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CD226 (DNAM-1) antibodies, human
Clone: DX11 | Dilution: 1:11
Clone DX11 recognizes CD226 (DNAM-1), a 65 kDa transmembrane glycoprotein expressed on T cells, natural killer (NK) cells, platelets, monocytes, and a subset of B cells. It is also expressed by a subset of CD3
thymocytes. The surface association of CD226 (DNAM-1) with LFA-1 on NK cells and T cells permits the transduction of cytolytic signals upon binding of CD226 (DNAM-1) to its ligands CD155 (PVR) and CD112 (Nectin-2).
DNAM-1, PTA-1, TLiSA1
Antigen: CD226 (DNAM-1)
Clone: DX11
Alternative names of antigen: DNAM-1, PTA-1, TLiSA1
Entrez Gene ID: 10666
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Distribution of antigen: B cells, lymphocytes, monocytes, NK cells, platelets, T cells, thymocytes
Available conjugates: PE, APC, PE-Vio770, Biotin, pure
Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were stained with CD226 (DNAM-1) antibodies as well as CD56 antibodies and analyzed by flow cytometry. Cell debris and dead cells were excluded from the analysis based on scatter signals and propidium iodide fluorescence.
Rhesus monkey (A) or cynomolgus monkey (B) PBLs were stained with CD226 (DNAM-1)-PE and CD3-APC and analyzed by flow cytometry.
Shibuya, A. et al. (1996) DNAM-1, a novel adhesion molecule involved in the cytolytic function of T lymphocytes. Immunity 4: 573-581
Bottino, C. et al. (2003) Identification of PVR (CD155) and Nectin-2 (CD112) as cell surface ligands for the human DNAM-1 (CD226) activating molecule. J. Exp. Med. 198: 557-567
Moretta, L. and Moretta, A. (2004) Unravelling natural killer function: Triggering and inhibitory human NK receptors. EMBO J. 23: 255-259
Kojima, H. et al. (2003) CD226 mediates platelet and megakaryocytic cell adhesion to vascular endothelial cells. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 36748-36753
Castriconi, R. et al. (2004) Natural killer cell-mediated killing of freshly isolated neuroblastoma cells: critical role of DNAX accesory molecule-1-poliovirus receptor interaction. Cancer Res. 64: 9180-9184
Pende, D. et al. (2005) Analysis of the receptor-ligand interactions in the natural killer-mediated lysis of freshly isolated myeloid or lymphoblastic leukemias: evidence for the involvement of the poliovirus receptor (CD155) and Nectin-2 (CD112). Blood 105: 2066-2073
CD226 (DNAM-1)-PE, human
CD226 (DNAM-1)-APC, human
CD226 (DNAM-1)-PE-Vio770, human
CD226 (DNAM-1)-Biotin, human
CD226 (DNAM-1) pure, human
Clone AF12-7H3 recognizes the human CD56 antigen, a glycoprotein of the Ig-superfamily also known ...

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Rising high to accommodate 10,000 rooms, the Abraj Kudai hotel will also host 70 restaurants, food courts, a bus station, shopping mall, conference center and ballroom. Along with five floors dedicated entirely to the Saudi royal family, the hotel will comprise of 12 towers standing atop a 10-story podium and centered around a massive dome.
Funded by the Saudi Ministry of Finance and designed by the Dar Al-Handasah group, the estimated cost of building the world's largest hotel is about $3.6 billion. Offering an unprecedented level of luxury to travelers in Saudi Arabia, the 45 storeys tall hotel also has plans to hold four helipads on the roof.
Due to its unparalleled size, height as well as distinguished location, exposure and architectural style, the building appears as a striking landmark with a profoundly modern multifunctional identity relating to both the Saudi locality and the Islamic universality of its expected users. The project, including a residential and commercial complex, will offer all related services for the visitors of the Holy Kaaba.


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Strathalbyn Christian College ● Our Story ● History
Mr George Edland had the original vision for the College. Sadly, George passed away in 2016, but his testimony and the story about the vision of Strathalbyn Christian College is truly God inspired. We are glad that we captured it on video for the College's 35th Anniversary in 2014.
Our beautiful College is set on 8.5 hectares in Strathalbyn Estate, in Geraldton, Western Australia.
The College borders the Chapman River to the east, with Verticordia Drive being the northern boundary (at the back of the College) and Cedar Crescent bordering the southern boundary and entrance to the College. A natural arboretum, which is public open space, forms our remaining boundary. The main administration building is accessible from Cedar Crescent.
Strathalbyn Christian College commenced operations as Geraldton Christian Community School in 1979 in the hall of the Geraldton Church of Christ in Holland Street. The original vision for the College came to Mr George Edland which in turn inspired a number of Christian families who saw the importance of having the option of choosing Christian education for their children.
Planning began during 1977/78 with approval being gained for the school's registration and commencement from the various local, state and Federal authorities early in 1979. The school began with two teachers and 38 students from Years 1 to 7. Through the efforts of faithful parents and teachers, the school has now grown to provide education for students from Kindergarten through to Year 12 as of 2002.
In 1982 the high school commenced operations in the old church hall (then being used as the Community Arts Centre) in Shenton Street before moving to the current site in the Strathalbyn midyear. The primary school followed in 1983. Initially the school buildings included the original 'Sunnybanks Farm' farm house and sheds along with three Education Department school rooms (1912 vintage), which were transported to the site from the Geraldton Primary School with the assistance of Mobile Mission Maintenance.
Over time numerous Government Grants and Low Interest Loans have been made available to help subsidise the construction of several brick General Purpose Learning Areas, our Kindergarten/Pre-primary Centre, various Specialist centres, the Library and Computing complex and new Hall and Canteen. The Design Technology building was largely built by the parent body and a new administration building was completed in 2004. Up until this point the hub of the College had been the old farm house from the original Sunnybanks Farm.
It is still vital to remember the vision and purpose of the beginning years, and how a small dedicated group of Christian parents had faith to believe that they, with the Lord's help, could build a school that taught the same values and biblical standards at school that they had at home. We will always be grateful for the mustard seed that the Lord planted so long ago.


I first came in contact with Richard Mosse through his "Infra" series of brightly colored pictures of North Kivu (Eastern Congo) people, soldiers and refugee camps. I recommend it, but I was really arrested by the "Nomads" series: Shot in Iraq in March 2009, these photos (including the one displayed here above) are an indirect show of what expression of violence is present there. This is both a documentary and a personal collection of feelings assembled in the pictures. There is no need for military action in the pictures to make them show the utter display of force that is embedded into it.
YLP: What do you consider your worst weakness in photography and how you try and correct it?
A: Photographing people. Doing this makes me so nervous that I begin to sweat. I cannot correct this, but if I had to I would probably take a Valium.
After all, being honest and having some sense of humor are good for everybody, and a photographer too.
Nearly simultaneous to this portfolio presentation on YLovePhoto, another very large piece from the "Nomads" series of Richard Mosse will be exhibited in the Paris Photo show, 18-21 Nov 2010, at Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France). It is part of the The Empty Quarter display (one of the 100 galleries and publishers grouped there).
If you go through Paris at this time of the year, it may be a good idea to stop and take time to visit the various photographic exhibitions of the "Mois de la Photo" all around Paris. There would be no better time to be a photography lover (or collector) in Paris.


Lyndall Harris Winters 64th Battalion Service No. 469107 Private Date of Birth: May 11, 1896 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: August 19, 1915 Age at Enlistment: 19 years 3 months (Height: 5 feet 7 1/2 inches) Place of Enlistment: Sussex, New Brunswick Trade: Clerk Religion Baptist Next of Kin: Elizabeth Winters (Mother) Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Lyndall Harris Winters joined the 64th Battalion on August 19, 1915 at Sussex NB. He sailed from Halifax on the S.S. Adriatic on March 31, 1916 and arrived in England on April 9, 1916. He reverted the rank of Private on his own request on July 5, 1916 and became a stretcher bearer until the cessation of hostilities on November 11, 1918. Private Winters was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Canadian Division on July 14, 1916 and joined up with the unit in the field on September 17, 1916 and participated in many battles. After the hostilities ended, he remained in Germany as part of the occupational forces until September 19, 1919. He was discharged on September 20, 1919.


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Officials Suspect Serial Arsonist in D.C., Md., Va. Area
Members of the Arson Task Force are investigating a Fairfax County house fire to see if it was the work of the Washington region's serial arsonist.
Firefighters were called to a single family home in the county's Huntington section early this week. No one was home and there were no injuries. About an hour after county fire investigators arrived, a decision was made to alert the task force which is investigating dozens of other cases.
"It's still at the very initial stages of the investigation. So at this point it's too soon to say anything as far as any type of linkage to the serial arsonist," said Mike Campbell, a spokesman for the Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ATF is among the member agencies of the task force.
Thirty-nine cases dating to March 8, 2003, are already being investigated by the Arson Task Force. Most are in the District of Columbia and neighboring Prince George's County, Md., but there are two earlier cases in Fairfax County from February and May of this year. There are also cases in Alexandria, Va., and Montgomery County, Md.
The last fire added to the list occurred June 15 in the Mount Rainier section of Prince George's. Monday's incident had some similarities to many of the other cases, with the fire beginning in the early hours of the morning on the outside of the house.
"Apparently, a neighbor noticed the fire and contacted 911, and the neighbor went over and attempted to extinguish the fire," said Lt. Raul Castillo, a spokesman for the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. He said it began near the front door, about an hour after the homeowner left for work. Damage was minimal.
In February, the task force released a detailed sketch of a suspect, based on the description of one witness who was at an attempted arson in Northeast Washington on Sept. 14.
A June 5, 2003, fire in Northeast Washington killed an elderly woman.
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The last month has been absolutely nuts!
First my mom got married. Then I started a new job. Then my sister got married. THEN I moved into a new apartment. I'm so glad to have things slow down a bit now even though we're not quite all settled into the apartment. I finally made our first home-cooked meal with lots of fresh veggies from the farm market in the new place a little bit ago, and it felt oh so good. We're also working on a pretty great pantry, which I hope to reveal once it's all organized!
I also got the sweet potatoes for this recipe at the farm market, which was bumpin'! I hadn't been to it in years because I haven't lived around there, but it's one of the biggest ones in downtown Grand Rapids, and it was packed with people. I was so enthused to see everyone there supporting our local farmers. I sure got lots of glorious groceries!
I've also been on a little curry kick. So here you have it: easy curried sweet potato hash.
This sweet potato hash is not only really quick and easy, but it's delicious by itself or mixed with other foods. I don't know about you, but I love when sweet potato is added to a dish because it gives it a subtle sweetness and a smooth texture to whatever you're eating. You can put it with eggs and greens for breakfast or add it to any rice or noodle dish, like I did in the picture below. There is a bed of romaine and kale with the sweet potato hash, a little sweet chili sauce, rice noodles (which were reheated so that's why they're all broken up), and green and yellow beans from the farm market.
Dice up the sweet potatoes and onions.
Place oil in the pan and melt to cover pan.
Start sautéing sweet potatoes and onions on medium heat and add spices while mixing.
Continue mixing regularly for 15 minutes or so until the onions are translucent and the sweet potato is cooked (just try a piece). The time will vary depending on how big your sweet potato pieces are.
What would you put this sweet potato hash with?


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Microsoft's Windows Notepad to Soon Support Unix, Linux, macOS Line Endings
By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 9 May 2018 13:29 IST
Microsoft has updated Windows Notepad with extended line endings support
It brings support for Unix, Linux, and macOS line endings to Notepad
Updated Notepad is already in the current Windows 10 Insider build
Microsoft has finally updated its simple yet useful Notepad app for Windows with a feature that was missing for more than three decades - specifically after Windows 1.0 debuted along with Notepad back in 1985. This new change is none other than the extended line endings support that helps you correctly view text files created in Unix, Linux, and macOS right on the default Notepad app. It is a part of the current Windows 10 Insider build and is likely to debut on the next Windows public release.
Prior to the latest change, Windows Notepad was supporting only those text documents that had Windows End of Line (EOL) characters, particularly Carriage Return (CR \r, 0x0d) and Line Feed (LF, \n, 0x0a). This doesn't mean that Notepad users weren't able to open text files created on a Unix, Linux, or macOS machine. It did open text documents created in Unix, Linux, and macOS, but in an incorrect format. "This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community," acknowledged Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Michel Lopez in a blog post.
Microsoft has ultimately corrected this annoying issue by adding support for Unix/ Linux line endings (LF) and Macintosh line endings (CR) in addition to the existing Windows Line endings (CRLF). This enables Windows Notepad users to view, edit, and print their existing text files, correctly maintaining their current line ending format. The status bar on Notepad also starts indicating the detected line ending format of the currently open file. However, new files created within Notepad will continue to use the default CRLF format.
Pro users can opt out of the new behaviour and switch back to the original line ending support by making a registry key change.
Further reading: Windows Notepad, Windows 10, Microsoft, Line Endings, Linux, Unix, macOS
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The "love" hormone, oxytocin, is an indispensable part of childbirth and mother-child bonding. A new study at FAU is looking at how a mother's levels of oxytocin might be different in women with depression.
Widely referred to as the "love" hormone, oxytocin is an indispensable part of childbirth and emotional mother-child bonding. Psychologists at Florida Atlantic University are conducting a novel study to determine how a mother's levels of oxytocin might be different in women with depression. The goal of this study is to look at how breast feeding, oxytocin and face-to-face interactions between a mother and her baby are impacted by depression and the mother's oxytocin levels.
Using a multi-pronged approach for the study, Jones and her lab team follow moms-to-be from pregnancy through the first six months after delivery. They use surveys that address depression, breast feeding and bonding, conduct home visits, and collect urine samples from mothers and their babies to test their oxytocin levels. They also look at changes in the babies as they develop using a specially designed EEG or electroencephalogram cap that gauges brain wave activity. They do the EEG when the baby is 2 weeks old, 3 to 4 months old, and again at 6 months old. Jones looks at the asymmetry in the baby's brain to see how the left and right sides of the brain are communicating, which has been associated with emotional experiences and learning.
Jones has enrolled close to 50 participants in this current study and hopes to increase that number to approximately 250. Comparison groups in the study include depressed and non-depressed, breast feeding vs. bottle feeding, different levels of feeding (breastfeeding at first or exclusive breast feeding), different levels of depression, and different levels of bonding.
The FAU WAVES Emotion Laboratory is focused on understanding the factors that contribute to the development of socio-emotional wellness during infancy and childhood. Funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, research in the laboratory is designed to explore and understand the contributors to optimal infant and child development.


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Jonathan Rosenhead is an academic at the London School of Economics who has long been a member of the anti-Zionist asajews. He's been a member of whatever group has been in vogue at any given time. Currently the cabal is the so-called Jewish Voice for Labour.
"Just before the outbreak of war the United States had organised a hole… for hundreds of thousands of Jews to escape from Germany and go to…not to the United States certainly, but to a number of Latin American countries that had agreed to have them and in those last few weeks before the war the Zionists stopped that from happening because a Jew who got out of Germany and didn't go to Palestine was a Jew lost and as a result was hundreds of thousands of Jews who would have escaped did not.
Paul Bogdanor, a researcher who has challenged the myth of Zionist-Nazi "collaboration", said: "Prof Rosenhead's suggestion that 'the Zionists' controlled the immigration policies of the Latin American countries before World War Two, or at any other time, relies on myths of Jewish power.
Dr Rafael Medoff, director of the David S Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington DC said: "The US government never organised hundreds of thousands of German Jews to go to Latin America, or anywhere else.
"The Dominican Republic offered, in 1938, to admit 100,000 Jewish refugees, but the Roosevelt administration actively discouraged the proposal, because it feared the refugees would use it as a jumping-off point to get into the United States.
"As a result, barely 1,000 European Jews settled in the Sosua region of the Dominican Republic.
"'The Zionists', as Prof Rosenhead nefariously characterises them, were not some international power with the ability to stop a US initiative to rescue Jews, even if there had been one.
And yet some people wonder why labour has an antisemitism problem, when such lies are promoted by Corbynites?


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Les Brasseries Star is een Malagassische brouwerijgroep met hoofdzetel in Antananarivo. Behalve bier, produceren en verdelen ze ook frisdranken en mineraalwater, fruitsap en rum.

Geschiedenis
In 1953 werd de firma STAR (Société Tananarivienne d'Articles Réfrigérés) opgericht door de société Rochefortaise. Ze verkregen de exclusieve concessie van Coca-Cola in Madagaskar en de eerste fabriek voor de productie van Coca-Cola werd opgericht in Soanierana. In 1958 werd het bier Three Horses Beer (THB) op de markt gebracht. In 1968 werd een nieuwe brouwerij in Diégo (Antsiranana) ingehuldigd.

In 1980 werd Brasseries STAR Madagascar de nieuwe officiële naam en in 1989 werd de groep overgenomen door de Groupe Fraise nadat de staat aangekondigd had zich uit het bedrijf terug te trekken en werd de firma omgevormd tot een naamloze vennootschap.

Vanaf de onafhankelijkheid van Madagaskar in 1960 tot 2011 was Brasseries Star de enige brouwerij in het land. Three Horses Beer (THB) is de marktleider.

In augustus 2011 kwam de brouwerij in handen van de Franse Groupe Castel. In mei 2014 werd de Groupe Castel de grootste aandeelhouder van de Nouvelle Brasserie de Madagascar en kreeg daardoor het merk Skol in Madagaskar in handen.

De groep heeft zes productie-eenheden, in Antsiranana, Antananarivo (2), Antsirabe (2) en Ambatolampy

Producten

Bieren
 Three Horses Beer
 Queen's
 Gold
 Skol
 Libertalia

Frisdranken
 Coca-Cola
 Fanta
 Sprite
 Caprice

Mineraalwater
 Cristalline
 Eau Vive
 Cristal

Andere producten
 XXL Energy, energiedrank
 Compal, fruitsap
 Judor, fruitsap
 Grantera, witte rum

Zie ook
 Bier in Madagaskar

Externe link
 Website brouwerij

Malagassische brouwerij

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Coming Soon to Streaming: 'Narcos,' 'Animaniacs,' and More
Posted Fri Jan 5, 2018 at 04:30 PM PST by Steven Cohen
Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and more are all coming to your favorite streaming device.
Netflix and Amazon have released new trailers or info for several of their upcoming shows and movies, including My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, Somebody Feed Phil, Disjointed - Part 2, The Open House, Step Sisters, Narcos: Season 4, and The Widow.
In addition, Hulu and Warner Bros. have announced plans to develop a new version of the 90s cartoon, Animaniacs. Steven Spielberg will return to executive produce the new series which has already been given a two season straight-to-series order set to premiere in 2020. In addition, Hulu will also now be the exclusive streaming home to all 99 episodes of the original Animaniacs, along with Pinky and the Brain, Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain, and Tiny Toon Adventures.
Here's a synopsis for the new series per Hulu: The Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner sister, Dot — three inseparable, irascible siblings — have a great time wreaking havoc and mayhem in the lives of everyone they meet. They have been locked away in the Warner Bros. water tower for a very long time, but they have found a way to escape. And escape they do — every day! Causing chaos and comic confusion, Yakko, Wakko and Dot run loose in the city, turning the world into their personal playground. And fan-favorite characters Pinky and the Brain will also return to make appearances in each episode.
"We cannot wait to work with Steven Spielberg and the entire Amblin and Warner Bros. teams to bring more sketches, catchphrases, songs and laughs from the Animaniacs to kids and adults everywhere," said Craig Erwich, SVP of Content, Hulu. "Now one of the most beloved, inventive and funny animated franchises in history, Animaniacs and its cast of witty characters can live on, on Hulu. This marks yet another big move for us as we continue our efforts to be the #1 streaming destination for premium animated content."
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman (Netflix, January 12) - The six-episode series has Letterman combining two interests for which he is renowned: in-depth conversations with extraordinary people, and in-the-field segments expressing his curiosity and humor. In each hour-long episode, Letterman will conduct a long-form conversation with a singular guest - and will also explore topics on his own, away from the studio. Dave's lineup of influential guests includes George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey, Howard Stern and President Barack Obama.
Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix, January 12) - The new original documentary series from the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, Phil Rosenthal, takes viewers on a goodwill eating tour of the world (Tel Aviv, Lisbon, Saigon, Mexico City, New Orleans and Bangkok.) Along for the ride are Phil's friends, family and his trademark sense of humor.
Disjointed: Part 2 (Netflix, January 12) - A workplace comedy starring Kathy Bates as a lifelong advocate for legalization who's finally living her dream as the owner of an L.A.–area cannabis dispensary. Joining her are three budtenders, her twenty-something son and a deeply troubled security guard. All of them are more or less constantly high.
The Open House (Netflix, January 19) - A teenager (Dylan Minnette) and his mother (Piercey Dalton) find themselves besieged by threatening forces when they move into a new house.
Step Sisters (Netflix, January 19) - Jamilah Bishop (Megalyn Echikunwoke) seems to excel at everything: She's president of her sorority, captain of the step dance crew, liaison to the college dean and a star student who is on her way to Harvard Law School. But when Jamilah is asked to teach a misbehaving, mostly white sorority how to step, success seems impossible. Without telling her own sorority sisters, Jamilah begins training rivals Sigma Beta Beta (SBB) for the "Steptacular" competitive dance competition.
Narcos: Season 4 (Netflix, Coming Soon) This raw, gritty series chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. It details the many, often-conflicting forces - legal, political, police, military and civilian - that clash in the effort to control cocaine, one of the world's most valuable commodities.
Finally, Amazon and ITV have greenlit a new eight-episode original series called The Widow. The show comes from writers Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing, Fleabag), and is set to star Kate Beckinsale. An exact release date has not been announced yet, but The Widow will premiere on ITV in the UK and on Prime Video in the US and more than 200 countries and territories.
Here's a synopsis per Amazon: The Widow follows Georgia Wells (Beckinsale) who has cut herself off from her previous life and is no longer the woman she once was. After seeing her "late" husband on the news, she is pulled back to face the world and will stop at nothing until she gets the truth about her past. This emotionally gut-wrenching thriller will take Georgia into the depths of the African Congo where danger and revelation will greet her at every turn.
"We are thrilled to continue our existing relationship with Kate Beckinsale on the heels of her incredible performances in Amazon Studios' critically acclaimed films," said Brad Beale, Vice President, Worldwide TV Content Acquisition, Amazon Prime Video. "Harry and Jack Williamshave created a powerful story, which will be brought to life by one of the world's most talented actresses, and we are excited to bring this thrilling series to Prime members around the world."
- A current Netflix subscription starts at $11 per month for HD streaming and $14 per month for Ultra HD streaming.
- A current Amazon Prime subscription costs $99 per year or $11 per month. Likewise, Prime Instant Video is available as a standalone service for $9 per month.
- A current Hulu subscription starts at $8 per month with commercials ($6 limited time promotional price now available). In addition, ad-free playback is available for $12 per month.
Sources: Netflix (YouTube), Amazon, Hulu
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Old Unusual Fan-Shape Victorian Photo Album Metal Decorated Velour Cover & Latch
Description: This is a beautiful antique, Victorian photo album. The album is in the shape of a fan opens up like one. It has a blue velour cover decorated with attached metal having a brassy color and depicting a bird and vine leaves with a round fruit hanging. The album opens along a hinge in the bottom too show cabinet card photos installed in it. Each page is double sides and accommodates two cabinet cards one on each side. The album has 5 double-sided pages and two one-sided pages attached to the covers. It has about 9 old cabinet cards in it which we are selling as part of the lot. The album has a metal locking mechanism and has a metal column on the bottom, which suggest that the album had a stand originally which is no longer with it. The pages have damage and some have tears to the paper which will hold the photos in. The pages are colored with gold gilt along the edges. The back cover is undecorated and has the same blue velour type material as the front. Please carefully review the photos presented as they are part and parcel of our description.
Date: Unknown but most likely late 1800s or early 1900s.
Size: Measures ~14" long without the bottom pin, which would add ~2" to the length, and is ~6" at its widest. The piece weighs over two and a half pounds.
Marks: Unmarked.
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I am shocked and appalled regarding what I have learned about and observed taking place here in Southampton. I live on the Peconic Bay and have a 35-mile view of land, water and sky.
Recently, I was informed of a scourge taking place in Europe and simultaneously in our country—in California, Arizona and, I imagine, other states, and, much to my astonishment, also in the Town of Southampton, and also by default all the towns in this area.
The scourge I am speaking about is the spraying of matter into the atmosphere by planes flying at high altitudes, crisscrossing the sky in all directions, spewing out cloud-producing substances. Particularly, Friday, April 18, and again April 20, here into our pristine Long Island skies. The exhaust these planes emit are called chem trails. The purpose of this spraying is unknown to most of us citizens. It is a secret, as secret as something that we can all see can be, if it is even noticed by most. Supposedly to control the weather.
The results of this spraying, however, is not benign. The substance sprayed into the atmosphere, which in my case I noticed thrice in the last two weeks (I have photos and video as documentation), happens just before rain is in the weather forecast. I am told by people who have researched this matter that the substance contains barium and aluminum, and includes some kind of minute, even microscopic, silica filaments to help this substance descend to earth.
This increased barium and aluminum, and the plastic filaments of silica, are health menaces. Aluminium causes short-term memory loss and confusion, and long-term symptoms like Alzheimer's. Barium affects the muscles and causes weakness in the human immune system. Silica affects our lungs, since this substance inadvertently gets inhaled, causing coughing, joint aches and headaches. In general, they are polluting our human environment, without permission, or providing information about these activities.
In essence, nature—our already very fragile environment, our birds, bees, bats, fish, lobsters and so many other creatures, already stressed and dying in great numbers; our trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables, all of our produce; our water supply—are being rained on by poisonous matter, the consequences and effects of which we have no way of knowing. How are we affected, and, most of all, how will it affect our children, our babies, all of us breathing in this polluted air, unprotected? Perhaps until it is too late and we are all dead. It is an outrage that our government and irresponsible scientists are permitted to use our environment, and us citizens, as experimental guinea pigs. Especially at this moment, when our environment is absolutely in the ultimate of stress.
As you know, during World War II, many experiments were done on various populations without their knowledge or regard to consequences—that includes the atomic bomb explosions in the Nevada desert. The scientists of the time could not have guessed the long-term effects of radiation poisoning on the earth and on human beings. How do the people who are conducting these experiments know what long-term effect their clandestine activity is going to have on our earth and human health?
The U.S. Navy is experimenting with ultrasound emissions in the seas and is killing or damaging the whales and dolphins. This looks to me like a similar irresponsible action.


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West Ham must stamp their authority in Gomez hunt
Date: 7th July 2019 at 9:04am
The ongoing transfer saga revolving around West Ham United and Celta Vigo forward Maxi Gomez is certain to give Manuel Pellegrini headaches.
The Hammers were reported to have penciled in a date for the Uruguayan international to undergo a medical this weekend, as they try to hijack Valencia's accepted offer for the striker.
Pellegrini's patience must be wearing thin as the club are still to reach an agreement for the signing of one of his top priorities this summer.
West Ham and Mario Husillos must now stamp down their authority in the race for the 22-year-old, with Premier League rivals Everton placing a £36.3million bid according to RadioESport914 journalist Julio Insa.
Insa wrote on his personal Twitter account, "One more of the soap opera. Everton gets into trouble. They're already in the 40.5 million."
The Hammers are much further down the road in their negotiations for the striker and must use their relationship with the player's agent, Jonathan Barnet, to full effect.
Gomez scored 13 La Liga goals last season, in a campaign where he played understudy to former Liverpool man Iago Aspas. The Uruguayan impressively averaged 4.3 successful aerial battles per-90 minutes, therefore proving his worth as a lone forward. [WhoScored]
Losing Gomez from under their noses to a Premier League rival for European qualification would be a disaster. All that is left to do for the Hammers is to meet the reported £43.5million release clause and they have got their man.
With Pellegrini reportedly wanting two strikers this summer, this is one race the club cannot afford to lose, especially after tracking the battling forward for so long.


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Eldar Chenguelaia (en  et phonétiquement en ), né le  à Tbilissi (Géorgie, à l'époque en URSS), est un réalisateur soviétique et géorgien.

Biographie
Fils de l'écrivain et cinéaste Nikolaï Chenguelaia et de la comédienne Nato Vatchnadze, il est le frère aîné du réalisateur Gueorgui Chenguelaia.

Après avoir suivi les cours de Serguei Youtkevitch au VGIK à Moscou, il obtient son diplôme en 1958. Il travaille d'emblée pour les studios Mosfilm et réalise, en collaboration avec Aleksei Sakharov, La Légende du cœur glacé (1958) et Conte de neige (1959). En 1960, il rejoint les studios de Géorgie, la Kartuli Pilmi. Trois ans plus tard, il signe avec Tamaz Meliava, La Caravane blanche (1963), pour lequel il reçoit en 1967 le Prix du Komsomol de Géorgie. Eldar Chenguelaia atteint sa maturité artistique avec L'Exposition extraordinaire (1968) et Les Hurluberlus (1974). Les Montagnes bleues (1984), satire de la bureaucratie, pousse la réflexion sur la morale humaine et les problèmes sociaux de la vie quotidienne.

Analyse
Selon Irine Kutchukhidze, avec L'Exposition extraordinaire et Les Hurluberlus, Eldar Chenguelaia est parvenu à élaborer un style qui reflète sa vision personnelle.  D'une part, écrit-elle,

Récompenses
 Premier prix du Festival d'Union soviétique pour Les Montagnes bleues en 1984

Références

Filmographie principale
 1958 : La Légende du cœur glacé (Легенда о ледяаном сердце), en coréalisation avec A. Sakharov.
 1960 : Conte de neige (Снежная сказка), en coréalisation avec A. Sakharov.
 1964 : La Caravane blanche (Белый караван), en coréalisation avec Tamaz Meliava
 1965 : Mikela (Микела), épisode du film Les Légendes du passé, en collaboration avec G. Chenguelaia et M. Kokotchachvili.
 1968 : L'Exposition extraordinaire (Необыкновенная выставка)
 1974 : Les Hurluberlus (Чудаки)
 1978 : La Marâtre Samanichvili (Мачека Саманишвили)
 1984 : Les Montagnes bleues (Гомуые горы или неправдолодобная история)
 1989 : Tragédie du  à Tbilissi (documentaire)
 1993 : Information Express

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Réalisateur soviétique
Réalisateur géorgien
Naissance à Tbilissi
Naissance en janvier 1933
Naissance en RSFS de Transcaucasie
Étudiant de l'Institut national de la cinématographie


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The 2000 Election
"I don't care who wins anymore, I just want to stop counting."
The 2000 election was definitely a shocking one. There has not been such a close election since 1876 and the outcome of the election was simply stunning. Bush had won the state of Florida by a shocking 537 votes. Although the 2000 election could easily be explained and covered with no difficulty, it is interesting to imagine what could have happened. If only Gore's request for a hand recount was able to be finished before the dead line of December 12th (safe harbor deadline),the 2000 election may have had a completely different result. For all we know, the United States would have had Al Gore as president from the time of 2000-2008. Imagine the different policies and approaches he would have approved while he is in office.
The 2000 election could have easily been Al Gore's as it could have been Bush's. As Foner had mentioned, 960,000 ex felons were unable to vote in the election. Excluding nearly one million people from election could have been the changing factor. Another factor being the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to declare a hand recount unconstitutional.
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The right to vote
Although this is an old news story, it proves to have a very controversial point. The right to vote has always been a right worth fighting for and many ex-felons are speaking up now. Felony disenfranchisement is a term used to describe the practice of prohibiting people (often times inmates and ex-felonies) from voting based on the fact that they were convicted for a criminal offense. The United States has more than two million people incarcerated meaning more than two million Americans (although they are criminals) do not have the right to vote. That is a large piece of opinion or voice unable to speak up for decisions regarding the government. In many states even ex felons (approximately 2.1 million) who have completed their sentence is still unable to vote. However, in 2007 in the state of Florida a portion of non-violent felony convictions will regain the right to vote for the first time in year.
This action to partially restore the right to vote to ex-felons is definitely a very important one. Although these Americans were once criminals, it does not mean their voice does not count. In the election of 2000, between Al Gore and Bush, a whooping 537 votes was the difference between the winner and the loser of the election. In the year 2000, nearly one million ex-felons (960,000) in the state of Florida were unable to vote. If they had the chance, the outcome of the election would probably have a lasting effect on our history today.
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Party time: Finland into its first major soccer tournament
Posted: Nov 15, 2019 / 12:48 PM MST / Updated: Nov 15, 2019 / 03:48 PM MST
Finnish fans join players to celebrate their victory in the Euro 2020 Group J qualifying soccer match between Finland and Liechtenstein in Helsinki, Finland, on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Finland won 3-0 and have qualified for a major soccer tournament for the first time in their history. (Martti Kainuleinen/Lehtikuva via AP)
HELSINKI (AP) — Flag-waving Finland fans poured onto the field, embracing each other and mobbing the players as fireworks exploded outside the stadium.
A party decades in the making finally erupted in Finland after its national soccer team qualified for a major tournament for the first time on Friday.
The Finns beat Liechtenstein 3-0 in Helsinki to secure a place in next year's European Championship and end decades of embarrassments, disappointments, and near misses on the international stage.
"Many of us have been waiting for this for years, some even for decades," read a post on the Twitter feed of Finland's national team.
"15.11.2019 will be remembered as the day when the Dream of Generations came true. And we did it together."
Jasse Tuominen scored in the first half and fellow striker Teemu Pukki, the team's most celebrated player, added two goals after halftime in front of Finland's jubilant fans at the Telia 5G-areena.
The victory guaranteed second place behind Italy in Group J of Euro 2020 qualifying, with a game to spare.
Better known for its ice hockey team, rally drivers, and javelin throwers, Finland — a nation of around 5.5 million people — was the only major Nordic country to have failed to reach a World Cup or European Championship in soccer.
The class of 2019 achieved what Finland's so-called "golden generation" — including Jari Litmanen and Sami Hyypia — failed to do around the turn of the century. Litmanen, the former Ajax, Barcelona and Liverpool playmaker, was in the stadium on the historic night.
The team is coached by Markku Kanerva, a former primary school teacher who inherited a side that had gone all of 2016 without a competitive win. He has made Finland hard to beat and defensively strong — and has a potent scorer in Pukki, who has nine goals in nine games in qualifying.
The win sparked wild celebrations in the team's dressing room and across Finland, where soccer has been high on the sporting agenda this year because of the team's success. Hundreds of people — many half-naked despite below-freezing temperatures — gathered round the famous Havis Amanda statue and its fountain in central Helsinki to celebrate the achievement, like sports fans did after Finland won the men's hockey world championship this year for the first time since 2011.
"Oh Finland is, oh Finland is, oh Finland is finally in the men's soccer championship!" Finland's Prime Minister, Antti Rinne, tweeted.
Finland, which is the 34th different national team to qualify for a European Championship, has been in great form for the past two years under Kanerva. It also finished top of its group in the UEFA Nations League last year, guaranteeing a playoff spot for Euro 2020 that will not now be necessary.
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Trump baby blimp to have a new home after president leaves office
LONDON (AP) — The Trump Baby Blimp will live on long after its namesake has left the White House.
The Museum of London said Monday that it had added the giant balloon, which depicts Donald Trump as a screaming orange baby, to its collection as an illustration of the protests that greeted the U.S. president when he visited the city in 2018.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed, the company said.
A 70-foot-long (21.34-meter-long) LauncherOne rocket was released from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft off the coast of Southern California, ignited moments later and soared toward space.
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An American Decade by Richard Aronowitz
April 25, 2017 lindasbookbag
My grateful thanks to Karen Bultiauw at Accent Press for a copy of An American Decade by Richard Aronowitz in return for an honest review.
An American Decade was published by Accent on 3rd April 2017 and is available for purchase through the publisher links here.
An American Decade is a novel that connects the current political climate with that of the tumultuous 1930s; a decade in which the world was changed forever.
After the death of his wife, Christoph leaves Germany in 1930 and eventually finds success as a singer on Broadway. As the decade unfolds he witnesses the rapid rise of American organisations sympathetic to Hitler. The ominous presence and popularity of these far right groups become a constant reminder of his inaction. As the human horrors of Nazism close in he is forced to act and sets sail across the Atlantic in search of a hidden piece of his history.
Evocative, heartfelt and beautifully written, An American Decade is a must-read novel for those who recognise the enduring impact of history and human frailties.
My Review of An American Decade
Widowed at 30 after only a few months of marriage, German Christoph heads to New York to make a new life, leaving more than just memories behind in Germany.
I can't say that I enjoyed An American Decade. This is not because it isn't beautifully written, evocative and intelligent, because it is all those things and more. I didn't enjoy it because it made me face some terrible truths about our society and our world in a way that made me think not much has changed. I know this will sound mad, but reading An American Decade made me think of eating high quality bitter chocolate when I'm used to Dairy Milk. I appreciated its quality but I found the message hard to swallow.
Even at the moments when he redeems himself, I despised Christoph who is the personification of humanity's ability for stasis and self-deception. His selective presentations of the truth and his justifications for inaction as being best for others, mirror the way in which the world of the 1930s stood by and watched the rise of Nazi-ism. Christoph is a creation of genius by Richard Aronowitz. At the same time as I wanted to shake Christoph until his teeth rattled, I had a horrible feeling that, had I been him, I may have behaved very similarly in my treatment of Miriam and Anne, withholding full truth and effectively deceiving myself. Christoph's edited letters to Miriam made me fume. However, I also fully understood why he behaved as he did and that is what made An American Decade so ensnaring. Brutalised in the trenches of WW1, Christoph cannot bear to think history will repeat itself and not all of his impotence is self-inflicted.
The sense of place and time is so cleverly done. We have a picture of America and Germany painted through ideology as well as physical description so that there is an intensity to the settings that echoes through the pages like Christoph's voice through the concert halls. The descriptions of New York took me back to the brief time I lived there so effectively. Using popular culture, newspaper reports, letters and Christoph's first hand experiences the reader is given a vivid and searing view of the times. It is not a comfortable picture and the more Christoph achieves the American Dream, the more the contrasts work so effectively.
An American Decade is a disturbing book. I'm not sure I've entirely come to grips with it and reading it has left me feeling perturbed and actually quite anxious. It has made me think and question both my own personality and the world around me now, as well as in its past. Unsettling, perfectly crafted and beautifully written An American Decade is a troubling book. I think you should read it and decide for yourself!
About Richard Aronowitz
Richard Aronowitz was born in 1970 and grew up in rural Gloucestershire. His debut novel, Five Amber Beads, was published by Flambard Press in 2006 and his second novel, It's Just the Beating of My Heart, was published by Flambard Press in 2010. His third novel, An American Decade, is published by Accent Press and Five Amber Beads will be republished by Accent Press in June 2017. He is married with one son and lives in Oxford.
You can follow Richard on Twitter and visit his website. You'll also find him on Facebook.
17 thoughts on "An American Decade by Richard Aronowitz"
readingwrites says:
What a brilliant review Linda, this book sounds fascinating. Definitely going on the tbr. X
It's certainly a book to make you think Sandra. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment.
tripfiction says:
Very thoughtful review. A challenging time brought to life….
Abbie at Bloomin' Brilliant Books says:
Great review Linda. Sounds likes a really interesting book. I'm going to have to check it out xxx
Thank you. I think it's a book TripFiction would appreciate!
It's one of those books you don't really enjoy but you can't stop reading! Thanks for calling by x
K. D. Dowdall says:
Your great review of American Decade is astonishing and very interesting. I would like to read this book. Historically, it seems history does repeat itself as human frailty has changed little (for good or ill) since WWII.
It's certainly a very thought provoking book. Thanks for dropping by and taking the time to read and comment.
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Check out the book, An American Decade, by Richard Aronowitz, as featured on Linda's Book Bag blog
You handled this review beautifully (if that makes sense). Honest and thought-provoking… Looks like a fascinating, if not disturbing, read.
Thanks as always Don x
Thanks so much Sarah – both for commenting and for dropping by in the first place!
Your welcome, my pleasure. K D
Jill's Book Cafe says:
Sounds like a challenging book for challenging times.
Thanks for calling by Jill. I found it all quite worrying!
Another fantastic review, Linda. I must read this book but I am going to wait for the December holiday period to do so. I need to be relaxed to read a book like this.
Thanks Robbie. It really is a book to make you think.


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I have the cutest, sweetest looking doggie there is. He is tiny but mighty; with very sharp teeth. It is amazing to see him tear right into a toy and destroy it within minutes of getting it. I have to really keep an eye out for my shoes as he seems to fancy many of them. My son finds this to all be delightful. Every morning they tear down the hall way squeaking and tearing everything in their way.
Each week we try to get a harder and harder to tear toy. He is not stymied in any of his efforts. The latest was a cute weird, long toy. It had a large round head that squeaked with cute ears and a long body. Within minutes the ears were chewed up and thrown out. It is almost as if Winston is like Meryll Streep in the movie The Devil Wears Prada. He could probably easily make his way up the corporate ladder on Wall Street. I don't imagine him believing that "greed is good." He actually sits quietly while we eat and barely begs for any scraps. He does not even rush to the garbage when we drop something onto the floor.
After he tore the ears off, he went at it with the body. Soon enough, the body was bruised and torn. Where does this loving dog get all this fierceness? Is he teething? I actually think his teeth may be itching him. Thus, he brushes his teeth by chewing his toys apart in a micro-second. We have bought him a bone on which to chew. He likes his bones for about five minutes, then he goes back to tearing into the toy.
Soon enough, the body is separated from the head. Oh my. This is a bit like watching Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. The head just lies on the floor looking up at me.
The next morning, I come down the stairs and there is no head. Just a clear, plastic round squeaky where a head once was wrapped around. I laughed and just shook my head. This dog rocks and is a bit of an enigma. He is sweet, loving, and playful. He is bitey and sharp. I like being kept on my toes. And Winston manages to do just that. How fabulous is he? His fabulousness can definitely land him a starring role in film or get him a cool job with a great starting salary in the world of fierceness.
My friends have a Yorkshire Terrier also called Winston and he is exactly as you describe. He actually rapes the fluffy toy animals we give him. Is there any hope?
We should change his name to Harvey. But then it wouldn't be funny at all anymore.
My eccentric adopted cat Sid is delighted by this and sends his sincere meows to Winston. You know you might have had forethought to name him Winston. From what I know supposedly Winston Churchill always went around with a cigar firmly clamped with his teeth. At times they say not only ashes dropped but the cigar itself having been bitten so fiercely. I love dogs but have always been more a cat person so I am not much into heavy duty doggy toys. I can say that my first cat who was a lovely female chewed the heads off of her little fluffy toys like a monkey. The monkey was her favorite so I always sewed the head back on. I did find something online they do offer heavy duty squeaker toys. Here is a link. Merry Christmas to you and yours.


I guess if H.R. Giger's Alien was to walk into the Minisrty of Silly Walks and ask for a government grant for it's crab walk, it would be fully funded by Mr. Teabag….sorry, gotta be a fan of Monty Python to get that.
Well, the second of two semi-static posed figures I have completed involves this particular "silly" walk. This version depicts the creature as it appears in the deleted "crab-walker" scene from the 1979 film as Lambert and Parker make a desperate attempt to escape the Nostromo. This deleted scene however was thought comical, "silly" by many, not well executed on film and revealed too much of the creature…reducing it to nothing more than a man in a rubber suit…something Ridley Scott was avoiding by using smoke and shadow.
When crouched or "crab walking", the figure is approx. 3″ high from highest point on head to the feet. When standing, the figure is approx. 5.25″ high, still not fully erect as the leg and hip joints limit the full motion (again, this was originally meant to be a static posed figure).
Fortunately I was able to add several articulation points to the figure: Ball jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. Vacuum formed PETG dome is removable. The tail is static but is attached using a revoltech joint and can be switched out with a longer tail option.
Original was sculpted using Aves FIXIT sculpt, a two part epoxy. Parts were cast in resin and assembled to build this version. Used Model Masters Polly Scale and Tamiya acrylics.


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Q: Slicing a Pandas dataframe with a period index with an array I'm trying to slice a pandas dataframe indexed by a period index with a list of strings with unexpected results.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
idx = pd.period_range(1991,1993,freq='A')
df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(9).reshape(3,3),index=idx)
print df.loc[['1991','1993'],:]

results in:
KeyError: "None of [['1991', '1993']] are in the [index]"

If the the last line is switched to:
print df.ix[['1991','1993'],:]

The output is
Out[128]:
        0   1   2
1991    NaN NaN NaN
1993    NaN NaN NaN

If instead of a period index I have
idx = [str(year) for year in range(1991,1994)]
print df.loc[['1991','1993'],:]

Then the output is as expected:
Out[127]:
        0   1   2
1991    0   1   2
1993    6   7   8

So my question is: how to slice a pandas dataframe with a period index?

A: Pandas doesn't convert the strings into Periods for you, so you have to be more explicit. You could use:
In [38]: df.loc[[pd.Period('1991'), pd.Period('1993')], :]
Out[38]:
      0  1  2
1991  0  1  2
1993  6  7  8

or
In [39]: df.loc[map(pd.Period, ['1991', '1993']), :]
Out[39]:
      0  1  2
1991  0  1  2
1993  6  7  8

or
In [40]: df.loc[[idx[0],idx[-1]], :]
Out[40]:
      0  1  2
1991  0  1  2
1993  6  7  8

By the way, when you pass an arbitrary list of items to df.loc Pandas returns a new sub-DataFrame with a copy of values from df. This is not a slice. To slice you would need to use the slicing notation: a:b. For example,
In [64]: df.loc[pd.Period('1991'): pd.Period('1993'): 2, :]
Out[64]:
        0  1  2
1991    0  1  2
1993    6  7  8

The distinction is important because in NumPy and Pandas slices return views while non-slice indexing return copies.

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As fans of the new Long track snowmobiles, we decided to compare the two leaders – the 2019 Polaris Pro-RMK 174 850 and Ski-Doo Summit X 175 850.
Nineteen model years ago, when Ski-Doo introduced its ZX-chassis Summit X Highmark 151, this journalist pooh-poohed the idea of a mountain snowmobile with a 151-inch long track. After all, for years a 136 was a long track, which gave way to a new popular length – 141 or 144.
As model year 2000 passed, in 2005 Polaris kicked out an RMK 900 with a 50th Anniversary special, a 166. This 166 seemed beyond-belief in length. The mountain riding snowmobiler had finally accepted, with great appreciation, the 151/153 length snowmobile, but the 166 seemed out of place.
Oh how times…have not changed, actually.
Ski-Doo kicked open the super long track wars with its 174 XM Summit X 800, to be followed by Polaris and its 174 AXYS Pro-RMK 800. Then Ski-Doo grew its Gen-4 Summit X 850 by one-inch, now a 175, and Polaris came to market in 2019 with a new 850 AXYS Pro-RMK 174 with a new front end.
How do we like the super track long track snowmobiles from Polaris and Ski-Doo? We can't get enough of them. They rock, they roll and they are stable and planted snow critters with a nice and long attitude at being playful and light, to the extent a super long track can be.
Given the choice between length and big four-stroke turbocharged horsepower from Arctic Cat and Yamaha (162 King Cat and M-TX LE, respectively), we'll take super long over boosted horsepower and its weight, though the turbocharged amped King Cat and M-TX LE have excellent power-to-weight ratios at wide open throttle – WOT.
Behind this EPA-required exhaust pipe and muffler is a wonderful new 840cc motor, the 850 Patriot, which is state-of-the-art with its internals, coatings, and low inertia.
Polaris' 2019 Pro-RMK 174 comes with the new Patriot motor, which is stronger that its Liberty 800, though in current build, the 800 is not a lazy motor by any means. Refer to our many feature articles on Polaris' 850 Patriot motor and the 2019 SnowCheck Select Pro-RMK 155 and 163.
When we first rode Polaris' 174 Pro-RMK we were mixed up as to its "flickability." The 174 Pro-RMK is a planted snowmobile. With its length, the nose does not lift like the 155 and 163 Pros when snapping its throttle. But, when slow log hopping in tight tree conditions, especially when the snow is deep, the 174 Pro-RMK stretches out and gives its driver the floatation to power along with no trenching, spinning out and being wild. If on a long day's ride, when other riders are tired from digging out their 150s or 160s, the 174 Pro-RMK driver is fresh and young.
Like the 155 and 163 Pro-RMK, the 174 comes with Polaris' patented Lifted AXYS RMK chassis. The 174's ridged rear suspension has for 2019, an "all new front track shock cross shaft which is 0.5 pounds lighter and a new, patent-pending hyfax design optimized for lighter weight while maintaining durability." Wrapped around the suspension is the Series 7.0 3.0-inch paddle track which is a lightweight single-ply track that is durable and engineered for uber-deep powder performance.
The Series 7 track with 3.0-inch tall paddles is shared with the 163 Pro-RMK. The track may not spin as fast the Series 6, but overall, it is perfect for the 174.
The 174 is a chaincase driven Pro-RMK. Polaris feels with the long and tall track, the robust chaincase is best rather than the Low-inertia Quick Drive Belt Drive System. We feel the belt drive system can handle the load, but the company chooses to be conservative and trust its gut and give the 174 customer the most reliable drive system it has, though the belt drive system is tough.
Up front, the 174 Pro-RMK 850 has the new 2019 AXYS Pro-RMK React Front Suspension, which delivers almost power-steering like control. The React front suspension substantially reduces arm and hand fatigue when rotating the bars, while delivering effortless and predictable control when boondocking and when laying into a sidehill. The previous years' Pro-RMKs where effortless – so we thought – until the G4 Summit X came along, then effortless became buttery; Ski-Doo set the standard. The React front suspension makes the Pro-RMK silky smooth and graceful.
With the React Front Suspension, Snowcheck riders can opt for a monotube Walker Evans shock with a coil over spring that is steel which is lighter and strong than titanium.
This new front suspension has an adjustable 36-inch to 38-inch ski stance, a sway bar for predictable handling, new A-arms and forged spindles for strength and durability.
The 2019 Pro-RMK returns with its traditional business office: Pro Taper bars with mountain strap and hooks, minimalist controls for heater, light dimmer, PERC and motor kill; and two choices for an instrument pod.
We pounded these coil over shocks hard in February and March 2018, and the ride and control these deliver are phenomenal. These coupled with the new React front end and twin rail RMK skidframe, the Pro-RMK 174 is gentle yet aggressive, determined so to be.
Are we progressing to become 170-plus riders? We are. It may have to do with age creeping up on us, or the fact the AXYS RMK-chassis Patriot-powered Pro-RMK 174 for 2019 is just that good.
When you think the 175 is about to give in, it will not. The wide 16-inch track, the motor and drive system and the wide-spaced track lugs, make the 175 Summit X the powder master it is.
The 2019 Ski-Doo Summit X 175, especially one equipped with the splendid SHOT – Start Hot – is a super long, long track snowmobile that mountain riders should consider for the upcoming 2018-2019 winter season.
The 2019 175 Summit X has Ski-Doo's 16-inch wide Powder Max II track that is a 3.5-inch pitch track; it has Ski-Doo's proprietary FlexEdge technology. The track's paddles are spaced such that it does not cut and blow out the snow. This track has a total footprint of 2800 square inches. Being half the track is on the surface at all times, 1400 square inches of track with three-inch paddles propels the 175 Summit.
The 2019 175 Summit X with 850 power gives riders a motor with a wide powerband and bottom-end grunt. The 175 Summit X will hold its torque down low for those times when you need to creep up a steep slope or through narrow-spaced trees. Working with the track to keep it positive, is Ski-Doo's famous tMotion rear suspension and FlexEdge track.
After spending several days aboard the 2019 Summit X 175, the 175 can lift its nose and pack its skis like a 165 Summit X. Its stout motor will pack its skis, but not like a 165. Furthermore, like any smart owner with a smart mountain snowmobile, adjusting the rear suspension to body weight, terrain, and snow condition is key to smart riding. Want more lift? Dial it in. What less ski lift? Dial it out. Riders who accept "average" suspension settings are only experiencing an "average" ride.
A narrow cockpit is all business with the 2019 Ski-Doo Summit X 175. The 4th Generation REV chassis is what makes the G4 175 the success it is.
At all shock points, the 175 Summit X comes equipped with HPG Plus coil over shocks. We like these for their adjustability and control. Ski stance for the 175 is an adjustable 35.8 inches or 37.4 inches.
When Ski-Doo built its 175, it believed it needed to spread the tMotion rear suspension's scissor and mounting points, lengthen the torque rods, add a longer front rail shock, and lower the skidframe's mounting bolt positions (on a longer mounting plate) to the tunnel to give the long track flotation, a 165-like turning radius and 165-like agility. Ski-Doo just didn't take the 174 XM Summit X tMotion and stuff it under the 175; the rear suspension, as of 2018, is all-new for the 175.
Slipping off a cornice or a hillside in a 175 Summit X, is no different than making a drop on a 165 or 154 Summit X. The Gen4 chassis allows riders to, easily, set the 175 on edge and power down.
For Rocky Mountain boondocking and hill climbing, the 2019 Summit X 175 will ascend to dizzying heights, float atop the deepest powder, and carve Figure-8s with a feathery touch to the bars and minimal pressure on the boards. We when rode the 175 Summit X next a 165 Summit X, the 175 does involve slight more effort to drive than the 165, but only if you are looking for it. The 175 Summit X feels 165-like, more than the 174 Pro-RMK feels 163 Pro-RMK like. The 175 Summit X for 2019 is feathery light through the bars.
But we must add here, the new React front end on the Pro-RMK 174 makes the Polaris super long track snowmobile on par with the 175 Summit's handling.
The 850 Ski-Doo motor is not one to weaken in high altitudes. With a throttle snap, and some bad attitude, a driver and his or her 175 Summit X and launch and laugh.
Customers can order, or did, their Spring-buy Summit X in either black, or Ultimate Lava Red, or Octane Blue and black. SHOT is optional, but choose it. The three-inch Powder Max II track is the only track choice for early-buy Spring order customers.
The ultra-long 170-plus snowmobiles allow us to traverse deep and tall mountains that very few can; and what a thrill that is. We love these super long mountain snowmobiles for the freedom they provide.
What about Arctic Cat? Will Cat build a 175 Alpha One or Mountain Cat? From our view, probably not. The way the 165 Alpha One behaves in deep powder with its Alpha single rail rear suspension, there is no need for a 175 Arctic Cat. The Alpha One floats like that of a 174/175. This is a no BS statement.
The 850-powered 2019 Pro-RMK LE 174 and the 2019 850-powered Gen-4 Summit X 175 are fairly nimble, given each snowmobile's respective chassis. As age continues to challenge many mountain riders' personal agility and nimbleness, a mountain sled that is planted, that floats, and one that stays tied to a mountain's side during long sidehill sweep, is not a bad thing.
How do these compare to each other? The Summit X 175 feels just a wee bit more lively, less planted. If more ski pressure is given to the 175 Summit X, it will behave like the Pro-RMK 174 — planted. Conversely, the 174 Pro-RMK can be set nose light as well and be as a lively as the Summit X. Both are similar in handlebar effort, initiating a sidehill and in motor-power. Both do not "panel-out" on a sidehill cut and deliver a predictable and stable ride.


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Nitrogen in Permafrost Soils May Exert Great Feedbacks on Climate Changes
The researchers are taking high-resolution soil and gas samples down to the upper layers of the permafrost across multiple sites with differing landscape characteristics, from upland forests to lowland bogs. (Image: Hannes Grobe via wikimedia / CC BY-SA 2.5)
What nitrogen is getting up to in permafrost soils may exert great feedback on climate change, which overturns what researchers have long believed, according to a Sino-German joint study. Nitrogen is a constituent part of nitrous oxide (N2O) — an often overlooked greenhouse gas — and there is a vast amount of nitrogen stored in permafrost soils. But little is known about N2O emissions from permafrost soils and, until recently, it was assumed that releases had to be fairly minimal due to the cold climate.
The decomposition of organic matter is slow in low temperatures. Exacerbating this, there would have to be high competition among organisms for what little nitrogen there was in a form that they can use. So there couldn't be much nitrogen left over to contribute to N2O releases. In recent years, however, a growing number of papers have started to hint that there might be very high N2O emissions from such soils, perhaps as much as those from tropical forests or croplands, which suggests that there's a clear gap in our understanding of what happens to nitrogen in permafrost soils.
Mohe County in northeast China is the study site of the 'NIFROCLIM' project. (Image: Chunyan Liu)
To get to the bottom of the issue, Dr. Michael DANNENMANN from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Dr. Liu Chunyan from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with their colleagues, have established the "NIFROCLIM" project in a high-latitude permafrost region in northeast China, which is part of the Eurasian permafrost complex — the world's largest permafrost area. The profile of "NIFROCLIM" was published as a News & Views report in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Elisabeth Ramm, the first author of the article, said:
"In contrast to the huge volumes of research into permafrost carbon climate feedbacks, research into permafrost nitrogen climate feedbacks is lagging behind terribly. We urgently need to better understand what is happening to nitrogen in these soils, especially as the world warms and permafrost thaws."
The layers of permafrost. (Image: Benjamin Jones, USGS. Public domain (modified))
The researchers are taking high-resolution soil and gas samples down to the upper layers of the permafrost across multiple sites with differing landscape characteristics, from upland forests to lowland bogs. They are also engaging in experiments that simulate varying levels of warming. Building a scientific outpost on the southern edge of this region is ideal for studying the impact of climate change on permafrost as the arctic, and the subarctic, in particular, is being hit hard already by global warming. Temperature increases occur here at more than double the pace of the global average, accelerating permafrost degradation and N transformations. Dr. Liu Chunyan said:
"If anywhere is going to tell us whether we've been getting the math wrong on nitrogen, it's here."
Provided by: Chinese Academy of Sciences [Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.]
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A missile may be guided to a target by guidance signals developed from tracking data obtained either at a surface-based radar station or by radar means located totally, or partially, within the missile. The former system is commonly referred to as a command guidance system and the latter as a missile homing guidance system. For example, in a command guidance system where a missile is used to intercept an airborne target, a large, remotely located, high resolution surface-based radar system and high speed digital computer are provided for selecting one of a plurality of targets, tracking both the missile and the selected target, calculating proper guidance signals for the missile from the generated tracking data, and transmitting such signals to the missile to enable the missile to intercept the target. As is known, a reference element, such as an attitude stabilized platform is generally required to be contained within the missile for transformation of the transmitted signals into missile control signals.
In a missile homing guidance system, a smaller, light weight, lower power target tracking radar system may be provided for generation of both target tracking data and guidance signals. In one type of missile homing guidance system, both the radar transmitter and receiver are located in the missile and in another type of homing system the radar transmitter is located remotely from the missile while the receiver is located in the missile. The former missile homing system is referred to as an active guidance system and the latter as a semi-active guidance system. Generally, such semi-active guidance system includes a target tracking radar antenna gimballed within the missile and coupled to a control system (i.e., the antenna and control system therefore being referred to collectively as a missile seeker) for tracking the target and to thereby generate guidance signals for the missile.
In one type of missile system, the features of command guidance and semi-active guidance techniques are combined. During the early portion of the missile's flight, the missile is guided by a command guidance phase where the guidance command signals are developed by the digital computer operated in response to signals obtained by tracking both the missile and a selected target with a remote, high resolution, surface-based radar system. During the later portion of the flight, the missile is guided by a semi-active guidance phase where guidance signals are obtained by tracking the target with the missile-borne radar receiver fed by the gimballed antenna system which receives reflected power from target illuminations by the surface-based radar system. In one system, the antenna provides a stable reference for the command guidance phase.
As is also known in the art, the use of an initial command guidance system phase followed by an active, missile homing guidance system terminal phase has been suggested. In such suggested arrangement, after the initial command guidance system phase (i.e., at the commencement of the active terminal phase), the missile seeker would first go through a search phase to search for the target and then, once the target is acquired, the missile seeker would go into a target tracking mode to thereby guide the missile to the target. With small targets, the search phase may be relatively long thereby reducing the time to guide the missile to the target. Generally, however, the shorter the time the missile has to guide to the target, the less likelihood the missile will successfully intercept the target.


At Tyler Kung Fu & Fitness you will learn an effective and complete martial arts system, known as the 7 Start Preying Mantis Style of Kung Fu.
Classes are available for Children, Teens, and Adults as well as Family Classes. Private instruction is also available to accommodate to your busy schedule.
In every class, you will benefit from a balanced blend of stretching, warm-ups, calisthenics, strength training, and learning fighting techniques in a safe and friendly environment.
Tyler Kung Fu & Fitness promotes the traditional notion of "Kung Fu family." We encourage you to create relationships and make lasting friendships with other students.
We believe the most productive learning experience is one void of intimidation and wreckless behavior. We work diligently to maintain the cleanest, most professional martial arts school in the Tyler area and we would love for you to be a part.
Please contact us to setup an appointment or learn more about our facilities.
Little Mantis classes are fun and jam-packed with kicks, punches, blocks, and tumbling, all designed to improve your child's motor skills while teaching self-defense.
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Super Mantis classes are awesome! At this level, students begin testing their skills with sparring and cool weapons.
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Seven Star Praying Mantis is the primary style taught at Tyler Kung Fu & Fitness. It is a complete system utilizing both the hands and feet in combination with submission and throwing technique. This system is known for its quick and extremely effective self defense applications.
The legendary Wong Long, developed this system while spending his days at the Shaolin Temple. Taking the best techniques from 17 other styles of the time, Wong created one of the most effective fighting systems ever developed in China. This system includes striking and kicking as well as joint locks, throws, and close quarter techniques.
Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu focuses on learning to effectively use the attackers own force against them. This includes evading and balance disruption techniques and also focuses on strengthening and conditioning the body. With an emphasis on principles over specific techniques, practitioners are better prepared to deal with dynamic situations that occur in actual combat.
The graphic on the right depicts the lineage that can be traced from the founder of Tyler Kung Fu and Fitness (Brandon Jones) all the way back to Wong Long, the original founder of Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu.


Youth is the social capital of any society and whenever guided carefully, they proved to be a massive source of energy and an explicit resource for the society. In the recent times, due to increasing peer-pressure for the career oriented activities, and also due to various reasons popping up in the society, they are a bit wayward when their social responsibility is accounted! However, we firmly believe that this is just because of ignorance that they are not able to participate in the activities directed for the most vulnerable, fragile and ignored section of the society – the unattended and resource poor senior citizens. There is an urgent need to have intervened at this stage so that before they get lost in the oblivion, they can be aligned in the society for such issues which truly need attention, particularly from the younger generation who is shaping the future of the society by their own zeal and passion.
This is a high time that we must think of channelizing the youth potential and energy to a direction where it is needed the most!
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Things cannot be changed overnight but the Awareness Campaign through a grand cultural eve may provide a kick off to other such activities and participatory approach in the youngsters of the society. Hope is the pivot upon which the world revolves and we are hopeful that this can trigger off the process that we are aiming for.
Event OrganizersHelpAge India is an International NGO – working for the social cause of needy and unattended senior citizens from the last 30 years in India. HelpAge India doesn't need an introduction; it is solely their efforts that a number of other organizations, state and central governments, and funding agencies have started taking this issue seriously and are coming forward with some immediate assurance, however small they may be. There is a wealth of donors associated with HelpAge India and they are moving forward with each passing day to cater the disadvantaged, unattended and needy senior citizens through resources, services and other possible modes.
Kamal Group of Arts is relatively new but a truly committed group for performing arts. A self-managed and inclusive of immensely committed, passionate and optimistic youngsters, Kamal Group of Arts has gained accolades from all sectors of the society for its hallmark approach for creating awareness for the burning social issues through stage shows, road shows and plays, and other such small but equally important activities organized by NGOs and Government agencies in Bikaner and surrounding areas. Their presence is a must in the social-cultural programs where mass appeal is a mandate!
None other than Indian Idol Sandeep Acharya is performing in the cultural eve with his group. He really doesn't need an introduction; has been a nation favourite and an International fame artist after winning the Indian Idol show on the Sony TV. Himself a young blood, Sandeep enjoys the love and affection of his hometown more than anywhere else in the world! Need not to mention, his presence is the USP of the show and we honestly accept that half of our efforts got fruitful outcomes when he humbly accepted the offer to perform in the show for social cause. He is an idol for the youngsters of Bikaner and they look at him with unparallel respect.
Sandeep hails from Bikaner and his interactivity is quite straight forward – giving more weightage to the mandate of the whole campaign. We are proud to have him performing in the show which certainly would not have been colossal without him on the stage.
The stadium is at a premier location in the city and this would add to the numbers of audience which can pour into from different parts of the city and equally easily from the outer skirts of Bikaner. This will be for the first time after Sandeep Acharya won the Indian Idol title that he will perform in the inner city area and we expect that the audience will come in huge number.


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