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U.S. Championships
Rules of Squash
US Squash
Community Initiative
Specter Center
Squash Magazine
US Squash Policies:
Adult Policies
Tournament Procedure PoliciesEntry Management and Tournament TimelinesAdult Ranking System
Standard point-a-rally scoring (PAR) to 11 points will be used in all accredited tournaments. All matches in accredited tournaments are best-of-5 games.
Refereeing Requirements
Referees should know and understand all World Squash Federation Softball Singles Rules. National Championships require that players take and pass the Full Club Referee exam that is available on your US Squash profile.
In all US National Championships, players are responsible for refereeing and marking. Players must be ready and present immediately following the completion of their match. While the losing player must remain at the court to time the four-minute warm up, the winning player may go to the tournament desk to turn in their score sheet and obtain the score sheet for the next match on their court if digital scoring is not being used.
A player not fulfilling their refereeing responsibilities may lose his or her current US Squash referee certification and may not be allowed to continue participation during a tournament.
Number of Guaranteed Matches
A minimum of 3 scheduled matches will be provided for all players in National Championships. Club tournaments are recommended to schedule a minimum of 3 matches. Players are expected to complete all scheduled matches. If a player abandons a tournament, they may forfeit a tournament deposit at the discretion of the Tournament Director.
Late withdrawals may result in some players receiving less than 3 matches.
Tournament Directors are recommended to schedule a maximum of 2 matches per day.
Break Between Matches
For all events, players are recommended to have a minimum of 3 hours between scheduled match start times.
Tournament Seeding
In any given draw, players will likely be seeded in order of their US Squash Rating.
For all events, randomized seeding groups are used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-24, 25-28 and 29-32. Players in each seeding group are drawn at random to fill the positions on the draw for those groups.
Default and Withdrawal Policies
For National singles events, all withdrawals after the entry deadline are considered late withdrawals. As such, entry fees and any deposits will not be refunded. If necessary, draws will be reseeded to maintain the integrity of the draw. Within the 24-hour window of the start of a tournament, no reseeds will be processed. Accredited tournaments are encouraged to apply this policy at the discretion of the Tournament Director.
Any player who is registered for a tournament and does not show up to play is also considered a late withdrawal. Late withdrawals from National Championships may result in a player forfeiting a tournament deposit.
Mid Tournament Defaults
The tournament director may default a player if that player has not arrived on court by 15 minutes after the scheduled match time. Players who default a match in a tournament also default subsequent matches. Players may be permitted to continue in the tournament at the discretion of the tournament director. In making these decisions, the tournament director will take into consideration the level of communication with the player, court availability, and any other relevant specific factors. In no case is the tournament director obligated to make special accommodations for a player.
Players are expected to arrive at each tournament with the intention of playing and completing all scheduled matches. Any player deemed to have needlessly defaulted out of a tournament will receive a mid-tournament default which may result in any deposit not being refunded.
If a player begins a tournament but is unable to complete all scheduled matches due to illness or injury, the mid-tournament default can be waived with a doctor's note. The doctor's note must be submitted via email to tournaments@ussquash.com within one week of the last day of the tournament. The doctor's note cannot be submitted by a family member and must be from an independent source.
Combined Age Divisions
In some cases, a tournament director may choose to combine age divisions due to low entries or other extenuating factors.
EXAMPLE: If the Men's 55+ receives 5 entries and the Men's 60+ receives 2 entries, the tournament director may choose to combine the 55+ and 60+ divisions into a single 55+ division. All players must be age eligible for a division from the first day of the of the tournament.
NOTE: If a tournament director needs to combine a skill level division, players will only be eligible to compete in a skill level higher than their own. E.g. if a 3.67 rated player is the only person signed up for the 4.0 division, they will only be able to be combined into the 4.5 division and cannot compete in the 3.5 division.
Round Robin Tie Break Rules
In the event of a tie in a round robin draws, finishing positions are determined based on the following criteria, which are applied in sequential order until the tie is broken.
Most Matches Won
Fewest Matches Lost
Most Games Won
Fewest Games Lost
Regular Tournament Registration Deadline (Entry Deadline)
National Championships entries close Wednesday 1.5 weeks before the start of the event at 12pm in the time zone of the tournament. For accredited play, a tournament director can decide entry deadline at his or her discretion.
Players Per Division
A minimum of 3 players is required to be an accredited division and tournament directors may combine divisions to reach this minimum.
Players must be age eligible as of the first day of tournament play.
Number of Divisions
The tournament director may allow players to participate in multiple divisions, however, players must be prepared to play all matches at their scheduled times and accommodations by the tournament director should not be expected.
US National Championships do not allow play in more than one division unless specifically stated. US Squash reserves the right to enter a player in more than one division to fill out an entry list.
The waitlist is released by tournaments after the registration deadline to confirm the final player entry list, and to indicate which players have been placed on a waitlist in the event of oversubscribed divisions. The waitlist is available for view from the entrant page of the tournament listing.
If there is an available playing position in a division, a player will be moved from the waitlist onto the main draw.
Player Start Times
Start times for all US National Championships will be released 5:00pm in the time zone of the tournament on the Monday before the start of the event.
For all events, online draws will be available by 5:00pm in the time zone of the tournament on the Wednesday before the start of the tournament.
Rating Based Ranking System
The US Squash rating algorithm uses all matches from the previous 45 months in the US Squash database to calculate a relative measure of each player's ability. Your rating is a great way to compare your level against friends and competitors, find a match against some of similar level, or track your improvement over time! You can read more about the algorithm by clicking here.
Tournament Structure
The tournament calendar is designed to give players of all skill levels the opportunity for fun and competitive play.
Players of any rating and ranking may apply for entry into any level of tournament. However, some tournaments may be restricted in size due to demand or court restrictions.
Players can only compete in a skill division higher than their current rating (e.g. a player rated 3.2 can enter 3.5 division or higher but cannot enter the 3.0 division)
Age Group and Skill Level Rankings
In order to receive an age group or skill level ranking, members are required to:
– Have an active membership paid through date
– Have a gender selected
– Have an accurate birth date in the system
– Play an accredited match in the system within the last 12 months (tournament, league, box league, or ladder – note that friendly club matches are not included)
Age groups will display only the ages in the direct category. For example, 40+ will only show 40-44 year olds, regardless of skill rating.
End of Season Rankings
End of Season rankings take into account any matches played between June 1 and May 31 during the current season. In order to receive an End of Season Ranking, players must have a current membership as of June 1 in the current season and meet the exposure and match counts for a given division as described below:
Exposures:
Tournament Exposures
Skill Level exposure: competed in a skill level division (e.g. M2.5)
Age Division exposure: competed in an age division (e.g. W40+) If a player competes in an age division younger than the one for which they currently qualify, they receive exposure credit in the division in which they competed, and their current age division. For example, if a 51 year-old man competes in a 40+ tournament, he would get one exposure credit towards the 40+ age division, and also 1 towards the 50+.
NOTE – in this case, even though receiving credits in two divisions, it would still count as only one toward the total exposure count
Team tournaments (e.g. Howe Cup) count as a skill level exposure, NOT a league exposure
League/Ladder exposures
Any league (box or team) or ladder where the player competed in at least 4 matches counts as 1 exposure. Only 1 exposure is allowed per league. For example, if a player competed in 12 team league matches in the same league season, that is still only 1 exposure, not 3 exposures
More Policies Sections:
US Squash is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which serves as the only national governing body and membership organization for the sport in the United States. Founded in 1904 and headquartered in New York City, it is a member of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the Pan American Squash Federation and the World Squash Federation.
© US SQUASH and US SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIPS are registered trademarks of the United States Squash Racquets Association (USSRA), Incorporated - All rights reserved.


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/* global require */
/**
 * Author: DrowsyFlesh
 * Create: 2018/11/12
 * Description:
 */
import _ from 'lodash';
import $ from 'jquery';
//const ffmpeg = require('ffmpeg.js/ffmpeg-mp4.js');
import FLV from '../lib/flv';
import React from 'react';
import Url from 'url-parse';
import styled from 'styled-components';
import {DashContainer} from '../DashContainer';
import {FlvContainer} from '../FlvContainer';
import {getFilename} from 'Utils';
import {normalFlvDownloadURL, bangumiFlvDownloadURL} from '../api';
import {theme} from 'Styles';

export default () => {
    const {color} = theme;

    const Title = styled.div.attrs({className: 'bilibili-helper-video-download-title'})`
      width: 100%;
      margin-bottom: 6px;
      font-size: 12px;
      font-weight: bold;
      text-align: left;
      .count {
        margin-left: 10px;
        color: ${color('google-grey-500')};
      }
    `;
    const Container = styled.div`
      display: flex;
      flex-wrap: wrap;
    `;
    const LinkGroup = styled.div`
      position: relative;
      display: inline-block;
      margin: 4px;
      padding: 3px;
      border-radius: 3px;
      font-size: 12px;
      font-style: normal;
      letter-spacing: 0.3px;
      background-color: #eaf4ff;
      transition: all 0.3s, visibility 0s;
      cursor: pointer;
      word-break: break-all;
      overflow: hidden;
      &:hover {
        background-color: #d4eaff;
      }
      a {
        padding: 0 8px;
        border-right: 1px solid #fff;
        color: #00a1d6;
        &:hover {
          color: #004c65;
        }
        &:last-of-type {
          border: none;
        }
      }
    `;
    const LinkGroupTitle = styled.span`
      display: inline-block;
      padding: 0 8px;
      border-right: 1px solid #fff;
      p {
        color: ${color('google-grey-900')};
        font-size: 12px;
      }
      cursor: pointer;
    `;
    const Suggest = styled.p`
      margin-bottom: 6px;
      margin-left: 5px;
      font-size: 10px;
      color: ${color('bilibili-pink')};
    `;
    const Progress = styled.div`
      position: absolute;
      bottom: 0;
      left: 0;
      width: ${({percentage}) => percentage + '%'};
      height: 2px;
      background-color: ${color('bilibili-blue')};
      transition: all 0.7s;
    `;

    return class VideoDownload extends React.Component {
        constructor(props) {
            super(props);
            this.inited = false;
            this.originVideoData = {};
            this.state = {
                videoData: {},
                currentCid: null,
                originVideoData: {},
                percentage: 0,
                downloading: false,
                settings: null,
                currentQuality: null,
                errorStr: '',
            };
            this.currentAvid = null;
            this.addListener();
            _.map(document.scripts, (o) => {
                if (/^window.__playinfo__=/.test(o.innerHTML)) {
                    const playInfo = JSON.parse(o.innerHTML.slice(20));
                    this.originVideoData = playInfo.data || playInfo;
                }
            });
            this.containers = {};
        }

        componentDidMount() {
            this.inited = true;
            chrome.runtime.sendMessage({command: 'videoDownloadDOMInitialized'});
            chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
                command: 'getSetting',
                feature: 'videoDownload',
            }, (settings) => {
                this.setState({settings});
            });
        }

        getContainer = (type, currentCid, currentQuality, data) => {
            if (!this.containers[currentCid]) this.containers[currentCid] = {};
            if (this.containers[currentCid][currentQuality]) {
                return this.containers[currentCid][currentQuality];
            } else {
                const videoData = data[currentCid][currentQuality];
                switch (type) {
                    case 'flv':
                        return this.containers[currentCid][currentQuality] = new FlvContainer({
                            ...videoData, cid: currentCid,
                        });
                    case 'mp4':
                        return this.containers[currentCid][currentQuality] = new DashContainer({
                            ...videoData, cid: currentCid,
                        });
                }
            }
        };

        addListener = () => {
            const that = this;
            chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((message, sender, sendResponse) => {
                if (message.command === 'videoDownloadSendVideoRequest') {
                    let {data, url, method, type} = message;
                    const {cid, avid, qn = ''} = data;
                    if (type === 'new') {
                        if (location.href.indexOf('bangumi') >= 0) {
                            url = new Url(bangumiFlvDownloadURL);
                        } else {
                            url = new Url(normalFlvDownloadURL);
                        }
                        url.set('query', {cid, avid, qn, otype: 'json'});
                        url = url.toString();
                    }
                    //const res = /\/av([\d]+)\//.exec(location.pathname); // 新的视频播放页面会同时加载多个不同视频的playUrl
                    //console.log(res, avid);
                    //if (type === 'old') {
                    const {videoData} = this.state;
                    const currentCid = +data.cid;
                    this.currentAvid = avid;
                    const quality = data.quality || data.qn;
                    this.setState({currentCid});
                    if (videoData[currentCid] && videoData[currentCid][quality] && !videoData[currentCid][quality].dash) {
                        //
                    } else {
                        this.getFlvResponse(method, url);
                    }

                    sendResponse(true);
                } else if (message.command === 'videoDownloadCid' && message.cid) { // 本地script加载视频数据时,需要检测cid
                    const {videoData} = this.state;
                    if (_.isEmpty(videoData) && !_.isEmpty(this.originVideoData)) {
                        const {quality} = this.originVideoData;
                        this.currentAvid = message.avid;
                        if (this.originVideoData.dash) {

                            let url = null;
                            if (location.href.indexOf('bangumi') >= 0) {
                                url = new Url(bangumiFlvDownloadURL);
                            } else {
                                url = new Url(normalFlvDownloadURL);
                            }
                            url.set('query', {cid: message.cid, avid: message.avid, qn: quality, otype: 'json'});
                            this.setState({currentCid: message.cid});
                            this.getFlvResponse('get', url.toString());
                        } else {
                            const currentData = {...this.originVideoData};
                            const cidData = videoData[message.cid] || {};
                            cidData[quality] = currentData;
                            videoData[message.cid] = cidData;
                            this.setState({currentCid: message.cid, videoData, currentQuality: quality});
                        }
                    }
                    sendResponse(true);
                }
                return true;
            });
            $(document).on('click', '.bui-select-list li, .bpui-selectmenu-list li', (e) => {
                const quality = e.currentTarget.getAttribute('data-value');
                that.changeQuality(quality);
            });

            window.addEventListener('message', (event) => {
                if (event.data.command === 'bilibili-helper-video-download-get-flv-url' && event.data.res) {
                    const res = event.data.res;
                    if (res.code !== 0) {
                        this.setState({errorStr: res.message});
                        return;
                    }
                    const {videoData, currentCid} = this.state;
                    let downloadData;
                    if (res.type === 'new' && res.code === 0) {
                        downloadData = res.data || res.result || res;
                    } else if (res.type === 'old') {
                        downloadData = res.result || res.data || res;
                    }

                    const {accept_quality, accept_description, durl, quality, dash} = downloadData;
                    const currentData = {accept_quality, accept_description, durl, dash, quality};
                    if (!videoData[currentCid]) videoData[currentCid] = {};
                    videoData[currentCid][quality] = currentData;
                    this.setState({videoData, currentCid, percentage: 0, currentQuality: quality});
                }
            });
        };

        changeQuality = (qn) => {
            const {currentCid, videoData} = this.state;
            let url;
            if (location.href.indexOf('bangumi') >= 0) {
                url = new Url(bangumiFlvDownloadURL);
            } else {
                url = new Url(normalFlvDownloadURL);
            }
            url.set('query', {cid: currentCid, avid: this.currentAvid, qn, otype: 'json'});
            url = url.toString();

            this.setState({currentCid, currentQuality: qn});
            if (videoData[currentCid] && videoData[currentCid][qn] && !videoData[currentCid][qn].dash) {
            } else {
                this.getFlvResponse('get', url);
            }
        };

        // 由于chrome73开始CROB策略,改为插入页面的请求方式,在用window的message传回脚本,心累累
        getFlvResponse = (method, url, type = 'old') => {
            const scriptHTML = document.createElement('script');
            scriptHTML.innerHTML = `
            fetch('${url}', {
                method: 'get',
                credentials: 'include',
            })
            .then(res => res.json())
            .then(res => {
                window.postMessage({command:'bilibili-helper-video-download-get-flv-url', res: {...res, type: '${type}'}}, '*');
            });
        `;
            document.body.appendChild(scriptHTML);
        };

        handleOnClickDownloadFLV = (downloadUrl) => {
            chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
                command: 'sendVideoFilename',
                url: downloadUrl.split('?')[0],
                cid: this.state.currentCid,
                filename: getFilename(document),
            });
        };

        handleOnClickDownloadMp4 = (videoData) => {
            const {currentCid, currentQuality} = this.state;
            this.setState({downloading: true});
            const container = this.getContainer('mp4', currentCid, currentQuality, videoData);
            container.download((percentage) => {
                this.setState({percentage});
            }).then((downloadData) => {
                let [buffers, [videoCodec, audioCodec]] = downloadData;
                this.setState({downloading: false});
                //console.warn(window.ffmpeg_run);
                //const {MP4Box} = require('mp4box');
                //const mp4 = new MP4Box(true);
                //buffers[0].fileStart = 0;
                //mp4.appendBuffer(buffers[0]);
                //mp4.flush();
                //console.warn(mp4, mp4.processSamples());
                //console.warn(buffers);
                //const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([buffers[0]], {type: `video/mp4; codecs="${videoCodec}"`}));
                //console.warn(url);
                //let o = ffmpeg({
                //    MEMFS: [{name: 'video.mp4', data: buffers[0]}, {name: 'audio.mp4', data: buffers[1]}],
                //    arguments: [
                //        '-i', 'video.mp4',
                //        '-i', 'audio.mp4',
                //        '-c', 'copy',
                //        '-shortest',
                //        //'-c:a', 'aac',
                //        //'-strict', 'experimental',
                //        '-map', '0:v',
                //        '-map', '1:a',
                //        'output.mp4',
                //    ],
                //    // Ignore stdin read requests.
                //    stdin: function() {},
                //});
                //const out = [...o.MEMFS[0].data];
                //o = null;
                //buffers = null;
                //const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([out], {type: `video/mp4; codecs="${videoCodec}, ${audioCodec}"`}));
                //chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
                //    command: 'downloadMergedVideo',
                //    url,
                //    cid: currentCid,
                //    filename: getFilename(document) + '.mp4',
                //});
            }).catch(e => console.warn(e));
        };

        handleOnClickDownloadFLVAll = (data) => {
            const {currentCid, currentQuality, videoData} = this.state;
            this.setState({downloading: true});

            // get quality
            if (!data.quality) data.quality = parseInt(document.querySelector('.bilibili-player-video-btn-quality > div ul li.bui-select-item-active')
                                                               .getAttribute('data-value'));
            // init container
            const container = this.getContainer('flv', currentCid, currentQuality, videoData);
            // start download
            container.download((percentage) => {
                this.setState({percentage});
            }).then(blobs => {
                FLV.mergeBlobs(blobs).then(mergeBlob => {
                    this.setState({downloading: false});
                    const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(mergeBlob, {type: 'video/x-flv'});
                    chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
                        command: 'downloadMergedVideo',
                        url,
                        cid: currentCid,
                        filename: getFilename(document) + '.flv',
                    });
                });
            }).catch(e => e);
        };

        /*handleOnClickClearFLVCache = (data) => {
            const {currentCid} = this.state;
            const quality = data.quality || parseInt(document.querySelector('.bilibili-player-video-btn-quality > div ul li.bui-select-item-active')
                                                             .getAttribute('data-value'));
            if (this.containers[currentCid]) {
                const container = this.containers[currentCid];
                container.clear(quality);
            }
        };*/

        renderFLV = () => {
            const {downloading, settings, videoData, currentQuality: quality = null, currentCid, percentage} = this.state;
            const showPiece = (settings && _.find(settings.options, {key: 'showPiece'})) || {on: false};
            const {durl, accept_description, accept_quality} = videoData[currentCid][quality];
            if (!showPiece.on) { // 不显示分段
                const title = accept_description[accept_quality.indexOf(+quality)];
                if (videoData[currentCid][quality].durl.length === 1) { // 如果只有一个分段则直接显示下载地址的按钮
                    return (
                        <LinkGroup key={quality}>
                             this.handleOnClickDownloadFLV(videoData[currentCid][quality].durl[0].url)}
                                referrerPolicy="unsafe-url"
                                download
                            >{title}
                        </LinkGroup>
                    );
                } else {
                    return (
                        <LinkGroup key={quality} downloading={downloading} disabled={downloading}>
                             this.handleOnClickDownloadFLVAll(videoData[currentCid][quality])}>{title}{downloading ? ` 下载中 (${percentage}%)` : ''}
                            <Progress percentage={percentage}/>
                        </LinkGroup>
                    );
                }
            } else return (
                <LinkGroup key={quality} downloading={downloading} disabled={downloading}>
                    {_.map(durl, (o, i) => {
                        const title = durl.length > 1 ? `${i + 1}` : accept_description[accept_quality.indexOf(+quality)];
                        return (
                            <React.Fragment key={i}>
                                {durl.length > 1 && i === 0 ?
                                 <LinkGroupTitle key={`title-${quality}-${i}`}>
                                     {accept_description[accept_quality.indexOf(+quality)]}
                                 </LinkGroupTitle> : null}

                                 this.handleOnClickDownloadFLV(o.url)}
                                >{title}

                                {durl.length > 1 && i === durl.length - 1 &&
                                 this.handleOnClickDownloadFLVAll(videoData[currentCid][quality])}>
                                    {downloading ? `下载中 ${percentage ? `(${percentage}%)` : ''}` : '合并下载'}
                                }
                            </React.Fragment>
                        );
                    })}
                    <Progress percentage={percentage}/>
                </LinkGroup>
            );
        };

        renderDash = () => {
            const {downloading, currentQuality: quality, videoData, currentCid, percentage} = this.state;
            const {accept_description, accept_quality} = videoData[currentCid][quality];
            const title = accept_description[accept_quality.indexOf(+quality)];
            return (
                <LinkGroup downloading={downloading} disabled={downloading}>
                    { this.handleOnClickDownloadMp4(videoData[currentCid][quality])}>
                        {title}{downloading ? ` 下载中 ${percentage ? `(${percentage}%)` : ''}` : ''}
                    }
                    MP4下载功能存在没有声音的问题,暂时下架

                    可切换到旧版播放页面下载flv,目前已支持合FLV合并下载
                    <Progress percentage={percentage}/>
                </LinkGroup>
            );
        };

        render() {
            const {videoData, currentCid, percentage, currentQuality, errorStr} = this.state;
            const loadedVideo = videoData[currentCid] && videoData[currentCid][currentQuality];
            return (
                <React.Fragment>
                    <Title>视频下载 - 切换清晰度来获取视频连接</Title>
                    <Container>
                        {loadedVideo && (loadedVideo.durl || loadedVideo.dash) && this.renderFLV()}
                        {!videoData[currentCid] ? <LinkGroupTitle>
                            {!errorStr &&
请尝试切换视频清晰度 或 切换到旧播放页面
}
                            {errorStr &&
{errorStr}
}
                        </LinkGroupTitle> : null}
                    </Container>
                </React.Fragment>
            );
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
package parser.commands;

import java.util.Stack;

import exceptions.BadArgumentException;
import model.State;
import parser.nodes.SyntaxNode;

public class HideTurtle extends SyntaxNode {

	public HideTurtle(Stack<SyntaxNode> input){
	}
	@Override
	public double execute(State myState) throws BadArgumentException {
		myState.getTurtle().setHidden(true);
		return 0;
	}

}


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PELORUS BOATING
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BUY SELL EXCHANGE
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The Pelorus Boating Club
Is located in Havelock, half way between Picton and Nelson, on SH6, at the headwaters of The Pelorus Sounds, The Pelorus Boating Club was first established in the 1968 by a group of keen local boat owners. 2018 will mark the 50th Annversary of the boating club.
Today the club is one of New Zealands largest boating clubs with over 500 members and co owns over 80 moorings thorughout the Marlborough Sounds for use by the clubs' members. Click here for mooring information.
The club has a modern club rooms, kitchen and lounge area including complimentary WiFi within the club rooms. Along with this the club rooms has two modern showers and a well equiped laundry for use by members at a small charge. The cost of using these facilities is by way of contribution as advertised in the club rooms.
The club has a number of Honary Life Members.
Monthy committee meetings are held each month - generally on the second Friday of the month. For details of the current committee - click here.
The past is always present in the mascot of the Pelorus Boating Club, as it depicts the areas famous dolphin, Pelorus Jack, a Risso's dolphin that would join boats travelling between Pelorus Sound and French Pass or on the reverse journey. Pelorus Jack was first noticed in 1888 and spent 24 years escorting boats from Pelorus Sound to French Pass. To read more about Pelorus Jack - click here.

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Peanuts you can count on (literally). From the creator of Peanut Butter & Cupcake!
Terry Border uses his funny food characters to create a a counting story perfect for his youngest fans. His Peanut People will dazzle kids with their group stunts as they go from 1 to 10. Readers young, old, and everywhere in between will fall head over heels for this hilarious board book starring Terry Border's beloved punny characters.


Slingshot exists to help inventors and entrepreneurs from the Pacific Northwest launch their products into the global marketplace.
Slingshot Northwest, Inc (Slingshot) is an option for inventors who have worked with NWIRC to get their product ready for market but do not wish to build the business elements required to develop the market for their product. Slingshot can do that for them.
Why did the NWIRC establish Slingshot?
After working with many inventors who had great products ready for the market, but were not in a position for a variety of reasons to take the step of getting their product on the market, NWIRC wanted to find a way to help them experience success with their efforts. The skills and interests required for the vision and creation of a new product are not the same as the many business elements required to get a product to the market. It was imperative that we find a way for the inventors to get their products into the market.
What is required for Slingshot to consider a product?
The inventor must live in northwest Washington – Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island or San Juan County.
The Inventor must complete the steps established within the Buildit Program to get the product ready for the market.
If Slingshot and the inventor agree, how do they proceed?
NWIRC will work with the Inventor to discuss the fit of the product with Slingshot's capabilities. If after talking with Slingshot, the Inventor wished to proceed, NWIRC will continue to support the Inventor by providing guidance about the process of licensing their product to Slingshot.
An Inventor can provide the right to another person or company to make, have made, use or sell the intellectual property which continues to be owned by the Inventor. This means that the Inventors permits another to carry on the responsibilities of building a market or business for his/her product. In turn, the other person pays a royalty to the Inventor for products sold.
There are many elements to a licensing agreement – all of which are negotiated between the Inventor and, in this case, Slingshot. There include the amount of royalty, any geographic restrictions, expected performance and many others. Until the license agreement is signed by both parties, no rights have been permitted.
After the licensing agreement is signed, what can I expect?
Sublicensing – For products that are a good match for an established industry, Slingshot identifies the industry, researches the best company, identifies the decision makers in those companies and builds a relationship with the objective the company adding the product to their product line. In many cases, this will mean that the company will manufacture the product and sell it through their own market or distribution channel.
DRTV (As Seen on TV) – Some products may fit the market approach provided by those companies who advertise and sell products with mass appeal through TV commercials. Slingshot has developed a relationship with the reputable companies with expertise to engage in this form of marketing.
What is Inventor's ongoing relationship with NWIRC and with Slingshot?
NWIRC will always continue to work on behalf of the Inventor. We will assist the Inventor with any marketing materials that would be required and sit with the Inventor as part of any Slingshot meetings and the negotiation process.
The product becomes the responsibility of Slingshot. The will likely seek advice or assistance with some marketing communication if the Inventor is agreeable to that.


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Wealthy millennials favour cryptocurrencies, while very few of their older peers hold any at all. As the FT's Matthew Vincent explains, established institutions are offering more access to crypto, but they may need to overcome concerns about security and money-laundering
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Since Bitcoin was created as an alternative currency system in 2009 cryptocurrencies have divided the generations. Many older investors remain mistrustful, keep their wealth in traditional assets such as the stock market, real estate and gold. But millennials, born roughly between 1980 and 1995, have been quick to embrace the concept of digital currencies.
That confidence has paid off in a big way. Early adopters in particular have amassed huge fortunes through the rocketing price of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, as they have become more mainstream. According to the latest CNBC millionaire survey, 53 per cent of US millennial millionaires have at least half their wealth in cryptocurrencies.
The survey finds that 83 per cent of millennial millionaires own crypto. But in contrast, only 4 per cent of baby boomers or older millionaires hold any cryptocurrency at all. However, Mike Novogratz of crypto firm Galaxy Digital says resistance may be crumbling among older investors. He believes digital assets could attract up to $1tn this year as crypto products become more widely available for wealthy clients.
Private banks, trading platforms and wealth managers are increasingly offering access to crypto investing. Leading names include Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, State Street, Barclays and BBVA Switzerland. But the cryptocurrency industry has work to do if it is to build broad-based trust. Crypto scams cost investors $1.9bn in 2020, according to crypto analytics firm CipherTrace. There are also money laundering and terrorist financing concerns.
In the UK, for example, the FCA has warned that many cryptocurrency businesses are not meeting anti-money laundering standards. So far, around 30 firms have successfully registered with the regulator allowing them to operate legally in the UK with a similar number of applications being assessed.


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Screen to Page: A TV Fan's Guide to Superhero Comics
Posted by Khai On October 23, 2016 0 Comment
If the new crop of superhero shows makes you want to start reading comics, you're not alone.
Movie fans are heading to their local comic stores in growing numbers, only to be faced with decades of backstory and a tangle of storylines. Figuring out what to read first can be bewildering. To help you make the jump, we've broken down the best books to bridge the gap between screen and page.
1. Supergirl: It's hard not to like Supergirl. Watching the show is like snuggling up with cocoa and a furry friend after a rough day. What might throw you when you look for Supergirl comics is that her cover identity wasn't originally Kara Danvers. She used to be called Linda Lee Danvers, and DC hasn't always treated her very well. If you love the sunny optimistic Kara from the show, you're best served by reading the current line starting with Supergirl: Rebirth. It's drawn by Emanuela Lupacchino and written by Steve Orlando. While it's new, of all her storylines, it is the most faithful to the show's tone. For those curious about the character's origins, try The Supergirl of Krypton by Jeph Loeb and Michael Turner. It's technically issues 8-13 of the Superman/Batman title, but this run served as her relaunch into the DC Verse. One caution: that story is considered iconic, but the art is problematic in places. Be prepared to roll your eyes a few times.
2. Daredevil: Check out the Brian Michael Bendis/Alex Maleev run of Daredevil: The Man Without Fear. There's a lot of character building and deep dialogue with incredibly well-laid out action panels during fight scenes. The beginning is a little shaky, so if you can't get into the first book you can skip to Volume 2 without being too far behind on the story. The Avengers make appearances when things get hairy, but Matt is still the star of the book. Be careful not to get the Frank Miller title by the same name or you'll be in for a serious tone shift.
3. Arrow: The Oliver Queen of Arrow is much darker than the witty bearded blonde from the comics, but there are some storylines that echo the show's tone. Start with Andy Diggle's Green Arrow: Year One. You'll find a new perspective on the infamous Island and its residents. Fans of Black Canary should check out Birds of Prey: Of Like Minds by Gail Simone. It isn't an origins story, but it does an amazing job of building personalities and showcasing the relationships between team members.
4. Marvel's Jessica Jones: Brace yourselves: Jessica Jones: Alias by Brian Michael Bendis is arguably better than the TV show. It explores the lives of people with superpowers that fall below the level of stars like Captain America or Thor – the ones who are super but not "super enough". The tone is dark but humorous, and the dialogue is always engaging. It can be too dark for some – there is a lot of language and some sexual situations. Still, if you're a fan of the TV show you'll feel right at home with Alias. One major change: Carol Danvers (AKA Captain Marvel, who has a movie coming up in 2018) is Jessica's best friend and confidante instead of Trish Walker.
5. Gotham: The show is more like traditional Batman comics than most of the movies, at least when it comes to theme and mood. This is good news for future comics fans; you can pick up most Batman stories and have a good time. We recommend Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. It features an early Batman who is still honing his legend. The storyline is outside the main DC continuity, so you don't have to understand ten thousand minor plot points to enjoy the book. Bonus: this is the title that inspired Gotham's version of Alfred.
Fans who are already comic readers, what you do you think of our picks? Post your suggestions in the comment section below.
Author: Khai
Khai is a writer, anthropologist, and game enthusiast. She can talk fandom in five languages, and her proudest nerd moment so far was presenting original research titled "Gender, Sex, and Werewolves" at an international anthropological conference. Her first game, None For Me, is due out from Calico Games early next year.
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Chapters eleven through fourteen of the apostle Paul's first Corinthian letter are meant to be understood as a unit. The subject of these chapters is the harmonious functioning of the one body of Christ. The members of this one body are distributed between two groups. These two groups are the saints and the faithful in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 1:1) The Apostle Paul's gospel brought the reality of these two groups to the forefront and clarified their presence and purposes. To do this he used comparisons.
This Corinthian comparative unit of four chapters is divided into three sections based on the comparison used in each section. The first section runs from the first verse to the seventeenth verse of chapter eleven. In the first section Paul analogically compared the saints and the faithful using the figures of the man and the woman.
In consideration of the succeeding context this English translation is marginal at its best. In the phrase as I delivered them to you the word as is the word kathos in the Greek texts. Kathos is a compound word consisting of two Greek words. They are kata and os.Kata means down from a higher plane. Os is the quintessential Geek word used to introduce a comparison. Kathos is used in scripture to mark comparisons especially comparisons of present or future events to former scriptural truths by its frequent usage in the phrase as it is written. (1Co. 1:31, 2:9, Lk 6:31, 11:30)In both the Thayer and Friberg lexicons kathos is defined as a comparative. In this verse it is an adverb that modifies the word delivered. The word them is not in the Greek texts. As a result the phrase would be better understood as I delivered comparatively to you.
In this set of verses Paul reasons by using an analogical argument that is constructed upon the figures of the man and the woman. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins its definition of an analogy with this sentence. "An analogy is a comparison between two objects, or systems of objects that highlights respects in which they are thought to be similar." The basic pattern of an analogy is in this form: A is to B as C is to D. Modern scholastic aptitude tests employ analogies in this manner as such: Sole is to foot as palm is to what? The answer would be: Sole is foot to as palm is to hand.
The first two systems of objects in these analogous verses are found in the first two verses.
At first reading verses eight and nine may not appear as an analogy but as a repetition of the same point. However when consideration is taken for the different prepositions employed in the two verses and Paul's usage of antanaclasis, the classical rhetorical figure of speech where the same words used successively in a sentence or sentences change meanings, an analogy comes to light.
Soul in the Hebrew culture was recognized as feminine. In the thirty-fourth Psalm David wrote, "My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." And, like the Hebrew, both the Aramaic and Greek words for soul are in the feminine gender.(Similarly in the Egyptian cosmology the ba of soul was regarded as feminine.) So, in the second verse, the woman rather than being Eve is living soul. As a result the analogy would be Adam is to Eve as Christ is to living soul.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy goes on to state: "An analogical argument is an explicit representation of a form of analogical reasoning that cites accepted similarities between two systems to support the conclusion that some further similarity exists."
The third verse in this passage is a conclusion for the two analogous systems presented in the first two verses.
Again, in this verse the woman is living soul and is to be considered as a collective noun.
The Christ's first creative act before the foundation of the earth was the generation of the angelic realm. (Ps. 148:2) Scripturally these are considered as the brothers of the Christ who were fashioned to serve and support Christ just as mature younger brothers in the Eastern family were obligated to serve and support the firstborn son. When writing about the angels made spirits to be ministers unto those who would be heirs of salvation, the author of Hebrews referred to those gifted with angelic spirits as "holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling." (Heb. 3:1) Here, the word holy is the Greek agios in the masculine gender and when it is so presented independently as a noun it is translated as saint. And, both the words angels and saints are masculine gender nouns that are employed to describe differing states and functions of the holy brethren of the Lord.
This verse, in light of the broader previous context, implies that living souls have power when they function under the auspices of the angelic realm of Christ just as an Eastern woman functioned in the community in accordance with her husband�s family status that was designated by her particular head covering.
In first Corinthians, the relationship of the man and the woman is reinforced by the additional lines in verses eleven and twelve that are built upon interdependence rather than separation as was expressed in the preceding verses of the analogical argument.
The Greek word diakrino translated discerning in the verse means to separate one from another, implying by context two elements to the Lord's one body. When considering the context and the scope scripture, these two elements of the Lord's body would be the living souls of faith as the woman and certain ones accompanied each by an angel made a spirit as the man or, in other words, the saints.
The final verse of this analogous passage summarizes and sources the tri-part expanse of the interrelationship between masculine and feminine in all things as stated in the concluding phrase, but all things of (ek-out of) God. Analogical reasoning cites accepted similarities between two systems that support the conclusion that some further similarities exist.
12 For as the woman is of (ek) the man, even so is the man also by (dia) the woman; but all things of (ek) God.
In the first phrase of this verse reading, For as the woman is of (ek) the man, Paul reiterates that Adam and Eve are the basis of the analogical reasoning of the passage. The words even so introduce concluding further similarities. In the following phrase, the man also by the woman, the man is Christ as the previous context reveals in verses nine and eleven. Who then would the woman be whose means he was brought forth? It couldn't be living soul because it was Christ, himself who breathed the breath of life into Adam so that he became a living soul nor could it be Eve of the eighth verse. The final phrase, but all things out of God, combined with the context and further scriptural evidence provides an answer.
Luke wrote that both the feminine Holy Spirit and God, the Father interacted in producing the conception of Jesus.
Likewise, from this image, the Holy Spirit as a wife and the Father as a husband conceived Christ before the foundations of the world. And the Holy Spirit brought forth their first begotten son, the Christ. And as Eve was out of Adam and living soul was out of Christ, the Holy Spirit was out of God therefore all things are out of God.
The invisible things are the Father, the feminine Holy Spirit and Christ. The relationships of these things are understood by the seen things that were made at the beginning of the creation - that would most importantly be Adam and Eve and their subsequent progeny. The phrase even his eternal power and Godhead establishes the essence of the interdependent relationship of masculine feminine duality in things natural and spiritual that are highlighted here in this Romans' verse and in the first Corinthian passage. His eternal power refers to the Father while the word Godhead refers to the feminine Holy Spirit according to the unique usage of the underlying feminine Greek word theiotes, the feminine counter-part to the masculine Greek word theos translated as God throughout New Testament scripture.
According to nature, life exists as a result of masculine-feminine interaction. Jesus stated that he was the living bread. (Jn. 6:51) (Within his body, as with any son, were the inherited attributes of both his mother, the Holy Spirit and his father, the power of the Highest.) During the last supper Jesus broke a loaf of bread in two pieces and stated, "take, eat; this is my body." What then are the two physical constituents of the loaf that represent the man and the woman of his one body? The fabric of scripture and the customs of the Hebrews and other ancient Eastern cultures provide answers.


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LC still unprepared for major earthquake
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By Amelia Eichel
The Pacific Northwest is expected to be hit by a 8.0-9.2 magnitude earthquake. Whether the tectonic plates off the Oregon Coast will subduct today or 100 years from now cannot be predicted, but Lewis & Clark is currently unprepared for what geologists are referring to as "the really big one." In order to improve, LC hired its first ever emergency manager, Lee Shin, in the beginning of November. Shin is conducting a 60 day analysis of the current state of LC to determine gaps and shortfalls in emergency planning. Based on these findings and input from stakeholders and students in the LC community, Shin will form an emergency management steering committee and begin writing a comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan.
Shin has spoken with Student Life, the Dean of Students, Graduate School, Law School, and Office of Institutional Research to focus on how those with hearing, visual and mobility issues can be helped in the event of a large scale catastrophic event. He has also identified the need for pet evacuation and shelter plans. In terms of food and water, there is an emergency cache on campus, but it would run out after 48 hours.
In order to provide students with helpful information on how to prepare for an emergency, Shin is planning to organize a mandatory information session during New Student Orientation and more robust trainings for Resident Advisors and Area Directors.
LC, and Portland in general, is preparing for a megathrust earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. According to Associate Professor of Geological Science Elizabeth Safran, the question is not whether the earthquake will happen, because it most certainly will. The question is how prepared are we for the earthquake when it does happen. There is no way to predict when it will come; it could be today, it could be 100 years from now.
Portland is not in danger of a tsunami and the majority of buildings will not collapse, however auxiliary factors could cause damages that are far worse than those caused by the shaking itself.
Liquefaction, which is what happens when saturated sediments get shaken and they flow, kind of like when you wiggle your feet in sand where waves come in and they sink, could cause major damages along the Willamette and Columbia rivers. This would be made much worse during the rainy season, and the PDX airport, bridges and an industrial area in the Northwest which stores about 90 percent of the city's fuel are at high risk.
The Burnside bridge and road have been identified as an "east-west lifeline" to allow transport across the Willamette river after an earthquake. This is due to the fact that it does not have very many things over it to collapse on top of it unlike the 405 and I-5 which have dozens of overpasses.
"The Burnside Bridge is not currently up to seismic standards, but it's been identified as a target for retrofitting and now they're considering various designs and which ones would be most effective," Safran said.
In the event of an earthquake, Portland residents would likely be without essential resources for at least two weeks, which is why Shin and Safran suggest that every person have a two-week kit with food, water, clothes, first aid and a sleeping bag in their car or somewhere easily accessible.
Shin and Safran both expressed how difficult it is to motivate college students to adequately prepare for an earthquake. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, people tend to prioritize other things. Environmental Studies major Samuel Bundenthal '19 is conducting a project for his ENVS 295 Environmental Engagement class which aims to address the apathy surrounding earthquakes.
"I am going to conduct a survey and gather a focus group of LC students to try to assess and dialogue about attitudes and fears and anxieties about the earthquake," Bundenthal said. "It's my sense that this being such a big problem and not knowing when it's going to happen, it's very easy to push that away and not deal with it … My hope is that I can give my information and my findings to Sharon Sexton who is our athletics director who's in charge of coordinating physical education classes on campus. I would really really love to see a community emergency response training class that is offered for credit on campus."
Even if an earthquake does not occur during their time at LC, staff, faculty and students alike are working to equip members of the LC community with the knowledge and skills to be prepared for an earthquake even after they leave the college.
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Wellness is Balance. Eastern & Western Options May Apply.
When you're off kilter, your happiness, security, productivity and healthy routines are at stake. If you're looking for a holistic balance between mind and body that supports optimal wellness, vitality, longevity and disease management, you need to know what options are out there. Today medical experts widely range in types and styles. Some practice mainstream western medicine, others use eastern healing and wellness principles; and some blend integrative approaches. Find your equilibrium here.


TIGER PRESENTS A CELEBRATION OF ABUNDANCE !!!
With the Year of the Horse just around the corner, TigerBeer, the world's No. 1 international Asian beer unveiled their 'Celebration of Abundance' festive campaign promising consumers an exciting and rewarding nationwide promotion with great prizes and exciting events this upcoming Chinese New Year.
Cheers to a Celebration of Abundance from GAB!
The campaign saw the majestic entourage of auspicious Chinese characters including the God of Prosperity, HeavenlyAngels and lion dancers as well as the arrival of Guinness Anchor Berhad (GAB) Managing Director, Hans Essaadi and Marketing Director, Bruce Dallas on horseback in homage to the upcoming Year of the Horse.
Hans revealed the Tiger Beer's Celebration of Abundance Treasure Chests where the grand prizes of 8 all-new BMWs 3-series await the lucky consumers when they raise their glasses and cheer "Yum Seng" with Tiger, Guinness, Heineken, Anchor and the newly launched Tiger Radler from December 16 onwards at participating coffee shops, food courts and restaurants. Apart from the exclusive 8 BMWs, known as 'Precious Horse' in Chinese, consumers also stand a chance to win many exciting prizes when they choose to celebrate with these five brews.
lucky draw from the GAB treasure chests with prizes ranging from GAB premiums, products and cash prizes of RM888. Now that's truly a celebration of abundance!
information on this campaign, please visit www.gab.com.my today.


The bustling streets of London have sprung back to life this post-thanksgiving weekend as thousands of bay area revelers make a mistletoe-tipped bee-line for making merry amidst the good company of our favorite characters immortalized by the mighty pen of Charles dickens.
I'm tapping away at my iPhone in south San francisco, trying to figure out how to post some of my photos into the body of text via the typepad iPhone system. Just goes to show that I really should have paid more attention to the instructional video clips offered by typepad when the iPhone first took on blogging software.
Hundreds of costumed performers never cease to amaze in their absolute dedication to dressing the part in breathtaking attention to detail on Victorian authenticity. There's something for everyone here at the cow palace with plenty of seating in fabulous theatrical environments and theater areas if watching the Christmas card come to life is simply enough of an escape from the dreary news of today, yesterday and likely tomorrrow. Little wondercthe world of dickens is of mass-appeal right now.
Charles dickens was a lifelong campaigner for reform and his unforgettable tales of humanity and redemption are perfect for our present climate.
Good also to see shoppers selecting handmade gifts for value and meaning this holiday season.


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Thailand: from religiosity to sex business
Thailand has long been a favorite destination for tourists from all over the world. There is everything: beautiful beaches, unique reserves, majestic Asian architecture, and reckless entertainment. But let's start with the capital.
Bangkok is a city of contrasts. It combines the fabulous eastern luxury and wild slums, ancient millennia temples and trendy nightclubs. In Bangkok, hundreds of skyscrapers are side by side with dilapidated buildings, and religiosity coexists with debauchery.
This is one of the most densely populated cities on the planet; about 8 million people live here. It's no wonder that Bangkok is one of the five cities in the world with the biggest traffic jams, so it's more convenient to move around on the smart motorikshs called tuk-tuk.
The nearest nice beach is in Pattaya, a two-hour drive from Bangkok. But this resort is not designed for a quiet family vacation. Tourists come here for entertainment and adventure. Pattaya is called the sex capital of Thailand; there are more than a thousand bars, which employ 20000 available girls. Formally, prostitution is strictly prohibited in Thailand, but informally everyone understands that sex business brings a colossal amount of money to the country, so the police and authorities close their eyes.
At the same time, the Thais are very religious; their temples are impressive with their beauty and incredibly huge statues of the Buddha. There are more than thirty thousand temples in Thailand. The most sacred place in the country, which the royal family even attends, is in Bangkok. It is a functioning monastery – Wat Phra Kaew or Temple of the Emerald Buddha. It is part of a single architectural complex with the Royal Palace, which covers an area of about 95 hectares. The entrance to the temple is guarded by bronze lions, and inside it is decorated with frescoes that tell of the life of the Buddha. The temple got its name in honor of the emerald (actually jade) statue of the Buddha, which was found in the 15th century on the territory of Chiang Rai. The tour costs 16 dollars.
Another no less interesting cult structure is Wat Arun or the temple of the Morning dawn, named after the goddess of the dawn – Aruna. The main tower of the temple is decorated with pieces of Chinese porcelain from the Chinese ship which sank nearby. You can get to Wat Arun on the ferry for a fee, as the temple is located on the other side of the Chauphraya River. The entrance to the temple costs $ 2. In Bangkok you should also visit the temple of Wat Pho with a 46-meter statue of reclining Buddha (entrance – $ 3) and the temple of Lak Mueang with two gilded phalluses as symbols of luck and prosperity (entrance – $ 2).
If you come to Bangkok with children, I advise you to visit the famous oceanarium "Siam Ocean World". Here, as in the underwater kingdom, you can see thousands of colorful fishes and even sharks. The ticket costs 25 dollars.
In Thailand, you will be pleasantly surprised by non-standard national cuisine and the famous Thai massage. The cheapest massage in Bangkok is done right on Kaohsan Street. For 5-10 dollars, you can relax for an hour and enjoy bliss under the skilful hands of Thai women.
If you come to Pattaya, then you can visit the Mini Siam Park, which gathered in the open air the most important tourist attractions in Thailand at a scale of 1:25. In addition, in Pattaya there are the famous pedestrian street Walking Street, Floating Market, Elephant Village, as well as various shows and cabaret, the most important of which, of course, is the "Tiffany Show." This is perhaps the most famous in the world and popular cabaret of transvestites. Some viewers joke that to go to the show is worthwhile, at least for the sake of looking at the wonders of plastic surgery. The ticket costs about 25 dollars.
A distinctive feature of Thailand is a huge number of national parks and reserves. The most famous are the Khao Yai National Park (near the town of Pak Chong), striking with its waterfalls, orchids and elephants; the Doi Inthanon National Park in Chiang Mai province, where the highest mountain of Thailand, Doi Inthanon, is located (2565 m above sea level); a marine park on the island of Samet with magnificent coral reefs; the Erawan National Park (near the city of Kanchanaburi) with a seven-story waterfall; a park of waterfalls and birds Khu Khut, located in the lake in Songkhla province. One of the best places for diving is the Tarutao Marine Park in the province of Satun.
Thais themselves are smiling, cute and affable people. Communicating with them is usually a very pleasant process and it is probably the friendliness of the Thai population has played into the hands of the popularity of the resorts of this country all over the world. Thailand is rightly called the "Land of Smiles" and, looking at the local people, you understand why.
As you can see, Thailand is rich in attractions and entertainment. Every tourist will find something of their own here. If you have not already visited this interesting country, it's time to start planning your trip!
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Top 3 Songs on Roulette That You Must Listen Now!
If you thought the roulette was just a game, then think again! Artists over the years have portrayed or made reference to this gambling game, making it even more famous around the world. But what exactly is roulette and what are its origins? Keep on reading to find out.
Roulette is a game played in casinos and named after a French word that means "little feel." In this game, players choose either placing bets on a single number or different groups of numbers. The colors available are red and black; the numbers can be bought odd or even, or range from low to high.
The winner is picked based on color and number after a croupier sends the wheel spinning in one direction and spin is the ball in another. Both the European and American style roulette have their own similarities and differences.
How do you take a gambling game to the next level? By betting with your life, of course! The winner of Russian roulette gets to walk away with their life. It is speculated that Rihana wrote the song to reflect a dangerous relationship. Some people also believe that the team is linked to the pop star's real-life tumultuous relationship with Chris Brown.
However, the single explained the song in 2010 to Q magazine saying the song is not literally, but the lyrics are intended to portray love as a terrifying game.
Roulette, written by Max Martin and Katy Perry, takes somewhat of a different approach in meanings. In the song, the pop star talks about leading a controlled life, not taking risks, and then meeting someone who completely turns her world upside down. In a way, this song is about embracing what comes in life and giving in to temptation.
She compares the game of roulette to the feeling of letting it all go and opening yourself up to a host of new opportunities and risks.
Bruce Springsteen, known for his penchant for producing thought-provoking music, sang about the meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Roulette. The meltdown at The Mile Island in 1979 caused a great deal of controversy over usage of nuclear power as energy. Despite many environmental and safety concerns, the authorities went ahead anyway.
And as you can tell by now, the eventual result was something close to a major disaster. This song was based on a historical event that deserved more recognition.
If you haven't listened to any of these three songs yet, we recommend that you go ahead and do it right now. You too might gain a new perspective on what to roulette means and what it can be.
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Ch 3 pt 5 Jack and Fred's Courage
Posted on April 9, 2020 by helixtandl
But what had happened to her? How should I find out? I cursed myself for not having stayed at home. But then I, too, would have been involved in this explosion. I stumbled into the street and accosted a man in a black tin hat with the letter "W" printed on it in white.
"Warden, excuse me. My grandmother was in that house when the land mine fell. Can you tell me where she's likely to be?"
He scratched his head. "They've taken a lot of casualties to the synagogue in Devonshire Road. You might find her there. They've turned the basement into an air raid shelter."
I knew the place – about a quarter of a mile up the street and a hundred yards along a crossroad. I murmured hurried thanks and set off at a run.
The synagogue basement was reached by a flight of stone steps and was filled with double-tiered wooden bunks on which fully dressed men and women of all ages lay in uncomfortable positions. Here was a sunken-faced man in a blue suit and green polka-dotted muffler. His grey cloth cap had slipped back from his head as he slept, revealing thinning black hair, and a faint snore came from his partially open mouth. Opposite him lay a fat, red-faced woman in a white cotton overall, her long, once golden hair awry.
I saw my grandmother at once. She was propping herself up on a low bunk quite near the entrance, vomiting into a bucket.
"Gran."
"Jim." She put a weak hand on my arm. Tears came to her eyes as she looked into my face, and the stink of vomit rose from the bucket to my nostrils.
"Jim, I'm so glad you've come, dear. I was sitting in the living room when the bomb fell." She started to sob quietly. "A piece of wood hit me on the shoulder. I got into a corner. The warden took me into the street. I didn't know where I was. I was screaming for water. Water. I didn't know what I was saying. I must have been hysterical. Now I'm sick. I can't stop being sick."
Her voice was thin and weak. Her grey hair was disarranged. I put my arm around her trembling shoulders and suddenly realised how frail and thin she had become.
My poor old grandmother. Her life had been so hard, and now it had come to this. I cursed the airmen who had dropped that landmine. If I had had them before me, I would have taught the bastards how to make war. The swine. What a murderous lot they all were. I prayed savagely that they should rot in hell.
"Try and get some sleep now, Gran," I said, "The raid's over. Everything will be all right. Tomorrow I'll get the morning off from work and take you to Mum's flat up at Clapton."
Up Clapton way, near Hackney Downs, two persons who always used to cheer up Jimmie and me during those air raid nights were Jack and Fred, who ran a coffee stall a few streets away from the shelters. Jack was a portly, bald headed man with the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred medal ribbons of the 1914-18 War pinned across his white apron. Fred, his partner, was tall and black haired. He was middle aged like Jack, and wore thick-lensed spectacles. However fierce the attack, either Jack or Fred would be behind the counter of the dimly lit and heavily shaded coffee stall, an urn of hot tea on the cheerful coke stove.
"What'll you have, bonny?" Jack would ask, briskly.
"Tea and a hot dog, please, Jack."
"With or without, bonny?"
This meant with or without mustard.
"With."
Jack would seize a sausage from the oven beside the stove and hold it up for inspection. "There's the dog, nice and hot."
He would slit it in two with a flash of his knife, giving a little squeak as he did.
"Blimey, listen to the bastard yelp. Shut up, you bugger."
His bald head shining in the lamp light, Jack would bend, rapidly slosh mustard on the open sausage, and snapping it between the two halves of a split roll, offer this culinary masterpiece to his customer. Jack, despite his bulk, did everything quickly. Fred, the dark, thin man, was slow but sure. Suddenly one might have heard the thundering reverberation of anti-aircraft batteries from a close-at-hand gun site. Fred's hand would not falter as he carefully poured out a cup of tea.
"One of ours, matey. Take no notice. Take no notice." Fred was always telling people to take no notice.
One evening Jimmie and I were walking along the main road, away from the coffee stall, and towards the block of flats into which my parents had recently moved. We were carrying out our favourite pastime of chatting up a couple of girls whom we had met about five minutes previously. Suddenly there was a screech, then a flash and an explosion some two hundred yards ahead. We stopped our nerves taut. Almost without thinking we pushed the girls to the ground and fell on top of them. I had a split second to think how it is a primeval instinct to protect the female. Then almost immediately there was another flash behind the public house on the other side of the road, followed by an explosion that nearly deafened us. We had not heard the whistle of this second bomb, indicating that the wretched thing had come uncomfortably close to dropping on top of us. But we certainly felt the blast. It gave us the impression of an immense wave of ice cold needles overwhelming us, bearing us back, and penetrating every pore of our skins. A third bomb whistled down and exploded behind us, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Jack's coffee stall. A stray raider had apparently seen the tram lines along the road and had dropped a stick of three bombs on that bearing.
We picked our way across the road, which had suddenly become littered with glass, ripped off window shutters, slates and other debris. Part of the floor of the pub had given way, and some of the customers had evidently fallen into the cellar. After initial efforts to help, it became clear that the situation was well in hand, so we returned quickly across the road to our two girls who were standing like lost sheep, close to tears. We escorted them very quickly home, then returned to the coffee stall, wondering whether Jack and Fred had copped the number three bomb.
The coffee stall was still there. The third bomb had fallen some fifty yards away on a house that had formerly been used as a lunatic asylum. Very appropriate. War is a game for lunatics anyway.
"Hallo," Jack greeted us, his shiny head bobbing. "What'll you have bonny?"
"Two teas and two hot dogs, please, Jack. That was a close one, wasn't it?"
"Pretty close, bonny, pretty close."
"Take no notice", said Fred, slowly pouring out the tea. "Take no notice."
"That's right, bonny", grinned Jack. "Take no notice."
He deftly slit up a sausage, giving a little squeak as he did so. "Coo, 'ark at 'im 'owling. What a noisy bugger. Shut up, you sod."
After the blitz, Jack and Fred chalked a notice on their coffee stall: "WE NEVER CLOSED." I hereby testify that they never did. I also testify that they were a couple of heroes. I know that in those difficult days their unfailing courage set me and, I am sure, many others a fine example. They helped us to carry on when we felt that our nerves had had about as much as they could stand.
At the Burdett Road Fire Station, work shook down to a regular routine. A few of our men were killed fighting fires during the air raids. The rest of us somehow survived with broken sleep and many near escapes. However, it became obvious that to bomb an enemy civilian population into submission was a most difficult task, something proven by allied attacks on German cities in the later stages of the war. These attacks were often heavier and more prolonged than those on London. But the civilian populations held firm.
In the early days I sometimes saw the smoke trails of fighting aircraft above London and heard the chatter of machine gums as I went to work in the morning. On a couple of occasions German fighter formations flew across London in daylight apparently unhindered. But as our aircraft and pilots became organised and as our anti aircraft defences were strengthened, the German attackers no longer had it their own way. The British Spitfires flown mostly by Englishmen, but with help from Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians succeeded in breaking the German air force. Every day the papers gave us news of the number of enemy aircraft destroyed and, if memory serves me correctly, the maximum number was four hundred shot down in one day. Memory may have played me false, or perhaps the figures were wildly doctored at the time. Some years after writing this account I read that on September 15th 1940 the maximum number of enemy aircraft claimed in one day occurred. The number claimed was 185 German aircraft shot down on this single day. No doubt these figures were doctored for propaganda purposes. But it remained equally true that the enemy was taking a punishing that he could not withstand indefinitely. Our newly invented radar helped us to scramble our fighters at the right spot to stop the attacks, but I was unaware of this at the time.
"Never," said Churchill in one of his marvellous histrionic performances that helped to hold us together at this period, "have so many owed so much to so few."
Thus the enemy stepped up the nighttime blitz on London, and from time to time set the city ablaze in a most frightful fashion. Casualties were very numerous. At Bethnal Green Tube Station in the east end, near Parmiter's Foundation School where I finished my education and near the York Hall Baths where I sometimes went swimming as a kid, there was a terrible tragedy. A bomb exploded near the entrance to the tube. Hundreds of people rushed down the steps leading underground. Scores stumbled, fell, and were trampled to death by the stampeding mob.
At the junction of Threadneedle Street, Old Jewry and Victoria Street, in the heart of the City of London, a subway went under the busy intersection to permit pedestrians to cross from one street to another. This subway was used as an air raid shelter, but sustained a direct hit one evening. Over a hundred people were killed outright. In the whole of my subsequent life I have never once walked past the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street without giving thought to that tragedy.
On another occasion bombs fell all around Saint Paul's Cathedral destroying every adjoining building for hundreds of yards, but leaving Christopher Wren's masterpiece intact. Just down the road, Ludgate Circus, which stands half way between St. Paul's and Fleet Street, "the street of ink" where all the major newspapers had their offices, was very badly knocked about. But amazingly the memorial plaque to Edgar Wallace, the journalist and writer, which I had admired so often when I was roaming these streets as a youngster on my old bike, was left unharmed. As a man something more than middle aged I still raise my hat to that plaque whenever I travel overseas from Australia to London.
That was the night, incidentally, when I stood at the junction of Well Street and Mare Street, in the east end, about a quarter of a mile from Frampton Park Road where I was born, and a couple of hundred yards from London Fields where my mother was born. The petrol buses, which normally went to Fleet Street and The Strand by way of the Bank of England, were parked in a long line, and their crews talked quietly to each other. The thunder of explosions came from the west end, some miles away. The city was ablaze, and the light from the west end was so intense that you could actually read a paper by it in Mare Street in the east end. The buses had stopped because to travel to the west end was not only dangerous, but suicidal.
The blitz on London finally began to slacken. At work I was transferred from the Burdett Road Fire Station to a substation at Homerton – an evacuated school just opposite Hackney Hospital where my grandfather was to pass on several months later. Subsequently we shifted to the main fire station in Homerton High Street, a couple of miles down from the flat at Clapton where my parents now lived and about a mile in the opposite direction from Hackney Marshes. Just up the road was Hackney Churchyard and the old elementary school where I had gained my basic education. I was certainly on my home ground.
Tagged Bethnal Green, Blitz, Churchill, courage, Edgar Wallace, Hackney Churchyard, heroes, London, radar, Synagogue shelter, Threadneedle Street
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3 thoughts on "Ch 3 pt 5 Jack and Fred's Courage"
helixtandl April 9, 202010:49 pm Reply
I'm so glad Jim found his grandmother – for both their sakes. Clearly Jim admired Jack and Fred. But I also wonder if this is where Jim learned about the real benefits of the trendy current motto: "Keep Calm and Carry On". This would hold him in good stead in the future.
peter foxon April 10, 202011:16 am Reply
Man's inhumanity to man is hard to comprehend. The bombing of civilians was then and is still, especially terrifying. Pasquale Foxtrot
helixtandl April 13, 202012:00 pm Reply
This chapter speaks to me about victory, and the heroes who fought the nemesis of nationalism. "What a murderous lot they all were. I prayed savagely that they would all rot in hell".
Although Churchill was prone to "histrionic performance", he was the cheering squad of a country in a David and Goliath position. I consider him the conductor of orchestrated patriotic victories.
The cost of victory in war is loss of life and structure. But it also is a genesis for change, as we see with Jim's family moving from Frampton Park to Hackney: a victory for social change.


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As promised, Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill decriminalizing public health orders
Updated: Jul. 17, 2020, 11:52 a.m. |
Published: Jul. 17, 2020, 11:48 a.m.
Ohio Statehouse (Laura Hancock/cleveland.com)
Laura Hancock, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday vetoed a bill seeking to strip the Ohio Department of Health director and local health officials from enforcing health orders, as he previously said he would.
Senate Bill 55 originally increased penalties on drug trafficking within 1,000 feet of a treatment center. But it was amended in the House, and accepted by a majority in the Senate, to decriminalize violations of public health orders. Statehouse Republicans passed the bill partially as a rebuke to former ODH Director Dr. Amy Acton.
Currently, people who violate the orders face a second-degree misdemeanor, punishable with up to 30 days behind bars and a fine of up to $750. SB 55 amended it to make the orders a minor misdemeanor, with a warning for first-time offenders and a fine of up to $150.
"In the midst of this pandemic, now is not the time to change tactics and impede local health officials' ability to protect all Ohioans," DeWine wrote in his veto message to lawmakers.
DeWine said he liked the original idea of the bill, called the Relapse Reduction Act. But he couldn't sign the bill with the public health provisions.
"A robust public health system protects us from E-coli and Legionella outbreaks, threats of bioterrorism, or once-in-century pandemics," DeWine wrote.
Lawmakers could override the veto, but it takes a three-fifths affirming vote in each legislative chamber. The Senate would be the first to hold a veto override vote and would need at least 20 votes before the bill would go to the House for an override.
However, after SB 55 was amended in the House, the Senate concurred with only 18 votes, making an override unlikely.
"Just receiving it today, our members are going to review it and have an internal discussion about the path forward," said John Fortney, a spokesman for Senate Republicans, who control the chamber. "
Fortney added that senators may have discussions with the DeWine administration over how to resurrect the part of the bill centering on drug trafficking outside treatment centers.
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My wife had a little 2 seater Roadster catch her eye. Of course it was a convertible Mercedes-Benz SLK320. (Traded in by another TFF'er/THF'er) I asked if she could take it for a test drive. "Sure the keys are in it" Brian said. Well since it was a 2 seater I got to stay in the show room while my wife and 15 year old jumped in with the top down to check it out.
They get back both grinning ear to ear. I asked well? 5 minutes later loan application done. Since we have the boys to get home and it being a 2 seater. Brian suggest we head home to beat traffic. (4:15 and home is 2 hours away with no traffic) Wife asked if we could pick it up in a couple days since we were going to be back into Dallas anyway.
I get a message a little later saying done deal. At this point Mrs. JustWingem get anxious and tells me to ask if we can get it the next day. "No Problem" was the response. Told Brian the time we would be there. He had it ready to go. Maybe 7 minutes with the paper signing and we were on our way back to East Texas!
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Dr. Lawrence Tabak Named Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health
Tabak has served as the principal deputy director and the deputy ethics counselor of NIH since August 2010.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra today announced that Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., the principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will serve as the acting director of NIH effective December 20, 2021.
Earlier this year, current NIH director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced his decision to end his tenure as the NIH director by the end of the year, and his last day as director will be December 19, 2021. Dr. Collins is the longest-serving, presidentially-appointed NIH director, having served three U.S. presidents over more than 12 years.
"Dr. Tabak's long tenure and broad experience at the NIH will ensure that the agency is in capable hands and serve it well during the search for Dr. Collins' successor," Secretary Becerra said. "Dr. Tabak has a deep grasp of the most pressing scientific issues confronting our nation, he has earned respect across NIH as a thoughtful and strategic manager and is committed to building a healthier and more equitable America."
Dr. Tabak has served as the principal deputy director and the deputy ethics counselor of NIH since August 2010. He previously served as the acting principal deputy director of NIH in 2009, and prior to that as director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research from 2000-10.
Prior to joining NIH, Dr. Tabak was the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Dentistry and Biochemistry & Biophysics in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester in New York. A former NIH MERIT recipient, Dr. Tabak's major research focus has been on the structure, biosynthesis and function of glycoproteins. He continues work in this area, maintaining an active research laboratory within the NIH intramural program in addition to his administrative duties.
Dr. Tabak is an elected member the National Academy of Medicine (formerly IOM) of the National Academies. He received his undergraduate degree from City College of New York, his D.D.S. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo.
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War hero Johnson Beharry welcomes first child
August 06, 2013 - 09:58 BST hellomagazine.com Victoria Cross hero Johnson Beharry and his wife Mallissa have welcomed their first baby together, a boy
Victoria Cross hero Sergeant Johnson Beharry has become a father for the first time, HELLO! Online can exclusively reveal.
His wife Mallissa has given birth to their son Ayden Gideon Beharry, who was born at 9.30pm on 5 August weighing 7lb 1oz. "Mother and baby are doing well," said Jaine J Brent, Johnson's media manager.
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Their new addition arrived four months after the couple exclusively revealed the pregnancy to HELLO! magazine as they celebrated their wedding at London's Old Marylebone Hotel.
War hero Johnson and his bride both received letters of congratulations from the Queen and the Prince of Wales in the days after their wedding.
Johnson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2005, becoming the first living recipient of the prestigious medal in more than 30 years. He had twice risked his life to save comrades from his unit, the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, in two separate enemy attacks in Iraq.
The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration for valour in the British Armed Forces.
He met Malissa in October 2012 and they soon discovered they were expecting their first child. "It's a little sooner than planned but we are over the moon," he told HELLO! at the time.
"Malissa and I felt strongly that it was important to marry before our baby arrives. I didn't grow up with a mum and dad who were together, and all my life I've said that I don't want my child to say the same, and that I want them to know they've got that solid foundation."
"From the moment that I met Malissa, I didn't want to be apart from her," he added. "It's like we've known each other forever and I'm excited about this new chapter in our lives. We have so much to celebrate."
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When I play, my mission is to help people to find their divine beings…I think that our body have some kind of ancient memory and trough dancing we are able to remember the past and and see the future experiences of our souls.
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