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How to Make a Memories Video on iPhone
by Fatima Wahab
iOS 10 comes with a neat new feature for compiling photos into short movies or slideshows called Memories.
The photos included in these short movies are added based on the time and place they were taken. Users can set a mood for the accompanying music and speed up or slow down the transition of the photos.
iPhone Photo Memories
If you're running iOS 10+ visit the Photos app and go to the newly added 'Memories' tab. You can see the first few movies that have automatically been created. There will likely be one summing up the photos you took last year and perhaps two or three more created using photos that were all taken at the same location or within a certain time frame.
Memories, however, aren't all auto-generated though. Users have the freedom to choose which photos should be used in a "memory" and what it should be called.
Here's your complete guide to creating, editing, viewing & sharing, and exporting Memories in iOS 10.
How to Create Memories on iPhone
To create memories, open the Photos app and go to the 'Albums' tab.
Tap the plus button at the top left and create a new album. Name the album what you'd want the memory to be called. The name of the album and the date of the photos included in the memory become the opening title of it.
When you create a new album, you're asked to add photos to it. Select the photos you want to include in the memory. You can add/remove them later if you want so don't worry if you've missed a few or added one too many.
Open the album you just created and tap the date range shown for the photos. You will see a thumbnail of one of the photos in the album with a play icon on it. Tap it to create a memory from all the photos in the current album.
It takes only a few seconds. If you do not tap the thumbnail, the memory isn't created.
iOS will not automatically generate a memory for albums unless you specifically tell it to. This is done in order to avoid taking up unnecessary space.
Scroll down to the very end of the album and tap the 'Add to Memories' option.
Editing Memories
With the memory now created, You can change the length, the music, and the photos included in the album. You can access memories from inside the album they were created for, or from the dedicated 'Memories' tab in the Photos app.
Select the memory and play it. Pause it immediately after so you can start editing.
To change the length, use the 'Ahort', 'Medium', and 'Long' options. If there are too few photos in an album, you might not see the 'Medium' and 'Long' option.
If you want to set the length of a memory down to seconds, tap the settings button at the bottom right. Tap 'Duration' and set the length of the memory.
To edit music, you have three options. You can use one of the music tracks included in the Memories feature, you can use music from your music library, or you can remove music altogether.
The music tracks that come with Memories all conform to a 'mood' such as 'Dreamy' and 'Sentimental'. Swipe along the mood bar to change the music.
To add music from your music library, tap the settings button at the bottom right. Inside, you will see options for accessing your 'Music Library'. If you want to remove all music/sound from the memory, select 'None'.
To add or remove photos from a memory, tap the settings button at the bottom right and tap 'Photos & videos'. Use the plus button at the bottom left to add photos and the delete button at the bottom right to remove them.
Viewing & Sharing Memories
All memories that you create can be viewed from inside the album they were created from, and from the 'Memories' tab. Make sure you add a memory to 'Memories' after you create it.
To share a memory, tap the share button at the bottom left and choose from one of the many apps how you want to share it. A memory can be sent over iMessage, email, posted to Facebook, and uploaded to Dropbox and Instagram.
Exporting Memory
To export the memory as a video, tap the share button at the bottom left and select the 'Save video' option. The memory will be saved to the 'Videos' album as a MOV file.
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Christina N. Zdenek says:
Does anyone know how to add photos/videos from different places/times than the original 'Memories' folder? When I try to add pics using the + key, it only allows me to add pics from the folder that the phone created, but I want other pics which I got off twitter from a friend, so the pics have different time/place attached to them.
Cindy LaFromboise Nestor says:
how many pictures in memories can you share
Chuck Weyer says:
My memories are stuck on the date I activated my phone… every time I look it says on this day September 15th… anyone else?
Many of my pictures are not full view in the memory video so you can't see the full picture. This is a neat concept but not too advanced if part of the pictures are obstructed. Am I stuck or is there something I can do to change it? I've been playing around with it for a few hours but to no avail. Very frustrated
Elena Quiros says:
I want to be able to rearrange pictures. It seems I can only add or delete. Can I change the order?
Silent no More says:
Did you figure this out?
Benoît Proulx says:
Is there a way to change the cover photo of the memory? With beta 4, I did not fin a way to change the picture iOS 10 used for the cover (picture on which the titles overlays)
Same question here. Any leads on that matter?
VSB says:
I want the ability to do that, too. It doesn't seem to be available.
Dyah Paramita says:
Make the photo "favorite" in specific album


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Danthonioideae. --The subfamily Danthonioideae has only been recognised as being separate from the Arundinoideae for a relatively short time (GPWG, 2001). A historical perspective on the subfamily (Linder & Barker 2005) shows how the composition of the subfamily has progressed from its early traditional admixture with the arundinoids to the recognition of a separate subfamily on phylogenetic principles based on molecular (Barker et al. 1995) and anatomical (Verboom et al.1994) data.
As presently circumscribed (Linder et al, 2010) it constitutes a small, well-defined clade comprising 282 largely Southern Hemisphere grass species in 17 genera - Austroderia N.P. Barker & H.P.Linder, Capeochloa H.P.Linder & N.P.Barker, Chaetobromus Nees, Chionochloa Zotov, CortaderiaStapf, Danthonia DC., Geochloa H.P.Linder & N.P.Barker, Chaemaerochloa H.P.Linder, Merxmuelleria Conert, Notochloë Domin, Pentameris P.Beauv.,Plinthanthesis Steud., Pseudopentameris Conert, Rytidosperma Steud., Schismus P. Beauv, Tenaxia N.P. Barker & H.P.Linder and Tribolium Desv.With the exception of Danthonia (North America and Europe) and Schismus (Mediterranean Europe and South Africa) all these genera have their main representation in the Southern Hemisphere or extensions northwards in Africa and South America in the elevated montane zones. Other than Rytidosperma with species in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and South America all the other genera are more or less endemic to one of the southern continents or islands. Eight are endemic to Africa (Capeochloa, Chaetobromus, Geoochloa, Merxmuelleria, Pentameris, Prionanthium, Pseudopentameris, Tribolium), one (Austroderia) is endemic to NewZealand and one (Chionochloa) has most species endemic there, two (Notochloëand Plinthanthesis) are endemic to Australia, one (Chimaerochloa) is endemic to New Guinea, and one (Cortaderia) endemic to South America. Two genera Monachather and Elytrophorus, recently assigned to the Danthonioideae (Linder in Mallett, 2005) are now not thought to belong in this subfamily (Linder pers. comm.), so in this account they have been assigned to the subfamily Arundinoideae, where they have been previously placed (Barker, 1997).
Prior to the new classification of the Danthonioideae, based on a well resolved molecular phylogeny of almost all the genera and supported by morphological input, previous cladistic work, based only on morphological characters, generated a rather different classification, particularly in the Australasian region. A cladistic analysis of 70 species of mainly Australasian species of danthonioid genera using morphological data (49 characters) by Linder and Verboom (1996) was the basis for a new classification of this group for this region at the time. They proposed a division of the Australasian representatives of Rytidosperma Steud. (sens. lat.) into 3 smaller genera Austrodanthonia H.P. Linder, NotodanthoniaZotov and Rytidosperma sens. strict. on rather weak morphological evidence. There was no unique synapomorphy for Notodanthonia and those synapomorphies for Austrodanthonia (long callus) and Rytidosperma (small metaxylem vessels) were difficult to detect. Although Australian publications have taken up the generic splits (Sharp & Simon, 2002; Mallett, 2005), the grass volume for the Flora of New Zealand (Edgar & Connor, 2000) does not, only recognising Rytidosperma sens.lat. A similar view of this danthonioid group is followed at Kew as reflected inGrassBase and it now appears that this broad concept of Rytidosperma is more acceptable (Linder et al, 2010). This is corroborated by work on African members of the Rytidosperma clade (Verboom et al. 2006), which in addition to revealing a broad Rytidosperma, presents a topology in which the African genera of Karroochloa Conert & Túrpe, Schismus P. Beauv, and Tribolium Desv. are shown to be polyphyletic on the basis of plastid and nuclear sequences. This approach had been used to show that Cortaderia, as then circumscribed, was paraphyletic (Barker et al, 2003) and was extended to the phylogeny of all of the Danthonioideae (Barker et al., 2007) where the paraphyly of Cortaderia was presented again, as well that of Merxmuelleria.
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Q: Inbox bold when message unread I am trying to conditionally style user-to-user messages on my site based on the following:
If the user has not yet accessed the message, it remains bold ("unread").
If the user clicks the link and accesses it, it goes from bold to unbold ("read")
(reference:  this is how many email inboxes work)
Question:  How would I check if the user has clicked on the link to view their new message, or if they have not?  As in, how would I store this information and indicate that it has been "read"?

A: add a read column in the db (default to 0), set it to 1 once they have clicked on the link, use that to decide how to format(bold or not) the link.
optional it may be worth adding a date field to know when it was first read.

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*in your db, create 1 column 'read'

*create message.php (maybe??)

*the code will update the read column to 1 (as read), so default value for read is 0

hope this helps :)

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Fred Rose
Knowles Fred Rose was a principal figure in the rise of the Nashville music industry between 1942 and 1954 in his roles as music publisher, songwriter, producer, and talent scout.
Birth: August 24, 1898 - Death: December 1, 1954
Birthplace: Evansville, Indiana
Rose's parents separated soon after he was born, and he grew up with his mother and other relatives in St. Louis. There he supplemented the family income by playing piano and singing for tips in local saloons. By 1917 he had moved to Chicago, where he found similar work in rough-and-tumble clubs and bars of the South Side.
During the 1920s Rose made his name as a successful songwriter, authoring or co-authoring pop and jazz hits such as "Red Hot Mama," "Deed I Do," and "Honest and Truly." During these same years he also made piano rolls; broadcast on Chicago radio stations KYW, WLS, and WBBM; and recorded for the Brunswick label.
In 1933, having lost his Chicago radio job because of a drinking problem, Rose moved to Nashville to work on WSM. Between 1933 and 1938 he divided his time mostly among Nashville, Chicago, and New York, performing on live radio shows and shopping his songs to music publishers. While continuing to write pop material, he also began to work closely with the Vagabonds and the Delmore Brothers of WSM's Grand Ole Opry, and also wrote songs for cowboy singer Ray Whitley, then working in New York. In about 1935, in New York, Rose converted to Christian Science, a faith that would guide his personal and professional life from then on.
In 1936 he scored his first pop-western hit, "We'll Rest at the End of the Trail," recorded by Tex Ritter, the Sons of the Pioneers, and Bing Crosby. Partly as a result, Rose spent most of the years 1938–1942 in Hollywood penning a series of hits for cowboy film stars Gene Autry, Ray Whitley, and Roy Rogers.
In 1942 Rose joined Roy Acuff in founding Acuff-Rose Publications, Nashville's first major country publishing house. Rose continued to write or co-write country standards such as "Wait for the Light to Shine," "Afraid," and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" while serving as an expert editor, most notably for his protégé Hank Williams. Rose also made Acuff-Rose a solid institutional base for aspiring songwriters such as Boudleaux and Felice Bryant.
In addition, Rose served as MGM Records' unsalaried, Nashville-based A&R man. For this label he supervised sessions for Williams, the Louvin Brothers, Red Sovine, Bob Wills, and many other acts. Rose's greatest success was recruiting Williams for MGM, but Rose acted as talent scout for other labels as well: for example, he steered both Martha Carson and the Louvin Brothers to contracts with Capitol, and Rosalie Allen to an RCA Victor contract.
For all of these efforts and for his tireless promotion of country music within the American music industry, Rose was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961—the first year the honor was bestowed by the Country Music Association (CMA). Rose died of heart failure on December 1, 1954. – John Rumble
– Adapted from the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's Encyclopedia of Country Music, published by Oxford University Press.
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G20 agrees to push ahead with rules on corporate tax targeting tech giants By Reuters
© Reuters. US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin delivers a speech during the G20 Ministerial Symposium on International Taxation in the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Fukuoka
FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) – Group of 20 finance ministers agreed to push ahead on compiling common rules that will close loopholes that global technology giants like Facebook (NASDAQ:) use to reduce their corporate tax burden.
Facebook, Google (NASDAQ:), Amazon (NASDAQ:), and other large tech companies have come under criticism for cutting their tax bills by booking profits in low-tax countries regardless of the location of the end customer, practices seen by many as unfair.
The new rules mean higher tax burdens for large multi-national firms, but will also make it more difficult for countries like Ireland to attract foreign direct investment with the promise of ultra-low corporate tax rates.
"It sounds like we have a strong consensus," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday at a two-day meeting of G20 finance ministers in the southern Japan city of Fukuoka.
"So now we need to just take the consensus across here and deal with technicalities of how we turn this into an agreement."
Mnuchin spoke at a panel on global taxation at G20 after the French and British finance ministers expressed sympathy with Mnuchin's concerns that new tax rules do not discriminate against particular firms.
Big internet companies say they follow tax rules but have paid little tax in Europe, typically by channeling sales via countries such as Ireland and Luxembourg, which have light-touch tax regimes.
The G20's debate on changes to the tax code focus on two pillars that could be a double whammy for some companies.
The first pillar is dividing up the rights to tax a company where its goods or services are sold even if it does not have a physical presence in that country.
If companies are still able to find a way to book profits in low tax or offshore havens, countries could then apply a global minimum tax rate to be agreed under the second pillar.
"We cannot explain to a population that they should pay their taxes when certain companies do not because they shift their profits to low-tax jurisdictions," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said at the panel.
Britain and France have been the most vocal about the need for a so-called "digital tax," arguing that corporate tax codes are no longer fair in the age of the large-scale provision of services and the sale of consumer data over the Internet.
The U.S. government has expressed concern in the past that the European push for a "digital tax" unfairly targets U.S. tech giants.
However, Mnuchin said on Saturday G20 countries should issue "marching orders" to their respective finance ministries to negotiate the technical aspects of an agreement after listening to presentations by Le Maire and British finance minister Philip Hammond.
Officials from major countries are expected to meet again twice this year to hammer out the finer details with the aim of finalizing an agreement next year.
Earlier this year, countries and territories agreed a roadmap aimed at overhauling international tax rules, which have been overtaken by development of digital commerce.
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Apologies for missing my second entry last week – my review of 2014 British horror movie The Forgotten will be posted NEXT Monday morning. I've been traveling for work lately and unfortunately between that and lots of other stuff (fighting practice, the gym, writer's group, family stuff, friend stuff, life stuff) I haven't had the mental energy to sit down and really dive into a movie. But more reviews are coming! Horror movie month is TOO IMPORTANT for me to fall down on the job!
In the meantime, please enjoy this delightful music video about Russian history*.
*It was a joke. I am kidding. Putin hasn't destroyed the Earth with his fire dance moves… YET.
Author jennnanigansPosted on October 13, 2017 October 12, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags animated, animation, blogging, cool stuff, humor, life, music, ramblings, space, youtube2 Comments on Happy Friday the 13th!
Friday At Last!
It's not just recipes, it's cooking advice and entertaining too!
For only being in the office four days, this week was starting to feel a hell of a lot longer. Part of it is work stress, part of it was the usual 'broke before payday' blues, part of it was problems with my car, and part of it was the existential mind-melt that American political news has become. What is it the kids say about they can't even? That. That is what I can't right now.
And with all the peculiar astronomical phenomena last year and this, it's tempting to ascribe the current social climate to some kind of temporary madness; mostly because temporary things END and we can get back to sweet, sweet sanity. But I digress.
Lately I've been cooking up a storm, mostly due to possibly one of the greatest Xmas gifts I've ever gotten:
Continue reading "Friday At Last!"
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Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (aka Pinhead In Space)
Today's post is about the Hellraiser series and unfortunately is NSFW – mostly because it's damn near impossible to show work-safe images from the movies. Also LOTS OF gore, S&M, torture, physical, mental, and sexual abuse…
….Man… you start listing all the disturbing things in this series and wonder what you're doing with your time…
ANYWAY! On to the review!
PIIIINHEAD INNN SPAAAACE!
With a different director and no studio interference, Bloodline would have been a very different movie. As the Wiki points out, there was much studio interference with production, and no less than three directors are credited: Kevin Yagher, a well-known and respected effects wizard who, among other things, designed Freddy Krueger and the Cryptkeeper but walked off production because of the studio's meddling; Joe LaChappelle, who was brought on to try and cobble together what he could out of the remaining production; and the most nefarious name of all, Alan Smithee… who does not actually exist.
Alan Smithee is a Hollywood pseudonym; it's the name directors put on films they don't want to be associated with. It's usually what happens with, as we've just discussed, a movie gets fiddled and diddle with until it's all but impossible to make anything useful out of it.
With no studio meddling, Bloodline might have been something more akin to Event Horizon, a brilliant, classic horror film that toyed with infernal presences in space. I'd sure like to think so; the movie's storyline is actually pretty out of the box (HA!). The fact that several famous horror directors, including Guillermo Del Toro himself, passed on it, has become internet legend.
Rather than just throw more teenagers at Pinhead to kill, the story explores the mythology behind the LeMarchand Configuration, aka the puzzle box, and the literal bloodline of its maker across three different eras: 16th-century France; 20th-century New York/Paris; and the 21st century IN SPACE.
In space, no one can hear the rest of this tired cliche.
The movie begins in space, in a huge, secure containment facility. A robot in the room is manipulating the puzzle box, guided by a scientist wearing a VR apparatus. The robot finishes and summons Pinhead, who destroys it without much relish, and the trap is sprung– the doors slam shut. A military force appears and drags the scientist away from the console — he's a Merchant, and he's trying to fix a mistake made by his ancestors, he explains, but he's taken over the space station in order to do it.
The bloodline in question belongs to the LeMarchand/Merchant family– whose part of the saga began in France. One night a French toymaker named Philip LeMarchand completes his most recent work, a personal request designed by a local libertine. Unbeknownst to LeMarchand, the libertine has requested a handheld machine of diabolical design that opens a doorway to hell. LeMarchand has a pregnant wife and needs money, so he heads to the fancy country estate to get paid, with the puzzle box in hand.
IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when who answers the door but none other than Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec, rocking a French Fancy Lad wig!
Of course I saw the name 'Adam Scott' in the credits but thought 'Oh, that's probably some other Adam Scott.' TIS NOT SO! He's Jacques, the libertine's henchman, and he is every bit as arrogant and insouciant as you can imagine Ben Wyatt being as a snotty French aristocrat. The sun rose and set on this performance, folks. Also, Mr. Scott either has good genes, a great skincare regimen, or a scary portrait in his attic because he's barely changed at all in the 20 or so years since this film came out.
Anyway, LeMarchand gives up the box, and the libertine and Ben Wyatt murder a prostitute and use her blood to open the doorway, which is common practice in French country houses when company arrives. They summon a demon, Angelique, played by the gorgeous Valentina Vargas, who I know from The Name of the Rose. Undone by terror, LeMarchand hauls ass home to begin work on a second box that can reverse the effects of the first. The libertines immediately begin indulging in filthy sex and murder, with Jacques killing his master and taking over control of the demon, which is also common practice in French country houses.
LeMarchand comes back packing and gets himself smoked, but his child is still alive and continues the bloodline. Here endeth the 16th-century segment of the film.
In the 20th century, the descendant of LeMarchand, John Merchant, is a famous architect and has unwittingly designed a skyscraper around the puzzle box. Photos of the building appear in a French architecture magazine and Angelique wants to go to America in search of it. Jacques, made immortal by her influence, wants to stay in Paris and party, and thus breaks his covenant to not oppose hell, getting himself killed. Angelique manages to summon Pinhead, and the two begin hunting John Merchant and his family, after summoning or creating more cenobites. Chatterer has been replaced by a dog version, and there's a pair of twins who got screwed (HA!).
It's a good thing the jokes write themselves because I'm worn out
One particularly fascinating scene has Pinhead threatening Merchant's son. I can't say I was engrossed in the characters enough to worry about the kid, but I did wonder how they got him to act with Doug Bradley. Did they introduce Pinhead fully made up, or did they show the kid the makeup process over time? Did they get to know each other beforehand? Is the kid still acting or sitting quietly in a room somewhere waiting for the med cart to roll through? These and all my other questions could probably be answered by watching the commentary track, if there was one. Or by Googling, if I wasn't lazy.
Pinhead matching the floor is a nice touch.
Last thoughts: Bloodline was not the worst horror movie I've ever seen, but the studio's efforts to beef up Pinhead's role in the movie did more harm than good. That said, I really like the idea of nowhere being too far away for Pinhead to reach humanity, since we bring evil and its servants with us wherever we go– after all, we created them. The performances were decent and there were some really good scares and moments of tension. I definitely enjoyed seeing it more than I did when it first came out. And I LOVED the space station folding in on itself to form a giant Lament Configuration. It felt like a really fitting end to the series, one that the movie had really earned… even though it wasn't the ending. It's never the end of Pinhead, not really! There are more Hellraiser movies, and I might watch them without reviewing.
Well, thanks so much for tuning in for Hell Week, part of Horror Movie Month!
Please keep reading, the next round of posts are 'Creepy, Creaky Old Houses Week,' where we'll switch gears from gore and peeling skin off, to eerie mists, whispering voices, mental illness, and creepy children for some atmospheric, subtle, psychological scares!
Thanks so much for reading and I hope you have a great week!
Author jennnanigansPosted on October 13, 2015 October 12, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags gore, Hell Week, Hellraiser, horror, Horror Movie Month, science fiction, space5 Comments on Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (aka Pinhead In Space)


The bullet train pulled smoothly and serenely into the station, totally belying the speed it had demonstrated when blistering through the Japanese countryside.
As I stepped down into the shiny and neat Kyoto station the entire history of Zen Buddhism flashed through my mind. In short: this city was the last step before Zen came to the West. Kyoto is a city almost totally given over to the religions of Japan. Alike an Eastern, but much calmer, Rome. Much more so than I had imagined.
We wandered from the station to our hostel which was more of a specialist guest house (ryokan) than anything we stayed in elsewhere. It was beautifully made of wood and traditionally laid out based on the size of the tamati matting. Our bed was a fold out futon in a very small room, but since we were the only people staying there we spent our time in the larger shared space. This shared room was my very idea of heaven. It was totally empty apart from a low table in the center. The sliding doors let in a good amount of natural light and the room was exceedingly peaceful.
I sat there and felt totally calm and happy, while perused a map of Kyoto locations and planned our visit day by day.
Basically, Kyoto is a historical city par excellence. If history, architecture, artistic beauty, Zen Buddhism and the samurai are not your thing, well – why on Earth did you come to Japan in the first place!? Kyoto was home to the Japanese emperor for 1000 years and the heart of Japanese Buddhism and Shinto. The city and tourist areas are roughly square in shape and the first of its tourist locations reachable either on foot or by local overland train. This is a doubly good thing as it is one of the most beautiful cities I have visited.
Cesca dragged me out of the room and we wandered through the Higashiyama district, which lay against the lower slopes of the Mountains to the East, and marvelled at the historical recreation and preservation.
Wooden buildings line the old-style streets under which small traditional shops plied their fare. Around twisting stone paved alleys gaggles of Geisha titter into their hands as their photographs were taken by passing tourists.
Zen monks stood silent and still, collecting alms.
The warm climate led our steps invariably to food parlours where the quality level of Japanese ice-cream shamed those of my own city. Yes, heady and fantastical – a real trip into a long-ago world. I had been in city areas preserved in time for tourists before, from America through Australia and all around Asia, but no single location captivated me like this one. Unlike many of those other time-capsules this one had a real treat at the end in the form of Tofuku-ji temple.
The entrance starts with an enormous, two storey, "gate" that tells all visitors in no uncertain terms that the Rinzai Zen sect of Japanese Buddhism built buildings to last. Indeed this complex has been in place since the 12th century.
As we arrived at the temple, one I had spent a lifetime wanting to visit, I stepped up the stairs to be loudly and sternly told off by a Miko (temple lady) for having my shoes on. I took them off quick smart. Apologising to the lady, who was still chiding me, I asked if we could enter.
This particular "sub" temple was founded in 1346 and is justly famous for its history. For example, in one of its halls the plan for the famous Battle of Sekigahara was drawn up. Walking through beautiful corridors we emerged into the gardens.
The first was situated against the wall of a large courtyard and was made of stones. I had heard much about the stone gardens of the Zen temples, but nothing prepared me for first seeing them.
The courtyard was lined by a wooden deck to sit and view the garden from. Cesca and I sat and looked at the shapes of the rocks.
Quiet descended and we were one of only a handful visiting. The sun slowly moved across the sky.
I considered the garden… and time disappeared.
This question is a trick.
The first line sets the scene. We imagine old ponds, lily pads and water. Then the second line conjures up the frog, the element of nature found in all Zen poetry and again something we imagine. The final line cuts across this imagined scene with a sound. When we imagine a sound we almost "hear" it and that lets us feel, just for a fleeting second, that we are actually there by that pond hearing a frog jump in.
One monk said, "The flag is moving".
The other said, "No – the wind is moving".
Huineng stopped to say, "No! Your mind is moving".
You ascribe a duality to yourself. That is, you have a mental point of view called "You" and this is distinct from everything else. The purpose of a Zen garden is to show, by way of example, by way of a question with a sudden realisation of an answer, that there is no self, no duality of you and the Universe, you are *what the Universe is doing right now* and, eventually, this doing will stop. Your imagined self is just like the flag, just like the stones, no more than a "projection" your mind makes moment by moment.
Now that, my friends, is gardening!
We sat and felt the sun on us and everything else.
After around 30 minutes or so, we clasped hands and squeezed silently then walked on. The next garden was very beautiful indeed. It had been planted completely in moss cut into incredible little square shapes.
It was simple and elegant, refined and lovely. This led to an observation platform overlooking the cherry trees and some water in a wide stream.
This is one of the famous places to come in April to see the cherry blossoms fall, a national symbol of the truth of life, and an obsession.
As romantic as that sounds, this temple is probably rammed full to the rafters during those periods.
I much preferred it when we were there because it was quiet and serene. I took a quick look into the monk's rooms.
The paintings were fantastic and I felt a sense of place. I was glad someone actually used this temple for what it was built for and had been doing so for nearly 800 years.
Indeed my heart was finding peace in these temples. I wondered what it would be like to live in one and then I remembered the intense hardships of Zen and thanked the Dao that I didn't.
Doses of reality are one thing, living plugged into reality permanently must be a great hardship. What Terry Pratchett called being "knurd" ("drunk" backwards), which in his novels is a painful mental state (caused by imbibing too much of a certain coffee) where all comforting illusions are stripped away and reality – with all its attendant horrors – is grasped. Knurd people usually and desperately seek out strong drink to set the balance again.
We left the Zen temple and decided to pay a visit to the home of the other great religion of Japan, Shinto.
I understand Shinto very poorly. In fact my only exposure to it, before coming to its home, was through the work of the anime's of Studio Ghibli. It is a form of worship, or veneration, to do with the idea that things have a Kame (Spirit) and these can influence your world. It had become the national religion of Japan, and put the Emperor on a divine pedestal, but I knew it went back over 2000 years and was therefore more a type of Folk Practice than formal religion. Much like Daoism then and the more I was to experience Shinto, the more I was to realise that it was descended from China's Daoism in the same way Zen was descended from China's Chan Buddhism.
Fushimi Inari Shrine is probably the ultimate Shinto experience. The shrine runs up the side of a pleasant mountain walk through ancient forest, stopping at the various smaller shrines along the way. The mountain itself is considered holy and people have been wandering up here since 798AD. The most incredible sight was the collection of Tori gates at the base called Senbon Torii.
There must have been a thousand of them stacked one after another and forming wooden tunnels up the hillside.
I read that each had been donated by a company to bring good luck and a blessing from the Kame. It was also obvious that school trips come out here as a large collection of folded paper faces, of a fox I believe, were hung around a shrine about half way up, but while we were hiking it was empty enough.
At the top of the first path (about 45 minutes in and roughly half way up the mountain) it opened out into Yotsutsuji intersection, which has a very nice view over the city.
Next, as a break from temples (even I can get "templed-out"), we visited Nijo Castle, which was built in 1603 for the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the era of Shoguns passed with the Meiji Restoration, Nijo became an imperial palace for a while before finally being opened up to the public as a historic site.
The castle itself is of the classic layout comprising dark wooden corridors (some with special "nightingale" floors that squeak to announce visitors) leading to simple but beautiful square rooms. This was a fascinating view into the history of Japan's strongest ruler, but it was the garden that really captured our attention.
Around a large pond, this wonderful combination of stones, trees and flowers captivated both Cesca and I for a good couple of hours.
I was finding Kyoto a very peaceful place to visit and we happily caught the train back to our guest house to plan our next few days adventures. We knew that soon, all too soon, we would be back home and this amazing year would be fading into memory. I started thinking of a plan to keep it alive.


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World premiere at the IAA for Continental's Conti GreenConcept tire concept.
Dandelions and rice husks. What sounds like a salad recipe on a lunch menu in fashionable Berlin are components of Continental's new Conti GreenConcept tire concept, which is sustainable, lightweight and efficient. The innovative concept study was presented for the first time at this year's IAA. But let's start at the beginning: Public debate about sustainable mobility is mostly concerned with drive systems. But these by themselves aren't nearly enough to make a vehicle green. An average car consists of around 10,000 individual parts, for which we need sustainable raw materials and eco-friendly manufacturing processes. This is because environmental influences arise not only in use, but also in production.
Change is in the air and it's good for the atmosphere
The automotive industry is facing a paradigm shift. Christoph Herrmann is professor for Sustainable Manufacturing and Cycle Engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. As he puts it, "We're seeing a rethinking. Ecological sustainability is becoming the new normal. Otherwise, the automotive industry risks losing its legitimacy in society. A generation is growing up with a comprehensive and deep understanding of sustainability. This generation are the customers of tomorrow. And these customers are making new demands of products and the companies that make them. To stay successful, you need to be at the forefront of this movement."
For many years, sustainable and responsible management has been an integral part of Continental's corporate strategy and development. The focus of the sustainability strategy is on the four strategic topics of climate change mitigation, clean mobility, circular economies and sustainable supply chains. To make the tires of the future even more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly in terms of production, use and recyclability, Continental is systematically investing in research and development of new technologies, alternative materials and environmentally compatible production processes.
With the Conti GreenConcept, Continental's Tire division is merging current and future technologies to make sustainable passenger and light truck tires, which gives further insight into its diverse sustainability activities. Development engineers and material experts at Continental have consistently implemented the innovative tire concept on three levels of impact: An especially high proportion of traceable, renewable and recycled materials, an innovative, resource-efficient lightweight technology and an extension of the service life with a renewable tread.
"The Conti GreenConcept showcases our goal of being the most advanced tire company in terms of ecological and social responsibility by 2030 – along the entire value chain," says David O'Donnell, who is responsible for the global tire original equipment business at Continental.
More than half of the Conti GreenConcept consists of renewable or recycled materials. Continental's goal is to have exclusively sustainably produced materials in its tire products by 2050 at the latest.
By sustainable we mean materials that originate from a closed material cycle, have no harmful effects on people and the environment, are responsibly sourced and are climate-neutral along the supply chain. Renewable raw materials used in Conti GreenConcept account for 35 percent. The bio-materials used include natural latex from dandelions, silicate from the ashes of rice husks and vegetable oils and resins. This significantly reduces the share of petroleum-based materials. In addition to natural rubber, certain materials such as recycled rubber and vegetable oils are already being extensively used in Continental's global tire production.
Dandelions as an alternative raw material source
Rubber is a raw material for which we urgently need a sustainable alternative. It is currently mostly obtained from the milky sap of a tree with the botanical name Hevea brasiliensis, which comes from the tropics. However, it is mainly grown in Southeast Asia. Because the raw material is in great demand worldwide, it is intensively cultivated. This is a problem for the environment, because a lot of pesticides are used and the trees need a lot of water. As a result, the groundwater level can fall. But the biggest problem is that huge areas of tropical forests, for example in Thailand and Indonesia, are being logged to make space for the rubber trees. In addition, the trees are very susceptible to mildew, which can quickly cover an entire growing area and permanently endanger the rubber harvest. There are synthetic replacements based on petroleum, but this makes no sense from a sustainability point of view.
A further central concern for Continental is to stop importing natural rubber exclusively from the tropics, and produce it as close as possible to the tire plants, to prevent ongoing deforestation and reduce CO2 emissions due to long transport routes. The company has been working on this together with its partners in its Taraxagum project since 2011.
The Taraxagum research laboratory in Anklam, Germany:
In addition to the Conti GreenConcept tire concept, which Continental is presenting at its booth at this year's IAA MOBILITY, the company is equipping the concept car ID. LIFE from Volkswagen, which will also be presented at the trade show, with a concept tire. It is designed using environmentally friendly tire construction technologies, which can be quickly used in volume production.
Based on the Continental EcoContact 6 production tire, this concept tire is distinguished by very low rolling resistance (EU label A), increasing the range of the ID. LIFE. Through the strategic use of renewable and recycled materials with a share of 37 percent, it also conserves valuable resources along the entire value chain. Responsible sourcing of raw materials helps minimize ecological and human rights-related risks.
The sidewall of the EcoContact 6 is labeled "Responsibly Sourced Rubber" and underlines Continental's diverse activities with regard to transparent and traceable sourcing of natural rubber.
And Continental is also actively working on various strategic projects to ensure more sustainability in the extraction of natural rubber in the tropics. Because the company is aware of the environmental, human rights and social risks of the entire value chain for natural rubber. Among other goals, Continental is seeking to create better working conditions for small farmers, protect existing rainforest areas and use digital systems to ensure greater transparency and knowledge in the natural rubber sector.
As a founding member of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), the company is proactively advancing solutions to improve traceability together with its partners. Continental is also involved in a wide range of projects. These include the Rubberway Joint Venture, which specializes in identifying sustainability risks in the natural rubber supply chain, and cooperation with Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on a project to train small farmers and introduce digital traceability systems throughout the entire supply chain. As recently announced, this project will be further expanded with GIZ. The number of small farmers involved will be expanded from 450 to 4,000 by 2024.
Recycled PET bottles in tire production
In addition to renewable raw materials, the Conti GreenConcept uses 17 percent of recycled materials. Besides reprocessed steel and soot, Continental is also for the first time using polyester from recycled plastic bottles in a tire carcass. Continental is planning the gradual introduction of ContiRe.Tex technology from 2022, using polyester yarn from recycled PET bottles in tire production. Continental laboratory and tire tests show that fibers made from secondary raw materials are just as effective as the fibers used to date. This means they have the same quality as new PET products, are just as stable and are particularly suitable for tires due to their strength at rupture, toughness and thermal stability.
For this, the PET bottles are reprocessed using a mechanical technique that makes the polyester yarn functional for the heavy mechanical requirements of the tire without any of the intermediate chemical steps previously required. Through this, upcycling turns a PET bottle into high-performance PET material. A conventional car tire currently contains approximately 400 grams of polyester yarn. Translating this into a set of car tires, more than 60 PET bottles can be reused for this purpose in future. This use of recycled polyester is another important step on the road toward resource-optimized, cross-product circular economies in tire production.
"For us, waste is future production material, because we see circular economies as the model of the future."
Claus Petschick, Head of Sustainability at Continental Tires
"For us, waste is future production material, because we see circular economies as the model of the future. Continental's early commitment to proactively shaping and promoting this transformation offers us a competitive edge for our future business – and that means our future viability," says Claus Petschick, head of sustainability in Continental's Tire division.
Another sustainability building block in the material mix of the Conti GreenConcept is COKOON. This special adhesive technology, which Continental developed together with its partner Kordsa, makes it possible to join textile tensile members to rubber compounds in an eco-friendly way. As part of an open-source approach, both partners have been supplying this technology free of charge to all players in the tire industry since 2019.
Rubber from dandelions is prize-worthy
Dr. Carla Recker (Continental), Prof. Dirk Prüfer (University of Münster) and Dr. Christian Schulze Gronover (Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology) have been nominated for the German Future Prize 2021 with the joint project "Sustainable Tires Through Dandelions – Innovations from Biology, Technology and Agriculture." Every year, the Federal President presents the German Future Prize to individuals or teams for an outstanding technical, engineering or scientific innovation. "This award is a great honor for us. It once again confirms the potential of a new raw material source for natural rubber. Together with our project network, we have been able to significantly advance research into the entire value chain of the Russian dandelion," explains Dr. Carla Recker, head of material chemistry in the Tire division at Continental.
Intelligent tires for smart vehicles
In addition to a high percentage of renewable and recycled materials, the Conti GreenConcept also sets new standards with its innovative lightweight technology. The tire weighs just 7.5 kilograms, making it up to 40 percent lighter than today's standard tires. This weight reduction was made possible by an optimized tread profile, a special sidewall and an innovative carcass structure with a weight-optimized core. Overall, these design features ensure significantly lower material use and greater sustainability in driving.
With its lightweight design, the Conti GreenConcept is aimed in particular at use in future sensor-supported smart vehicle concepts with resource-efficient drive technologies. In the future, vehicle environment sensors will detect and record what is happening all around the car. The sensors collect and process data on external conditions such as the weather, road conditions, traffic signs and, of course, other road users. This makes possible a very anticipatory driving style, particularly in urban traffic, which reduces wear on tires. In turn, this makes the lightweight tire design not only possible but practicable.
At the same time, the rolling resistance of the new tire has been reduced, tires can be retreaded, which further increases the service life, and inside the tire is a latest generation Continental sensor that constantly monitors temperature, pressure and tread depth. Drivers always have an overview, with even more options for a resource-efficient driving style.
Sustainably produced materials are the future of tire production
Climate protection and industry are often seen as opposites. Many people who support climate protection see industry as an obstacle. Conversely, the players in industry see climate protection as a dead weight. Both attitudes get in the way of the progress that we urgently need.
Angela Merkel opened IAA 2021 with the comment: "And this trade show demonstrates how much eco-friendliness and innovative strength belong together. As I look around, I'm firmly convinced that the transformation to climate neutrality will be a success for our country and for our automotive industry."
Continental CEO Nikolai Setzer also made the point at the IAA: "The results of our mobility study show just how great the need for individual mobility is worldwide – especially in times of pandemic. People enjoy the freedom of individual mobility, while still supporting sustainability and zero-emission driving. We offer pioneering solutions for this." Continental is on the road, researching and continuing its intensive work on the mobility of the future. The Conti GreenConcept is a remarkable step here.
IAA 2021 – the bottom line
Over 400,000 participants from 88 countries in seven days. This shows how topical mobility is. An issue that rouses emotions and is relevant to individuality, health, social participation, the economy and, of course, the climate. Besides the visitors, IAA also attracted demonstrators. They accused the IAA and the automotive industry of greenwashing an environmentally harmful industry, and demanded tighter curbs from politicians.
The automotive trade show itself was also about mobility on two wheels, with bicycle manufacturers among the exhibitors. Overall, the bottom line was: Sharing models, electric drives, automation and a focus on CO2-neutral innovations, all intended to make our mobility climate-neutral.


Have you seen the new Speedway commercial portraying an unexpected homecoming of a veteran or servicemen? What a tear-jerker and a stand up move on Speedway's part! Sure, it'd be easy to write it off as just another marketing ploy, but the truth is they've figured out an important truth many of us haven't or easily forget.
Every opportunity we have to let another person know they are seen, and they are heard — it matters. And when we make our own opportunities to show others how much we appreciate them and their sacrifices, well that's even better. Especially when we're talking about those who leave their families and risk their lives to protect us and our freedoms.
This year Veteran's Day is officially November 11th, 2014. Here are a few ways to give back to those who give so much to us – this week, and every week.
Offer encouragement and practical help to the families of veterans and active duty military members! By nature, those who have served in the armed forces tend to be selfless individuals and they see supporting their families as supporting themselves. Offer no strings attached babysitting, errand running, lawn mowing, or just a listening ear. It all matters.
Look up times and places for local community programming in your town this Veteran's Day. You will likely find multiple opportunities to show up to be with veterans on their special day. Nothing says, "I care" like your physical presence. The smiles and the stories we have witnessed at public observances of Veteran's Day have been irreplaceable, not to mention great learning experiences for our kids.
Support your local VA center. Each has year round volunteer and donation opportunities.
Teach your children to thank veterans as well as men and women in uniform. Speaking as the wife and daughter of three veterans, this simple kindness goes a long way in expressing respect and appreciation.
Take kids to the library to check out books to cast a positive vision for a lifelong view of Veterans Day.
Share a sweet treat! Send left over Halloween candy to a veteran by or before November 15th.
In the spirit of doing what we can to show veterans how much we care, here is a list of places you can share with the veteran(s) in your life to show them that they're remembered and appreciated.
ProFlowers – Discounted flowers especially for veterans! Woo hoo!
Starbucks – This one is my favorite and I bet you can guess why! Starbucks will be giving out free tall brewed coffees to veterans, active duty military, and their spouses on Veterans Day.
Panera – Veterans show military ID or wear uniform and receive a free pick-two meal.
Bob Evans – Veterans and active military personnel will receive free all–you-can-eat hotcakes at its restaurants. All these honored servicemen and women need do is show a valid military ID.
Applebee's – On Tuesday, November 11th, from open to close, veterans and active duty military can choose from a free signature Thank You Meal menu. Must present valid Veteran's form of identification or be in uniform.
California Pizza Kitchen – On Tuesday, November 11, all veterans or active duty military personnel in uniform or with military ID will be able to select from a special Veterans Day menu including pizza, salads and pasta.
Carrabbas – All active and retired veterans receive a free appetizer at participating locations November 8th through November 11th, 2014.
Champps – Veterans and active-duty receive a free handcrafted cheeseburger on Veterans day at participating locations only. Must provide proof of service. Participating locations only, check to confirm.
Chilis – Veterans and active-duty military receive a free meal from a special Veterans Day menu. Must show proof of military service.
Outback Steakhouse – All active, retired military and veterans get a Free Bloomin' Onion® and a beverage on Veterans Day. Must have valid identification. Plus, all military personnel get 15% off from November 12 thru December 31, 2014.
Red Lobster – Active duty military, reserve, and military veterans can stop by Red Lobster and get a free appetizer Monday, November 10 through Thursday, November 13, 2014.
Friendlys – Friendly's is treating veterans and active military, with a valid military ID or honorable discharge card, to a free breakfast, lunch or dinner on Veteran's Day, Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
All Active Duty Military and Veterans receive a complimentary Lunch Entree, or a one topping mini Deep Dish or individual Hand-Tossed Pizza at dinner. Simply present proof of service.
Golden Corral – From 5 PM to 9 PM on November 17th, all who have served in the United States military or is a current active duty service member, get a free Veterans Day buffet and beverage. All Golden Corral locations will be participating. No identification is required to get your free Veterans day meal.
Free individual pasta for veterans and active duty military on Veterans Day. Proof of service required.
IHOP – On Veteran's Day, November 11, participating IHOP Restaurants around the nation will be honoring the brave men and women who have served, or are serving, in the United States Military by offering them free Red, White and Blue pancakes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Krispy Kreme – Offering a free doughnut and small coffee to all those served or currently are serving on Veterans Day. A free doughnut and small coffee will be given to anyone who identifies themselves as a veteran or active duty military personnel at participating locations.
Free Haircuts at Great Clips – Veterans and active/inactive/retired military members can stop into Great Clips on Tuesday, November 11 and get a free haircut or pickup a free haircut card to use before the end of the year. Anyone can stop in to get their haircut and receive a free haircut card that they can give to a veteran.
Free Haircuts at Sports Clips – Veterans and active duty U.S. service members can stop in on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 to get a free haircut at any participating Sports Clips.
Free Entrance Into National Parks – This freebie is in honor of Veterans Day but everyone can take part in it. Over 100 national parks will waive admission fees on November 11, 2014 in honor of Veterans Day.
Creation Museum – Veterans are free on Memorial Day (May 26), Independence Day (July 4), and Veterans Day (November 11).
Free Chuck E. Cheese's Tokens – From November 9 through November 15, all veterans and active duty military can visit Chuck E. Cheese's to get 20 free tokens. To get the free tokens, you must show military ID or other proof of service when visiting any of the 500+ participating locations.
Red Roof Inn 15% Discount – During the month of November, those with a military ID can get 15% off their stay at Red Roof Inn.
Southampton Inn Discounted Rooms – Veterans who stay at Southampton Inn between November 7 and 13 can get a special discounted room price of $100 a night (not including taxes). Military ID is required.
Sleep Number Mattress Discounts – With a valid military or veteran's ID, individuals can get $400-$700 off selected Sleep Number mattress' through November 16, 2014. This offer is not valid online.
JCPenney 20% Discount – JCPenney will give anyone with this coupon and a military ID or proof of service 20% off their purchases November 3-15, in-store only.
Family Dollar 15% Discount – Print out this coupon to get 15% off your entire purchase at Family Dollar on November 11. This is for active duty or retired military, National Guard, veterans, and their families.
Dollar General 11% Veterans Day Discount – Veterans, active military members, and their families will get 11% off their in-store or online purchase at Dollar General on Veterans Day.
Home Depot 10% Veterans Day Discount– Home Depot is branching their military discount out to include all veterans for Veterans Day. Veterans can save 10% off any purchase.
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Sōtarō Yasui (ur. 17 maja 1888 w Kioto, zm. 10 grudnia 1959 w Tokio) – japoński malarz.

Życiorys
Był synem hurtowego kupca bawełną. W latach 1904-1907 uczył się malarstwa w Instytucie Sztuki Zachodniej Shōgoin, 1907-1914 przebywał we Francji, gdzie kontynuował studia malarskie i skąd odbywał krótkie podróże do Holandii, Włoch, Hiszpanii i innych europejskich krajów. Malował w zachodnim stylu, pozostając pod wpływem twórczości Gustave Courbeta i Paula Cézanne'a. Tworzył przede wszystkim martwe natury, krajobrazy i portrety w stylu odzwierciedlającym główne kierunki w Europie. Gdy wrócił do Japonii, odbyła się wystawa 40 jego rysunków i obrazów. Został profesorem szkoły sztuk plastycznych w Tokio, członkiem akademii sztuki, prezesem związku artystów japońskich i nadwornym malarzem cesarza. Ważniejsze jego obrazy to m.in. Naga myjąca stopy (1913), Paulownia Blossoms (1924), Kobieta z wachlarzem (1929), Seul (1938) i W Studio (1951).

W 1952 roku otrzymał Order Kultury.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN t. 6, Warszawa 1998.

Japońscy malarze
Urodzeni w 1888
Zmarli w 1959
Odznaczeni Orderem Kultury
Ludzie urodzeni w Kioto

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WWE ROYAL RUMBLE Results - Who Is Going To WrestleMania?
WWE Royal Rumble Results – New Champion Crowned, Did Balor Slay The Beast? Who Is Going To WrestleMania?
Apparently Drake Maverick worked up a deal to have Rezar from AOP team with Scott Dawson from The Revival. If they are victorious, they will receive a future tag team championship match for each of their teams.
Roode starts the match with Dawson. Dawson starts quickly on Roode, but Roode is able to get the tag to Gable, who gets the arm drag takedown on Dawson. Gable looks to focus on the arm of Dawson, but Dawson reverses into a rollup, Gable reverses himself into a pinning combination. Both men get up and Gable surprises Dawson with a cross body off the second rope.
Dawson tags in Rezar, who comes in and chokeslams Chad Gable. Rezar tags in Dawson again and he locks in a rear chin lock to Gable. Gable breaks out and Dawson tags in Rezar, who starts to rain down blows on the head of Gable. Rezar tags in Dawson and these two men are employing frequent tags! Dawson tags in Gable, and Gable collides weirdly with Dawson. Gable finally tags in Roode, and he comes in on fire, taking out everyone and delivering a spinebuster to Dawson. Roode holds Dawson and Gable delivers a moonsault onto him and its a great double team to pick up the victory.
Shinsuke starts by running at Rusev, but Rusev shows his strength and drives Nakamura into the turnbuckle hard. Rusev slams Nakamura into the ground and he starts to drive elbows into Nakamura, before picking him up and delivering two vertical suplexes. Shinsuke gets up and Rusev clotheslines him over the rope to the outside.
Rusev follows Nakamura and tries to send him into the steel steps, but Nakamura jumps over them and then hits a jumping kick to the head of Rusev. Rusev gets sent into the barricade before getting back in to the ring. Nakamura puts Rusev in the corner and give Rusev Bad Vibrations. Nakamura locks in a front face lock, slowing Rusev down, sucking the oxygen out of the Super Athlete. Rusev fights back up and throws Nakamura up and then back down to the mat.
Rusev picks Nakamura back up and tosses Shinsuske across the ring with a fallaway slam. Shinsuke is outside of the ring and winds up as it looks like he is going for a Suicide Dive! Nakamura blocks him at the pass, and then puts him back in the ring to hit Rusev with a series of kicks, and then a running knee, nearly taking the head off of Rusev. Both men are up now and Rusev surprises Nakamura with a Matchka kick! Rusev goes to reach for Shinsuke, but Nakamura turns it into an armbar! Rusev fights to keep his arm bent, but Nakamura turns it into a triangle!
Rusev looks like he is fading fast, and he tries to lift Shinsuke up but no success. He tries once again and succeeds, but Nakamura turns it into a guillotine! Rusev is nearly out now, but is somehow able to muster up strength to turn it into a vertical suplex.
Both men are out and Shinsuke is up first. As the ref checks on Rusev, Nakamura tries to undo the turnbuckle pad, but Lana is up on the apron to stop him. The ref notices and tells Lana to put her shoes back on as he ignores Nakamura clearly in the corner, but Rusev tries to stop the interference and tries to nail Nakamura, but instead he sends Lana off the apron hard. Rusev tries to check on Lana, but Nakamura hits Rusev in the back of the head with a Kinshasa to pick up the victory.
Hideo gets out of the ring right away to watch the action. Kalisto does some beautiful springboards to hit a hurricanrana to Murphy on the outside. Kalisto runs off the apron to dive onto Murphy but Murphy catches him in suplex position and suplexes him onto the outside. Itami is in now waiting for Murphy and Murphy and Itami trade kicks and then strikes, but Itami is too much for Murphy.
Itami puts Kalisto on the ring apron and stands on the second rope, looking to suplex him up and over. Murphy interrupts and puts Kalisto on his shoulders. Tozawa decided to run off the ropes, dive THROUGH The legs of Itami, hitting a suicide dive onto Kalisto, who turns THAT into a hurricanrana to Murphy into the barricade.
A lot of incredible things happening throughout this match, and it's hard to follow. Highly recommend catching this one, and every man is showcased great.
Itami and Murphy are left standing, slugging it out, but eventually every man is hitting kicks over and over. Murphy eventually picks up the victory by hitting Murphy's Law to Hideo Itami.


Discover Cuenca Ecuador and BEYOND!: Frank and Angie's Frugal Café Hideaway in Cuenca Ecuador!
Frank and Angie's Frugal Café Hideaway in Cuenca Ecuador!
Some things just have to remain within yourself if you want to have a little bit of quiet and privacy once in awhile, and keep prices low. This quaint restaurant (without loud music or TV blaring above your head) is owned and operated by a husband and wife team. The food is fantastic; it is not the typical Ecuadorian fare.
The prices are unbelievable and it is the only place in town, so far, that does not charge $0.70 for a cup of hot water. Frank brings his own powdered cocoa and that is what the hot cup of water is for. Yes, you know us, frugal Frank and Angie.
We eat lunch before the Ecuadorian almuerzo and so we basically have the third floor to ourselves where we have a fantastic view off the balcony at the amazing mountains that surround Cuenca and the people milling about below.
If you have lived here for any amount of time you'll also want to have your very own café hideaway, away from the traffic, pollution, noise, and high prices. Eventually, if you keep looking you will find such a place and when you do, keep it your special secret.
We know that this quaint café will not stay hidden away forever, eventually more and more people will stumble upon it just like we did; they will try the food and see it is a very good, and the prices are fair too, and well, you know the rest of the story.
But for now, it seems it's all ours!
However, we do share many of our favorite restaurants with our readers in our free restaurant guide right here on the blog! We're sure there is a little bit of something for everyone in the new updated edition of this restaurant guide. Enjoy!
You not telling us the place makes me wonder what else you are not telling us about Cuenca.
maybe you could try a guilt trip on our beloved friends Angie and Frank next,, smirk smirk.


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ACCEPTED

#### According to
Index Fungorum

#### Published in
Annls mycol. 35: 140 (1937)

#### Original name
Phyllosticta senecionis-nemorensis Bubák & Picb.

### Remarks
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The City's financial regulator is to publish a guide for new mothers telling them how to claim state benefits.
The Financial Services Authority - a watchdog currently struggling with the blow to its reputation dealt by the failure to forestall the collapse of Northern Rock- also intends to distribute benefit claim forms to mothers.
handle money were given to 1,500 mothers-to-be.
Alongside benefits advice, women were offered CD-roms which included calculators on which they could work out their income and outgoings.
A survey of what the mothers thought about the advice packs found: "Almost all credit it with improving their understanding of some issues that need to be considered when starting a family, particularly in relation to state benefits and entitlements."
Among those who said they found the guidance useful, 88 per cent said it helped them understand how to get tax credits and 84 per cent said it improved their knowledge of other benefits.
The FSA is now considering widespread distribution of its guide, and said future versions are likely to include "important application forms such as tax credit."
The decision to involve the financial regulator into the welfare benefits bureaucracy - most of which comes under the Department for Work and Pensions or Revenue and Customs - comes at a time when it has been under severe criticism during the Northern Rock crisis.
The organisation's bosses have been accused by critics of failing to act in time to prevent the run on the bank.
Yesterday it was under fire for its new role as a benefits advisor.
Researcher and author on the welfare state Patricia Morgan said: "Of all institutions, the FSA is now trying to build up benefit dependency.
"You would have thought the state had enough clients already. This is just cultivation of benefit dependency - it is recruiting more people to live off the state."
The FSA's Parents' Guide to Money was made available through employers, and at hospitals and Sure Start children's centres. Researchers found that employed mothers said they were in less need of its advice.
"Areas relating to work, savings, benefits and budgeting were the most widely read and rated the most useful."
A spokesman for the FSA said: "The guide is designed for new parents as having a baby can have quite an impact on your budget.
"It gives people tools to work out a budget. It also gives them information on benefits they may be able to claim and where they can get more information about that."