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Hunters & Collectors were an Australian Rock band, formed in 1981 in Melbourne, who were originally influenced by German experimentalists like Can and later leaning more towards popular rock. Taking their name from a Can song, the band was formed by Mark Seymour (guitar, vocals), John Archer (bass), Doug Falconer (drums), Geoff Crosby (keyboards), Greg Perano (percussion), Ray Tosti-Gueira (guitar), and Robert Miles (sound engineer and art director, considered a full member). Read Full BioHunters & Collectors were an Australian Rock band, formed in 1981 in Melbourne, who were originally influenced by German experimentalists like Can and later leaning more towards popular rock. Taking their name from a Can song, the band was formed by Mark Seymour (guitar, vocals), John Archer (bass), Doug Falconer (drums), Geoff Crosby (keyboards), Greg Perano (percussion), Ray Tosti-Gueira (guitar), and Robert Miles (sound engineer and art director, considered a full member).
After recording their first album, which featured the single Talking to a Stranger, the band traveled to Germany to record with famed producer Conny Plank. In 1984, the band reorganized, adding a three-piece horn section and losing the second guitarist. By 1986, the band's style was moving away from the sweat-drenched rhythmic jams of their early days to a more song-centered aproach centered on Seymour (whose younger brother Nick was a member of Crowded House). Throw Your Arms Around Me was a successful single in many countries.
The band was never able to match the worldwide attention they reached in 1986, though they continued to record with considerable success in Australia, and maintained a loyal fanbase elsewhere.
They broke up in 1998, but returned to play one concert on 14 March 2009 for "Sound Relief" at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was a multi-venue rock music concert in support of relief for the Victorian Bushfire Crisis.
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03Love All Over Again3:55
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09Lazy Summer Day3:38
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When success is on your mind
But true direction is missing
You know the Gods have lied - but you're still smitten.
By the stars in your eyes
I can tell you know where you are
Smile sweetly and you'll be forgiven.
You're almost free - almost free to come and go
Bed sitting room for ambitious prisoner.
Walk away, don't take no for an answer
Turn a blind eye to it all
Down in Queensway.
Like a bulldozer chasing butterflies
Down sad English streets you wander
Over sleeping bodies you step lightly.
All the snow on the ground
Lets you pass by without a sound
One last look before you disappear.
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Written by: BARRY JOHN JOSEPH PALMER, DOUGLAS JAMES FALCONER, JEREMY STUART SMITH, JOHN ALBERT HOWARD, JOHN MELVILLE LEE ARCHER, MARK JEREMY SEYMOUR, MICHAEL BERNARD WATERS, ROBERT DAVID MILES
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The Fall of Sauron
The Downfall of Sauron
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Gollum falls into the Fire clutching the Ring to his heart and in the confusion that follows Sam is able to carry Frodo to the threshold of the Sammath Naur, the Cracks of Doom, and there he gazes upon the fall of Sauron in wonder and terror.
"A brief vision he had of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it towers and battlements, tall as hills, founded upon a mighty mountain-throne above immeasurable pits; great courts and dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs, and gaping gates of steel and adamant: and then all passed."
And then all passed.
All the might of the Dark Lord, painstakingly constructed throughout the ages, ever since he first pledged his loyalty to Morgoth, all passes in a moment. Unlike his enemies of the West whose decline has been long but slow Sauron's passing happens almost in the blink of an eye. At one moment all his attention is given to the battle before the Black Gate and he eagerly, if anxiously, awaits the capture of the Ring and his final triumph over all his foes. Then comes the moment of realisation, fury and terror, as he perceives the Ring in the one place in which it can be destroyed. And then… all passed.
"There rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but impotent; for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell."
All the might that has held sway over ally, slave or foe for so long is simply blown away.
For the "shape of shadow" that the wind catches is all that Sauron has been and certainly all that he has been since the forging of the Rings of Power. For Sauron chose to create a thing that would be a complete expression of his power, "fraught with all his malice", and by which he would be able to overcome and control all other peoples. Nine Rings he gave to Lords of Men, tempting them with dreams of power, and so they became the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths. Seven Rings he gave to lords of the Dwarves, tempting them with dreams of wealth, and although they were able to resist his control nevertheless they were diminished in power. The Three Rings of the Elves were not made by him nor did he ever see or touch them and so they did much good in the world and yet they were still bound to the Ruling Ring either to be exposed to his gaze once he held the Ring once more or to pass away in its destroying.
The Ring gave Sauron great might and yet it also made him vulnerable. He thought that his vulnerability lay in a mighty one siezing the Ring and using it against him. In actual fact it was the impossible deed, the destruction of the Ring, that was the greatest danger that he faced.
What Sauron shows us is the spiritual diminishment of someone who becomes entirely identified with the things that he makes. Fëanor becomes entirely identified with the Silmarils and binds his sons to them as well and in so doing causes untold harm. In a lesser manner Saruman the White falls from greatness both in his desire for the Ring and also in his obsession with the machinery that he creates.
But what of Ilúvatar, the Maker of all? Is not he the one most identified with all that he has made? Here we see the difference between the true and the false maker. The false maker creates in order to own and control. The true maker creates in order to make free, in order that all that the maker creates can be its true self and belong fully to itself, giving or withholding itself freely as it chooses. Sauron never permits this freedom and yet in enslaving others to himself he enslaves himself to the thing that he has made. In making himself great in his own pride through his creation Sauron diminishes himself to such a degree that when the thing that he has made is destroyed what he is most truly is revealed to be mere shadow that passes away.


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Q: What's the correct way to loop over a list and make a dictionary with dict comprehension in python? testWords is a list with words. setTestWords is the same list as a set. I want to create a dictionary with Dict Comprehension where I will use the word as key and the count as value. I'm also using the .count.
Example output would be like this:
>>> dictTestWordsCount[:2]
>>> {'hi': 22, 'hello': 99}

This is the line if code I'm using but it seems to crash my notebook every time.
l = {x: testWords.count(x) for x in setTestwords}

A: Not sure what causes your notebook to crash...
In [62]: txt = "the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog"

In [63]: testWords = txt.split()

In [64]: setTestWords = set(testWords)

In [65]: {x:testWords.count(x) for x in setTestWords}
Out[65]:
{'brown': 1,
 'dog': 1,
 'fox': 1,
 'jumped': 1,
 'lazy': 1,
 'over': 1,
 'quick': 1,
 'red': 1,
 'the': 2}

Or better, Use collection.defaultdict
from collections import defaultdict

d = defaultdict(int)

for word in txt.split():
    d[word]+=1

print(d)
defaultdict(int,
            {'brown': 1,
             'dog': 1,
             'fox': 1,
             'jumped': 1,
             'lazy': 1,
             'over': 1,
             'quick': 1,
             'red': 1,
             'the': 2})

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El Guarnón es un río que discurre por la cara norte de Sierra Nevada, íntegramente por el término municipal de Güéjar Sierra, en la provincia de Granada, comunidad autónoma de Andalucía, España; partido judicial de Granada. Pertenece en todo su recorrido al Parque nacional de Sierra Nevada.

Geografía física
Nace en las Trancadas del Guarnón, bajo el antiguo glaciar llamado Corral del Veleta, donde existen dos lagunas de claro origen morrénico -la mayor de las cuales es además la más alta de Sierra Nevada, con sus 3.086 m de altitud-, pero ninguna de ellas tiene emisario o desagüe visible, y aunque las primeras aguas del río Guarnón afloran de manantiales existentes unos 500 m más abajo, no está comprobado que éstos procedan de dichas lagunas; pero el hecho de que no se produzca el rebosado superficial de las mismas en ningún momento del año evoca que la procedencia de este río pueda estar en filtraciones subterráneas con origen en ellas, dado que la escasa incidencia de los rayos solares en estas láminas de agua, por los altos tajos que las resguardan, excluye la evaporación como causa exclusiva de su ausencia de desborde superficial. No obstante, la procedencia de los mencionados afloramientos, origen de este río, también ha sido atribuida a otras causas, como puede ser la lenta fusión del hielo fósil o permafrost detectado en el subsuelo del Corral.

Su recorrido es de unos cinco kilómetros, siguiendo una dirección NNE casi rectilínea, en los que desciende más de 1.400 metros de desnivel hasta unirse al río Real, en las inmediaciones de las antiguas Minas de la Estrella (de pirita de cobre), a partir de cuya confluencia conforman ambas corrientes fluviales el río Genil.

Su margen derecha está constituida por la empinada Loma del Lanchar, también llamada Loma del Guarnón -cuya parte superior es denominada Veta Grande y acaba presidida por el Cerro de los Machos (3.324 m de altitud)-, la cual separa al Guarnón del río Valdeinfierno; mientras que su margen izquierda la constituye la Loma de San Juan, que a su vez lo separa del barranco de este mismo nombre y que está coronada por los Tajos del Campanario, donde en la cota de 3100 m de altitud aproximadamente, muy cerca de los antiguos parapetos relictos de la última contienda civil denominados Posiciones del Veleta, arranca el Veredón, puerta del Corral del Veleta practicable únicamente en periodo estival, pues en invierno el acceso sólo puede realizarse utilizando técnicas de escalada en hielo. La cabecera del Guarnón la cierra el emblemático Pico del Veleta y sus enormes tajos. Es tan empinado este barranco que desde su propia desembocadura se divisa el pico que le sirve de cabecera.

Tiene un solo afluente significativo, el Barranco de Chorreras Negras, que se le une por la margen izquierda relativamente poco antes de finalizar su recorrido. Y es importante tener esto presente, porque en la penosísima ascensión del Guarnón desde su desembocadura, que requiere de múltiples vadeos, es fácil confundirse acerca de cuál de los dos cauces es verdaderamente el Guarnón, resultando a la postre aún más corto y empinado el de Chorreras Negras.

Etimología
El nombre Guarnón o Guadarnón, como lo escribe Madoz al recoger la voz Genil y aludir al mismo como fuente de éste, diciendo: «GENIL: El r. de este nombre tiene su nacimiento en una umbría de Sierra Nevada llamada el Corral del Veleta, y a las inmediaciones del l. de Güejar correspondiente a la prov. de Granada; corre por el barranco de Guadarnón...», tiene una clara acepción árabe, aunque no se conoce exactamente su significado, posiblemente porque el topónimo sea resultado de una hibridación.

Es conocido que los árabes frecuentemente mantenían el nombre preexistente de los lugares que ocuparon en la península, aunque arabizándolo. En este caso, bien pudieron emplear la palabra Wād, 'río', de donde habría evolucionado la primera parte del topónimo 'Guar' o 'Guadar', mientras que la segunda parte del mismo haría referencia al nombre propiamente dicho del lugar, posiblemente de origen íbero y de significado desconocido. No obstante, también es posible que su significado fuese el de «Río de la N» o «Río N»; la razón de esto estriba en que en el alfabeto árabe la letra 'n' se lee 'non' y se escribe ﻥ, y así no sólo la pronunciación fonética evoca esta posibilidad sino también la forma de escribirse esta consonante, que es muy parecida a la configuración física que presenta el Corral del Veleta, origen de este río, visto desde la montaña de enfrente, la Loma de Maitena (obsérvese esto en la foto adjunta).

No obstante, el médico Fidel Fernández, pionero del montañismo penibetista y verdadera autoridad en las cuestiones relativas a este macizo montañoso, señala que el significado de este vocablo es: «río que nace de una planicie inclinada», si bien no aclara suficientemente las razones en las que apoya su aseveración.

Actividad económica
Desde tiempo inmemorial, este río fue objeto de diversas explotaciones mineras, hoy todas ellas abandonadas; existiendo constancia de la extracción de plata y, sobre todo, de pirita de cobre en las Minas de la Estrella, situadas justo en su unión con el río Real, donde se forma el río Genil, las cuales estuvieron en explotación hasta principios del siglo XX. El nombre de Veta Grande que reciben las estribaciones del Cerro de los Machos, que junto al pico del Veleta corona este valle, evoca también la existencia de antiguas explotaciones mineras en este lugar.

La ganadería estival (fundamentalmente caprina y bovina) es la única actividad económica que en la actualidad persiste, pero muy escasa por lo abrupto del terreno.

La leyenda de la Escoba del Diablo
Reproduce también Fidel Fernández, con un lenguaje más pomposo y extenso que el actual, propio de su época, la curiosa leyenda que ambienta en este lugar, según la cual, hace muchísimos años se alzaba un castillo, perteneciente al conde del Guarnón, sobre uno de los más escarpados miradores existentes en los riscos que predominan sobre el río de este nombre. Era éste un hombre siniestro, malvado y déspota, que tenía aterrados a los pobladores de la zona. En cambio, en un pequeño campo existente en la loma de enfrente y a nivel inferior al del castillo, habitaba un viejo labrador su choza con techo de ramas y, con él, su nieta, una bella joven, alegre y dulce, de cabellos rubios y esbelta, de la que se había enamorado un pastorcillo, de la misma edad, que frecuentaba los alrededores para observarla y llamar su atención cantando las romanzas que le dedicaba.

Una tarde, cuando regresaba el conde de una de sus correrías, se detuvo en la choza para descansar y reponer fuerzas a costa de sus moradores, como acostumbraba, antes de proseguir su camino hacia el castillo. Fue entonces cuando descubrió la presencia de la joven que con tanto empeño el abuelo había preservado hasta ese momento; quedó prendado de ella e inmediatamente ordenó a sus sicarios que la prendiesen y la llevasen al castillo. El pastorcillo presenció de lejos la escena y, sin dudarlo, emprendió la persecución para intentar liberarla. Según ascendía, la oscuridad de la noche se imponía y, al tratar de cruzar el río aprovechando el tronco de un árbol caído a modo de puente, apareció al otro lado una figura alta, enjuta, vestida de color de fuego y con bonete rojo, que le cerraba el paso. El joven, en su ansiedad, no reparó en detalles y se limitó a pedir paso, pero el oponente, en su lugar, extendió sus brazos desplegando su radiante capa y le habló con voz estruendosa, diciéndole: "Sé qué persigues y no tienes ninguna oportunidad. Te ofrezco mi ayuda a cambio de que me otorgues la tuya". Preguntado por el muchacho sobre quién era, le contestó, rotundo y sorprendido por la candidez del joven, que el diablo, y añadió que lo que buscaba era la muerte del conde y sus seguidores para apoderarse del alma de todos ellos, por lo que le proponía que si le ayudaba en sus planes, él a su vez lo ayudaría a salvar a su amada. Reconociendo lo crítico de su situación, el muchacho accedió sin dudarlo, por lo que el diablo le entregó una pequeña escoba mágica, como de juguete, y le franqueó el paso.

Llegado al pie de los muros del castillo, el joven los tocó con la escoba, abriéndose inmediatamente un hueco en la muralla, por el que penetró hasta la estancia en la que su amada esperaba, llorosa y asustada, a ser llevada a los aposentos del despreciable conde; con rapidez salieron ambos jóvenes por el hueco, al tiempo que la guardia del conde daba la alarma y con él al frente emprendía la persecución. Con ánimo de despistar a los perseguidores, los huidos, en lugar de bajar, optaron por subir por entre las peñas del valle, pero el conde se percató de ello pronto y se dio la vuelta, comiéndoles terreno. Llegados a la zona de las nieves, el pastorcillo volvió a hacer uso de la escoba y cada vez que barría la superficie de la nieve, verdaderos aludes caían sobre los perseguidores, diezmándolos. Así lo hizo hasta en tres ocasiones mientras alcanzaban los Panderones del Veleta y, viéndose por fin libre de ellos, dejó olvidada la escoba sobre la nieve mientras que ayudaba a la doncella a regresar con su abuelo. Con el tiempo, ambos jóvenes se casaron y vivieron felices, en gracia de Dios, pero la escoba que dejaron olvidada continuó arrojando oleadas de nieve sobre el castillo hasta sepultarlo, siendo éste el origen del glaciar del Veleta.

Véase también
 Anexo:Ríos de la cuenca del Guadalquivir

Notas y referencias

Guarnón, río
Guarnón, río
Sierra Nevada (España)
Guarnon

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#AskWes 6.27.17
Via a variety of mediums – ranging from phone calls and emails, to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts to handwritten letters (not all of which are from prison) – #AskWes will serve as an "often-as-possible-or-needed" platform for Drag Illustrated Editor-in-Chief Wes Buck to answer questions from the drag racing masses, expound on a slew of different topics based on the direction of readers and fans and do one of the things he loves most – talk about drag racing. While we anticipate most the questions and answers to focus on drag racing, we encourage you to blast a curveball at him from time to time. You know…just for fun. To put your question(s) or comment(s) at the top of the list, shoot them to [email protected].
Grant Davenport: What's up with your Oldsmobile Cutlass fascination? Of all the bodies we've seen in drag racing, this seems like an odd choice of favorite.
You can't be serious. The Oldsmobile Cutlass body is everyone's favorite race car body style, right? If not, it should be.
Honestly, it started when my dad bought an ex-Larry Morgan 1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass in the early 2000s. It was the purple Castrol Super Clean car, and Don Ness built it for Larry in or around 1995-1996. It was the trickest race car I'd ever been around. All of Ness' legendary fabrication mastery was on full display with this thing. It had the ultra-rare aero package that had kinda swooped-downward quarterpanels, and just looked ridiculously bad ass. Even cooler was that it had all of the lightweight trickery, too. Not just titanium pedals, chute mounts and steering column – I'm talking titanium rear end housing, axles, gauge mounts, front end tree, lug nuts, etc. And, yes, I mean it – a titanium rear end housing.
The car was an awesome race car that really served my dad well. We raced it with an older 500ci Pro Stock engine (also from Larry Morgan) and a Lenco 5-speed. Back in the early 2000s, we were doing a lot of match race stuff in the Midwest with the car running 4.60s and my dad making fans everywhere we went with epic 400-plus foot burnouts. I have to find some video footage of that madness. He'd pull gears backing up, really put on a show. Never forget those days. Some of my fondest memories, as well as some of my toughest. I was terrified 24/7 back then of scratching the car with dzus tool or screwing something up while loading or unloading it, working on it, moving it, etc.
I'd give about anything to have that car now. It's exactly the type of race car that I would like to have, even though you can't really get a monster tire on the back of it, nor can you get a big inch nitrous motor to fit under the hood. We tried both.
Anyway, I've loved the cars for two decades, and I don't imagine it stopping anytime soon. I will have one – no doubt in my mind. Since then my dad has bought-and-sold at least a half dozen different Cutlass-bodied doorslammers. I've loved each one.
Joe Pacheco: Have to admit, still reeling from seeing you post that you were at a Kanye West concert. Was a lot happier seeing you went to a Garth Brooks show. I'm just giving you a hard time. To each his own?
Never thought I'd get so much feedback on that post, but I do find it hilarious. I love music of all types, but I've been a big time hip hop/rap music fan for as long as I can remember. I grew up listening to Bellamy Brothers, George Jones, Conway Twitty, David Allan Coe, Bob Segar and a host of other country/rock greats while beating up and down the highways and byways of America going racing and "horse trading" with my dad, so I think when I was first introduced to rap music on the school bus when I was somewhere around 13-years-old, I really liked it. Honestly, I think it was just a pretty risk-free way for me to "revolt" and "act out" without having to really do anything risky or dangerous, or even let anyone know I was doing it. I just knew my parents would never approve, and I kinda just enjoyed being able to be a super, big time, bad ass without doing anything other than listen to my discman.
I don't feel like I can tell the difference between a lot of new country artists, but I do find myself listening to a lot of new country – mainly because I can listen to most all of it without fear of my kids hearing something horrific.
My son, Max, and I are really into electronic dance music. I think we both just really dig the high energy nature of it.
I just spent a few hours on a plane flying home from Norwalk, Ohio, my playlist included everything from The Beatles, Drake, DJ Khalid and Justin Beiber to Conway Twitty (love this guy), Elvis Presley and a weird Portuguese band named Citizen Mundi. Weird side note: I first heard Citizen Mundi at some random bar/club in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was in town for a big race at Tulsa Raceway Park and a massive storm rolled through and washed the deal out. At the time, I'd just gotten started with Drag Illustrated and hardly knew a soul. I ducked into the first place I came across, bored and, honestly, just kinda lost. This band Citizen Mundi was playing and I've been a huge fan ever since. Guitars, horns, drums, and songs that are largely in a language that I don't understand – good stuff. Not sure if they're still a thing or not.
Jonathan Lett: Looks like it's all but official: NHRA Pro Stock's schedule is being reduced to 18-races in 2018. Is this really good news, or is this actually the most obvious "beginning of the end"?
I think it's good, and I think it's long overdue. There's nothing you can do to make Pro Stock affordable for the average guy. Let's not kid ourselves here. You have to have a little jack to run virtually any legit drag car, especially a fast doorslammer. I know guys that do it on an impressively low budget, but that's still like $50,000 a year or something, and that's a lot more than like a "modest hobby".
I think the move to less races will first-and-foremost help the guys that are already out here, and if you don't think preservation of the class is the primary function of this decision, well, you're crazy. This is about keeping the guys that are already out here out here. That's priority number-one if you ask me.
Secondly, I do think there are guys that are racing other classes, even some top-tier Sportsman racers, that may take a look at running Pro Stock if it can be done on a competitive, chase a championship-level for at/around one-million-dollars. That is insane to even type, but I think it's probably true. I know of at least one Pro Stock team owner that says it can be done, and it can be done with an operation that is capable of winning on day-one with the right driver. That's encouraging.
There's a lot to talk about with this that goes beyond the number of races on the schedule, but I have to believe this is going to lessen the burden on the NHRA Pro Stock teams that are committed to racing the full schedule. I can't say that I haven't had more than a few guys tell me that they believe this is a step in the wrong direction, and that this just has closer "one step closer to out the door", but I'm not sure about that.
I've been preaching about different things that could be done to make events on the NHRA schedule more unique, and I think this is one of those things. By changing the class lineup at several events, I have to believe that the dedicated race fan that typically goes to one race a year might consider going to two or three if the product is considerably different – especially if the events are within reasonable driving distance. I know that, for example, if the NHRA had a slew of different classes offered at St. Louis and Topeka, there's a lot of people that I know, personally, that'd hit them both as compared to one or the other.
Again, lots to cover on this one and if the response indicates we need to talk about it further, well, we will!
Nicholas Wilson: We're seeing Pro Mod at more races. Top Fuel Harley is an official class. X275 was contested as an exhibition class in Epping. A bunch of no prep/no time cars were in Houston. What exactly is going on? Is there a method to all this?
Yeah, man, I think so. I think we're going to see this trend continue. What I believe it amounts to is NHRA exploring all these different categories and gauging their impact – what kind of value they add to the show, what kind of impact they have on ticket sales, in some cases television ratings, etc.
Do I think we're going to see No Prep added to the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series? No. But I do see the NHRA, basically, offering their national event track partners a menu of sorts with professional and exhibition categories for them to choose from. Tracks will get a standardized package of Top Fuel and Funny Car, but may have the choice to pick Pro Stock or Pro Mod, Top Fuel Harley or Pro Stock Motorcycle based on their respective fan following or location. Perhaps they could check the box for Outlaw 10.5 if they're in an area that knows and loves that brand of racing, or the aforementioned X275. For example, it made a lot of sense to do a No Prep exhibition in Houston. Probably wouldn't made as much sense in Pomona.
I think that's where it's headed. Tracks getting a menu like they're at Chipotle and getting to pick what they want on their steak bowls. Guacamole is available, but it costs extra.
David Gonzales: You put everyone else on the spot on your Facebook Live show – ya know, asking people to make predictions and stuff. Who you got at the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod?
Oh, snap. Have I even announced who all has been invited and locked in? If not, well, here goes…
2017 Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod Driver Roster
Danny Rowe – Danny Rowe Racing '16 Corvette
Steve Matusek – Danny Rowe Racing '68 Camaro
Mike Janis – Al-Anabi Performance '16 Camaro
Steven Whiteley – YNot Racing '14 Cadillac CTS-V
Jim Whiteley – YNot Racing '69 Camaro
Mike Knowles – Blown Money Racing '67 Mustang
Pete Farber – CRC Brakleen '69 Daytona
Troy Coughlin – JEGS.com '16 Corvette
Clint Satterfield – Clint Satterfield Racing '68 Firebird
Eric Latino – Team Green Racing '69 Camaro
Stevie Jackson – Bahrain 1 Racing/Killin' Time Racing '16 Corvette
Larry Morgan – Brad Anderson Enterprises '17 Camaro
Michael Biehle – Biehle Motorsports '67 Mustang
Harry Hruska – Precision Turbo '14 Camaro
Winner of the Fan Vote (announced X/X)
Winner of the Aeromotive Wild Card Shootout
I have to say that I think the winner of the Aeromotive Wild Card Shootout on Friday night is going to be the early favorite. No way you win on Friday night and aren't a favorite going into Saturday. Momentum, in my opinion, plays a huge role in drag racing success, and once a guy goes out and wins a few rounds on Friday night, I can't help but feel like that guy (or gal) is going to be a favorite on Saturday night.
There are a few teams that have some experience on The Mountain, but with two days of testing the week of the race, everyone is going into the deal locked and loaded. It's hard to identify anyone that will be a clear favorite.
I gotta say…with $100,000 on the line in the biggest Pro Mod drag race of all time – it's anyone's game. These guys will all be out of their element and under more pressure than ever before in their racing careers. It's gonna be an ordeal. I'd book a flight and buy a ticket. Not going to be a race anyone that calls themselves a race fan can afford to miss.


This week I wanted to talk about something that I've been thinking about a lot lately.
With the election rapidly approaching, we tend to hear the phrase "Millennial voters" being thrown around a lot, specifically about how important our vote is.
Usually when you hear the word "Millennial", it has sort of a negative connotation to it. Unfortunately. The older generation thinks we're a technology-obsessed, passive generation who doesn't care about many issues in the world.
Which is completely wrong. Not to mention offensive.
The media tends to do this. Working at a commercial station, I see and hear stories constantly about how entitled the millennials are, how little we actually care about issues, and how little informed we are on these issues.
Now more than ever, this election has proved that millennials are taking a stand and caring about what happens to our country, yet we continue to see articles and tv show hosts/radio hosts talk about how uneducated we are.
They pass us off as this technology-obsessed generation, which they deem a bad thing. Which could not be more wrong. The fact that we have advanced technology at our fingertips for our disposal is such a huge positive. We have more opportunity to educate ourselves now than we ever have. And we use it often.
So frankly I'm sick of hearing the older generation drone on and on about how passive millennials are.
This week, I decided to write about the hacks that are happening at Yahoo right now.
Although, I guess I shouldn't say "right now"…as the hack happened in 2014 and we are just NOW hearing about it.
The article didn't really specify why it took so long for Yahoo users to find out about these hacks…which is extremely concerning to me. Someone at the company said they had just found out about it…but something about that sounds fishy to me. How does a massive company like Yahoo (or Verizon, who bought them out) not know about such a massive hack?
And we aren't talking about a few months…it's been two years.
It really makes me wonder why they would let the hack go on for so long without doing something about it, or at least telling users about it.
This article truly shocked me.
I use Spotify on a daily basis, and yes, I pay for it. Not the $10 a month deal, but the student deal for $4.99 a month.
I thought everyone used this?? I mean, a majority of my closest friends pay for it, because in my opinion, you really can't beat it. According to this article, Spotify lost $197 million in 2014! That's insane! Apparently Spotify blames this profit loss on the cost of "product development, expansion and licensing".
Also brought up in this article, the whole Taylor Swift deal. She refused to put her new album up on Spotify because she didn't think it would be worth it, money-wise for her. I thought this was just a load of BS at first to be honest, but now looking at these numbers…she was probably right. Although I don't forgive her for not letting me jam out to Shake It Off on a daily basis.
Now being in the radio/broadcast field, this headline immediately caught my eye.
Basically, this post is talking about how there is only so much airwaves available, and how they need to be weeded out in order to make room for wireless carriers. The way they will do this, according to The New York Times, is that the government will bid on certain airwaves, and then sell those airwaves and forward them to wireless phone carriers.
This, to me, is crazy. I mean, I guess you don't really think of the air as being a limited amount of space?? It makes sense when you look at it from a science perspective, but in general, it's not something you think about. Air is supposed to be unlimited, but in reality, it really isn't. I wonder why it took so long for this to finally happen; that is, for the air space to become literally so full that the government has to buy airwaves to sell. This also says something about our generation, and how important it is for cell phone carriers to own and use these airwaves.
The article goes on to explain two other topics related, but I thought this airwaves thing was the most important thing to think about.
What do you guys think?? Is this as weird of a concept to you as it is to me, or am I just ignorant?
The law has been passed in Indiana, and now Alabama. Although Alabama has elected to refer to it as HB1228 instead, in order to avoid any propaganda. In other words, the original title infers that the state thinks that religious freedom needs restoration, saying that it was in jeopardy in the first place. The debate has been going on ever since Indiana passed the law a little while ago.
There are then a few videos posted in the article, explaining that this isn't the first time that journalists have had to make this decision. One video that explained it the best was this one.
The way I see it, this debate is all about what connotation this title is supposed to give off.
As for a journalistic standpoint, I would use the official name of HB1228, but then explain that it is more widely known as the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act", just to cover both bases. If I thought that the average reader would know what law HB1228 was referring to, I would definitely say to just use that name in order to avoid any propaganda bias.
Ninety-two years ago today, March 3, the first issue of Time Magazine was published. Time is one of the most relevant and influential magazines still in circulation today, so I thought this article extremely interesting. The article said it only cost 15 cents to buy; now, it costs around $16 for a subscription.
An author at the time said that this idea for Time magazine would never work, and he obviously could not have been more wrong. Reading this short article reminded me how relevant Time magazine is and how long it's been around, because honestly I had no idea it had been that long. Even though not nearly as many people grab the paper copies than subscribe to it online, some Time covers are priceless. I know my family has quite a few actual solid copies of some issues, as they are apart of history. One that stands out in particular is the JFK one.
So this begs the question: How long will Time Magazine still sell hard copies of their issues?
I was immediately drawn to this headline for some reason, because lately in my own life I've been thinking about how important mobile applications have become. Upon reading this, I agree with most everything this blogger says: that the mobile web is dying and mobile apps are replacing it.
The answers from students were overwhelmingly apps-but not just random "news" apps that come on your phone. They were applications for popular news sites like CNN and BBC. So while the actual websites aren't being looked up on mobile devices, their apps are being utilized.
I started to ask myself if this was a bad thing, or if this was just a part of technology evolving.
That is what this post is essentially asking. It's also saying that mobile websites aren't as dead as everyone thinks. They use an example of a link being shared on Facebook. When you click that link, it takes you to the company's mobile site, not it's app. I agree with this for the most part, but I also know that if I get to a company's mobile site, it will give me an option to download the app, depending on the site. The best example I can come up with for this is fandango.com. If I type that into my mobile browser, right away it asks me to download the fandango app.
So where do I stand on this issue? Well, I think I'm pretty indifferent to it. More and more companies are creating apps for their websites, but there will always be people using their mobile browser instead. For me it's kind of like how they say newspapers are dying out (which they are), but there will always be a generation of people who prefer holding a newspaper than reading it online.
This week I read a story from the "Advancing the Story" blog on Feedly. One headline that popped out to me was "Whatever Happened to Audio?". This post went on to talk about how important it should be to teach students more about audio in the classroom. It emphasizes the need for journalism students to be well versed in all forms of multimedia.
I believe this post is very important because, being in the radio business, audio is stressed a lot at my job. I've always been more of an audio person rather than a visual one, so I believe learning how to create quality audio production is of the utmost importance.
Like I said, I wish to go into the radio business as my career, so the fact that studies are showing a lack of audio knowledge is extremely concerning to me. Here at the radio station on campus, we are encouraged to have extensive audio production experience, and we take pride in our knowledge of it.
This is a blog I've been following for a long time, and it mainly focuses on the NHL.
Greatest Strength: What I find to be extremely key in any blog entry is the personality of the blogger. I really enjoy when the blogger puts his/her opinions into the entry, to the point where you can tell what kind of person the blogger is. Craig puts a lot of character and charisma into his blog posts, and I believe that is his greatest strength.
The way that Craig's blog gains community is by having his link on the NHL page on the ESPN website. That is actually how I originally found his blog; he wrote a really interesting piece on Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman a while back, and I've read his posts ever since.
Craig also has his social media in his bio, as well as a link for user content to be submitted. I believe this helps him gain a sense of camaraderie with his readers.
This blog focuses on quotes from great works of literature.
Greatest Strength: While I wouldn't say that this blog has a lot of content, the blogger posts several quotes a day from famous works of literature. I would say the greatest strength of this blog is the fact that there are various works to choose from. For example, you can look up full essays and interviews from authors and just regular people who send in their work. It also has a section for poetry that users can submit.
I found this blog while searching through a blogging website called Tumblr for a blog that had a lot of user content on it. By enabling users to submit their work, I believe it creates it's own sense of community.
Here in this section of the blog, there are ways to get in contact with the blogger. Having this section makes it easier for the user to feel connected to the creater.
This blog is dedicated to teaching young adults tips and tricks to becoming a "real adult".
The original format of this blog was kind of like an advice blog.
Greatest Strength: The blogger Kelly Brown is in her mid-twenties, trying to learn how to function like a real adult in society. By her being the one giving advice to the users, it gives the reader a sense of understanding, because she is a very relatable person. Like I said previously, I believe having a personality and charisma is what makes a blog enjoyable and successful.
I found this blog while searching through Tumblr. What really made this blog successful was the book that came from it, "Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps". This book has a collection of tips to become a fully functional member of society. I feel that this book made the blog popular and gave it a readership.
In this section there are ways for the community to get involved and in contact with Kelly.


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Microsoft Wants Clean Energy for South African Data Centers
Sometimes it's hard to know whether the power a utility provides really comes from renewables.
Bloomberg | May 26, 2017
Nathaniel Bullard (Bloomberg View) -- The two new data centers that Microsoft Corp. plans to build in South Africa will one day provide cloud computing services to the entire African continent. The power they use, however, will be generated and consumed entirely within South Africa's grid.
While a decade ago that would have meant buying electricity from the utility regardless of generation source, Microsoft today expects to have a variety of options. Given its commitment to renewable energy, the company may prefer to use wind and solar energy. But in South Africa, that power might not end up being entirely clean.
Many big companies -- and big purchasers of power, such as the U.S. Department of Defense -- are choosing renewables. Since 2008, the top 10 buyers of zero-carbon power alone have created billions of dollars' worth of long-term demand for wind and solar power, Bloomberg New Energy Finance has seen. Of those companies, five are American technology companies with their own data centers, and one (Equinix) is an American data center operator.
See also: Microsoft to Open Africa Data Centers to Seek Edge in Cloud Push
Google, the biggest buyer of clean power, was also early to the game, making its first corporate clean-energy purchase in 2010. Microsoft signed its first clean-energy contract in 2013.
What technologies do these five big U.S. tech companies prefer? Both wind and solar, but so far mostly wind. Since 2010, they've bought more than five times as much wind as solar. The proportion may be changing, though. So far this year, 60 percent of their power buys have been solar.
Buying clean power can be relatively easy. In South Africa, however, things are a little complicated. In the U.S. and elsewhere, companies can simply buy clean energy from any utility that has a certification program ensuring the power comes from a zero-carbon source. Companies can also contract for power from an outside clean-energy source. But with South Africa's utility, Eskom, there are obstacles.
See also: How Renewable Energy is Changing the Data Center Market
South Africa has no renewable-energy certificate program, so the only way for Microsoft to guarantee clean power is to build its own source -- and that might not provide enough power to meet its demand.
Or the company could sign an agreement with an independent clean-power producer and pay Eskom a "wheeling" charge to deliver it, but Eskom hasn't been signing any new power-purchase agreements.
That leaves buying power from Eskom itself, with no assurances that it comes from wind or solar. Eskom is an institution with a history of power blackouts, numerous scandals, and a less-than-stellar local reputation. In South Africa, it's going to be a challenge for Microsoft to get clean power from a not-so-clean utility.
See also: Cleaning Up Data Center Power is Dirty Work
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. It also does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Data Center Knowledge and its owners.
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Very excited to be leaving for New York at the crack of dawn on Super Bowl Sunday to attend VINO 2015. When it comes to wine geekiness, this celebration of the wines of Southern Italy means Russell Wilson times Tom Brady times Katy Perry levels of excitement for me. This sponsored media trip will allow me to not just stick my big toe into the world of Southern Italian wine, but to swim in the deep end and slake my thirst for knowledge. And wine.
This panel is moderated by Elin McCoy of Bloomberg News, who I had the pleasure of meeting while on a trip to Burgundy.
Bill Nesto MW (as in Master of Wine) is the speaker here. Appropriately, I shared a couple meals with Bill and Frances Di Savino–authors of "The World of Sicilian Wine"–in Sicily. A pleasure to have them on my podcast, too.
This should be a really interesting discussion about Southern Italian wines and their place in restaurants. A couple sommeliers will be on the panel and we'll find out if people are asking for wines from this region or if sales are the result of passionate wine professionals. And are these wines (and the history, culture, and geography from where they hail) too diverse to be compartmentalized under the "Southern Italian" category?
Getting into a boat to head to Mozia. Anyone need some sea salt? This was the trip where I met Annie B. Copps.
No discussion about Italian wine is complete without talking about…beer?!? We'll look at the rise of craft beer in the US and how the wine industry can learn from it. (And vice-versa.) There will be talk of the craft beer industry in Italy, too. (I am hoping some beers will be poured.) Also excited that on this panel is Annie B. Copps, who I haven't seen since a trip to Sicily, Sardinia, and Campania in 2011.
Am I partial to dry pink wine from France? Absolutely. But this overview of the Italian rosé scene moderated by Anthony Giglio is sure to introduce me to some new favorites.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. For on-the-scene updates, follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Very nice. Very, very nice!


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Q: How to add tikz plot on the title page I want to add this plot (code here) below the title on the cover page.

How can i do it?
This is the source of the document.
\documentclass[10pt, twoside]{book}
\usepackage{authblk}
    % Title, author and date
    \title{\Huge \textbf{Title}}
    \author{\textsc{John Doe}}
    \affil{Department of Mathematics}
    \date{2020}

    \begin{document}
    \frontmatter % Turns on roman numbering
    \maketitle
 \end{document}%

A: The authblk style does not seem to be made for this. It redefines the \maketitle command by locally redefining the tabular environment to become a center environment. One can exploit this to place the graphics. However, due to the authblk hacks, \endcenter gets executed twice so we need to take care of this, too.
\documentclass[10pt, twoside]{book}
\usepackage{authblk}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}%<- use a smaller version if you have an older installation
% Title, author and date
\title{\Huge \textbf{Title}}
\author{\textsc{John Doe}}
\affil{Department of Mathematics}
\date{2020}

\newsavebox\myplot
\sbox\myplot{\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[trig format plots=rad,axis lines=left,
    xtick=\empty,ytick=\empty,domain=0:4,xmin=-0.5,
    xlabel=$n$,ylabel=$X_n$,
    xlabel style={at={(ticklabel cs:1,0)}},
    ylabel style={at={(ticklabel cs:1,0)},rotate=-90,anchor=west}]
\addplot[smooth,red,dashed,very thick] {1+exp(-x)};
\addplot[smooth,red,dashed,very thick] {1-exp(-x)};
\addplot[only marks,mark=*,color=blue!70!black,samples=151] {1+exp(-x)*sin(10*x)};
\end{axis}
\path (current bounding box.north) + (0,1); % add some vertical space
\end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{document}
\begingroup
\let\oldendcenter\endcenter
\edef\mypftflag{0}%
\def\endcenter{%
\xdef\mypftflag{\the\numexpr\mypftflag+1}%
\ifnum\mypftflag>1\relax
\usebox\myplot
\fi
\oldendcenter}
\frontmatter % Turns on roman numbering

\maketitle
\endgroup

\section{pft}
\end{document}%