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Facts about astronaut Chris Hadfield, who returns from space Monday
The Canadian Press 05.12.2013
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency conducts a "fit check" dress rehearsal inside the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft Dec. 7, 2012.
NASA / Victor Zelentsov
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is scheduled to return to Earth on Monday after spending five months aboard the International Space Station.
Here are some facts about him:
—Born Aug. 29, 1959, in Sarnia, Ont., and raised on a corn farm in Milton, Ont.
—Married on Dec. 23, 1981, to Helene Hadfield, with three adult children: Kristin, Evan and Kyle.
—Becomes interested in flying from a young age and, as an air cadet, wins a glider-pilot scholarship at 15.
—Joins the Canadian Forces in May 1978 and goes on to fly CF-18s for NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command.
—In 1992, is selected to become one of four new Canadian astronauts from a field of 5,330 applicants.
—In 1995, becomes the only Canadian to ever board the Russian Space Station. Serves as a mission specialist on NASA's second shuttle mission to dock with the Mir station.
—In 2001, is mission specialist as U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour delivers and installs Canadarm2 on International Space Station. During the 11-day flight Hadfield performs two space walks, making him the first Canadian to float freely in space.
—In 2010, is commander of NEEMO-14, a NASA underseas facility off the coast of Florida. It uses the ocean floor to simulate exploration missions to the surface of asteroids, the moon and Mars.
—On Dec. 19, 2012, launches aboard a Russian Soyuz for a long-duration visit to the International Space Station. Is involved in more than 100 science experiments. Draws more than 750,000 social-media followers as he posts hundreds of pictures of Earth.
—On March 13, 2013, becomes first Canadian to command the space station during the last part of his five-month stay.
—Hadfield is due to return to Earth on Monday, May 13, aboard a Russian space capsule and land in Kazakhstan around 10:30 p.m. ET.
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Q: Deploying WAR to AWS Tomcat 404 Error I am trying to deploy a WAR file compiled in JDK 1.8 to an AWS Tomcat Elastic Beanstalk instance. the elastic beanstalk instance uses JDK 8 and Tomcat 8, so I don't understand why I'm getting 404 errors when deploying my WAR file. I'm using gradle to build and WAR the application if that is of any help.
the logs are too big to paste in, and I don't know what is significant, so I uploaded the bundled zip to my dropbox that you can find here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d1ssmz76pbqkn20/BundleLogs-1487348401257.zip?dl=0
my web.xml is also too long to paste in the question, so I will link to it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4m7v3fhcczs0ina/web.xml?dl=0
I know it's bad practice to give links on Stack Overflow because of their mutability, so once the solution is found I will edit the question to directly include the pertinent segments of code.

A: I am not too sure if this solved your issue. I had a similar issue and it was fixed after extending SpringBootServletInitializer. This is deone because my application runs using Tomcat 8, Java 8 platform, which is like a container. Generally you need to extends SpringBootServletInitializer when deploying a war in a container.
Here is a sample Application.java
@SpringBootApplication
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

A: Your error is pretty straight forward:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml; lineNumber: 477; columnNumber: 23; Error at (477, 23) : The servlets named [TextHistoryServlet] and [TextHistoryServlet] are both mapped to the url-pattern [/TextHistoryServlet] which is not permitted

Around that line you'll see:
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>CsvParseServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/CsvParseServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>TextHistoryServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/TextHistoryServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>TextHistoryServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/TextHistoryServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>SurveyServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/SurveyServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Remove the second mapping for TextHistoryServlet

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Colonel Marsh was born in Hartland, Vermont, on March 11, 1819, and was 44 years of age at the time of his death. He attended Norwich University, a military school in Vermont, where he studied under a well-known officer, Captain Partridge. Later he mover to Ohio, where he studied medicine; after he received his diploma, he returned to Vermont, married, and in 1846, moved with his wife to Potsdam, where he began to practice as a physician. Dr. Marsh was elected to the Board of Trustees of St. Lawrence Academy in 1850, and was a professor of mathematics and natural science there from 1855 until 1859. He was a religious man and a lay preacher in the Methodist Church in Potsdam.
At the battle of Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862, Lt. Col. Marsh received a mortal wound when he was hit by a minie ball, which entered his neck injuring the spinal cord and paralyzing his leg. Marsh was carried from the field by his men and taken to a hospital steamer, where he died a few days later. His body was sent to Fortress Monroe, where it was embalmed and sent home.
"...the citizens of Potsdam in this melancholy event feel that they have met with an irreparable loss and that they mourn with unweigned (sic.) sorrow that premature departure to the spirit world of the beloved physician, the scientific academical teacher, the zealous, pious teacher of the gospel, the true Christian gentleman, and lastly, the brave and gallant soldier, who at his country's call rushed to her defense and sacrificed his life on her alter"

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Everyone agrees that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has produced a fine spectacle but disagrees on whether it is good or bad for cricket. Film star brand ambassadors like Akshay Kumar and owners like Shah Rukh Khan and Preeti Zinta, the Washington Redskin cheerleaders and others provide the glamour and glitz to the three-hour cricket spectacle staged in the arena. Will the IPL produce a Roman spectacle, a fierce locally held identity that could spark hooliganism of the European football league variety, or a more diffuse community that spurs qualities of good citizenship?
On one end of the spectrum, you have the Roman gladiatorial spectacle where citizens came, cheered, saw a death and left satisfied. For Romans, the gladiator versus the beast was a bloody show that gave them a chance to come together and feel Roman against the outsiders (the gladiators and perhaps the beasts too).
On the other end of the spectrum, you have a situation where people with overlapping loyalties come together and cheer for their teams or for the underdog, but perhaps not caring enough for the winners or losers. For instance, if one is born in Chennai, has lived for a period in Hyderabad, and now resides in Delhi, which team is one loyal to? One may be happy if any of the three gets to the finals. We can call it the production of civic overlapping communities.
And in the middle of the spectrum, you have the strongly held local loyalties of a Dilliwala versus a Mumbaikar (similar to American football fans) who would die rather than cheer for the other team even if their team was not playing in the match. We can call it tribalism.
It is unlikely that the IPL will reproduce the Roman scenario because the players are local, national and international. Pakistanis jostle with Australians and Indians in one team, which, unlike the Roman spectacle where gladiators were not Roman, makes it hard for the spectators to feel Indian against the outsiders. In the IPL, the stakes are not life and death, and the boundaries are not between citizens and outsiders.
If not the Roman scenario, will the IPL produce fierce localism verging on hooliganism? The European experience with football suggests that fans would use any means, including hooliganism, to push their teams to victory. Hooliganism for sociologist John Clarke is a reaction on the part of alienated youths from disintegrated working class communities against the commercialisation and spectacularisation of football. The advertisements for IPL certainly suggest that the ideal viewer ought to possess almost tribe-like loyalties to a team. For fierce tribe-like city loyalty, IPL has to have a core fan base, which is not yet present and may never materialise.
"How can you generate city loyalty in a sport that is so focused on national identity?" says cricket historian Ramachandra Guha. Committed cricket fans are still ambivalent about IPL because they argue that the Twenty20 variant is a batsman's show and does not give a fair chance to the bowler. Guha and others argue that IPL commodifies cricketers and denudes the craft of the game. IPL may produce consumers, not committed fans, so fierce localism may not materialise either.
A nation is an imagined community, said British social anthropologist Benedict Anderson. Imagined because members of even the smallest nation will never meet or know all their fellow members "but in the mind of each lives the image of their communion". Every sport has its own imagined community. For instance, football and rugby in England attract the white, male, working class audience and exclude those like women and ethnic minorities who do not fit the category. Basketball is the favourite of ethnic minorities (mainly black) in the UK. But cricket transcends class, religious and linguistic cleavages. Go to any park or street in India and you will see poor and rich boys playing cricket, perhaps not together. Cricket fans include men and women of all ranks.
Will IPL produce Amartya Sen's multiple and overlapping imagined communities among the cricket fans of the world? What IPL may do is to bring fans and others together for three hours in a stadium, instead of just watching it from a distance on the small screen. The combination of sport and spectacle in the IPL games may generate an imagined community that transcends jingoism. There are promising signs for such a development. Notwithstanding the Bhaji-Sreesanth slap episode, the interaction between players on the field has been characterised by camaraderie rather than conflict. Among viewers too, there was fellow feeling as we, in one Delhi game, struggled to make sense of the scoreboard. Finally, people started using their cell phones to check with friends who were watching the match on TV and gaily shared the information with the rest of us. The start of a civic community perhaps? Maybe that is premature, but there are auspicious signs.
Tocqueville noted about America that citizens' groupings formed around sport to cultivate cultural values of equality, liberty, excellence and virtue. IPL could create a community based on the shared experience of watching a game. But to do so depends on several factors: a hassle-free experience for the fan in the arena, good security and policing, non-prohibitive ticket prices, players who display camaraderie with the opposing team and play in the spirit of the game, and more competitive pitches that offer batsmen and bowlers a fair game.
Unlike international cricket or any other game where India's national pride is at stake, an IPL game generates less jingoistic nationalism, and more community-like feelings. I asked a Delhi-based friend's driver whom he and his friends supported in IPL. He said that he supported the Delhi Daredevils and the Kolkata Knight Riders. He was not a Bengali. It turns out that they support teams with good players from the under-19 contingent. So speaketh the true cricket 'affectionado' for whom the sport trumps parochialism.
The teams that comprise players from New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan and India, among others, are melting pots that subsume racial, class and religious differences. One supports the entire team like Kolkata Knight Riders, not just Sourav Ganguly or Ricky Ponting. This helps educate and acclimatise fans and viewers into thinking globally not locally. One hopes IPL will produce more communities of viewers who share an enjoyable experience for three hours and learn to be civic-minded. But we have a long way to go.


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The most popular video streaming platform YouTube which is owned by Google is introducing its YouTube Originals to India in partnership with music maestro A.R. Rahman for its first such show in the country. After Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, YouTube is also bringing in 'Originals' for the Indian audience.
Meanwhile, the India originals will be on the company's ad-supported platform. But it will, gradually, launch an ad-free subscription service called YouTube Premium.
"Affordable data costs are driving video consumption in India, data usage is about 8 GB a month per subscriber. This has pushed online video consumption as well, which is now about 75% of all mobile traffic as per industry reports," said YouTube India Head of Entertainment Satya Raghavan.
Satya Raghavan also stated that the company is looking at multiple formats for original content in the country at a time when it is attracting 245 million unique users each month. These days people generally prefer online streaming platforms and therefore, with the use of Amazon, Hotstar and Netflix, the usage is expanding even more. These platforms offer a huge range of content to users online and now most of the people prefer the web over television.
This move will also help YouTube boost its business from online video ad-spends. The company stated that their goal is to further boost the ecosystem and supercharge the growth.
However, the timeline for launching the YouTube Premium in India has not been disclosed. The top executives of YouTube have signified that the company is planning to take YouTube Originals to many more international markets as part of the expansion plan.


In front of a packed crowd at Scottsdale Stadium, the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants took to the field for the first Spring Training game of 2011.
While the D-backs were handed a 7-6 loss from the Giants, the full story of Friday's ball game extends far beyond the box score.
Spring Training is always a time for pitchers to compete and prove themselves on the mound. The D-backs have several new faces fighting for spots this spring, and three of them toed the rubber in the team's opening game.
Southpaw Wade Miley and newly acquired right-handed relievers David Hernandez and Kam Mickolio all saw action against the Giants.
Miley — a young starting pitcher who isn't in the mix for a bullpen spot but can use this Spring to make an impression on the coaching staff — took over on the mound for the D-backs in the bottom of the third.
One of the team's most highly regarded prospects lived up to his hype in his first inning of work.
After walking the leadoff batter, Miley responded by inducing two groundouts and striking out Aaron Rowand to end an impressive inning.
Miley returned for a second inning of work, but had to battle a little bit. The left-hander issued a pair of walks to Andres Torres and Mark DeRosa.
Other than the walks, Miley looked as good as advertised on the mound.
Miley also said that while he was not completely happy with the outcome, it was good to get the first game out of the way.
Fans got a look at Hernandez in the bottom of the fifth. In his first outing in Sedona red, Hernandez looked sharp as he quickly got Pat Burrell to fly out to start the inning.
Hernandez walked Pablo Sandoval before rebounding and getting Aaron Rowand to fly to left field and striking out Travis Ishikawa to end the inning.
Following Hernandez, it was Mickolio who entered the game in the bottom of the sixth.
Mickolio hit the first batter he faced, but quickly quelled any hopes of a Giants rally. The tall reliever then got Emmanuel Burris to hit a weak pop out to third base.
Mickolio ended his first spring outing with two groundouts, and ultimately, the new D-back was happy with what he accomplished in his debut.
Friday's game was the first of the spring season for the D-backs, and like many of his teammates, Mickolio enjoyed taking the mound and competing against another team.
It's a gorgeous day in Scottsdale as the D-backs are set to take on the defending champion San Francisco Giants at Scottsdale Stadium at 1:00 pm today.
I'll try to bring some live blog details throughout the afternoon, including some quotes from Kirk Gibson's pre-game press conference. This game is being broadcast on Sports 620 KTAR, so tune in on your radio in your car or office or wherever you may be this afternoon.
Also expected to pitch – Wade Miley, Kam Mickolio and David Hernandez.
I'm actually excited to see all three of those pitchers. Miley has been impressive in bullpen sessions this spring and he was fantastic at Double-A last season, and Hernandez and Mickolio were the right-handed relievers acquired from Baltimore this offseason.
"(Joe) Paterson, we shut him down for one day, but he threw a bullpen today and knock on wood, everybody is healthy. Chris Owings (oblique injury) took groundballs today. Tomorrow he'll start throwing a little bit and do some light swinging.
Mora can hit anywhere. He can hit first or second, he could hit eighth and he wouldn't care. We were out for early work out, and we went out and guys were bunting, Zavada and Jaime were loosening up on Field one, and I went out to the batting cage and there's Mora with (Minor Leaguers Mike) Freeman and (Matt) Davidson, putting balls on the tee for them. That's just how he is. he's a true pro, a guy who just likes to play. There is no ego there at all. Mora could hit anywhere.
Just today and Sunday. The pitchers have hit a lot this spring. They've done a lot of bunting, a lot of slashing. They've hit a lot and for the first time through the games, it's a time for Joe (Saunders) to focus on pitching. I wanted to get some of the guys hitting, like Wily Mo. We'll do it against Sunday and that will be it.
— Great first inning for the D-backs, with Willie Bloomquist, Melvin Mora, Justin Upton and Miguel Montero all hitting singles to get up 2-0, and Brandon Allen coming through with a sacrifice fly to right to give them a 3-0 lead.
Joe Saunders followed up with a good, efficient 1-2-3 first inning concluding with a strikeout of Miguel Tejada.
All in all, it's exactly what you want to see from the D-backs this spring – quality at bats and good, efficient pitching.
— There's a hit-and-run for the D-backs here in the second inning, with Gillespie running to second and Bloomquist at the plate, and a grounder to third moves Gillespie up. I would imagine we'll see a good amount of that stuff this spring, it's exactly the reason they signed high-contact guys like Bloomquist and Mora.
— The updates aren't as fast and furious as I'd hoped — wireless internet has been a little sketchy at Scottsdale Stadium, I think the fact that there are far more writers than seats has caused some strain on the system.
Wade Miley looked very good in his first inning of relief, with a hitless inning, one walk, one strikeout. He's back for a second inning now.
Xavier Nady went deep with an opposite field home run. If you're familiar with the set up of Scottsdale Stadium, the ball went out right about where the outfield berm meets the Giants bullpen in right-center field. Nady is an important guy to watch this spring.
— David Hernandez is in to pitch for the D-backs, with the Giants leading 7-4. He is among the pitchers I'm most interested in seeing this spring. There is a good chance he can be a back-of-the-bullpen guy for the team this year. We now J.J. Putz is settled in as the team's closer, but the 7 and 8 inning roles are really up for grabs. Hernandez, Gutierrez and Heilman are the guys who have some experience in those roles, and they're the guys most likely to claim them this year.
Hernandez has good stuff, and his numbers in relief for Baltimore – a 3.16 ERA with a .236 opponents batting average in 37 innings – were pretty good and 15 of his 33 appearances were against the big bats of Boston, New York, Tampa Bay and Toronto.
— It's all over here, D-backs fall to the Giants 7-6. We'll be out at Salt River Fields tomorrow for the opening of the new ballpark against the Colorado Rockies in front of a sell-out crowd. Should be exciting!


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Julia, Lady Namier (also known as Iulia de Beausobre;  Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina) (1893-1977) was a Russian writer. She wrote several works on Christian spirituality, and a biography of her husband, British historian Lewis Bernstein Namier.

Biography

Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina was born in 1893 and brought up in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her first husband, Nicolai de Beausobre, a Russian diplomat  reportedly persecuted by the Communist authorities, died in the 1930s. Iulia herself was exiled to a concentration camp. She was ransomed by her former governess, a British woman, and migrated to Britain. She left Russia in 1934.

In Britain, she published an autobiography, The Woman Who Could Not Die (1938) and reflections on Creative Suffering (1940). She went on to publish a translation of Russian Letters of Direction by Macarius the Elder of Optino (1944), and a life of St Seraphim of Sarov, Flame in the Snow (1945), based on popular sources rather than the official hagiography.

In 1947, she married historian, Lewis Bernstein Namier, who was knighted five years later, in 1952. After his death in 1960, she wrote his biography, for which she received the James Tait Black Award in 1971. She died in 1977.

Selected works
 The Woman Who Could Not Die (1938)
 Creative Suffering (1940)
 Russian Letters of Direction by Macarius the Elder of Optino (1944)
 Flame in the Snow  A Russian Legend (1945)
 Lewis Namier: A Biography (1971)

References

Further reading
 Constance Babington Smith, Iulia de Beausobre: A Russian Christian in the West (1983)

1893 births
1977 deaths
20th-century Russian writers
20th-century British writers
British biographers
20th-century biographers
Soviet emigrants to the United Kingdom
Wives of knights

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It's cold. Are you cold? I'm cold and it's not even that cold out. I'm an old wimp these days. When I was a kid we would take our bikes out on days like this and skid out on the icy streets and try and do donuts. Lately the thought of going outside for any other reason than chores or errands sends shivers down my spine. Well, except for skiing/snowboarding...that activity is always an exception.
There are some interesting games coming out this week. Some, actually all, are not my cup of tea but I have played games like them in the past and I can appreciate them. If you are into visual novels, 4x strategy, graphic adventures or the umbrella corporation you're in luck!
The reason Life Is Strange does so well is the writing. It is a really good story and while I love games with a good story I am more of an action guy. Truth be told, I really want to play Life Is Strange, but I don't know if I can emotionally invest in this game. As a parent of two teenagers that have had their own challenges it hits a little too close to home for me.
A remake of the classic and updated for the latest and greatest consoles, Resident Evil 2 returns this week! If you are a fan of the series I suggest you take a look at this one as I know Capcom put a lot of love and care into remaking this classic.
At the Gates is a 4x strategy game designed by Jon Schafer (lead designer for Civ 5). You start as a barbarian and your goal is to over throw the Roman Empire. You know...that old chestnut. Hex tile junkies rejoice!
Chaos; Child is a Japanese visual novel game that was released for consoles back in 2014. It makes it's PC debut on Tuesday.


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Morey Saint Denis 1er Cru 2006
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Morey Saint Denis 1er Cru 2006 red wine of Burgundy
Domaine Magnien
The Domaine Magnien is located in Morey St Denis in the heart of the Côte de Nuits, famous for these great red wines of Burgundy, especially its Grands Crus.
Producer of the greatest wines of Burgundy, it offers beautiful appellations like Charmes Chambertin, Chambolle Musigny, Morey St Denis, and even the Clos Saint Denis Grand Cru.
Stéphane Magnien follows in the footsteps of his father Jean Paul to offer extremely well-crafted wines, with a professionalism and rigor of every moment.
Wine Characteristics
Most of the vineyards are planted with Pinot Noir grapes, although a few parcels are planted with Chardonnay or Pinot Blanc varieties, yielding a rare and interesting white wine, generally quite firm and opulent.
Red: its colour is usually a full, firm, bright ruby, carmine or intense garnet with purplish highlights. The bouquet is partly of black fruits (blackcurrant, bilberry) and partly of red, pitted fruits such as cherries. Variants include bramble, violet, liquorice, and fruits conserved in liquor. When older it often evokes the "wildwood" scents of game, leather, and moss, even truffle.
Sustained and structured, this wine lingers in the mouth without flinching – it has just the right balance between body and fruit. With its rounded tannins and mouth-filling generosity, it sings tenor, so to speak, in the Burgundian choir.
Wine Steward's Tip
Masculine in character, as one expects from the Côte de Nuits, full and powerful in the mouth, red Morey-Saint-Denis is most at home with meats of equally strong flavours. Its tannins are more likely to bring out the best from a game bird (such as a pheasant) than a piece of veal, for example. Feathered game, braised or roasted, will succumb smoothly to its meaty texture, and its sustained tannins will continue to make their presence felt until the last succulent, musky mouthful. The tannins, again, will bring out the full quality of a fine rib steak or a nice thick beef blade. Soft-centred cheeses will find in this wine a compatible partner.
Serving temperature: 13 to 15°C.
Rich in Premiers Crus, Morey-Saint-Denis boasts also 5 Grands Crus (Clos de Tart, Bonnes Mares, Clos de la Roche, Clos Saint-Denis, Clos des Lambrays).
The appellation forms a bridge, between the wines of Gevrey-Chambertin and those of Chambolle-Musigny. The history of this wine-growing village has in the past been heavily influenced by the powerful religious house of Vergy, the abbeys of Cîteaux and Tart, and by some of the great Burgundian families. Of its wine, Dr. Lavalle wrote in 1855, "it can be said that it lacks nothing". The AOC status was instituted in 1936.
The vines grow on limestone and clay-limestone soils dating from the Middle
Jurassic: white Bathonien Oolite up-slope and fossiliferous Bajocien limestone at the foot. The vineyards are east-facing and are at altitudes of 220-270 metres.
Immediately below the village the slopes are differently oriented and the soil is more marly.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
Gibier à poil ou plumes, beuf rôti. Fromages à saveurs relevées.


Definitely not, unless you are just using it for archiving. IDE drives work fine. We have 3 200 GB IDE drives in our G4 and are ready to put in one more. Firewire drives take too long to access and transfer data.
should i transfer it to my internal?
or just hook it up and rock?
If it were me I would transfer, just for the sake of redundancy.
No playback off firewire drives. It's just asking for trouble. Maybe if you set your buffer size to half an hour.
I guess i'm fine if i keep my dual 800 then and the ATTO card for my initial jump to PT.
How about the implementaion of Auto delay compensation? How's that work? Is it straightforward? Track specific? Is it as kickass as advertised?
fibes, when are you making the switch over?
I've got 11 grand to go, three down... Unless i get a sponsorship. heheheheheheh!
In a nutshell, it'll be Xmas before i'm flush. my system is working fine now and the Xmas slowdown is always a good time to re-tool.
I've been lucky (But then again, I'm not in Mac land so my card drivers exist) that my SCSI rigs have moved without so much a problem, some older drives (Specially, as much as it pains me, some of my older sample libraries) refuse to play with SCSI-160 and upwards... fortunately there's ways around that.
As for Firewire, at the moment I'm using FW drives for backup, I wouldn't dream on recording to them (Then again, I'm on Windows, and Windows and firewire have a weird love/hate relationship).
That's one thing that's bugging me of late, seeing that Digi is all too eager to get the Windows DAW market away from Steinberg and Magix, why not a Winblows PC for your HD rig? So far the reports I've had of PT on windows is that it's as unstable as PT on the Mac (Whatever that meant, not sure if it was an insult or a compliment).
What I do believe, is that if you go for a dual G5, make sure everything else you need is covered, three meagre PCI-X slots are not nearly enough, and expansion chassis are expensive and unreliable.
especially if you're just mixing off PT scsi is not needed. hell, I've been using FW for years without a hitch. Only time I have any issues is when I'me doing a tranfer and have 32 tracks recording at once and the drives a bit full or fragmented.
J. has bought the farm. Prepare for the end times.
"Tell all my people, these are the last days!"
Its kinda funny I just looked my window, and saw the strangest thing. Apparently pigs are now being genetically modified to have wings.
I'm not even going to mention the primates out of my backend.
Congrats. Hell if J. Robbins has a PT right why cant you, right?
Hehehehe... oh well, we lost Kenny and now we lost J.


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VIDEO: Annual march shows Gympie's powerful Anzac spirit
Gympie pays special Anzac Day tribute: Thousands of locals packed the streets to pay their respects and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
ANZAC Day pride remained as powerful as ever in the Gympie region well into yesterday's commemorations, with crowd numbers well into the thousands lining Mary St to witness the annual march make its way through the CBD.
On a day which began with an emotional Memorial Lane dawn service underneath the eternal flame, and continued with another poignant ceremony on Normanby Hill, young and old came together to pause for thought and remembrance as veterans, cadets and school students marched past.
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- WATCH: T-28 Trojan flies over Gympie at 300km/h
- Gympie veteran remembers 39 years in the air force
- WWII vet among 700-strong Tin Can Bay crowd
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Toddlers sat on their fathers' shoulders to get a good view, while older kids sat alongside their parents outside the Royal Hotel, waiting to give a wave and a round of applause to returned soldiers from World War II all the way through to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some viewers took to standing on the Mary St Arcade roof to grab a better view of the passing parade.
The vast majority of Gympie region schools were well-represented by participating students, some of which wore medals passed down from their families, while others played their parts in marching bands performing the likes of Waltzing Matilda and When The Saints Go Marching In.
An eye-catching feature came from the flypasts of the iconic North American T-28 Trojan, piloted by Ross Parker and reaching speeds up to 400km/h.
The parade finished in Memorial Park, where crowds remained to embrace long-held traditions like the Ode of Remembrance, The Last Post, the minute's silence and the Australian national anthem.
Distinguished speaker and Vietnam veteran David Collins reflected on his 39-year career in the Royal Australian Air Force between 1960 and 1999, which included flying more than 600 missions in South Vietnam resupplying the Army with personnel, ammunition, food and water as a helicopter airman.
He encouraged the crowd to "give a wave" the next time they saw a veteran, or an army truck driving up and down the highway.
"Lest we forget," he concluded.
Rising musical talent Alison Jensen performed her original Aussie anthem Mate by Mate, and Karen De Vere closed the ceremony with a rendition of Waltzing Matilda, echoing Gympie RSL Club board member Col Morley's call to end the commemoration with a celebration.
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We have an expert who has established a wormery at Audlem St James. The children in Pearl Class discovered that a wormery will recycle your waste food to make a superb fertiliser for your crops and a living soil in your containers. Wormeries are perfect for small spaces: they're small, don"t smell and make compost faster than conventional composters.
The children found that a small supply of food: tea bags, banana skins, vegetable peelings, coffee grounds, are all good to add. If you chop it up, the worms will be able to process it faster. You can also add processed and cooked food to a wormery — but avoid adding in any quantity, particularly until the wormery is well established. As well as food waste, you need to add about 20 — 30% carbon rich matter like cardboard, newspaper or wood chip.
Vegetable peel, banana skins, pea pods, tea and coffee grounds, a bit of pasta — all good food for worms.
The children enjoyed learning about the wormery and asked relevant questions.


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Abortion clinic will not receive Texas bishops' emails, court rules
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Austin, Texas, Jun 20, 2018 / 12:26 pm
The 23 bishops of Texas will not have to turn over emails and other communications to an abortion provider, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
The ruling came in response to a Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops (TCCB) appeal from an order from a trial court on Sunday requiring the bishops to hand over private documents to Whole Woman's Health, a chain of abortion facilities in the state.
Whole Woman's Health filed suit against the State of Texas two years ago over a law that requires aborted fetal remains to be either buried or cremated. Previously, the remains were treated as medical waste and thrown into a landfill.
Although the bishops are not party to the lawsuit, Whole Woman's Health attempted to acquire various communications from the TCCB concerning abortion. These included private email and internal communications between bishops.
The bishops had previously offered to bury aborted fetal remains for free in Catholic cemeteries in Texas.
The bishops had requested emergency protection of their emails and other documents from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which put a halt to Sunday's order. The court ordered additional briefs to be submitted by Monday, June 25.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the TCCB, said that the bishops deserve privacy from the government in their communications.
"Government should not have unbounded power to insert itself into the private conversations of any group, much less the leadership of the Catholic Church," said Eric Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel at Becket.
"Constant surveillance of religious groups is a hallmark of totalitarian societies, not a free people."
Rassbach's sentiment was echoed by Texas bishops, who reiterated the importance of being able to have private deliberations amongst themselves.
Bishop Joe S. Vasquez, from the Diocese of Austin, said that he and his brother bishops have "not just a right, but a duty to speak out on issues that concern justice, mercy, and a consistent ethic on life."
To do this, Vasquez said, it is critical that they be able to deliberate with each other privately prior to issuing a statement on a topic. He said the court's ruling was "vital" for the Church.
"Children are not disposable," said Bishop Edward J. Burns from the Diocese of Dallas, comparing the lawsuit to the policy of separating undocumented children from their parents at the U.S. border.
"We believe that life is sacred from the moment of conception. We also believe that we have a right to discuss in private how to address this issue and uphold the dignity of every human life, and that while upholding the sacredness of life may seem at odds with some people, our religious liberties and religious rights should not be eroded."
Abortion,


My brother Jeff was six when I came along and a sibling didn't fit into his plans. As far as he was concerned I didn't exist. He went to great lengths to let our parents know of his displeasure by not coming home from school on time.
Fast forward a year or two to the present. Jeff and his wife Debbie have retired to Wilmington NC where they enjoy living 15 minutes from the beach. Due to geographic distance, we don't see each other often, save an occasional Skype session or Facebook post.
I decided it was time to pay the Wilmington Wisoffs a visit. The first week of August seemed the perfect time since my husband would be going to Sturgis for the annual bike rally.
Although my connecting flight from Charlotte to Wilmington was delayed and I didn't arrive at ILM until after midnight, Jeff, Debbie and I sat and talked until after 3:00 AM. After a short night's sleep, we had leisurely morning, drinking coffee and chatting some more. This was pretty much the pattern for the week—lots of coffee and conversation.
The first day—Wednesday—Jeff and Debbie showed me around the area which included a walk on the beach.
Thursday it was time to suit up and 'swim' at Kure Beach. However the waves were particularly forceful. While I didn't spend a lot of time in the water, I did snap a few shots of wine glasses on the beach as models for future paintings.
After dumping at least a pound of sand in the shower, we settled in for a cozy evening of conversation and a wonderful salmon dinner. Or was that Wednesday night's dinner?
Friday night we went to downtown Wilmington for a wonderful seafood dinner at Elijah's Restaurant and a free concert in front of the courthouse with AC/DC tribute band Shoot to Thrill. Not my favorite kind of music but I was with two of my favorite people.
Every day I enjoyed my furry fixes from my three canine nieces, Pip, Lacee and Jackie. Pip, in particular, is a lover. I call her Pip-Plop since all you have to do is make eye contact and she falls on her side for a tummy rub. Jeff says I'm just another pair of hands to her, but I'm sure there was some bonding. You're buying this, right?
Saturday we visited Airlie Gardens to see the Gnome Invasion. However rain put a damper on things so it wasn't a lengthy visit, albeit an interesting one. Even under gray skies, the scenery was gorgeous.
Sunday night we went to see Mary Chapin Carpenter, whose music I honestly wasn't familiar with. Where have I been the past 30 years, right? In any event, she and her backup musicians were fantastic as was her warm up singer, Emily Barker from Australia. Both of these ladies can entertain.
On Monday the shops were closed so it was the perfect time to see if the ocean had calmed any at Kure Beach. I'm happy to say it had, but not calm enough to swim laps. The waves are more geared to surfers but it was still fun to attempt a breast stroke or two.
Tuesday, my last day in Wilmington, we went back downtown to shop. There are quite a few art, clothing and curio shops. Jeff and Debbie showered me with a lot of early birthday presents.
Alas, the week went too fast. I had a very early Wednesday morning-before-sunrise flight, leaving little time for much coffee or conversation.
Thank you for sharing your vacation with us. Can't blame Jeffrey and Debbie for retiring in such a wonderful spot.
Lotsa love and great photos!
I love seeing Jeff and Debbie content. They and their pups are a happy family. This visit was a most significant one for me, and I think for my brother as well. You're right, it's better late than never.
I am so glad you got to spend a week with Jeff and Debbie, and the special bonding that happened.
Loved it! I had the similar childhood! He still hasn't figured it out. You're lucky!
You look like troublemakers together, are you?
It puts a smile to my face reading how much you have enjoyed yourself.
Howdy Doody is long gone, but you're still here. I'm glad you and your brother are now good friends. I have a brother. He too is a great guy.
Your comments make me smile. Yes, I think a new friendship has been forged. Thank you so much for reading and taking the time to comment.
far from living down the street.
have and know that you have a gift in him.
Due to the six year difference between us and a few other family dynamics, Jeff and I have never been what you'd call close. I've been to visit him before and we had good times, but there was something so special about this one. And as you say, things were said on this visit that never have been before.
I got a text from my brother yesterday with a little video from the beach saying they missed me. Thant's NEVER happened before. Left me with tears of joy.
Gracias para leyendo me cuento. Me hace contenta.
My friend, I'm so pleased you found me. The internet can be like navigating shark infested waters sometimes, can't it? As for my holiday…best ever with my brother and I suspect will be repeated. Thank you for reading and leaving such kind words.
Happy for you . I have not met my elder sis for a long time.
This was the most significant time I've ever had with my brother. He's my one and only sibling and the time we spent laughing and reminiscing was amazingly wonderful. I will cherish this visit…and Jeff…forever.
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment, that is also something I cherish.
Jeff and I haven't always gotten along. As children we fought like heathens. Later our relationship was mutual tolerance. This last visit was one of love, mutual memories and healing.
Thank you for taking the time to read and leave such a nice comment.
This is lovely! Thank you for sending me to this link to read more, and I'm so glad you had this week together and that it was such an excellently re-bonding and re-visiting and reconnecting week (and yeah, I do believe even the most belly-plop-pup gets the vibes of people they's surrender themselves for a belly rub before submitting … and that auntie ones get special treatment … so there's that!).
Glad for you, and for your brother.
60 year later, perhaps, but time ain't linear. So … it perhaps heals backwards, too, somehow.


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El vel en micologia, és una de les diverses estructures de què disposen els fongs, concretament és la membrana prima que cobreix el capell i la tija en els fongs immadurs.

Com cada teixit del fong, exceptueant-ne l'himeni, el vel està compost de teixit hifal estèril. En molts casos l'himeni fèrtil s'estén pel dessota del vel en alguna llargada.

L'avantatge del vel, des d'un punt de vista evolutiu, es considera que està lligat a la dispersió de les espores; un vel permet alliberar més fàcilment les espores al vent o sobre animals que hi passin. Malgrat això molts fongs no tenen vel com per exemple els fongs amb "copa", els fongs amb "esfera", amb "estel", alguns de la família Polyporaceae, els fongs gelatinosos, etc.

Tipus de vel
Els vels poden ser classificatrs en dues categories:
 Vel universal o vel general
 Vel parcial

Vel universal
Embolcalla completament el fong en l'estat primordial i quan es desenvolupa el carpòfor, s'esquinça deixant residus més o menys visibles i persistents com és la volva, l'anell i la cortina.

Vel parcial
El vel parcial és un teixit que té funcions protectores de l'himenòfor en moltes espècies d'Agaricales.

A l'estadi primordial i a l'inici del desenvolupament del carpòfor es troba sota el capell, entre el peu i el seu marge. Quan madura s'esquinça i forma l'anell descendent que no s'ha de confondre amb l'anell ínfero-ascendent que deriva del vel universal.

En alguns casos, com per exemple en Agaricus bitorquis o Catathelasma imperialis, hi són presentes els residus dels dos anells citats i hi ha un doble anell.

Característiques
Sovint la presència o no de vel és necessària per classificar un bolet, algunes característiques distintives són:

 Estructura (fibrosa, fràgil, coriàcia, etc.)
 Restes de vel parcial.
 Fusió a la base del fong.
 Dimensió i forma.
 Extensió sota terra del vel en una mena de rizoma.

Per una classificació més exacta no s'ha de tallar el bolet arran de terra sinó arrencar-lo sencer.

Vegeu també
 Làmina
 Estípit
 Volva
 Anell

Referències

Morfologia dels fongs


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Lube Me Up Mr. Celebrity
My growing fascination with the obscure ends of the NY Times lead me to this fascinating article about a new middleman in the music industry. The social networking sites theoretically bring fans closer to their idol (I'm friends with M.I.A. but the relationship is so one way and she never calls me back) but lacks any real connection to the person. Enter BuddyLube, the worst named company in America. Either a new addition to Jenna Jameson's massive porn empire or a service to bring artists "closer" to their fans by making exclusive items available only to them. By being "closer", you still don't interact directly with the musician. Instead, you can share your love affair of a particular artist with other fans – which may be more enriching in the long run than simply meeting your idol. Fans love sharing their experiences and competing for the next "one-up" scenario – backstage passes, exclusive memorabilia, unreleased downloads, etc.
This area of the middleman seems to be one of the growing trends in the industry. If the formal label is dying, why not capitolize on the middle area – making the fan and the artist more accessible. There will always be a barrier. Why not take advantage of it and build tiny holes that make it seem less broad.
NYT Magazine – Getting Along Famously
November 20th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
New Issue: Kate Nash
Kate Nash, Made of Bricks – And your new, reigning queen of quirky pop is Lily Al….wait. Now that the summer is over and the fresh reggae rhythms have lost their appeal in the autumn breeze, Kate Nash has supplanted Lily Allen for the leading young female singer-songwriter getting tons of buzz and airplay. "Foundations" is now a mainstay in London lounges and her album has hit #1. All of her UK shows are sold out. She has everything necessary for the makings of a great career. Except one thing – a good album.
Even with significantly greater talent as a musician than her obvious foil, Made of Bricks falls flat with bratty lyrics and limited melodies. "Foundations"shows off her potential for creating solid piano hooks and a few tracks follow in the footsteps ("Pumpkin Soup", "Mouthwash"). However, the overall effect is one of youthful spite with subpar lyrics and piano melodies that are too easy on the ears, losing their flavor after only a few listens. Even with slightly redundant lyrics, Allen's Alright, Still had more staying power due to the fresh beats and reggae feel. Nash will need to hone her style to keep up with the rising level of female talent in the UK.
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Top Drops: October
Since I was deathly ill for most of the month, I didn't have a chance to listen to many new albums this month. The few I did get to, however, are on repeat and well worth the purchase.
Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon – In spite of my fear for his outward appearance, I keep coming back to this album on a crisp fall day. The warmth of the Tropicalia-infused folk and his inventive if not off-kilter lyrics merge well with the wonderful weather we are having in London (sunny and warm mornings with brisk evenings). Guess who's going to see him during birthday month…
Jens Lekman, Oh Your So Silent, Jens – I can't stress how great it is to hear well done pop with witty lyrics by a Norseman. A slight hint of self deprecation and you have a great early compilation album from a rising songwriter.
St. Vincent, Marry Me – Yeah, I picked her last month, but I can't seem to put her down. The flow of the album -from jarring electronic rock to the touching acoustic work – makes for a complete sound that is just too alluring to put down. This may be in the running for album of 2007 (don't fret Arcade Fire – every other list will pick you).


Victoria Quance, left, Emma McKnight and Hannah Vickers, hold the championship banner after helping the London Devilettes win the OWHA Intermediate AA gold medal final. London blanked Kingston, 3-0.
Emma McKnight, Victoria Quance and Hannah Vickers are concluding their minor hockey days as provincial champions.
The three forwards, all from Dorchester and Grade 12 students at Lord Dorchester Secondary School, helped the London Devilettes win the Ontario Women's Hockey Association (OWHA) Intermediate AA championship, blanking Kingston, 3-0, in the gold medal final.
McKnight secured the victory, scoring into an empty net in the final minute of the third period.
Hannah Tait and Julia Gosling gave London, a 2-0 lead.
"I don't have words to explain it. This is my last year playing with London and I had never made it to a provincial final. The feeling is indescribable," said Vickers, who had a goal and three assists, over six games in the 16-team tournament. "I still can't believe it happened. This is an unforgettable experience for my last year of minor hockey."
Vickers, also a noted soccer player, will be attending Western University in September and be on the pitch with the Lady Mustangs.
Quance and McKnight will be playing hockey for Nipissing University, in North Bay and Queen's University, in Kingston, respectively.
London opened the provincial tournament, with a 3-0 pool record, before edging Kitchener, 3-2, in the quarterfinals. Julia Gosling with two goals and Maggie McKee scored.
In the semifinals, London beat Stoney Creek for this first time this season, with a 2-1 victory. Gosling and McKee, both potted power play goals.
After upending Stoney Creek, the Devilettes faced the Provincial Women's Hockey League's (PWHL) first place team, for the provincial crown. In two league meetings earlier this season, Kingston won in overtime and thumped London, 8-2.
"We've come a long way since the start of the season, so we definitely knew it was possible," Vickers said. "Our big motto at the tournament was family. That showed on the ice as well. That helped us push along. It starts off the ice. We have a strong bond between all of us."
Due to injuries, London played the tournament with only two lines.
For Vickers, the gold improves on a pair of bronze medals from previous seasons.
Quance, who wears number seven for the Devilettes, picks up her seventh provincial medal, book-ending her career with gold medals. Ten years earlier, Quance was a provincial champion with the Devilettes' Novice A team. In between, Quance also earned a gold, two silvers and two bronze medals.


The smell of fish and chips evokes both winter evenings and summer at the seaside. It's the ultimate comfort food. And it may surprise you to know that it's also one of the healthiest meals you can eat - assuming you stay active in between helpings and take a walk like our gent does around the reservoir or along the Strawberry Line.
The other day I met a man who drives to a certain fish bar in the Strawberry Line District every Saturday from Bristol for fish and chips because he said the particular shop was the best in the west. This after a visit to buy cider but before a walk around the reservoir in Cheddar. The gent makes a valid point - once you've found a fish bar you trust - visiting it is habit forming - and for many a weekly routine that cannot be broken.
consisting of three or four parts give you much of your daily calorie in take at more than 1,000 calories and a cheeseburger and chips easily has more calories than cod and chips.
Fish and chips have been a favourite on the nation's menu since the mid 19th century when battered fish and fried sliced pototoes became universally popular at the height of the industrial revolution. And one of the reasons was that fish could be tranported swiftly by train. In the early 1860s the first fish and chip shops in the modern sense began to open across the country and by the end of the century had given rise to fish restaurants and the now familiar chippy. The low price, tasty combination of white fish and salted chips plus a high fat content from the lard used to fry the meal ensured a nutritional and filling meal for people on a low income. By 1910 there were 25,000 chippies across the country with the first ones opening in the Strawberry Line District in the Edwardian era.
By the 1920s chippies were to be found in Clevedon catering for the day trippers, and in Cheddar for those exploring the Gorge and caves - taking the train from Yatton or Wells. Colin Force from Yatton can remember going to the Curzon Cinema in Clevedon and popping out for a bag of chips costing a few coppers in the intermission in the early 1950s with the manager holding up the second feature until everyone were back in their seats. After the war Mr Hawkings opened a chippy in Yatton (close to where the Cooperative store is today) where for 1/6d you could buy cod and chips. At around the same time in Clevedon there were two chippies - one owned by Mr Webb by the Triangle and another near the Plough Inn on the road to Tickenham - although by the 1960s prices were over two bob for fish and chips and rising.
Pearline Clarke who worked as a hello girl in Cheddar's telephone exchange recalls how a van would visit the villages selling fish and chips on particular days including Wedmore, Draycott and Axbridge. In Cheddar the Thomas family opened a chippy by the White Hart just before the war although due to the rationing of lard the shop only opened on a Friday and Saturday until after hostilities ended. Just one penny purchased a small bag of chips.
Axbridge recalls the visits of the chip van continuing until the 1970s. He can remember customers looking at the town hall clock in anticipation of the arrival of their weekly supply of chips, while window cleaner Ron Moulton recalls the chip van pulling up in the railway yard in the 1950s to bring the villagers their weekly fix of fried fish.
Still going today, Tuckers in Wells supplied hot fish dinners to the railway workers and factory hands of the city through the war and into the 1960s, while there are also fish and chip shops today in Winscombe, Churchill, Congresbury, Yatton and Clevedon. There are not many business models from Victorian England that still hold their own in a world where there is so much choice. From Chinese and Indian restaurants to Kebab shops, fast food burger joints we've never had so much selection. And yet the fish and chip bar is still as popular as when you got a cone of chips wrapped in newspaper for one penny.
Where's your favourite chippy? Do you recall memories of fish and chip shops from years ago on the Strawberry Line? Send in your thoughts to strawberrylinetimes@hotmail.co.uk and we can share them with our readers on the website.


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Ohio State seeks replacement for departed RB…
Ohio State seeks replacement for departed RB Elliot
Jay LaPrete — The Associated Press file
Ohio State running back Bri'onte Dunn rushes during their spring game in Columbus, Ohio. With Ezekiel Elliott preparing for the NFL draft next month, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is at spring practice trying to figure out how to replace one of the greatest Buckeyes ball carriers of all time.
By Mitch Stacy |
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2016 at 4:53 p.m. | UPDATED: June 17, 2021 at 6:09 a.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio >> With Ezekiel Elliott preparing for the NFL draft next month, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is at spring practice trying to figure out how to replace one of the greatest Buckeyes ball carriers of all time.
Meyer must find the player – or players – who will account for the 1,874 rushing yards and stellar pass blocking Elliott contributed last year before deciding to leave a year early. Elliott had his breakout season during the Buckeyes' improbable march to the national championship in 2014, and in three years rushed for nearly 4,000 yards. Huge cleats to fill.
Will fifth-year senior Bri'onte Dunn, an underperformer whose best moments have been on special teams, take advantage of the opportunity? Will heralded redshirt freshman Mike Weber step up and be the man? Will true freshman Antonio Williams crack the depth chart?
Hard to tell right now, but so far in this spring Meyer is optimistic about what he's seen from all three.
"Bri'onte Dunn and Mike are neck and neck," Meyer said this week, and Williams is "earning respect."
Invisible for most of his OSU career, Dunn worked his way back into Meyer's good graces with an attitude adjustment and hustle on special teams. He had 14 carries for 91 yards and a touchdown last year playing behind Elliott.
"I'm so impressed with him," Meyer said. "We all know a couple years ago, there wasn't a whole lot of conversation about him."
Dunn (6-foot, 215 pounds) won't say outright he expects to be the starter this fall, but naturally that's his goal. He'd like to make some noise in Columbus in his last year of eligibility. With the job now wide open, the timing might be right.
"This year is going to be a big year for me," he said Thursday after the Buckeyes' seventh practice of the spring. "I just want to lead my team."
Huge things are expected of Weber, a 5-foot-10, 215-pound Detroit product who spurned Jim Harbaugh and Michigan to come to Ohio State in 2015. However, a knee injury in fall camp last year set him back and he ended up being redshirted, so he still has four years of eligibility.
"Mike's probably a little more of a slasher and slides off things a little better than Bri'onte, or different from Bri'onte," running backs coach Tony Alford said. "Bri'onte is more a downhill (runner), a plugger. They both can do the jobs we need them to do in this offense."
Williams, the 5-foot-11, 215-pound early enrollee from North Carolina, was considered one of the gems of the 2016 recruiting class. He's been involved a lot this spring and has impressed coaches so far.
"He's hungry, he wants to do it right," Alford said. "He's a perfectionist by nature."
Regardless of who participates at running back, Ohio State surely will get the ball into the hands of Curtis Samuel, who backed up Elliott in 2014. As an H-back last year – a hybrid receiver/running back in Ohio State's system – he had 22 receptions for 289 yards and two touchdowns, and picked up 132 yards on 17 carries and a TD on the ground. He's out this spring while recovering from foot surgery but expects to be healthy this fall.
FRESHMEN IMPRESS: Meyer this week singled out early-enrolled freshman Michael Jordan (6-7, 302) as making an impact as the Buckeyes look to replace three departing starters on the offensive line. Freshman wide receiver Austin Mack also got kudos from Meyer this week. At practice Thursday he became the first freshman to lose the black stripe from his helmet, a symbol he's now a full-fledged member of the team.
Mitch Stacy
Pickett, Penn State blister Michigan 83-61
Edey scores 38 as No. 1 Purdue overwhelms Spartans 77-61


What manner of artist ignores the commercialism of the 2000's and produces underground electronic music? Certainly not the milksop, nor the average, nor the society conscious, nor the unambitious.
As the Antwerp–based duo "Part Time Punks" observes a release of their new single "Go Ballistic!", its founder Pascal Oorts may rightfully claim his place as one of the outstanding Belgian EMD artists. Oorts's multidimensional body of work is acclaimed for its non-trivial blend of electronic music with rock attitude. Songwriting, melody and uncompromising live-energy — assertive and brilliant structures that are characteristic to the band's productions.
Pascal's music career has been the subject of numerous concerts and album releases as a keyboard player of the Belgian rock band "Mintzkov" since its establishment in 2000. A weird name – Mintzkov…The first question that bothers your mind when you hear the name: Where does it come from? Pascal replies laughing: 'The name "Mintzkov" doens't have a hidden message or meaning. I'm sorry to disappoint you. It's just made up when we started the band. In the beginning, we used the name 'Mintzkov Luna' and we were joking that it was some kind of disease or 'the moon above the city of Minsk'".
Now, as the creator of an electro-pop duo "Part Time Punks", he is taking on perhaps his biggest on-stage challenge yet – producing music for the open minded, aimed directly at your feet.
Pascal's childhood was not unusual for a Belgian. He remembers spending time listening to the radio during the 80's. 'We didn't have much records at home, so I grew up with popular 80's music on the radio. I know almost every song from that era. They were focused on synths and drumcomputers, but all combined with good melodies and harmonies. I like to incorporate these elements in my own work".
Oorts's long-term Belgian surroundings may provide a secure backdrop for his creativity. His hometown of Broechem is situated close by Lier – a well-known nightlife dot on the map of Flanders. Lier's legendary club 'La Rocca', famous throughout the region since 1988, was one of the platforms on which the Belgian underground club scene was formed. 'Belgium is a surrealistic country. So I guess living as an artist in Belgium makes you absorb this in your work. It's present at a subtle level in a lot of projects in Belgium, but that's what makes them interesting. Also, the Belgians were pioneers in electronic music with New Beat. Electronic Music is in our blood.', Pascal searches for the right words to explain the influence of location on an artist.
The deployment of computer technology on the music industry has affected almost all facets of modern music. Radical sceptics stick to the point that the computer has assumed position of the composer. At opposite ends of a room is the author of dozens of electronic music pieces Pascal Oorts. He believes that composers have led and will continue to lead the evolution of modern music with the assistance of computer technology as a tool for further musical exploration. According to the artist, the composer is not an instrument for the computer; rather the computer has become an instrument for the composer. 'There's still a place for creating art 'by hand'. It would be really boring if everybody would make computer-generated art. There is still some kind of feeling/energy/art that a computer can't replicate or make. I'll always start a new song on a keyboard before I transfer it to the computer. The computer is a fantastic tool but I believe that the best music comes from a musician playing an instrument and using it to compose a melody and harmony. Once you get this right, you can add whatever you want just by using a computer, but it will have more depth then starting a track by twisting knobs on a computer screen. During the production process I add acoustic instruments, so there's a balance between computer-sounds and organic sounds. I like the combination of computer/electronic sounds and my human interaction as a musician by composing on a keyboard and recording acoustic sounds", confesses Pascal.
An unhurried look at the creative process of a musician is what always makes listeners curious. During the last decades, Pascal has written and composed volumes of tracks. Where do electronic musicians find their inspiration? What stimulates them for music production? His answer is by all means exhaustive. 'I usually find inspiration for sounds in my music collection. There are a few bands who really inspire me: Kraftwerk and The Chemical Brothers. In general, I get a lot of inspiration from tools like 80's drumcomputers, tape delay, cross modulation and distortion. I think a band should be a symbiosis of several mediums: music, fashion, photos and videos – all of these adds to the identity of the band. I think music should be light-weighted but serious. It should have energy, groove and a melody combined with an electronic/acoustic sound. The mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds gives me an extra dosage of incitement. For the visual side, I get inspiration from pop-art and constructivism".
After completing the first single of his new project 'Part Time Punks" entitled "Go Ballistic!", Oorts has currently turned his attention to the second single which he admits 'is a lot of fun'. 'The music needs to be finished and I'm thinking about the visual side. I want to explore the popart influence. And the music gets spiced up with some rave-elements', says Pascal. 'Part Time Punks is a duo on stage. We're also working on the live-show. We want to bring a different approach then 'a producer looks at a laptop on stage'. We think it's boring for the audience and there's enough technology available to do it differently. So that's why we're playing live with synths, triggered drums, vocoders and effects pedals. It would give me goosebumps if we can interact with a crowd using this approach'.
Outside of arts and technology, Pascal is fond of architecture: 'If I wasn't a musician, I would definitely be an architect', admits the musician. Maybe for that reason his dreams are always pure visual. 'There's enough sound when I'm awake, so when I am asleep I'm usually enjoying silent movies'.


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STILBUS Seidlitz, 1872
This generally common and often abundant species occurs throughout Europe north to Southern Scandinavia and east to Greece, Ukraine and Asia, and there are also records further south, from tropical Africa. In the U.K. it is common across Southern England, becoming more scattered in the West Country and north to the Humber, and there are occasional records further afield to Southern Scotland and the Isle of Wight. Adults are active from February to October, depending the season, and also appear occasionally in grass-tussock samples and flood refuse in the winter. They are generally common in dry grassland in a wide range of situations, e.g. meadows, parkland and gardens, and also on sedges, reeds and other waterside vegetation. Sweeping in suitable situations may produce them in abundance. During hot weather they may be found in various yellow flowers along with other small species e.g. Meligethes or Brachypterus, although they readily descend into the base of the flower and may need to be searched for. They fly well and may appear at u.v. light in numbers. Little seems to be known of their biology.
With a little experience species of the phalacridae become obvious among the many other small beetles that regularly occur in the sweep net; species of Stilbus Seidlitz, 1872 are oblong-oval, convex and bicoloured, features shared with some members of the genus Olibrus Erichson, 1845, and so they will need to be taken for examination under the microscope and, often, dissection, in order to obtain a certain identification.
1.8-2.3mm. Convex and broadly oval with the underside flat; dorsal surface dark or light brown with the apical quarter or so pale. Appendages pale. Dorsal surface with very fine punctation, visible at X50. Head transverse and evenly rounded, the eyes continuous with the outline. The anterior and posterior margins of the eyes are weakly sinuate. Antennae inserted under the anterior margin of the head; the 2 basal segments are large, 3-8 elongate becoming shorter towards the apex, and 9-11 form a compact club. The terminal antennomere is evenly rounded laterally. The terminal segment of the maxillary palpi is curved along the inside and straight externally. Pronotum broadest at the sharp, perpendicular hind angles and evenly curved to the weakly protruding front angles (side view). Scutellum small and equilateral. Elytra with a single sutural stria which is wider and deeper towards the apex, the surface has several longitudinal rows of very fine punctures (X50) and some obscure, shallow impressions. A surface microsculpture consisting of transverse wavy lines becomes visible at X70 and is easiest observed on the disc. The lateral margins of the pronotum and the elytra are finely bordered. Legs short, the femora usually not visible from above. All tibiae broad, weakly sinuate and with small terminal spurs. Tarsi 5-5-5, third segment bilobed. Claws smooth and toothed at the base.
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'We need industrialization not gimmicks' - Akomfrah
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He said this incident "demonstrates the way we have been running our country. We've gone around in circles and sacrificed the dreams of the people."
The Convention Peoples Party, (CPP) has charged government to stop playing political gimmicks with the nation's industrial sector.
The General Secretary of the party, Nii Armah Akomfrah said Ghana at the moment needs mass industrialization and not "gimmicks."
President John Mahama on Monday commissioned the rehabilitated Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region to begin operations.
However, the Central Regional Minister, Kwaku Rickets Hagan said the factory will be closed down for maintenance just after two days of commencing activities.
Contributing to a panel discussion on the matter on Accra-based Joy FM, Mr. Akomfrah accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of continuously trying "to put itself out as wanting to continue the work of the CPP or continue his ideas but the hollowness of it all at every point in time is exposed."
He argued that "this whole business of setting it up and shutting it down after two days and the Minister says it is not unusual. Of course it is not unusual to shut down factories…but this whole issue about it needs to go into maintenance is bogus! Let's face fact, it's bogus!"
He insisted that no amount of justification can compensate for the shoddy job the government did with the project.
"We've gone round in circles. We have continuously shut down everything that was in place, we've grounded Ghana Airways and we've turned the plane into a fufu chop bar. This piece meal, gimmicky way of doing things is putting the cart before the horse."


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Meet the Finalist: Chris & Maurice Micallef, "The Normans"
Tell us about yourself, and about The Normans.
CMM Productions is composed of a father and son team, namely Maurice (84 years of age) and his son Chris (52 years of age).
Maurice, has an impressive track record in film-making, which goes back to 1964 when he produced his first documentary 'A Glance at Valletta'-a twelve-minute insight of the capital city. In 1972, with the help of the Italian government, Maurice was sent to RAI studios in Rome where he gained technical know-how and experience which was to become an asset in his film-making career. The a critically-acclaimed winning documentary about 'The Phoenicians' which has garnered no less than 24 international awards amongst them the Grand Jury Prize in the New York International Film and Video Festival in 2005, brought to life the Phoenician world as never seen before and deals with who were the Phoenicians, what were they famous for and what was their effect on the Maltese population.
Chris's research on the Mnajdra and Tal Qadi megalithic temples, both located in Malta, were published in prestigious scientific journals. It established that the Mnajdra lower temple is aligned towards the different phases of the moon and verified the possible use of an ancient measurement to construct this megalithic temple. This besides the identification of visible stars, formed from small cup-marks carved on a standing stone at Mnajdra. The Tal Qadi stone which was found at the Tal Qadi temple, limits of Burmarrad most probably represents the interval of days between certain moon phases as these fit into the sequence recorded on this stone. This, alongside findings related to the alignment of the temple with the sun and moon along the main axis of the megalithic temple. Both subjects were documented in two separate productions. The 'Tal Qadi stone' documentary achieved 20 international awards in film and video festivals around the world amongst which was the Jury Award in the Mountain Film Festival in 2013 held in the USA.
Their recent production 'Kannizzati Fishing' which deals on how the 'dorado' is caught around the Maltese Islands has to-date been awarded 41 international film awards, whereas their latest production 'The Normans' has to-date been awarded with 32 international film awards.
Today Maurice is retired. Between 1954 and 1959, he worked at Saint Luke's Hospital as a radiographer and later at the bacteriological laboratory. Later in 1964 he was a technical officer at the Malta College of Arts Science and Technology at Msida, Malta. Chris who is an engineer by profession has a doctorate in social sciences from the University of Leicester and works as a Department Manager (People Management) at Jobsplus, Malta.Throughout their filming career, both Chris and Maurice managed to win 274 awards in international film and video festivals on three continents. Maurice was awarded the National Order of Merit during Republic Day celebrations in 2014 for his outstanding film-making career and representing Malta with his award-winning productions whereas Chris was awarded the service medal to the Republic of Malta in 2016 for his research on Maltese megalithic temples.
Share a memorable moment you experienced working on this project.
One of the best memorable moments whilst working on the documentary 'The Normans' was when we used the green screen. It was indeed a new experience that made the difference for this documentary in terms of visuals. This goes for all the re-enactments that were filmed. The documentary has about 80% based on re-enactments.
Another memorable moment was collecting all research documents, finalizing the script and finally visualizing it, which indeed we must admit, was no easy task!
But the best memorable moment was when we were awarded Best Documentary-Feature in the New York Film Awards Competition, earlier this year. That was indeed memorable!
Name 3 collaborators that you'd take with you to any other project.
The first collaborator who has always believed in us is ONE GROUP. We would like to thank Jason Micallef (Chairman), Ruth Vella Micallef and Roberto Francalanza for their continuous support.
The second collaborator is Brand Expo Design Limited. They provide us with technical expertise as regards to filming issues. To this effect, we would like to thank Samuel Agius Livori (Director), Darren Parnis (cameraman) and Antoan Attard (computer graphics).
The third collaborators are Show of Arms and 4 Teenth Productions. They are indeed true re-enactor professionals who have always sustained us with their extra mile when it came to re-enactment filming and professional advice.
3 tips you'd like to share with aspiring artists in your field:
The first tip is patience. You need tons of this!
The second tip is to learn editing techniques so that if you communicate with an editor you know exactly what needs to be said.
The third tip is not to be afraid of producing feature documentary films. The important thing is to be crisp in editing with no over longed shots.
What do you hope to achieve in your career in the next 5 years?
OIn the next five years we aspire to continue to document Maltese history most especially the period set pieces. We already produced 'The Phoenicians' and 'The Normans'. Right now we are in the process of producing another set-piece period. Our mission at CMM is to promote Maltese heritage and culture abroad through our documentaries.
The Normans is nominated for Best Documentary of the Year at the New York Film Awards.


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The Next Wave of Mortgage Profiteering
Photo courtesy of flickr user respres via creative commons
If there's a lesson to be learned from the housing meltdown, it's likely this: Where there's a buck to be made, odds are there's a scam being played.
At the peak of the housing bubble, it was mortgage companies like Countrywide, Wells Fargo, and Ameriquest, among many others, that used predatory lending practices and encouraged falsifiying homeowner information to sell now-toxic sub-prime mortgages. Today, as homeowners struggle to save their homes and search for any kind of lifeline to do so, a new brand of mortgage-industry profiteering is spreading: foreclosure rescue rip-offs.
Here's how the scam works: A company reaches out to a cash-strapped homeowner through the mail, Internet, TV, radio, newspaper ads, or even by knocking on his or her door. The company's representative promises to help avoid foreclosure, either by acting as a negotiator, reworking the mortgage, or merely reviewing paperwork. Then, of course, the rep says it's time to pay up. But here's the rub: The rescue companies don't actually help at all, and numerous organizations provide legitmate assistance for free.
These rip-offs aren't isolated events, either. On Saturday, the Dayton Daily News reported that the Ohio Attorney General's Office has in the past 21 months fielded more than 300 complaints against 136 companies that are in the "business" of foreclosure rescue. "The problem is these 'rescue scams' just take people's money and fail to do almost anything to help them avoid foreclosure," Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said earlier this year. "And they take precious funds from people who are vulnerable and who can least afford to be cheated. This is the definition of adding insult to injury."
What's most disconcerting is that some of these companies allegedly pass themselves off as part of the government's much needed home affordability programs. Take the case, cited in the Daily News, of 74-year-old Rev. Willie Marshall, who was swindled out of $1,400:
Like many foreclosure rescue scam victims, [Marshall] said he was contacted by a telemarketer and promised a new mortgage with payments that were one-third of his current monthly payments…[T]he caller said he was affiliated with the lender that owned his mortgage — Countrywide Home Loans.
"He really played on us," the 74-year-old Marshall said. "He said this was coming from (President) Obama. And I'm telling you, we ate that up. He seemed to be so honest, but he was phony as a $3 bill. He took our money and they haven't done nothing."
It is too late for Marshall, but the Federal Trade Commission has a fact guide that details how to avoid these schemes. While the FTC doesn't cite any ongoing action against these companies, the Indiana Attorney General's Office has already filed a lawsuit against one foreclosure relief company, Indianapolis-based Capital Foreclosure. Ohio and Iowa's attorneys general have set up fraud-reporting hotlines and advocated for preventative legislation.
Still, it begs the question: When are homeowners going to stop getting screwed?
35 Counties Account for 50% of Foreclosures
Jonathan Stein
The Mortgage Rescue
The Great American Mortgage Crisis
James K. Galbraith
The Truth About Stopping Mass Shootings, From Sandy Hook to Uvalde
Mark Follman


Juniper Berry's parents are the most beloved actor and actress in the world—but Juniper can't help but feel they haven't been quite right lately. And she and her friend Giles are determined to find out why.
On a cold and rainy night, Juniper follows her parents as they sneak out of the house and enter the woods. What she discovers is an underworld filled with contradictions: one that is terrifying and enticing, lorded over by a creature both sinister and seductive, who can sell you all the world's secrets bound in a balloon. For the first time, Juniper and Giles have a choice to make. And it will be up to them to confront their own fears in order to save the ones who couldn't.
M.P. Kozlowsky's debut is a modern-day fairy tale of terror, temptation, and ways in which it is our choices that make us who we are.


I'm getting excited to celebrate Tyson's 5th birthday! (It's only in September, but he's helping me plan it for the first time.) I love that he's able to give me his opinion this year. The theme is going to be Angry Birds! Anyone who knows Tyson, knows he loves Angry Birds! It's no surprise that he wanted that for a theme.
I'm going to make most of the decorations, cake and surprise bags. The party is going to be at my grandparents house. They have tons of property for the kiddies to play on, along with an area for cake/games. (It was a store before, and now it's cleared out and a play house.) My grandmother also won an awesome package from a party planning agency. She won the basic package which includes a bouncy castle, face panting, balloon twisting and two helpers!! She's paying the mileage since her house is outside of town limits. (I'm so thankful, the kids are going to have so much fun.) I think it's going to be a great day, with tons of smiles, laughs and fun!!
I'm finding it hard to believe he's going to be 5... It honestly seems just like yesterday I was pregnant. But, Instead of being sad that he's turning 5 and growing up too fast. I'm going to celebrate all the amazing progress he's made, and how happy and healthy he is.


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Atkins, Joseph Louis
Atkins, Joseph Louis (1936–2015)
By: Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell
Type: Biography
Joseph Louis Atkins, African-American civil rights activist, educator, and businessman, was born in Jefferson, Texas, on March 6, 1936. He was the son of Willie and Mable Atkins. His family moved to Dallas in 1950, and he graduated from Lincoln High School in 1954, the year the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Atkins had a keen interest in the decision because his parents, the owners of a plumbing business, belonged to the Dallas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and he had joined the NAACP Youth Council of Dallas in 1952 at the age of sixteen. Juanita Craft, one of the city's leading civil rights activists, also became a major influence on Atkins while he attended high school.
Atkins enrolled at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, on an academic scholarship in the fall of 1954, but after one year decided to transfer to North Texas State College (now the University of North Texas) in Denton. He had visited the college on a field trip with Juanita Craft and knew that it had a strong reputation in the field of teacher education, which he hoped to enter. Moreover, Denton was near his home in Dallas. Atkins, accompanied by his mother and Craft, sought to enroll at North Texas in June 1955, but school officials rejected his application on the grounds of race. Rather than give in, Atkins and his father went to U. Simpson Tate, the NAACP regional attorney in Dallas, and on Tate's advice brought a legal action against North Texas. (Atkins was not yet twenty-one, so his father had to file the case.) In December 1955 United States District Court Judge Joe Sheehy ruled in favor of Atkins, primarily on the basis of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and issued a permanent injunction against North Texas's denying admission to Atkins or other African Americans on the basis of race.
Victory for Atkins brought an end to segregation at North Texas, but rather than wait for the decision, he had enrolled at Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) where he earned bachelor's degrees in English and Journalism. He served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1962 and then became a high school teacher in Dallas. In 1963 he began graduate work in the College of Education at North Texas, where he earned a master's degree in 1966. Atkins continued to teach high school in Dallas until 1974, when he became a field representative for the Texas State Teachers Association. He worked in that capacity until 1997 and promoted the interests of the state's teachers. In 1975 and 1977 he served as campaign manager for Juanita Craft in her successful campaigns for a seat on the Dallas city council.
In 1997 Atkins became a realtor with Blair White Real Estate, a position that he held until March 2015, when he joined Joe Atkins Realty, a firm headed by his son. During his career, Atkins served an impressive list of civic groups, including the board of the Dallas African American Museum, the Dallas Police Chief Advisory Committee, and chairman of the Good Street Baptist Church Federal Credit Union. His numerous honors included the "Outstanding Texas Award" by the Texas Legislative Black Caucus (2001), a doctor of humane letters degree from the University of North Texas (2004), and the Texas NAACP 2005 Heroes Award for his service in the cause of civil rights, liberty, and justice.
Joseph Atkins was married twice. His first marriage, to Sylvia D. Boyd in 1967, ended after a year. He married Marjorie C. Manney in 1971, and they had one son. Atkins died of heart failure on July 7, 2015, and was buried in Dallas.
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This shuttle will pick you up from your accommodation in Antigua (as long as it is centrally located) and transport you and your luggage to any central location in Panajachel. Shuttles do not pickup from the eco-hostels outside of town but can meet you anywhere in central Antigua. Café Condesa (just off of Parque Central in Antigua) is a good pick-up location if you do not already have a central address.
From Panajachel's dock you can take a boat to any destination at Lake Atitlan.