy Hale Went To A Sex Convention To Research 'A Nice Girl Like You'
By Candice Jalili
When Lucy Hale was preparing for her role in the new movie A Nice Girl Like You, in which she plays a violinist who creates an NSFW to-do list after being told by her ex that she's "too inhibited," the former Pretty Little Liars star went to a sex convention. "It was such a fun movie to make because... we went to a sex convention," she told E! News, adding that "it was wild... Stuff I'd never seen before."
Hale felt she was fated to take on the racy role. "I, like, read the whole script and was so embarrassed and blushing the whole time because there are so many things that happen because... I play a girl called Lucy Neal, which is crazy. It was written as that. Lucy Neal, Lucy Hale. I was like, 'This is meant to be!' The whole time I was reading it, I was just laughing my butt off and it made me feel uncomfortable. Like, really uncomfortable. So I knew that I had to do it just to break me out of my shell."
While the script did made her feel uncomfortable, Hale did note that she's not "as inhibited" as her character. In fact, she was down to try some of the new moves she learned filming the movie. "There were some things in the movie that I had never heard of or done," she revealed. "So, it broadened my horizons."
Now, while she wouldn't dish on exactly what the moves are, I'm going to go ahead and assume some of those new moves she's interested in might involve a trip to the sex toy shop. If so, Hale's fingers are crossed tight that she won't be running into her mom. "She is like a sweet, souther, Christian lady and she would be mortified because you know she'd find me just holding stuff and she'd be like, 'Lucy!' She already thinks I'm crazy."
I mean, to be fair. No matter how cool your parents are, I don't think anyone's really dying to run into them while perusing dildos and flavored lubes.
Phoebe Dynevor's Quote About Watching 'Bridgerton' With Her Grandparents Is Too Good
By Joyann Jeffrey
Chrissy Teigen's Back Tattoo Is A Sexy Tribute To John Legend
This Reported Update On Ashley Benson & G-Eazy's Future Together Is Exciting


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Q: Goals and Unique Pageview don't match in GA3 I created a goal in Google Analytics and I'm using this regex (below) but when analyzing with the unique pages, the result is a little different:
paths:
/newshop/available/offers-shop
/newshopLC/available/offers-shop
/newshopLC/available/addons

regex used in Goals:
\/(newshop|newshopLC)\/available\/(offers-shop|addons)

I saw in some forums that the difference could be in the Page Title but we use a SPA shopping flow and we don't have a title in any pageview step. I believe the regex is incorrect somehow...
I have tried to change the regex but the difference persist. Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

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El tir part és una tàctica militar de cavalleria lleugera, popularitzada al món clàssic occidental per els parts, un poble indoeuropeu d'origen iranià. Durant una retirada o fugida al galop, un genet armat amb arc es gira completament a sobre del cavall per a disparar a l'enemic que el persegueix. La maniobra requeria una gran habilitat eqüestre, ja que les mans del genet han de manipular un arc compost i no poden atendre la direcció del cavall. A més a més, les brides no havien estat inventades en aquella època, de manera que el genet havia de guiar el cavall emprant tan sols la pressió de les seves cames.

A banda dels parts, aquesta tàctica va ser utilitzada per altres pobles nòmades de l'estepa eurasiàtica, entre els quals hi trobem els escites, els huns, els turcs, els magiars, i els mongols. Altres exèrcits no nòmades també feren ús del tir part, com per exemple els clibanarii i catafractes sassànides.

Els parts van usar aquesta tàctica amb èxit en la seva victòria contra el general romà Marc Livini Cras, a la Batalla de Carrhae. Se li atribuïa una tàctica similar als fenicis de Sidó segons Sili Itàlic.

La tàctica també seria usada pel conqueridor musulmà Muhàmmad de Ghor durant la Segona Batalla de Tarain, el 1192, contra elefants indis i infanteria pesant; pel sultà turc Alp Arslan durant la Batalla de Manazkert contra els romans d'Orient el 1071; i pel general mongol Subotai a la Batalla de Legnica el 1241 contra la cavalleria polonesa.

Com a metàfora
El terme tir part també es pot usar com a metàfora per a descriure un insult que es llança mentre el parlant fa mutis pel fòrum.

Vegeu també
 Arquer a cavall
 Victòria pírrica

Referències

Tàctica militar
Imperi Part


Circle the City distributes Kindness Kits in parks and through other social service agencies as a way to raise awareness for the medical services offered at The Parsons Family Health Center. Donations of Kindness Kit items are always appreciated.
Please assemble items in gallon sized Ziploc bags.
Other small items like toothbrushes and toothpaste, gift cards to fast food restaurants, bus passes, and notes of encouragement.
Please contact info@circlethecity.org or call (623) 900-7671 for more information about Kindness Kits. Items can be dropped off to Circle the City's Parsons Family Health Center at 3522 N. 3rd Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85013 between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Please note, the clinic is closed for lunch from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.


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Press Center Daily News 2007 AARDMAN SPOT SHOWS CG CAPABILITIES
AARDMAN SPOT SHOWS CG CAPABILITIES
Conceived by DDB Worldwide, San Francisco, the live action commercial has an adventure storyline in which Spoony, a lonely spoon in a diner, goes on a journey to join a pack of chocolate pudding cups in a suburban family's home.
The spot includes 19 separate shots in 30 seconds involving a range of indoor and outdoor lighting conditions. On the set, Aardman created a pose-able maquette of the Spoony character, which proved invaluable for composing shots, working out the action, and for lighting reference.
Live action was shot on 35mm film in Capetown, South Africa by Moonlighting. All CG was created using Autodesk Maya 7. Texturing of Spoony was accomplished using Adobe Photoshop and Right Hemisphere's Deep Paint 3D. After Effects was used for compositing. Applications ran on off-the-shelf PCs and rendering was handled by a custom-built 100-plus CPU renderfarm with a centralized server.
Scott Pleydell-Pearce directed live action and animation. John Woolley served as producer.
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Autodesk introduces Arnold 5.3 with GPU rendering
SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk recently unveiled Arnold 5.3 (www.arnoldrenderer.com) with Arnold GPU in public beta. The release provides artists with a first taste of GPU rendering for a set number of feat ...