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Oh Man: Patrick Atkinson
by Patrick Atkinson | Submitted Photos
Editors' Note: When planning the articles for this adoption issue, Patrick Atkinson of The GOD'S CHILD Project immediately came to mind for the Oh Man feature. He agreed to share his adoption story with us. Here it is, in Patrick's own words.
Several years ago, the popular book, "Cheaper by The Dozen" told the true story of a New Jersey couple and their 12 children. When asked why they had so many kids, the parents would quickly respond with, "They're cheaper by the dozen, you know."
I get where they are coming from. Over the years I've adopted or taken permanent legal custody
of 17.
I decided early on to spend my adulthood saving lives and building families. How? I had absolutely no idea.
College brought me to a pivotal crossroad when I volunteered with a regional crisis line for children and adults, particularly women. They were the runaways, throwaways, and despairing victims of family domestic abuse.
After college, my thoughts were on the crisis line's women and youth, so I turned down corporate job offers to take a job searching New York City's streets for runways from North Dakota and the Upper Midwest.
Over the next three years, we returned home hundreds. It was time to dive in deeper.
The 80s were a decade of civil war and bloodshed across Central America, and El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were burning. With camera views of children running scared in the streets and Mayan Indian women crawling out of massacre sites etched into my mind, I left New York City for Central America. For the next seven years, I engaged in war-zone reconciliation and post-war reconstruction.
From this work grew the beginnings of The GOD'S CHILD Project; an international charity still headquartered in Bismarck. Founded in 1991, GCP has raised an estimated 80,000 children and cared for countless single mothers, widows, and abandoned women.
While I knew this was a good effort, God had even deeper plans; over the years I was also gifted with nine boys and eight girls with whom I formed a personal family.
Seventeen. Yes, it was a crazy thought, even back then amidst the gunfire, aerial bombings, and wholesale village massacres.
Yet they became my safe harbor when I took off my executive director's hat and put on my Daddy hat.
They didn't care that I had met that day with the President, a Nobel Prize winner, or a serial murderer. They wanted Dad to look at their drawings, talk about school, and start grilling dinner.
I didn't choose the boys and girls to adopt; through fate or circumstance, they chose me. I simply said 'yes.' They came from unique situations amidst the region's civil wars, or from the streets or child-jails where innocent orphans get thrown in with street-hardened gang members.
While most of the children we rescued fit in perfectly with one of our foster families, a select few didn't. As the months passed and I thought of myself more as their father and they as my children, I realized some children are born in their parents' bodies while others are born in their heart.
We had wonderful times. We also had our moments of homework, house cleaning, and teenage-dating stress. Every parent does.
Yet I succeeded as a parent because I never tried to be my children's best friend. Children want us to be their mother or father; someone to tell them to brush their teeth and go back and try again if they didn't.
I never worried if my adopted children liked me; only that they respected me and knew that I loved them. I took for granted they might come out of adolescence thinking I was the worst dad in the world.
I also knew that in a few years they would realize how lucky we all had been.
My youngest, Kevin, is now married and living on his own, as are they all. Seven have gone to live with God—four by illness, three were murdered. The others are doing well and live in Guatemala, the United States, Canada, and Europe.
I see my now-grown kids frequently and am the proud grandfather to 11.
When the children were growing up, I gave them the choice of taking my last name or keeping their birth name. Different kids chose differently. Two hundred years from now some anthropologist will look at Guatemala, see names like Jose Cay Atkinson Xum, and wonder, "What the heck happened here?"
There are people in our world who open their homes and re-script their lives to care for a child in need of protection and love. We call them foster parents.
The children, however, call them heroes and saints.
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Rossoschanka (, deutsch Alt Sauskoyen, 1938–1945 Altsauswalde und Neu Sauskoyen, 1938–1945 Neusauswalde) ist ein Ort in der russischen Oblast Kaliningrad. Er gehört zur kommunalen Selbstverwaltungseinheit Munizipalkreis Osjorsk im Rajon Osjorsk.

Das ehemalige südlich gelegene Alt Sauskoyen/Altsauswalde ist allerdings verlassen.

Geographische Lage
Rossoschanka liegt zehn Kilometer südwestlich der Rajonstadt Osjorsk (Darkehmen/Angerapp) unweit der Regionalstraße 27A-025 (ex R508).

Vor 1945 bestand Bahnanbindung über die Station "Beynuhnen" (1938–1945 "Beinuhnen") in der Gemarkung Klein Beynuhnen (1938–1945 Kleinbeinuhnen, heute russisch: Uljanowskoje) an der Strecke von Gumbinnen (heute russisch: Gussew) nach Angerburg (heute polnisch: Węgorzewo).

Geschichte
Das Dorf Neu Sauskoyen war 1863 ein Ort mit 121 Einwohnern. Am 6. Mai 1874 wurden die beiden Landgemeinden Alt Sauskoyen und Neu Sauskoyen dem neu eingerichteten Amtsbezirk Kunigehlen (1938–1945 Stroppau, heute russisch: Otradnoje) im Kreis Darkehmen zugeordnet. Im Jahr 1910 lebten 173 Menschen in Alt Sauskoyen und 86 in Neu Sauskoyen, 1925 waren es 168 bzw. 75, 1933 156 bzw. 85 und 1939 noch 142 bzw. 82. Am 3. Juni 1938 – amtlich bestätigt am 16. Juli 1938 – erhielten Alt bzw. Neu Sauskoyen aus politisch-ideologischen Gründen die veränderten Namen Altsauswalde bzw. Neusauswalde.

Im Januar 1945 wurden die beiden Orte Alt Sauskoyen/Altsauswalde und Neu Sauskoyen/Neusauswalde von der Roten Armee besetzt. Die neue Polnische Provisorische Regierung ging zunächst davon aus, dass sie mit dem gesamten Kreis Darkehmen (Angerapp) unter ihre Verwaltung fallen würden. Im Potsdamer Abkommen (Artikel VI) von August 1945 wurde die neue sowjetisch-polnische Grenze aber unabhängig von den alten Kreisgrenzen anvisiert, wodurch die beiden Orte unter sowjetische Verwaltung kamen. Im November 1947 wurden sie (als "Sausken") unter dem russischen Namen Rossoschanka zusammengefasst und dieses gleichzeitig dem Dorfsowjet Otradnowski selski Sowet in Rajon Osjorsk zugeordnet. Die (getrennte) polnische Umbenennung der beiden Orte in Stare Suszki und Nowe Suszki im Dezember 1947 wurde nicht mehr wirksam. Vermutlich 1963 gelangte Rossoschanka in den Nowostrojewski selski Sowet. Von 2008 bis 2014 gehörte der Ort zur Landgemeinde Nowostrojewskoje selskoje posselenije, von 2015 bis 2020 zum Stadtkreis Osjorsk und seither zum Munizipalkreis Osjorsk.

Kirche
Alt und Neu Sauskoyen bzw. Alt- und Neusauswalde waren bis 1945 mit ihrer fast ausnahmslos evangelischen Bevölkerung in das Kirchspiel Dombrowken (1938–1945 Eibenburg, heute polnisch: Dąbrówka) eingepfarrt. Das gehörte zum Kirchenkreis Darkehmen in der Kirchenprovinz Ostpreußen der Kirche der Altpreußischen Union.

Heute liegt Rossoschanka im Einzugsgebiet der in den 1990er Jahren neu gebildeten evangelischen Gemeinde der "Salzburger Kirche" in Gussew (Gumbinnen). Sie gehört zur ebenfalls neuformierten Propstei Kaliningrad in der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche Europäisches Russland (ELKER).

Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen

Rossoschanka

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Compuware Launches Biz App APM Tool
Compuware Corp. has released a new application performance management (APM) tool designed to expose how underlying IT infrastructure affects the performance of business applications. The company is billing its new PureStack Technology as the first of its kind to extend the depth and range of APM solutions to provide vertical performance analysis.
"Our PurePath Technology already provides a horizontal tracing of a transactions across infrastructure," explained Kieran Taylor, director of the marketing for the company's APM Business Unit. "Bringing these two technologies together -- horizontal and vertical -- effectively creates cross hairs for IT and operations that quickly identifies, on a per user or per transaction level, the underlying cause for poor performance."
The Detroit-based APM solutions provider's PurePath Technology provides cross-tier transaction detail (end-user and code-level context), while PureStack discovers, maps and collects critical system and infrastructure health information along the infrastructure stack, including the hypervisor, the operating system, storage, process and CPU. Together, PureStack and PurePath provide what amounts to a three-dimensional view of how infrastructure health impacts application performance and availability, the company says.
Among other things, this combination is likely to provide a kind of relief for developers, who often get blamed for performance problems that have nothing to do with their applications. "In a typical scenario -- let's say the help desk -- a user complains about poor performance, and then you're looking at stove pipes within an organization in terms of roles and tools," Taylor told ADTmag. "We've been able to give you the application-specific detail, but many times the culprits might be CPU utilization, available memory, disk I/O, how the hypervisor or the OS is performing -- metrics that are lower level to the application, yet intrinsically involved in the performance of any transaction. We're now pulling in guest and host infrastructure health metrics and correlating that with individual transactions in real time."
PureStack provides detail on these infrastructure components in conjunction with a bottom-up impact analysis that shows every user request, as well as all categories of user requests, across applications and business transactions that use a specific infrastructure component, Taylor explained. Every transaction is recorded along with all system health metrics, and can be "played back" when a performance problem is detected, he added.
APM tools monitor and manage the performance of applications, alerting IT staff in real time to availability disruptions and end user quality issues. Leading products in this category also notice trends and/or early warning signs of imminent trouble and provide automatic resolutions. Compuware is listed among the leaders in this market in Gartner's "magic quadrant." Also listed are IBM, BMC software, CA Technologies, New Relic, AppDynamics and Opnet Technologies.
PureStack has been in customers' hand since May 23, but just recently went to the general availability stage.
Compuware's PureStack Technology is available now. More information is available on the company Web site here.

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Mixtape Round-up: King Louie, Arca, Maxmillion Dunbar,...
Lists I By FACTI 26.07.13
Mixtape Round-up: King Louie, Arca, Maxmillion Dunbar, Surgeon, and more
With each passing week, listening to the deluge of mixtapes, radio shows, and live sets from electronic producers and hip-hop artists alike becomes an even more insurmountable task. Quality offerings can fly under the radar, either added to our ever-growing "to listen" list or — more often than not – disregarded all together.
Because of its scattershot nature, the mixtape round-up can either be a hit parade of rap tapes from the Chicago-Atlanta axis or a collection of DJ sets from points all across the dance music map. This week, it's the latter: aside from a pitch-perfect offering from King Louie, the hip-hop selections might leave you a bit wanting.
Thankfully, a diverse crew of FACT favorites — Arca, Maxmillion Dunbar, and Surgeon, among them — have stepped up with sets that will alternately have you shaking your head and moving your feet.
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JEEP MUSIC
Louie first crashed onto our radar with the hard-edged, minimal 8-bit driller 'Too Cool', so it's been somewhat unexpected to watch his evolution as he's sidled slyly from the club to the bedroom. He's always had a penchant for weepy numbers (just check 'Bandz Up' from last year's massive Drilluminati tape) but on Jeep Music he lets the emotion flow out, nailing an Usher cover in the process almost by accident. That's not to say the entire tape finds the Chicago rapper in Future-baiting robot romance mode, but certainly the most memorable tracks ('Jeep Music', 'So Many Hoes', 'Nice & Slow' and 'Actavis') are laced with Louie's unshakable drunken, autotuned croon.
The title track is Louie's most effective stab at a 'proper song' yet, and with a hook from regular collaborator Leek is an engagingly cheesy revalidation of 90s identikit R&B. Production team Drummajorz accent Louie's hollow booty calls with slick portamento synth slides and the kind of percussive sleigh bells that can really only be used on tracks about doing the dirty in a Jeep, and it's a look that weirdly sits well with Louie's unhurried, knowing flow. Similarly effective slow-burner 'So Many Hoes' is a damned sight less romantic, but it's hard evidence that Louie is just as comfortable belting out Atlanta strip-club anthems as he is coming up with memorable catchphrases.
Jeep Music might be sorely lacking a 'Michael Jordan' or '2 Pair', but it's a dutifully solid and thoughtfully brief diversion before Louie drops his eventual major-label full-length Dope & Shrimp. Let's just hope he saved the best for last.
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Bizarre and beautiful, Brooklyn-based producer Arca's latest brief offering is something of a revelation. The producer shot to prominence recently thanks to some handy production work on Kanye West's stunning (and polarizing) Yeezus, so there's a sense that eyes are focused on his next move. Smart then, to offer something totally different, yet something that makes complete sense. &&&&& isn't a million miles away from West's industrialized witch house tropes, but where West lavished his tracks with awkward grandeur and gold plating, Arca imbues his with grit, failure and cheap lean.
Through a flurry of pitched voices and widescreen basses his grinding, crunching rhythms punch through the clouds with the glassy precision of Autechre's EP7. This ain't easy listening, but neither does it feel like Arca is projecting us back to a lovingly forgotten era of electronic laptop tomfoolery. To move forward, Arca has refined what he knows, and emerged with a gritty amalgam of Phoenecia, Oneohtrix Point Never and early Timbaland – we can't wait to see where he takes us next.
MAXMILLION DUNBAR
MAKE U LEVITATE (DJ MIX)
When announcing his transcendent House of Woo, the DJ/producer known as Maxmillion Dunbar described his process as a patient one. "I make a lot of tracks by sticking on a loop forever, letting it live and breathe as long as it needs to… I keep all of the pieces I'm working on balanced, floating in the air. If it doesn't take minutes to stand up, it takes weeks."
That same approach is on display in his latest DJ mix (as it was in his FACT mix). Comprised of "Current go-to cuts & Unreleased Heat 4 the freaks," every element of the hour-long mix floats in the air as long as it needs, and Max D's unadulterated enthusiasm for music ("So much good music out right now!!!!!") shines through.
AMBIENT SET AT FREEROTATION
An ambient DJ set is a difficult prospect to get to grips with. All too often the word is used incorrectly, and 'ambient' becomes a catch-all for anything slow, whether it's early Warp-patented bleep techno or irritatingly 'smoked out' trip hop, so it's a pleasant surprise seeing someone use the term more appropriately. Of course, it's Birmingham techno don and voracious music fan Anthony Child aka Surgeon who's at the helm, and in his hands an ambient mix, previously the shame of Midlands back rooms, is transformed into a wonderful, organic and enlightening experience.
There's Alice Coltrane, Terry Riley, Coil, Emeralds, Oneohtrix Point Never, Angelo Badalamenti and more all blended with a series of Child's own field recordings, and for something that manages to exist on a plane of 'background music' there's never a dull moment. Ambient music doesn't have to be boring you know, and here's some damn good evidence to support that.
WE DIDN'T THINK WE'D MAKE IT THIS FAR VOL.1
Brighton-based synth laboratory Donky Pitch celebrates its tenth release with an 18-track pay-what-you-want compilation. The label's roster steps up: Ghost Mutt's glitch'n'b 'Thoroughbred' is sublime, Lil B associate Keyboard Kid 206 flexes both sawtoothed meditation ('BasedExorcism') and snapback ambience ('Seattle Based Party'), and the purple G-funk of Lockah's 'Platinum Blonde' is more subtle and romantic than his usually maximalist compositions. The compilation closes with LiL TExAS pitchshifting R&B into dance pop-slash-club music: as the title suggests, you'll 'Want It To Last'.
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MOLDY & WHEEZ-IE
MIX FOR THUMP
Embassy Recordings labelmates Moldy and Wheez-ie team up for this hour-long mix that showcases their bass-heavy (if divergent) styles. As his name implies, Moldy crafts old-school, DMZ dubstep better suited for a side-room smoke than a main room mosh session. For his part, Houston-via-Boston producer Wheez-ie puts the juke fascination of his earlier work on hold for a mix that favors the ragga-vogue-hardstyle hybridization favored by #kunq specialists Rizzla and blk.adonis (see 'Battyjack'). Towards the end of the mix, Wheez-ie hits the nitro for a drum-n-bass session (including a supercharged version of Rizzla's "Club Cecile" Girl Unit bootleg), but the coup de grace is the outro: blends of Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer'.
JEREMIAH JAE
A year after the release of Raw Money Raps, Jeremiah Jae returns with a nine-track of frazzled, left-field rap; as always, his Brainfeeder association is telling. Jae's beats are propulsive and off-kilter like a Madlib-meets-MF Doom patchwork; he borrows the producers' on-mic flows, as well.
Elsewhere, Brainfeeder boss Flying Lotus, Stones Throw's Jonwayne, and frequent collaborator Oliver the 2nd each offer a loping, sample-heavy beat. Dub-inflected closer 'Court Jester' is an intriguing change-of-pace, but if you hung up your backpack when Def Jux closed its doors, Bad Jokes might not have much to offer you.
MATTHEWDAVID
At 20 minutes, it's not a lengthy offering here from Leaving Records boss Matthewdavid, but it doesn't need to be. Rather twenty minutes of great than an hour of OK, and this summer mix is a corker. Beginning with an insane (yet somehow flawless) blend of DNTEL's early works and an "unlabeled world-fusion cassette", it's clear from the outset that Matthewdavid isn't interested in dropping floor fillers, this is a mix for the real listeners out there.
We're subsequently dragged into unreleased material from The Cyclist, Cat 500, Ahnnu and Mndsgn, and pulled through acid house, Italo synth prog, crumbling, fractured electronics and whatever else was no doubt at hand. It's marvelously coherent given the eclectic nature of the selection, and the winning blow comes with the fact that the mix sounds as if it was dubbed to cassette tape before being digitized and delivered, which for those of us who traipsed through the 80s as young'uns, is just the icing on the cake.
ROACH GIGZ
ROACHY BALBOA ROUND 3
Roach Gigz is a Bay Area rapper who seems determined to fit as many punchlines and similes into his wordy verses as possible. The result is a light-hearted effort that owes as much to ratchet as it does to hyphy. Producers C-Loz, Nima Fadavi, Jay Ant, and P-Lo craft beats that snap and shout like DJ Mustard tracks. 'Gucci Gucci' producer DJ Two Stacks offers the synth-stabbing '100 In The Fastlane', while 'Gucci Gucci' rapper Kreayshawn handles the hook on 'Pu$$y Magnet'.
Unfortunately, the mixtape's sonic monotony holds it back; Roach's wordplay loses some of its entertainment value due to the paint-by-numbers beats. The Biggie-referencing 'Back 2 Cali' is a breath of fresh air, but the rest of the tape proves that — when it comes to ratchet — you can have too much of a good thing.
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SHAD DA GOD
GAS LIFE
Hustle Ganger Shad Da God's new tape Gas Life isn't exactly offering anything particularly new, but supported by a modest network of guests the rapper at least gets the opportunity to put in a workmanlike effort. The main issue with Gas Life is simply that there are so many other rappers churning out superior Atlanta trunk rattlers right now, and one of them is even on the album. Lead single 'Ball Out' is still hot, but there's something about Gas Life that's just so darned unmemorable. When fellow ATLien Young Scooter emerges on the album's grimey closing track it's simply a well-timed reminder that you'd probably be better off listening to Street Lottery.
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Johnson is no where near enough for pesce.
Johnsson is nowhere near enough for Pesce? Please do tell us why. Because a young fast cost controlled top 6 offensive possession playing forward that gets 20+ goals sure sounds like a player Carolina could really use.
An extension for Ellis would have to be in place.
I like the fact that we would be dumping contracts on Nashvillle. Not sure what their cap situation is or how many contracts they are carrying right now, but if Nashville would make this trade, it might be a good idea. Leafs can do worse than to pursue Ellis.
Too much for Ellis and not sure if the Leafs will have the cap space to resign him.
Leafs should have the cap space to re-sin Ellis if Gardiner and Hainsey are let go. We are also unloading a fair amount of salary in this trade by moving Kapanen.
Still, you make a good point and it's one I've made myself several times. Leafs look as though they are going to scrimp on salary on the back end. Bringing in a high priced veteran is not our solution. Ellis will be looking for at least as much as Gardiner, and maybe more. We would be better off keeping Gardiner if we are going to pay that much to any UFA.
Leafs have roughly $22m to devote to blue line beyond this year. Predictions say Ellis might be getting $7m. If that's true and u bring him in to play with Reilly, u have $12m left. Assume Zaitsev can have a better year and is worth his contract and u play him with Dermott, the money left for third pair and seventh d would be around $5m. Could work if Lilligren jumps in with say a Carrick.
Way to much for Ellis. why trade Kapenen. trade Nylander. Kap is a two way player, Nylander sleeps after entering our zone. AND. trading away a 1st is a no-no.
Trying to think of different trades that might teams.
I like it if Minnesota does!
Would love to have Coyle on Leafs team. The guy's a monster and can put up good numbers. Spurgeon is a little smallish for my liking, but there is no denying his talent.
I don't think Minnesota makes this trade. Gardiner would probably fit well with Dumba. But Spurgeon is Suter's right hand man, and trading him would leave Minnesota in the same situation we currently are in, weak on RHD (Dumba would be there only RHD), and heavy on LHD with Brodin, Gardiner, Suter.
The second half of the trade is Coyle for Brown and Lievo. Minnesota might be willing to part with Coyle, and to be honest, I would actually offer them less. Wild are still going to be tight against the cap next year. We could try to take advantage and offer them cap relief consisting of a package of picks/ prospects. I don't know if Wild would accept that, but if we could get Coyle without losing a current roster player, would be worth it.
I really like how you targeted Coyle here. He would make a great addition to the Leafs if we could get him cheap enough.
Are these fair Value ??
I know this is a pipe dream but i think this would solve all the teams involved in these trades.
Some of these are others people trade ideas but i thought were good ideas.
Sorry trade Jake Gardiner Matt Martin for picks.
You just traded away our first round picks for the next three years.
The defense is much improved, but looks like an overkill. Each of those lines can practically be a top line.
The offense looks weaker, even with the addition of Tavares. You kinda killed our offensive depth to stack the blue line. I think you need a little more balance.
That fourth line in particular is all rookies and would make me nervous as a coach. Including Lievo, who wasn't even good enough to make the team last year, on the third line, just goes to show that you have virtually eliminated all our depth.
I love that d corps.
You could have 12 mvp's upfront and leafsgm would still find fault in it. Lol🤪.
Carolina would be more than foolish to do this. That said they made Don Waddell their GM and he has not been known in the past for his astute dealing.
Actually Hacksaw, I commended you on one of your trade proposals below. The Montour trade. I thought it was a good one. For some reason the administrator didn't upload it.
I don't think we need 3 elite defensmen, only one on the right side to play with Rielly.
I think this year the leafs pick 25th and next year will be around the same.
I looked at all the other teams and most of the good team have 4 or 5 guys that get paid big money but 1 guy out of the 4 or 5 is elite d-man. Is this enough for Drew?? or too much?
I think what you are offering is pretty close. Both in terms of trade value, and the contract you suggest, though likely is going to be a maximum term contract (8 years) .
If Leafs could pull the trigger on a trade like this, they should move on it. Waiting for Doughty to hit the open market could be a costly mistake. Is better to lock him up if they have the chance. It costs a lot in terms of trade value, but we are talking about one of the best (if not the best) defensemen in the world.
I guess this trade would all depend on how LA sees themselves come deadline time. Are they possible contenders, or are they going to need to start a rebuild? If they decide they are no longer contenders, moving Doughty is the most logical choice, as it would bring back a good number of premium assets and free up the most cap space.
Karlsson is available as well. Should Leafs fail to be able to land Doughty, Karlsson May be a second option. Though I would much prefer Doughty.
The only issue would the 2 late 1st be enough?
I just hate 7 or 8 year contracts.
Don't get me wrong, Doughty is arguably the best the defenseman in the league right now. He'd also be 37 when your contract ends and won't be worth that 10 mill cap hit for the last half of his contract.
Gardiner is no Doughty but he is worth more than a single mid round 1st.
The amount of assets you are giving up is a massive gamble. In the moment, 2x1st and Nylander would be a fair deal. It would seem extremely lopsided in 4 years if Nylander evolves into a 1C and one of those picks turns into a quality NHL player while Doughty is 33 and on a strong decline. When Toronto squired Kessel, it was at market value and a fair trade, at the time. As soon as I tell you we traded Seguin and Hamilton for Kessel the picture changes. 3x1st (with the one you added being the highest) and Nylander is an overpayment.
The leafs brass has said REPEATEDLY - we are not trading our future for a shot today. They want to build a franchise. This trade is against everything the shanaplan has promised.
Athletes these days play a long time. Lidstrom, Chelios, Chara, just to name a few, were easily still going strong into their 40's. I imagine Doughty will be too. But that doesn't mean we should mortgage our future for him. If he hits the open market and we can land him, fair enough. But I don't really like the thought of trading 3x1st, and a top line winger with the potential to be a stud 2nd line center.
When you bring up the whole Seguin/ Hamilton thing, it really puts things into perspective.
You are bringing up Seguin 2nd overall and Hamilton 9th overall? I think you take a chance on Doughty.
This can't be the real Brian Burke all these trades favour the leafs.
Not sure Keith is a good fit for that price. He is 34 signed for another 5 years.
I agree with LeafsGM and Hugh Allan i think there is a better deal then Tanev out there. If not let's keep what we have and stay the course.


On 29th September Amport Green was the stunning backdrop for an evening of dinner, music and dancing to raise money for the Monxton and Amport Village Hall fund.
Equinox Rocks was organised and run by a committee of 10 from Amport, Monxton, Fox Amport and Weyhill. A large, dressed and beautifully lit marquee hosted 25 tables of ten people from around the villages plus friends and family. Guests were invited to decorate their tables in the afternoon, returning at 7pm for drinks, dinner, an auction, music and dancing.
sequinned jackets and boots that weren't made for dancing!
Music for the evening opened with the dramatic Allegretto, played by professional violinist Sarah Mallock. Fellow musicians singer Renn Washington and DJ Kwame Knight then joined her, electrifying and filling dance floor for the remainder of the evening.
Funds were raised through a combination of the auction, £10 envelopes with prizes, Heads and Tails and the Equinox bar. An incredible £16, 270 was raised all of which will go towards the improvement of the Monxton and Amport village hall provision.
The event is on Monday 6th August at 7pm, meeting at Abbotts Ann Village shop. Numbers are limited and booking is essential.
The objective is for me to generate awareness and also to recruit some interested people onto the Pillhill Brook Community Catchment Group (CCG). This CCG would decide the projects to be written into our Heritage Lottery Bid, which if it is successful, will release the 5 years' worth of funding.
The Monxton and Amport Village Hall Committee (MAVH) once again seeks your help to ensure we have the best possible community asset well into the 21st century. We have been approached by many locals concerned about the lack of an appealing community meeting place now that the Black Swan has been sold to a local property developer.
Three years ago we canvassed villagers as to what you might want from a village hall. The outcome of this was planning permission to renovate the current hall (16/01869/FULLN). To finance this, you have supported fundraising events and our project fund stands around £35,000. Build costs for this renovation are estimated to be in the region of £350,000 with eligible grant funding around £200,000-250,000 and the hall would be closed for 4-6 months during renovations. Another option might be to build a new, purpose-built hall on the current site.
The sale of the Black Swan pub (which included the car park and village green) has presented us with a unique opportunity. Following initial discussions with the new owners and TVBC, there exists a potential option to build a purpose-built village hall/community hub at the rear of the existing car park (on the scrub land where the electricity sub-station is currently sited) in conjunction with two small roadside cottages; the initial site suggestion was for a small housing development. Build costs for a new community hub are estimated to be in the region of £400,000 (including fit-out) with eligible grant funding around £250,000-300,000; new builds such as this attract additional grants as part of TVBC's drive to create community assets fit for the future. The current hall would remain open until the new build was completed.
Please remember that if we do not take this opportunity the car park will be lost forever as it will become a site for 2-5 houses, according to the current owner. If we do move the building to the new location then the current village hall site will become a small 3-4 bed house of appropriate village design, fitting in with the vernacular.
The Monxton Parish Council AGM will now be held on Wednesday 25th April, not 10th April as previously stated.


SSD problem, is it just me?
everytime I boot up, this is what happens to the screen for a second or two after the apple logo, then my desktop boots up normally. is it just me? or does this happen to all SSDs? Is there a fix?
if you can't see the picture, its a grey screen with squares and blocks.


God promised that, in the future, when God pushed a cloud over the earth, he would create a rainbow as a sign of his covenant that he would not perpetrate another mass Genocide of humans by drowning. The miracle here is that prior to the covenant, rainbows did not exist -- in violation of the laws of nature.
Instantly turning Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19).
The worldwide flood deep enough to submerge every mountain under water (Genesis 6).
Noah's ark. (Genesis 7). Although it was constructed of regular materials using ordinary construction methods, its leakage rate was apparently a miniscule fraction of normal, so that a team of 8 people could manage to keep it afloat.
The Sun and Moon standing stationary in the sky. (Joshua 10) According to a course sold to public schools by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, "documented research through NASA" supports this verse from the Bible. They appear to be sincere, but sincerely wrong.
A talking donkey (Numbers 22).
The drying up of the river (Joshua 3 & 4) and the destruction of the walls of Jericho prior to the mass murder of its citizens (Joshua 6). Both of these might have been caused by earthquakes.
The various plagues in Egypt that might also have had a natural cause.
Spontaneous health cures in which the blind see, the mute speak and the lame walk.
The presence of the "star" of Bethlehem -- some kind of celestial object -- that provided a fixed point of reference in the sky for the unknown number of Zoroastrian astrologers. That is, they did not rise in the East and set in the West as the stars, planets and comets did.
Moses and Abraham appearing with Jesus during the transfiguration, even though they had been dead for over a millennium.
Curing leprosy (Mark 1, etc). Actually, the Greek word translated as "leprosy" covered many skin conditions.


Choosing an offencive system of play is not a simple task for even the best of basketball coaches. There are so many different areas to take into consideration when deciding how to attack the various defenses that exist in today's game. One night you might be playing against an overplaying, aggressive man-to-man defense when the very next outing will find you against a soft, sagging defensive system. Still, another opponent might utilize multiple defensive looks. Will your offencive attack be equally successful against what you face throughout the season?
One of the challenges with deciding on an offencive system is the fact that the make-up of your team will be altered each year. This is probably true on the high school level where you don't have the opportunity to recruit your talent to fit your style of play. Still, even on the college level, you rarely have a team that is similar more than a couple of years. We would like to constantly have three perimeter players that shoot the 3-pointer and penetrate to the goal, coupled with post players of size that can post up or step to the free throw line to hit the jumper. The reality is that this complete mesh of offencive talent doesn't come together too often.
The point that we are trying to make is that at LSU we believe that your motion offence should have some flexibility to adjust to your strengths and weaknesses each year without having to overhaul your complete system. By keeping a consistent style of play, your players will continually develop each season. The other side of the coin is to install a different offense every few seasons to take advantage of that particular team. Every off-season a coach would take a look at the returning players and decide what omotion ffence to utilize. Obviously, each season would be like starting anew in terms of your offensive system. Granted, there are teams out there that have a measure of success by strictly running plays, but we believe that with motion offense, you can have the best of both worlds. We utilize "entries" as a means to distort and place pressure on the defense. It is also a great way to get an quick, isolated touch for a good player. Those entries are extremely simple and are chosen by what our team has to offer that season.
Motion Offence is predicated on both player and ball movement as well as a player's ability to read the defense. A player and team must be able to take advantage of those opportunities presented to them by the defense as opposed to relying on a predetermined sequence of movement.
Keeping that particular definition in mind, we will take a look at the advantages of running motion offence. Within those advantages we will review practical applications and consider disadvantages as well.
For the obvious reason that motion offence is not patterned and is based on the player's ability to read the defense, it is difficult to defend. Should the defense be geared to take away one thing, the proper read by the offense will open up another available option.
Application: Many plays or patterned offenses are set up with a particular pass to enter the ball. Should the defense be successful in defending that pass, it takes a great deal away from the offense. Granted, even set plays have counters, but it still is disruptive to the offense and the main emphasis of attack.
Again, because it is an offense based on principles and determined by reads, it can be tough to scout. Depending upon your utilization of motion and the rest of your offencive system, it can nearly be impossible to scout in terms of team offense. An opponent must rely on scouting individual tendencies.
Application: Because continuity offenses and set plays are patterned, a scout can write down the movement and work on it in practice. There are no predetermined movements in motion for a scout to show their team.
Motion may sound wonderful to you at this point, but make no mistake -- it is probably the most difficult thing to teach a basketball team. You must teach players how to play without the basketball by using their eyes and "seeing" what is available. Motion is a high maintenance offense that takes time and effort to properly teach. Fundamentals must be taught at a premium. The ability to pass and catch the basketball is critical. Understanding of roles is another big step in executing properly. What all of this does is force a coaching staff to teach players to play. You must design practices to teach your team how to read as well as to make the proper decisions. For some coaches, that kind of responsibility can be frightening – for motion coaches, it is exciting – the ultimate in teaching.
Application: Youth motion offence, to be properly executed must be broken down daily in practice. The parts of the offense you teach include: passing, receiving, cutting, screening, dribbling, reading the defense, and shooting. It becomes even more specialized as you teach perimeter skills and post skills. These are all important fundamentals. You must teach them constantly in drill form as well as reinforce them in five-on-five situations. In this context, motion not only makes your players better offensively but it will also make you a better teacher.
Without question, players enjoy the "freedom" that comes with motion offense. Nothing can be more frustrating to a player and/or team than to run a patterned offense and have a good defensive team alter their offense by defending a certain cut or pass. Often this can take a team directly out of their offense. With motion they know if they make the right read, that there is a fundamental option to use. They also know if they make the wrong decision, the offensive possession won't necessarily fail – they can correct a mistake in the same possession without negatively affecting that particular offensive series.
Application: Ever have a team that runs their girls offence in the off-season when they are playing pick-up in the gym? Motion coaches do Motion is nothing more than a "common sense offense." Once your players learn to make reads it becomes natural to them and they will run motion even in the recreational center on the weekend. Ever have your players work on their offense in the off-season even when there isn't enough for a full-court game? Basketball motion coaches do! That's because 3 on 3 and 4 on 4 are great ways to teach motion. Players enjoy (and run) motion year round – whether the coaches are there to supervise or not.
The fact that the offense is not predictable, means that your defense cannot "play the play" in practice. They must be alert to all cuts and screens at any time as presented by the offense. Again, this means you will improve defensively in terms of anticipation, each time your players step on a court and play against each other – even in the off-season.
Application: The perfect example in improving your defense is to understand that you have a great opportunity to work on your defense each time you work on your offense regardless of whether you are breaking down your offense or working in whole method.
Because motion if based on fundamentals, reading the defense, and teaching players "how to play," it can be used on even the youngest levels. Motion can be as advanced as you need it to be but it can also be broken down into the simplest of forms. Coach Dean Smith explained in his book how they put the passing game in at his camp on the first night.
Application: One of my first basketball coaching jobs came on the middle school level (grades 6-8), where we were able to modify motion to an extremely simplistic form. That particular team had a post player that was tall and lanky. She was not very skilled but could rebound and score close to the goal. Her motion principle was this: "You are to stay on the block opposite the ball. When it is shot, work hard to rebound the basketball. If the ball comes to your side, slide to the other side and prepare to rebound." Motion offense for that particular player was very effective for us. We had one exceptional offensive player on that team that could hit a perimeter shot or drive and create so we placed a restriction on that team that no one could shoot the ball from the perimeter until the outstanding player had gotten at least two touches. It was motion at its simplest form – and that's exactly what a middle school team needed. Each day we taught them to pass, dribble, screen and cut. That team, the first in the school's history started off 1-4 before finishing 9-7 and winning the county championship. It was very satisfying to watch these young girls, many playing basketball for the first time, learn the skills necessary within the team concept and improve throughout the season.
Flexibility is an understatement. The way motion is designed; it can be adjusted from year to year, game-to-game, or substitution-to-substitution. It eliminates the need for a certain offense for certain line-ups. Motion can be an offense that attacks quickly or controls tempo. It can even be used as a delay game.
Application: The ultimate flexibility of motion comes from a simple substitution. With motion, you can send a shooting guard in to sub for a post player and simply adjust your motion alignment (we will give details later). Now your opponent is on the bench trying to change their match-ups. Another application came with our team at LSU from 1998 through 2000. We had two players of similar skill level and size in April Brown and Katrina Hibbert. While both are 5-10, they were effective in finding ways to score in the post. They were also skilled on the perimeter with 3-point shooting range. Because of our lack of size (our starting post player was 5-11), we played either April or Katrina at the other post position. How did we decide who was in the post and who was on the perimeter? We didn't – we let our opponent's decide. We told April and Katrina that whoever had the post player defending them would be on the perimeter. Consequently, whoever had the small forward defending them would slide in the post. Often, an opposing coach would see this and change defensive assignments only for April and Katrina to switch offensive positions the next time down the court. This type of flexibility helped us to take advantage of some mismatches even though we were the small team. The fact that we were smaller than practically every team on our schedule did not deny us post up opportunities thanks to the offensive flexibility. It is also important to understand that motion flexibility allows year-to-year adjustments. An example would be that you are big inside one year so you might rely heavily on Post Exchange and Triangle alignments to make the most of your size. Again we will detail alignment usage later. Following that season, let's say your primary seniors are post players. Suddenly your team make-up has you becoming more of perimeter attacking team. During the next season, Regular (Single Post) might be more successful for you to use as your primary alignment. Remember, you are still utilizing the same motion offense principles of cutting and screening, but a different alignment to take advantage of your roster. In this scenario, you don't create a different offense based upon your personnel.
Another major advantage of motion offense is that it can be applied against a variety of defenses. You won't need a special offense to face the box-and-one defense and another to battle the triangle-and-two. At LSU, we utilize our motion offense to also attack zone defenses. White there are a few minor adjustments, it is still based on principles where we rely on our players to make the proper reads. We spend time in practice working against a variety of defenses so this helps. But, the key is that the offense can attack anything you come up against if you teach your players to make the proper reads and decisions.
Application: Despite our balanced scoring in the 1999-2000 season (four double figure scorers), we did face an occasional combination defense. Against a box-and-one, we ran our Post Exchange (3 perimeter players, 2 posts) and looked to attack the high post area and play off of that situation. During the 2005 SEC Tournament, Georgia threw out a triangle-and-two defense against us. They played the defense about 75% of the game but our team responded well. We simply ran our motion, worked the ball and got great shots. For the game, we shot 49.2% including 52% in the first half. The two players that were the focus of the triangle-and-two were still able to give us great offensive production. Seimone Augustus scored 22 points and Temeka Johnson pitched in with 11 points and 17 assists. A big key is that we don't have to use our shooter that is facing the man-to-man coverage as a decoy. She still has the benefit of moving without the basketball and using screens to become open for shots. We talk to our screeners in these situations about playing as if they were facing a switching man-to-man defense and using those options (more on that later). Our execution helped us to score from a variety of ways from perimeter shots, to post feeds, to dribble penetration.
Motion is adaptable to the remainder of your offensive system. If you run a primary break, you can get quickly into motion from the primary break. Should your program believe in the use of a secondary, you can get directly into motion regardless of what secondary you choose to run. Press offense? Doesn't matter – you flow right into motion. Again, because motion has nothing predetermined, your players don't have to line up at a certain spot to initiate your half court offense. The same holds true of your special situations. Regardless of what you do to enter the ball on the sideline or underneath your own goal, you can get directly into motion.
Application: The benefit of this is critical – especially on the collegiate level and even more so in the women's game. Why? Because the women play with a 30 second shot clock. It takes valuable time to run your break, press offense or special situation and then back the ball out to "set up" your offense. Even more important to us, it allows us to continually be on the attack offensively. Whenever the offense takes times to "set up," it allows the defense time to set up. Flowing directly into motion means hard screens and sharp cuts coupled with ball movement. Just when the defense thinks it can relax because it has successfully defended the break, you have quickly reversed the basketball, set a screen, made a read, and scored.
This is the only offense that we need. That singleness of purpose allows us to give it the maximum amount of time in terms of teaching and emphasis each day. Just that fact alone means that you will do the necessary drill work to construct and perfect it each day which will greatly aid your team's execution.
Application: Which offense is going to be better? The one you spend 20-30 minutes on each day of practice or a play that you spend 5-10 minutes on because you must spend an equal amount of time on the other four offenses you run against man-to-man defenses.
All basketball teams have certain strengths and weaknesses, but even more importantly, all basketball players have strengths and weaknesses. Those traits, both positive and negative can disrupt the execution of an offense. With motion offense, you can define each player's offensive responsibilities to fit what they can and cannot do. A continuity offense will often still have players that cannot handle the ball popping out to catch and pass. Non-shooters will sometimes have possession of the basketball on the perimeter. A good defensive team that does a good job of scouting and preparing can manipulate all of these situations. With motion, you can place players in situations that best take advantage of what they are capable of doing. A poorly skilled player can be extremely important in motion if they can read the defense and screen properly.
Application: For instance, you have a post player that isn't a very effective scorer. This player is a prime candidate to be a primary screener – and these types of players are very important for offensive success. To take it a step further, lets compare two players at the same position with different skills. On our team in 1999-2000, we had April Brown who played some post for us along with DeTrina White who was a post as well. April has the ability to shoot the perimeter shot very well while DeTrina was strictly a low post scoring threat. One of our primary screens is the back screen. We told DeTrina that when she sets a back screen, we wanted her to follow the cutter and go back and re-screen. This is a great screen for a smart cutter. Of course, the re-screen was a great opportunity for DeTrina to seal the defender, get a piece of the paint, and get a possible low post touch. April, on the other hand, had the option of the re-screen or following the back screen, she could widen out for possible shot (especially if her defender hung around in the lane to help on the cutter). Two post players, different strengths and weaknesses, same initial screen, but two different options to compliment what they can do best.
Because of the amount of emphasis placed on players being able to fundamentally execute in the offense, a coaching staff has no choice but to develop each player in the various fundamental phases of the game. Your players must be well versed in their ability to dribble, pass and catch. Your post players must be schooled in the ability to flash, post, and seal. The biggest thing is that you must teach your players to "think." This is not always necessary with a patterned offense – at least to the extent of motion. The result is a more rounded player.
Application: Where this comes into play is when your players have the opportunity to play at the next level. A player on any level that has been taught to move without the ball, set proper screens, and make good decisions with the ball is going to be a better player regardless of the system of play when they advance to a higher level of competition. I coached on the AAU level and used motion because I had players from several different high school systems and wanted them to all take advantage of what motion teaches when they returned back to their school for basketball season.
I suppose this may not be considered an advantage to those that are just beginning to teach motion. It can sometimes be a little frightening in terms of getting the system to work that first year. It is also scary with a young team. Still, for the coach that literally loves to "teach' the game of basketball, nothing is more invigorating than implementing and developing a motion team.
Application: I once attended a clinic where Bob Knight made the following statement: "The most important thing a basketball player can have is an imagination." I believe it is equally as important for today's basketball coach. It may be related to how you run a program based on limited resources. It may take an imagination in terms of your budget, staff, or a wide variety of things that deal with leading an organization. But a good imagination is directly responsible for being a good motion coach. There is nothing more enjoyable to me than creating a new drill to develop an area of weakness for my team that I have been unable to do with the drills already being used. We have a large number of motion drills. We don't use all of them in a week. Some we don't even use at all during the course of a season – it depends on that team, the alignment, and what we are capable of doing. But each year there is something new that we create to build our motion offense. This is true of both individual drills as well as team drills. Each day that you sit down and design your practice it will be challenging to decide which drills to use that day to advance your overall execution.


Last year, my mom told me time and time again to get her a gift card to a spa so she could go get another expensive anti-aging treatment. Even though she kept dropping subtle hints, I knew that I couldn't afford to spend that much money on a present, but I still managed to get her the best Mother's Day gift, Ageless by Harvey Prince.
As she opened the package, she read the words Ageless by Harvey Prince off of the bottle and looked up at me confused. "Is this an anti-aging perfume?" she asked.
I could tell that she was beginning to believe that Ageless really was the best Mother's Day gift by the look on her face.
"Well, now that you mention it…not only does Harvey Prince make incredible smelling scents, but every product is 100% cruelty free, vegan and gluten free, as well as made in the USA with the finest natural ingredients and best essential oils," I said.
"Actually mom, everything in the Harvey Prince online store is affordable! You can get a few bottles of Ageless for the cost of one spa treatment!" I said.
I couldn't wait to celebrate my birthday with my best friend, not only because it had been so long since we had seen each other, but also because she always gives the best gifts. I showed up at her house earlier than planned because I was so anxious to see what she found for me this year. She greeted me at the door with a big hug and a wrapped gift in her hand. I stretched my hands out to reach for the gift, tingling with excitement, and ripped through the paper to reveal a perfume bottle!
"Perfumista by Harvey Prince," I read out loud, "well, the name certainly fits me," I laughed.
I was hesitant about someone else picking out a fragrance for me, but decided to give it a shot since my friend always hit the nail on the head when picking out gifts. I uncapped the bottle of the best fresh perfume and spritzed Perfumista into the air.
"Is that Moroccan jasmine and lily of the valley that I smell?" I asked.
"…Amber and musk," I said, finishing her sentence. The notes swirled around me creating a vibrant blend of floral, citrus and warm scents. With every whiff, I felt more invigorated and full of energy, completely understanding why she referred to Perfumista as the best fresh perfume.
"Luxury and eco-conscious?" I asked, shocked.
"I know, it's pretty uncommon in the perfume industry, but Harvey Prince is a rebel!" she said.
"Well, it looks like you did it again," I commented.
"Did what again?" my friend asked, confused.
"Don't worry, there are plenty of other Harvey Prince products that I can surprise you with!" she said as we both laughed.
"You will never believe what my mom asked me to get her for Mother's Day," I said to my friend, Julie.
"What a coincidence that it's called Signature, too! But what does it smell like? You know how picky my mom can be…" I said with hesitation.
"All of those incredible notes in one perfume? Now I get why Signature is called the best luxury perfume…it must be pretty pricey." I said, disappointed that she had gotten my hopes up about this potential Mother's Day gift.
"No way! It's Harvey Prince! All of his products are affordably priced, but they're so high quality that your mom will think you spent a fortune on Signature!" Julie said.
As she spoke, I pulled up the Harvey Prince online store on my phone and read the description for the best luxury perfume. "Wow, you didn't mention the patchouli, Madagascar vanilla and amber notes! And all of these incredible perfume deals and discounts! Where has Harvey Prince been hiding for all of these years?!" I asked in wonder.
"Aren't you glad I introduced you to the best luxury perfume just in time for Mother's Day? You really owe me one!" she said as we both laughed.
Last Saturday afternoon, I was lounging at my friend's home when the doorbell rang. She ran to the door and returned with a package in her hands, "The gift I bought my mom for Mother's Day arrived! I can't wait to see it in person!" she told me, eagerly ripping through the packaging.
"The best Mother's Day perfume, Damask Rose by Harvey Prince! I've never smelled it before, but the description and reviews of it online were so incredible, I couldn't resist!" she exclaimed.
"You bought a perfume online without smelling it? That's risky! How would you even know it's the best Mother's Day perfume if you've never tried it?" I asked.
She took out a bottle of Petaly Noir from her bag and spritzed it into the air before confidently walking down the street in front of us. Notes of lily of the valley, night-blooming jasmine and tropical orchid trailed behind her, causing men in her path to stop and stare. She turned and gave me a wink, obviously aware of the power that the best evening perfume had on everyone around her.
She came back toward me. "See what I mean? Now you try!" she said, spritzing Petaly Noir into the air around me.
"Not so fast! Harvey Prince is so affordable that you should just buy your own bottle of the best evening perfume. After all, I have dates, too, you know!" she said, laughing.
"Affordable? A luxury fragrance this incredible?" I asked, doubtful.
"Yes! Even though Harvey Prince is made in the USA with the finest natural ingredients and best essential oils and is 100% cruelty free, vegan and gluten free, it's still affordable!" she exclaimed.


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well, try looking into motion capture systems. basically a special suit with dots on it, and cameras that track the movement, each set of points would relate to the mech's body. then put the pilot in a harness in the air, and have the mech piloted remotely, saves the pilot from danger. And good luck.
I had an idea for a sort of exoskeleton design, where it would more or less mimic your movements using some sort of pressure switch to calculate movement..
whether it was best for playing MW4, or the fact that the first two controllers are based off of actual pilot controls, there are enough buttons and switches and levers on those joysticks and throttles that integrating those exact models or a similiar system into your mech will definately cover any things you may need covered. as long as you are sure about your project, I would like to be kept updated and while I have no university degree experience I can help you with, I might be able to give you ingenuitive ideas.


A PH helmet is a type of anti-gas helmet with glass eyepieces and breathing tube introduced at the end of the 1915. It was superseded by the box respirator. The P helmet and PH helmet was issued as an improvement on the Hypo helmet to meet the German use of phosegene-chlorine gas mixtures in 1915. The helmets were made of flannelette soaked at first in a solution containing sodium phenolate, and later with hexamethy-lenetramine added to the solution.
↑ Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.219.
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I've been writing Rails applications for a little over two years now, but only recently has ruby-debug been added to my tool belt. Since then, I've been using it almost every week and have found it super useful.
If you take five minutes to learn the six commands I'll provide for you here, I promise you won't regret it.
Notice that our two states are joined with an AND (that's cool), but check out the "ORDER BY" clause. It still reflects a descending order for delivery_date – not what we wanted at all.
So how do we figure out what's going on here? We could write some tests, but I'm afraid that those tests might just confirm what we already know. There is a bug somewhere, but where?
This will dump us into a debug session.
Help will give you a run-down on all the other commands available to you, easy enough.
step is where you can get down into the nitty gritty goings-on of the code, it will 'step' into the first method it encounters on its current line.
next is like step, only it will evaluate the current line of code without stepping into the methods within, and simply drop down the next line of code in the current method.
list will print the current line of code the debugger is waiting to evaluate, along with the preceding and following five lines.
var local is perhaps the most useful of all the debugger commands for me, it will give a value dump of all the local variables. I keep an eye on this every few lines to detect when variable values have changed.
Ahh, we can see that we've passed the evaluation of the 'active' scope, and are now evaluating the scope that search() is creating.
You might be thinking that this is a pretty tedious process, and it often is, but for the bugs buried deep within code it's sometimes a good way to go.
I won't take you though the entire debug session here, as it would take a couple screens, and people would probably lose interest. I will say however, that the bug was not in searchlogic's code, but in Rails itself.
In the end, the issue was a bug in Rails itself, but this process allowed me to gain a better understanding of how the tools and libraries I use interact with one another. Try giving ruby-debug a whirl in your next project.
Here is a link to the Rails Lighthouse ticket describing this bug.


A thousand broken pieces scattered and thrown.
the masterpiece becomes even more beautiful and visible?
The love that was scarred and hidden comes to light and there you are again.
You, O Heavenly One, can orchestrate and devise the most ingenious plans.
Way above what I could ever imagine.
Yes, we die a thousand deaths and through some supernatural recreation, we are transformed. I die in your arms. Reaching out to you with a mouth that can hardly speak, but you know how to read the language of the soul that longs to be one with the eternal flow. So I keep giving myself to you again and again and I never fear that you hear, and are near, for you have proved your love time after time.
I hear a melody that resounds so sweetly and harmoniously within and I am dancing in the wind of your spirit.
Twirl me round and round in our dance of love.


Welcome to the April edition of Guitar Nine's online magazine. We're juiced about all the new music we've added over the past two months, as well as some of the anxiously awaited compilations, reissues and international releases now available. We've added an amazing 51 titles to the site, including instrumental CDs by Germano Seggio, Hpcrazy, The Balls, Frank Gambale, Andre Tonelli, Niels Vejlyt, Coste Apetrea, Dave LaRue, Ino Kang, Joe Satriani, Michael Orlando, Tony MacAlpine, Vinnie Moore, Larry Carlton, Nickos Kapilidis & The Jazz Utopia, Jill Yan, Jimmy Mac, Cornelissen/Vollink, Hightower, Next Order, Freddie Fox, DC Slater, Micheal Skinner, Rippingtons, Robert Sabin, Jon Beedle, Steve Khan, Rez, John Raptis, Andrew Roudny, Whiteful Jazz Quartet, Kada Ad Libitum, D Sound, Mindflowers, Bob Savage, Andre Kunz, Daniel Ward, Roger Matura, Alien Guitar Abduction, Allen Robot Van Wert, Hands On Strings, Stephan Bormann Band, Michel Sajrawy, Dagobert Bohm, Dago, James Hogan, Cinematik, Chambers/Berlin/Fiuczynski and Christopher Dean. You can now listen to and order 1850 instrumental releases by 1049 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).
Danny Jones is back with licks that will help you break the scale pattern syndrome.
UK guitarist Alan Williamson shows you how to use more fingers, tones and frets in your licks.
Mike Campese serves up a blended scale you can use to set your music apart from the ordinary.


The University of Arkansas Poultry Science Department is the recipient of a $25,069 student recruiting grant from the USPOULTRY Foundation. The grant was made possible by an endowing Foundation gift from the Monty and Margot Henderson Student Recruiting Fund, and the funds will be used to recruit students interested in poultry science and related industries. The Hendersons are long-time residents of the state of Arkansas. Monty is also an alumni of the University of Arkansas, as well as a past chairman of USPOULTRY.
"It is imperative that we strive to interest bright young people to study careers in the poultry industry. We need astute young managers to join our companies, as they will be the leaders of our industry tomorrow," said Paul Hill, West Liberty Foods, Ellsworth, Iowa, and USPOULTRY Foundation chairman.
In 2016, the USPOULTRY Foundation board approved student recruiting grants totaling $291,000 to 32 colleges and universities across the United States with a poultry science department or industry-related degree program. The Harold E. Ford Foundation provides annual recruiting funds to colleges and universities to attract students to their poultry programs. The grants are made possible by gifts to the foundation from companies, individuals and families, in addition to funds earned over the years at the International Poultry Expo, part of the International Production & Processing Expo.


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Dominic, Zoë, "Frederick Ashton: a choreographer and his ballets." Harap: 1971.
Kavanaugh, Julie, "Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton." New York: Pantheon Books, 1997.
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The Art People of 1970s New York Photographed by Michael Tighe
Andy Warhol in the dining room of The Factor, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
by Anna Randal
"Dear so and so. I'm a young photographer shooting a series of portraits of celebrated New Yorkers. If you could spare a few minutes of your time I would very much like to photograph you."
Michael Tighe is one of those photographers you can't quite understand, yet definitely not ignore. His work during the 1970s with Hollywood stars and art people of New York is considered seminal when it comes to celebrity photography. He started his career in 1874, by mailing letters to NY artists asking to photograph them and by 1976, Tighe had all his requests accepted.
According to him, the photograph that really lanched his career was of Baryshnikov getting a massage, for Warhol's Interview Magazine. Tighe had already photographed the master of pop art and had started a collaboration with the publication. In the following years, Tighe photographed stars like Michael Jackson and Patti Smith, with his dark, mysterious aesthetic marking his distinctive work and his unique style.
Photos via washingtonpost
Allen Ginsberg, East 14th St., New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
Bill Blass, fashion designer in his showroom, New York City,1975. (Michael Tighe)
George Segal, sculptor at his studio, New Jersey, 1973. (Michael Tighe)
Bobby Short at home, New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
Alan King, comedian, New York City, 1974. (Michael Tighe)
Cliff Gorman, actor on the Westside highway, New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
Frank Stella artist at his studio, New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
Mikhail Baryshnikov, New York City, 1976. (Michael Tighe)
Helen Gurley Brown at her office, Cosmopolitan, New York City, 1974. (Michael Tighe)
Robert Scull, art collector, New York City, 1974. (Michael Tighe)
Bob Fosse at his office, New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
Lee Strasberg with sons Adam and David at home, New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
Peter Maas, writer at home, New York City, 1974. (Michael Tighe)
Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld. (Michael Tighe)
Ralph Lauren at his showroom, New York City, 1975. (Michael Tighe)
All photos © Michael Tighe
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The 2020 Subaru Liberty has been revealed with a more upmarket interior and more technology, but may not be sold in Australia.
Subaru has chosen the 2019 Chicago Auto Show to unveil the seventh-generation Subaru Liberty, which is now based on the same SGA (Subaru Global Architecture) platform as the new Forester, Impreza and XV. Yet surprisingly, it's not yet confirmed for Australia.
While the 2020 Subaru Liberty appears stylistically similar to the previous model, the car features a higher quality interior, much more technology and the return to a turbo-petrol engine in the form of a new 2.4-litre four-cylinder unit that replaces the 3.6-litre six in the Liberty 3.6R.
But while the new Liberty appears to be a big improvement on the current model, its Australian release is yet to be confirmed thanks to a cloud hanging over its right-hand drive production future.
The 2020 Liberty is 40mm longer than the previous model.
While we cannot confirm (or deny) the car's local arrival just yet, we can tell you all about it.
Subaru claims the new platform makes the 2020 Liberty more dynamic and better riding than ever before, thanks to a 13 percent increase in ultra-high tensile strength steel and a 371 percent increase in structural adhesive compared with the Impreza.
The body of the 2020 Liberty claimed to be up to 70 percent stiffer than before.
While the exterior of the 2020 Liberty is best described as evolutionary, the interior is a big improvement on the basic current model.
It's clear there's been a push upmarket, with Nappa leather upholstery offered on high-grade models, leather on the dashboard and a huge 11.6-inch portrait touchscreen running Subaru's 'Starlink' software.
Higher trim levels get Nappa leather upholstery and leather on the dashboard.
The new car also features digital radio, satellite navigation, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, plus the huge screen also incorporates the car's dual-zone climate control.
All models in the US will be equipped with the company's 'EyeSight' active safety technology with adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist and autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection as standard.
The 11.6-inch portrait touchscreen controls the sat nav, digital radio and phone streaming.
A new 180-degree front camera system and automatic reverse braking are first for the Liberty after debuting in the XV, Impreza and Forester.
Measuring 4840mm long, 1840mm wide, and 1500mm tall, with a 2750mm-long wheelbase, the 2020 Liberty is 40mm longer than the previous model, yet curiously, all other dimensions remain the same.
The overall increase in length has allowed the Liberty's boot floor length to grow and the North American specification has grown to 428-litres - though the current Australian model offers 493-litres, perhaps due to a smaller spare tyre.
Boot space has grown from 493-litres to 428-litres.
Sitting on the 'Subaru Global Architecture' means the 2020 Liberty uses new engines - the 136kW/239Nm 2.5-litre naturally aspirated four from the Forester, and a new 194kW/376Nm 2.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine that's currently only currently used in the Ascent SUV in North America.
Both drivetrains are matched to a CVT auto, and being a Subaru, each version features torque vectoring all-wheel drive system.
Replacing the current 3.6-litre six-cylinder engine (used in the Liberty and Outback 3.6R), the new 2.4-litre turbo engine is capable of a 6.1 second 0-97km/h (60mph) sprint - 2.3 seconds quicker than the base 2.5-litre engine.
While it offers more power than the previous 3.6-litre engine, the 2.4 turbo should also prove more efficient - the Liberty 3.6R is rated at 9.9L/100km on a combined cycle.
While the 2020 Subaru Liberty appears to be a big improvement on the current model, it is yet to be confirmed for right-hand drive production, let alone Australian sales.
We do predict the new generation Outback to make it locally, though that is unlikely to happen before 2020.


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Stonegate Digital Capital Group, a private equity firm that invests in blockchain technology and digital assets, has secured an "eight-figure" investment. The backer was an unnamed European family office.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Stonegate Digital Capital Group, a multi-strategy blockchain fund platform which invests in blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, announced that it was seeded with an 8-figure investment by a multi-billion dollar private European family office.
John McCorvey, CEO and Portfolio Manager, commented on the announcement: We are proud to partner with a prestigious institution who shares our vision of the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency asset class. With this investment, Stonegate Digital is well positioned to build upon its track record and history with continued growth in the years ahead.
The European family office will be seeding all blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives deployed by Stonegate Digital Capital Group. This seed investment takes Stonegate Digital Capital Group one step further in the execution of its growth plan, aimed at expanding its coverage across the blockchain technology space with dedicated sector teams across multiple long/short spot cryptocurrency trading strategies, quantitative trading strategies, ICO/Pre-ICO investments, digital asset mining and other strategies.
William Uicker, Senior Portfolio Analyst of Stonegate Digital Capital Group, stated: We are very excited to announce this strategic investment and we look forward to having them join us on our journey of global blockchain innovation. Combining our investment strategies with the backing of a multi-billion dollar family office means that together we can continue to maximize the profit potential that we possess across the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency markets. This investment relationship extends the reach of the Stonegate Digital Capital Group brand and empowers us to continue to be among the top performing hedge funds in the world.
Stonegate Digital Capital Group is a private equity firm which focuses on investing in blockchain technology and digital assets. The Stonegate Digital Capital Group team has significant expertise across all aspects of alternative investment products, including private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. For more information please contact the Investor Relations team through our website at www.StonegateDigital.com.


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National Security Experts Worried We Aren't Taking Climate Change Seriously Enough
National security experts are once again warning Americans and politicians that national security can't exist in the future if we don't address the growing threat of climate change. This is the message that our intelligence communities have been sending us since at least 2006, and we are ill-equipped as a country to handle the flood of refugees and the deluge of disasters that climate change will bring to our country. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
On Wednesdays, several senior intelligence officials went in front of the House Intelligence Committee to talk about one of the greatest threats facing the United States today. They were telling us about a problem that basically if we don't address this problem, national security for the United States doesn't even exist anymore. We're screwed if we don't do something about this problem. According to the intelligence experts in our own government and that problem, unsurprisingly is climate change. Now, according to reports, most Republicans on the committee didn't care about it, didn't want to hear about it, and didn't believe the assessments that were given to them by these intelligence officials thought they were over blowing it. Yo, this, this can't be the way you say it. We're not going to have a a refugee problem. We're not going to have a migration problem. We're not going to have all these other extreme problems that you've been warning us about since at least 2006 in fact, records actually indicate that even Ronald Reagan's intelligence department had warned him on a couple of occasions that we need to keep an eye on climate change.
Same thing with actually George H. W. Bush. His intelligence officials said climate change is probably going to be a big threat for us in the future, but yeah, go ahead. Republicans on the Intelligence Committee and dismiss what these people have been telling us since the 1980s because that seems like a smart thing to do. The truth is that these men are right. These men who win in front of the Intelligence Committee from the intelligence agencies are telling us the same thing they've been telling us consistently since 2006 when they first put out their big massive report about climate change being a global threat to security and obviously a major threat, the biggest threat it said to a national security here in the United States because we can't handle everything that it's going to throw at us. Obviously across the planet as sea levels rise, there's going to become places that are uninhabitable. A majority of the world's population lives within a just a few dozen miles of shoreline all over the world. Suddenly those who live the closest, possibly even, you know, 10 to 20 to 30 miles inland. Those areas are gone. They're underwater. Assuming we do not address the problem. All of those people who live in those areas have to move further inland. Maybe there's not enough room further inland, maybe their island or their country isn't wide enough for there to be an inland, so they've got to go elsewhere.
Or you know, Donald Trump's telling us right now, oh my God, what's happening at the southern border? It's the worst thing in the world yet. Let me tell you what's going to happen under climate change. It's not just going to be the southern border. It's going to be live. Literally every border around this country and other countries, people flooding in there is literally nowhere else to go. We allowed their home to go under water. They can't go back to that. We can't pump that water out. It's just underwater now and we have been one of the worst polluters on the planet and it is our responsibility, believe it or not, to take care of these people. We've done this to them. We've allowed the world to do this to them. How the Trump administration actually removed climate change from a list of greatest threats to national security. They choose to believe that this problem is not real or that it doesn't exist. The truth is the exact opposite.
And the sad truth is that we are ill prepared to deal with the consequences, but the hope is that we are more than equipped and ready as a population to actually prevent the problem before it even gets to that point. But unfortunately, if we have Republicans in power, in any branch of our government, action in the United States will never happen.
Farron Cousins is the executive editor of The Trial Lawyer magazine and a contributing writer at DeSmogBlog.com. He is the co-host / guest host for Ring of Fire Radio. His writings have appeared on Alternet, Truthout, and The Huffington Post. Farron received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of West Florida in 2005 and became a member of American MENSA in 2009. Follow him on Twitter @farronbalanced


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Q: Google Play Game Services - not signed in on next activity In my application, i have in game helper(i want log in on button click):
// Whether to automatically try to sign in on onStart(). We only set this
// to true when the sign-in process fails or the user explicitly signs out.
// We set it back to false when the user initiates the sign in process.
boolean mConnectOnStart = false;

In my MainActivity (extends BaseGameActivity), after login button click i call:
beginUserInitiatedSignIn();

Of course now isSignedIn() returns true.
But when I go to next Activity (aslo extends BaseGameActivity):
isSignedIn() return false.
I can of course call beginUserInitiatedSignIn() on my next Activity, but i don' t want it.
In my app user can be logged in, but not have to. So if user not logged in at my mainActivity i don' t want show login form on next activity.
Edit: For this moment my solution is to create static variable and set it when i leave my main activity for ture if isSignedIn() and call beginUserInitiatedSignIn() on next activity only when this variable is true. Is it any better, automatic solution ?

A: There's two types of sign in:

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*The user initiated sign in which shows the Google Play Games logo and requires the user to approve access, etc.

*Silent sign in (which BaseGameActivity does in its onStart call) - this automatically attempts to sign in and, if the user has already signed in, does the same callback as if you had gone through the user initiated sign in flow.

Therefore you do need to wait for the sign in callback before attempting any Google Play Games related calls in each and every activity.
Note that recently (4 days ago on Feb 18, 2014), the BaseGameUtils library for Android was updated to use the new Google Api Client model, which allows you to do read calls before being signed in (where they will automatically wait until sign in before attempting to process). As the Google Api Client gives a number of other benefits (such as improved sign in reliability), you should update to the latest BaseGameUtils if you haven't already.

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The nature of Digital Capability and the speed of change means that the course isn't intended to be comprehensive or be the end point in your development in this area. Instead, it is intended to help get you to the point where you are comfortable in exploring your own digital practice and investigating how new and existing technologies might benefit your work and life.
In addition, if your confidence regarding digital technology is so low that you feel the need for some facilitated guidance to get you started, we are also running 2 courses in late February and through March. As with the online course, these are also intended for all staff, both academic and professional services.


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Q: Can a mapping from real line to $(0,1]$ be continuous? Can a mapping from real line to $(0,1]$ be continuous? Also is it bijective? Please give me proof.
I checked that between the same intervals; there will be a homeomorphic mapping but here I guess a mapping can be bijective but not continuous. I was trying to get some examples and i couldn't find one.

A: Yes, it can be continuous; e.g., consider the gaussian
$y(x) = \exp \left (-\dfrac{x^2}{\Sigma^2} \right ), 0 \ne \Sigma \in \Bbb R ; \tag 1$
note that
$y(0) = \exp(0) = 1, \tag 2$
$\forall x \in \Bbb R, \; 0 < y(x) \le 1, \tag 3$
$\forall x \in \Bbb R, \; y(x) = y(-x), \tag 4$
$\displaystyle \lim_{x \to \pm \infty} y(x) = 0; \tag 5$
it then follows from the intermediate value theorem that for any
$c \in (0, 1], \; \exists x_c \in \Bbb R, \; y(\pm x_c) = c; \tag 6$
I leave fleshing out the details of this assertion to my vast readership.  This establishes the existence of a continuous (analytic, even) $f: \Bbb R \to (0, 1]$.
I doubt there are any bijective, continuous such functions; perhaps I shall return with a proof of same.