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3 augustus is de 215de dag van het jaar (216de in een schrikkeljaar) in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 150 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.

Gebeurtenissen

 1492 - Columbus vertrekt met drie schepen om Indië te vinden langs de westelijke route.
 1720 - Brand in het Louvre: de werkplaats van André-Charles Boulle gaat in vlammen op.
 1993 - Het Peruaanse Congres besluit dat de doodstraf mag worden toegepast op verdachten van terroristische activiteiten.
 2014 - Bij een zware aardbeving in de Chinese provincie Yunnan zijn zeker 175 dodelijke slachtoffers gevallen.
 2015 - In Alphen aan den Rijn vallen twee bouwkranen met brugdeel om op vier huizen, een café en twee winkels, een hond komt daarbij om het leven en er is een lichtgewonde.
 2019 - In El Paso schiet een blanke 21-jarige man in een winkelcentrum 20 willekeurige personen dood. De nacht erop schiet een 24-jarige blanke man in Dayton 9 mensen, waaronder zijn zus dood. De dader komt zelf ook om het leven tijdens zijn vlucht.

 881 - Slag bij Saucourt: Het Frankische leger onder leiding van koning Lodewijk III verslaat bij Abbeville de Deense Vikingen die Vlaanderen onveilig maken.
 1692 - Tijdens de Negenjarige Oorlog komt het tot een veldslag nabij Steenkerke in Henegouwen. Het Franse leger verslaat de geallieerde troepen.
 1914 - Duitsland verklaart de oorlog aan Frankrijk en vraagt het neutrale België om doorgang (Von Schlieffenplan). België weigert.
 1914 - (Italië) - De regering in Rome verklaart zich neutraal en weigert aan de oorlog te gaan deelnemen aan de zijde van de andere partners in het Drievoudig Verbond, Duitsland en Oostenrijk-Hongarije.

 2012 - Wit-Rusland heeft de ambassadeur van Zweden het land uitgezet wegens zijn steun aan de democratische beweging, meldt de Zweedse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Carl Bildt.
 2016 - Het ANC van president Jacob Zuma krijgt bij lokale verkiezingen in Zuid-Afrika zware klappen. De partij verliest onder meer de macht in de metropool Tshwane, waar de bestuurlijke hoofdstad Pretoria het hart van vormt.

 435 - Keizer Theodosius II verbant Nestorius van Constantinopel naar een klooster in een van de Westelijke Oases van Egypte.
 1134 - De Abdij van Berne wordt gesticht door de abt van de Norbertijnerabdij van Mariënweerd en Andries van Cuijk, bisschop van Utrecht.
 1789 - Paus Pius VI creëert één nieuwe kardinaal.

 1947 - Theo Middelkamp wordt in Reims de eerste Nederlandse wereldkampioen wielrennen op de weg.
 1978 - Opening van de elfde Gemenebestspelen in Edmonton met de deelname van 1474 atleten afkomstig uit 46 landen.
 1981 - John McEnroe lost de Zweed Björn Borg voor de vierde keer af als nummer één op de wereldranglijst der tennisprofessionals. De Amerikaan houdt ditmaal 58 weken stand.
 1992 - De Nederlandse atlete Ellen van Langen wint goud op de 800m op de Olympische Spelen in Barcelona.
 1994 - PSV Eindhoven contracteert de 17-jarige voetballer Ronaldo. Hij kost de club uit Eindhoven 10,8 miljoen gulden.
 2008 - De Engelsman Craig Jones komt ten val tijdens de Supersport Motorrace op Brands Hatch in Londen, diezelfde nacht overlijdt hij.
 2011 - Na 21 jaar neemt de Nederlandse doelverdediger Edwin van der Sar afscheid van het betaalde voetbal, tijdens een afscheidswedstrijd in de Amsterdam ArenA.
 2013 - Achilles '29 debuteert als eerste amateurvoetbalclub in het betaald voetbal in de wedstrijd tegen FC Emmen. De wedstrijd eindigt in 2-2.
 2014 - KNVB Bekerwinnaar PEC Zwolle verslaat in Amsterdam met 1-0 landskampioen AFC Ajax en wint daardoor voor de eerste keer de Johan Cruijff Schaal.

 1596 - De Duitse astronoom David Fabricius neemt lichtvariaties waar in de ster Mira.
 1858 - Eerste kabeltelegrammen tussen Amerika en Europa.
 1958 - De Amerikaanse kernonderzeeër USS Nautilus vaart als eerste onder het Noordpoolijs door.
 2004 - Lancering van het MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) ruimtevaartuig met een Delta II raket vanaf Cape Canaveral Air Force Station naar de planeet Mercurius.
 2022 - ESA maakt bekend dat het afziet van verdere pogingen tot herstel van het SAR onderdeel van de Sentinel-1B satelliet waarmee de missie van de satelliet voorbij is. Het getroffen onderdeel heeft sinds 23 december 2021 te maken met een probleem in de stroomvoorziening.

Geboren

 1766 - Kurt Sprengel, Pruisisch botanicus (overleden 1833)
 1770 - Frederik Willem III, koning van Pruisen (overleden 1840)
 1777 - Josephus Augustus Knip, Nederlands kunstschilder (overleden 1847)
 1790 - John Cockerill, Brits-Belgisch industrieel (overleden 1840)
 1811 - Elisha Otis, Amerikaans uitvinder (overleden 1861)
 1817 - Albrecht van Oostenrijk-Teschen, aartshertog van Oostenrijk (overleden 1895)
 1832 - Ivan Zajc, Kroatisch componist, muziekpedagoog en dirigent (overleden 1914)
 1850 - P.A. Daum, Nederlands(-Indisch) journalist, toneel- en romanschrijver (overleden 1898)
 1852 - Domenico Serafini, Italiaans curiekardinaal (overleden 1918)
 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, Brits politicus (overleden 1947)
 1884 - Josias Braun-Blanquet, Zwitsers botanicus (overleden 1980)
 1887 - Rupert Brooke, Engels dichter (overleden 1915)
 1894 - Johannes Henricus van Maarseveen, Nederlands politicus (overleden 1951)
 1896 - Artur Marczewski, Pools voetballer (overleden 1945)
 1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegaskisch autocoureur (overleden 1979)
 1901 - Stefan Wyszyński, Pools kardinaal-aartsbisschop van Gniezno en Warschau (overleden 1981)
 1902 - Regina Jonas, Duits rabbijn; eerste vrouwelijke rabbijn in de geschiedenis (overleden 1944)
 1903 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunesisch politicus, president van de Republiek Tunesië 1957-1987 (overleden 2000)
 1906 - Leonhard Huizinga, Nederlands schrijver (overleden 1980)
 1911 - Jos De Saeger, Belgisch politicus (overleden 1998)
 1911 - Koos Landwehr, Nederlands hovenier en botanisch tekenaar (overleden 1996)
 1912 - Ab van Bemmel, Nederlands bokser (overleden 1986)
 1912 - Fritz Hellwig, Duits politicus (overleden 2017)
 1913 - Jan Dommering, Nederlands voetballer (overleden 1997)
 1914 - Ke Riema, Belgisch tekstschrijfster (overleden 2013)
 1916 - Ben Moerkoert, Nederlands vliegenier (overleden 2007)
 1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentijns voetballer (overleden 1978)
 1918 - Cheng Kaijia, Chinees kernfysicus en ingenieur (overleden 2018)
 1920 - P.D. James, Brits detectiveschrijfster (overleden 2014)
 1921 - Richard Adler, Amerikaans componist, tekstschrijver en producer (overleden 2012)
 1922 - Robert Prévot, Belgisch atleet
 1923 - Leon Clum, Amerikaans autocoureur (overleden 1990)
 1924 - Max van der Stoel, Nederlands minister (overleden 2011)
 1924 - Leon Uris, Amerikaans schrijver (overleden 2003)
 1925 - Guy Degrenne, Frans ondernemer (overleden 2006)
 1926 - Tony Bennett, Amerikaans zanger
 1927 - Piet van Zeil, Nederlands politicus (overleden 2012)
 1930 - Leen Jansen, Nederlands bokser (overleden 2014)
 1930 - Marcel Storme, Belgisch politicus en hoogleraar (overleden 2018)
 1933 - Hugo Walker, Nederlands sportverslaggever (overleden 2015)
 1934 - Wim Offeciers, Belgisch journalist
 1934 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolees verzetsstrijder (overleden 2002)
 1936 - Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandees president (overleden 1994)
 1936 - Vice Vukov, Kroatisch zanger en politicus (overleden 2008)
 1937 - Peter van Gestel, Nederlands auteur (overleden 2019)
 1937 - Agnes de Haas, Nederlands schrijfster (overleden 2008)
 1940 - Gerard Alsteens (Gal), Belgisch tekenaar
 1940 - Oscar de Savornin Lohman, Nederlands rechter
 1940 - Martin Sheen, Amerikaans acteur
 1941 - Grzegorz Rosiński, Pools-Belgisch striptekenaar
 1941 - Martha Stewart, Amerikaans zakenmagnaat, auteur en redacteur
 1942 - Jan des Bouvrie, Nederlands binnenhuisarchitect (overleden 2020)
 1942 - Hugo Simon, Oostenrijks springruiter
 1943 - Christina Bernadotte, prinses van Zweden
 1944 - Antoon Hurkmans, Nederlands emeritus bisschop van 's-Hertogenbosch
 1945 - Floyd McClung, Amerikaans schrijver en zendeling (overleden 2021)
 1946 - Jack Straw, Brits Labourpoliticus
 1946 - Jacques Teugels, Belgisch voetballer
 1946 - Ti Lung, Chinees acteur
 1946 - Syreeta Wright, Amerikaans soulzangeres en -songschrijfster (overleden 2004)
 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Frans premier (2002-2005)
 1950 - Waldemar Cierpinski, Oost-Duits atleet
 1950 - Gerard Hiwat, Surinaams politicus en diplomaat
 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentijns voetballer en voetbaltrainer
 1953 - Paulo Isidoro, Braziliaans voetballer
 1955 - Corey Burton, Amerikaans stemacteur
 1955 - William Nachtegael, Belgisch atleet
 1956 - Susan Fernandez, Filipijns zangeres en activiste
 1957 - Bodo Rudwaleit, Oost-Duits voetballer
 1958 - Wim Rijken, Nederlands acteur, zanger en presentator (overleden 2022)
 1959 - John C. McGinley, Amerikaans acteur
 1960 - Henk Baars, Nederlands wielrenner
 1960 - Kim Milton Nielsen, Deens voetbalscheidsrechter
 1961 - Lee Rocker, Amerikaans musicus
 1963 - James Hetfield, Amerikaans muzikant
 1964 - Elles Voskes, Nederlands zwemster
 1966 - Ljoedmila Borisova, Sovjet-Russisch/Russisch atlete
 1966 - Brent Butt, Canadees stand-upcomedian, acteur en schrijver
 1966 - Greg Ray, Amerikaans autocoureur
 1967 - Álex Cevallos, Ecuadoriaans voetballer
 1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, Frans filmregisseur, scenarioschrijver en acteur
 1967 - Skin, Brits zangeres
 1968 - Johan De Win, Belgisch dirigent, muziekpedagoog en hoornist
 1970 - Stephen Carpenter, Amerikaans gitarist
 1970 - Gina G, Australisch zangeres
 1970 - Cindy Pielstroom, Nederlands fotomodel, televisiepresentatrice en onderneemster
 1971 - Kozo Hosokawa, Japans voetballer
 1971 - Pascal Renier, Belgisch voetballer
 1971 - Kazuaki Tasaka, Japans voetballer
 1972 - Maxsandro Barbosa de Oliveira, Braziliaans voetballer
 1972 - Brigid Brannagh, Amerikaans actrice
 1972 - Christian Keller, Duits zwemmer
 1972 - Marc Kinchen, Amerikaanse houseproducer
 1973 - Jay Cutler, Amerikaans professioneel bodybuilder
 1973 - Nikos Dabizas, Grieks voetballer
 1973 - Michael Ealy, Amerikaans acteur
 1973 - Stephen Graham, Brits acteur
 1973 - Johan Vandevelde, Belgisch schrijver
 1974 - Francisco Javier García Pimienta, Spaans voetballer en voetbalcoach
 1974 - Rick Hooijboer, Nederlands voetballer
 1974 - Andreas Schifferer, Oostenrijks alpineskiër
 1975 - Felix Brych, Duits voetbalscheidsrechter
 1975 - Yoyo Mung Ka-Wai, Hongkongs actrice
 1976 - Cindy Dolenc, Canadees actrice
 1976 - Tania Kross, Nederlands mezzosopraan
 1977 - Tom Brady, Amerikaans American football-speler
 1977 - Óscar Pereiro, Spaans wielrenner
 1977 - Rui Silva, Portugees atleet
 1978 - Rati Aleksidze, Georgisch voetballer
 1978 - Collin Benjamin, Namibisch voetballer
 1978 - Jean-Nicolas Billot, Frans golfspeler
 1978 - Ellery Cairo, Nederlands voetballer
 1978 - Kurt Van Dooren, Belgisch voetballer
 1978 - Juan Carlos Higuero, Spaans atleet
 1978 - Mariusz Jop, Pools voetballer
 1978 - Wilburt Need, Nederlands voetbaldoelman
 1979 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadees actrice en fotomodel
 1979 - Maria Mittet, Noors zangeres
 1980 - Nadia Ali, Pakistaans-Amerikaans zangeres
 1980 - Bruno Corte Real, Portugees voetballer
 1980 - Albert Kraus, Nederlands kickbokser
 1980 - Sacha Rohmann, Luxemburgs voetballer
 1980 - Paulus Roiha, Fins voetballer
 1982 - Jelena Soboleva, Russisch atlete
 1983 - Giorgia Bronzini, Italiaans wielrenster
 1983 - Juan Pablo Forero, Colombiaans wielrenner
 1983 - Tord Asle Gjerdalen, Noors langlaufer
 1984 - Kasper Andersen, Deens autocoureur
 1984 - Sunil Chhetri, Indiaas voetballer
 1984 - Jon Foster, Amerikaans acteur
 1984 - Mile Jedinak, Australisch voetballer
 1984 - Andrea Kreuzer, Oostenrijks kunstschaatsster
 1984 - Ryan Lochte, Amerikaans zwemmer
 1984 - Andrea Orlandi, Spaans voetballer
 1985 - Arne Baeck, Belgisch acteur
 1985 - Rubén Limardo, Venezolaans schermer
 1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, dochter van prinses Caroline van Monaco
 1986 - Darja Domratsjeva, Wit-Russisch biatlete
 1986 - Patrick Duarte, Nederlands voetballer
 1986 - Andrew McFarlane, Amerikaans acteur
 1987 - Stanton Lewis, Zuid-Afrikaans voetballer
 1987 - Gary Medel, Chileens voetballer
 1987 - Mandy Mulder, Nederlands zeilster
 1988 - Jeffrey Sarpong, Nederlands voetballer
 1988 - Fabio Scozzoli, Italiaans zwemmer
 1989 - Jules Bianchi, Frans autocoureur (overleden 2015)
 1989 - Ricky Taylor, Amerikaans autocoureur
 1989 - Nick Viergever, Nederlands voetballer
 1990 - Benjamin André, Frans voetballer
 1990 - Silvan Dillier, Zwitsers wielrenner
 1990 - Jourdan Dunn, Brits model
 1990 - Bastien Midol, Frans freestyleskiër
 1990 - Haruka Tachimoto, Japans judoka
 1991 - Mayra Aguiar, Braziliaans judoka
 1992 - Oliver Buff, Zwitsers voetballer
 1992 - Gamze Bulut, Turks atlete
 1992 - Colin Coosemans, Belgisch voetballer
 1992 - Frits Dantuma, Nederlands voetballer
 1992 - Karlie Kloss, Amerikaans model
 1992 - Lum Rexhepi, Fins voetballer
 1993 - Matteo Politano, Italiaans voetballer
 1993 - Fabian Sporkslede, Nederlands voetballer
 1993 - Jannik Vestergaard, Deens voetballer
 1994 - Endogan Adili, Zwitsers voetballer
 1994 - Corentin Tolisso, Frans voetballer
 1995 - Ahmed El Messaoudi, Belgisch voetballer
 1995 - Li Haotong, Chinees golfspeler
 1995 - Vojtěch Štursa, Tsjechisch schansspringer
 1995 - Kenta Yamashita, Japans autocoureur
 1997 - Ted Evetts, Engels darter
 1997 - Justin Ress, Amerikaans zwemmer
 1999 - Brahim Díaz, Spaans voetballer
 1999 - Márk Jedlóczky, Hongaars autocoureur
 2000 - Tony Arbolino, Italiaans motorcoureur

Overleden

 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius (78), Nederlands politicus
 1773 - Stanisław Konarski (72), Pools educatief hervormer, politiek schrijver
 1806 - Michel Adanson (79), Frans botanicus, natuurvorser en mycoloog
 1838 - Nikolaas-Jan Rouppe (69), Belgisch politicus
 1857 - Eugène Sue (53), Frans schrijver
 1884 - Paul Abadie (72), Frans architect
 1894 - George Inness (69), Amerikaans kunstschilder
 1915 - Maarten Maartens (56), Engelstalig Nederlands schrijver
 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (68), Duits wiskundige
 1918 - Albert Hahn (41), Nederlands tekenaar
 1927 - Edward B. Titchener (60), Amerikaans psycholoog
 1929 - Emile Berliner (78), Duits-Amerikaans elektrotechnicus en uitvinder
 1936 - Fulgence Bienvenüe (84), Frans ingenieur
 1942 - Richard Willstätter (69), Duits scheikundige
 1946 - Johannes Esser (69), Nederlands chirurg, schaker en kunstverzamelaar
 1958 - Peter Collins (26), Brits autocoureur
 1958 - Pierre Massy (58), Nederlands voetballer
 1963 - Lamme Benenga (77), Nederlands zwemmer
 1966 - Lenny Bruce (40), Amerikaans stand-upcomedian
 1968 - Xavier Lesage (82), Frans ruiter
 1968 - Konstantin Rokossovski (71), Pools politicus
 1975 - Annie Bos (88), Nederlands actrice
 1979 - Alfredo Ottaviani (88), Italiaans curiekardinaal
 1982 - Bernardo Ashetu (53), Surinaams dichter
 1986 - Paul de Groot (87), Nederlands communist
 2002 - Carmen Silvera (80), Brits actrice
 2003 - Huub Franssen (86), Nederlands politicus
 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (95), Frans fotograaf
 2004 - Antoon van Hooff (67), Nederlands dierentuindirecteur en televisiepresentator
 2005 - Dick Heyward (90), Australisch voorman van Unicef
 2005 - Joghem van Loghem (90), Nederlands immunoloog
 2006 - Arthur Lee (63), Afro-Amerikaans zanger
 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (90), Duits-Brits sopraan en operazangeres
 2007 - John Gardner (80), Engels anglicaans priester, journalist, theatercriticus en schrijver
 2008 - Anton Allemann (72), Zwitsers voetballer
 2008 - Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn (89), Russisch schrijver
 2009 - Ferdi Elsas (66), Nederlands ontvoerder en moordenaar van Gerrit Jan Heijn
 2010 - Bobby Hebb (72), Amerikaans zanger
 2011 - Luis Santos (87), Filipijns politicus
 2011 - Bubba Smith (66), Amerikaans acteur en American footballspeler
 2011 - Jozef Van Steenberge (96), Belgisch politicus en bierbrouwer
 2014 - Edward Bede Clancy (90), Australisch kardinaal en aartsbisschop
 2014 - Sieb Posthuma (54), Nederlands illustrator, schrijver en theatervormgever
 2015 - Robert Conquest (98), Brits-Amerikaans dichter en historicus
 2015 - Kenny Drew jr. (56), Amerikaans pianist
 2015 - Coleen Gray (92), Amerikaans actrice
 2015 - Arnold Scaasi (85), Canadees modeontwerper
 2015 - John Zeiner (59), Nederlands kunstschilder
 2016 - Chris Amon (73), Nieuw-Zeelands autocoureur
 2016 - Mel Hurtig (84), Canadees uitgever
 2016 - Suzette Verhoeven (71), Belgisch politica
 2017 - Giovanni Benedetti (100), Italiaans bisschop
 2017 - Robert Hardy (91), Brits acteur
 2017 - Ángel Nieto (70), Spaans motorcoureur
 2017 - Vilko Ovsenik (88), Sloveens componist en klarinettist
 2018 - Tommy Peoples (70), Iers violist
 2019 - Basil Heatley (85), Brits marathonloper
 2019 - Wim Hoogbergen (75), Nederlands antropoloog en surinamist
 2019 - Nikolaj Kardasjov (87), Russisch astrofysicus
 2019 - Huibert Pollmann (72), Nederlands uitvinder
 2020 - Marietta Joanna Bouverne (111), Belgisch honderdplusser
 2020 - Ernesto Brambilla (86), Italiaans autocoureur
 2020 - Shirley Ann Grau (91), Amerikaans schrijfster
 2020 - John Hume (83), Noord-Iers politicus
 2020 - Benito Juarez (86), Braziliaans dirigent
 2020 - Roger De Pauw (99), Belgisch wielrenner
 2020 - Adhe Tapontsang (87-88), Tibetaans politiek gevangene
 2021 - Jergé Hoefdraad (35), Nederlands voetballer
 2022 - Raymond Damadian (86), Amerikaans biofysicus
 2022 - Ton Frinking (91), Nederlands politicus
 2022 - Franz Marijnen (79), Belgisch toneelregisseur

Viering/herdenking
 Niger - Onafhankelijkheidsdag (1960)
 Rooms-katholieke kalender:
 Heilige Lydia van Thyateira († 1e eeuw)
 Heilige Nikodemus († 1e eeuw)
 Heilige Waltheof van Melrose († c. 1160)

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Women on a Mission: Mom Edition: DL, ND…HERE I COME!
It's here…my family's annual trip to Devils Lake, MN. This is our 10th year (I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!). We rent a cabin for a week….we all pile in from our respective communities, and we head to the lake. Total this year 12 people…this includes my mom, dad, Steve, Mur-Man, my sister Lisa, her husband Darin, their two sons big J and little J, my brother Lyle, his girlfriend Dena, and Dena's son P. We will have a cabin full, lots of bonding time, lots of fishing, good food, and so much more!
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Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils – Afterword
3 May 2013 1 June 2015
While editing and revising Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, the kind and graceful face of Mr Chen Shixiang often appeared in my mind, reminding me of the manner in which he held his pipe as he spoke fervently and assuredly about his knowledge.
When writing a book, the Chinese do not have a habit of dedicating it to certain mentors and friends. However, I earnestly want to add in the afterword that: "This book is dedicated to a friend I respect and love—Mr Chen Shixiang." He is unfortunately no longer with us. I hope that he will somehow know of this small gesture.
Mr Chen and I have only met twice, so I cannot say we have a deep friendship. He wrote two letters to me and what he said about Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils made me feel very ashamed. With his knowledge, accomplishments, and his academic status, the level of acclamation was too much. It might have stemmed from his bias towards traditional Chinese-style novels, or perhaps there were similarities in our world view.
His appraisal was nevertheless more than what I deserved. My gratitude and joy was not just because I received the approval of such a famous literary critic, and thus boosted my confidence, but also because he pointed out that wuxia novels were not purely pointless works for entertainment purposes. They could also describe the joys and sorrows of the world, and express a more vivid picture of human conditions.
Back then, I decided that when Demi-gods and Semi-devils was eventually compiled into a single book, I must invite Mr Chen to write the preface. Now, I can only attach the two letters from Mr Chen at the back of the book to commemorate this friend.
Of course, the readers will understand that this is also to display the positive review by a famous expert. All writers yearn for a favourable review of their works. If the reader does not enjoy the writing, the author's job will become utterly meaningless. It makes me very happy that there are people who enjoy reading my novels. I cried for a long time upon hearing about Mr Chen's untimely death.
There was a line from Mr Chen's letter: "Still searching for the Four Evils Christmas card, no sign of it." There is a story behind that. Mr Chen told me that Mr Xia Ji'an from Taiwan also likes my wuxia novels. Once, he saw a Christmas card with four persons on the cover in a bookshop. Mr Xia felt that their appearances and expressions resembled the Four Evils from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, so he bought it. He wrote my name on it along with a few lines of praise, and he wanted to mail it to me. We had never met before, so he entrusted it to Mr Chen to forward it to me. Mr Chen left it among his things and could not find it later.
Mr Xia Ji'an mentioned my wuxia novels in his articles several times, with rather excessive praise. Although I had a pretty good friendship with his brother Mr Xia Zhiqing, fate did not bring us together. I never had the chance to meet him and I did not even receive this Chirstmas card. Whenever I read The Diary of Xia Ji'an and his other works, I often regret that I never had the chance to meet such a warm and sincere talent.
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils was first serialised in the Ming Pao and Singapore's Nanyang Siang Pau in 1963 and lasted for four years. When I was overseas during that period, I invited brother Ni Kuang to take over the writing for over forty thousand words. The part that brother Ni Kuang wrote was an independent plot depicting the battle between Murong Fu and Ding Chunqiu in an inn. Although it was a remarkable scene, it was unrelated to the rest of the novel. In this revision, I have brother Ni Kuang's consent to delete it, leaving only the part where Ding Chunqiu blinded A'zi, which cannot be removed.
Serials in the newspapers could not be stopped for long periods of time, hence I invited brother Ni Kuang to take over the writing. However, there is no reason to appropriate another person's work when publishing a compilation book. All the text in the Anthology of Jin Yong's works, no matter if they are good or bad, are hundred percent written by Jin Yong himself without the contribution of anyone else. I would like to express my gratitude to brother Ni Kuang for his kindness in taking over the writing back then.
When the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils reprinted edition was published in October 1978, I made significant changes. I revised, added and deleted many parts in this third edition. The whole process took three years and six modifications Some of the additions might be unnecessary. For example, the relationship between Wuyazi, Ding Chunqiu and Li Qiushui, the friendship between Murong Bo and Jiumozhi, Shaolin Sect's attitude towards Xiao Feng, Duan Yu finally being freed from his obsession with Wang Yuyan, and other scenes.
The original story left a lot of room for the readers to fill with their imagination, but that also left gaps and made things ambiguous. Chinese readers have a reading habit where they dislike relying on their own imagination, instead they want the author to spell everything out so that they can have a peace of the mind: "So that's how it is, that's better!" This is especially so for many young readers who are insistent about such absolutes. This might be the virtue of us Chinese people: emphasise on solid reasoning and distrust the intangible imagination of baseless romanticism. Therefore, I filled the blanks that I initially left with vivid details. Perhaps those of you who prefer the intangible might feel that this kind of writing is clumsy. I can only ask for your forgiveness. This is because my personality if made up of a larger portion of clumsy and real than intelligent and intangible.
The character, skills and abilities of the cast of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils are often exaggerated or even impossible, such as "Spirit Blade of Six Pulses", "Flaming Sabre", "Beiming Powers", Wuyazi transferring his skills, Child Granny transforming back into a child, and so on. Think about the extreme realism and symbolism trend in modern painting, for example a painting of a two-headed woman or the likes. In arts, it is acceptable to use expressions that deviate from reality.
Till now, no geophysicists has ever criticised Carefree Roaming by Zhuangzi for being unscientific. Zhuangzi wrote that the Dapeng1The Dapeng(大鵬) is a legendary giant bird that is likened to the Roc. migrated south "spread its wing and with a few wingbeats it soared upwards by ninety thousand lǐ2Lǐ(里) is a Chinese unit of measurement that is equivalent to 500 metres., but according to geophysics, seventeen kilometres above Earth's surface is the tropopause where it is colder, and beyond that is the stratosphere. It is extremely cold and the air only allows lateral movement. It would be very difficult to rise further upwards because when warmer hair rise, the cold air below cannot rise up to replace it, leaving a gap in between. The upper boundary of this layer is about fifty kilometres from the surface. Even air can hardly rise beyond fifty kilometre. It would be a tall task for Zhuangzi's Dapeng to rise above 90,000 lǐ (45,000 kilometres).
I believe botanists would also criticise Zhuangzi for saying that "the ancient Dàchūn3大椿 is the tree of heaven. blooms for eight thousand years and withers for eight thousand years", because I am afraid such there are no plants with such long lives. Likewise, a Dapeng or an anchovy with a back that is thousands of lǐ wide probably do not exist as well. There are natural scientists in China who insisted on researching the possibility of the "Spirit Blade of Six Pulses". I wonder if foreign entomologists researched about the transformation of a man into giant beetle4He is referring to the novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. to find out if it is possible in human physiology or entomology.
Some literary critics require any novels to conform with realism. Mainland authors have to abide by the principles of Chairman Mao Zedong's Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art after the Cultural Revolution. Since then, the rules have been relaxed and one has the freedom whether to follow them. From ancient times, our nation's literary and artistic creations emphasised unbridled imagination. People nowadays are tied down by reality and take things too literally. Once, a pedant criticised Li Bai's poems. "White hair that is three thousand feet long" is too long. In "morning passed as though black hair turned snowy white", the hair became white too quickly. In "the peach blossom lake is is thousand feet deep"5This phrase is referring to deep friendship., the lake is too deep. "The monkeys along both banks have yet to stopped chattering, but my boat has already passed ten thousand mountains" depicts too many mountains. It is a hundred times or a thousand times more than the mountains that actually exist between Baidicheng to Jiangling.
Another pedant, actually Shen Kuo is not a pedant, criticised Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting Regret saying, "It stated, 'Few people travel along the foot of Mount Emei, the banners had no luster and the sky was bleak', but Mount Emei is in the state of Jia. Tang Xuanzong did not have to pass by Mount Emei when he travelled from Chang'an to Sichuan." Actually, poems and songs are not travelogues. This poem simply used Mount Emei to represent Sichuan. He also criticised Du Fu's Ancient cypress in the Wuhou Temple saying, "The poem stated, 'The girth of the tree's bark is as long wide as forty wéi6A unit of measurement where measuring from shoulder to shoulder., and the dark green canopy rose two thousand feet into the sky.' Forty wéi is only seven feet, yet the tree is two thousand feet tall. Isn't this cypress too tall and thin?"
Some critics said that Wu Song did not have to pass through Jingyang County when he travelled from Yanggu County, Shandong to Qinghe County to visit his brother Wu Dalang. However, Jingyang Ridge was the location of the remarkable story of Wu Song slaying a tiger. If he did not pass through Jinyang Ridge, he would not have slain the ferocious tiger. Everyone would have found it a pity, except for endangered species activists.
Water Margin is a remarkable novel, yet there are many bizarre scenes. For example when Li Kui went to find Gongsun Sheng, he was stopped by Luo zhenren.7真人 (zhēnrén) is a a Daoist spiritual master. Li Kui killed Luo zhenren, who bled white blood, and the latter's child servant. However, the murdered duo did not die. Luo zhenren had used gourds to make decoys. During the journey, Magic Traveller Daizong tied two magic talismans to Li Kui's legs, and read an incantation. Li Kui immediately ran without stopping, travelling 800 lǐ (400 kilometres) in a day. If they took part in a marathon in the World Games, they could have sprinted non-stop for 400,000 chǐ (133 kilometres). If Daizong brought another person, the trio would have a clean sweep of the medals.
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Lü Meng killed Guan Gong, Guan Gong's spirit appeared on Yuquan Hill and cried, "Return my head!" He also possessed Lü Meng to attack Sun Quan, and then Lü Meng collapsed and died. In the section Cursing Wang Lang to death in Wuxiang, Zhuge Liang viciously scolded the enemy commander Marquis Wang Lang during a clash of battle formations. "After Wang Lang heard it, his chest was filled with anger, and with a despairing cry, he fell and died at the feet of his horse." It is unbelievable that when two armies clashed, Zhuge Liang killed the enemy commander by scolding him. However, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a great novel since ancient times and cannot be judged by the validity of facts.
Mr Wang Guowei agreed to the expression, "The west wind withered the green tree last night, standing atop a tall tower, gazing at the whole road to the end of the world." Yet, the road to the end of the world stretches thousands or tens of thousands lǐ, how can one view the whole of it by standing on a tall tower? As a famous physicist, Mr He Zuoxiu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences often used an academic point of view to criticise the supernatural powers preached by Falun Gong as unscientific. This is rather admirable.
The author had a chat with Mr He in Beijing the year before last. Mr He first said that he was a fan of Jin Yong's Novels, and then immediately pointed out that, "There is only one force in physics. The force exerted by a human should not be separated into internal and external. But wuxia novels have been around for a long time, and readers have become used to it and accept it. Readers do not protest when qigong is used to exert internal force to strike an opponent externally. This is because in arts, the conventional rule things can be fabricated and they it is not a concern about their authenticity." I agree with Mr He's eloquent opinion.
Wuxia novels has many habitual fabrications that are commonly used. It is like modern artists of the National People's Congress painting Mount Hua, exaggerating the magnificent peaks with many inaccessible cliffs. In fact, there are usually hundreds of people going up the mountain every day. Although the painting is exaggerated and far from reality, it is still a good painting (it's not a map) and no one can deny that. Su Dongpo once painting a bamboo with a red-inked brush in a carefree manner. Someone criticised him, saying, "Is there such a thing as a red bamboo?" Su asked instead, "Yet there's black-inked bamboo?" Experts often drew bamboo with black ink, so people are used to it and do not find it strange. I do not dare to claim that this book can be compared to a work of art, but I know that art does not need to conform to reality.
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L'hôpital Tirebourse de Liège était un hôpital et un hospice réservé aux béguines de Liège. Tirebourse, tenu par les sœurs Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Tirebourse, partie intégrante du plus grand béguinage de Liège, le béguinage de Saint-Christophe, avait aussi une chapelle Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, une léproserie ou maison de quarantaine dénommée Florichamps et un service aux nécessiteux, le Potage d'able.

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Sports | October 4, 2017 11:08 am
Yankee Takes a Ball in the Groin, Pitcher and Every Man Feels His Pain
The sacrifice was worth it. The Yankees beat the Twins 8-4 on Tuesday.
By Rebecca Gibian
The Yankees beat the Twins during the AL wild-card game Tuesday. According to The Ringer, little went according to plan, but "everything went as expected." It also allowed fans who maybe haven't been keeping tabs on the Yankees to see why they are such a "scary October team."
The Yankees were projected to win over the Twins, since Minnesota finished with the worst record and run differential of any playoff club this season, according to The Ringer. Meanwhile, the Yankees had the best run differential of any club except the Indians, and also had a superior pitcher over the Twins.
Ultimately, no one was surprised when the Yankees beat out the Twins in nearly four-hour long game. But The Ringer writes that there were some surprising factors to the game. First off, the decision by Minnesota manager Paul Molitor to start Ervin Santana over José Berrios. On the Yankees side, some suggested that the team should "leverage the second half's MLB-best bullpen for all it was worth" which would mean starting reliever Chad Green. But according to The Ringer, Yankees manager Joe Girardi did not want to disrupt his team's routine, so much so that instead of a pep talk, he have a short speech on Sunday, saying "treat (Tuesday) like any other game,"
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In total there were nine pitching changes and fiver homers. There was a beautiful catch by Byron Buxton, a Did Gregorius homer to tie it up in the first, and eventually became the game many people hoped for: Berrios vs. the bullpen, writes The Ringer.
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The Ringer writes that it's not that the Yankees can't be beaten, but they are just very constructed. Their line-up is the most home-run oriented of any of the playoff team's, which means they'll do well in October's "extra-all-or-nothing environment."


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DES MOINES, Iowa - The 132nd Fighter Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard is coming under an attack, of sorts, today with a rally from protesters opposed to the use of militarized drones. The mission of the fighter wing had always been manned aircraft, but those F-16 jets were a victim of budget cuts and the mission of the airmen was shifted to include a piloting-and-control center for weaponized drones.
Ed Flaherty, director Iowa Chapter 161 with Veterans for Peace, says that could turn the "Field of Dreams" into the "Killing Fields."
"Especially in light of the way in which these drones have been used in the last 10 years, which is to kill people," Flaherty says. "Sometimes combatants, sometimes civilians, and oftentimes in countries we're not at war with."
Today's rally will be at the entrance to the base, at Des Moines airport. The base was also the site of an anti-drone protest this past spring, where seven people were arrested.
Flaherty says Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group Code Pink, will lead the event. Many may remember her from making waves during an event in May of 2013.
"President Obama was speaking about Guantanamo, about foreign policy, about drones and Madea asked some very intelligent but unwelcome questions, and was removed by the security guards," Flaherty says. "But President Obama said, 'Listen to what that woman has to say.'"
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This rare and intact field batterie which is still in relatively excellent condition. It is located south of Westende and north east of Nieuwpoort in Belgium and we took a visit one late morning in July of 2018.
The batterie is located on a nature preserve and it is recommended that you arrange a tour of the batterie through a qualified guide.
As time was short for us on this day we couldn't stay as long as we would have liked so we didn't photograph the entire battery in as much detail as we could have. We will however be returning for a good few hours to get a complete set.
As mentioned this field gun batterie is rare and unique to the Atlantikwall due to the fact that it is so intact with many fine features not normally seen in the Atlantikwall defences. It also includes only one R669 gun casemate which was built late in the war and partly constructed out of Formsteine blocks.
The only gun bunker at Batterie Bamburg, an R669 type.
The bunkers on the site also include German text on the walls which fortunately have not been destroyed by graffiti vandals, a welcome site as so many others have been vandalized over the years, a very tragic occurrence along the Atlantikwall.
The camera used to take these photographs was a Canon 18-55 mm T5 DSLR using a EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II lens.
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Soldiers going from the toilet bunker didn't have far to go if you were working in the R502 bunker which is pictured here.
Also pictured here the R502 bunker, the WC bunker to the left.
Vf type 52a bunker for personnel.
The entrance to one of the R502 bunkers at batterie Bamburg.
The bunker number beautifully preserved, what a treat!
The scharte where the machine gun would be pointed, in your direction.
A close-up of the gun scharte most likely an MG42 housed behind it.
Through the gas lock of the R502 bunker, the words exit clearly displayed above in German.
Ausgang - In German this translates to Exit inside this R502 bunker, there are two at the batterie.
Corrugated iron greets us on our way out of the R502 bunker.
The ruins of an R134 bunker.
The R134 bunker was blown to pieces, it's ruins lay where they fell.
Additional remains of the R134 and a tobruk peeking through in the background.
Walking inside the R502 bunker we have text clearly visible in German, Eingangsverteidigung.
The small niche in the wall was meant for oil lamps and the remains to the right of the ventilation piping?
Another view of inside the R502 taken from the crew room.
Left of the crew room inside the R502 bunker.
Left of the crew room and close to the weapons embrasure.
Another view of the weapons embrasure and additional defense text in German.
The crew room inside the R502 bunker.
Right view of the weapons embrasure which leads out into the airlock.
The entrance to the R669 gun bunker.
Looking out through the R669 gun casemate.
The entrance to one the ammo rooms inside the R669 bunker.
Facing left inside the gun room of the R669 bunker.
Looking out through the main gun room, the weapon would have been placed here inside.
The business end of the R669 bunker where the gun emplacement would have been.
The R669 gun bunker at Batterie Bamburg was made out of Formsteine similar to cinder blocks. The front end cast in cement.
Building with formesteine was a cheaper method of building bunkers and certainly a less safer option. However the front end of this R669 was cast in concrete.
An ammo niche at the batterie.
A beautifuly preserved R610 bunker on site at the batterie.
Another part of the gun batterie is this rare and intact toilet bunker.
A real beauty, an R610 command bunker here at Stp Bamburg.
The gun scharte of the R610 bunker, note the wooden shuttering still in place above the metal plate.
A glance sideways at the R610 bunker and it's scharte in clear view.


Signed Photograph of the Fred M. Vinson Court, circa 1949/1953, including Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo L. Black, Stanley Reed, William O. Douglass, Tom C. Clark, Robert H. Jackson, Harold Burton, and Sherman Minton. The black and white photograph measures 13 1/8 inches wide by 10 1/4 inches high. Signed on the mount below. Overall dimensions: 15 1/8 inches wide by 13 1/4 inches high.
The "Vinson Court" Supreme Court served from 1946 to 1953, a relatively short period of time. Its term coincided with the House Un-American Activities investigation of the movie industry and the subsequent blacklisting of many notable writers, the witch hunts of Senator Joe McCarthy, and a nation-wide fear of Communists. The Supreme Court wrestled with labor unions (United States v. United Mine Workers), communism (dealing with the conviction of the Rosenbergs), loyalty oaths, and racial segregation. The sudden and unexpected death of Chief Justice Vinson sent Brown v. Board of Education to the court which followed, the Warren Court.
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Graham D. Rowles PhD. (1946- ) es uno de los geógrafos sociales más reconocidos a nivel mundial, por sus contribuciones a la geografía del envejecimiento y gerontología ambiental. Nacido en 1946 en Carshalton, Surrey, Reino Unido, en la actualidad es un ciudadano de los Estados Unidos. El Dr. Rowles estudió la licenciatura en Geografía y el Master en Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad de Bristol (Reino Unido), así como un Doctorado en Geografía en la Clark University (Massachusetts) y un Post-Doctorado en Lilly Endowment Fellowship (College Education). En su experiencia laboral ha sido director de la Graduate Center for Gerontology, University of Kentucky, y en la actualidad es profesor del comportamiento de la salud en el College of Public Health, University of Kentucky (Estados Unidos).

El Dr. Graham D. Rowles se ha interesado por la geografía del envejecimiento, realizando importantes contribuciones a la relación cambiante entre los ancianos y su entorno, primero en zonas rurales (Región de los Apalaches) y, posteriormente en áreas urbanas, con espacial atención a la variedad de entornos residenciales e institucionales. Gracias a sus estudios sobre envejecimiento y entorno ambiental, sus publicaciones son referente en el campo de la gerontología.

Entre los reconocimientos del Dr. Rowles, destacan ser miembro de la Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, de los Consejos Editoriales de las prestigiosas revistas The Journal of Applied Gerontology y Journal of Housing for the Elderly, así como Presidente Electo de la Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.

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ABSTRACT: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are congenital structural abnormalities of the central nervous system and vertebral column. Neural tube defects may occur as an isolated malformation, in combination with other malformations, as part of a genetic syndrome, or as a result of teratogenic exposure 1. Neural tube defects are the second-most-common major congenital anomaly 2 after cardiac malformations, and their prevalence varies by geographic region, race, and environmental factors 3. Outcomes and disabilities depend on level and extent of lesion; for instance, anencephaly is incompatible with life but most infants with spina bifida will survive after surgical repair 4. Importantly, and in contrast to many other congenital abnormalities, primary prevention of NTDs is possible with folic acid. In addition, prenatal screening and diagnosis are widely available, and fetal surgery has improved outcomes for some newborns. The purpose of this document is to provide information about NTDs and make management recommendations for the pregnancy complicated by a fetal NTD.
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Today, Max and Benjamin are transplanting potato plantlets from tissue culture to soil. These plantlets overexpress a gene that strongly respond to Potato Virus Y inoculation. In a few weeks, we will test the resistance of these plants to various strains of PVY.


In the past fifteen years, the local food movement has experienced a global renaissance and won converts the world over. Its advocates contend that this their core idea represents a triple coup d'etat for all parties involved: eaters, who want healthier food, patronize the work of small scale local farmers, who, by virtue of their smallness, cause less damage to the environment. The arguments in favor of promoting a system like this are strong. Though economically implementing such a program is, of course, an uphill battle to say the least, the benefits of doing so are clear.
One dimension of new eating paradigms that is often overlooked, however, is the idea of eating culturally. To get a better picture of what eating culturally is, think of the Pakistani immigrant to America who continues to shop at a nearby desi food market. The food is not local, but its meaning is closer to his identity.
The guiding principle of eating culturally is that food's meaning to our identity, to our selves, matters. For an immigrant this is an obvious phenomenon: having left behind his literal homeland, his food remains a secure touching point, establishing a connection to the place of his birth.
whether or not we are yet aware of it.
Many of us are local in several places. Those whose parents come from different cultures or those who have lived abroad for long stretches of time, for example, may feel that their local food sources are incredibly various. These people probably have eaten culturally for a long time without knowing it.
"We are the only animal that cooks," writes Robin Fox in his excellent essay "Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective," "so cooking becomes more than a necessity. [It is] a symbol of our humanity, what marks us off from the rest of nature." If cooking marks us off from the rest of nature, then cooking in accordance with the culture of our choosing marks us off from the rest of cultures. Cooking culturally then becomes a way of exploring your own identity: you become what you eat, and you eat what you are.
Yet foodies should be wary not to casually appropriate another's cultural identity via food. Shing Yin Khor, in her entertaining and enlightening comic, "Just Eat It: A Comic About Food and Cultural Appropriation," mocks the desire of eaters who seek authentic cultural experiences from "foreign cultures." Eating culturally should not be seen as a convenient passport for food voyeurism. Instead, it's more like an introspective journey into one's own cultural food identity, where you learn about yourself and simultaneously adopt a more communicative stance toward another person's cultural food process.
Finally, in the end, "it's just food." Eating culturally can give great benefit to those who attempt it. Those who seek to eat culturally will experience the gusto that comes from the interplay of food and identity.
Joseph Naeem is an editorial assistant at World Policy Journal.


Richard K. Rogers Sr., 89, a former Frankfort resident, died October 3, 2013 at Knoxville, TN. Arrangements and services are pending at Goodwin Funeral Home.
Linda Marie Ryan, 70, of Frankfort, passed away Friday, September 27, 2013, at IU Health Arnett Hospital in Lafayette. Private family services have been held. Arrangements are entrusted to Genda Funeral Home in Frankfort. Online condolences may be directed to www.gendafuneralhome.com.
Ronnie L. Jaggers Sr., 73, of Frankfort, passed away August 16, 2013, at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Parkview Home in Frankfort. Arrangements are entrusted to Genda Funeral Home in Frankfort. On-line condolences may be directed to www.gendafuneralhome.com.


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I'm a beginner for px4.I have installed px4 with Qgroundcontrol for my pixhawk but I can't find all of parameter about PID tuning such as MC_ROLLRATE_P MC_ROLL_P etc. How can I fix it?
You have not setup up your vehicle yet as shown by the red indicators on the setup pages. Finish vehicle setup first (at least airframe).
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Richard Honkanen is the original inventor of Repair Biotechnologies' atherosclerosis therapy. He is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in the College of Medicine, University of South Alabama. His lab has been a pioneer in the study of atherosclerosis and other age-related diseases, having published extensively on cholesterol catabolism, the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and mechanisms of cardioprotective agents in ischemic myocytes. He has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Georgia.
Graham Pawelec
Graham Pawelec is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the Center for Medical Research, Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tübingen Medical School, Tübingen, Germany. He is a Visiting Professor, Nottingham Trent University, UK and at King´s College London, holds an Honorary Chair at Manchester University, UK and acts as a "Cancer Solutions Consultant" at the Health Sciences North Research Insitute of Canada, Sudbury, ON. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of "Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy" and Deputy Editor of the "Journal of Translational Medicine" and "Immunity and Aging". received an MA in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Transplantation Immunology from the University of Cambridge, UK.
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David Thomas specializes in technology evaluation and preclinical development of drugs for clinical testing. Dr. Thomas has more than 30 years of experience in biological research and has published more than 100 original scientific articles and dozens of patents. He has been a senior executive in the biotechnology industry (Biogen, Hybridon, Tanox, Pangenetics, Macrozyme, ClinQuest) and was responsible for new drug discovery and preclinical development. He has a BA at the University of Kansas and a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Colorado.
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Aubrey de Grey is the biomedical gerontologist who researched the idea for and founded SENS Research Foundation. He received his BA in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000, respectively. Dr. de Grey is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations.
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HomeSchoolsPrimaryWhat's the benefit?
What's the benefit?
BESA's Caroline Wright asks how has AV actually transformed the teaching and learning environment?
Hannah Oakman
Since the arrival of interactive whiteboards at the turn of the century, audio-visual (AV) has been a dominant part of schools' IT investment.
However, despite being such a major part of schools' ICT assets, has AV actually transformed the teaching and learning environment, and if so, are the changes due to alterations in teaching styles or more about the new technologies?
Caroline Wright, (pictured) director general designate of the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) shares the thoughts of its member organisations, and imparts their advice on how the technology and teaching could develop further.
Changes in AV technology
Adam Norton-Howells, education director at Dataspire Solutions Ltd, has seen a number of new technologies come to market over recent years. "Over the last decade the more traditional interactive whiteboard has been replaced by LED touchscreen, flat-panel display technology alongside interactive projectors. These combine the touch capabilities of an interactive whiteboard with the crisp visuals of flat-panel display technology to make course material more engaging for students. The technologies also offer low maintenance and energy efficiency."
"With handheld devices being part of everyday life, tablets are also becoming commonplace in the classroom which poses new opportunities and challenges for teachers," explains David Mann, educational services director at LearnPad.
"Over the last decade the more traditional interactive whiteboard has been replaced by LED touchscreen, flat-panel display technology alongside interactive projectors'
He continues: "Due to the relatively low cost of tablets they offer a wealth of new learning opportunities and enable far greater collaboration in the classroom. With the diverse mix of technology and brands available it's vital that the technology works together. Being able to easily share classwork between tablets, laptops, desktops and interactive displays provides a seamless learning experience."
On behalf of BESA member Steljes, Karen Nelson, education marketing at SMART Technologies, adds: "As schools look to augment technology in classrooms, 3D printing is at the top of the list for many. Why? Because 3D printing helps speed up innovation. Students can discover the engineering process, build something, and test it to see if it works – all in a few hours or days thanks to this amazing technology."
But is 'new' and 'upgraded' always better? David Mann, offers a word of warning: "In terms of the evolution of classroom technology there is always the option to increase the definition or the processor speed; but if the effective, collaborative pedagogy is not in place then really these 'upgrades' will not add to the learning benefits. How you use the technologies together is what is key."
Adam Norton-Howells, adds that the changes in teaching over recent years is less about the individual new technologies, and more about the integration of these technologies. "Aside from the change in technologies we are also seeing a shift from whole-class use of ICT (frequently the use of interactive whiteboards) to independent and group learning using laptop and tablet computers."
The 'reinvented flipped learning model' is the next big edtech trend that Karen Nelson, sees on the horizon. She explains: "Traditionally, flipped learning focused on utilising technology to maximise the learning day, but it missed out on personalising the student experience. The reinvented model optimises lesson content for interactivity and collaboration among small groups, classes, and between schools rather than focusing on one-way instruction."
Technologies converge
The ever-increasing convergence between AV and IT, is increasingly being seen by Mike Brooman, director of Vanti. He explains: "We are seeing the replacement of visualisers, the use of cameras on mobile devices and the streaming of content wirelessly to presentation devices. Marsh Academy is one great example of a visionary school; from experimenting with how students responded to various LED colours to having a large touch interface display to view content before sharing it with other students, the central collaborative space is now the heart of the learning experience.
"Traditionally, flipped learning focused on utilising technology to maximise the learning day, but it missed out on personalising the student experience'
It is the arrival of several software applications that is enabling this convergence explains Adam Norton-Howells: "The software is now available to allow multi-platform content to be shared and presented, encouraging participants to interact in a creative and convenient way."
This is also being seen by Zulfi Baig, international operations director of iBoardTouch: "Studios, pop-up learning hubs, virtual groups and peer-to-peer project groups are fast replacing the physical spaces of traditional classrooms. Interactive technology now offers 'anywhere digital' and 'anywhere learning' capabilities."
Mike Brooman, director of Vanti, concludes: "What may be considered futuristic ideas to many, are rapidly becoming standard in the early adopter schools across the country."
There are clearly a lot of new technologies in the AV product category but it appears to be a more informed application of these technologies that is achieving greater learning benefits. As ever, training is key and BESA members will always encourage schools to understand the value of investing in this vital part of any technology implementation.
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When our grandson whom you will never get to see shoots one of our sky dappled parakeets through the chest with his bow and arrow (the ones that sit side-by-side as if cold) I am only thinking of you and the night you fell upon tickets for us to go see Annie at the Fox Theater. I am seeing you standing before the bedroom closet, your patent leather shoes like an old bus driver's. You are pulling out rumpled button-downs and holding each one out for me to choose. You say, "Is this one good? How 'bout this one?" Each one the same, and I am explaining the difference between navy and black, the way two stripped patterns must run in the same direction, the way something tacky, like poke-a-dots, can go with anything.
I reflect on how I have never slapped anyone in my adult life. I am mouse quiet. I am statue still, and so we are out the door, in our seats, and as I am watching the orphaned children pounce across the stage the word "whore" gallops through my head till I think there is nothing left of it at all, till I think that there is only you and me and the singing orphans and the Fox with all of its glamour.
Our grandson whom you will never get to see cries because perhaps he has not expected the bird to bleed. He is a delicate child, the type to step on ant hills and cry for the ants, and yet he is responsible for our little bird skewered and puffed up at the end of an arrow like a fluffy marshmallow coated in blue down. I am scooping our little bird in a small plastic sack. Maybe I will save it to be buried. Maybe I will throw it into the trash bin when our grandson is not looking.
I do not know, but I am thinking of that night you called me a whore. I keep seeing you in front of the bedroom closet, and this time, I am saying to you, "Wear the one I got you for Christmas," and you tell me that you gave it away. You tell me that it was ugly, and I think you could have pretended to not find it. I think of all your gifts that I have given away. The soapstone jewelry box with the sphinx on it. The charcoal pictures you drew. There is nothing really left of you in our house save the parakeets, and one of them is no longer alive. I could roll a spoonful of peanut butter in flax seeds and lure the other one into my hand. I could break its neck quick, assume it would die of being lonely, but I do not know.
reel and plunge away into a maelstrom of its own mad special darkness.
I awoke early this morning.
with whom she lived in the attic.
houses, all of which were seated along a small cliff.
something my parents' villa did not possess.
in a certain lightness that I have never experienced.
the new day with open arms.
they looked at me queerly.
loaded with tourists in stereotypical garb.
knowing they will never remain.
and my parents were up by then.
and the streets were clean of life.
inching east towards the island.
trickled out as I spoke.
How were we supposed to have known?
We can't read your mind.
Have some coffee. I just brewed a pot.
and you're done. Very stress-free.
or held her back from attaining something.
I assumed all parents should be.
because I don't ever have the time.
you it's rather boring. I still don't cook.
I tell Smyrna to do it.
chitterlings and fatback and all.
I thought you gave up smoking.
the signal of a witty, always sadistic statement.
We are both going to die one day.
It's okay, Dad. I'm here. I got it.
fiercely and his eyes weak and self-conscious.
as desperate as an infant and just as helpless.
like this. I never wanted to.
and smoking up the grand room.
You had to get that pool lift.
Oh give it a break, Lucille.
a TV show they had started watching together.
You are terminally ill, dear.
Doesn't mean my life is over.
I'm afraid it does mean that, dear.
The bluntness of my sire and dam!
Do you want some coffee, Dad?
kowtowed to my mother's might.
in there screwing the nurse.
Jenese Chanel Hornsby is an Author/Illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds bachelor's degrees in both Psychology and Religious Studies from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied under Daniel Wallace (author of Big Fish), Pam Durban (author of the short story "Soon"), Lawrence Naumoff ( author of Taller Women, A Cautionary Tale), and the renowned poet Alan R. Shapiro. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Eva M. Olsgard is a mid/west based writer, artist, and designer. In addition to performing and exhibiting her work, she has created award-winning programming and spoken nationally on the subjects of language arts and cultural studies. Ms. Olsgard holds a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bard College.
Joseph Buehler lives in northern Georgia with his wife Trish. He has published three short stories in the Kansas Magazine and a short story in the Canadian Forum long ago and three poems in Bumble Jacket Miscellany and a poem in Defenestration in December 2011 and a poem in the spring/summer 2012 Common Ground Review and poems since then in Theodte, Mad Swirl, Two Cities Review, Indiana Voice Journal, The Write Room, Turk's Head Review, The Tower Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, The Stray Branch, and have upcoming poems in East End Elements, Common Ground Review and Unbroken.
x gerard lee is a writer and undergraduate at Swarthmore College. He studies comparative literature with an emphasis on trans-Atlantic narratives of the Black freedom struggle. In his spare times he writes poetry and fiction and has selected "Family" from a longer piece based on his experiences as a minority at a predominately white college.
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over eight hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including LINDEN AVENUE LITERARY JOURNAL. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for work published in 2012, 2013, and 2014. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition. He lives in Denver.


Harcourt, M., & Lam, H. (2008). Compulsory proportional representation: allaying potential concerns. WorkingUSA, 11(3), 349-361.
The present union certification system has many faults, the most important of which is its failure to deliver employee representation to all but a small and declining minority of workers. As an alternative, compulsory proportional representation (CPR) would have many advantages, particularly when compared with other reform proposals, most of which are designed to only reinvigorate, modify, or supplement the existing system. Would CPR have any disadvantages? We identify four potential concerns: reduced freedom to contract, increased interunion competition and raiding, depleted union strength, and compromised union independence. However, we argue that some of these problems would be more imagined than real, some less serious than expected, and some would have secondary effects to compensate any shortcomings.


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Atta Boy! How Mills outmanoeuvred John Rawlings
By Bernie d'Angelo Asher
I have had to detour from my many commitments in order to return to this network for two reasons. Firstly, some utterances from John Rawlings in the past few months have further cemented my indubitable view that Chairman Rawlings is well and truly debauched. The legerdemain and ardour with which the man concocts allegations composed a complex mix of truth, half-truths and falsehood never ceases to amaze me. In that regard the man is truly a genius! Secondly I have been following the goings on within Ghanaian political circles with increasing hilarity since the P (NDC) took power in the motherland. The latter, being the main thrust of this article, will be discussed at length in due course. But in the meantime permit me to indulge you with some vintage Rawlings inconsistency.
For starters an article entitled rather tantalisingly "JJ Welcomes Arrest" [Ghanaweb, 23/11/07]flooded me with shock and intrigue as I wrongly assumed that the quondam P(NDC) strong man had finally welcomed his own arrest as a final act of penance for his many sins. But after reading the full article, alas my excitement waned into perplexity, consternation and then finally settled on amusement. That John Rawlings, a man who ordered the murder of three judges, supervised and perpetrated crimes against countless Ghanaians including Miss Enamel Sadick – a respectable trader in Cape Coast who was publicly stripped, placed on a table and whipped at Chapel Square by a bunch of ganja- puffing, cocaine-sniffing, dog meat-munching, bootlicking and kerb-crawling zombies- had the guts to welcome "the arrest of five soldiers allegedly implicated in the murder of former Ghana Commercial Bank Deputy Managing Director, Roko Frimpong" was nauseating indeed. (See "Rawlings Welcomes Arrest, Ghanaweb 23/11/2009]. This cold- hearted thug [so-labelled because he chose to shamelessly wrestle Kow Nkensen Arkaah to the ground rather than engage in intellectual discourse] is also of the view that "serious crimes had been perpetrated for political expediency over the past eight years and these had to be exposed quickly to avoid cover-ups".
Talk about déjà vu! The Chairman is also concerned with the fact that some "criminals [are] walking about freely, some of whom were pushed into uniformed institutions. These people have been used as agents of sabotage, some used to assassinate fellow soldiers and made to look like suicide, a police officer shot in the back in the Volta Regional Minister's residence, arson and a host of other crimes". That "some criminals are walking about freely… and have been the agents of sabotage, assassinations and a host of other crimes" is indeed indisputable. But for the chief architect and perpetrator of these crimes who so blatantly wove a myriad of indemnity and exclusion clauses into the furniture of the Ghanaian constitution (in a dastardly attempt to save his skin) only to turn around and cast the proverbial first stone is, at the very least, disgraceful, if also caitiff. Perhaps it is time the chickens were allowed to return to the roost and for this raw-boned ogre of a man to face the long-winding vagaries of both Ghanaian and international criminal justice.
Perhaps it is for this reason that John Mills has found it prudent and politically expedient to marginalize the Chairman since taking office. Clearly the man has no sense of fairness and equity and his rather vulgar mannerism and reputation for being a 'loose cannon' if unchecked is apt to damage the carefully crafted and much-ballyhooed image of Koo Mfantse; the messianic Asomdwe Hen. Far from being the 'poodle' that he is so infamously quoted as having sworn to be Mills appears to have gone off a completely new trajectory to the stupefaction and disappointment of the Chairman. I must confess that to the extent that Koo Mfantse Mills has been able to be his own man and refused to be shaken and stirred by the frequent outbursts and vulgarity of the Chairman, I congratulate him. But the Chairman is not taking it lying down! To the contrary he has vented his frustration with the Mills administration at every opportunity. Only recently he is reported to have threatened thusly: "If we do not wake up to correct the mistakes, I will not have anything to do with the party. I have died so many times for the party, been humiliated both locally and internationally. I cannot die for the greedy bastards who have wormed their way into government," [See: JJ To Quit NDC, Ghanaweb 23/11/09]. What the Chairman fails to appreciate is that John Mills is the president and he is free to appoint who he deems fit to work for him. Period! Far from being the Rawlings 'poodle' that many speculated that he would be (mainly because he so recklessly alluded to that in order to win his favour in years past], Mills appears to have dexterously finessed his way into the top echelons of the P(NDC), managed to win potentate Rawlings' support and approval by being his 'poodle' (albeit for a while) and then, after winning the elections, put as much distance between himself and the Chairman as possible, lest he be contaminated with the opiate and the vulgar image of the Chairman. Great manoeuvring indeed! In the face of vintage Rawlings ranting and scathing public vitriol Mills has displayed stark contrast by keeping his cool and in most cases keeping a remarkably loud silence. Clearly the president has found the antidote to the Rawlings menace: ignore the ogre and confine his moribund personality to history; contrast his vulgar, uncouth and uneducated outbursts with persistent admonishings of peace, reconciliation and a higher intellectual level of politics and forever condemn the Chairman to the outback of civilised politics where brawn and not brain is the modus operandi. In that endeavour, I must say more grease to his overly pampered elbows. Way to go Mr. President.
Bernard Asher Lecturer of Business & Economics @ Guildford College of Higher Education& Associate Tutor University of Reading, England, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Bernie d'Angelo Asher, © 2009
The author has 30 publications published on Modern Ghana.Column: BernardAsher
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There's basically one or two shops where I go for not only necessary supplies and beautiful fabrics, but for advice, talk and a smile. 't Quiltgebeuren is one of those places where I feel welcome and am able to share my ideas and Wil and the girls are always enthusiastic and know how to fuel those creative juices even more.
A few weeks ago, they hosted a midnight quilting event where a mystery object is made in one evening. Participants are welcome to bring snacks and munchies, and it's a great opportunity to meet new people.
You could pick out a fabric, and while sampling wonderful pies, cakes, petit-fours, and other yummies, we cut, glued, had clueless moments, lots of story stelling and laughter, and ... tah dah! An A4 sized folder that when opened reveals a cutting mat, a soft foam surface and underneath the (pink) foam, sandpaper to aid in drawing templates on fabric. The outside is farbic, with batting in between so you can iron your pieces on it.
Well, move over Clover is all I have to say! This is much nicer than what they have to offer, and in a fun fabric too!
Everyone enjoyed the evening and there's no doubt that this will travel to my quilting bees and many other places to aid me in my quilting endeavors! Thanks Wil for a fab evening and I can't wait what surprise you have next in store for us!


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It doesn't matter which lake, let's say it was the Shuswap,
we gathered up the sunflower-yellow mineral because we heard
sulphur is used on match-tips and were keen to set
the whole box alight in a matchgirl dream of voices
rustling red tongues.
We melted the contents of our pockets in an old can of beans
over the barbecue; first the Libby's label, then the metal turned black,
the sulphur melting like crayons into dull grey. When it hardened,
we shucked it out of the can, as warm and unassuming
as a new meteor in the hand.
--from A Dream of Sulphur
From childhood scenes in Deep Creek to the restless migrations across Canada, A Dream of Sulphur explores the relationship between memory, language, and geography. As a grandmother battles memory loss, a Hungarian is exiled to Canada, the Tofino fishing industry collapses, or August fire in the Shuswap prompts the largest evacuation in B.C. history, the crucible image of a Libby's bean can captures the central theme of flux and the inevitable recasting of home.
"In Aurian Haller's poetry, the mist is part of the machinery on the West Coast, along with the hoppers and flumes, fish knives and wharves. The might behind his metaphors is earned and appropriate; developed by a toil that looks for and finds freedom in new demands, new details of the task, outlined in land, sea and air. He proves that the mountains of labour to be done have a mind behind them, and that each person can lay their hand to the tools that transform a cyclical depression of industry and emotion into a new life." George McWhirter, poet and novelist, author of Catalan Poems and Cage.
"A Dream of Sulphur is a journey across an expansive geography of place, time and language - between the western interior plateaus and downtown Montreal, between generations, continents, languages. In the end, Aurian Haller's lyrical voice arrives at a place of acceptance, where words are no longer rooted in time or place, but in the heart. These are the verses of a poet who has learned to make music from the rough and the overlooked." Laisha Rosnau, Prism
Aurian Haller was born and raised in the Shuswap region of British Columbia. He has worked as a bush cook, carpenter's assistant, and piano teacher, and is presently doing doctoral research on working-class art movements of the West Coast at Simon Fraser University.


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Dos Pilas é um sítio arqueológico maia, situado no atual departamento de Petén na Guatemala, junto do rio Pasión.

Dos Pilas terá sido fundada cerca de 650, com ligações a Tikal. No entanto, 50 anos mais tarde, tornou-se aliada de Calakmul, convertendo-se assim num inimigo de Tikal.

O sítio tem cerca de 500 estruturas e deve o seu nome a duas fontes naturais de que se encontram à sua entrada. Foi uma cidade fortificada com poucos pontos de acesso ao seu interior. A pirâmide do duende é a mais alta de todas as estruturas de Dos Pilas, mas a sua característica mais distintiva são as várias escadarias hieroglíficas que contam a história das rivalidades e guerras entre Dos Pilas, Tikal e seus vizinhos.

Até à descoberta destas escadarias pensava-se que Dos Pilas teria sido fundada por um membro da família real de Tikal exilado  na sequência de uma guerra civil entre duas facções daquela família. A história contada pelos hieroglifos das escadarias já descobertas é algo diferente, parecendo indicar uma ligação familiar, talvez filial, entre Tikal e Dos Pilas, a que se terá seguido a invasão desta última por Calakmul e logo depois a inimizade entre Dos Pilas e Tikal que conduziu às guerras no sudoeste do Petén (o início do colapso maia). Após uma campanha com várias conquistas, Dos Pilas tornou-se uma potência principal entre os reinos maias, porém, a derrota da sua aliada Calakmul acabaria por causar o abandono de Dos Pilas cerca de 761.

Dos Pilas foi descoberta em 1960 por G.L. Vinson e escavada por Arthur Demarest da Universidade Vanderbilt, de Nashville.

Ligações externas
 Descrição e imagens de Dos Pilas

Sítios arqueológicos da Guatemala
Sítios arqueológicos maias


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New York Mets rally for 4-3 victory over Cleveland Indians in 10 innings
Updated Aug 22, 2019; Posted Aug 21, 2019
Indians right-hander Adam Plutko goes to work against the Mets in the first inning Wednesday night at Citi Field. AP
By Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com
NEW YORK -- The Indians needed a big hit and they finally got one, but it still wasn't enough to beat the Mets.
Yes, Carlos Santana gave them a 3-2 lead over the Mets with his two-out homer in the 10th inning Wednesday night. But his decision to go for a game-ending double play instead of throwing home to cut off the tying run set the stage for the Tribe's 4-3 loss in 10 innings.
Santana hit his 30th homer of the season, a drive over the fence in left field, to snap a 2-2 tie. He hit a 2-2 changeup from lefty Luis Avilan.
Struggling closer Brad Hand came on for the save, but Amed Rosario hit a leadoff double and went to third on a sacrifice bunt. After Pete Alonso was intentionally walked, Michael Conforto sent a hard grounder to Santana at first. Instead of throwing home, Santana threw to second to try and start a double play. The Indians got the force at second, but first base was uncovered because neither Hand nor second baseman Jason Kipnis could get there in time as Rosario scored the tying run.
Wilson Ramos kept the inning going by rolling a single down the third-base line. J.D. Davis ended it with a single to left field after a nine-pitch at-bat. Hand (6-4, 3.35) has three blown saves in his last four appearances. He's allowed seven earned runs on 11 hits over 3 2/3 innings in that stretch.
Manager Terry Francona said Santana should have gone home on Conforto's grounder.
"The game is happening fast, but with a lefty (Hand) on the mound he's not going to be able to get over there," said Francona. "Unless he (Santana) can get back, there's nobody else over there."
Hand said he didn't make a move to first because he felt Santana was going home.
"I wasn't looking at the runner so I didn't see if he was breaking, but it's a one-run game and we can't let the run score," said Hand, 29-for-34 in save chances. "I thought maybe he could have gone home, I didn't know if he was breaking. It was a tough play all the way around."
Hand said he had no chance to get to first.
"I kind of stopped, expecting him to throw it home," said Hand. "Once he wasn't throwing it home, I didn't have a chance to get over there in time. Just a tough play."
The Twins gave the Indians a chance to climb within two games of first place by losing to the White Sox, 4-0, Wednesday afternoon, but the Indians couldn't take advantage. They went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. They have scored five runs and gone 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position in their first two games of this series.
The loss also allowed the Rays to pull within a half-game of the Tribe for the first wild card spot.
"We just have to show up tomorrow and hope they lose again and we win," said Adam Plutko, who gave the Indians six strong innings. "We can't control what they do. We can control only what we do.
"I don't think anyone is frustrated about not making up ground. I think the only thing we're frustrated about is not getting the win tonight."
The Indians took a 1-0 lead in the third as Francisco Lindor scored from third on a ground ball by Yasiel Puig. Lindor opened the inning with a sharp single. Mets starter Marcus Stroman, who left after four innings with a tight left hamstring, struck out Greg Allen, but Santana doubled to the wall in right.
Lindor, who did not appear to be running well, had to stop at third. Lindor missed most of April with calf and ankle problems. Puig delivered him.
"I'm fine," said Lindor. "I guess I was just slow tonight."
Plutko, meanwhile, was in charge. He opened the game with 10 straight outs. Joe Panik gave New York its first hit with a one-out single in the fourth. Plutko retired NL home-run leader Alonso, but walked Conforto. He ended the inning by getting Wilson Ramirez to force Conforto at second.
Plutko's command faltered in the fifth. The Mets took a 2-1 lead on consecutive hits by Todd Frazier, Juan Lagares and Luis Guillorme, who was hitting for reliever Jeurys Familia. Frazier singled with one out and Lagares and Guillorme followed with doubles to take the lead.
The Indians tied it in the sixth as Jose Ramirez tripled to score Santana from first. Justin Wilson walked Santana to start the inning. He struck out Puig, but Ramirez beat the Mets' shift with a triple past third base.
The Indians had two chances to get Ramirez home, but failed. Kipnis popped up to second and Roberto Perez struck out.
Franmil Reyes replaced Plutko as a pinch-hitter in the seventh. Plutko allowed two runs on four hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked one. Plutko, facing the Mets and Yankees in his last two starts, has allowed five runs in 12 innings.
Plutko, who threw 85 pitches, leaned heavily on his four-seam fastball. He threw 52 of them, according to baseball savant.com, and they ranged from 89.1 to 92.4 mph. From there, he threw 18 sliders, nine curveballs and five change ups.
Stroman, making his fourth start for the Mets since being acquired from Toronto at the trade deadline, allowed one run on five hits in four innings.
The start of the game was delayed by rain for six minutes.
The Indians end this seven-game trip to New York on Thursday night when they send rookie Adam Civale (1-2, 1.50) to the mound against the Mets and Noah "Thor" Syndergaard (8-6, 3.86). Game time is 7:10 p.m. with SportsTime Ohio, WTAM and WMMS carrying the game.
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