Please browse through the gallery of our creations and picks below, or select a category from the left to view just those pieces. Remember we take custom orders! If you see something you like, but want a different size or color, you can visit the contact page to give us all the details!


text:
By sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.)
Synoptic Table of the Elements of the Solar System ... 416
Synoptic Table of the Elements of the Orbits of the Satellites, so'
far as they are known ....... 417
I. The Moon - - 417
II. Satellites of Jupiter .417
III. Satellites of Saturn . . . ~ . 418
IV. Satellites of Uranus . 418
Index . ... - - 419
ASTRONOMY.
(1.) In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student's first endeavours ought to be, to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on, all such crude and hastily adopted notions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine as may tend to embarrass or mislead him; and to strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and logical argument, even should it prove of a nature adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself, or taken up, without examination, on the credit of others. Such an effort is, in fact, a commencement of that intellectual discipline which forms one of the most important ends of all science. It is the first movement of approach towards that state of mental purity which alone can fit us for a full and steady perception of moral beauty as well as physical adaptation. It is the "euphrasy and rue" with which we must " purge our sight" before we can receive and contemplate as they are the lineaments of truth and nature.
(2.) There is no science which, more than astronomy, Stands in need of such a preparation, or draws more largely on that intellectual liberality which is ready to adopt whatever is demonstrated, or concede whatever is rendered highly probable, however new and uncommon the points of view may be in which objects the most familiar may thereby become placed. Almost all its conclusions stand in open and striking contradiction with those of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed- the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses. Thus, the earth on which he stands, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation of the firmest structures, either of art or nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning swiftly on its centre, and at the same time moving onwards through space with great rapidity. The sun and the moon, which appear to untaught eyes round bodies of no very considerable size, become enlarged in his imagination into vast globes, — the one approaching in magnitude to the earth itself, the other immensely surpassing it. The planets, which appear only as stars somewhat brighter than the rest, are to him spacious, elaborate, and habitable worlds; several of them vastly greater and far more curiously furnished than the earth he inhabits, as there are also others less so; and the stars themselves, properly so called, which to ordinary apprehension present only lucid sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds: so that when, after dilating his thoughts to comprehend the grandeur of those ideas his calculations have called up, and exhausting his imagination and the powers of his language to devise similes and metaphors illustrative of the immensity of the scale on which his universe is constructed, he shrinks back to his native sphere; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point; so lost — even in the minute system to which it belongs — as to be invisible and unsuspected from some of its principal and remoter members.
INTRODUCTION. 3
(3.) There is hardly any thing which sets in a stronger light the inherent power of truth over the mind of man, when opposed by no motives of interest or passion, than the perfect readiness with which all these conclusions are assented to as soon as their evidence is clearly apprehended, and the tenacious hold they acquire over our belief when once admitted. In the conduct, therefore of this volume, we shall take it for granted that our reader is more desirous to learn the system which it is its object to teach as it now stands, than to raise or revive objections against it; and that, in short, he comes to the task with a willing mind; an assumption which will not only save ourselves the trouble of piling argument on argument to convince the sceptical, but will greatly facilitate his actual progress, inasmuch as he will find it at once easier and more satisfactory to pursue from the outset a straight and definite path, than to be constantly stepping aside, involving himself in perplexities and circuits, which, after all, can only terminate in finding himself compelled to adopt our road.
(4.) The method, therefore, we propose to follow is neither strictly the analytic nor the synthetic, but rather such a combination of both, with a leaning to the latter, as may best suit with a didactic composition. Our object is not to convince or refute opponents, nor to enquire, under the semblance of an assumed ignorance, for principles of which we are all the time in full possession — but simply to teach what we know. The moderate limit of a single volume, and the necessity of being on every point, within that limit, rather diffuse and copious in explanation, as well as the eminently matured and ascertained character of the science itself, render this course both practicable and eligible. Practicable, because there is now no danger of any revolution in astronomy, like those which are daily changing the features of the less advanced sciences, supervening, to destroy all our hypotheses, and throw our statements into confusion. Eligible, because the space to be bestowed, either in combating refuted systems, or in leading the reader forward by slow and measured steps from the known to the unknown, may be more advantageously devoted to such explanatory illustrations as will impress on him a familiar and, as it were, a practical sense of the sequence of phenomena, and the manner in which they are produced. We shall not, then, reject the analytic course where it leads more easily and directly to our objects, or in any way fetter ourselves by a rigid adherence to method. Writing only to be understood, and to communicate as much information in as little space as possible, consistently with its distinct and effectual communication, we can afford to make no sacrifice to system, to form, or to affectation.
(5.) We shall take for granted, from the outset, the Copernican system of the world; relying on the easy, obvious, and natural explanation it affords of all the phenomena as they come to be described, to impress the student with a sense of its truth, without either the formality of demonstration or the superfluous tedium of eulogy, calling to mind that important remark of Bacon: — " Theoriarum vires, arcta et quasi se mutuo sustinente partium adaptatione, qua, quasi in orbem coherent, firmantur *;" nor failing, however, to point out to the reader, as occasion offers, the contrast which its superior simplicity offers to the complication of other hypotheses.
(6.) The preliminary knowledge which. it is desirable that the student should possess, in order for the more advantageous perusal of the following pages, consists in the familiar practice of decimal and sexagesimal arithmetic; some moderate acquaintance with geometry and trigonometry, both plane and spherical; the elementary principles of mechanics; and enough of optics to understand the construction and use of the telescope, and some other of the simpler instruments. For the
* The confirmation of theories relies on the compact adaptation of their parts, by which, like those of an arch or dome, they mutually sustain each other, and form a coherent whole.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<TITLE>
Uses of Package org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties (POI API Documentation)
</TITLE>

<LINK REL ="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="../../../../../../stylesheet.css" TITLE="Style">

      Overview
      Package
      Class
    Use
      Tree
      Deprecated
      Index
      Help

 PREV
 NEXT

  FRAMES
 NO FRAMES

  All Classes

Uses of Package
org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties

Packages that use org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties

org.apache.poi.hslf.dev

org.apache.poi.hslf.model

org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties

org.apache.poi.hslf.record

org.apache.poi.hslf.usermodel

Classes in org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties used by org.apache.poi.hslf.dev

TextPropCollection

          For a given run of characters, holds the properties (which could
  be paragraph properties or character properties).

Classes in org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties used by org.apache.poi.hslf.model

TextProp

          Definition of a property of some text, or its paragraph.

Classes in org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties used by org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties

BitMaskTextProp

          Definition of a special kind of property of some text, or its
  paragraph.

TextProp

          Definition of a property of some text, or its paragraph.

Classes in org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties used by org.apache.poi.hslf.record

TextProp

          Definition of a property of some text, or its paragraph.

TextPropCollection

          For a given run of characters, holds the properties (which could
  be paragraph properties or character properties).

Classes in org.apache.poi.hslf.model.textproperties used by org.apache.poi.hslf.usermodel

TextPropCollection

          For a given run of characters, holds the properties (which could
  be paragraph properties or character properties).

      Overview
      Package
      Class
    Use
      Tree
      Deprecated
      Index
      Help

 PREV
 NEXT

  FRAMES
 NO FRAMES

  All Classes

        Copyright 2008 The Apache Software Foundation or
        its licensors, as applicable.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Iran: Healthcare System Is Falling to Pieces
Published: Wednesday, 19 April 2017
By INU Staff
INU - Medical care and medication in Iran is very expensive for the people, causing more and more people to fall below the poverty line every year.
The fact that the Iranian authorities are unable to provide adequate health care budgets is making the situation worse.
Because of the poor Health Ministry's budget, people are having to pay a higher price for a lower quality of care.
People living in areas far from large cities often do not have access to the most basic of medical supplies. However, in large cities too, including the capital Tehran, the hospitals lack the required equipment and facilities.
Iranian MPs estimate that almost two-thirds of hospitals in Iran are "worn out".
One MP said that if the renovation of the worst medical centres is not budgeted for, there will be damages that will be beyond repair, making the sites useless. He spoke about the conditions of hospitals in his region – the Isfahan Province – claiming that there are only really 4 hospitals there as the others are completely "worn out".
Speaking about a fire that occurred in the Plasco building in Tehran, which collapsed as the fire was being extinguished, the head of Iran's Physicians Organization warned that old hospitals could have the same fate.
He said: "It is a good opportunity for the government and parliament to learn from the Plasco incident and take action to improve conditions in our hospitals."
Shahla Mirgolubayat, a member of the Iranian Parliament Health and Treatment Committee said that there are safety concerns surrounding these old buildings. Mirgolubayat said: "In addition to the fact that worn-out conditions pose safety risks in cases of earthquakes, they also causes psychological damages and place obstacles before patients' recover process."
Mirgolubayat emphasised that action needs to be taken immediately before another tragedy happens and pointed out that the same needs to be done for all public buildings – universities, schools, etc.
The state-run Quds Online website wrote: "We must not wait for an unhappy incident to occur to have us answer the question of why did we act late. The Plasco incident is only a tip of the iceberg of the conditions our buildings are in, and there are many other examples across the country. This includes hospitals, universities and schools. However, it appears officials prefer not to hear the alarm bells."
In a country where so many people live below the poverty line, such conditions mean that a lot of people receive substandard healthcare. What makes this even more shocking and unfair for the Iranian people is that the regime spends billions of dollars on warmongering and terrorist activities.


Which Factors Influence Vocabulary Acquisition?
See ALL Brags | Choose a School or Brag Category | BRAG about your school!
Basha High - (2018-2019) Under the direction of Sharon LaVoy, a group of Basha High juniors and seniors visited the IMR Lab at Intel, one of only three in the world, to learn more about careers in Engineering and Information Technology. The students met with engineers and technicians in areas including testing, quality control, manufacturing, shipping and receiving and 3D printing. Those interested in information technology were able to see the computer programming side of the lab where code is analyzed to determine the cause of part failures, presenting a new perspective of programming and problem solving. The group went on to tour Able Aerospace in Mesa where they met with program managers, engineers and technicians as they toured the plant, helicopter hangar and tarmac. Students were impressed with the advanced robotic cold spray area, the soundproof testing room and especially with the government and military aspect of the business.
Click to: Jump to Top | BRAG about our school!


The term 'Chilli Pepper Pete' or 'us' or 'we' refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 3 Southwood Grove, Sheffield, S6 1XD. Our company registration number is 6508044. The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website.
You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without Chilli Pepper Pete's prior written consent.


text:
Govt Deploys Team to Investigate Suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk
Gibbs Dube
Mayor Solomon Mguni.
Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni says the Ministry of Local Government is sending a team to the city to investigate the suspension of Town Clerk Christopher Dube by acting mayor Tinashe Kambarami.
Mguni told VOA Studio 7 the team will arrive in Bulawayo today and is set to start its work tomorrow.
The government is expected to present its findings within the next few weeks.
"We are going to make our presentations on what they are looking for following the suspension of the town clerk," said Mguni.
Dube has returned to work following the intervention of the mayor and MDC led by Nelson Chamisa, whose party runs the local authority.
Tribal tensions have been high in the city following the suspension of Dube while some people have appealed for calm in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city.
The government has over the years suspended elected councilors and replaced them with Zanu PF activists in MDC strongholds.


text:
Lindsay Joins Coliseum Medical Centers as Chief Operating Officer
Coliseum Health System /
Lindsay Joins Coliseum Medical ...
Coliseum Health System is pleased to welcome Kelly Lindsay as the new Chief Operating Officer. Lindsay's responsibilities include the smooth and efficient operation of Coliseum Medical Centers. She will begin her new duties on August 1, 2018.
Lindsay has been with HCA, both at Memorial Hospital and Orange Park Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida, for more than 20 years, and most recently served as Vice President of Operations for Orange Park Medical Center. Prior to that, she was the Director of Cardiovascular Services and was instrumental in growing the cardiovascular service line to become a regional leader, especially in open heart surgery, for which she and her team earned numerous accreditations and accolades.
Lindsay earned a Bachelor's in Cardiopulmonary Science from the University of Central Florida and a Master's of Science in Management Concentration in Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness from Troy University in Troy, AL. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
News Related Content
View previous years


text:
Charakterystyka filtru (ściślej: charakterystyka częstotliwościowa filtru) – funkcja opisująca własności filtru liniowego w dziedzinie częstotliwości lub wykres tej funkcji. Wykres charakterystyki obrazuje zmiany parametrów dowolnego sygnału sinusoidalnego pomiędzy wejściem a wyjściem filtru w zależności od częstotliwości tego sygnału, a więc również zmiany wszystkich składowych widma sygnału bardziej złożonego niż sinusoidalny. Innymi słowy, charakterystyka filtru pokazuje jak filtr kształtuje widmo dowolnego sygnału, który przez niego przechodzi.

Wyznaczanie charakterystyki
Charakterystykę filtru można otrzymać wykreślając dany aspekt (np. moduł, argument lub jego pochodną) zespolonej transmitancji widmowej względem częstotliwości.

Typy charakterystyk filtrów
 Charakterystyka amplitudowa – pokazuje zmiany amplitudy sygnału względem częstotliwości.
 Charakterystyka fazowa – pokazuje zmiany fazy sygnału względem częstotliwości.
 Charakterystyka amplitudowo-fazowa – pokazuje równoczesne zmiany amplitudy i fazy sygnału.
 Charakterystyka opóźnienia – pokazuje, jakie opóźnienie (przesunięcie fazowe lub opóźnienie grupowe) wnosi filtr dla sygnałów lub składowych sinusoidalnych o różnych częstotliwościach.

Zobacz też
 charakterystyka czasowa
 charakterystyka statyczna

Filtry

en:frequency response

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


As social media managers, there are bound to be times that the not-so-nice stuff rises to the top. I'm not just talking about the random rants about the financial aid office or the new menu in the cafeteria. I'm talking bad. Like REALLY bad. Not emergency communication, which I feel warrants its own kind of strategy due to laws, ongoing investigations and privacy restrictions. In talking about a campus crisis I'm speaking generally about two things: a PR crisis and an incident involving a student death or high-profile student incident. In both cases, were discussing what happens post-event.
1. You should be a member of the emergency response team.
Period. It may feel weird at first to be at the table hearing things you're normally not privy to, but you can add so much to the conversation by providing decision makers with real-time social media comments from alumni, students, families and local community members. This can be invaluable when working with an on campus (or even global once the internet gets ahold of it) crisis.
2. Use Tweetdeck and Topsy for mentions and sentiment.
Obviously Tweetdeck is a social strategists go to tool, but I also used Topsy for mentions and analysis. I tried using other tools such as Social Mention as well, but for real-time data, Topsy has proven reliable for me. You are also watching all of your social media accounts – both managed by you and by others on campus – for comments.
3. Set up times to report on any changes in sentiment.
Make it clear to your team when you will be providing feedback and how often. Obviously if something very big comes up you need to be in touch with the powers that be immediately. Screen shot as many of the comments as possible to go with your report. This way, others who may know these individuals could reach out independently, or take note of who asked what.
4. Know how and what you are allowed to respond to.
Most of the time in these PR types of situations, a response via social media is not suggested until an official response has been released from the institution on their website. Also, it is generally best to wait until the student and alumni body, trustees, families and staff have been informed via email before pushing out through social media. In this case, responding to people on social media may not be your best communication effort.
5. Be on high alert for at least a few days if not weeks.
Things can and will calm down, but there will also be the continued rumblings. Even though we may play off these naysayers as angered social media players, they also can provide opportunities for us to uncover issues we did not know existed. This could lead to creating better communication systems or re-engaging people who may have written us off for reasons we did not understand. Opening up these conversations not only diffuses them (in most cases) but also gives us opportunities to be better.


For Canadian shoppers looking for a mobile phone, the newest smart phone, TV services, home phone services, and bundle services on all of these packages, visiting bell.ca for these services is the site to shop with, for the best prices, and for the best service provided to a consumer as well. No matter where one lives in Canada, or what province they work in, www.bell.ca is going to offer the best in mobility, and the best in home services for TV/ cable, internet, and home phone services as well, to all Canadian consumers. Or, if one is looking to purchase a new smart phone for their mobile phone services, they are also going to be able to do so when they shop with bell.ca.
Whether one is looking for personal home services, or if it is a business looking for the best internet and phone services, for the lowest prices to them, they are going to want to use the Bell site, and their services, for the best in mobility, the best home or business internet speeds, and the best home or office bundled services, when people are looking to save money on a bundled service deal instead of subscribing to one service. Personal and business consumers can also find deals when they decide to sign up for a longer service term or contract period. They will get a better deal for sticking with the Bell company for a longer period of time for their services.
Not only are consumers going to find the best bundled and individual services, either for home/ personal use, or for business consumers, but, consumers are also going to find the best in pricing when they shop with Bell for all their mobile, TV, internet, and bundled service needs. So, whether it is just a TV and internet package, or whether one is just looking to buy the newest smart phone which has just been released to the market, these individuals are going to want to make sure to shop with the best, and go with bell.ca.


text:
Q: Unicode entities displayed as CP1252 I've decided to write myself a little script for a Unicode reference, since my favourite on-line Unicode look-up site has become buggy and full of ads. It's been an enjoyable project so far. I've noticed, however, that some characters are displayed incorrectly.
For example, codepoint Ux8E should be a control character called "SINGLE SHIFT TWO" - and in fact that's the name that gets displayed, but the character itself shows up as Ž - that's the character which should be at Ux17D, "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON". It's also the CP1252 character at x8E, so that must be a clue to the source of the confusion.
Why is my browser generating and displaying a character in CP1252 encoding, and how can I stop it? Currently the script is running locally on my Mac - it's JavaScript, mostly jQuery, in HTML 5: the characters themselves are expressed as, e.g. "&x8e;" and inserted using a jQuery append(). The script itself is encoded in UTF-8, and the HTML specifies UTF-8 in meta. Is it an Apache issue? An OS issue? I haven't done extensive browser testing but it's the same in Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome so I guess it's not that.
I could simply remove all control characters since they're not meant to display anyway. I'm currently ajaxing the character names into the page from an XML file containing information on all Unicode characters, so while I'm doing that I could check whether or not a character is a control character and remove it accordingly. But the XML is huge and the Ajax is slow enough to make it confusing as a quick reference, so I'd really like to find a way of just forcing my computer not to show me rubbish in the first place.
Any ideas?

A: This is a buggy website workaround.
For example: the bullet • (U+2022) is encoded as byte 0x95 in a few single byte character sets, like Windows-1252. As a consequence some people would include a bullet in their web page by writing •. Which presumably used to work if that browser was using the same encoding.
Normally • indeed encodes a control character. But since those control characters are normally not used in web pages, even modern browsers assume this entity refers to the encoded value in windows-1252 and display a bullet. (the correct numeric entity for a bullet is •)
These days you would usually specify the encoding of your page (often utf-8) and just literally write the bullet character in the HTML page.
This is also the way to stop this behaviour. Just use the characters (eg. by using $element.text("•")) and don't use numeric entities.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Is all this sad world needs"
VISION: The Theosophical Society has a vision of wholeness that inspires a fellowship united in study, meditation, and service.
MISSION: The Society encourages open minded inquiry into world religious, philosophy, science and the arts in order to understand the wisdom of the ages and respect the unity of all life, and help people explore spiritual self-transformation.
ETHIC: The Society holds that our every action, feeling, and thought affects all other beings and that each of us is capable of and responsible for contributing to the benefit of the whole.
*The Universal Brotherhood of All Creation.
*The Study of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Science.
*Complete Freedom of Thought, Belief and Exploration for All Persons.
Theosophy is wisdom underlying all religions when they are stripped of accretions and superstitions.
It offers a philosophy which renders life intelligible and demonstrates that justice and love guide cosmos.
Its teachings aid the unfoldment of the latent spiritual nature in the human being, without dependence or fear.


text:
Energy Law Shows Way To Combat Global Warming
David Chan – SCMP | Updated on Nov 05, 2008
On October 1, National Day, an important piece of legislation known as the Civil Energy Act came into effect.
The law has six chapters and 45 articles detailing the country's vision of how to deal with the effect of global warming. There are chapters on energy savings for new and existing buildings, savings that may be achieved through the energy supply system, and legal liabilities for non-compliance.
The legislation seeks to promote energy savings and increase efficiency in the use of energy in buildings. The provisions are all-encompassing and include residential, commercial, service, educational and health-care buildings. It also seeks to encourage the development of solar, geothermal and other alternative energy sources.
National state offices will be established for long-term planning, co-ordination, standard setting and implementation of policies, while provincial offices will be responsible for supervision and exploring financing options.
The law provides tax breaks and possible changes to tariffs to promote energy savings and also imposes penalties for violations.
Chapter 2 deals with new buildings and promotes the use of new technologies and state-of-the-art materials. It restricts the use of materials with high-energy consumption. It also has provisions for building design, including penalties for designs that are not energy-efficient, and compulsory use of better thermal materials, heating and cooling systems and lighting.
Chapter 3 details how existing buildings must make necessary changes in a co-ordinated manner and empowers local governments to make assessments on whether energy-saving systems can be retrofitted. All governmental buildings are to draw up feasibility plans while old private residential buildings are encouraged to make low-cost improvements.
In Chapter 4 the law provides regulations to monitor the operation of large public buildings and record annual energy consumption.
Due to the increased sophistication of building systems, the training of technicians should be enhanced and improved. Targets will be set by respective city governments for individual public buildings.
The new regulations will have an impact on developers and investors in the country's property market. They need to keep themselves abreast with pertinent provisions of the law, especially on the available technologies and which are applicable and advantageous to their properties.
It will be interesting to see whether the new law will have a huge impact on the country's air pollution problem and energy consumption.
The legislation may also see in the near term a commitment in other areas of building sustainability. It may also lead to a change in the voluntary rating system for building sustainability or the three-star labelling system which was introduced in 2006, into something mandatory.
This could encompass areas such as water efficiency, use of sustainable materials, waste and pollution reduction, and ecology.
For Hong Kong, the passage of the new law should put pressure on the administration of Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen to also address issues pertaining to energy use and building design. At present, the city has no mandatory building energy code, although a proposal is likely to be sent to the Legislative Council next year.
A task force of consultants has been created to advise the Hong Kong government on the technicalities of such a legislation. While one hopes the scope of the bill will be comprehensive, the likely result would cover only energy consumption based on the current voluntary energy codes.
From a practical point of view, the legislation could encompass areas such as light pollution, that may raise controversies. Would locals and tourists alike prefer to see Hong Kong Island's bright advertising lights dimmed to achieve cleaner air? Nonetheless, I'm sure all building users would welcome a reduction in management fees from lower electricity usage.
The proposed Hong Kong legislation is only targeting commercial buildings, or about 20 per cent of the city's building stock.
While a phased introduction – that is, targeting larger energy-consuming buildings first – is desirable, we must not exclude residential buildings that account for 50 per cent of our building stock.
Many of Hong Kong's residential buildings were built decades ago and will need significant upgrades, which means added cost, to make them compliant to even very basic energy standards.
Many of the new residential towers that are rising in the city have little or no energy-efficiency features.
As such, any new legislation on energy use in Hong Kong is likely to be less comprehensive than the mainland counterpart.
Still, a watered-down energy legislation is better than none at all, as it is still a significant step towards developing sustainable buildings. We could also assume that the Legco will pass the bill speedily as many members have publicly indicated their commitment to the environment.
The government can promote the issue of efficient energy use by engaging the community in an active and intelligent discussion of the issue.
The bill should provide government departments with the tools to effectively manage those who will be directly affected by the legislation, namely, developers and landlords, building management companies and building owners.
It is our hope that through such a legislation and its implementation, Hong Kong will do its bit in reducing global warming.
David Chan is an architect and a director of an international property consultancy
Posted in: Building, China, Energy Saving, Hong Kong, Lighting, Policy.
← Urban Jungle – This Week: Recycling Power Producers Fined For Air Pollution By Coal-fired Plants →


The Nook Color is going to get its very own app store in 2011, and Barnes and Noble has just taken the next step in making that possible by releasing the Nook Color SDK.
This allows software developers to create new apps specifically for the Nook Color or make their existing Android apps compatible with the Nook Color's 7″ screen and hardware specifications.
A lot of Android apps will work on the Nook Color as is, but app developers will need to get their apps approved by B&N to get them into the Nook Color app store.
The documentation and SDK can be download from the Nook Developer website. The Nook SDK 1.0 contains the Android Emulator, Android Debug Bridge configuration settings, and sample code.
Chronicle Books: Chronicle Books believes that digital publishing expands rather than replaces the traditional reading experience and embraces the digital marketplace by bringing its distinctive design, life-enriching content, and signature style to the widest range of dynamic digital products.
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Barnes & Noble for NOOKcolor not only because of their extensive market reach and our longstanding relationship, but because we share a vision about the digital consumer's lifestyle – from traveling and exploring new hobbies to cooking a great meal to reading bedtime stories," said Jack Jensen, President of Chronicle Books.
Concrete Software®: Concrete Software offers high-quality popular, casual games that you can quickly start playing for short or long periods of time.
Cooking Capsules™: Cooking Capsules offers a fresh approach to cooking with a delicious portfolio of "encapsulated" recipes. Each Cooking Capsule features a motivating cooking show, shopping list and step-by-step recipe instructions.
Dictionary.com: Miss Spell's Class is an original word game that lets you test your spelling skills against the most commonly misspelled words on Dictionary.com. The Dictionary.com app delivers world-class reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly 1,000,000 words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms, as well as audio pronunciations and Dictionary.com's popular Word of the Day.
Howcast: Howcast for NOOKcolor will show fun, useful how-to videos, whenever and wherever you need to know how.
Lonely Planet: Established in 1973, Lonely Planet is one of the world's leading travel content providers enabling curious people to experience the world and get to the heart of a place. Lonely Planet has sold over 100 million guidebooks, 5 million mobile apps, and tens of thousands of eBooks and is a trusted source of travel information.
TasteBook: TasteBook is the best place to find, organize and share your favorite recipes and make a beautiful, personal cookbook.
Wine Ph.D.: Wine Ph.D. is a handheld database of wines from around the world providing up-to-date tasting notes, ratings, and food pairings in order to help those from novice to aficionado make intelligent drinking and purchasing decisions.
"For NOOKcolor by Barnes & Noble owners with an interest in wine, or who want to quickly find a great wine for the meal they're preparing, Wine Ph.D. will provide useful information from wine tasting notes, ratings, and recommended food pairings. Also, the 'MyWines' tab allows users to save your favorite wines and record your own notes," said Dave Lauinger and Brian Pierce, co-founders of Wine Ph.D.
I wanted an e reader that had spyder solitaire included on it but was told it should be available in January or so. Once I get that game I will be totally happy with the Nook!
Im waiting for jeopardy, who wants to be a millionaire and wheel of fortune for nook color. I don,t understand why they have it for nook tablet, but not for nook color. These games will make a lot of sales from people who are waiting for these games.


text:
Salassa tibaliva is een vlinder uit de familie nachtpauwogen (Saturniidae), onderfamilie Salassinae.

De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Chu & Wang in 1993.

Nachtpauwogen


text:
Two villages will be linked for the first time in decades once this ferry is complete
It will cross the estuary of the River Towy in Carmarthenshire
Ian LewisChief Reporter, Carmarthen
Never miss a big story in Carmarthenshire again
Sign up for the CarmarthenshireOnline newsletter
Construction is well underway on a ferry that will link two villages for the first time in more than six decades.
Llansteffan and Ferryside sit opposite each other on the River Towy south of Carmarthen and are currently separated by 18 miles of road, but from this summer people will be able to travel between them in minutes.
And there are even plans to run trips up the river to Carmathen's Quay.
Behind the ambitious plans is Carmarthen Bay Ferries which received a grant of £300,000 to get the project back up and running.
Now building of the ferry has started, it is hoped to be completed by May with a view of starting the ferry service in July, the first such facility since the 1950s.
One of the directors of Carmarthen Bay Ferries, Rob Bamforth, said: "It will be a boat that can carry around 10 people and has retractable wheels to enable it to get onto the shore either side.
"The amphibious new ferryboat is being built by a Pembrokeshire-based company called Robust Boats.
"It was designed in Holland and will be the first of its kind in the UK and will use technology from New Zealand."
The hull of the ferry that is under construction
The ferry is expected to be finished by May and in service between Llansteffan and Ferryside
Carmarthen Bay Ferries is currently looking to recruit a skipper and two members of staff.
It is hoped the service will run for eight and a half months of the year with the ultimate ambition being to extend it to provide a year-round service.
"Trips up to Carmarthen would be great and it's certainly something we want to do once we have settled in the service between Llansteffan and Laugharne."
It's also been mooted that the ferry could carry passengers as far as Tenby.
However, Mr Bamforth said: "That will be dependant on conditions and the tides but it would be feasible."
Together with tourism, the ferry service is seen as another string in the bow for commuters.
It will enable easy access to the train station at Ferryside.
The Ferryside to Llansteffan ferry service in the early 1900s (Image: National Library of Wales)
Rescue boat launch to be placed at notorious pool on Carmarthen river where Cameron Comey disappeared
Mr Bamforth added: "There are benefits for both communities to have closer links thanks to the ferry service and people are excited to see it return."
Crossing the Towy estuary in a ferry is something that's been done for centuries, dating back to the Middle Ages when the Normans had control of parts of Carmarthen, as well as the castles in Llansteffan, Laugharne and Kidwelly.
The ferry was popular among miners in the 1920s and 1930s, especially during a two-week period in the summer known as 'miner's fortnight' - the main holiday period for colliers from around the whole of Wales.


Home / Google trends / BlackBerry Evolve and Evolve X First Impressions and features.
BlackBerry Evolve and Evolve X First Impressions and features.
BlackBerry has propelled two new cell phones in India, the Evolve, and Evolve X, which the organization claims have been planned and conceptualized in India, for Indians. Both cell phones will be sold in the nation by licensee mark Optiemus Infracom. The Evolve and Evolve X include full-HD+ shows, double cameras, Corning Gorilla Glass 5, and Android 8.1 Oreo. Different features of both cell phones incorporate security highlights, for example, an in-fabricated secret key chief, a security shade, and root insurance.
The two models will be accessible just by means of Amazon India at first, and along these lines through disconnected retailers. The BlackBerry Evolve has been estimated at Rs. 24,990 and will go on special before the finish of August. The Evolve X has an India sticker price of Rs. 34,990 and will go on special amidst September. We got the opportunity to invest some energy with both cell phones amid the official dispatch and here are our initial introductions.
The Evolve and Evolve X have a rubberized plastic back that looks and feels tasteful as well as helps hold. In spite of having a 4,000mAh battery, the telephones are very light and are anything but difficult to hold in one hand.
The Evolve has a rectangular camera lodging and a square unique mark sensor, which is somewhat greater than the roundabout sensor on the Evolve X. The cameras on the Evolve X are put in an oval lodging. Our underlying impressions of the unique mark sensors were not positive. The sensors on the two telephones were precise however moderate and the setup procedure took any longer than we are utilized to. Face acknowledgment is additionally bolstered by both cell phones yet this was likewise drowsy as far as we can tell. Be that as it may, we will save our judgment on these highlights until the point when we have had an opportunity to invest more energy with the gadgets face to face.
The Evolve has adjusted edges and the Evolve X is squared-off from the sides. The two telephones have a finished power catch and a volume rocker on the correct edge, which are extensive material, and very much found. The left edge houses the SIM Tray and the USB Type-C port is available at the base. We are happy to see BlackBerry lacks free of the 3.5mm earphone jack, which is available at the best.
BlackBerry Evolve and Evolve X include a 5.99-inch full-HD+ (1080x2160 pixels) IPS LCD show with a viewpoint proportion of 18:9, an oleophobic covering, and a most extreme shine of 500 Nits. In our restricted time with the gadget, we observed the show to be palatable, with punchy hues, and better than average review edges.
The Evolve X is fueled by the Snapdragon 660 processor, combined with 6GB of RAM. The Evolve in correlation manages with the Snapdragon 450 processor and 4GB of RAM. In our restricted time with the Evolve X, it performed honorably, with smooth liveliness and negligible application stack times. The Evolve anyway was another story by and large. We encountered stammers while exploring around the UI and the telephone solidified on us twice amid our hands-on period. A conclusive evaluation of the execution should hold up until our full audit when we can run diversions and engineered benchmarks on the two telephones.
Both cell phones have 64GB of interior stockpiling, which can be extended through a microSD card, and additionally a 4,000mAh battery with help for Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0. The organization guarantees a reserve time of 21 days, 24 hours of 4G talk time, and 45 hours music playback. We should sit back and watch whether these numbers really mean this present reality.
The two new cell phones run Android 8.1 Oreo with Blackberry's custom launcher to finish everything. The organization has added their own particular wind to Android with a large group of custom highlights and applications. An application called BlackBerry Power Center uses profound figuring out how to dissect application use and advance battery settings likewise. It additionally gives clients a chance to change RAM assignment for each application, and make custom battery profiles. The BlackBerry Hub unites all correspondence applications, for example, Facebook and Twitter into a solitary application to enable you to explore through your online networking accounts.
Security includes on both cell phones incorporate the BlackBerry Password Keeper application that enables clients to store passwords in a vault and create secure passwords, BlackBerry Privacy Shade, which diminishes the unmistakable screen size to the territory which you are getting to, and BlackBerry's DTEK application which enables clients to oversee application authorizations. We will assess every one of these applications and highlights in detail in our full audit.
Highlights display on the Evolve X however not on the less expensive variation incorporate Dolby Atmos and remote charging. At the dispatch occasion in New Delhi, BlackBerry likewise declared a remote charger which will go on special close by the Evolve X amidst September.
On the imaging front, the two telephones include a double camera setup at the back. The Evolve X has a 12-megapixel sensor with a gap of f/1.8 and a pixel size of 1.4 microns close by a 13-megapixel sensor with a gap of f/2.6 and a pixel size of 1 micron. The Evolve in correlation has a 13-megapixel RGB sensor close by a 13-megapixel monochrome sensor, with both having an opening of f/2.0. The two telephones share camera highlights, for example, a refocus mode, 4X self-adjust, live bokeh mode, and moderate movement video. On the front, the two telephones have a 16-megapixel settled concentration sensor with an opening of f/2.0. BlackBerry cell phones have some of the time been condemned for their cameras and we should hold up till we can appropriately test the new telephones to check whether they can change this observation.
The Evolve and Evolve X are certain to confront firm rivalry from any semblance of the Nokia 7 Plus (Review), OnePlus 6 (Review), and Asus ZenFone 5Z (Review), all of which have good grades from us at mysmartsupports. We are anxious to test the un-assembled applications and highlights, which may very well help counterbalance the unacceptable equipment. We will likewise be assessing the outline, show, execution, battery life, and cameras of the two telephones. For all that and the sky is the limit from there, stay tuned for our full survey of the Evolve and Evolve X.
For the latest tech news and reviews, follow searchconsole on Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.


Get ready to experience an amazing place loaded with unexpected sights, sounds and experiences.
My name is Paul and I'll be your guide on this exciting Arizona Wonders journey. I started this blog in 2017 after living in Arizona for five years. It's my attempt to help showcase the amazing beauty of the Grand Canyon State for all to see. My goal is to share insights into this magnificent place that will help others explore unique nooks and crannies of Arizona.
Both are facts that most people know about Arizona. What I've learned in my time living here is that there is so much more to Arizona than heat and the Grand Canyon.
My awareness of the many wonders of Arizona was piqued in 2014 when I went on a group hike with my church to an amazing place called Havasupai. Based on the pictures alone, you might think you're looking at a remote place on an island in the tropics. The journey involved a 5-hour bus ride to a dusty parking lot. From there, we hiked eight miles down into the canyon, where we stayed in a very basic lodge managed by residents of Supai village. As we neared the village, we crossed a small, swift-running creek of clear water that originated from a spring.
The next morning, we ventured down the canyon a few more miles. Every hundred yards or so, the creek got a little wider and ran a little faster. Eventually, we began to see small waterfalls. The falls got bigger and bigger as we ventured on. Before I knew it, I was looking at a gushing waterfall that poured well over a hundred feet (33 meters) into a massive, clear turquoise-blue pool carved out of rock-like travertine.
Unbelievably, we would come upon an even larger, more stunning fall further downstream. I felt like I was experiencing a place only possible in dreams. Check out some of my photos below from the Havasupai experience. (Click any thumbnail image for larger view).
The trip to Havasupai had a profound affect on my perspective of Arizona. I thought if that magnificent place was accessible only to those willing to get out of the car (or bus in my case) and venture out, what other wonders are out there waiting to be experienced. I chose to no longer just live in Arizona, but to actually seek out adventure and explore this amazing place.
There are so many amazing natural wonders to see in Arizona that I created a bucket list.
Before I started the blog, I used to post pictures on Facebook and tell a story or two after each adventure. My Facebook friends seemed to take interest based on their comments, even though most of my contacts do not live in Arizona.
Over time, I realized that more and more of my Facebook updates were about the wonders of Arizona. So, I decided to set up this blog and named it AZ Wonders. The response has been great!
Feedback and encouragement from my followers keeps me going. Through the WordPress blogging service I use, I am able to see where people are spending the most time on the blog.
The number one post (by far) that draws people to azwonders.com is Superstition Mountains cougar shadow. This blog post evidently ranks very high when people search for that amazing natural phenomenon that happens only a few days during the year.
If you're curious about the other popular posts, check out Top 10 AZ Wonders posts of 2018.
Along with the blog itself, I invite you to follow my adventures on a special Facebook page and Twitter account that I set up. Plus, I have a bunch of videos from my adventures on YouTube.
These days, I see so many amazing sights as I travel the state. People who come with me on field trips sometimes get impatient because I'm always stopping to check out rocks, critters, plants and other wonders I once took for granted. And of course, I can't just look at them. I have to take pictures – from multiple angles. Ha! This is the main reason I am usually alone in my videos.
I am often asked what my favorite Arizona Wonder is. It's hard to choose a favorite, but below I've listed a few experiences that I'd love to do again and again.
If I were to give an honorable mention award to one Arizona Wonder, it would have to be Kaiser Hot Spring. (Check out the post and you'll see why.) It's about a two hour drive from Phoenix and the perfect cure for anyone in need of a mental health day off from life.
If you made it this far down the page, you are clearly interested in what I'm doing. Here are a few ways to get the most out of AZ Wonders.
Click on the Explore Arizona drop-down to see posts categorized by topics such as hiking, mountains, plants, water, and more. Click on topics and tags for more articles similar to the one you're viewing.
Under the Insiders Guide tab, you'll find unique images and guest posts from other Arizona adventures, plus product reviews and other tips to help you get the most out of your Arizona adventures.
If you have a particular item you're looking for, just type it into the Search box located at the bottom of every page. Example: type Fossil Creek and click Go to find all AZ Wonders posts that mention your search word(s).
I am so glad you're here! Arizona is a place full of exciting adventures. Now, all you have to do is start clicking around to explore more. Hang around and keep coming back because I've just scratched the surface. There are so many more wonders to explore. And I want to share them all with you.
What a great intro for your blog!
Thanks, katelon! I've been putting it off in favor of pursuing adventures. This is the year I get serious about doing things more strategically with the blog. Happy 2018 to you!
Gorgeous definitely want to go there some day!
We will definitely check this out when we come back from the east. Although we spent our time in the Tucson area during winter there are still a lot of natural wonders to be explored in AZ. Perhaps you might want to check my Arizona postings too, there may be areas you have not explored yet.
Thank you. So many amazing sites in AZ to see.
I agree. I need to go back and be there longer.
Great blog! Thank you for coming over and checking out my blog and taking the time to comment. I have enjoyed a few of your posts and am thrilled to find someone else who loves this state as much as me.
I am so grateful to live in this gorgeous state. We hike and 4 wheel in many beautiful places and come across some of the most beautiful places in the Back Country of this amAZing Arizona.
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't gone off road much yet, except for hiking, but I admit I got a little OHV envy driving back from Lake Havasu last weekend. The people roaming around out in the desert make it look so fun.
We have a Jeep and head out about twice a week with several other 4 wheelers. I am going to post soon about the Back Country near Castle Hot Springs on Castle Creek Rd.
We were in awe the whole trip!
Sounds fun! We have a Jeep Wrangler but it's not outfitted with all the stuff I see on many of the vehicles I see heading out there. Don't want to turn it into an unintended camping trip, if you know what I mean.
and it's wise to go with others.


text:
Brownshill is the least known settlement within the Chalford Parish, but may be the oldest. It borders the ancient Bisley Common (now partially occupied by Manor Farm Estate in Bussage) and occupies land once owned by the Bishop of Winchester (circa 1523) to finance the building of Corpus Christi College Oxford. The original hamlet of Brownshill is found in a secluded south-western corner of the parish, on a hill top spur between Toadsmoor and Golden Valley. The older part of the village covers the steep slopes that formed the southern boundary of Bisley Common. In terms of land Brownshill occupies a large area stretching north to Frithwood and the recreation ground, east to Old Neighbouring and Skaiteshill, and west to The Bourne. The village existed in a simple form as early as the 1530s, as people settled on common land (squatters rights). There is archaeological evidence of several interesting stones relating to ancient religious buildings, the most notable being the site of a Chapel (stone carving suggests Tudor, but possibly Saxon), associated with Bisley Church, which may also have been referred to in Doomsday Book. An ancient Tithe Barn and shepherd's (or priest's) stone hut have both been demolished.
The 1869 enclosure act brought an end to the squatter developments. By 1891 there were around 418 people living in the hamlet, in some 96 homes. Today the population is around 220, living in some 110 homes. In the 1940s the village had three shops, the last of which (the PO shop) closed about 25 years ago. The milk dairy along with the "Paraffin Store" has long since closed along with the Railway Tavern pub. This was an old-fashioned pub run by Stella Gardiner, and frequented by local people from Brownshill and The Bourne. A regular customer was Roy Stevens, who brought his pet fox into the Tavern. Another pub, Mount Pleasant on the edge of Brownshill, adjacent to Periwinkle Lane, was the sight of various gruesome murders including one corpse buried under the boundary hedge.
The Little House, the entrance & focal point to Brownshill
Brownshill was on the main coaching route from Stroud to London before the London Road (now A419) was built along the valley bottom. The original coaching house remains as one of the oldest buildings (recorded as mid-late 18th century) on the convergence of two previously named London Roads (one later re-named as St Mary's Way by the Roman Catholic community). From the 1950s to the late 1980s the main route out of the village was down Blackness. This steep single-track lane was open to 2-way traffic and considered by the locals as "taking your life in your hands". There were numerous accidents, breakdowns & cars turning over until the road closed in 1988.
Brownshill had numerous small stone quarries. Besides the well-known 50ft deep quarry opposite the Post Office (at St Margaret's) there are signs of quarries throughout the village (e.g. Beech Lane, Sycamore Ridge, Mutton Lane & Skaiteshill). Whilst at one time there were four farms in Brownshill, only two remain (but not as fully working farms). The village milk parlour was located at Hermits Cottage, opposite The Spot. Jellyman's farm, located behind Brownshill House, was bought by the religious orders and sadly has mostly disappeared with time. Vine Farm was at one time the Barley Mow public house. Skaiteshill Farm (previously Home Farm) occupies the site of a beautiful old Cotswold stone tithe barn demolished some 70 years ago.
View from "The Banks" showing Vine Farm stone barns and the only known photograph of Tanglewood
The Spot cottages were constructed in 1820 for Thomas Keble's "clerk of works" who supervised the building St Michael's Church in Bussage. Initially the site of this church was to be in Brownshill, north west of Brownshill House. However it was decided that the location was too remote from the centre of the congregation and it was transferred to its current site, problematical due to the instability of the ground. The flat area of the original site is still visible in Brownshill.
Brownshill had a strong community identity with a communal allotment in the post war period, and a "Thrift Club" run by Mr. Pratt & Mr. Alan Birmingham. The purpose was to help the working people of the village save for Christmas. The club had a good interest rate with sums paid into individual families' accounts whenever possible. As elsewhere, there were great differences in wealth within the village. Several larger houses were inhabited by the more affluent, whilst most people were poor and rented basic or even primitive cottages with little or no facilities. Most cottages still had wells within their gardens into the 1950s with main drainage only arriving in Brownshill during the 1960s.
Brownshill Post Office and the junction of The Avenue (The Pines in foreground)
Brownshill has a distinctive lineage of religious and spiritual healing, and has also had at least seven different places of worship over the last 500 years. The Tudor or Saxon Chapel (1485 and 1603) has been referred to above. Ancient building stones were found in the garden of Tanglewood House, Brownshill, as reported by Bill Collins (Head Gardener for the Convents) in 1987 to Philip Pearson. An interesting stone gargoyle was unearthed by Godfrey Jellyman's father when farming the land directly below Tanglewood (pre-WWII). After considerable research, it appears that the house was built on the site of an ancient, thick-walled building, possibly the priest's house, close to a remarkable rock-cut well with three steps leading down to it. Further investigations unearthed various religious stone artefacts including a double lancet window, consecration cross and unusual water channels and vessels. An archaeologist has confirmed the gargoyle was of the Tudor Period and was probably Minchinhampton Stone. Other researchers have suggested that dressed stones from this 13th century church form part of Vine Farm stone barn, and that the Railway Tavern included part of an altar stone in its front porch.
St Mary of the Angels RC chapel and tended grounds. Local resident [Sid Gardiner] on the "Viking Steps
Brownshill House was the home of Grace Poole who in the mid 19th century established the Sisters of Mercy with Rev. Suckling at the Monastery down Blackness. To the west of Brownshill House was the drive from the two houses to Bussage Church (still partially visible today). Miss Kessler and Miss Hudson, who had experienced and witnessed trauma as First Aid Nursing Auxiliaries moved to the village after the First World War. They bought a property built in 1891, Tanglewood House, and renamed it 'The Templewood Home of Rest' (or the Brownshill Health Colony). The community was devoted to healing women suffering with mental illness. When the women converted to Catholicism they built in the grounds of the house a chapel, St Mary of the Angels, designed by architect W.D. Caröe, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The chapel closed in 2011, but was purchased by the villagers and passed into the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. It now has occasional use for charitable functions as well as an annual art exhibition and Bob Porter's music venue. Templewood itself was destroyed in 1946 when a Lancaster bomber crashed onto the house. The plane had taken off from Aston Down, clipped a tree over Frith Wood and came down. The crew of three or four were killed when both the plane and the building burst into flames. Until quite recently the stone ruin at Templewood was in places over 15' high. Sadly, this haven for slow worms, birds, frogs and lizards was recently demolished, losing a valuable wildlife habitat.
The gate to Templewood (originally named Tanglewood – circa 1897) House
The Misses Hudson and Kessler bought several other properties in Brownshill – including cottages and Vine Farm – to house the nuns, priests and provide employment to people with learning disabilities. This was a concern for some villagers who felt their community somewhat taken over by this Catholic initiative. A new building also went up in St Mary's Way as St Raphael's, to house the community displaced from Templewood. The Roman Catholic community changed over the years, becoming a Convent and was renamed The Little Company of Hope.
Finally there were two corrugated iron, or "Tin Chapels" in the village. The congregation of Christ Church in Chalford Vale financed the building of a C of E "Tin Tabernacle" in the early 1900s to provide an alternative and more accessible place of worship in Brownshill, and to counteract the Catholic influence. This was called The Hermitage and was recently demolished. The other tin chapel was Brownshill Mission Hall (originally a Christian Brethren Chapel in 1900) and Sunday School were run by Mr. & Mrs. Davis of Bussage. In the final years of the Sunday School a Brownshill resident, Mr. Graham Hobbs, ran the Sunday School in this hall.


GREENWOOD, Miss. – Jamel Waters hit a short jumper with 41 seconds left and added a pair of free throws moments later to rally Alabama State to a 75-70 win over Mississippi Valley State on Saturday night at the Leflore County Civic Center.
ASU (14-7) trailed for most of the game but rallied late with the help of a solid shooting performance in the second half and a career-high 18 points and 13 rebounds from Brandon Graham.
The Hornets (8-2) remained a game behind Southwestern Athletic Conference leader Southern. The Hornets plays at Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Alabama State trailed 32-30 at the half and fell behind by as many as nine points eight minutes into the second half before chipping into the lead by shooting 54.8 percent from the field in the second half. Bobby Brown finally tied the game with a pair of free throws with 5:30 left, the first time since early in the game Alabama State had not trailed. Graham gave ASU a 67-66 lead with 2:57 left, but the Hornets found themselves trailing again before Waters finally put them ahead for good in the final minute with a basket for a 71-70 lead.
Waters and Graham each added a pair of free throws to seal the victory for Alabama State, which has won three straight and seven of the last eight.
Waters finished with 15 points, five assists and three steals. Former G.W. Carver star Tony Armstrong and Maurice Strong each added 10 points.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – AUM's Quay Davis scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Warhawks (7-13, 4-8 Southern States Athletic Converence).
Brett Person added 22 points. LeShaun Murphy and Spencer Jones contributed 14 and 11 points, respectively.
AUM plays at Southern Wesleyan at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Cyrill Sandjon led the Eagles (14-10, 8-5) with 14 points, and Stephen Strachan had 13. Jake Mitchell added 12.
Brewton-Parker was led by Darrie Stephens with 24 points and 14 rebounds.
Faulkner hosts Dalton State at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
DEMOREST, Ga. – Jerome Davis led the Hawks (7-12, 6-3 USA South) with 25 points.
Davis also grabbed eight rebounds.
Terry Moorer had 14 points and seven rebounds and Jason Varney added 13 points.
Huntingdon returns to action on Wednesday at LaGrange.
TUSKEGEE – Richard Dixon had 23 points, Elliot Dean 16 and Graham Olatunji 15 for the Golden Tigers (11-9, 8-3 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference).
Stanley Magee and Markeith Madison each scored 19 points for Stillman (12-11, 7-5). Justin Harris added 11.
Christina Hayes led the Eagles (13-10, 11-3 SSAC) with 12 points, and Shatavia Farris added 10.
Faulkner hosts Brenau at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
DEMOREST, Ga. – Pat Pickens scored a program-high 35 points as the Hawks (15-5, 7-4 USA South) move into a second-place tie with Piedmont in the South Division.
Pickens also had 12 rebounds and four steals. Raven Prater added 19 points. Tan Munford and Arbanee Dean each had 11 rebounds.
Huntingdon plays at LaGrange at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
GREENWOOD, Miss. – Brittney Wright and Daniele Ewert led the Hornets with 12 points each. Joncyee and Jasmyne Sanders led MVSU (6-15, 5-5) with 11 points each.
ASU plays at Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 5:30 p.m.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – Kaylan Withrow led AUM (10-11, 5-8 SSAC) with 16 points. Katie Williams had 12. Marren Schwartz and Tina Odume each had 11.
Krysta Lewis led Coastal Georgia (20-4, 10-4) with 19 points.
AUM plays at Southern Wesleyan at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
TUSKEGEE – Kajuanna Rivers led Tuskegee (11-8, 7-3 SIAC) with 14 points. Alannah Vincent added 11 and Marie McAbee 10.
Samantha Thomas led Stillman (7-14, 3-8) with 15 points, and Angel Mitchell added 11.


text:
Barry McNeil
Haynes and Boone LLP
From his early days as a federal antitrust prosecutor to his 30 years with Haynes and Boone, Barry F. McNeil has been an aggressive advocate on behalf of clients. Companies and executives turn to Barry because of his experience and capability to take on the most complex and difficult engagements.
Barry has successfully represented his clients in numerous jury trials, in matters ranging from civil and criminal conspiracy, breach of contract and fiduciary duty, RICO, securities and antitrust offenses. One of those cases prompted the National Law Journal to recognize Barry and his colleagues for a "slam-dunk defense verdict," calling it the "Biggest Defense Verdict of 1999."
In 2014, clients under Barry's legal care were victorious in two different matters. In one, his team secured a take-nothing award in its representation of a private equity fund where damages in excess of $17 million were sought. When the fund was charged with breaching its fiduciary duty, Barry's team mounted a high-energy game plan that resulted in the adversary dismissing the lawsuit and bearing its own fees and expenses.
Also in 2014, Barry and his team brought to an end a three-year antitrust investigation of a Canadian financial institution charged with violating both federal and state antitrust laws. Federal and state agencies had hoped to bring criminal charges and civil penalty damages.
Neither criminal nor civil charges were ultimately sought and the Canadian bank reached an out-of-court settlement for insubstantial amounts. For this and other work,Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners,ranks Barry as a leading practitioner in antitrust law in Texas (2006-2018) and nationally (2015).
Public and private companies when faced with claims of misconduct often call upon the talent and experience of Barry, co-editor of the widely published handbook, Internal Corporate Investigations, now in its fourth edition.
Barry is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a former Chair of the Litigation Section of the ABA. He teaches White Collar Crime and Policy at both the University of Texas School of Law and Southern Methodist University School of Law.
Barry looks to his representation of Jesus Ramirez and Alberto Sifuentes as his proudest professional moment. The two indigent Mexican nationals were wrongly convicted and sentenced to life for a murder they did not commit. In their seventh year of representing the two men, Barry and his team brought justice to Ramirez and Sifuentes after three weeks of trial. Barry was there when the two men were freed from prison after serving 12 long years.
J.D., University of Texas at Austin School of Law, 1969
B.A., Texas Tech University, 1966
ADMISSIONS : Texas
What types of cases Attorney Barry McNeil & Haynes and Boone LLP can handle?
Haynes and Boone LLP can handle cases related to laws concerning Litigation, Class Action, Health Care, Antitrust & Trade, Government. We manually verify each attorney's practice areas before approving their profiles and reviews on our website.
Where is Haynes and Boone LLP located?
Haynes and Boone LLP is located at 2323 Victory Ave #700, Dallas, TX 75219, USA. You can reach out to Haynes and Boone LLP using their phone line 214.651.5580. You can also check their website haynesboone.com or email them at [email protected].
How much would it cost to hire Haynes and Boone LLP?
Barry McNeil lawyer charges are specific to each case. However, they work with contingency fees and its ranges from $$ to $$$. They also provide free consultation [and no obligation quotes] if you are interested to hire.
Are Barry McNeil reviews trust-able?
We have the ratings and reviews moderation team who checks and verifies every review submitted on our website manually. You can trust all the reviews you see on Barry McNeil lawyer profile listing.
Victory Avenue 2323
Dallas 75219 TX US
Antitrust & Trade Lawyer
Government Lawyer
Health Care Lawyer
Tyson Herrold
Carl Hittinger


text:
Pearnel Charles (born 1936) is a Jamaican politician with the Jamaica Labour Party who was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Early life
Charles was born in 1936 in the parish of St. Ann. He attended Lime Tree Garden Elementary School, West Indies College and the City College of the University of New York where he was President of the West Indian Students' Association. He graduated from City College with a bachelor's degree in political science, after which he returned to Jamaica.

Career
Charles became vice-president of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union. In 1969, he was appointed as a Parish Councillor in the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. From 1972 to 1980 he was a senator and an elected member of parliament representing Eastern St. Thomas. Charles was the deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from 1972 to 1991. In June 1976, after a state of emergency was declared by the People's National Party, Charles was detained by armed forces and brought to Kingston for questioning. In 2002, he successfully ran as a JLP candidate for North Central Clarendon. He served as the Minister of Labour and Social Security in Jamaica from 2007 to 2012. In March 2016, he was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Personal life
His daughter Patrece Charles-Freeman is a public health consultant, and also ran as the JLP candidate in East St Thomas in the 2011 election. His son Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr. serves the people of Jamaica as a Senator and the Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security.

References

Living people
Government ministers of Jamaica
Members of the House of Representatives of Jamaica
Jamaica Labour Party politicians
Speakers of the House of Representatives of Jamaica
1936 births


text:
Saddle Up for some Horse Jokes
Where do horses go when they're sick? The horsepital.
How do you make a small fortune out of horses?
Start with a large fortune
Q. What does it mean if you find a horseshoe?
A. Some poor horse is walking around in his socks.
A: I put £10 on a horse yesterday who was running against applesB:
A: I lost, he got pipped at the post
What do you call a horse that can't lose a race? Sherbet.
What's black and white and eats like a horse? A zebra.
Which side of a horse has more hair?
"Bob, I can't understand how Bill can have so much luck at cards and be so unlucky with horses."
"That's easy," said Bob. "You can't shuffle the horses."
A man has a racehorse who never won a race. In disgust the man says, " Horse, you win today or you will be pulling a milk wagon tomorrow morning."
The starting gate opens, the horses take-off, they move the gate away and there lays his horse asleep on the track.
He kicks the horse and asks, "Why on earth are you sleeping?", The horse, half asleep says, "I have to get up at three in the morning."
A Kentucky horse breeder had a filly that won every race in which she was entered. But as she got older she became very temperamental. He soon found that when he raced her in the evening, she would win handily, but when she raced during the day she would come in dead last. He consulted the top veterinarians and horse psychologists but to no avail. He finally had to give up because it had become ... a real night mare.
What is Equine Flu Anyway?
Equine influenza, or equine flu, is a severe, respiratory disease, regularly found in British horses. Indeed, small outbreaks of the disease occur throughout the country every year, but the last major outbreak came in the spring of 2003, when horse racing stables in Newmarket were particularly badly affected.
The disease is caused by strains of the influenza virus type A, which is akin, but not identical, to the human influenza virus. The good news is that equine influenza cannot be transmitted to humans, but the bad news is that it is highly contagious – in fact, one of the most contagious diseases affecting the British horse population – and can be physically carried by human skin, hair and clothing, as well as by equipment and vehicles.
The equine influenza virus infects the thin, membranous tissue of the upper respiratory tract, causing them to become inflamed and ulcerated. Aside from an abnormally high body temperature, the main clinical signs of equine influenza are a harsh, dry cough – which is the main means by which the disease spreads – and a profuse, watery nasal discharge. The damage areas in the lining of the airways may be penetrated by bacteria, causing secondary infections, including bronchitis and pneumonia.
The treatment of uncomplicated cases of equine influenza consists of strict rest, usually for a week or two, to allow the disease to run its course, but secondary bacterial infections require antibiotic treatment, delaying the recovery period. Clearly, equine influenza has major economic implications for owners, trainers and anyone else involved in horse racing in Britain, so despite complaints from some quarters – not least trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies, who described the measures to contain the disease put in place by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) as a 'massive overreaction', the regulator has every right to be nervous. With the Cheltenham Festival and Grand National just around the corner let me hope that the situation improves over the coming days.
As one of the most revered courses in the modern racing circuit, Kempton Park Racecourse has a fantastic reputation. With plenty of entertainment going on here, from the BetBright Chase to the more classical King George XI Chase, this fantastic racecourse offers a great selection of races to come and watch. With over 200 acres of land and a fantastic woodland area that surrounds it, Kempton Park Racecourse has a wonderfully private feel to it.
With an entrance right next to Kempton Park Railway Station, getting in and out is as easy as it should be. With two inner and outer courses joined together for both flat and fenced racing, this allows the course to be as versatile as possible with the races that run here. From January to December, this holds the likes of the Lanzarote Hurdle right through to the famous Desert Orchid Chase to finish the year off.
Outside of racing, you get many antique markets held here as well as wedding fairs. As such, it's a location with plenty of commercial activity, with regular bookings at the host of restaurants around the place making a fantastic venue to come and visit.
If you want, you can even rent out part of the racecourse for a family function. It makes a fine place for events to be held, making sure that you can have all the fun that you like at the racecourse, then maybe take in one of the numerous excellent races held here!
15 Funny and Meaningful Horse Quotes
If your horse says "no", you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong - Pat Parelli
Any money I put on a horse is a sort of insurance policy to prevent it from winning - Frank Richardson
A dog may be man's best friend...but the horse wrote history - Author Unknown
A great horse will change your life. The truly special ones define it… – Author Unknown
I've spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I've just wasted - Author Unknown
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. – John Steinbeck
What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age – French Proverb
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle - Ian Fleming
A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track -
Diane Crump
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses – R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother - Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator
That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position! - Henny Youngman
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries - Will Rogers
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. - Federico Tesio
How long until the weekend?
Beaten just twice, under mitigating circumstances, in his eight-race career, Shergar owes his place among the racing greats primarily to his 10-length win in the 1981 Derby, still the widest winning margin in the 233-year history of the race. Indeed, winning jockey Walter Swinburn always insisted that Shergar had so much in reserve that he could have won by twice as far, had he so desired.
A striking bay colt, with a white blaze and four white socks, Shergar made his debut for Michael Stoute in a maiden race, the Kris Plate, over a mile at Newbury in September 1980. Sent off the 11/8 favourite, Shergar won by 2½ lengths under Lester Piggott, setting a course record in the process. Stepped up in class for the William Hill Futurity (nowadays the Racing Post Trophy) at Doncaster the following month, Shergar finished second, beaten 2½ lengths, behind Beldale Flutter.
However, it was 1981, his three-year-old season, that was to prove the "annus mirabilis" for the son of Great Nephew. He reappeared in the Guardian Classic Trial at Sandown in April, which he won by 10 lengths, and hacked up by 12 lengths in the Chester Vase in May, with Swinburn sitting motionless. His dramatic progress from two to three years saw him promoted to 11/10 favourite for the Derby the following month, in the absence of the injured Beldale Flutter.
In the Derby, Shergar took the lead rounding Tattenham Corner and displayed a breathtaking turn of foot, drawing away to win by 10 lengths, eased down. Radio commentator Peter Bromley summed up the scene on Epsom Downs when he said, "You need a telescope to see the rest."
Three weeks later, Shergar travelled to the Curragh for the Irish Derby where, in the absence of the suspended Swinburn, he was partnered once again by Lester Piggott. Shergar was never out of a canter to win by 4 lengths and, reunited with Swinburn and taking on older horses for the first time, won the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot by an identical margin the following month.
Instead of heading straight for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October, a change of plan saw him line up for the St. Leger at Doncaster, for which he started 6/4 favourite. However, the writing was on the wall a long way from home and Shergar weakened to finish only fourth, beaten 9 lengths, behind Cut Above, trained by Major Dick Hern and ridden by Joe Mercer. Following that defeat, Shergar wasn't entered in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and had run his last race. Nevertheless, he had amassed £295,000 in prize money during 1981 and was voted European Racehorse of the Year.
At the end of his racing career, Shergar retired to the Ballymany Stud, County Kildare, and was syndicated for £10 million by his breeder and owner, the Aga Khan, who hoped that the colt would enhance his breeding operation. In his first season at stud, Shergar put 42 of the first 44 mares he covered in foal, but shortly before the start of his second season disaster struck.
Shergar was kidnapped from the Ballymany Stud by an armed gang on Wednesday, February 3, 1983. He apparently met a gruesome end when shot dead by his kidnappers in a stable in County Leitrim shortly afterwards, but his body has never been found. Over 30 years later, the file on the disappearance of Shergar remains open, but as Walter Swinburn put it, "I always say that the ending can never spoil the great memories."
Stable Mates
Here at horseracingtips.org.uk we appreciate that, although UK focused, it certainly doesn't hurt to cast a wide net at times and take a more worldwide approach. We've cast our gaze over US racing in the past and so it's high time we also did the same with Australian racing.
It was actually a rather sweet / funny story that led me to take a closer took at Australian racing over recent weeks. It was due to the story that went viral concerning a horse named Horsey McHorseFace. The horse was named after, or rather an acknowledgement of, the comedic name given to the UK research vessel now named RRS Sir David Attenborough. At the time the decision was made to ask the public via voting on the internet, what they thought the ship should be called. As you'd expect, these things never work out well and the name winning by a country mile was Boaty McBoatFace. The argument over whether to stick with this name comically went all of the way to government panels. In the end a compromise was made and a submersible on the ship kept the boaty name, which the ship itself was named after Attenborough.
In any case as stated, as a 'tip of the hat' to this, an Aussie horse was, to the amusement of many, named Horsey McHorseface. As it happened it's abilities were anything but comical, and when the three year old gained his first win in a 7f maiden race with Keagan Latham riding, the story made national and international news. He's only had one run since that time, which sadly wasn't a win, but we have high hopes for horsey. In fact I can't quite believe he doesn't yet have his own wikipedia page!
What else is going on in Australian racing you may ask? Well, let's not forget that the Melbourne Cup is fast approaching. Due to take place in Novembver, this jewel in the crown of Australian jump race events is bound to once again be one to watch. The best of the best will go head to head over a 3,200m course on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria. With total prize money equal or above an impressive $6,200,000 (AU) the race is bound to be a competitive affair.
Attendance at the course is expected to be around 100,000 with millions more watching at home and around the world too. Last year's winner was Almandin ridden by Kerrin Mcvoy. It's a bit too early for us to start making 2017 Melbourne Cup predictions, but we'll soon no doubt have a clearer idea of one's to watch!
When It's Just Not Your Day
I was skeptical of the 'this will make you give up punting' title to be honest, but to be honest if I'd been on this, I'd have felt cursed! File under 'It's not your day, mate!'
Cheltenham Festival Infographic
Something of a trip down memory lane here, with this Cheltenham themed infographic from 2015. The 2018 festival is just around the corner now and with that in mind I thought I'd highlight one or two past years previous to its start date on March 13th. The infographic takes a quirky and informative view of Cheltenham as a whole, with an emphasis on horse racing thrown in. £150 million + is bet on the festival each year. It's certainly one of the jewels in the crown of British horse racing.


Who is better? Tobi Uchiha или Madara Uchiha?
(Spoiler if Ты have not read the current Наруто manga) Do Ты think the 5 Kages will be able to defeat the Resurrected Madara?
What do Ты think about Madara with a mask not being the real Madara?
a comment was made to the poll: In Our World , don't Ты think he is born in the 19th century like Wolverine from the X - Men ?
Why can't Madara summon the 9 tailed beast?
The 9 tailed beast is inside Naruto.
Madara is afraid it might kill him.
The 9 tails is madara's enemy.


text:
As Above, So Below | MOVIE REVIEW
I am a sucker for found footage movies. Ever since I saw The Blair Witch project and was immobilized by fear I've wanted more. Thankfully the universe answered my call and found footage movies became a huge sub-genre for horror. They're generally cheap, easy to produce, and audiences react well making them the slasher film of the 2000's. That also comes with some baggage that the viewer needs to set aside when watching a found footage movie, beyond the normal suspension of disbelief. A hallmark of found footage is usually a bit of camp, hokey acting, and moments where you'll be left wondering why anyone would still be filming this. As Above, So Below has all of that in spades and more that unfortunately help drag down an otherwise interesting premise.
As Above, So Below goes off the rails seemingly right from the start. Things kick off in Iran where the main protagonist Scarlett is breaking into a system of tunnels set to be demolished. The action and suspense are supposed to be created by way of the characters talking about how she will be killed if she gets caught and then the warning sirens for the incoming demolition inside the tunnels, but it only makes you hate the protagonist. You have no idea why she's doing this but she just starts smashing things and breaking things. She does make the discovery of a bull statue with ancient writing on and and gets a picture right before the tunnels explode. She's forced to run to escape the collapsing tunnel but not before she encounters a random hanging body.
Right from this opening the problems already begin to pile up. First of all the protagonist who, in order for these movies to work, you need to sympathize with is an obnoxious person who takes needless risks and makes decisions that defies all logic. Most found footage and horror movies in general (at least the successful ones) will build up the tension and action slowly. Things usually seem normal and calm in the beginning the characters are established giving the viewer a chance to identify with them. As Above, So Below says "The hell with that" and immediately ramps up the action.
The movie continues with an interview of Scarlett done by our next character Benji. Benji is meant to be the level headed one that most viewers are supposed to relate to overall but it's hard to care about him when one of the questions he asks Scarlett is "Some people say your dad was insane because he killed himself, was he?" Which is pretty much par for the course for this movie that doesn't so much inundate the viewer with background information as smash the viewer repeatedly in the face with it. During the interview it's established that Scarlett is a symbologist and amateur archeologist who's father was searching for the philosopher's stone before he committed suicide. She is continuing his work and actually looking for the philosopher's stone for real.
Again the reliability of the characters and the suspension of disbelief are wiped away. Either Scarlett is extremely rich (which would beg the question why wasn't she better prepared) or she's getting funding from a university for her wild goose chase for the philosopher's stone. The former is the more plausible of the two considering the latter would have been laughed out of any university with the money to actually back her. It just adds to a growing list of issues and leap of faiths and the movie has only been going for about twenty minutes at this point.
We're next whisked away to the next protagonist introduction where we find our now duo breaking into an old church in France to find George, a supposed old friend, working on a broken bell tower. George miraculously is able to fix the bell that hasn't rung in 800 years in only a short period of time. Out of all the characters George is probably the most likeable. He's more practical and generally level headed, it's just ruined by the fact that he's some sort of Robin Hood that breaks into places but fixes things that supposedly no one could fix for centuries.
The movie then finds our now trio in a museum after hours removing items from their place and pouring chemicals on ancient stone tablets to reveal secret messages in old languages that just so happen to translate into perfectly rhyming poems in English. Right here is the point where you realize you are not watching a horror movie but a new National Treasure movie. I half expected the next batch of characters we run into to be Nick Cage and friends. Instead we get again rushed off to a mysterious club to find a guide for the Paris Catacombs but not before seeing a spooky pale girl who basically has nothing to do with the plot at all and just comes off as ridiculous and not foreboding as the movie intends.
Inside the club the trio meet up with Papillon the edgy bad boy guide who knows the Paris Catacombs. The next day they all meet up with Papillon's crew and start their journey. George keeps insisting that he's not going and doesn't take a headlamp/camera or any supplies. Papillon leads them to an abandoned train tunnel with a hole in the wall that leads into the restricted area of the catacombs. They all start to go in with George insisting he's staying behind. All of a sudden a lone super cop comes out of nowhere and tackles on the Papillon's crew forcing them all to go into the hole and thus the catacombs, including George.
They continue on deeper into the catacombs which for being so restricted and close off have a surprising amount of graffiti (including Papillon's tag which he so eagerly points out) and even a creepy cult of pale people dressed in white around a fire just chanting and being generally creepy. Don't worry though because they have nothing to do with the plot and don't show up again. Don't even try to think about how it was so difficult for our protagonists to get this far and they seem to just be fine, it's not important.
Our team come to a crossroads of sorts where they have the option of crawling through a bone filled cavern or going through a small door to a dark tunnel. Papillon warns them that the door is evil and his friend went down but never came back. They choose the bone tunnel. While crawling on their bellies the creepy choir cult chant get louder as if they're following the team and Benji gets stuck and starts panicking. Of course nothing comes of this. They make it to the other side and find a piano just there which George talks about having as a kid before his brother died and they only knew one song and couldn't finish because a key was broken and when he plays this one the key is also broken. Spooky scary stuff.
Things just get out of hand as they keep pushing deeper and deeper into the caves. All the tropes are there, they encounter that evil door again and this time have to go through, they seemingly go in circles and don't know where they are, and exposition galore revealing tragic backstories. They even run into the friend that went down the tunnel and never came back. This is also where any chance this movie had with building actual tension and preying upon fears is wiped out completely. The movie essentially turns into an action movie with a "friendship is magic" message, or should I say ACTUAL MAGIC.
The team finds a room filled with gold treasure and the actual Philosopher's stone which Scarlett so happily removes. When one of the crew gets injured she uses shavings from the stone to heal them. Yeah, there's literal magic in this movie but it gets better. At one point Scarlett realizes that the stone is working to bring someone back to life so she turns into a super hero, punches a stone demon in the face, runs at super sonic speed, climbs up a very long well figures out how to get the philosopher's stone to work. turns out the magic was in her all along so she runs back somehow makes blood demons that are in the water just go away, climbs back down, punches another demon in the face and brings someone back to life.
Despite all this I was hoping the ending for the movie would turns things around. Despite all the "The magic was in you all along" garbage I hoped that the ending would at least end on down note. My prediction was that they would keep going and basically reach hell and realize they were trapped. The movie ends with them finding a manhole cover which they push (not pull up cause they're upside down) out and reveal the streets of Paris. Even then I still held out hope that maybe there would be a shot of their dead friends or something to reveal they didn't actually escape, but nope, that's the end. They come out of the Catacombs and everything is just fine.
As Above, So Below has almost nothing going for it. The movie has never heard of the words suspense nor tension. It's constantly berates the viewer with needless backstory and exposition to make you feel for the characters and also to set up some of the things that happen. The characters themselves are all horrible people who have no regard for each other, culture, ancient ruins, and lack any sort of logic and common sense. Not even a quarter of the way through I was rooting for the catacombs to kill the characters and even then I wasn't entirely satisfied. There's so many moments in this movie that sort of just happen and are never talked about again and never allowed to linger on the viewers minds. Found Footage movies hinge on whether or not the audience buys that it's real. This movie doesn't ask you to suspend belief, it asks you to impale it and blow it up. There's moments where you witness hallucinations but in camera.
As Above, So Below manages to somehow encompass the worst aspects of found footage movies and add it's own problems. The characters are unlikable and unrelateable, the premise is absurd on it's face, it goes from horror to action schlock but never enters the so bad it's good territory. It goes so over the top that instead of being able to accept it as campy and charming it ends up being obnoxious and hard to watch. There's bad horror movies, there's bad found footage movies, and then there's As Above, So Below, this movie should be sent back to hell where it belongs.


We thinks what clients think, the urgency of urgency to act within the interests of a consumer position of theory, allowing for superior high quality, decreased processing costs, costs are additional reasonable, won the new and old customers the support and affirmation for Target Bean Bags , Large Bean Bag , target bean bags , friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation with you.
"Quality First,and Client Supreme is our guideline to deliver the very best assistance to our shoppers.These days, we have been trying our greatest to be amongst the ideal exporters inside our field to fulfill consumers extra will need for Target Bean Bags , Large Bean Bag , target bean bags , We've got top engineers in these industries and an efficient team in the research. What is more we've our own archives mouths and markets in China at low cost. Therefore we can meet different inquiries from different clients. Please find our website to check more information from our solutions.


You need the content of your article to stand out, without distracting errors in the written English. Our journal article proofreading service corrects language mistakes and confirms compliance with author guidelines. As an option, we can also edit your work and recommend changes in language and expression so your article is clear, concise and compelling.
We are a team of professional proofreaders and editors who understand exactly what is required to prepare a journal article for submission, including application of required referencing styles. You can see from our reviews that people love our services. We do all we can to help you complete an article that will achieve your academic goals.
Choose between Proofreading or Proofreading + Editing, whichever best suits your needs. We can apply standards including AMA, APA, Chicago, IEEE, MHRA, Harvard and Vancouver. We work on Microsoft Word, PDF and LaTeX documents.
Best for an article that has been edited and is almost ready for submission.
Best for an article that needs improvement in the overall quality of the writing.
We follow a three-step process to give you the best results. You can repeat any of the steps if you need to make revisions. We work with you to refine the wording until your article is ready for submission.
We check your article using track changes for corrections and the comments feature for recommended improvements.
We return your article to you so that you can review our changes and suggestions.
After you make further changes, we proofread the final version of your article.
Using our article proofreading and editing service is very straightforward. Start by generating your quote. Our price is based on the length of your document.