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Windows installation can't detect my ide hard drive?
For lack of a better suggestion, try setting all devices on that IDE cable to cable select.
Then just try the hard drive.
So when you try to install Windows, in the BIOS you set it to boot from the appropriate optical drive, correct? With the Windows CD/DVD in the drive tray what happens, if anything, when it boots? What version of Windows by the way?
Sorry, I think I misunderstood you earlier regarding your question about cable select. So using that same configuration Ubuntu will recognize the drive but not Windows setup?
From the motherboard picture earlier there were three IDE connectors. Which one is the hard drive connected to? Do you have another IDE cable to try?
With the PC off and the power supply turned off, switch them around and see it that helps.
By any chance is the IDE cable a 40 pin, 40 wire instead of a 40 pin, 80 wire?
Ubuntu must be less sensitive to imperfect hard drives than Windows. This bad sector must be the reason Windows won't install. You don't really want to use a hard drive with a bad sector. It will probably get worse later.
If you have access to another computer, perhaps you can put the hard drive in it and run check disk to try to fix it.


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President Bashar al-Assad was lying when he denied his regime had any involvement in the massacre of more than 100 civilians in central Syria, the White House said Monday.
International envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday criticized President Bashar al-Assad for failing to comply with a peace plan to end the Syria conflict and said his forces were carrying out atrocities, arbitrary arrests and other abuses regardless of the world outcry against him.
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Men's basketball puts SF State back on the map
Laura Monique Ordoñez|February 1, 2017
The SF State Gators talk amongst each other on the bench during their match up against the Sonoma State Seawolves at SF State on Saturday, January 21, 2017 (Mason Rockfellow/ Xpress).
Every sports team goes through growing pains, as seen by the Bay Area's own Golden State Warriors. During their 2011-2012 season, the Warriors made the instrumental trade of Monta Ellis for Andrew Bogut, a move that would pave the road to success for the team in the years to come.
The infamous trade was not only a shift in playing style, but more importantly a change in chemistry —the key component for any team to be successful on and off the court.
This is a lesson SF State's men's basketball head coach Paul Trevor learned that same season.
Trevor was in his second year of coaching the men's basketball team when he lost his five strongest players from the prior season. The players were replaced by younger inexperienced players, who were new to SF State and to each other.
"They didn't develop as quickly as we thought they would, so we went through the growing pains of having a lot of young guys on our team," Trevor said. "I think that was my hardest year."
Much like the Warriors, Trevor spent the next five years experiencing the evolution of a team.
Flash forward to the current 2016-2017 season and the Gators are currently winning 16-3, and have been making great strides SF State hasn't seen from men's basketball since the 90s.
Trevor said the recent success has been a result of the progress of great players and growing chemistry over the past few years.
"It's been trying to find a group that works in the environment we have and also just trying to find the right mix of players that blend well together to be successful," Trevor said. "This group is so special in the sense that you have a lot of guys who've been in the program for a long time."
Trevor said he felt great potential in the team, who, in December, made their first appearance on the National Association of Basketball Coaches list for the first time in more than 20 years. He realized the team's chemistry was strong early in the season.
Head coach Paul Trevor closely watches the Gators take the ball up court at SF State on Saturday, January 21, 2017. They went on to beat the Seawolves 80-65 (Mason Rockfellow/ Xpress).
"We knew we had a good group of guys that were all young, we won 16 games, they were kind of taking over ownership of the team," Trevor said. "We felt like it could be a pretty good group."
Senior AJ Kahlon said the team's energy was apparent during the pre-season open gym in September, where his teammates emerged and played against each other with the same aggression they have routinely display.
"Everything we were doing, you could just tell we were hungry," Kahlon said. "For us to be that competitive and so ready to play, it just showed our attitude toward the season."
It wasn't until the Gators played Western Oregon University in November that they realized how truly special their team was. They went into triple overtime and overpowered Western Oregon with a final score of 99-93.
"You're in overtime, it's the most stressful situation and they seemed to appear that everything was going to work out," Trevor said. "I think that's when I knew we had something special."
Kahlon said the game was the defining moment of the season.
"We stole that game from them," Kahlon said. "We took a game that we had no business winning and I think that might have been the springboard for our season this year."
Trevor said Kahlon's performance this season has been a nice surprise to the coaches.
"We didn't expect him to be so good, he really developed into such a stud," Trevor said. "He's kind of become the cornerstone of our defense."
Trevor said senior guard Nick Calcaterra has also shown growth within his last four years on the team.
"He's really grown into a nice role with this team," Trevor said. "He works so hard, he does all the dirty stuff out there."
Although several seasoned players still remain on the team, Trevor said the success of the team as a whole can also be linked to their perfect mixture of seasoned seniors as well as talented younger players.
With players like Warren Jackson, Ryne Williams and Chiefy Ugbaja alongside freshman Jase Wickliffe and Jash Kahlon, the Gator's lineup is stacked to continue the momentum of this season and hopefully seasons to come.
"The cabinet is not bare by any means," Trevor said. "We wanted to create that depth where it won't just run dry the next year."
Kahlon said he hopes to be an inspiration and motivation for the younger players who will carry on the Gator legacy in the future. He said he owes his game to the seniors that came before him.
"They're part of the team this year too, really," Kahlon said. "I wouldn't be the player I am or the leader I am without having played with them first."
Calcaterra said he looked up to guard Nefi Perdomo when he was a freshman. The senior had shown him the ropes and he hoped to do the same for his teammates.
Whether freshman or senior, moving forward in the season, Trevor said the team will need to come together to reach their goals of becoming CCA champions, winning a conference tournament and hopefully making it to the NCAA tournament.
Trevor said the team has been incredibly strong within their defense, but they need to work on keeping a consistent energy throughout the game.
Two of the only three losses suffered by the Gators, out of 16 games so far, have been against rival teams California State University, Chico, and Division II number 11 ranked University of California, San Diego.
"They are tough, they are physical, they also have a lot of guys who have been in the conference for a long time," Trevor said.
With the Gators constant success, the team says the growing support for the team has helped them push forward.
"We've been having great crowds," Calcaterra said. "Students, alumni, everyone has been coming out and supporting and it just gives us life."
Among the alumni rooting for Gator success is Calcaterra's predecessor, Perdomo.
"I think it's awesome how good they are doing and to be ranked is something I didn't accomplish," alumni Perdomo said. "I really tip my hat off to the guys."
Though Trevor said the team's end goal of making NCAA Championships is within reach, the team is sticking by their motto and taking it "one game at a time."
The Gators will face off against the physically strong Stanislaus State University during Spirit Night on Friday at 7:30 p.m., and will return Saturday at 7:30 p.m. to host rivals Chico State.
Kahlon said that although the back-to-back games with such strong competitors will be difficult, he is not worried because Chico will be recovering from a game with Sonoma State University as well.
"Our conference is a bloodbath, anybody can beat anybody on any given night," Kahlon said.
One thing is for sure, much like the progression of the Warriors, the Gators' continuous growth and success has been entertaining to watch and has given hope to Gator fans.
"I really hope that they win it all , I would love to see that," Perdomo said.

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We're finally getting The Wild Body EP release we've all been waiting for. The cassette will come with quite a few versions of artwork to choose from, so if you find yourself a fan of their experimental post-punkcore dream rock (which you should be), you'll have your pick of the litter while supplies last, of course!
A bit of fun from Karaoke Star, the improv project from Cat Hoch and Bryson Cone, will be kicking off tonight's entertainment, with the gazey garage stylings of The Tamed West closing the night out.
Music starts at 9pm, so be sure to show up on time before the place packs up!
Saturday night, April 25 at Kelly's Olympian, The Deli Portland celebrates the winners of their Best Emerging Artist of 2014 poll - where local music industry insiders, tastemakers and listeners alike democratically elect their favorite new Portland artists. Headlining the night, 2014's poll winners The Domestics will croon their way through your ear and into your hearts with their lyrically-charged, heartfelt indie rock and roll reminiscent of the late Heatmiser. The fall of 2014 saw the release of their self-titled debut LP and made The Domestics an instant classic. Support by the folk tinged dream psych wizardry of Jackson Boone, and openers The Tamed West with their more upbeat reverb washed garage pop blend of psych rock. Doors at 8:30, 21+, $5 in advance or $7 at the door.
After a couple active years in the Portland music scene, this past March The Tamed West finally released a first piece of recorded music for listeners to enjoy in the form of a self-titled EP. Though short and sweet, The Tamed West EP boasts influential elements of early Surfer Blood and the late Gauntlet Hair with a heavy wash of reverb over simple yet dancable rhythms, thoughtful vocal melodies and twinkling guitar. The Tamed West claimed the fourth seat in The Deli Portland's 'Best Emerging Artist of 2014' poll, as voted by a jury of local music industry professionals and tastemakers as well as listeners alike. Keep an eye on The Tamed West in the coming years and expect great things.
June 13 - This Friday, underground Portland's favorite pshychedelic house of DIY, PALS Clubhouse, will host a night of experimental rock 'n roll worthy of popping those last few mushroom caps you've been holding onto for the right time. Headlining the night, electronic math rock trio Bearcubbin'! are sure to leave you with visual trails and echoes of looping guitar. Another power-trio, all the way out from Austin, Megafauna are on tour in support of their new album, Maximalist, with a more straight forward rock yet at times trippy feel. The Tamed West open the night, and although they currently only have one recorded track available for listening, they are sure to become a new favorite in Portland and beyond sooner than one may think. You'll be psyched you caught them for free when they were still opening shows.


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Q: Show that there is no analytic bijection from the unit disc to $\mathbb{C}$ Show that there is no analytic bijection from the unit disc to $\mathbb{C}$.
I am quite unsure how to proceed here. I know for a fact that there is no analytic function from $\mathbb{C}$ to the open disc by Louvilles theorem.
Suppose that $f$ is ideed an analytic bijection from the unit disc to $\mathbb{C}$. Then consider the map $g(z)=f(\frac{1}{z})$. Now $g$ is an analytic bijective function from $\mathbb{C}/\{0\}$ to $\mathbb{C}$. Can this be extended to a proof?

A: Denote unit disc as $\mathbb{D}$.
If there exists an analytical $\space f: \mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{D}$, then $f$ is a bounded entire function, and therefore by Liouville's theorem, $\space f$ is constant, so it cannot be a bijection.

A: First, you should know the following proposition:

If $f$ is analytic injection on a region $\Omega$, then its inverse function $f^{-1}:f(\Omega)\to\Omega$ is also injective and analytic.

(For a complete proof, see any book on complex analysis. Here is one possible outline:
[1] Show that $f'(z)\ne0$ for all $z\in\Omega$.
[2] Show that $f^{-1}$ is analytic, and $(f^{-1})'(w_0)=1/f'(z_0)$, where $w_0=f(z_0)$.)
Now, if there is an analytic bijection $f$ from the unit disk $U$ to $\mathbb{C}$, $f^{-1}$ is an analytic bijection from $\mathbb{C}$ to $U$. You have known it is impossible.

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The new dates for the 15th ANKIROS International Iron-Steel, Foundry, Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Technologies, Machinery and Products Trade Fair and the 9th TURKCAST International Foundry Products Trade Fair are 10-12th June 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the whole world, making domestic and international travel very difficult and it is preventing people from coming together. ANKIROS and TURKCAST shows are well-known gatherings of the global metallurgy industry and the last event in 2018 saw a high level of international participation, bringing over 17,000 visitors and 1,020 exhibitors together from 86 countries.
After consulting with exhibitors, industry associations, professional organisations, if ANKIROS and TURKCAST were to be held on the original dates in November 2020, it is believed that the expected number of visitors would not be able to be reached due to the COVID-19 pandemic and many international exhibitors would not be able to participate due to travel restrictions, therefore expectations would not be met. Being one of the most important events of the metallurgy sector for 30 years, the dates for the ANKIROS and TURKCAST shows have thus been changed to 10-12th June 2021, supported by the demand of the industry. Once the pandemic has subsided, the organisers will still retain the current arrangements and already planned precautions to ensure that the highest hygiene standards are met during the exhibition.
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Play-Doh has provided countless hours of fun and smiles to kids the world over. It even has it's own national holiday, September 16th! …But do you know its history? Sold originally as a wallpaper cleaner by inventor Joe McVicker, the malleable modeling compound quickly found small-town popularity after a teacher told McVicker that many of her students found modeling clay too difficult to work with.
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Once the 1980s hit, the Play-Doh product family had expanded to include more colors, glow-in-the-dark options, glitter-filled Play-Doh and even a library of fun scents. Recent estimates say that kids have played with 700 million pounds of Play-Doh to date.
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And rides... the trip to Vault 713 at Gringotts was practically a roller coaster ride in the book... wouldn't it make for an amazing subterranean amusement park ride? And imagine a Quidditch themed ride! And each challenge from the Tri-Wizard Tournament could have an attraction — I would love to see a huge maze!
There is a huge opportunity for them here, and a million things they could do. They probably won't do even a fraction of what my imagination demands, but even a little bit would be amazing. If Busch Gardens' pale reflection of Europe can bring Europe alive, and if Disney World's Animal Kingdom can make you feel like you're on the African Savanna, then Universal should be able to bring Harry Potter to life. Can you tell I'm excited?


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Tufts benefits from world-class departments of History of Art and Architecture, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies; from BFA and combined degree programs in its School of the Museum of Fine Arts; and from its special relationship with the New England Conservatory of Music, where Tufts students may pursue combined degrees or take classes. Outside of the curriculum, Tufts students are engaged in myriad fine and performing arts groups, many student-run, and are able to take advantage of opportunities to participate in music and artistic expression in some of the most beautiful performance halls and galleries in Boston.
With over 180 performances on campus every year, Tufts' vibrant music scene includes student-run a capella groups and bands, 16 performance ensembles, and classes open to all Tufts students regardless of prior experience. Student groups can practice in one of three sound-proof Wenger booths at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center. After practice, you can peer into rehearsals of the opera ensemble, the jazz band, the Indonesian gamelan housed in our World Music Room, or catch a chamber music master class. On campus, you'll find African drumming and dance, as well as Arabic and Jewish music – and then there's Boston itself, with opportunities as far reaching as the New England Conservatory and Jordan Hall, popular concerts at major venues like the Garden, and bands at the famous Paradise Rock Club. Some students may enroll in a combined degree program with the New England Conservatory.
Drama & Dance
Drama at Tufts includes both curricular and extracurricular opportunities. Every year there are three faculty-directed major productions, three student-directed major productions, and 12-15 workshop productions, in addition to faculty-taught courses in the major and minor. Pen, Paint & Pretzels, a.k.a. 3Ps, is Tufts' umbrella organization for student-run performing arts groups on campus. Other student groups include Bare Bodkin (dedicated to student-written work), Cheap Sox (an improvisational comedy troupe), Major: Undecided (a sketch comedy group), and Torn Ticket II (a musical theater group). Dance is similarly active, with seven or more performances each year, including the semester dance concerts, World Dance Night, and the student-run Tufts Dance Collective, Spirit of Color, Tufts Burlesque Troupe, and Sarabande Dance Ensemble.
Students interested in the fine arts at Tufts may delve into classes in the Department of Art and Art History, pursue a combined degree or Bachelor of Fine Arts at our School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and involve themselves with exhibits at the University Art Gallery, which features works by John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, among many others. Boston has an abundance of museums for the art lover: the Museum of Fine Arts is probably the best-known destination in Boston for viewing paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and other art objects from ancient times through the modern age. For a contemporary perspective, visit the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, or if you have more eclectic tastes, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum may be the place to explore.
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Tufts lecturer in music, Joel LaRue Smith, helped compose a musical that will make the audience think about issues of race, justice and bias.
Granoff Music Center
As part of the ongoing expansion and improvement at Tufts, the state-of-the-art Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center opened in February 2007. The impressive 55,000-square-foot facility features a 300-seat recital hall of broadcast and recording quality. In addition, it houses a music library, a world music room, rehearsal and private practice space, classrooms, and seminar space.
Aidekman Arts Center
At the center of Tufts' arts community is the impressive Aidekman Arts Center, which is home to an enormous exhibition space, a unique 220-seat round theater, a 600-seat multi-use auditorium, two dance studios and dozens of private music rooms, rehearsal spaces, and classrooms. Aidekman is the home to the Department of Drama and Dance and the University Art Gallery.


His characteristic charm and humor set the tone for our candid conversation about his theater career, his portrayal of the apostle Paul, and his diagnosis nearly a year ago. Before we launch into our official Q&A, he shows me 100 paper cranes sitting wheelchair-height beside him.
I quickly learn what Instagram has already told me — Christopher (also known as Chris and Topher) is comfortable talking about the discomfort of Lou Gehrig's disease and its inevitable outcome. And while that's true, he mostly wants to talk about now.
Chris is in his 15th year as a theater professor at UVU. He's directing "Betty Blue Eyes" at Hale Center Theater Orem. He's producing "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" for Sundance Summer Theater. He has five ambitious children (ages 9 to 18) all living at home. His comedian-actress wife just went viral with her second "Chatbooks" video. And he is taking his 12th annual trip to England with students this summer — "God willing," he adds.


GREETINGS PARENTS! When I was young, the popular tabletop roleplaying game, Dungeons and Dragons was formative in the development of my creativity, imagination, communication skills and confidence. NOW, I am very excited to be able to share those lessons and experiences with a new generation of eager adventurers.
This D&D Day Camp, developed in collaboration with Trinity Covenant Church of Livingston, NJ, is designed to cultivate exploration, collaboration and play in a welcoming and imaginative environment.
Using basic Dungeons and Dragons game mechanics as a foundation, students will be introduced to elements of theatre, drawing, painting, sculpture, writing and even a little math!
Participants will design and create characters, build props and models, and grow in confidence through collaborative storytelling and fun games.
The camp will be located at Trinity Covenant Church, 343 East Cedar St. Livingston NJ 07039.
The Camp will consist of 3 one-week sessions.


Plays for Two is a unique anthology of twenty-eight terrific plays for two actors, by a mix of celebrated playwrights and cutting-edge new voices. I had the pleasure of speaking with playwright Billy Aronson about his play Negotiation, his writing process, and upcoming work.
BILLY ARONSON: I started writing plays at 17 because I was in love, and it suddenly felt like all the things you say or do to express feelings weren't nearly enough.
JL: Tell me a little bit about your writing process. Do you have any writing rituals? Do you write in the same place or in different places?
JL: Can you tell me about the play that's being published in Plays for Two?
BA: "Negotiation" is about the way you have to package yourself to make a living. I wanted to explode that process as quickly and completely as possible.
JL: What excited you about being a part of this anthology?
BA: The script has never published before. I'm really excited that lots more people will be able to find it.
JL: What advice do you have for up-and-coming playwrights?
BA: Be proud of your weirdness.
JL: What next for you? Where can we follow your work?
BA: I've created an animated PBS kids show called Peg + Cat with artist Jennifer Oxley; we're in the middle of bringing our loopy universe to life. You can follow my work at "billyaronson.com".
It takes two to tango—or to perform a duet, fight a duel, or play ping-pong. The two-character play is dramatic confrontation stripped to its essence. These four full-length and twenty-four short plays feature pairs of every sort—strangers, rivals, parents and children, siblings, co-workers, friends, and lovers—swooning or sparring, meeting cute or parting ways. In a dizzying range of moods and styles, these two-handers offer the kind of meaty, challenging roles actors love, while providing readers and audiences with the pleasures of watching the complex give-and-take dynamics of two keenly matched characters.


I think the overall point for this article is to follow up on something I mentioned at the end of a previous post. The notion that talent is blind.
The message I want to communicate: hire the best possible person for the job. Talent does not discriminate based off of taste, gender, race, geographic location, or even age.
People are afraid to hire unique candidates. Unique, meaning candidates that are different, or in my case, younger, than the typical applicant. This is particularly relevant to me, an 18 year old college student.
I think — often times — people do not even look at what I have to offer or the intent of my message. There's a reason I took my intended graduation date out of my email signature.
But, there are people who take chances on unique talent (young talent).
The Opportunity: This is a chance to accelerate an individual's potential 10, maybe 100X.
Next time you see an application or an email from someone out of the ordinary — take 2 seconds and read it. It may not be a waste of time.
Thanks for reading! I am Jordan Gonen: I love helping people solve hard problems.
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All winter youth hockey players must pay a fundraising fee in addition to registration fees. The purpose of this fee is to keep registration costs affordable for players, by allowing families to "work off" the fundraising amount. Families must submit a post-dated fundraising check when they register, which will be returned at the end of the season once their fundraising is fulfilled. All house players at the Mite level and above have a $150 fee. Travel fees vary by age, which is listed on the Winter Travel Program page. There is no family discount for fundraising, and if families have a mix of travel and house players, each player is charged accordingly.
Families can either pay the entire amount at registration or add the amount onto their registration payment plan. In families with multiple players, the family can choose to buy-out of each player separately.
Players earn 50% of each item they sell or buy. Check out the WYR youth hockey collection and download an order form. Forms are also available in the skate shop. Orders are due November 23 and will be delivered before Christmas. Customers must each complete an order form and pay with cash or check. After November 23, apparel will be stocked in the skate shop for general purchase.
Families can earn between 37–50% of their sales (depends on total amount sold) in fundraising credit. Order forms are available in Glacier Ice Rink's skate shop. Sales take place between November 8 and 22 and paid orders are due by November 25. Cookie dough will be available for pick up ONLY on December 6.
Families earn between 45 and 50% from coffee and caramel sales. Download an order form or pick one up in the skate shop. Order forms and payment are due January 25 and orders will be distributed February 10-14.
Scrip is gift card fundraising in which families purchase gift cards through an online program and Missoula Youth Hockey receives a rebate. Gift cards are available for more than 750 major retailers and allow families to raise money simply by using them for every day purchases such as gas and groceries.
Visit the ShopWithScrip website and click on the "Join a Program" button to enroll. The Missoula Youth Hockey enrollment code is FE4C17E21496L. You will need your bank account information to set up an account. The rebate percentage each retailer offers is the amount you will earn. For example, the Albertson's rebate is 4%, so you would earn $4 toward your fundraising with a $100 purchase.
If you have any questions regarding the program or an existing order, please contact Brooke Krininger, Scrip Coordinator.
Solicit a sponsor for your child's youth hockey team or sell a tournament sponsorship and you'll earn half the amount sold. Team sponsorships are $300 or $600 and tournament sponsorships range from $175–$625. You may also sell a Glacier Ice Rink advertisement and receive 25% of the ad's cost (ads range from $425–$2,200). Sponsorships must be committed by November 1. See the Youth Hockey Sponsorship Opportunities form for details, or contact Laura Henning if you have a prospective sponsor, but aren't comfortable asking yourself.
Scorekeeping, running the clock or manning the penalty boxes for all non-tournament games held at Glacier Ice Rink. Each player/parent is responsible for submitting their hours to the fundraising coordinator.
Helping the Equipment Coordinator or Fundraising Coordinator.
Serving as Coordinator for the following activities: Safe Sport, Equipment, Scrip, Jerseys or Pictures.
Serving on the Youth Hockey Committee. The Youth Hockey Committee secretary will keep track of meeting attendance and turn in hours to the Fundraising Coordinator.
Coaching a house or travel team. Coaches must track their hours and report their hours monthly to the Fundraising Coordinator. Only on-ice and dryland training time can be counted; travel time does not count.
Acting as travel team manager. Managers will have the fundraising fee waived only for their player on the team that they manage.
Working the concession stand during Bruins games or as a skate guard during public skates (applies to youth players ages 16 and older).
The fundraising year runs from April 1 through March 31 of each hockey year. Volunteer hours worked after March 31 can be applied to the following season's obligation. Volunteer hours must be self-reported within 10 days of the end of each quarter (March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31) via the volunteer hours reporting form.
Please contact Lisa Lee, Fundraising Coordinator with any questions. In order to receive information about new fundraising events, please make sure we have a valid email address on file for your family.


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Interior Monologue as Social Critique in James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
Anna Travis
James Kelman's use of interior monologue, in his novel How Late It Was, How Late, portrays a consciousness enacting Althusser's modern state paradox: a contradiction within the subject between the ideology of free subjectivity and the reality of subjection. Protagonist Sammy Samuel's displays this contradiction when readers are thrown into his private voice of 'free' subjectivity, railing against the voices of social subjection. His interior monologue becomes a stoic core and autonomous realm, a direct, free-form inner voice, reacting to the sensory disorientation of blindness and confronting bureaucratic voices who refuse to 'officially' recognize his sight loss. Interior monologue potentially gives voice to oppressed subjects, but something more commanding is at work here. The 'inner space' in this fiction constructs a terrain for the dialectics of authenticity to fully inhabit. Sammy's autonomy, his motivation by rational principle, lies in his rejection of the welfare system, to whom he is a phase in a bureaucratic process. His interior monologue becomes an 'authentic' truth, addressed to the self in an idiolect that appears uncontaminated by social obligation or public expression.
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COVID-19 continues to spread through Clemson athletics
By Will Vandervort June 25, 2020 7:06 pm Follow	@steelerwill
By Will Vandervort | June 25, 2020 7:06 pm	Follow @steelerwill
The Clemson Insider has been following the Clemson Athletic Department as it continues to monitor the safety of its student-athletes as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit the Clemson area and all of the Upstate of South Carolina.
As most of you know, Clemson Athletics has officially reported 28 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus since June 12. TCI has learned through several sources over the last few days that there are new confirmed cases of the coronavirus this week.
As of Thursday afternoon, we were told Clemson was still waiting on some test results which were administer later in the week. We were told the athletic department is hopeful to put out a new report on Friday.
TCI has learned some of the new confirmed cases are football players, but not all of them. We were also told non-football student-athletes tested positive for the virus as well. We have confirmed that some of those are from the volleyball program. Members of the football team, the men's and women's basketball teams, the men's and women's soccer teams and the volleyball team have all been tested since June 8.
TCI was told not every student-athlete was tested this week. As we reported in our Insider Report on Monday, there was a good portion of the football team that tested on Monday. We also learned members of the volleyball team and the men's soccer team were tested earlier in the week and the women's soccer team was tested Thursday morning.
Clemson announced it had 25 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 last Friday. Most of the total cases have been asymptomatic, and none have required hospitalization. As community transmission continues throughout the Clemson area and the state of South Carolina, it is advised that individuals monitor for symptoms.
TCI was told 23 of the 25 cases last week were a part of the football team, including 21 players. The other two were staff members. In all, 25 of the 28 officially reported who have tested positive have come from the football program, including two players that were reported on June 12.
Clemson has isolated each of those individuals who tested positive for a period of at least 10 days. Close known contacts have also been asked to self-quarantine for at least 14 days.
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NASCAR Isn't The Only Event at NHMS
NHMS is Ready for a Very Busy Event Season Outside of its July and September NASCAR Weekends.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway is already buzzing with the roar of motorcycles, the squeals of tires and the hum of engines of all kinds. The property also serves as the location for bicycle rides, a 5K and Boy Scout Jamboree.
"Many people think we're just NASCAR," started David McGrath, New Hampshire Motor Speedway's executive vice president and general manager, "but there are so many other exciting events happening every single week from the first weekend in April straight through October. There's always something on the track or somewhere on our property to come out and see with your family."
The 2018 season opened with the BMW Club of America - White Mountain Chapter holding a meet. They provide members with the opportunity to meet other BMW lovers and to improve their enjoyment of and education in their ultimate driving machines. Check out the Boston chapter when they're at NHMS May 19, June 2, Aug. 29 and Sept. 15.
The Sunapee Racing Team, a New England-based cycling team, holds their races at NHMS every Thursday, now - Sept. 13, with the exception of June 14 and July 19. They participate in and promote the sport of competitive cycling with a keen emphasis on its long term viability and growth.
Club Loose keeps drifting alive in New Hampshire as they lay down rubber with their signature style. Everyone comes to Club Loose events for one thing - to have a blast! See their tires slide across the pavement April 28-29, May 12-13 and 26-27, June 30- July 1, July 28-29, Aug. 18-19, Sept. 8-9 and 29-30 and October 27-28.
New Hampshire's fastest racing on two wheels returns to NHMS when the Loudon Road Race Series kicks off April 28 and 29. The LRRS features seven weekends of Championship Cup Series motorcycle racing on the 1.6-mile road course. Over the years, LRRS has developed a reputation for having some of the closest and most intense racing on two wheels. The series will continue May 19-20, June 15-17, July 7-8, Aug. 18-19, Sept. 8-9 and Sept. 29-30.
Teams of college students from all over the world will come to NHMS April 29-May 3 for the annual Formula Hybrid competition. They'll build hybrid cars with the overall competition being an endurance race.
The 28th annual New Hampshire D.A.R.E. Classic 5k Road Race returns to NHMS on May 4. This family-friendly event features a one-mile fun run for the kids followed by a 5k road race for the adults. Bring your family to take part or cheer on the participants while enjoying demonstrations by the New Hampshire State Police K9 Unit, Drill Team, Aviation Unit and Motorcycle Unit, and you can also get your face painted and meet Daren the D.A.R.E. Lion.
The Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of America will host their triennial jamboree May 4-6. This event will bring together Scouts, Scouters and families from throughout New Hampshire and neighboring states for a weekend of fun, adventure and excitement as they take part in repelling, mountain biking, kayaking, backpacking, camping, signaling and more.
NHMS's McGrath will join former NASCAR driver and NBC Sports racing analyst Kyle Petty as he revs up his Charity Ride Across America for the 24th year in a row. The Ride will start in Portland, Maine on May 5 and end in Greensboro, N.C. on May 11, Petty will lead 225 participants through nine states in seven days. The Ride will travel 1,200 miles to raise funds and awareness for Victory Junction - a camp dedicated to providing life-changing camping experiences for children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses.
For full schedule and ticket information on all 2018 events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, including the July 20-22 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race weekend and the September 21-22 Full Throttle Fall Weekend, please stop by the ticket office, visit the speedway website at www.NHMS.com, or call Fan Relations at (603) 783-4931.
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The Chapel's Short-Term Missionary program gives spiritual and financial support to recent college graduates who want to serve a global or US ministry for up to two years.
"I went to UVA and was part of a fellowship that offered spring break trips. I'm still not sure why I chose to take a trip to Granada, Spain. [Laughs] I don't know Spanish! But, while I was there, the Lord showed up in major ways. He taught me about Missions work and exposed me to the lostness of Spain.
During that trip, the Lord also planted a strong desire in my heart to return. That's what led me back after graduation to work with a Christian organization for university students called Raíces.
Growing up, I would hear about different mission trips and people would always describe the number of people who came to know the Lord. At my church in Spain, there were only 12 people. I learned that missions work takes a long time, and you can't just focus on numbers.
People move through phases of belief from complete distrust, to trust, to curiosity, to wanting to know more, to putting their faith in Jesus. The whole process might take years. I learned that helping people move from one threshold to the next might be what God is calling us to do.
While I was there, I met up regularly with a friend named Carmen who was a native of Spain. She said that she grew up in a school run by nuns, and this influenced her thoughts about God. She was apathetic toward faith because she felt like she'd tried everything she could to get closer to God. I was able to relate and share that the Gospel is about the love God has for us, not about what we can do for God. I could tell that God was working through that conversation.
It may seem ironic, but I also learned to trust God more deeply while I was in Spain. I had some medical issues while I was there. Because I didn't know Spanish, I had to invite the other team members to help me. I shared more than I ever thought I would have to share. Coming to realize how much I depended on them, the Lord showed me how much more I should depend on Him. The language barrier taught me to surrender my beliefs about what I could do or understand on my own.
Check back soon for an update from Courtney Whitehead, one of our mission partners serving in Southeast Asia! To learn more about our Short-Term Missions program, email Wes White, Missions Pastor, .


From young British workers' numeracy skills being ranked at the bottom of the OECD to the growing proportion of students failing their maths GCSEs, it's not difficult to find evidence that Britain is struggling to teach kids maths. Fortunately, Mathnasium, the American maths-tutoring franchise, hopes to help solve the problem by rolling out its operations across Blighty.
However, this is not the first country that the franchise has expanded to since opening its first centre in California in 2002. "While it hasn't been in the UK, the franchisor has over 15 years of franchising experience," says Steve Felmingham, director of UK operations at Mathnasium. Indeed, before it began to look into expanding the model into Britain back in 2015, the company had already opened centres in places like Vietnam, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia. Nevertheless, entering Britain would prove particularly difficult. "They needed to do a lot more work to adapt to the UK," he says. "While the other countries had quite similar curriculums to America, Britain was a harder country to enter because it has a much older educational system." For instance, this meant that the franchise had to make sure to do things like using the correct terms according to the British curriculum and pay special attention to the skills required to ace a GCSE exam. Adjusting the model took some effort but by November 2016 Mathnasium was ready to take the next step.
All the franchisor needed was someone to spearhead the UK operations. Luckily, Felmingham would prove to be the perfect candidate for the job. "I've worked as a bfa-accredited consultant for a long time and my role has been to help launch new businesses in the UK," he says. For instance, he's assisted companies like Mac Tools build up their UK operations. Additionally, he's clocked time over the past 20 years as a franchisee, franchisor and master franchisee. "So my experience would fit very well," Felmingham says.
Even though his curiosity was certainly piqued, Felmingham made sure to do his due diligence before accepting the role. "While they had over 870 franchisees worldwide, I needed to understand how supported and successful they were," he says. So before signing on the dotted line, Felmingham read the company's franchise disclosure document to find out how financially strong the business was and how the model worked. But the thing that finally convinced him was reading parents' feedback about Mathnasium. "That was one of the key factors for me," he says. "Parents around the world all said that while Mathnasium first appears to be more expensive than similar franchises, its results create a better value for the money. The system works." Having convinced himself of the company's strengths, Felmingham happily agreed to help Mathnasium successfully make the jump across the pond.
Finding the right spots is particularly challenging as not all locations are suitable for Mathnasium's teaching centres. "It's a key piece of the model," says Felmingham. "We have detailed data of every street in the UK regarding how many people live there, how many children there are, what ages they are and what their household income is." Striking this balance between having the right number of kids and parents with a good income is essential for the success of the centre. "Parents don't need to be millionaires but we're not going into low-income areas," says Felmingham. Having looked at the data, the franchise believes that there are only 200 places around the country would be suitable for the teaching centres.
However, no franchise is complete without franchisees. Recognising this fact, this summer Felmingham kicked off an extensive marketing campaign to attract budding entrepreneurs to come and join the UK network. "We probably used every marketing channel there is," he says. To spread the news, Mathnasium advertised on several franchise portals, in magazines, websites and on social media. "And on top of that we did a lot of shows," Felmingham says. "So far we've done one in Birmingham and one in Manchester and we'll be going to London in February." And it's safe to say that these efforts have paid off: the franchise has received over 600 inquiries to date.
But not all aspiring franchisees will be successful as Mathnasium is only looking for candidates of the highest calibre. "We are looking for people who are professional, smart and friendly," Felmingham says. And given that franchisees will often end up dealing with parents that are distressed because their kids are struggling with maths, it's hardly surprising that they need to meet a friendly face when they walk into the teaching centre. "Another skill we look for is that they can manage their teams and make sure they get the best out of their employees," says Felmingham.
Given these requirements, it's easy to see why not everyone will be able to join the company. The lucky few that do will benefit from Mathnasium's rigorous franchise training. "It's quite extensive," says Felmingham. For starters, franchisees have to go through 50 hours of online training before even setting foot in a centre. Following that they'll receive a week's worth of training with Felmingham and his colleagues. Additionally, they will get the opportunity to familiarise themselves with Mathnasium's teaching model at one of the teaching centres. "It's pretty intense and they do have to be signed off on each of these stages before they can proceed," says Felmingham.
Given the benefits of joining the franchise, it's easy to see why the franchisor's extensive recruitment efforts have already borne fruit. "Our first franchisee was recruited a month ago," Felmingham says. This first trailblazer is set to open her own centre in January. However, she won't be the only one for long. Not only does Mathnasium have two more franchisees signed up and more than ten others waiting to get validated, the company also has more prospective franchises in the pipeline. "We plan to have 200 centres open in five years," says Felmingham.
And if you add up all the preparations it has made and the number of prospective franchisees who've signed up so far, it certainly seems as if Mathnasium can boost British students' numeracy and climb the OECD ranking again.


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John Crossland.--The death on September 26th of Crossland--at one time the most talked-of bowler in England--recalled a very lively controversy that disturbed the cricket world in the eighties. A Nottingham man by birth, Crossland qualified for Lancashire by residence, and appeared first for the county in 1878. Three years later, when Lancashire stood at the head of the counties, he began to assert himself, and in 1882 he was beyond doubt the most effective fast bowler in England. His pace was tremendous, and even the best batsmen rather dreaded him. Outside Lancashire, however, his delivery was generally condemned, the majority of experts having no hesitation in describing him as a rank thrower. But for this feeling as to his action he would in all probability have been picked for England in the memorable match at the Oval when the Australians--thanks to Spofforth and Boyle--won by seven runs. Crossland was passed by the umpires, but all through the season of 1882 his bowling was the subject of discussion, among those who thought him unfair being Thomas Horan and other members of the Australian eleven. At the same time there were other Lancashire bowlers who did not escape criticism, and the upshot was that Middlesex in 1883 and Notts in 1884 declined to make fixtures with Lancashire. Naturally, a great deal of ill-feeling was aroused, and on one occasion at the Oval a demonstration against Crossland so enraged Mr. Hornby that he was with difficulty persuaded to finish the match. The climax of the controversy was reached in 1885, when Kent, after appearing at Manchester, refused to play their return match with Lancashire on the ground that that county employed unfair bowlers. In taking this step Kent were guided by their captain, Lord Harris, who explained his position in a letter to the Lancashire committee. So far as Crossland was concerned the quarrel suddenly came to an end on a different issue altogether, it being ruled by the M. C. C.--after full inquiry--that by living in Notts during the winter he had broken his qualification, and had no longer any right to play for Lancashire. This ended his career in first-class cricket, but he continued to play in small matches, and only gave up the game about four years ago.
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As it is reported, the collection will be called One Less Lonely Girl and will include six nail polish colors such as : One Less Lonely Glitter (Pale Purple), Prized Possession Purple (Grape), Give Me The First Dance (Silver), Me + Blue (Metallic Blue), O.M.B! (Metallic Red), and Step 2 the Beat of My Heart (Heart-Shaped Specks).
The collection will hit the stores starting December, so enough puzzling over gifts. Thanks God, we have Justin Bieber!


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Q: How can i use a new stream after closing connection without restarting application I have a C# application that allows user to : open connection / Do things .. / Close Connection In a windows form .
Problem : When close connection and open again (without restarting app) , I have this erroe : An unhandled exception of type 'System.ObjectDisposedException' occurred in System.dll
Additional information: Cannot access a disposed object.
When trying to SendData , The stream is disposed and can never be used again . What is the best way to use a new stream without restarting the app.
Code is hereC# stream

A: See the documentation. Closing a stream will also Dispose them; you have to create a new one.


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Q: How to dynamically create a menu bar based on JSON using Angular Material? I am trying to create a menu bar recursively using Angular Material Menu Bar directive, but the result is not being as expected. The best solution I have so far is to create a directive and call it recursively, like shown here: https://plnkr.co/edit/5pFmmD6K3qz5qolRifVA. Notice that there are two menu bars in this Plunker. The first is created with my recursive structure from a JSON and the second is written directly on the template. The problem with my solution happens when there are nested menus like "Lorem -> Dolor -> ...", as the nested menus are not being aligned correctly.
Inspecting the generated code on Chrome, I notice that the nested menu in the second menu bar (written directly on template) has some properties regarding its nest state:
<md-menu md-position-mode="cascade"
    class="md-nested-menu md-menu ng-scope"
    md-nest-level="1">
...
</md-menu>

while the same menu in the first menu bar doesn't:
<md-menu ng-if="ctrl.isCompoundedMenuItem()" class="md-menu ng-scope">
...
</md-menu>

What can I do to fix this?

Just adding an information: I have already tried an approach using ng-include to create the menu bar, but the result was terribly worse.

A: I was able to solve the problems with the menu behaviour by setting the attributes and classes mentioned in the question "manually" in the directive template, like this:
<md-menu ng-if="ctrl.isCompoundedMenuItem()"
         md-position-mode="cascade"
         class="md-nested-menu"
         md-nest-level="{{ ::nestLevel }}">

Where nestLevel is in the isolated scope and is incremented on every new level:
<md-menu-content class="md-menu-bar-menu md-dense">
   <my-menu-item ng-repeat="item in menu.items" menu="item"
                 nest-level="{{ ::(nestLevel + 1) }}"></my-menu-item>
</md-menu-content>

Starting by 1, naturally:
<md-menu-bar ...>
   ...
   <md-menu-content>
      <my-menu-item ng-repeat="item in menu.items" menu="item"
                    nest-level="1"></my-menu-item>
   </md-menu-content>
</md-menu-bar>

The updated plunker can be seen here: https://plnkr.co/edit/QBjeR2hZFKsJ88Hl4ptG.

A: Sometimes we want to specify alignment on the right side of an element, for example if we have a menu on the right side a toolbar, we want to right align our menu content.
We can specify the origin by using the md-position-mode attribute on both the x and y axis. Right now only the x-axis has more than one option. You may specify the default mode of target target or target-right target to specify a right-oriented alignment target. See the position section of the demos for more examples.
  <md-menu ng-if="ctrl.isCompoundedMenuItem()" md-position-mode="target-right target">

OR
It is sometimes unavoidable to need to have a deeper level of control for the positioning of a menu to ensure perfect alignment. md-menu provides the md-offset attribute to allow pixel level specificty of adjusting the exact positioning.
This offset is provided in the format of x y or n where n will be used in both the x and y axis.
For example, to move a menu by 2px from the top, we can use:
       <md-menu ng-if="ctrl.isCompoundedMenuItem()" md-offset="120 0">

mdMenu API Documentation


Al Rihla: Sheikh Mohammed Al Arefe: For the Sake of the Syrian People…Or for the Demise of Shiites?
Sheikh Mohammed Al Arefe: For the Sake of the Syrian People…Or for the Demise of Shiites?
The Saudi Arabian Sheikh Mohammed Al Arefe, often known to many in the West as the Sheikh who teaches Muslim men how to "properly beat their Wives" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAYU_XN6DE), and to many Bahrainis and Saudis of the Eastern province as the Shia hater (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONd1oXIiZqA) now has a new identity among many Muslims, as the defender of the Syrian people.
Al Arefe was never much of a supporter of the people of the Arab Spring, keeping much in line with the Saudi governments political positions. He kept mostly quiet during the Tunisian, Egyptian, Yemeni and Libyan uprisings, and was clearly quick to denounce the Bahrain uprising (Bahrain having a Shia majority with a Sunni regime). Yet the Sheikh seemed to suddenly develop a "revolutionary" spirit in light of the Syrian situation. All the while, people in his own country, in the Eastern province of Qatif were being shot down by Saudi forces. The major question is how could a man with such a hateful discourse towards the oppressed Shia minority in his own nation, suddenly turn into a humanitarian?
Al Arefe reveals his own intentions and worry through his own account of his interaction with the interrogator. His major fear and goal in Syria seems not to be that innocent Syrian lives are being slaughtered and killed by the thousands, but he fears that Shia and Iran will attack in some way, and sees this as the perfect opportunity to fight the Shia of whom he so scornfully despises; a face much more fitting of the man with the hateful discourse, than that of the humanitarian.
Take his money Syria, and do all you can to help your people. But dear people, don't be fooled once again by a little Saudi money, into praising this man and claiming he is a humanitarian.


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Why did One of Jewish Cultures Most Important (but not named in the Bible) Influences Die?
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Who is that Influence? Why Alexander the Great, of course. Why was he such an important influence on the development of Judaism (and later on an influence on early Christianity)?
Because he conquered much of West Asia and opened the way for Hellenic (Greek) culture to influence both Judaism and early Christianity.
So what killed this relatively young man? Previous theories often saw alcoholic poisoning as the likely reason.
But Dr Katherine Hall, ( A senior Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine NZ and a practising clinician) claims that the most likely explanation, is that Alexander died as a result of a neurological disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).
DR Hall collected all the extant ancient information on Alexander's death and argues that GBS offers the best explanation.
You can read the abstract for her paper in the current bulletin of The Ancient History Bulletin. If you want to read the full paper, it will cost you $1 (its an Open Access Journal)
Abstract: "The most striking feature of Alexander the Great's death is that, despite being extremely unwell, he was reported to have remained compos mentis until just before his death. Combined with evidence that he developed a progressive, symmetrical, ascending paralysis, it is argued that he died from a sub-type of the autoimmune disorder, Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), most likely induced from a Campylobacter pylori infection. GBS could also account for the reported lack of decay of his body, and his death may be the most famous case of pseudothanatos, or false diagnosis of death, ever recorded.""
https://ancienthistorybulletin.org/
Of course, we will likely never really be able to confirm what killed Alexander, but GBS seems to fit.
Footnote: If Alexander had not conquered West Asia, those young Levites ( in Maccabean times) in the temple, may not have wanted to get naked at the local Greek gymnasium or try to disguise their circumcised penises. Greek may not have been spoken by any early christians, And Paul may not have decided that he could get better results from preaching to gentiles than to Jews.
Excellent posting thankyou.
There was a time when the wt gave much attention to A T G,.. yet history tells us he was homosexual. So is this another example of sweep under the rug something the wt wishes to.?
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One other notable person who is thought to have suffered GBS was Franklin Roosevelt.
At the time, FDR was diagnosed as having polio. However, it is now thought more likely that what left him paralysed from the waist down was Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Of course, like Alexander the Great, nobody will ever know for sure. The only way to have been certain that Roosevelt's illness was polio would have been for a sample of his spinal fluid to have been tested. That was never done - and of course, never will be done!
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Mono Vampire Bangkok (TBL) signed 26-year old naturalized American small forward Moses Morgan (198-101kg-92, college: CS Fullerton). He played last season at Saigon Heat in Vietnamese VBA league. In 19 ASEAN League games he had very impressive stats: 17.8ppg, 7.1rpg, 2.0apg and 1.4spg.
The list of the past achievements is quite long as among others Morgan's team made it to the Thailand TBSL Semifinals in 2017. He was also voted Asia-Basket.com All-ASEAN League Honorable Mention in 2016.
Morgan has played previously for Thailand team Mad Goat.
He attended California State University, Fullerton until 2015 and it will be his fourth season as a professional player.


A symbol of close Sino-Singapore ties and an architectural marvel, Raffles City Chongqing is on track to be completed in phases from 2018.
CapitaLand President and Group CEO Mr Lim Ming Yan (left) gives Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (right) an update on the progress of Raffles City Chongqing.
Singapore's largest single development in China is on track for phased completion from 2018 — this update was shared with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong when he visited the site of CapitaLand's Raffles City Chongqing in southwest China in September 2016. The mega integrated development is strategically located on the Chao Tian Men site in Yuzhong District, at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, and is highly regarded as the crown jewel of Chongqing.
Raffles City Chongqing will comprise a shopping mall and eight towers for residential, office, serviced residence and hotel use. Structural works are now underway, after site excavation was completed following the development's groundbreaking in September 2012.
The 1.12 million sqm megastructure, which costs RMB24 billion (about S$4.9 billion), features architectural breakthroughs and cutting-edge science and building technology, making Raffles City Chongqing one of the biggest engineering marvels being built in the world today.
From advanced district cooling systems, composite outrigger design, innovative structural seismic design to the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM), CapitaLand has deployed numerous award-winning innovations and new technologies to advance its construction and to increase efficiency during the planning, design and construction stages.
Designed by internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the integrated development draws inspiration from the region's thousand years of waterway transportation culture and takes the form of powerful sails upon the river, symbolising a great city surging forward.
A distinctive architectural feature is the 13,000 sqm The Conservatory. Wrapped in a 300m translucent glass structure, it links four of the eight towers and will house a viewing deck, an infinity sky pool and notable F&B; establishments, offering stunning views of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers. The 250m tall structure, which stands approximately 400m above sea level, also adds value in the practical sense — it employs the innovative use of seismic bearings to stabilise the development and protect it in the unfortunate event of an earthquake.
In addition to its architectural and engineering breakthroughs, Raffles City Chongqing also leads the way in sustainability. It has been accorded the LEED-CS (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Core & Shell) pre-certification at the Gold Level by the United States Green Building Council. LEED is a green building certification programme that recognises best-in-class building strategies and practices, and Raffles City Chongqing is Chongqing's largest development to receive the Gold certification.
Its sustainable measures include optimising shade to reduce heat, using a high efficiency irrigation system to conserve water, recycling construction waste, using building materials with recycled content, and installing carbon dioxide sensors at office areas with fresh air control. CapitaLand has also partnered Singapore Power to provide an advanced district cooling system for the integrated development, which will generate substantial energy savings and utility cost avoidance.
CapitaLand has eight Raffles City developments in China, each an emblem of their host cities' economic transformation, and enablers to catalyse their respective areas' growth potential. The Raffles City brand, synonymous with a 'city within a city' concept, is one of the winning formulas throughout CapitaLand's extensive portfolio.


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Youth Team Goals vs York City
Click on the link above to view goals from the youth team's 3-2 victory away at York City last Tuesday.
Youth Team Sign off in Style
The youth team rounded off their EFL Youth Alliance North East campaign with a 3-2 victory away at York City this afternoon.
Youth Team in Season Finale Tomorrow
The youth team play their final match of the season tomorrow (Tuesday), when they travel to York City for an EFL Youth Alliance North East fixture, 11am.
Youth Team in Action on Saturday
The youth team return to EFL Youth Alliance North East action on Saturday, when they take on York City, 11am.
Academy Fixtures with York City This Sunday
Information for academy players and parents ahead of the matches with York City this Sunday, February 18.
Academy Fixtures with York City This Sunday, December 3
Information for academy players and parents about the fixtures with York City this Sunday, December 3.
Youth Team Back in Action on Saturday
Following their impressive 2-1 victory over Port Vale in the FA Youth Cup second round on Tuesday, the youth team return to EFL Youth Alliance North East action on Saturday, when they face York City...


Today we live in an API economy and everything is moving into a service paradigm. Product companies are slowly gearing up to this change. With the rapid adoption of cloud computing, it's an open war and APIs are your Lightsaber weapon. When you create an API, you invite developers to become your customers. So just as you spend the time, money and effort to provide the best user experience through user interface design, you should expend a similar effort to provide the best possible developer experience through API design.


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Value of indexa Global rankb Regional rankc
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a Out of 10. b Out of 82 countries. c Out of 17 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE, Angola, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
South Africa edges up to 48th in the business environment rankings for 2022-26. Deteriorations in some areas, such as the macroeconomic environment (because of sluggish growth, sky-high unemployment and fragile global conditions) are offset by improvements in others, including market opportunities and trade policy. Major business challenges include stricter competition rules, restrictive labour laws and compliance with black economic empowerment rules. Plans for expropriation without compensation, to speed up land reform, are unsettling, but overall risks to property rights are low. Supporting factors include a sound banking system, opportunities for public-private partnerships and a dynamic technology sector.
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A radical new kind of airship funded by the US military is about to make its first test flight - and it looks uncannily like the Thunderbird 2 craft from the classic TV show.
The Aeroscraft airship will carry three times as much as the biggest military cargo planes over thousands of miles, use a third of the fuel, and it doesn't even need a landing strip.
It could also have major implications for cargo haulage, and almost everything now laboriously transported across the planet's surface by boat, train and lorry could within years be carried through the skies, its makers claim.
California-based aviation firm Aeros, with heavy backing from the U.S. military, has been developing their revolutionary Aeroscraft for several years, and they say the airship is now in its final stages.
They have built a prototype which they hope will finally prove the concept works in practice and allow them to fine tune their systems.
At 77m (250ft) in length, it is just half the size of the final model, but has been built with the same rigid structure, flight control systems and landing gear.
Now all that needs to be done is for it to demonstrate the vertical take-off and landing that will make possible the point-to-point delivery features that will make it perfect for the commercial market.
The finished version of the Aeroscraft - expected to be ready in three years - will carry a payload of 66 tons at a speed of 120 knots, upto 18,000ft with a range of 3000 nautical miles.
That could revolutionise air transport, opening up remote areas where there is practically no other means of access.
It could carry relief supplies for victims in disaster areas, heavy oil-extraction equipment to northern Canada's tar sands, huge turbines to remote wind farms and, of course, heavy military equipment to battlefields worldwide.
The key breakthrough has been the development of an internal system for managing ballast.
Previous airships have been held back by the need to weigh them down or tie them up while cargo is unloaded, lest they are suddenly carried away on the breeze.
But the Aeroscraft's internal ballast management system gives its operators the ability to control the aircraft's buoyancy by compressing the helium inside its tanks to make it heavier than air and bring down to the ground.
Once cargo has been loaded, the airship can rise by re-releasing the compressed helium into its containment tanks, making it again lighter than air, then using turbo-prop engines to control its diretion.
Because of this revolutionary system, Aeroscraft needs no airfield to operate, only a cleared area large enough for it to vertically take off and land, and enough labour on hand to unload the cargo.
The airship has long been known as a 'dream machine' for visionary inventors.
Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin built the first airship in 1900 as a weapon for Germany. The 'Graf Zeppelin' was developed by Dr Hugo Eckener, who flew it around the world in 21 days in 1929.
This powerful symbol of German might was adopted by the Nazis, who funded the creation of the largest airship yet, the Hindenburg.
However, on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg burst into flames on a trip to the US, having been filled with patriotic German hydrogen instead of American helium.
But Ukrainian-born Mr Pasternak says that his design for a rigid airship is miles apart from the disastrous versions of the early 20th Century.
He told Gizmag: 'From the structure stand point, all of us are familiar with the Hindenburg and Zeppelin designs.
'This is different. We built a space frame that sits inside of the vehicle and around the frame we built a rigid cell. The function of the rigid cell is to have it work with the aerodynamic laws. It's a very simple approach.
The U.S. military has been a key player in the development of the Aeroscraft, with the Pentagon and Nasa giving Aeros a total of $36million towards its research.
'Without the initial funding of the Ministry of Defence it would not be possible to bring such a project to roll,' Mr Pasternak told FT Deutschland.
Accordingly, the first operational versions have already been earmarked for 'intra-theatre airlift', Defense Transportation Journal reports, with each carrying the payload of three C-130 transport planes, but with the fuel cost of just one.


The Firm assists individuals and companies seeking to relocate to Nevada. As Nevada presents an extremely tax friendly climate for both individuals and businesses, it has become attractive for many to relocate their residence or corporate operations to Nevada. Nevada's Constitution prohibits the imposition of an individual income tax and Nevada levies no taxes whatsoever on corporate profits. Along with being a tax friendly climate, Nevada is a premier location for business operations. Nevada provides enhanced flexibility to corporate directors and managers to accomplish business objectives all while providing enhanced personal liability protection.


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Barker Bill's Trick Shooting é um jogo lançado em 1990 exclusivamente para o Nintendinho, sendo um dos poucos jogos compatíveis com a pistola de luz Nintendo Zapper. O jogo nada mais é que uma pequena gincana de tiro ao alvo comandado por um bigodudo e sua assistente de bikini.

Uma curiosidade sobre este jogo é: Aproveitando-se da popularidade do Duck Hunt Dog, do jogo Duck Hunt lançado 4 anos antes, a Nintendo utilizou este personagem neste jogo, dando a opção para o player de baleá-lo.

Recepção
Allgame deu a nota of 3.5 de 5, e a revista Game Freaks 365 deu uma nota de 83 (equivalente a uma nota "B") na sua revisão crítica de 2005.

Jogos eletrônicos de 1990
Jogos exclusivos para Nintendo Entertainment System
Jogos eletrônicos compostos por Hirokazu Tanaka


How Good Is Allen & Harris - Whitchurch?
from Allen & Harris - Whitchurch and 4 other top performing local agents.
Are Allen & Harris - Whitchurch Right For You?
Allen & Harris Whitchurch do most of their work in CF14, CF15 and CF83. They list homes for sale on Zoopla and Rightmove. They, on average, sell in 14 weeks, and at this time they have 23 listings online. Most of their listed properties have 3 bedrooms.
They are currently mostly active in CF14. Their market share is currently at 2.83%, which is after a recent rise, but they're overall down in market share when we look at the last 6 months, and they usually sell at around 97% of a property's original asking price.
This personal service was a pleasant and welcomed surprise.
Absolutely dreadful service from start to finish.
In the last 6 months, Allen & Harris - Whitchurch have listed 39 properties. On average, they achieve 97.2% of the original asking price.
Harry from Allen & Harris estate agents, came to my home and was so very helpful and made me understand what was needed to make my home presentable and hopefully increase the value. I had so many questions, all answered there and then. His advice made me see what was possible and practical.
Excellent customer service from every agent encountered via phone or email at Allen and Harris. Emma James was the most personable agent I have ever experienced on a first house viewing. She was warm, knowledgeable and expressed a genuine interest in my partner and I, and showed great compassion for the late vendor and her relatives.
We also had a very informative experience when meeting with mortgage consultant, Emma Field. As first time buyers, we came away feeling more confident in what we could afford.
Thank you to the team at Allen and Harris.
Huge thanks to Charlotte, Craig and Tilly at A&H Whitchurch, who did a fantastic job during our recent sale. Professional, friendly and supportive; you kept me up-to-date all the way through the process. Highly recommend this team for their hard work, dedication and overall determination to get the sale done.
Allen & Harris, Whitchurch gave us a swift, professional and easy house selling experience.
I am absolutely delighted with the service I've received. They've been very quick, which was really important as my dream home was ready and waiting.
From the moment A&H stepped through the front door they really gave me confidence that our home could sell and that it was something quite special. Their valuation was spot on, and it was really reassuring to have them at the end of the phone by text if needed. This personal service was a pleasant and welcomed surprise.
The number of viewings secured in a fortnight was quite outstanding (over 20!). The team, especially Tilly, Charlotte and Craig, have been friendly and professional, even when it came to fussy things like shoe covers! I was updated throughout the process, a very different experience from my last move.
I would never dream of going anywhere else and you shouldn't either.
Absolutely dreadful service from start to finish. As the vendor I was NOT looked after at all! They also charge very high rates for their appalling service. Never ever use them.
Did you use Allen & Harris - Whitchurch?