The original nucleus of Pune was located in the immediate vicinity of the confluence of the Mula and Mutha. River confluences have traditionally been considered sacred by the Hindus and to this fact, is attributed the original name of Poona: Sanskrit "Punyapur" (Cleanser), which changed into Marathi "Pune" and the British "Poona". ( Gadgil, 1952). Pune that has a long history can be traced from the copper plate inscriptions of the Rastrakuta kings in the 8th and 10th century. After the Rastrakutas, Pune came under the Yadav Kings of Daulatabad. During the period from sixth to thirteenth century, Pune served as head quarters for Hindu dynasties that controlled the West Deccan Region. Later in 1294 AD it came under Mohammedan rule with Muslim invasion of the Deccan. In the early thirteenth century it was said to be only a small village containing fifteen huts around the traditional temples. At the end of the thirteenth century the first traces of a market town called, 'Kasbe Pune' was developed by an Arab military governor (Burha Arab )whom Allauddin Khilji had appointed .It was created by combining the villages of Kasarli and Kumbarli to its east Pune remained largely a Muslim garrison town for over three centuries .Kasba Peth was the first Peth to be established . He is also said to have built a fort along the Mutha river as his residential quarters. The fort was known as Kille Hissar .
In 1629, Siddhi Yakub and Ranjitrai were appointed in charge of the fort by Nizamshah. Kille Hissar fort was reserved for the garrison and the town's Muslim inhabitants. Beyond the inner wall, an outer wall surrounded the civilian Hindu population consisting of artisans, farmers and traders. In the early l630s, Pune came into Shahaji's (Shivaji's father) possession ranted by the Muslim King of Ahmednagar. Soon after, his enemies attacked it and Pune was burnt and razed to the ground. However, Shahaji made Pune as seat in 1636, and the town was reconstructed . Small suburban settlements emerged outside the Kasba, and Pune enjoyed a brief period of peace and prosperity. ( Joshi, 1971).
The kasba was surrounded by fringe of semi rural suburbs. To the east of Kasba, was the oldest suburb called Shahapur contained cultivators, gardeners, artisans and petty traders. To the north of the Shahapur was Astapur containing outcaste communities. The southern suburb of Malkapur was a settlement of traders, the eastern riverbank suburb of Murtazabad was predominated by Brahmins and to the south east of Kasba was Mohiyabad, added to it during the visit of Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb to Pune about 1700 (Gadgil, 1952).
In 1708, the Moghul Emperor declared Shivaji's grandson Shahu as Maratha king at Satara.
Several districts including Pune were granted to Shahu by the Moghul Emperor as his autonomous territory. Shahu appointed a Brahmin as his Prime Minister or 'Peshwa" (a Persian title used by the Muslim kings of the Deccan; Poona Gaz, 11) to look after the administration at Pune. Later 'Peshwa" became hereditary and the second peshwas BajiRao I made Pune as his residence in 1720. In 1726, Shahu granted him the town as a part of his 'Jagir" and thereafter, Pune became the permanent official seat of the peshwas for nearly a century.
The real growth of Pune dates from the time of Peshwa Bajirao I, when a systematic expansion of the town was under taken. In 1728, Bajirao Peshwa asked his sardars, Mahadjipant Purandare, Dadaji Nilkantha Prabhu, Sakharampant Bokil and Babuji Naik, to demolish the fort and construct houses for themselves. Once the official status of Pune as a capital city was confirmed by the Peshwas and his nobles, the town started to grow organically by accretion. The growth of Kasba took place through the addition of new localities, which were known as 'Pur' or 'Pura' in the early stages and later raised, to the status of a 'Peth' (i.e. a large division of town). Gradually the peths grew to be a fairly self-sufficient. Often a peth was a small town, centering on the founder's mansion and containing one predominant temple, in addition to several others. (Gadgil, 1952). The old suburbs were annexed to the Kasba as its new peths.
Former Shahapur, Astapur, Mohiyabad, Murtazabad and Malkapur were renamed Somwar (Monday), Mangalwar (Tuesday), Budhwar (Wednesday), Shaniwar (Saturday), and Raviwar or Adiwar (Sunday) peths, respectively. A new peth called Shukrawar (Friday) was eatablished in 1734. (Gadgil, 1952). In 1739, Pune was described as a prosperous, crowded and well built town, with handsome houses and an impressive gun factory. (Poona gaz., HI: 405). The Town was further extended in the 1750's with the addition of five new Peths: Guruwar (Thursday) or Vetal peth, Ganesh peth, Ganj peth, Musafarjung peth and Nihal or Nagesh peth. The early growth of Pune was southward, bounded as it was by the river on the north, by the streams Nagasari and Manik nala in the east and by another parallel stream in the west, which was later, diverted and has disappeared completely. This was the main reason for the north-south direction of lines of communication in the city.
The physical expansion of Pune, which had so far been largely southward, assumed an east-west direction in the late 1760's. In the east, the space between Nagzari and Manik nala was being brought under settlement. Bhawani peth was located in this area en route to Sholapur, in 1767.
Shaniwar peth. (Poona Gaz.III: 280).
The last phase in the extension of Pune, which transformed it into a city, began in the 1780's and seems to have resulted from its growing importance and the concomitant increase in trade due to royal patronage. In 1781, Ghorpade peth was founded and formed the southernmost extension of the city. To the north of Bhavani peth, Raste and Nana peths were established during 1785 and 1790 respectively. The Kasba and its seventeen peths, which constituted the indigenous city, almost until the end of the 19th century, were in place by 1790.
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A nationwide competition to find the next UK City of Culture was launched in January by Minister of State for Digital and Culture Matt Hancock.
The UK City of Culture title is designed to use culture as a catalyst for economic and social regeneration and raise the profile of arts and creativity locally and across the country.
It also helps cities develop a broader high quality arts and culture sector, as well as attract increased business investment and boost tourism.
The launch of the 2021 competition came in the same month that Hull kicked off its year as the second UK City of Culture, after Derry/Londonderry in 2013.
Included amongst those in the race for the 2021 title is Stoke-on-Trent – affectionately known worldwide as The Potteries.
A city made up of six towns, and built on a history of industrial greatness, Stoke-on-Trent is currently enjoying a huge resurgence of local pride and passion in all that it is built upon, and is aiming to capitalize upon the opportunities and profile that the UK City of Culture 2021 title would bring with it.
As the "World Capital of Ceramics", Stoke-on-Trent's cultural and artistic heritage not only runs deep, but also reaches back over the centuries.
The city has been encouraged by the response so far to its call to "Get Behind The 2021 Bid", and has already been able to create a Cultural Forum which is now driving the campaign.
Cultural Forum members, individuals, businesses and organisations, as well as the local media, are all now backing the bid by using the hashtag #Sot2021 on social media.
All cities interested in submitting bids to be UK City of Culture 2021 have been invited to register with DCMS by the end of February. Bids for the 2021 competition must be submitted by 28 April 2017 after which they will be assessed by an Independent Advisory Panel. A shortlist will then be announced in the summer, before the winning city is announced in Hull in December.
Councillor Abi Brown, deputy leader and lead member for the City of Culture bid, says, "Stoke-on-Trent is a wonderfully innovative city, we're a birthplace of the industrial revolution, our exquisitely skilled ceramists continue to set the standard for pottery manufacture the world over, and our advanced ceramics knowledge is using cutting edge design to help global hi-tech industries.
"We have hundreds of small entrepreneurial and creative businesses who are using their innovation to prosper. Our museum collections are designated nationally for their significance and we are investing millions of pounds in protecting our heritage buildings and historic parks.
Further details about the Stoke-on-Trent City of Culture 2021 bid can be found at www.sot2021.com.


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President Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Gordon Sondland and Alexander Vindman
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President Donald Trump has recalled Gordon Sondland and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, two senior officials who testified against him at his impeachment trial.
Gordon Sondland, the US envoy to the EU, said he "was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately".
Just hours earlier, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a top expert on Ukraine, was escorted from the White House.
President Trump is said to desire a staff shake-up after senators cleared him in the impeachment case on February 5.
In its historic vote, the Senate decided not to remove Donald Trump, America's 45th president, from office on charges arising from his dealings with Ukraine.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, a senior lawyer for the National Security Council, was also sent back to the Department of the Army on February 7.
In a statement issued by his lawyer, Gordon Sondland said: "I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States ambassador to the European Union.
"I am grateful to President Trump for having given me the opportunity to serve, to Secretary [of State Mike] Pompeo for his consistent support, and to the exceptional and dedicated professionals at the US mission to the European Union.
"I am proud of our accomplishments. Our work here has been the highlight of my career."
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had reportedly turned up for work at the White House as usual on February 5.
As he left the executive mansion on February 5 for North Carolina, President Trump told reporters: "I'm not happy with him [Lt. Col. Vindman].
"You think I'm supposed to be happy with him? I'm not."
President Donald Trump has so far not commented further.
According to White House sources, Alexander Vindman had been expecting a transfer. He was telling colleagues for weeks that he was ready to move back to the defense department, where he still holds active-duty soldier status.
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On February 5, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters his department welcomes back all of its personnel from assignment.
He added: "And as I said we protect all of our service members from retribution or anything like that."
Testifying in Congress last November, Gordon Sondland was very clear in his testimony that a White House visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was conditional on Kyiv launching investigations that could be politically helpful to President Trump.
He said: "Was there a quid pro quo [a favor granted in return for something]?
"As I testified previously, with regard to the requested White House call and White House meeting, the answer is yes."
Gordon Sondland was at that time working with President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukrainian policy at the explicit direction of the president.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman also testified last November. He said he was "concerned" after hearing President Trump's "improper" phone call on July 25, 2019 with Ukraine's president.
The call led to Presidnet Trump's impeachment in December by the House for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Democratic lawmakers argued that President Trump had dangled US aid in exchange for political favors.
When asked how he had overcome his fear of retaliation in order to testify, Alexander Vindman testified: "Congressman, because this is America… and here, right matters."
President Trump mentioned the Vindman twins in a tirade against his political enemies at the White House one day before ousting them.
Eliot Engel, Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said in a statement: "This is shameful of course.
"But this is also what we should now expect from an impeached president whose party has decided he is above the law and accountable to no one. "
However, Republican Congressman Thomas Massie said he would have fired Alexander Vindman.
He said: "He's a leaker, not a whistleblower.
"Current Commander in Chief doesn't take orders from a Lt Col!"
In his comments to media on February 5, President Trump said reports that his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney would be fired were "false".
The president said: "I have a great relationship with Mick."
North Carolina lawmaker Mark Meadows is being tipped by the Washington rumor mill as a replacement for Mick Mulvaney.
Mark Meadows, who is retiring from the House of Representatives where he led the hardline conservative Freedom Caucus, traveled with President Trump on Air Force One on February 5.
At a rare White House press conference in October, Mick Mulvaney appeared to implicate the president in an alleged corrupt deal with Ukraine.
The acting chief of staff told stunned reporters: "We do that all the time."
President Trump was reportedly outraged by the gaffe.
Mick Mulvaney then walked back his comments in a written statement that said: "Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election."
President Trump Impeachment: House Democrats Release Inquiry Guidelines
A resolution setting out the next steps in President Donald Trump's impeachment have been published by House Democrats.
The motion sets out a more public phase of the inquiry and hands the lead role in hearings to the chairman of the intelligence committee, Adam Schiff.
The House, controlled by the Democrats, will vote on the measure on October 31.
A White House spokeswoman said the resolution was an "illegitimate sham".
So far, hearings have been held behind closed doors. This vote to make the impeachment process public is about the procedure, and not a ballot on whether or not to impeach the president.
Meanwhile, Republicans have criticized Democrats for the closed hearings up to this point, in which Republican lawmakers have also taken part. However, Democrats insist they were needed to gather evidence ahead of the public stage of the inquiry, and deny allegations they have been secretive.
President Trump is accused of trying to pressure Ukraine into investigating unsubstantiated corruption claims against his political rival, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden, who worked with Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
The president denies wrongdoing and calls the impeachment inquiry a "witch hunt".
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On October 29, the impeachment inquiry heard from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a White House official who had monitored a phone call on July 25 between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
That call sparked a whistleblower complaint and led to the impeachment probe.
Col. Alexander Vindman said he was "concerned" by the call as he "did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a US citizen".
The eight-page document sets out a two-stage process for the next phase of the inquiry.
In the first, the House Intelligence Committee will continue its investigations and hold public hearings. It will have the right to make public transcripts of depositions taken in private.
In the second phase, a public report on the findings will be sent to the House Judiciary Committee which will conduct its own proceedings and report on "such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other recommendations as it deems proper".
President Trump's lawyers will be allowed to take part in the Judiciary Committee stage.
Republicans on the committees will be able to subpoena documents or witnesses – although they could still be blocked as both committees are Democrat-controlled.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said a House vote on the resolution would take place on October 31. She has previously said such a vote is not required under the US Constitution.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, speaking before the resolution was unveiled, said the entire process was a "sham."
Referring to the closed-door meetings and depositions he said: "You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Due process starts at the beginning."
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Unbeaten Joe Cordina clashes with Sean 'Masher' Dodd for the vacant Commonwealth lightweight on August 4 in hometown in the latest instalment of the JDNXTGEN series at the Ice Arena Cardiff on August 4, live on Sky Sports.
Main event at the Ice Arena Wales sees Joe Cordina and Sean Dodd clash for the Vacant Commonwealth and WBA International Lightweight titles, Welsh Commonwealth Gold Medal man Sean McGoldrick fights on home soil for the first time in the paid ranks against unbeaten Irishman Dylan McDonagh, Natasha Jonas steps up her hunt for World honours with a first defence of her WBA Super-Featherweight Inter-Continental title against Viviane Obenauf, Rio Olympic Gold Medal stand-out Daniyar Yeleussinov fights for the third time in the pros, unbeaten Featherweight talent Jordan Gill continues his journey to more titles and Light-Heavyweight talent Anthony Sims Jr. makes his debut under new promoter Eddie Hearn with action elsewhere from Birmingham Super-Bantamweight Gamal Yafai, Lytham Lightweight Scott Cardle, Newport Super-Middleweight Daniel Barton, Cardiff Light-Heavyweight Nathan Thorley, Gloucester Welterweight Akeem Ennis Brown and Pontilanfraith Light-Heavyweight Kody Davies.
Kody Davies: "I want to thank everyone involved in getting me on this show. Joe and Sean are old Team GB team mates of mine and it's good to be fighting on their undercard. Me and Gavin have been putting in some serious hours in the gym and it's going to show on Saturday night. I can't wait for you all to see what I'm capable of."
Daniyar Yeleussinov: "I feel good and I'm very happy to be here in the beautiful city of Cardiff. I'm looking to put on an exciting performance and make some new fans so make sure you come and see me fight."
Natasha Jonas: "Boxing has taken me all around the World but never to Wales so it's nice to be here in Cardiff. My opponent is a durable opponent, she went the distance with Katie Taylor. I want to showcase my talent. I just need to tick another box off and show what I can do."
Sean McGoldrick: "I've recently changed trainers. Everything has been great with Gavin. I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life and I can't wait to fight in Wales for the first time in my pro career. I'm ready to put on a big performance for everyone."
Joe Cordina: "I won my first professional title here in Cardiff on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's win over Joseph Parker at the Principality Stadium and it's good to be making the first defence of it here as well. I'm in a proper fight now. Sean is great fighter, he's got a lot of heart and he's got a great fanbase that will be making a lot of noise on Saturday. It's going to be a hell of a fight. This will be my hardest fight in the professionals to date. There's going to be fireworks. I'm going to give it everything I have to come away with the Commonwealth title. I'm fighting for my kids and there's no way that I'm wasting this opportunity."
Sean Dodd: "I'm looking forward to getting back to winning ways and getting my hands back on the Commonwealth title. I'm ready to make a big change and put in a good performance. I can see that Joe has a great family backing him so it's just like being back at home for me, it's nice to see. I wish the very best for the both of us. I need to stick to my game plan, work hard and get the win. This is a massive test for me and I'm really looking forward to getting in there and seeing what happens. I'm up against it but in life you get nowhere without taking risks. I'm ready for this."


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Confederate monuments still tell the war's story in West Virginia communities
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Call it the other state history.
The part of West Virginia's past that didn't get much attention, until recently.
That may be changing, however, as the national debate heats up about confederate monuments' fate.
Although most people may not know it, there are dozens of them scattered throughout the state.
Author Milton W. Humphreys, who wrote "After the Civil War," lists these sites, county by county:
Hampshire County's Indian Mound Cemetery is home to the first of these monuments to be erected after the Civil War.
It was dedicated Sept. 26, 1867.
West Virginia left Virginia and became a state on June 20, 1863, because of the Civil War.
Also known as The War Between the States, it was fought from 1861-1865.
Historians estimate between 22,000 and 25,000 West Virginians fought for the Union.
Approximately 9,000 state men chose to fight for the South and joined the confederate regiments of Virginia.
Virginia's 22nd Infantry was composed almost entirely of soldiers from West Virginia, according to the FamilySearch website.
So it's not surprising there are reminders of the war's bloodshed across the state.
Confederate monuments, memorials and grave can still be found in 20 counties: Berkeley, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson, Kanawha, Logan, Marion, Mason, Mercer, Monroe, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Putnam, Randolph, Summers, and Wood.
Counties that are home to the most confederate monuments and memorials include:
Boyd B. Stutler Collection, West Virginia State Archives
Hayward Shepherd Monument, Harpers Ferry, erected in 1931 by Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans. Shepherd was an African American who died after being wounded on Oct. 16, 1859, by John Brown's raiders as he was working on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Curt Mason, Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission
A series of 25 concrete obelisks were placed throughout Jefferson County in 1910 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil War. They also marked spots were skirmishes or battles took place, and were erected by the United Confederate Veterans.
An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument that has a pyramid-like shape on top. The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is an example of this design.
Obelisk at Charles Town's Edge Hill Cemetery was dedicated in 1871 memorializing soldiers killed in the Battle of Cameron's Depot, 1864. There are 184 confederate graves in the cemetery's military section.
Nanpitt, Historical Marker Project
Shepherdstown's Elmwood Cemetery dates back to 1780, but the Southern Soldiers' Memorial Association formally purchased land adjacent to the original grounds. The additional land was intended as a final resting spot for confederate soldiers who were either killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg or died from wounds received there. A total of 114 men, many unknown, are interred here. It was officially dedicated on Confederate Memorial Day June 5, 1869. In 1935, the Confederate Soldiers Monument and regimental roster were erected. This concrete monument lists 535 area men who served in the Confederate Army.
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Blue Sulphur Springs, stone for unknown Georgia soldiers who died during the winter of 1863.
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White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier Resort, stone for soldiers. The resort had been used as a hospital during the Civil War.
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Lewisburg, Greenbrier County Library, standing Confederate soldier with inscription "In memory of our Confederate dead."
Lewisburg, stone for 95 unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Lewisburg and in the Battle of Droop Mountain. The mass grave is in the shape of a cross, about 3 feet high, the two arms stretch 53 feet and 80 feet. There are also four other commemorative monuments on the site.
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Lewisburg, large stone erected by survivors of the Battle of Dry Creek in memory of Lt. John Gay Carr, Co. H, 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Kanawha Rifleman, killed Aug. 26, 1861.
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Charleston, Spy Memorial. There are two conflicting stories about which side executed the two women as spies.
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Charleston, Ruffner Memorial Park, memorial to the Kanawha Riflemen.
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Charleston, standing statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson on the state Capitol grounds.
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Charleston, bust of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, located in the rotunda of the Capitol building. This bust is the same as the one located in Virginia's Capitol building.
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the actual number of W. Virginians who fought in Confederate units actually exceeded the number that fought in Union units. Also, there were many Ohioans and Pennsylvanians who fought in ostensible W. V. union regiments, i.e. the 2nd W. Va. Infantry was make up wholly of Ohioans. Further, if a Union soldier re-ups he was counted as a brand new recruit which inflated the actual number of men in Union forces.. These Ohioans and Pennsylvanians also voted in the election to create West Va. Only a small percentage of actual Va. residents voted to create the new state. No counties in what is now southern W. Va. voted to do so......all their men were away fighting for the South.
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← Improvements to Blackpool's heritage tram tours
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Boat 600's naked ambition
Posted on Sunday 6 May 2012 by Andrew Waddington
After an extremely rare winter appearance on February 29th, when it ran on test as far north as Thornton Gate, Blackpool Boat car 600 finally recorded its first normal passenger use on Saturday 5th May when it debuted on Blackpool Transport's new heritage tram tours. With poor weather for much of April, this had been the first opportunity to use 600 on the new service and although the day wasn't exactly warm, bright sunshine brought the tram onto promenade and it ran succesfully all day.
However, this wasn't actually 600's first outing with passengers on board in 2012, as two days earlier the car had been used for a rather unusual private hire. The tram was chosen by female members of the Blackpool Civic Trust to form the backdrop of a photo shoot for their 2013 calendar, and it was posed for the cameras at North Pier on the morning of Thursday 3rd May. The twist in the tale is that the tram was upstaged however, as the mature ladies involved posed nude with the tram! Many organisations and individuals have compiled naked calendars after the famous 'Calendar Girls' story which was turned into a smash hit film and a touring stage show, and now a Blackpool tram has got involved. This isn't the first time a tram has been used for this purpose though; many years ago glamour models were posed with Bolton 66 for a calendar shoot, although on that occasion the charter took place in the early hours of the morning. Surprisingly, 600 and its passengers posed for the cameras in the mid-morning before the tram headed back to the depot, attracting a considerable amount of attention from people who happened to be passing at the time! Thankfully when the car re-appeared on tour duty two days later, its passengers were rather more covered!
Now that 600 has re-entered service, hopefully the weather will improve so that this popular tramcar can enjoy more extensive use than it did last year. Soon it will be joined in service by sister car 604, which is now set to receive the George Formby Society sponsorship contract in place of car 602 as was originally planned. An inspection of both cars has revealed that 604 is in better condition, however all is not lost and it has been confirmed that Blackpool Transport hope to eventually carry out the required work to return 602 to running order. Hopefully this could result in a trio of Boats running in Blackpool, and with other examples of the class also operating at Beamish and Crich, the future of these cars looks extremely bright.
Boat 600 minus passengers (clothed or otherwise!) seen terminating at North Pier before heading back to depot on Saturday 5th May 2012. (Photo by Tony Waddington)


An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the existing teaching team, as a committed and passionate Teaching Fellow/ Lecturer. Following the implementation of the Nursing Associate course, the department is seeking candidates who uphold the overall mission of the University by providing high quality, accessible learning opportunities, promoting academic enquiry and advancement of knowledge.
This is a varied, fast paced and demanding role that requires the candidate to regularly teach, assess and facilitate academic development, support apprentices and requires innovation in teaching and delivery of the programme. You will be required to act as module coordinator supporting any developments that are required. You will need to demonstrate effective organisational skills, time management and confidence in dealing with large groups of students. Experience in a variety of nursing environments is desirable. You will work closely with practice and university colleagues to support the Trainee Nursing Associates, supervisors and practice assessors in the clinical setting as a personal tutor, therefore previous experience of supporting students/ trainees in the clinical setting is essential. You will need to demonstrate an understanding of the Nursing Associate role and Higher Apprenticeship standards. You will also be expected to contribute to our research and scholarly activities.
You must hold at least a first degree in a Health related subject and demonstrate on-going personal and professional development and appropriate study around relevant subject matter. Applicants must also hold current registration with the NMC as a Registered Nurse. Previous teaching in a Higher Education setting would be desirable, but the successful applicants would be offered a place on the University's highly regarded Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education Programme.


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A Closer Look at Ultima Thule
by Paul Gilster on January 2, 2019
"We think we are looking at the most primitive object ever imaged by a spacecraft," said Jeff Moore (NASA Ames) at today's Ultima Thule press conference. Moore, New Horizons geology and geophysics lead, went on to describe the process of innumerable particles growing into nodes amidst growing low velocity collision and interaction. We are truly looking at primordial materials with Ultima Thule, which is now revealed as a contact binary. Have a look.
Image: This image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the New Horizons spacecraft. It was taken at 5:01 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, just 30 minutes before closest approach from a range of 18,000 miles (28,000 kilometers), with an original scale of 730 feet (140 meters) per pixel. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
Bear in mind that New Horizons was working with a Sun 1,900 times fainter than a sunny day on Earth, as mission principal investigator Alan Stern reminded the audience when he unveiled the image above. "It's a snowman, not a bowling pin," joked Stern as the image was displayed. Bear in mind as well that these early images are just the beginning. The mission team has now downloaded less than 1 percent of the data available on the spacecraft's solid state recorders.
One of Jeff Moore's slides:
And here's the slide Moore showed to illustrate the process of accretion:
Putting these two lobes together would, Moore said, be gentle enough that "…if you were in a car collision at this speed you wouldn't bother to fill out the insurance forms." These are high-Sun images, meaning we see little shadow, but the Sun angle will change as we move into later views at higher resolution. Even so, note the absence of obvious impact craters, and the mottled suggestions of hills and ridges. Also note the brightness of the 'neck' between the lobes.
Image: The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. At left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The center image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) has a higher spatial resolution than MVIC by approximately a factor of five. At right, the color has been overlaid onto the LORRI image to show the color uniformity of the Ultima and Thule lobes. Note the reduced red coloring at the neck of the object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
Ultima Thule's rotation period is currently pegged at 15 hours, plus or minus an hour. The object turns out to be red, as expected. As to reflectivity, deputy project scientist Kathy Olkin (SwRI) pointed out that the brightest areas reflect about 13 percent of incident sunlight, the darkest areas only 6 percent. Ultima Thule is, in other words, very dark, as dark as potting soil, Olkin added, with significant variation across the surface.
Carl Keller January 2, 2019, 19:26
The image is reminiscent of artistic renditions depicting Theia's impact with our ancient Earth.
jonW January 3, 2019, 0:51
Your comment made me think the following: I understand it would be impossible, but isn't it fun to imagine a habitable-zone Earth-plus-Theia-sized pair "colliding" at such low speeds early on in a solar-system's formation, and retaining such a bi-lobed composite shape, even while intelligent life and civilisations arose on it/them? Imagine the geo-political ramifications, not to mention the cartographers' difficulties! (But I suppose we shouldn't try too hard to imagine the geological and meteorological consequences if we want to continue to suspend disbelief.)
I predict bi-lobed worlds will appear soon in sci-fi, now that the world's attention has been drawn to MU69.
Ron S. January 3, 2019, 10:42
Sorry, but no. As the mass rises the asymmetries are removed by gravitational collapse. Indeed that's why this is used as one of the criteria for labeling a body as a planet.
jonW January 3, 2019, 18:55
yes, hence my prefacing the whole thing with "I understand it would be impossible, but…"
Obviously I read that too quickly and missed the key words. My bad.
ljk January 3, 2019, 10:45
There is Rocheworld by Robert Forward, published in 1982 (and later as Flight of the Dragonfly in 1984):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocheworld
The exoworlds orbit Barnard's Star and a human crewed mission goes there via laser-driven light sail.
Patient Observer January 3, 2019, 17:50
Roceworld was very entertaining with as much hard science as anyone could want in an interstellar story. The two worlds were not quite touching but did share a common atmosphere. I thought that the author did not explore interpersonal issues within the crew that would undoubtedly arise during a multiple decades mission but, otherwise, it was a great read.
I respect the heck out of Robert Forward, but the characters in his SF novels tended to lack a certain amount of realism. His novels were obviously vehicles to display his scientific and technological ideas. Werner von Braun did the same thing with a novel he wrote in 1952 about a manned expedition to Mars.
Andrew Whittaker Percival January 2, 2019, 22:10
So exciting to see world grow from discovery, to a few pixels to a more coherent object!
As ever, I think about uses for new things we find and I wonder how useful these little frozen chunks are to the Inner Solar System?
From Belt colonies to Terraforming Mars to feeding Earths' insatiable desire for resources, is there "cold gold" out there?
Some day the society beyond science fiction and hardcore space fans are going to recognize the immense value of having billions (trillions?) of floating chunks of raw resources floating all over our Sol system. We just need to get beyond Earth in both the literal and sociological sense.
Thomas W. Hair January 3, 2019, 0:16
The most powerful thing in the visible universe is not a billion sol black hole, as far as we can see it is the human mind and what it discovers.
Adam January 3, 2019, 5:18
Almost makes me think of dough… planet dough.
Michael January 3, 2019, 10:50
I seem too see two faces, one in the smaller and one in the larger.
That's what your ancient hardwired genetics are designed to do.
So Ultima Thule is now being known as Ultima and Thule, to differentiate the two connected lobes.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190103.html
Ultima and Thule
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins University APL, Southwest Research Institute
Explanation: On January 1 New Horizons encountered the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Some 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, Ultima Thule is the most distant world ever explored by a spacecraft from Earth.
This historic image, the highest resolution image released so far, was made at a range of about 28,000 kilometers only 30 minutes before the New Horizons closest approach.
Likely the result of a gentle collision shortly after the birth of the Solar System, Ultima Thule is revealed to be a contact binary, two connected sphere-like shapes held in contact by mutual gravity.
Dubbed separately by the science team Ultima and Thule, the larger lobe Ultima is about 19 kilometers in diameter. Smaller Thule is 14 kilometers across.
megaprimatus kong January 15, 2019, 23:38
Strange , how the objects were designated Mu-69 ,one of the lanthanide series of chemical elements with atomic numbers .
If those objects weren't fused , damned if they don't resemble my thought of some binary pulsars .
Emily Lakdawalla • January 2, 2019
MU69 appears as a bi-lobed baby comet in latest New Horizons images
How do contact binaries form?
The tiny world 2014 MU69 is far behind New Horizons now and no longer visible to its cameras. Now, New Horizons' task is to return its precious data to Earth. The process will take 20 months, but the best images should all arrive between now and the end of February. Some early ones have come down from the spacecraft in the hours since the flyby. These are not the best we will get, but they already show us much about MU69: this is probably what comets look like, before they become comets. (Note: the press briefing is still going on; I'll continue to add images to this post throughout the morning.)
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/mu69-baby-comet-contact-binary.html
Harry R Ray January 4, 2019, 11:35
Two statements from NASA have left me rather confused. One, they stated that Ultima Thule is the first contact binary object ever visited by spacecraft. What about the bilobed comet 67P? Two, they stated that there appears to be no visible craters. What about the fascinating feature I call Occator Junior(due to its striking resemblance to Ceres' Occator crater on the smaller of the two lobes? To me, it appears to be an obvious depression of some kind, or: am I seeing things improperly due to the shapes of the two contrasting features of a low albedo "ring" exterior to the region containing the two high albedo spots?
On the first issue they are obviously wrong. Comet 67P is a contact binary, as is Halley's Comet, as just two of the more prominent examples.
On the latter issue, the "no craters" declaration is likely premature based on the quality of the images we have at present.
Andrei January 6, 2019, 16:54
Yes I wondered too about 'first contact binary' we have seen many images up close of Churyumov–Gerasimenko, Halley, 19P Borelly and 103P Hartley.
Elakdawalla of Planetary society got it right, public relations person of NASA is a fool.
I wonder if, due to the government shutdown, NASA didn't exactly have the cream of the crop onboard when it came to getting such facts straight? Because anyone with more than a casual knowledge of comets and planetoids knows how many of the ones we have seen up close are contact binaries.
Useless Knowledge Begets New Horizons
Fundamental discoveries don't always have practical uses, but they have soul-saving applications.
By Bret Stephens, Opinion Columnist
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/opinion/new-horizons-ultima-thule-mission.html
Alex Tolley January 3, 2019, 19:15
What an unusual piece by Stephens.
Of course the NYT has to turn around and do a piece on the very people who just placed the first lander and rover (and ecosystem) on the lunar farside questioning the value of such a historic mission:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/world/asia/china-change-4-moon.html
The muted reaction was a sign that the novelty of the country's space missions has faded. But the coverage also appeared to reflect political and economic anxieties at a time when Mr. Xi's government is trying to negotiate a truce in the trade war with the United States and respond to worrisome cracks in the economy.
The NYT just can't write a story about China (or Russia) without torturing the narrative to add a lot of spin. Many may like the NYT but, for me, its credibility is nil unless they are reporting on things like sports scores.
Most likely China is doing in one key area what the Soviet Union used to do when reporting on one of their space missions: Being very careful about what is made public in case something is going wrong, so they don't look bad.
In any event, apparently it isn't just the USA where the populace does not know how much money goes into their space program compared to other federal agencies.
Alex Tolley January 5, 2019, 0:22
I am not seeing where the NYT is questioning the value of the lander. They do quote a person who is ambivalent – pride in the landing, but concerned about the cost. The Apollo program was similarly, and far more publicly, questioned about the cost ("whitey on the Moon"). I doubt that the Chinese lander was even remotely as large a fraction of GDP than the Apollo program. If they land taikonauts on the Moon, that might be a different story. I hope I am still around to see that.
OT. What is the explanation for the "orange" color of the light in the returned images?
Bruce D. Mayfield January 5, 2019, 18:19
They like red in China? Seriously, surely they're using a full color camera, but the green and blue seem to have been filtered or edited out. It could have been a political choice.
(No offense intended, and I hope none is taken. This landing [and the earlier placement of a communications satellite in the Lunar L2 zone] by the Chinese is a major accomplishment.)
Yes Chinese space program is done a limited budget. They use unusual means to get the hardware built also.
The point is, they are doing it. Hard to fathom that in all the decades of lunar exploration, they were the very first to soft land on the lunar farside.
Yes, I know the reasons, but you know it could have been done ages ago if scientific exploration were the true goal. Astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmidt even seriously offered a plan to put Apollo 17 on the farside, Tsiolkovsky crater to be exact.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/361564-reviving-the-lost-apollo-moon-missions-with-or-without-our-government
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canceled-apollo-missions/
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2016/0527-lunar-farside-landing-plans.html
And this interesting early plan for using the Saturn 5 rocket stage as a communications relay for the lunar farside:
https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/10/talking-to-farside-1963-proposal-to-use.html
I wonder how close its rotation rate (15 hours) is to disruption. Unless there was a braking mechanism at work, it would seem that its angular momentum from its formation would be largely conserved.
torque_xtr January 3, 2019, 18:11
It's interesting how two bodies shed their angular momentum not only until contact, but even further, several times below breakup speed. Solar tides? Also how it has got it's high inclination despite pristine form.
Correction, obliquity of course.
Less than one week ago, Ultima (and) Thule was just a dot or blob of light at best. Now they can make GIFs and 3D images out of what New Horizons has returned to Earth.
Ultima Thule Rotation Gif
Explanation: Ultima Thule is the most distant world explored by a spacecraft from Earth. In the dim light 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, the New Horizons spacecraft captured these two frames 38 minutes apart as it sped toward the Kuiper belt world on January 1 at 51,000 kilometers per hour. A contact binary, the two lobes of Ultima Thule rotate together once every 15 hours or so.
Shown as a blinking gif, the rotation between the frames produces a tantalizing 3D perspective of the most primitive world ever seen. Dubbed separately by the science team Ultima and Thule, the larger lobe Ultima, is about 19 kilometers in diameter. Smaller Thule is 14 kilometers across.
Spaceman January 5, 2019, 12:58
Thank you for sharing these wonderful images! What a truly amazing accomplishment reaching this object has been for the space program. I had a question for you or anyone else on here who might know. I have seen descriptions in the popular press of Ultima Thule (UT) looking like a "red snowman" (see link below). Are any of these images representative of what UT might look like to future human explorers? What might UT look like to human explorers assuming they approach it as closely as New Horizons did?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/02/world/ultima-thule-contact-binary-snowman/index.html
A distant flyby
Last week, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by a small object in the Kuiper Belt, the most distant flyby by a spacecraft to date. Jeff Foust reports on the scene at mission control for the flyby and the science that will come.
http://thespacereview.com/article/3635/1
Pluto Probe Encounters a Pristine World in the Solar System's Suburbs
Ultima Thule, the most-distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, is revealing our solar system's deepest history—and, just maybe, revolutionizing planetary science
By Corey S. Powell on January 8, 2019
The history of the solar system is a dish best served cold. And it is so very cold on Ultima Thule.
That is the message beaming back to Earth from NASA's New Horizons probe now that it has completed its historic exploration of a small body in the Kuiper Belt, the sprawling population of dwarf planets and cometlike objects out beyond Neptune.
When New Horizons flew past at 12:33 AM Eastern time on January 1, Ultima was a hair over four billion miles from the sun. It is by far the most distant object ever visited by spacecraft, and correspondingly one of the coldest: about 35 kelvins, or nearly 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
At such low temperatures, Ultima (more formally known by its scientific designation, 2014 MU69) preserves its initial, ancient composition. Ultima is also cold in another, more specialized and intriguing way. It is dynamically cold, part of what's known as the "cold classical" Kuiper Belt, meaning that it circles the sun in a settled orbit that was undisturbed by all the chaotic events that buffeted Earth and other planets as they came together more than four billion years ago.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pluto-probe-encounters-a-pristine-world-in-the-solar-systems-suburbs1/
"We're looking at one of the first building blocks that came together to form the planets and moons," says Jeffrey Moore, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. "It looks like somebody left it out in the back of God's freezer for the last four-and-a-half billion years."
At the moment there are only three papers on ArXiv with Ultima Thule in their titles – and this is the first one that is not speculation about what the New Horizons deep space probe will find there:
Overview of initial results from the reconnaissance flyby of a Kuiper Belt planetesimal: 2014 MU69
S.A. Stern, J.R. Spencer, H.A. Weaver, C.B. Olkin, J.M. Moore, W. Grundy, R. Gladstone, W.B. McKinnon, D.P. Cruikshank, L.A. Young, H.A. Elliott, A.J. Verbiscer, J.Wm. Parker, the New Horizons Team
The centerpiece objective of the NASA New Horizons first Kuiper Extended Mission (KEM-1) was the close flyby of the Kuiper Belt Object KBO) 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule. On 1 Jan 2019 this flyby culminated, making the first close observations of a small KBO. Initial post flyby trajectory reconstruction indicated the spacecraft approached to within 3536 km of MU69 at 5:33:19 UT.
Here we summarize the earliest results obtained from that successful flyby. At the time of this submission, only 4 days of data down-link from the flyby were available; well over an order of magnitude more data will be down-linked by the time of this Lunar and Planetary Science Conference presentation in 2019 March. Therefore many additional results not available at the time of this abstract submission will be presented in this review talk.
From: Alan Stern [view email]
[v1] Wed, 9 Jan 2019 01:41:17 UTC (1,569 KB)
wdk January 13, 2019, 13:10
That dual column format 2 page report looks like an abstract headed for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March. While some of Centauri Dreams topics will not be covered there, an abundance of "lunar and planetary" accomplishments will be. The annual is held in the Woodlands area outside of Houston,TX on the north side nearer to the Bush Airport than Hobby. (18 to 22 March 2019 – number 50!).
Emily Lakdawalla • January 15, 2019
A few new images of MU69
New Horizons is back in action after going quiet for a period of solar conjunction following the 1 January flyby of 2014 MU69 (informally nicknamed "Ultima Thule"). The spacecraft is returning new data, as exemplified by these images, shared this morning in a tweet by principal investigator Alan Stern.
The pictures were taken before closest approach and don't add anything much in the way of news about the world, but: new images, woohoo!!!
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/a-few-new-images-of-mu69.html
Better-quality, high-resolution images of 2014 MU69 should be available in late February, according to Stern.
New Data: Ultima Thule Surprisingly Flat
Illustration Credit: NASA, JHU's APL, SwRI
Explanation: Ultima Thule is not the object humanity thought that it was last month. When the robotic New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the distant asteroid Ultima Thule (officially 2014 MU69) in early January, early images showed two circular lobes that when most simply extrapolated to 3D were thought to be, roughly, spheres.
However, analyses of newly beamed-back images — including many taken soon after closest approach — shows eclipsed stars re-appearing sooner than expected.
The only explanation possible is that this 30-km long Kuiper belt object has a different 3D shape than believed only a few weeks ago.
Specifically, as shown in the featured illustration, it now appears that the larger lobe — Ultima — is more similar to a fluffy pancake than a sphere, while the smaller lobe — Thule — resembles a dented walnut. The remaining uncertainty in the outlines are shown by the dashed blue lines.
The new shape information indicates that gravity — which contracts more massive bodies into spheres — played perhaps less of a role in contouring the lobes of Ultima Thule than previously thought. The New Horizons spacecraft continued on to Ultima Thule after passing Pluto in mid-2015. New data and images are still being received.
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/new-horizons-departure-images-shed-new-light-on-ultima-thules-shape/
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/looking-back-at-mu69.html
Makes you wonder what else we will learn about our distant celestial neighbor as the data slowly trickles back.
Why does Ultima Thule seem to have so few craters?
https://aasnova.org/2019/02/18/insights-from-mu69s-lack-of-craters/
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A few weeks ago I showed how to logon to a Linux Azure VM via PuTTY with a keyfile. Today I want to show how one can create an OpenSSH pem keyfile from a PuTTY ppk file, to use the key with ssh.
First we need to import the ppk keyfile. Just download and open the PuTTY Key Generator and hit "Conversions -> Import key". Select your ppk keyfile and hit open.
Next hit "Conversions" again, but this time select "Export OpenSSH key". Save the file as "yourname.pem".
To use the keyfile you need to reference the keyfile in the ssh command, like in the screenshot below.


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Q: How to exit IPMI SOL session without exiting the ssh session? We can connect to IPMI serial over lan session by
ipmitool sol activate
and exit the session by
"~."
But "~." also exit the ssh session if you are in a ssh session.
"ipmitool sol deactivate" can disable the sol session without exiting the ssh session, but you need only another ssh session to do it.

A: Quick answer:
~~.
Explanation:
The ssh interprets the ~ character. So when you press just ~. then ssh thinks it is a request to close the session. Ssh does not forward these characters and closes the session. ipmitool is closed because the whole session is closed. If you want send the character ~ to remote system you need to escape it. Ssh man page says:

... A single tilde character can be sent as ~~ ...

So ~~. is forwarded as ~. and it is then interpreted in ipmitool.
Another option is to override the default escape character in ssh. Ssh man page says:

-e escape_char
Sets the escape character for sessions with a pty (default: '~') ...

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Panasonic m4/3 - Picture taking made easy with the GX7 plus 14-42mm and 45-175mm X power zoom lenses.
I still haven't made my mind up what to do about my Panasonic m4/3 cameras, the GX7 and GM1. And the recently announced FZ-1000 offers the alternative of selling everything and buying one of those. It looks an incredible camera and one that would suit what I do perfectly, particularly since the image samples I've seen look somewhat better than the Sony RX100 and RX10. Same sensor possibly, but whether that's the case or not, certainly a much better jpg. rendition. Odd really, considering how good the A7r and a6000 jpgs. are.
However, whatever I decide to do, a recent trip out with my GX7 and 14-42mm and 45-175mm X power zoom lenses made me realise just how easy, slick and fast current Panasonic m4/3 cameras and lenses are. Instant and accurate AF with these two lenses, excellent image stabilisation, superb out of camera colour rendition, low noise at low ISO's and lovely sharp glossy files that take very little time and effort to get good results from raw.
Having not used the GX7 for a while in this mode, i.e. hand-held for stills, I was impressed by how well the whole system handles. And it's small and light. In fact one of the reasons I'm considering selling some of my current m4/3 gear is it's too small and light for me. The GM1 is a great camera, but I don't find it very usable. No viewfinder is a problem, though if it had one, it's so small that I'm not sure that would improve things much. One of the things I like about the FZ-1000 is that it's big and chunky without being back breaking. Despite opinions to the contrary, for me there are situations where cameras can be TOO small.
There are alternatives of course in m4/3 both in terms of lenses and bodies of course, for me to get something more substantial to hold on too. But then the cameras I have are so good for video, that I wouldn't like to loose that. And that's where I really don't mind the size.
I would of course, as ever like to keep everything, but that's neither possible or desirable. However, there is no doubt that Panasonic design cameras to make taking pictures simple and easy and there's nothing wrong with that. If only all manufacturers took the same attitude.


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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served from 1920 to 1922 were appointed for life by the Governor on the advice of the Premier. This list includes members between the election on 20 March 1920 and the election on 25 March 1922. The President was Fred Flowers.

See also
Storey ministry
First Dooley ministry
First Fuller ministry
Second Dooley ministry

Notes

References

Members of New South Wales parliaments by term
20th-century Australian politicians

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France counting on Rabiot to play starring World Cup role
Nov 24, 2022, 5:48 PM | Updated: Nov 25, 2022, 7:53 am
France's Adrien Rabiot celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the World Cup group D soccer match between France and Australia, at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — France is counting on midfielder Adrien Rabiot to continue to deliver for the defending World Cup champions in their match against Denmark on Saturday.
Rabiot scored on a header and assisted on a second goal in France's 4-1 opening match victory over Australia. It's been a remarkable turnaround for a player previously exiled for more than two years from the national team.
"There's an opportunity for him at this World Cup. It's arrived at the right time and he's ready," France captain Hugo Lloris said Friday. "Technically he's a very elegant player and he really can help us go far."
Lloris is qualified to judge talent: the goalkeeper is playing in his fourth World Cup and will set a national record with 143 appearances if France reaches the knockout stage.
France stars N'Golo Kante and Paul Pogba are both out with injury, so Rabiot has an opportunity to take a commanding role for the team.
"People talked a lot about the absence of Pogba and Kante, who for years have been a driving force in the team," Lloris said. "People forget there are other players who can take on more responsibility, who reach a certain point in their careers when they have the maturity and experience to play a leading role. Aurelien has this profile."
Even before his performance against Australia, the 27-year-old Rabiot was on a strong upward curve at Juventus.
When the Italian powerhouse was struggling this season, he became very influential and won over fans who had viewed him as far too inconsistent since he'd moved from Paris Saint-Germain in 2019. He's scored five goals in 16 games this season, compared to five goals in 92 games over the previous two years.
"People have always talked about his ability and you can see how he's been playing for Juve," Lloris said. "He's got the talent but also works incredibly hard, he covers a lot of ground."
With 30 international appearances, Rabiot is the most experienced player among France's young midfielders and thrives on his responsibilities.
"I don't feel under pressure being the most experienced player (in midfield), as someone people expect more from," he said.
Opinion about Rabiot now is mostly positive, which was not the case before.
Rabiot in 2018 asked to be taken off the list of reserve players for the World Cup in Russia and France coach Didier Deschamps indeed dropped him from the roster.
"He made a huge mistake. Hopefully it will help him grow up and think," Deschamps said at the time. "When you play at the highest level, you can't let your emotions take over."
Born in the Val-de-Marne region of Paris, he was touted as a future star when he joined PSG's academy at 15. Despite his lanky frame, he had a silky touch and an excellent passing range.
Now in Qatar and back with the national team, Rabiot has come full circle: he earned $1,000 in 2012 when he was named the best player of a junior tournament played in Qatar and won by PSG. Later that same year, Rabiot became PSG's youngest scorer in a Champions League game at age 17.
Everything was going so well. And then came his troubles.
Rabiot was late to a meeting before the French Cup final in 2015 and the team bus left without him. He reportedly once insulted Swedish player Zlatan Ibrahimovic in a preseason game and turned down PSG contract offers with his tough-negotiating mother Veronique as his agent.
There's no doubt Rabiot's always had a strong character, but now he's channelling it for the good of the national side.
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Rookie goaltender Jaxson Stauber made it two wins in two career starts by stopping 34 shots Thursday night, sending the Chicago Blackhawks to a 5-1 victory over the Calgary Flames. Taylor Raddysh, Boris Katchouk, Jason Dickinson, Sam Lafferty and Connor Murphy scored for Chicago (15-28-4), which entered last in the NHL […]
Rybakina meets Sabalenka in Australian Open women's final
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka figures she'll feel some jitters when she steps out on court to face Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open women's final. Saturday's contest is, after all, Sabalenka's first singles title match at a Grand Slam tournament. Rybakina is more familiar with this stage: She won Wimbledon a little more […]
Vatrano's hat trick, big 3rd period help Ducks stun Avs 5-3
DENVER (AP) — Frank Vatrano scored three goals, Adam Henrique and Mason McTavish scored 24 seconds apart in the third period and the Anaheim Ducks rallied from a two-goal deficit to stun Colorado 5-3 on Thursday night and snap the Avalanche's six-game winning streak. Trailing 3-1, Vatrano scored his second goal with 1:23 left in […]
Schmaltz has hat trick to back Vejmelka in Coyotes' 5-0 win
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Nick Schmaltz had his first NHL hat trick, Karel Vejmelka made 33 saves for his third shutout of the season and the Arizona Coyotes beat the St. Louis Blues 5-0 on Thursday night. Schmaltz scored twice in a three-minute span midway through the second period, and scored again 13 seconds into […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Thursday. He was 82. Packer's son, Mark, told The Associated Press that his father had been hospitalized in Charlotte for the past three weeks and had several medical issues, and ultimately succumbed to […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Mats Zuccarello scored in overtime, Matt Boldy had two goals and the Minnesota Wild returned home with a 3-2 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night. Marc-Andre Fleury made 28 saves for Minnesota, which had lost three in a row and was 1-3 on a four-game road trip that […]


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High Level Assembler or HLASM is IBM's current assembler programming language for its z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM and z/TPF operating systems on z/Architecture mainframe computers.  There is also a version that runs on Linux, primarily intended for systems running on a z/Architecture system (this environment is sometimes referred to as Linux on IBM Z).

Overview
HLASM was released in June 1992 replacing IBM's Assembler H Version 2.  Despite the name, HLASM on its own does not have many of the features normally associated with a high-level assembler, but does offer a number of improvements over Assembler H and Assembler(XF), such as labeled and dependent USINGs, more complete cross-reference information, and additional macro language capabilities such as the ability to write user-defined functions.
While working at IBM, John Robert Ehrman created and was the lead developer for HLASM and is considered the "father of high level assembler".

High Level Assembler Toolkit
The High Level Assembler Toolkit is a separately priced accompaniment to the High Level Assembler.  The toolkit contains:
 A set of structured programming macros —
IF/ELSE/ENDIF
DO/ENDDO
STRTSRCH/ORELSE/ENDLOOP/ENDSRCH
CASENTRY/CASE/ENDCASE
SELECT/WHEN/OTHRWISE/ENDSEL.
 A disassembler.
 A "Program Understanding Tool" (re-engineering aid).
 A Source XREF utility (cross-reference facility).
 Interactive Debug Facility.
 Enhanced SuperC (source comparison tool).

See also
 IBM Basic assembly language and successors

Notes

References

External links

 IBM HLASM Online Manuals

High-level
High Level Assembler
Assembly languages
Assembler High level
IBM mainframe software


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Why children are less affected by Covid-19
Children are less at risk of developing severe Covid symptoms and dying from the disease due to a host of differences between the bodies and immune systems of youngsters and adults, a study shows.
Australian researchers have identified several specific physiological differences which may explain why Covid-19 is rarely severe or fatal in children.
These include strong, undamaged cells in their blood vessels which prevent inflammation and clotting; elevated levels of vitamin D; an immune system that is both fast acting and well-oiled; and fewer ACE2 receptors, which the coronavirus uses to infect cells.
Children are demonstrably less affected by coronavirus infection, making up only a tiny proportion of cases, hospital admissions and deaths (stock)
While Covid-19 causes well-documented respiratory problems in adults, particularly the vulnerable and elderly, other respiratory conditions also plague children.
However, society's youngest are demonstrably less affected by coronavirus infection, making up only a tiny proportion of cases, hospital admissions and deaths.
A recent study from the US looked at hospital admissions of children at seven different hospitals and found just just four per cent of children test positive for the virus.
The research looked at tests of more than 135,000 children who went to hospital for various reasons before September 8.
It revealed only 5,374 (4.0 per cent) of patients tested positive and, of this small percentage, only 359 (6.7 per cent) were hospitalised, with 99 in intensive care.
Eight of the infected patients (0.15 per cent) later died. Six of the deaths were patients with 'complex preexisting comorbidities', the scientists say.
But why this is the case has thus far remained a mystery, with scientists and doctors trying to get to the bottom of the mystery.
'Most children with COVID-19 have no or only mild symptoms, most commonly fever, cough, sore throat and changes in sense of smell or taste,' co-author of the latest study, Professor Nigel Curtis, said.
'Even children with the usual risk factors for severe infections, such as immunosuppression, were not at high risk of severe Covid-19 disease.'
Experts have long speculated the reason likely lies in the immune systems of youngsters performing and reacting differently to those of adults, benefitting children and preventing severe symptoms and death.
The study, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, proves this to be correct and also reveals more details.
Melbourne-based researchers reviewed all currently available research on the topic and analysed the results to unravel the reasons for age-related differences in Covid-19 severity and symptoms.
Researchers found children have strong, undamaged cells in their blood vessels; elevated levels of vitamin D; and an immune system that is both fast acting and well-oiled
One key finding was that in many adults with severe Covid-19, so-called endothelial cells which line the heart and blood vessels are already damaged.
Patients with already damaged endothelial cells are known to be at higher risk of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks. SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, also infects these cells and causes inflammation.
'The endothelium in children has experienced far less damage compared with adults and their clotting system is also different, which makes children less prone to abnormal blood clotting,' says Professor Curtis.
Adults also have a 'higher density and increased affinity' of ACE2, the receptor on the surface of cells which the virus hijacks and uses to infiltrate cells, the researchers write.
ACE2 becomes more prevalent as children grow up, which may explain why older children are more likely to develop symptoms than toddlers.
Three million care home residents and 'clinically extremely vulnerable' to get Vitamin D this winter
Nearly three million people in England will be offered free Vitamin D supplements this winter.
The Government will deliver doses of the 'sunshine vitamin' to all care home residents as well as people classified as 'clinically extremely vulnerable'.
Deliveries will be free of charge, starting in January, providing four months' worth of supplements to last 2.7million people through the winter months.
The supplements support general health, in particular bone and muscle health, but around one in five Britons have Vitamin D deficiencies.
There is some evidence suggesting that it may help people fight coronavirus, and the link between the two is still being researched with larger-scale trials needed.
Another contributing factor to the relative immunity of children is the fact they often have been recently vaccinated for other diseases, including with MMR.
This can confer 'off-target' protective benefits which effectively help train the immune system and keep it firing on all cylinders.
Children are also more likely to be infected with other pathogens, catching colds and picking up germs in the playground. This can help build a strong natural immune system in a process dubbed 'trained immunity', the researchers say.
Dr Petra Zimmermann from the University of Fribourg, who co-authored the study, adds: 'Children have a stronger innate immune response, which is the first-line defence against Covid-19.'
'Children infected with Covid-19 often have co-infections with other viruses. Recurrent viral infections could lead to improved trained immunity, making kids more effective at clearing Covid-19.'
Dr Zimmermann said children have a different gut microbiota; higher levels of vitamin D and melatonin; and pre-existing immunity to coronaviruses, such as from the common cold.
'The overlap between risk factors for severe COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency, including obesity, chronic kidney disease and being of black or Asian origin, suggests that vitamin D supplementation may play a role in helping prevent or treat COVID-19,' she said.
'In many countries, vitamin D is routinely supplemented in infants younger than one year of age and in some countries even up to the age of three years.'
Coronavirus infects only FOUR per cent of children and just 0.15 per cent of youngsters hospitalised with Covid-19 die from the virus, study finds
Children are far less likely to suffer from Covid-19, a new study has confirmed, with just four per cent of children admitted to hospital testing positive for the virus.
Why children are less affected by the coronavirus than adults remains unknown, but it is believed to be down to the way their immune system reacts after infection.
The research looked at the test results of more than 135,000 children admitted to seven US hospitals before September 8.
It revealed only 5,374 (4.0 per cent) of patients tested positive and, of this small percentage, only 359 (6.7 per cent) were hospitalised, with 99 needing intensive care.
The study comes from doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who looked at electronic medical records from seven children's hospitals in the US.
The average age of the patients was almost nine years old, but they ranged from less than one year old to legal adults who were older than 18.
A history of certain factors increased the likelihood of a positive test, the data shows.
For example, people with a history of heart issues were 18 per cent more likely to test positive and a history of mental health was linked to a 20 per cent increase in risk.
However, a history of asthma or other respiratory conditions was not associated with increased positive test results.
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Q: How to use netcat to provide input to DPDK examples? I'm running the DPDK Skeleton example from here:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/sample_app_ug/skeleton.html
Getting this output:
sudo ./dpdk-skeleton -l 1 -n 4

EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 4
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA'
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_e1000_igb (8086:1533) device: 0000:05:00.0 (socket -1)
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_e1000_igb (8086:1533) device: 0000:0a:00.0 (socket -1)
TELEMETRY: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created
Port 0 MAC: 98 b7 85 00 5b 87
Port 1 MAC: 6c b3 11 52 a3 29

Core 1 forwarding packets. [Ctrl+C to quit]

How do I generate input frames/packets, so the above example does "something"?
I tried netcat from the same host but it didn't seem to work:
nc localhost 2399

I wasn't sure which port (because the DPDK application doesn't log a port) so I assumed I could use any port.
How/can I use netcat on the same host to provide input to DPDK examples?
I have a second machine (and an Ethernet cable) if that's required.

A: To find the port listened by dpdk-skeleton, run this first :
ps -ef | grep dpdk-skeleton

let's say you get PID 6666, then
sudo netstat -anp | grep "LISTEN.*6666/"

Update
You can try this single command :
sudo netstat -anp|grep -P "LISTEN\s+$(pgrep -f dpdk-skeleton)"


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Daily News: 5 GMB Myths Debunked, Top 2017 Local Marketing Articles, Ad-Blocking Version of Chrome »
Top 10 Local & Location-Based Marketing Articles on LSA Insider from 2017
January 5, 2018 | Contributed by: LSA Editors
From news and commentary to stats and studies, we cover a variety of topics here on LSA Insider. Based on article views, shares and comments, here are the top ten most popular posts from 2017:
1. Colossal Merger Yields DexYP (June 30, 2017)
After months of on again, off again rumors the deal of the century, at least in the Yellow Pages industry, has finally come to pass. Dex Media has acquired its rival YP to become DexYP.
2. 2017 Ad-to-Action Award Winners Announced at LSA17 in San Diego (February 27, 2017)
The 2017 Ad-to-Action Awards program received 172 entries across 11 categories. Finalists represented a mix of agencies, publishers, tech providers and more.
3. 8 Changes to Google My Business: What You Need to Know (June 8, 2017)
In a recent webinar, local SEO expert Joy Hawkins, a Google My Business Top Contributor, took the LSA audience through important GMB changes and offered pro tips for maximizing organic exposure.
4. On Target Podcast: Gordon Henry, CMO, DexYP (September 12, 2017)
In the latest On Target podcast, LSA's Charles Laughlin spoke with DexYP's Gordon Henry about the YP acquisition and what it means for the company.
5. Webinar Replay: Understanding Local Search Ranking Factors 2017 (May 5, 2017)
This week LSA hosted a webinar with Darren Shaw of Whitespark and Britney Muller of Moz exploring the 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors report.
6. Introducing the Local Marketing Stack (June 8, 2017)
David Mihm explains his view of the Local Marketing Stack, sharing an infographic geared towards helping small business owners make marketing decisions.
7. Google Has 'Built' More than 250K Websites for SMBs in One Month (July 20, 2017)
In roughly a month, according to Mike Blumenthal, Google has seen the creation of approximately 250,000 websites.
8. The Digital Consumer: Exploring Digital Media Usage in U.S. Cities (April 20, 2017)
Today LSA is releasing "The Digital Consumer Study" which looks at how digital media usage for local business discovery varies from city to city.
9. Facebook Inches Closer to Something That Looks Like Local Search (March 24, 2017)
Facebook has all the pieces, including a massive trove of reviews and its social graph, to create a very useful and powerful local search capability.
10. 'Local Market Paradox': Consumer Tech Changing, SMB Issues Persist (August 10, 2017)
We've got a consumer market in dramatic and rapid transition, an SMB market that is moving much more slowly and unevenly and a large number of vendors and service providers that are trying to bridge the two.
LSA members are eligible to contribute monthly to the LSA Insider blog. If you are interested in contributing or want to learn more about becoming a member, please email us with your information and topics/areas of expertise that you would like to write about.
Contributed by: LSA Editors
The Local Search Association (LSA) is a not-for-profit industry association of media companies, agencies and technology providers who help businesses market to local consumers. Follow LSA on Twitter: @LocalSearchAssn
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History Brooklyn Boro
MILESTONES: May 15, birthdays for Emmitt Smith, Madeleine Albright, Jasper Johns
May 15, 2019 Brooklyn Eagle
Emmitt Smith. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include singer and actress Anna Maria Alberghetti, who was born in 1936; former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was born in 1937; Hall of Fame baseball player and executive George Brett, who was born in 1953; singer and actor David Charvet, who was born in 1972; filmmaker David Cronenberg, who was born in 1943; soccer player Dwayne De Rosario, who was born in 1978; musician and producer Brian Eno, who was born in 1948; TV host and actress Giselle Fernandez, who was born in 1961; actor Lee Horsley, who was born in 1955; artist Jasper Johns, who was born in 1930; singer and actress Lainie Kazan, who was born in 1940; actor David Krumholtz, who was born in 1978; Hall of Fame football player Ray Lewis, who was born in 1975; singer and actor Trini Lopez, who was born in 1937; baseball player Justin Morneau, who was born in 1981; tennis player Andy Murray, who was born in 1987; actor, playwright and screenwriter Chazz Palminteri, who was born in 1952; sportscaster and radio personality Dan Patrick, who was born in 1956; former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who was born in 1948; actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who was born in 1981; Hall of Fame football player Emmitt Smith, who was born in 1969; broadcaster and Hall of Fame baseball player John Smoltz, who was born in 1967; and actor Sam Trammell, who was born in 1969.
RICHARD AVEDON WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1923. The influential photographer began his career with the merchant marines, taking personnel identification photos and images of shipwrecks. Later, he worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, where his artistic style of shooting fashion models against famous backgrounds revolutionized the industry's approach to fashion layouts. He was known for taking memorable, while not necessarily flattering, portraits and was honored with retrospectives and exhibits at many museums. He received the National Medal for the Arts in 2003 and died in New York in 2004.
GEORGE WALLACE WAS SHOT ON THIS DAY IN 1972. The former governor of Alabama and a symbol of segregation was shot by Arthur Bremer while Wallace was in Laurel, Maryland, campaigning for the U.S. presidency. For the remainder of his life (until he died in 1998 in Alabama), Wallace was paralyzed from the waist down. Bremer was sentenced to 67 years in prison for the shooting.
LYMAN FRANK BAUM WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1856. The American newspaperman who wrote the "Wizard of Oz" stories was born in Chittenango, N.Y. Although "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the most famous, Baum also wrote many other books for children, including more than a dozen about Oz. He died in California in 1919.
TENZING NORGAY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1914. The Sherpa and co-conqueror of Mount Everest was raised in Nepal and began mountaineering as a porter. Having participated in six previous attempts at scaling Mount Everest, he was the most experienced Everest climber on the British expedition of 1953, and on May 29, he and New Zealander Edmund Hillary were the first two men atop the world's highest mountain. Norgay died in 1983 in India.
Special thanks to "Chase's Calendar of Events" and Brooklyn Public Library.
"The best book, like the best speech, will do it all — make us laugh, think, cry and cheer — preferably in that order." — Madeleine Albright, who was born on this day in 1937
Ask a historian: Did the Thunderbolt's namesake once run a brothel?
July 16 | John B. Manbeck
Ask a historian: What's the story of fireworks in Brooklyn?
July 2 | John B. Manbeck
July 2: ON THIS DAY in 1912, Woodrow Wilson nominated for president
July 2 | Brooklyn Eagle
MILESTONES: July 2, birthdays for Lindsay Lohan, Margot Robbie, Alex Morgan


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Introduction to Mineral Processing. flotation is a process in which valuable minerals are separated from worthless material or other valuable Lead/Zinc Ore.
Mount Isa Lead, Zinc and Silver Mine. Share. Location Mount Isa was the hub of a lead, zinc, providing a range of services to the mineral processing community.
The four types of commercial pyrometallurgical processes are the St. Joseph Minerals Corporation's (electrothermic) process, the blast furnaceprocess, the New Jersey Zinc continuous vertical retort process, and the Belgian type horizontal retort process.
According to ore properties and a series of processing tests, Xinhai finally decided copper and lead mixed flotation separation mixed tailings zinc flotation flotation tailings weak magnetic separation process, so the plant also get more than 65% iron concentrate in addition to the grade high of copper, lead and zinc concentrate.
When in production, the Dairi Project would have been the only operating zinc lead mine of significance in Indonesia. Ausenco was engaged to perform the detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the processing plant and associated infrastructure.
the lab scale lead zinc sulphide mineral concentrating process and the recovery of lead was not affected. The results The results showed that by using Ozone/BAC technology, the lead zinc sulphide mineral processing wastewater could be recycled.
Given that coal, which is used as a reductant to extract the zinc and lead from the zinc and lead oxide minerals of the ore in the kiln, is the largest operating cost component of our metallurgical process, this would clearly be an important economic enhancement.
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Mining and Ore Processing Lead Tailings also contain minerals and materials that can lead to dangerous runoff and water contamination silver, and zinc.


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Dove Shore
Lady Antebellum Feel the Emotions of Ocean
"What If I Never Get Over You" Hits Top 10
by CMT.com Staff 11/18/2019
Lady Antebellum decided to take it back to the start with Ocean, a brand new album that echoes their earliest work. Their familiar harmonies and heartaches are on full display on the Top 10 single, "What If I Never Get Over You."
After more than a decade together, Lady A partnered with a different record label and producer to bring Ocean to life. In the video below, band members Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, and Hillary Scott tell CMT.com about their latest project.
CMT: How does Ocean compare to your previous albums?
Scott: All of our albums have felt very personal, for sure, but this one I think is the most present.
Kelley: The most vulnerable.
Scott: Vulnerable, where we are in our life right now, talking about our families and our children. You know, our deepest, darkest inner struggles. I mean, we just really bare it all in these songs.
CMT: Where did the title, Ocean, come from?
Scott: An ocean brings up so many emotions. You can feel so small standing on the shore, and scared because the waves are crashing around you. You can feel free, you can feel so many different things. And this record I think touches on all of those emotions.
Kelley: In waves. There are a lot of ups and downs on this record. Also, too, we really wanted an art piece. The song "Ocean" to me is such an art piece and one of Hillary's best vocals. I always think when people buy a record they go straight to [the title track]. I think we all were like, "I really want people to hear that song."
CMT: What was it like collaborating with Little Big Town?
Kelley: Collaborating with LBT, that has been something we've been talking about doing with them for the last, I would say, five years. Every time we're in a late night having a glass of wine together, we're like, "We should work together. I mean, how cool would that be? Seven voices on one song!"
I kind of put them on the spot. I said, "Y'all, I've got two songs I really want you to hear. And they really fell in love with "The Thing That Wrecks You." I'm so proud of how it came out. It was a master class in vocals, wasn't it?
Scott: There's so much non-verbal understanding, it's amazing.
Kelley: They know exactly where their parts should be. It's really cool.
Scott: We feel that way to a point, too, being together for 13 years. But watching four voices and four-part harmony, it was like going to school.
CMT: What does working with a new producer mean for fans?
Haywood: It was our very first time working with Dann Huff, so when you have an outside opinion coming in, being able to help you pick songs, tell you what they see and think about Lady Antebellum, it helps us navigate. It felt like we were making our first record again.
We had that excitement. And I think sonically and musically, it felt like some of the earlier Lady A stuff. A new producer for us, from a fan standpoint, means new energy, new excitement on the songs, and hopefully you can hear that through the music.
CMT.com Staff
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Donald E. Boucher Sr.
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Posted: Dec. 12, 2007, 7:03 a.m.
A Celebration of Life will be held in honor of Donald Edward Boucher Sr., 68, of Ceres, from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 at the Las Casitas Mobile Home Park clubhouse, 2841 Fowler Road, Ceres.
Mr. Boucher died on Nov. 25, 2007 at his home.
The Neptune Society of Central California was in charge of cremation.
Born April 29, 1939, Mr. Boucher was a Livingston High School graduate of 1957. He had been married to his sweetheart, Patsy, for 47 years. Mr. Boucher had been employed as a mechanic, bus driver and shop lead man for Modesto City Schools. He retired after 35 years.
Mr. Boucher was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
He leaves behind his wife Patsy Boucher of Ceres; his two children, Don Boucher Jr. and Christine Manning; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
-Ceres (Calif.) Courier /December 12, 2007


Retailers' loss to theft is higher than many realize. Just ten percent of major retailers believed their level of shrink was high in comparison to their competitors, according to one recent study.
Retail losses from theft and fraud have reached an all time high.


Live in North America? While you don't think about it much, when you tell your friends from outside of North America where you live, they may not tell you what they are really thinking. And they certainly are thinking. So what does living in North America actually say about you?
Unless your address is the North American Cemetery, people who live in North America are living, breathing Homo sapiens who not only have a pulse, but they eat, drink, and sleep just like non-North Americans.
I wish I had a dream like this last night. Instead, and I'm completely serious, I dreamed I was on a landed plane in a desert-y location where terrorist snipers were picking off passengers who deboarded. Two had just left the plane and I wasn't sure if they had made it to safety. I was next.
When sleeping at night for long stretches of time, sometimes you enter an REM state and dream about things.
It's true. It's so true.
North Americans occasionally see joggers running. Some join them, others don't.
Last of all, living in North America means you eat food. And that may be the most significant of all of the stereotypes, except for maybe number one.
Did I forget one? Send me YOUR suggestions by commenting below!
* This post addresses the stereotype list craze you might find here, here, here, here, here, here, etc.
I was going to say breathing but then I started to worry that I've generalized too much. Maybe this applies only to North Americans who are also Mormons?
Your first sentence is brilliant.
I couldn't think of a sixth item. You have filled that void!
North Americans are generally good at making sure they leave the house with clothes on.


Great news! Grow Your Own, the national growing magazine has featured Foodshare as their cover story in this month's edition.
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· Politics
Does Hungary have a migration problem at all? – VIDEO
migration Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations USA
New York, 2018. szeptember 27. A Külgazdasági és Külügyminisztérium (KKM) által közreadott képen Szijjártó Péter külgazdasági és külügyminiszter felszólal az ENSZ-közgyûlés csúcsszintû ülésszakához kapcsolódó, a szíriai konfliktus politikai úton történõ megoldásának elõmozdítására szervezett kísérõrendezvényen 2018. szeptember 26-án. MTI Fotó: KKM
CNN's reporter, Christiane Amanpour, has just shared an interview with Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó on her Facebook page, as 24.hu reports.
As we all know, the Hungarian government has officially declared war on migration. The government rejects the migration package of the world's biggest and most prestigious international organization, the UN – even though it could participate in the process of forming it. Besides, a new anti-immigration tax has been introduced in June 2018, as we reported earlier. The new tax policy is part of the "Stop Soros" package that is aimed against the alleged "Soros plan", a plan to support migration to the EU – as claimed by the Hungarian government. According to the ministry, migration causes a substantial financial burden on the Hungarian government's budget.
Now Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was asked by Christiane Amanpour, the iconic CNN journalist, whether it is in Hungary's intention to only welcome people who are white Christians and would not create heterogeneity in the country. As she says, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has on numerous occasions talked about his views on multiculturalism as an adverse policy. According to Péter Szijjártó, representing this point of view is not extraordinary but rather, it is honest.
Also, the journalist raised the fundamental issue of whether Hungary has a migration problem at all.
Although the Hungarian government claims that immigrants are "flooding" the whole of Europe, this is by no means true: Hungary welcomed an approximate number of 4,000 refugees altogether, while the number of refugees that came to Europe has decreased by more than 80 pc in the past 2 years.
Photo: UNHCR
In contrast, the foreign minister stressed that governments should be able to decide themselves what kind of policy they would like to follow. Nevertheless, Hungary has signed several international human rights treaties – including refugees' rights – so it has obligations to comply with. Therefore, a country cannot essentially decide by itself about the foreign policy issues that it has international obligations to comply with.
"Let's leave it to us to make a decision whether we think multiculturalism is more valuable than a homogeneous society," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said during the interview.
Amanpour also talked about the Sargentini report and launching the Article 7 procedure against the Hungarian government inside the EU. According to the FM, every action proposed to be taken against Hungary will be vetoed by like-minded countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic.
Watch the video here:
Featured image: MTI Photo, KKM
Source: 24.hu, CNN
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Edward says:
Amanpour works for the socialist news. Trying to make every country a mixed soup of races and cultures without understanding the long term affects upon the host nations. What works for another country on a separate continent will not work for other countries and should not be attempted. The U.S. had a great "melting pot" system where every newcomer wanted to be an American. With globalisation and the left wing morons, America is falling away at the seams with every minority, culture and religion wanting its own separate law, town, border. Maybe some inner reflection by CNN and Amanpour, a bit of critical thinking of what's wrong in their own country before trying to condemn other countries.
VEDO says:
Amanpour a seasoned journalist and biased pro-Muslim, just couldn't get Szijjarto to buckle. She tried to pull the "white" card out, but if she knew anything about Hungarian past, she wouldn't have tried that one. Not so seasoned at times. She entered this ring trying to get Peter to admit some kind of anti-semitism, but that didn't go down well for her either. Nice try Christiane, but no where near as good as needed here. The EU courts will later decide that the ' Sargentini' report was a bunch of lies too. Wonder how many Left-Turd media folks, will appear to report that then.
John H. morton says:
Well handled Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto !, Amanpour is another combative journalist wishing to spread the "Globalist" view and is unable to penetrate the very Truth and Honesty, and, the Right of an independent country to hold onto to the cultural values it has and espouses, so ably put to her by our very intelligent and hard working Foreign Minister !!
John H. Morton.