The ORC was founded in 1969 by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) and the Cruising Club of America (CCA) to develop a handicap standard for the international community. Since then, the ORC has supported several rules including the IOR, IMS, and, most recently, the ORC Rule. The ORC Rule was structured in the late 2000's to promote safe design practices and to fairly rate a broad range of designs, including cruiser/racer and modern race boats. Learn more about the history of the ORC.
NYYC currently uses both ORC International and ORC Club ratings. Other products are available - visit the ORC site for more information.
The ORC Rule relies on a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP) based on standard measurements defined by the Universal Measurement System (UMS). The rating calculator outputs a multi-number rating, suitable for various scoring options and course configurations. While ORC Club and ORC International certificates differ with respect to measurement criteria, they rely on the same calculation routine. As a result, Club and International certificates may be scored consistently with each other.
The ORC VPP is updated annually and all rules, regulations, certificates and VPP documentation are freely available to the racing community. ORC scoring options include Time-on-Distance, Time-on-Time, Triple Number, and Performance Curve Scoring, and other custom options.
ORC is globally recognized in local, national, and international races making it the most popular measurement-based rating system in the world, with >10,000 certificates issued in 40 countries. The ORC rating system offers ORC Club and ORC International certificates for Racer, Cruiser/Racer and Sportboats, and ORCsy certificates for Superyachts.
ORCi is based on a complete boat measurement carried out by a certified measurer as defined by the Universal Measurement System. This is the most accurate rating the rule system offers. These certificates are intended for use in World, Continental, Regional, and National level races. Any boat with a full-measured ORR certificate may obtain an ORCi certificate without further measurements needed…contact offshore@ussailing.org.
ORCi certificates issued by US Sailing cost $8/foot up to 59 feet LOA, and $10.50/foot for boats 60 feet and longer.
Club certificates do not require certified measurement. Instead, owners are allowed to declare select measurements while other parameters are assigned by the rating office. Where input data is lacking, the rating office will apply estimates or default values that err to a faster rating. The more data submitted based on measurements, the more accurate the rating.
ORC Club certificates issued by US Sailing are $100 regardless of length, and can be ordered at www.orc.org/usa.
For both ORC and ORC Club certificates, Sail Measurement Certificates must be provided and can be completed by your local sail maker. ORC Club certificates are intended for club-level racing.


I'll be away from my blog from April 25-30, attending a Men's retreat in Arizona. In my absence, my sister Laura will be guest posting, so be on the lookout for that! Laura is a talented young writer, majoring in English and Creative Writing. I know you will enjoy her essay.
As for me, I'm looking forwar to a few days unplugged. It will be nice to dwell in the desert canyons, living simply and focusing on the little things that matter. I do believe I will come away with good writing, whether or not it's worth sharing is still to be seen. Maybe another handwritten post?
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Look for ways to bless others and help, whether in your face-to-face interactions, or online. You have knowledge and love to share, don't miss it!
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Book about child sex scandal sparks outcry in France
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press
PARIS -- He was a middle-aged French author becoming known, even celebrated, for writing about sex with children. She was a fragile 14-year-old, too young to foresee the damage she says was done to her life by his predatory grip on her body and mind.
Now a grown woman, Vanessa Springora is causing a literary, legal and cultural storm in France with her explosive tell-all book that alleges, in cutting detail, an underage and destructive sexual relationship with French writer Gabriel Matzneff, now in his eighties.
The publication this month and quick commercial success of "Consent" is also being hailed by child-protection activists as a possible watershed moment for France. The book has ignited renewed debates about the country's permissive attitudes toward sex with minors and soul-searching about why Matzneff was long celebrated in Paris.
"This is a very important book. It's France's #MeToo moment," says Homayra Sellier, an advocate for child victims of sexual violence with the group Innocence in Danger.
Matzneff is rapidly becoming a pariah in the wake of the book's publication and is now the target of a new rape probe by Paris prosecutors. Yet for years, Matzneff was a frequent guest on French TV and radio. He was awarded a prestigious literary prize as recently as 2013 and honored by the French government with medals and an annual allowance.
But for the teenage Springora, Matzneff was the 50-year-old for whom she developed a schoolgirl crush after her mother, who worked in publishing, dragged her to a dinner party. There, she met and was bowled over by the writer who seemed to have eyes only for her. She alleges he then set about grooming her until he was habitually waiting at her school gates so he could take her away for sex in his flat or a hotel.
Matzneff has defended himself in an essay, which the L'Express magazine published in full. He wrote that he will not read Springora's book, describing it as "a dagger to the heart" that is "intended to harm me, to destroy me" and which "tries to make me out as a pervert, a manipulator, a predator ..."
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"We met in Germany in a laundromat. That's a classical situation. I never went to the laundromat, but my colleague's washing machine had broken down. So we decided to go and here he was. At first I thought, I don't care, I don't want an American. But then he invited us both for dinner that same evening. Very classy." What was it about her? "I don't know. I just liked her. I just liked everything about her." Will and Christa Harris met 26 years ago in Germany while Will was stationed there in the military. They live together in Watertown, NY where Will came to work at Fort Drum. Will suffered from injuries and PTSD as a result of his combat deployment during the Gulf War. He earned a Purple Heart for his time there.
Will Harris was stationed in Germany for the military. He went to do his laundry and met his future wife. The two tell their story of love and war.
Will Harris had to do laundry before he headed to Nuremberg to party. That's where he ran into Christa, his future wife.
Christa Harris: I actually never went to the laundromat, but my colleague, her washing machine broke down and so we decided to go to the laundromat and here he was. First, I thought I don't want that…not an American because I was just divorced and my daughter was 10 years old. I don't want to get in that kind of trouble. I ignored him and then he went out to smoke a cigarette – at the time, he smoked cigarettes— and my friend Almas went out, too. And smoked a cigarette and then she came in and said, 'May I introduce you to Mr. Will Harris.' Then he invited us both to dinner the same evening – very classy.
Will Harris: So my St. Patty's day out didn't happen.
CH: No, it happened. We went to a pizzeria, just not as you thought.
CH: I think it was love at the first sight. I mean, we dated, we didn't live together for a long time. Because, I lived with my daughter and he had his own apartment a couple miles outside of Nuremburg. Then he had orders to go to the Gulf War – The Desert Storm. In December '91, no? December '91 was that.
CH: And then you were gone for four months.
WH: That was rough. That was rough because there was no built up area. It was just like Saudi Arabia, then Kuwait, then Iraq. And it was just sand – just nothing but sand. It was the first time I was deployed in a war zone. I thought I was going to do 20 years and say hey, I ain't got to shoot nobody, right? Nobody shoot me. This is good. Then I got the phone call. Went over there and it was…we had about one, two, three…we had about three major battles over there. Three major battles. And the last battle, that's where my humvee got hit three times with artillery.
CH: The explosion was so bad that your helmet got blown away.
WH: It was like, stuff was going on. I didn't know what was going on, I was just trying to get out of there.
CH: When he came back from Desert Storm, he was different. I mean, he was always driven. He drunk way more and he hardly ever slept – he was just wandering around the house. But I couldn't point what that was, you know? I thought he just had to come down after that war experience, I never heard about PTSD for some years or TBI or whatever. I knew he had…was wounded with shrapnel, they're still in his leg and in his back and stuff. But all the other affects, they came later. He came back, we moved together and then we were always together and then also, that was the time that other side effects came up. His health issues, all that stuff, came up. Not just the mental, the PTSD, but also his physical problems showed more and more so we had to talk more. You deal with the relationship and the problems you have on a day to day basis. You don't expect that someone gets that sick. Sure, when I met him, that was before the war. He was healthy, he was all different, very outgoing, very nice. But he also has a lot of times where he is very distant now, where he stays in his room for hours a day and stuff like that. But you just deal with it, I guess.
WH: She's very committed. She's very committed. She's very sensible.
CH: When he had orders to come to the states, I had my doubts if I should come over with him – to give up my life, my career. Then my mom said, you married and you go with him. But I think I wouldn't change anything – the way we met and we're together.
WH: I wouldn't change anything either.
CH: I mean, sure, I'd rather he wouldn't be sick or being in combat. That's life, I guess. That's how you deal with, right? I think we would do the most again, right?
WH: Oh yeah. I had fun when I've been with you, while I'm with you. I'd say, 'Relax. Don't panic. It's going to be alright.' That's the advice I would give myself.


Our Steamworks robot had a very smooth cycle. The gear grabber was a simple way to intake fuel the same way as gears, by sliding the gear to the back of the robot. There, it would be raised from the ground to be left on the peg. This method caught the eye of the Killer Bees, who chose us for their alliance with the Las Guerrillas, a combo that earned us 10-0 in playoffs, our second State Championship!
With a very simple concept in mind, our Stronghold robot was low enough to clear the low bar, shot high enough to arc over even the tallest defenders, and an inverted drop center allowed us to take the defenses like they weren't there. Our winning streak continued with Lakeview and Howell, and we earned the Chairman's Award at the State Championship for the first time! Further, ranked third on Tesla field, we became finalists in our division with the Killer Bees and Argos.
Recycle Rush was one of our best years yet. A quick cycle and stack topping ability allowed us to pair with any robot. We earned our first District win at Gull Lake, and made it two with our performance at Centerline. The World Championship landed us allied with Spartan Robotics, who added some cheesecake to our robot in the form of a can grabber. Doing so required major sacrifices to our scoring ability, but we still made it to the semifinals.
For the first time, the Bionic Barons changed names to match our school mascot, becoming the Bionic Black Hawks. With only one ball at a time per Aerial Assist alliance, several robots would peel for defense on the narrow field. Our role in cycling was to infeed and launch over the truss for a quick 20 points. Our alliance at the Michigan State Championship took us to the semifinals.
Our approach to Ultimate Ascent called for a shooter that could aim at any goal from the fixed safezone reference of the pyramid. The accuracy of our shooter was also maintained in Autonomous. This accuracy earned us our first Regional event win, at Buckeye Regional.
One of our most advanced robots, the machine built for Rebound Rumble had a 360 degree turret, bridge or bump capabilities, and some very solid shooting geometry. This all made to one of our better designed robots. This robot also made its way to IRI for the first time of our team's history.
Our team then had the experience to use more advanced building techniques. The four bar linkage with a 180 degree wrist we used for Logomotion meant for some very quick cycles. After a rough start at the Kettering District Competition, our scoring strategy really took shape.
Breakaway was a great year for our team. While still quite young, we had the experience to build a robot that brought the attention of NC Gears and Las Guerrillas, who became our alliance partners to win the State Championship!
At the birth of the team, with Ed Law as coach of the Bionic Barons, we took about Lunacy with a goal to compete with the top teams in Michigan. Our design took us far, even earning us the Rookie All Star award at the Michigan State Championship.


Skinny jeans come in many styles that can easily suit to everyone's taste.
As the years went by, skinny have slightly changed by embracing different styles every year, back in the '90, Calvin Klein strongly brought back this trend with both man's and lady's styles; and today skinny jeans are still an inseparable part of all of us.
It does't matter if you like them or not, you're going to see them everywhere, as I am sure you have so far. So my advice for you is to fall in love with skinny jeans and make them part of your daily outfit because this style is a timeless one. Have a look below to get inspired and wear skinny jeans well combined with tops and accessory.
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The George Foreman 15-Serving Indoor Outdoor Electric Grill is easy to put together and lightweight so it can easily be moved from outside to the kitchen counter or even the table. Additionally, with 240 square inches of grilling space, you can cook 15 servings on the grill at once. This electric grill must have been designed with condo and apartment dwellers in mind because this electric grill can go from the kitchen to the patio or vice versa in a flash. When it starts raining out on the patio just grab the grill off the stand and move it to the kitchen counter and plug it back in to finish grilling without the mess of charcoal or the fumes and possible flare ups from propane.
You're going to love how easily this electric grill cleans up without compromising great taste or those grill marks. They call it the "George Tough Nonstick Coating" and it's not only durable and easy to clean, but makes for a much healthier meal because it all but eliminates the need for grease, oil, or butter to cook with so the grill just cooks off the fat and grease from the meat and leaves you with a healthy cut of meat that is cooked to perfection.
You can set the grilling temperature from 1 to 5, 1 for the slow-cooked goodness of a smoker under the domed lid, to the 5 setting for the high-temperature searing required to grill the perfect steak. Once you get the grill setup, you can turn it on and let it heat up while you prepare the food. It may take some experimentation or time to become familiar with the settings and figure out which is the best settings for which cuts of meat, but once you know, you can count on consistent cooking times, unlike a charcoal grill. This adds predictability and takes the guess work out of preparing that steak the way your guests want it.
The George Foreman 15-Serving Electric Grill is a great indoor-outdoor grill for the money. Apartment dwellers and their landlords will love this totally electric grill because there's no charcoal mess and only a minimal chance of fire, less than your toaster, actually.
We found 2,594 confirmed Amazon purchasers that rated this indoor-outdoor electric grill. They gave it an average rating of 4.4 stars out of a possible 5 stars. Out of the 2,594 customer reviews we found, 87 percent of customers rated the George Foreman electric grill either 4 or 5 stars. You must figure George is doing something right if nearly 90 percent of the buyers found this electric grill to be a good or excellent buy … in fact it has earned the Amazon's Choice title. A few of the commenters wish they would make the stand a little more stable and add hooks to hang the cooking utensils from, perhaps George will listen, but in the meantime, it is still a great little grill for the price.
In summary, the George Foreman 15-serving electric indoor-outdoor grill is perfect for condominium and apartment dwellers, either in the kitchen or on the patio. It's easy to setup and cleanup, which makes it a good grill at a great price.


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Quick and simple moist, cakey delicious brownies! These taste awesome as is, or with a chocolate frosting or with a scoop of ice-cream. YUM!
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 170C for 25-30 mins. Do not over-bake, a toothpick stuck into the brownies should come out slightly moist, not completely dry. So best to start checking on them at about 20 mins and then give them extra time if need be. Serve warm or cooled, with a cup of tea or coffee or as a yummy dessert served with a big fat dollop of vanilla ice-cream and some brownie crumbs for a cute look.
As for cocoa powder, I use Cadbury's Cocoa powder and it gives excellent results. Cannot know how your oven is operated, best to refer to the manual it came with as different ovens operate differently.
what is (all purpose flour)imean what kind of flour is this,is it aspecially ones or the one we use in tz from bakhresa mills.pls let me know.
All-purpose flour is the usual plain white flour used in making chapatis and mandazi, cakes etc. The one from TZ's Bakhressa mills is fine.
can i bake this on stove top?
Hi Fauzia,I always try your recipes they turn out perfect.You are blessed,Thank you for sharing this blessing with all of us u are a gr8 help in our kitchen.Well i had to ask you if i want to make double this amount of brownies should i just double the ingredients or do it twice or what please guide me through.Thanks once again.
Hi and thank you!! I would make two batches of brownies for best results.
as.kum can iuse blueband margarine instead of butter cos idont have butter and ilove blueband also.so instead of butter in all your recepies can i use margrine or its must to use buutter..pls.
W/Salaam, in most recipes blueband will not give the same results as butter. You can try though.
Hi..where do you get unsweet cocoa from??or is it ok if I use the sweet one???please reply asap!
Hi, unsweetened cocoa is available in any supermarket. You can use sweetened but that will make the results too sweet.
I wud really love to try ur recipes.They seem to b very easy n quick ones.Just want to ask can i use ghee instead of butter in cookies n cakes???
Yes you can although it is best when in thin sections.
Salaams, I tried the brownies, they turned out 1/2 inch thin & tough though I followed the recipe to the T!!!!!!!! What might be the reason?
W/Salaam, what size pan did you use? And was the baking powder good? Normally brownies are not supposed to rise much, not like a cake anyways. But the toughness you mentioned could be from over-mixing the batter or baking for longer than the recommended time, especially if the pan used was bigger.
I used a 8 inch pan as u mentioned, baking powder was new n I'm sure I didn't over mix, yr recipes don't fail fr me usually, my butter ws warm when beating could that hav been the prob?
Nope the butter needs to be warm when you add sugar to it. All I can say is maybe try it one more time and see if it makes a difference. It's a very tried and tested recipe, inshaAllah it will turn out perfect on your next attempt. Just be careful not to overmix once the flour goes in as that makes anything cake-based turn hard and chewy. Also take care not to bake for longer than the recommended time.
as,kum ishallah you are well and happy.iwill be very happy if you will write for me ingredients of icing for the cake just icing and how to make it.pleaseeeeeeeee ican make a cake but my problem is only how to make icing just simple one to make my kids happy.please.if iwant trouble you.
W/Salaam, please check the cakes folder, variety of icing/frosting recipes there.
Thank you sooooomuch I'm definitely gonna try it again.
How to check whether batter is completely beat??
I meant to say how to check that batter is done n it doesn't need any more mixing, I hope I make it clear.
Yes I got you now. Well it is hard to give you a definite point but basically once you see that the flour has been mixed in, stop mixing the batter.
Hey Faiza , I am gonna try this recipe on the coming weekend , I just wanted to be clear about the "all purpose flour", I know u must be tired of answering this question by now :). By all purpose flour do u mean simple flour ( ataa) which is used for chapatis or the other version (maida) which is usually used for pooris ?
Hi, it's Fauzia not Faiza lol. AP flour is the same as plain flour/maida.
Fauzia I made these today and they turned out GREAT alhamdulillah! I made them on stove top and used a flatter pan this time so it can get cooked thoroughly. The results? Smaller brownies but absolutely yummy! Perfect texture and taste, thank you soooo much! I can't believe I have actually started baking :p I have always had a hindrance, that its too risky and it requires lots of expertise to make simple cakes. With your website being a guide three of my experiments have been great and which have given me great motivation to carry on and try more stuff!
Yes you do need it.
Thank you! Yes it is baking powder that is needed in this recipe, NOT baking soda.
Salamz :) Tried ur brownies today. Everybody loved them, esp my kids n hubby :) Thank u soooo much for the super yummy recipe!
Aa wow fauzia i love your recepies thanks alot.where did u take your course?is it burhani finishing college.!
W/Salaam, thank you and no I have never taken any courses. Just a hobby.
salam fauzia , ur recipes r very good i tried few n they came out excellent , can we make cakes n brownies from home made butter ?
Pleace clarify once butter is heated/melted are we supposed to remove the butter from the stove and then add sugar?


Property Investment UK Alternatives – What Are They?
Okay, you have decided to invest into the UK property market as a property developer or as someone who buys to rent.
However, you are also wondering what are the property investment alternatives?
Is this question spinning around your head because you have found that holding property until you cash out at the end is like running an expense account that drains your funds?
You are looking for property investment alternatives. What else can I do?
Now I know a fair bit about this because I have been, at the time of writing this article, in this market for just over 8 years.
I own and manage through my home business 21 properties that I either hold through my company, Pooleford Property Services & Investments Limited, or own in my own name with my business partner, Elizabeth Poole.
So, what have we learnt?… loads… and loads more.
The more properties you hold to rent, the bigger the maintenance budget you need and the more call there is on any positive cashflow you may have. Trying to live off the difference between the mortgage and rent can be difficult if you have a great long list of individuals or companies to pay that money out to each month.
Enter, the real estate or property investment alternatives… what are they? Well, great question. There are many property investment alternatives. Let's bullet point a few.
For me I hold the properties to cash out in the future and I turned to the internet back in 2008 when I started to learn how to build a business from home online. These days I am helped massively by my membership of the six figure mentors, and this can be a good property investment alternative for you.
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Thought for the day: In the words of my namesake, Henry Ford, "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't–you're right." – he also said "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." – what do you think? – maybe the video below will help you?
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I am glad that you have taken value from the article and every success in all you do.
You're a man of many talents, Mark!
Thank you Kim, I try!


You can read the original text as pdf: What is there, is there.
The following text is an EXTRACT!
And my subjects occupied the entire earth.
Have you watched sometimes in a dark room? --a small candle burns, and it goes on flickering. Because of its flickering the whole room seems to be moving, waving, changing. If the flame is constant, the room stops changing -it becomes constant. Our consciousness creates the mirage, the illusion, the dream-like world that surrounds us. This has to be understood very deeply, because this is the very base of all essential religions.
It is true as far as ordinary understanding goes: everything seems to be changing, nothing seems to be permanent. Nothing seems to be the same even for two moments, two consecutive moments. Nothing seems to be the same, everything goes on like a river. To think of anything permanent is almost impossible. To think of anything that has remained the same forever and ever is incomprehensible to the mind. The mind knows only the world of change. The mind knows only the dream, the illusion. A life lived through the mind is a life of dreams. That is the meaning of the concept of MAYA. It does not say anything about the reality, remember: it does not say that the reality is not real, it does not say that the existence is dream. It simply says that the way you look at it is so unconscious, the way you look at it is so wavering, unstable, that your inner wavering gives you a world of flux, dreams. Attain to inner integrity, attain to inner crystallization, and suddenly all flux-like phenomena disappear --and suddenly you are face to face with the real, the substantial, the permanent; call it God. The world and God are not two things but the same reality looked at in two ways. One is through the mind, the other is through no-mind --because if mind is there, there is going to remain, more or less, the flickering.
There are many people who become interested in meditation, but in a wrong way. They start fighting with the mind, they start struggling and wrestling with the mind. Then they are not ever going to be victorious. Then they are fighting a losing battle. It is not possible because they have forgotten the projector. Where is the projector?. --one has to find the projector hidden behind your back. Hidden deep in the unconscious is the projector, hidden in the unconscious: becoming, desiring. It is what Buddhists call TRISHNA. The constant desire to be somebody, to be someone, to be somewhere else, is the cause of the mind; then the mind continues.
You must have heard about the Japanese discipline of KARATE. The word 'karate' is very meaningful. It comes from a root which means empty hand. It says: a man can become a great warrior if he understands totally the meaning of being empty. If somebody understands that, "Empty-handed I have come, empty-handed I will go, and empty-handed I am here," then there is nothing to lose. Who can conquer a person who has nothing to lose? Who can defeat a person who has nothing to lose? Who can frighten a person who has nothing to lose? By understanding this emptiness he becomes a great warrior. It is impossible to defeat him, it is impossible to rob him; it is impossible to kill him --because he is already empty. He holds nothing in his hands. By not holding anything, he goes beyond life and death.
Understand the very motivation of all ideas, thoughts, desires. It is a seed-like thing. Watch inside --why can't you be herenow? Why is it always that you are thinking of somewhere else? Why can't you be happy as you are? Why are you thinking that tomorrow you will be happy? How can you be happy tomorrow if you are not happy today? --because tomorrow is going to be born out of the moment. Out of this moment the next moment is going to be born. Today is going to become the parent of tomorrow. If you are unhappy today, you will be more unhappy tomorrow. You will have learned, by that time, many more tricks to be unhappy. You are practicing it, and you hope tomorrow to be happy? Then you are in a hopeless rut. You desire for tomorrow? --then you are continuously missing all that is here, and that is the only reality there is. If you can even for a single moment put aside desiring, then the projector stops, and the dreaming stops, and you are able to face reality.
This is a tremendously significant sutra. All the scriptures can be condensed in such a sutra. If you can understand only these three lines, there is no need to understand anything else. Look at your life from your childhood up to now. What has happened? Many things appear to happen, but what has really happened? You remain the same, the consciousness remains the same, and all that happens is just superficial, like a dream. If it has not happened up to now, how is it going to happen in the future? Only the present is; past and future are dreams. Even for a single moment, if you can penetrate into reality and you can see what is, face to face, you will laugh at the whole absurdity of your efforts. What are you trying? --you are trying something impossible: you are fighting against reality. The reality is; it knows no becoming, it is being. It knows no future; it is already here. It has always been already here. You have just to see it --and once you can see it, all worry, all anxiety disappears. Then you stop trying, pulling yourself up by your shoestrings. Then you simply relax. Then there is no tension. Then rather, you start delighting, you start being blissful as you are.
One: ordinarily the Eastern psychology divides the human mind into three divisions. The first is deep sleep, very deep sleep when there are no more dreams: SUSHUPTI, dreamless sleep. In this state, ninety-nine percent unconsciousness and only one percent consciousness exists. A very small fragment of consciousness exists --the whole continent is dark, just one ray. Because of that ray, in the morning you can say, "I had a very good sleep. It was absolutely silent and peaceful. There was not any dream." Because of that one ray of consciousness, you can say this in the morning. If there were no consciousness at all, then who would remember? Then who would say that the sleep was beautiful, nourishing? Just a small ray, a very small ray exists in dreams.
That is the second stage --dreaming --a little more consciousness comes into existence. You remember in a general way that you slept well. You can even remember dreams, details of the dreams. You can remember even the colors, the story, the pattern, the motif of the dream. You can relate the whole dream. You were a little more conscious.
Any moment close your eyes, rest for a single minute, and you will see that dreams are floating there. So just underneath your consciousness, a great world of dreams continues, and that goes on affecting your consciousness. Dreams are powerful things. They are projections; they go on shadowing your consciousness. And deep down in your dreams you will find again a sort of sleep. That's what happens when you fall asleep in the night. When you have fallen asleep, first dreams start. That is the second stage. Then only rarely do you go deep. Then, dreams stop and you are in deep sleep. Again you start floating towards the surface, and this goes on continuously, the whole night - up and down, up and down you move. In the whole night if you can touch the deep layer of sleep for only fifteen minutes, that will be enough rest. That's why people who meditate don't need much sleep, because in deep meditation they can easily move into the depth of their beings. The rest of the night is wasted in dreaming. These three states are the ordinary states.
Henry Thoreau used to say that what man thinks is wealth --when man thinks that he is becoming by and by wealthy --is more like 'illth' than wealth. We become more and more ill. Well-being does not happen through it, so why call it wealth? Man thinks he is becoming more and more powerful, and deep down, more and more impotence happens. On the outside you think you are achieving many things, but deep down you remain empty, hollow. The sooner you realize this hollowness the better because then you will not waste your time and energy. Then your whole life will be of a totally different quality: the search will begin. Then you will not be chasing dreams.
Watch people on the street, in the marketplace. Just stand by the side and just look at people --you will be surprised. It is so obvious that they are sleepwalkers. They are walking like somnambulists. Somehow, they are managing, but they are walking fast asleep. You can watch their lips moving as if they are talking with somebody, and there is nobody. They can even be found making gestures to somebody who is not present. Watch their faces; their faces have not the aura of awareness --a dullness, a dark shadow, as if somehow they are forcing themselves to be aware, ready to fall any moment into dreaming, into sleep. Drunk with their dreams, people go on moving.
That's why children look so beautiful: because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration. Old people start looking very very dead. Hopes have leaked out, by and by, and only frustration --a very bad taste on the tongue. Experience makes people bitter. Experience makes people lose their innocence, lose their hope, lose their trust. But it is not experience really --because they wanted to make their dreams real, that's why. Otherwise you could remain as innocent to the very end of your life as in the beginning --in fact, even more --because the innocence that happens in childhood is just natural. It has not been tested against fire; it is very fragile. It has no crystallization in it. It is just a gift; it has not been earned. But when an old man is childlike, innocent, then nothing can destroy it. Then it has a solidity to it, then it is substantial; he has earned it.
But how does one earn innocence? --by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome of a certain dream. If you don't want frustrations, drop dreaming. Life is not frustrating, dreaming is frustrating.
It is very difficult to drop tomorrow's dream because then suddenly you become aware of the misery that is here today. But remember, that misery is created by yesterday's dream. It has nothing to do with today. Yesterday's dream has created misery today; tomorrow's dream will create misery again. So when you drop tomorrow's dream, you will not suddenly become happy, because yesterday's dream will still linger on. You have sown the seeds --who is going to reap the crop? But half is done when you drop tomorrow's dream. Yesterday's dream, its frustration, has to be passed through. That's what in India we call TAPAS, austerity. "Yesterday's dream was my dream. I have sown it, so I have to go through the suffering. I have to pass through the frustration. I accept it; it is my own doing. Nobody else is responsible, but now I am not going to sow any more seeds."
This is what is happening to everybody: you don't know your name, you don't know your essence, you don't know who you are, you don't know why you are here, you don't know why you are running so fast. Where are you going? Why are you in such a hurry? Reality is here. Where are you going? But some conditioning --what Hindus call SAMSKAR, from many lives of dreaming, desiring: that has become your only reality. You go on after it, not knowing why. It has become a habit. You cannot resist it; you are always on the move. The reality is here and you are always on the move, hence there happens no meeting. Unless that meeting happens, you will never be happy.
You have to follow reality, you have to come into a deep accordance with reality, in tune with it. You have to become a note in the great orchestra that reality is --not fighting but surrendering, submitting to it, ready to dissolve into it. That is what Bauls call love: the readiness to dissolve into reality, the readiness to merge, melt, the readiness to be one with reality. You will be losing something --your dreams, your individuality, your ego; you will be losing that separation. You will disappear as a drop of water, but it is nothing to be worried about, because you will become the ocean. You will not be what you have been up to now: your ego, confined in a form, in a name. Your fences will disappear. You will not be an island, you will become part of the continent but you will become the continent.
So many times, almost every day, somebody or other comes to me. Meditating deeply, when reality starts absorbing you, you become frightened because it looks like death. It is like death, but it is not death. It is the door to life more abundant, to life infinite and eternal. But yes, in a way it is death -death to the past, death to you as you are. But then, what are you? Why are you so afraid of dying? You have nothing to lose --only a miserable self, only an imprisonment will be burned down, only the structure of misery and agony will be burned down. You have nothing to lose. Why do you go on clinging to it? But you have become very familiar with it, and you become afraid. Whenever in deep meditation sometimes, by chance, coincidence, you come close to reality and the reality starts spreading in you, you become afraid and you escape.
Your interpretation has to be dropped. You have to learn how to listen to the real --so when reality approaches you, welcome it. If God comes towards you, if you cannot move towards Him, at least don't run away. And He IS coming towards you in millions of ways. He wants to overpower you, to reclaim you. It is not only that you are seeking Him; He is also seeking you. In fact, your seeking is just pseudo. You talk about seeking God but you don't really mean it. You would like to find Him by the way. You don't want to stake anything. You don't want to pay for it. You don't want to earn Him. You would like to get Him free; that is not the way.
You will have to lose yourself; you will have to lose all. People don't mean it, and when God approaches them --and He approaches you; I have seen His hands many times coming close to you --I have seen you running away. And again, when you are far away you start seeking Him and you say, "How to find God?" Now this game has continued for too long, and it has become almost a habit that when He is far away you seek, when He comes close you escape.
This pattern has to be broken.
Our understanding is our understanding; our interpretation is our interpretation. Beware --when reality approaches you, don't try to interpret. Just wait, be patient; the reality that is coming closer to you will reveal itself to you. But before it reveals, if you take some interpretation to your heart, then you are again closed. You close your doors and then there is no way to know what was really going to happen.
If you are too afraid of madness you cannot be in love, you cannot meditate, you cannot pray, because all of these dimensions are, in a way, mad dimensions --you wi]l be going beyond the normal boundary of humanity. The normal, routine, workaday world, the normal logic, reason, the so-called normal humanity --you will be going beyond it, you will be transcending it. It will look like madness.
Why is this word so derogatory then?
Madness is possible in two ways: either you fall below the normal, or you go above the normal. In both ways you become mad. If you fall below the normal you are ill; you need psychiatric treatment to be pulled back to normality. If you go beyond the normal you are not ill. For the first time you are becoming really healthy, because for the first time you are filled with wholeness. Then don't be afraid. If your madness brings you more sanity in life, then don't be afraid. And remember, the madness that is below the normal is always involuntary; that is the symptom: it is involuntary. You cannot do it, it happens; you are pulled into it. And the madness that is above the normal is voluntary --you can do it --and because you can do it, you remain the master of it. You can stop it at any moment. If you don't want to go further, you can stop it; if you want to go further, you can go on --but you remain always in control.
Whenever God approaches you, you will see that you are going mad. You will vibrate into a new rhythm; your whole body will be full of shivering, shaking; you will feel a new energy pouring into you, and the energy is so tremendous that your capacity is not that much. By and by, your capacity will grow. By and by, you will be able to absorb it. By and by, the shaking and trembling will disappear. By and by, you will become perfectly silent --but it takes time.
Living a happy life. The world obeyed me.
Turn in your sleep and you will see; immediately the dream changes. That is what I call SANNYAS --turning in your sleep. Take a turn, and you will see the dream changes. Just a small turn from this side to that, and you can never catch hold of the same dream again --because dreams are not real. You cannot re-continue a broken dream. Once broken, it is broken forever. It is...there is no way to catch hold of it. You cannot re-connect yourself with the dream. And in dreams we are many things.
So Chuang Tzu gathered together his disciples and asked, "Please tell me, who am I --the butterfly dreaming?"
In the day, you are awake, doing a thousand and one things. In the night, you fall asleep and you forget all about the day: your wife, your husband, your children --so close to you --even they are no more there. You forget all about the world. You enter into a totally different dimension. You forget your degrees, your riches, your bank balance; you forget everything, even your name. Another world opens. You take another name, another identity, another wife, other children, another profession. In the morning again you are back in the old dream, and this goes on. If a person lives ninety years, he will dream for thirty years. It is not a small time. One-third of the time you are dreaming, in sleep. Thirty years out of ninety years is as big as your so-called world. The world is also a dream, maybe a common dream --we dream together; and in the night the dream is private --you dream alone, but it makes no difference: private or common, a dream is a dream.
the flux-like life. It gives an appearance to the permanent, as if it is momentary.
Have you seen a bullock-cart moving? The wheel moves, goes on moving, but at the center of the wheel something remains permanent. On that permanent hub the wheel moves. On that unmoving hub the wheel's movement exists.
Exactly like that, you have a hub --that hub is unmoving; and you have a wheel-like personality that goes on moving. You have travelled far, thousands of miles and thousands of lives, and the wheel knows many roads and many paths, but the hub has remained where it is. Now you can look at reality in two ways: either from the wheel --then everything is changing every moment; or from the hub --then nothing is changing.
somebody has done something, provoked your periphery, and there is anger on the periphery, and the anger is surrounding you like a smoke cloud, but you are at the hub, watching. You are not identified with the periphery. Then the insult is outside, and the anger is also outside of you. Both are separate and far away. Both are different from you.
He is present in this little vessel.
He is here in this little vessel; in you.
The act of finding is not for the highest.
By being humble you can reach life's goal.
but the lowest of the wells guards the water as a blessing.
Become humble. If you start becoming humble, dreams will start disappearing because dreams are possible only with the ego. The ego is the dreamer, the creator of the dreams, the projector. That's why all the religions insist on humbleness. Jesus goes on saying to his disciples, "Be poor in spirit...blessed are the poor, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Nobody has ever seen the poor inheriting the earth. Nobody has ever seen the meek inheriting the earth. Then why does Jesus go on repeating it? He himself was crucified; even he was not able to inherit the earth. But he is talking about some other earth, about some other reality --a separate reality. He is not talking about this earth. This earth is the battlefield of the egos, great competition of the egos: struggle, fight, war. But when he says, "Blessed are the meek, blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth," he means, they shall inherit the real. People who are in their egos may inherit kingdoms in dreams, but their kingdoms are futile because they are just their own dreams, nothing else.
Watch...you want to be happy, but why can't you be happy? Suddenly, you are impotent. You want to be happy, you dream about it, but who is preventing you? Be happy? --then suddenly you feel impotent. You want peace, silence; you desire your dream. But who is preventing you? --just be silent; then suddenly you feel powerless. Doing is possible only when you are in contact with reality. Dreaming is possible on your own; you can go on dreaming.
So let this be your criterion: if you really want to be happy, then find out a way to be in contact with reality, and you will be happy. Just go on dreaming and don't try to find a way to reality --then you will be dreaming, and you will become more and more unhappy, because again and again you will find that happiness is not happening.
to visit the court of my beloved.
The dreamer's mind is divided in two: in witnessing and dreaming. Then you are not one; you are split. While you are simply witnessing you are one. There is no duality in you. You are --that's all. So try to become one, single-minded. Whatsoever you are doing, try to become one. To say that you are dual is not true --you are many, you are a crowd. It is not only that you are two, you are many. Bring these fragments together. Any one thing, continuously followed, will help you to crystallize.
Lovers, the followers of the path of love, Bauls, make love their undercurrent. They eat, but they eat with love. The walk, but they walk with love --because the earth is holy ground. They sit under a tree; they sit with love --because the tree is divine. They look at somebody; they look with love --because there also is divinity. Everywhere they see their beloved, in each movement they remember their beloved. It becomes their constant remembrance.
But whether on the path of meditation or on the path of love, one thing has to be done. Doing a thousand and one things, you have to connect them with one thing. That connection, that running thread will make you one-pointed, one-minded. It will give you integration. In that integration, dreams dissolve. It is the crowd within you which dreams, it is the split that dreams. When the split is bridged, dreams disappear --because then you start enjoying being here and now so tremendously that who bothers to desire? Who has time to think about the tomorrow? Today is more than enough. A single moment of undivided being is so big, bigger than eternity.
Then nobody thinks about the past --the gone is gone; and nobody thinks about the future --that which has not come yet, has not come yet. One simply goes deeper and deeper into the present, and that is the door of God.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Text;

#pragma warning disable 1591

namespace Amazon.ElasticMapReduce.Model
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The action to take if your step is waiting for the instance group to start
    /// and it enters the Arrested state.
    /// <para>
    /// Fail - Fail the step.
    /// Wait - Continue waiting until the instance group is no longer arrested (requires
    ///        manual intervention).
    /// Continue - Proceed onto the next step.
    /// </para>
    /// </summary>
    public enum OnArrested { Fail, Wait, Continue }

    /// <summary>
    /// Action to take if there is a failure modifying your cluster composition.
    /// Fail - Fail the step.
    /// Continue - Proceed on to the next step.
    /// </summary>
    public enum OnFailure { Fail, Continue }

    /// <summary>
    /// This class provides some helper methods for creating a Resize Job Flow step
    /// as part of your job flow. The resize step can be used to automatically
    /// adjust the composition of your cluster while it is running. For example, if
    /// you have a large workflow with different compute requirements, you can use
    /// this step to automatically add a task instance group before your most compute
    /// intensive step.
    ///
    /// <code>
    /// AWSCredentials credentials = new BasicAWSCredentials(accessKey, secretKey);
    /// IAmazonElasticMapReduce emr = new AmazonElasticMapReduceClient(credentials);
    ///
    /// var resize = new ResizeJobFlowStep
    /// {
    ///     OnArrested = OnArrested.Continue,
    ///     OnFailure = OnFailure.Continue
    /// };
    ///
    /// resize.AddResizeAction(new AddInstanceGroup
    /// {
    ///     InstanceGroup = "core",
    ///     InstanceCount = 10
    /// });
    ///
    /// resize.AddResizeAction(new AddInstanceGroup
    /// {
    ///     InstanceGroup = "task",
    ///     InstanceCount = 10,
    ///     WithInstanceType = "m1.small"
    /// });
    ///
    /// HadoopJarStepConfig config = resize.ToHadoopJarStepConfig();
    ///
    /// StepConfig resizeJobFlow = new StepConfig {
    ///      Name = "Resize job flow",
    ///      ActionOnFailure = "TERMINATE_JOB_FLOW",
    ///      HadoopJarStep = config,
    /// };
    ///
    /// RunJobFlowRequest request = new RunJobFlowRequest {
    ///     Name = "Resize job flow",
    ///     Steps = new List<StepConfig> { resizeJobFlow },
    ///     LogUri = "s3://log-bucket/",
    ///     Instances = new JobFlowInstancesConfig {
    ///         Ec2KeyName = "keypair",
    ///         HadoopVersion = "0.20",
    ///         InstanceCount = 5,
    ///         KeepJobFlowAliveWhenNoSteps = true,
    ///         MasterInstanceType = "m1.small",
    ///         SlaveInstanceType = "m1.small"
    ///     }
    /// };
    ///
    /// RunJobFlowResponse response = emr.RunJobFlow(request);
    /// </code>
    /// </summary>
    public class ResizeJobFlowStep
    {

        string bucket;
        List<string> args = new List<string>();
        bool wait = true;
        OnArrested? onArrested = null;
        OnFailure? onFailure = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new ResizeJobFlowStep using the default Elastic Map Reduce
        /// bucket (us-east-1.elasticmapreduce) for the default (us-east-1) region.
        /// </summary>
        public ResizeJobFlowStep()
            : this("us-east-1.elasticmapreduce")
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new ResizeJobFlowStep using the specified Amazon S3 bucket to
        /// load resources.
        /// <para>
        /// The official bucket format is "<region>.elasticmapreduce", so if
        /// you're using the us-east-1 region, you should use the bucket
        /// "us-east-1.elasticmapreduce".
        /// </para>
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="bucket">The Amazon S3 bucket from which to load resources.</param>
        public ResizeJobFlowStep(string bucket)
        {
            this.bucket = bucket;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Add a new action for this step to perform. These actions can be to modify
        /// or add instance groups. This step supports multiple actions, but requires
        /// at least one be specified.
        /// </summary>
        public void AddResizeAction(ResizeAction resizeAction)
        {
            this.args.AddRange(resizeAction.Args);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Whether the step should wait for the modification to complete
        /// or if it should just continue onto the next step once the modification
        /// request is received. Defaults to true.
        /// </summary>
        public bool Wait
        {
            get { return  this.wait; }
            set { this.wait = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// What action this step should take if any of the instance group modifications result
        /// in the instance group entering Arrested state. This can happen when the bootstrap
        /// actions on the newly launched instances are continuously failing.
        /// </summary>
        public OnArrested? OnArrested
        {
            get { return  this.onArrested; }
            set { this.onArrested = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// What action this step should take if the modification fails. This can happen when
        /// you request to perform an invalid action, such as shrink a core instance group.
        /// </summary>
        public OnFailure? OnFailure
        {
            get { return  this.OnFailure; }
            set { this.onFailure = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates the final HadoopJarStepConfig once you are done configuring the step. You can use
        /// this as you would any other HadoopJarStepConfig.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>HadoopJarStepConfig configured to perform the specified actions.</returns>
        public HadoopJarStepConfig ToHadoopJarStepConfig()
        {
            if (args.Count == 0)
            {
                throw new AmazonElasticMapReduceException("Cannot create a ResizeJobFlowStep with no resize actions.");
            }

            if (wait == false)
            {
                args.Add("--no-wait");
            }

            if (onArrested != null)
            {
                args.Add("--on-arrested");
                args.Add(onArrested.ToString());
            }

            if (onFailure != null)
            {
                args.Add("--on-failure");
                args.Add(onFailure.ToString());
            }

            return new HadoopJarStepConfig
            {
                Jar = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "s3://{0}/libs/resize-job-flow/0.1/resize-job-flow.jar", bucket),
                Args = args
            };
        }
    }

    public interface ResizeAction
    {
        List<string> Args { get; }
    }

    /**
    * Class representing a change to an existing instance group.
    */
    public class ModifyInstanceGroup : ResizeAction
    {
        string instanceGroup;
        int? instanceCount;

        /// <summary>
        /// The identification for the instance group to modify. You can specify either
        /// core or task if there is only one instance group of that role. Otherwise you can
        /// specify the instance group ID (such as ig-ABABABABABAB).
        /// </summary>
        public string InstanceGroup
        {
            get { return this.instanceGroup; }
            set { this.instanceGroup = value; }
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Tthe new size of the instance group.
        /// </summary>
        public int? InstanceCount
        {
            get { return this.instanceCount; }
            set { this.instanceCount = value; }
        }

        public List<string> Args
        {
            get
            {
                if (instanceGroup == null)
                {
                    throw new AmazonElasticMapReduceException("InstanceGroup must not be null.");
                }
                if (instanceCount == null)
                {
                    throw new AmazonElasticMapReduceException("InstanceCount must not be null.");
                }

                List<string> args = new List<string>();
                args.Add("--modify-instance-group");
                args.Add(instanceGroup);
                args.Add("--instance-count");
                args.Add(instanceCount.ToString());
                return args;
            }
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Class representing creating a new instance group.
    /// </summary>
    public class AddInstanceGroup : ResizeAction
    {
        string instanceGroup;
        int? instanceCount;
        string instanceType;

        /// <summary>
        /// The role of the new instance group (core, task).
        /// </summary>
        public string InstanceGroup
        {
            get { return  this.instanceGroup; }
            set { this.instanceGroup = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The count of the new instance group.
        /// </summary>
        public int? InstanceCount
        {
            get { return  this.instanceCount; }
            set { this.instanceCount = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The instance type to use for this instance group.
        /// </summary>
        public string WithInstanceType
        {
            get { return  this.instanceType; }
            set { this.instanceType = value; }
        }

        public List<string> Args
        {
            get
            {
                if (instanceGroup == null)
                {
                    throw new AmazonElasticMapReduceException("InstanceGroup must not be null.");
                }
                if (instanceCount == null)
                {
                    throw new AmazonElasticMapReduceException("InstanceCount must not be null.");
                }
                if (instanceType == null)
                {
                    throw new AmazonElasticMapReduceException("InstanceType must not be null.");
                }

                List<string> args = new List<string>();
                args.Add("--add-instance-group");
                args.Add(instanceGroup);
                args.Add("--instance-count");
                args.Add(instanceCount.ToString());
                args.Add("--instance-type");
                args.Add(instanceType);
                return args;
            }
        }
    }
}

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Home Domestic News Premier League Which end of the table are you watching?
With the end of the season nearly upon us, we might be forgiven, that we normally start to get excited over the transfer window nearly upon us, but for the last two seasons at least, we have always had last minute dilemmas in deciding the title and whose for the drop, with this season being no different!
Chelsea's win over Liverpool at the weekend the title race at the top has blown wide open in Manchester City's favour! Being only 3pts behind and a game in hand and a better goal difference, Pellegrini might be excused for a wry smile every now and again. For the first time in a long time Liverpool might be excused for looking over their shoulder, as Chelsea parked a two tier bus in true Mourinho style. Chelsea now have to face out of form and relegation favourites Norwich, then away to relegation candidates Cardiff on the last day. Manchester City have to face what were 4th place favourites Everton until Southampton accordingly knocked them out of that race at the weekend without scoring any goals, and then home to Villa in a mid week game, then finally home to West Ham, knowing if they win all three games they have effectively got the title with goal difference as the decider unless SaS come up trumps! Liverpool now with Sturridge back and reeling after the sunday defeat by a very rare Gerrard mistake, have to go to Tony Pulis side Palace and get a result against a dogged side thats wrestled themselves out of the relegation fight. They then host a very out of form Newcastle side who have just lost 3-0 to Arsenal, who are favourites now for the 4th spot. And if thats not enough Liverpool have to turn over the 8 goal deficit to Manchester City and score more than them in the last two games! Advantage City!
Now to the bottom of the table!
With only two points separating the bottom four and 5 pts the bottom five, this really is do or die for some clubs and a potential £25m black hole, which increases to £33m if they fail to win immediate promotion back. Norwich have to be favourites to go down, having to face both Chelsea and Arsenal in their final two games. Its hard to see which of these they will, if any, get any points from. Yet, they can influence everything at the top if they take points away from both Arsenal and Chelsea and particularly bringing Everton back into play for that 4th spot, but thats not what Hull City will be wanting!
Hull will qualify for Europe for the first time in their history, even if they lose the FA Cup Final to Arsenal, if Arsene Wenger's side qualify for the Champions League!
Its a tough call but thats why we love football!
Fulham have a better chance of escape but will have to pick up vital points from Stoke City, and Palace. Bottom placed Cardiff will also have to pull off a miracle and get points from Chelsea and Newcastle to stave off relegation but again they could affect whats happening in the top half. With both Cardiff and Norwich having to face Chelsea its these three teams who have the toughest call in the last two games of the season and like always this could go right down to the wire and I mean injury time!
Villa and Sunderland both have a game in hand, and if they make these count they could ensure their Premier League survival. Villa have three tough games at Home to Hull and away to Spurs and Manchester City, again could be affecting their title chances. Sunderland again three tough games, away to Manchester United but two home games to WBA and Swansea. Its difficult to see where they will pick points up, if they don't they could be dragged right into the mire if the bottom three start picking vital points up in their games.
How will it end is difficult to see at the moment, but I don't fancy both Cardiff or Norwich's chances this season. In terms of the title I would like to see Liverpool lift it, but they will need to get that formula striking partnership back up to speed in Suarez and Sturridge and they will need to steal 8+ goals from somewhere if City win all of their games!
So whose your favourite for the title or drop?
Manchester City are now favourites at 5/6 with Ladbrokes, Liverpool 11/8 BetVictor, Chelsea 16/1 with Sporting Bet.
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Trout Fishing in America
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In its first time in audio and with an introduction written and read by poet Billy Collins, Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture.Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey which begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, which wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and which ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration-both of land and mind.Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication, Trout Fishing in America, considered by many as his best novel, became an international bestseller.With it Brautigan caught the public's attention and became a cult hero. By 1970 Trout Fishing in America had become the namesake of a commune, a free school, an underground newspaper, and more.
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The Moreland Terrace Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Moreland Terrace, Ash, Bedford, and Page Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts.  It is a residential area that was developed in the early-to-mid 20th century, and is characterized by larger lot sizes and a higher quality of housing than surrounding areas.  Most of the houses are Colonial Revival in style, with a few examples of earlier styles (Georgian Revival, Queen Anne), as well as a few later ranch-style houses.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts

References

Historic districts in Bristol County, Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

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Philipp Petzschner (Bayreuth, 24 maart 1984) is een Duits tennisser. Hij is prof sinds 2001. Hij kwam in 2008 voor het eerst de top 100 binnen en in 2009 voor het eerst de top 50. Zijn hoogste plaats op de ATP-ranglijst is de 35e, die hij behaalde op 14 september 2009.

Petzschner schreef in zijn carrière één enkeltoernooi en vijf herendubbeltoernooien op zijn naam, waaronder het herendubbelspel op Wimbledon in 2010 en de US Open in 2001. In het enkelspel won hij ook één challenger en twee futurestoernooien. Zijn beste resultaat in het enkelspel op een grandslamtoernooi is de derde ronde.

Carrière

Jaarverslagen

Jeugd
Petzschner begon met tennis spelen toen hij vier jaar oud was. Dit kwam doordat zijn vader een tennisschool bezat. Tijdens zijn jeugd waren Goran Ivanišević en Stefan Edberg zijn idolen.

2001-2003
Petzschner werd proftennisser in 2001. Hij speelde van 2001 tot en met 2003 nog hoofdzakelijk futurestoernooien, met af en toe ook een challenger. In 2003 speelde hij zijn eerste match op ATP-niveau op het ATP-toernooi van 's-Hertogenbosch, waar hij in de eerste ronde werd geklopt door Sébastien Grosjean. In september boekte hij zijn eerste zege op ATP-niveau. Hij versloeg in de eerste ronde van het ATP-toernooi van Metz de Fransman Anthony Dupuis en haalde er ook zijn eerste ATP-kwartfinale.

2004-2007
De periode van 2004 tot en met 2007 bracht Petzschner voornamelijk op het futures- en challengercircuit door. In augustus 2004 won hij zijn eerste challenger in het herendubbel en in november 2006 haalde hij zijn eerste challengerfinale, die hij verloor van Ernests Gulbis. In 2006 maakte Petzschner zijn grandslamdebuut in het dubbelspel, op Roland Garros, en in 2007 maakte hij zijn grandslamdebuut in het enkelspel, op de US Open, waar hij via de kwalificaties de hoofdtabel haalde. Petzschner haalde er de tweede ronde. In oktober 2007 won hij zijn eerste challenger in het enkelspel, in Rennes.

2008-2009
In de eerste twee maanden van 2008 haalde Petzschner twee challengerfinales. In juni haalde hij de hoofdtabel op Wimbledon en bereikte hij de tweede ronde. In het dubbelspel had hij echter meer succes, want hij haalde de kwartfinale, iets wat hij overdeed op de US Open. Eind september haalde hij de kwartfinale in Bangkok, maar zijn grootste succes kwam er in oktober, toen hij als qualifier het ATP-toernooi van Wenen won. Hij versloeg Stanislas Wawrinka, 's werelds nummer 10 in de eerste ronde en Gaël Monfils in de finale. Door deze overwinning kwam Petzschner ook voor het eerst de top 100 binnen. Op dat toernooi haalde hij ook de dubbelfinale, maar die verloor hij samen met de Oostenrijker Alexander Peya van Maks Mirni en Andy Ram in twee sets. Hij sloot het jaar voor het eerst af binnen de top 100, op plaats 66.

In januari 2009 nam Petzschner voor het eerst deel aan de Australian Open. Hij verloor in de eerste ronde. Petzschner was vervolgens twee maanden weg van het circuit door een stressfractuur. Op Roland Garros deed hij een ronde beter en op Wimbledon nog een. Door zijn derde ronde op Wimbledon kwam Petzschner voor het eerst de top 50 binnen. Op de US Open verloor hij in de tweede ronde. Op 14 september bereikte hij met een 35e plaats zijn hoogste plaats op de ATP-ranglijst. Zijn beste resultaat na de US Open was een kwartfinale in Metz, maar in oktober viel hij weer terug uit de top 50 omdat hij zijn titel in Wenen niet verdedigde. Petzschner sloot 2009 af op de 80e plaats.

2010
Ook in 2010 werd Petzschner in de eerste ronde van de Australian Open uitgeschakeld. In februari haalde hij de halve finales in Zagreb en Memphis. In Zagreb won hij ook zijn eerste ATP-dubbeltoernooi. Na een derde ronde op de Masters van Miami kwam hij in april weer de top 50 binnen. In mei haalde hij de halve finale in München, maar op Roland Garros verloor hij in de openingsronde. Het grasseizoen verliep goed met een halve finale in Halle en een derde ronde op Wimbledon, die hij verloor van de uiteindelijk winnaar Rafael Nadal. In het dubbelspel daarentegen boekte hij het grootste succes van zijn carrière. Petzschner en zijn partner Jürgen Melzer wonnen het herendubbelspel op Wimbledon door in de finale het duo Robert Lindstedt-Horia Tecău te verslaan. Petzschner werd zo de tweede Duitser, na Michael Stich, die een grandslamtitel in het dubbelspel won. Door de overwinning steeg Petzschner op de dubbelranglijst van de 60e naar de 23e plaats. In juli haalde hij ook nog de dubbelfinale in Stuttgart. De rest van de zomer kende hij geen grote successen. Op de US Open haalde hij de tweede ronde. De US Open was ook meteen zijn laatste toernooi van het jaar, omdat hij in september een blessure aan de rechterenkel opliep. Aan het einde van het jaar nam hij samen met Jürgen Melzer deel aan de dubbelspel op de ATP World Tour Finals. Het duo won een van zijn drie groepswedstrijden en werd dus uitgeschakeld in de groepsronde. Petzschner sloot het jaar af op plaats 57.

2011
Petzschner startte het jaar matig in het enkelspel met onder andere een verlies in de openingsronde van de Australian Open. In het dubbelspel was hij succesvoller, want hij haalde er met zijn partner Jürgen Melzer de kwartfinale. Verder haalde hij in het voorjaar de kwartfinale in Dubai, de halve finale in München en de finale in Halle, waarin hij tegen zijn landgenoot Philipp Kohlschreiber moest opgeven. In mei maakte hij deel uit van het Duitse team dat de World Team Cup in Düsseldorf won. Op Roland Garros en Wimbledon verging het hem dan weer minder goed, met verlies in de tweede en eerste ronde respectievelijk. In het dubbelspel haalde hij betere resultaten met onder andere twee toernooiwinsten: in Rotterdam in februari en in Stuttgart in juli. In april bereikte hij voor het eerst de top 10 in het herendubbelspel. Ook na Wimbledon verging het Petzschner niet zo goed in het enkelspel. Vaak werd hij vroeg in de toernooien uitgeschakeld, zoals op de US Open, waar hij verloor in de tweede ronde. In het dubbelspel echter boekte hij met Melzer zijn tweede grandslamtitel. Het duo won de US Open door het Poolse duo Mariusz Fyrstenberg en Marcin Matkowski met tweemaal 6-2 te verslaan in de finale. Deze overwinning bezorgde het duo alweer een ticket voor de ATP World Tour Finals, waar Melzer en Petzschner net zoals het jaar ervoor in de groepsronde bleven na één overwinning in drie groepswedstrijden. Petzschner sloot 2011 af op de 63e plaats van de ATP-ranglijst in het enkelspel en op plaats 10 in het dubbelspel.

Davis Cup
Petzschner speelde zijn eerste Davis Cup voor Duitsland in 2007 in een duel tegen Rusland in de halve finale van de Wereldgroep. Hij speelde in 2007, 2008 en 2011 voor het Duitse Davis Cupteam. In totaal speelde Petzschner drie enkelmatchen, waarvan hij er twee won, en vijf dubbelmatchen, waarvan hij er drie won.

Palmares

Enkelspel

Dubbelspel

Prestatietabellen

Prestatietabel enkelspel
Deze gegevens zijn bijgewerkt tot en met 2 januari 2012.

N.B. "l.c." = lagere categorie

Prestatietabel dubbelspel (grand slam)

Externe links
  Officiële website van Philipp Petzschner

Duits tennisser
Duits olympisch deelnemer


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Selangor taps jail terms and drones to curb water pollution
Environmentalists call for systems to be installed in factories to monitor discharge
Residents of Puchong Jaya, Selangor, collecting water last month. In at least eight incidents this year, pollutants were dumped into rivers, leading to unscheduled water cuts in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
Hazlin Hassan and Nadirah H. Rodzi Malaysia Correspondents In Kuala Lumpur
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Selangor state will introduce tough new laws and surveillance drones to tackle water pollution but experts and environmentalists say these steps do not go far enough to safeguard water sources.
There have been at least eight incidents this year where pollutants were dumped into rivers.
This resulted in unscheduled water cuts to more than 1.1 million consumer accounts in parts of Selangor and the Kuala Lumpur federal territory in the past few months.
The state government has proposed relocating factories sited near rivers that supply water to Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.
While welcoming the move, critics said the wider issue of enforcement and cooperation between agencies needs to be addressed.
"Rivers must come under national security. Police and other enforcement authorities could supervise with the help of CCTV and other technologies," said Selangor lawmaker Charles Santiago, who is also former National Water Services Commission chairman.
Some companies and even industrial waste disposal contractors may dump chemical waste elsewhere, instead of taking it to a hazardous waste management centre.
"The problem is that the third party which collects the waste is not monitored. The trucks should have a monitoring device so that it reaches the recycling centre, and will not deviate to another place.
"This falls under the Road Transport Department, while the Department of Environment is in charge of monitoring chemical and waste disposal," he noted.
There are 15,500 licensed factories near the basins of the Selangor and Semenyih rivers. The factories now have to ensure that they produce zero discharge, or relocate to a special industrial area.
"For the illegal factories near the river banks, we are taking stern enforcement action to close them down," state executive councillor Ng Sze Han told The Straits Times.
Klang Valley v S'pore
About seven million people in densely populated Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya - collectively known as the Klang Valley - share the same water resources.
The Klang Valley consumes 3,243 million litres of water a day in 2017, 6.39 per cent more than in 2014, and a third of the total amount of treated water consumed in the whole of Malaysia. In comparison, Singapore, with 5.7 million residents, consumes about 1,628 million litres a day.
Selangor will deploy four drones at the end of this month to monitor suspicious activities and take water samples at Sungai Selangor and Sungai Langat.
The state assembly passed a Bill this month to enhance laws against polluters. Amendments include a mandatory jail sentence, and raising the fine to a minimum of RM200,000 (S$65,600) and up to RM1 million.
Environmentalists agree that mandatory jail terms are crucial, but suggested the use of water quality monitoring systems and spending more money on enforcement.
"The measures proposed may contribute to the solution but are only a fraction of measures that are needed," said Global Environment Centre director Faizal Parish.
"Closing down or relocating polluting factories can help, but the focus on factories near river banks is wrong. Even factories far from the river can discharge pollution into drains or tributaries."
He noted that drones may not detect pollutants if they are colourless, and that some factories were recently caught pouring pollutants down toilets in their premises, which would be impossible to detect from outside.
"We need to follow the experience elsewhere where it is mandatory for factories to install a real-time water quality monitoring system at their discharge point that immediately notifies authorities in case of a breach. This is done in China and elsewhere," he said.
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Bullinger's Companion Notes
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
is. Hebrew "He [is]".
priest"s due = priest"s custom. Compare 1 Samuel 2:13, 1 Samuel 2:28, 1 Samuel 2:29. Leviticus 7:33, Leviticus 7:34. Numbers 18:8-14.
offer = sacrifice. See App-43.
wine. Hebrew. tirosh. App-27.
a Levite: i.e. a Tribal Levite who devoted himself to the Aaronic service. Compare Leviticus 25:33.
his mind = his soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
abominations. See App-42.
or. Note the Figure of speech Paradiastole. App-6.
familiar spirits. See note on Leviticus 19:31.
necromancer = a seeker unto the dead; a medium.
the LORD (Hebrew. Jehovah. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, add "thy God".
perfect = devoted, or single-hearted.
will raise up. Note the transition, and the Structure above.
hearken. Compare Matthew 17:5. Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23.
said. See note on Deuteronomy 2:9. This was said before leaving Horeb, so that "the Prophet like unto Moses" was promised at Sinai!
I will raise. Compare John 6:14. Acts 3:22; Acts 7:37.
a Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:18), a Priest (Psalms 110:4), a King (Zechariah 6:13).
will put My words, &c. Compare John 12:48, John 12:49, and note John 3:34; John 7:16; John 8:28, John 8:47; John 12:49; John 14:10, John 14:24; John 17:8.
I will require it. Compare John 12:48, and Hebrews 4:12, where "discerner" means "able to judge" (Greek. kritikos). That "Word" is the "critic" (or judge), and will judge all other "critics".
How shall we know . . . ? Compare Jeremiah 28:9.
Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 18". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/bul/deuteronomy-18.html. 1909-1922.