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Oskar Lindblom Turning into a Star for Flyers Under Scott Gordon
By Arch Kives Posted on March 5, 2019
Jan 19, 2019; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Philadelphia Flyers left wing Oskar Lindblom (23) during the warm-up session before the game against Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Jean-Yves Ahern-USA TODAY Sports
It wasn't too long ago that Oskar Lindblom was buried on the fourth line, and appeared to be on the outside looking in for the orange and black this season. Fast forward almost three months, and we are really seeing a transformation of this young player. Lindblom has really come into his own under Head Coach Scott Gordon.
Love this from Scott Gordon on Lindblom. The coach he's referring to is himself:
"Well, he probably could have been different sooner if the coach had put him on a higher up line at the beginning. The way he is playing is the way I saw him playing in Lehigh." #Flyers
— Jamey Baskow (@JameyBaskow) January 17, 2019
Lindblom has taken on a bigger role nowadays. He is a top-six forward at the moment, and Gordon has trusted him to see time on the penalty kill, as well as, seeing time on the second power play unit. Moreover, it's good to see Lindblom thriving and relishing his new found roles with the big club, "I'm still young and I have to show I can play on this level," Lindblom stated last week. "I just want to be better every day and show what I can do out there."
This young up-and-coming star is really starting to bud at the right time. The Flyers are in the midst of a playoff run, well their playoff lives are on life support. Every game is crucial at the moment, and Lindblom appears to be just getting to those areas to help the team win at all costs, "This time of the year too," Lindblom states, "Gonna be some greasy goals. Gonna have to score those goals if we want to win games. It's an important part of the game. I like to be there so, why not?"
Coach Gordon really has this young man thriving, "I just feel that he's trusting me and he wants me out there," Lindblom says of Head Coach Gordon, "I got more confidence. I think that's the big part." Lindblom's confidence appears to be through the roof.
The young Swedish forward in Lindblom has been on quite a tear in just his second professional season. He has tallied 19 points in his last 23 games, and his average ATOI the past 5 games is 16:57. Moreover, Lindblom has tallied 12 goals, and 14 assists for a total of 26 points in 65 games played. Simply put, Gordon is trusting Lindblom in every situation at critical times during the game.
Gordon really has done a great job with the youth, mainly Lindblom. Before Gordon, Lindblom's confidence was shattered, and he was dejected at times. Now Lindblom's confidence is at an all-time high in North America, and the Flyers are benefitting from his stellar play as of late. This kid seems to be relishing his role as a top-six forward for the orange and black. Moreover, the future is bright for Lindblom, as he becomes more trusted with the coaching staff.
Mandatory Credit: Jean-Yves Ahern-USA TODAY Sports
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AnnaLynne McCord Joins 'Dallas' Season 3
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AnnaLynne McCord (90210, Nip/Tuck) is set for a multiple-episode guest-starring role on TNT's hit series Dallas, which is slated to return for its third season this winter. McCord, most recently seen as Naomi Clark on 90210, will play Heather, a 20-something ranch hand with a troubled ex-husband and a 5-year-old son. Having grown up in a house with four brothers, Heather is quite capable of handling herself around the Southfork ranch hands, but when her ex-husband returns, bringing turmoil back into her life, Christopher steps in, helping Heather resolve the conflict, and the two become involved in a romantic relationship. McCord is represented by Alchemy Management.
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α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Gene Transfer Attenuates Inflammation after Bile Duct Ligation in the Rat
Chien Che Wang, Jia Wei Lin, Liang Ming Lee, Chien Min Lin, Wen Ta Chiu, Hsin Te Pai, Kuo Sheng Hung
Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital
Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control
Master Program in Global Health and Development
The Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine
TMU Neuroscience Research Center - TBI
TMU Research Center of Cancer Translational Medicine
Cholestasis occurs in a wide variety of human liver diseases, and hepatocellular injury is an invariant feature of cholestasis causing liver dysfunction and inflammation, promoting fibrogenesis, and ultimately leading to liver failure. α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) is a potent anti-inflammatory agent in many models of inflammation, suggesting that it inhibits a critical step common to different forms of inflammation. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the gene transfer of α-MSH could attenuate hepatic inflammation after bile duct ligation in the rat. Studies were performed in bile duct-ligated (BDL) rats. Hydrodynamic-based gene transfection with α-MSH plasmid via rapid tail vein injection was performed 30 min after ligation of bile duct. The endpoints were studied as markers of inflammation 7 days after bile duct ligation. α-MSH expression in liver via a single administration of naked plasmid was demonstrated. Liver inflammation index, including neutrophil infiltration and serum alanine aminotransferase, were significantly reduced in α-MSH gene transfer rats. Markers for liver inflammation, including expression of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and inducible NO synthase (iNOS) mRNA, as assessed by real-time PCR, were also attenuated by α-MSH gene therapy. Expression of iNOS protein in liver diminished after α-MSH gene transfer. Consistent with these data, hepatic stellate cells (HSC) and Kupffer cells were markedly inhibited in α-MSH gene-treated rats. Our findings show that gene transfer of α-MSH could attenuate hepatic inflammation after bile duct ligation in the rat.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Bile Ducts
Nitric Oxide Synthase
Hepatic Stellate Cells
Kupffer Cells
Neutrophil Infiltration
Genetic Therapy
α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone
Bile duct ligation
Gene transfer
Wang, C. C., Lin, J. W., Lee, L. M., Lin, C. M., Chiu, W. T., Pai, H. T., & Hung, K. S. (2008). α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Gene Transfer Attenuates Inflammation after Bile Duct Ligation in the Rat. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 53(2), 556-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-007-9901-6
α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Gene Transfer Attenuates Inflammation after Bile Duct Ligation in the Rat. / Wang, Chien Che; Lin, Jia Wei; Lee, Liang Ming; Lin, Chien Min; Chiu, Wen Ta; Pai, Hsin Te; Hung, Kuo Sheng.
In: Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Vol. 53, No. 2, 02.2008, p. 556-563.
Wang, CC, Lin, JW, Lee, LM, Lin, CM, Chiu, WT, Pai, HT & Hung, KS 2008, 'α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Gene Transfer Attenuates Inflammation after Bile Duct Ligation in the Rat', Digestive Diseases and Sciences, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 556-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-007-9901-6
Wang CC, Lin JW, Lee LM, Lin CM, Chiu WT, Pai HT et al. α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Gene Transfer Attenuates Inflammation after Bile Duct Ligation in the Rat. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2008 Feb;53(2):556-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-007-9901-6
Wang, Chien Che ; Lin, Jia Wei ; Lee, Liang Ming ; Lin, Chien Min ; Chiu, Wen Ta ; Pai, Hsin Te ; Hung, Kuo Sheng. / α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Gene Transfer Attenuates Inflammation after Bile Duct Ligation in the Rat. In: Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2008 ; Vol. 53, No. 2. pp. 556-563.
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Ellen Ripley, the lead character of the Alien films, is one of the most iconic female heroes in cinema history. And today, during the celebration of the franchise of which she's the star, her fans have been screwed over in an incredibly crappy way. So yesterday was hailed as "Alien Day" because April 26 (that is, 4/26 in the backwards American dating system) matches the planet in the first two films, LV-426. One of the day's most exciting promotions tied to "Alien Day" was Reebok's decision to release a limited edition shoe based on the pair Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) wore in the movies. These shoes, called the "Alien Stompers", went on sale at 2:00am AEST today (12:00pm EST 26 April) and quickly sold out.
It's a shame they didn't make more shoes available, but that's fine. What isn't fine is the discovery that when the shoes went on sale, they were only available in men's sizes 8-12. Yes, the shoes worn by one of the most famous female characters in movie history were only released in men's sizes.
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As you can see there, the shoes were listed as "Men Classics", which is a category on the Reebok website. The actual page is gone, because the shoes have sold out.
We contacted a representative for Reebok, who told us the following: "The Alien Stompers were released in men's sizes due to retail demand."
Adding insult to injury, Monday the Reebok Classic Twitter account said only 36 pairs were actually available, which is insane considering the company had been promoting this for weeks. However, that may have just been the United States, because a Reebok representative said, "426 pairs were available worldwide, to honour planet LV426 in the film." But that's all besides the point. This is horrible — and it seems incredible that no one at Reebok didn't recognise the problem here.
Meanwhile, if you still want the shoes, scalpers have flooded eBay with them for hundreds and thousands of dollars. And have to be a dude, obviously.


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The hidden wildlife gem in Middlesbrough that has been designated a nature reserve
The stretch of open land off the A66 will become a nature reserve in a bid to safeguard its rich biodiversity
A Linnet at North Ormesby on the site on a new Nature Reserve (Image: Colin Conroy)
Efforts to bring a wildlife haven to central Middlesbrough have been backed - with hopes it can be expanded in future.
A stretch of open land off the A66 at North Ormesby will become a nature reserve in a bid to safeguard its rich biodiversity.
The vision west of Shepherdson Way, near the Chemoxy chemical plant, is the brainchild of ecologist and botanist Colin Conroy.
Mr Conroy moved to North Ormesby in 2016 and has experience of setting up urban areas as havens for wildlife in London.
The keen bird watcher told the Local Democracy Reporting Service he was struck by hundreds of orchids on the site near the A66 - and its wider potential to become a nature reserve.
He spent years visiting the stretch gathering data on birds, plants and other wildlife - attracting support for his vision from Sarah Barry at the Tees Wildlife Trust, Thirteen Housing, Middlesbrough councillors and partners at the North Ormesby Big Local group.
Mr Conroy was pleased the council had agreed to the nature reserve designation for its conservation and potential to be an educational resource.
But he hoped it was "just the start" - with ambitions to include land to the east of Shepherdson Way and a stretch running alongside the railway line in future.
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Mr Conroy said: "It's a start - the idea is to get it designated, protect it and then start looking at how we can manage it.
"To manage grassland for conversation, once or twice a year - in late summer and in early spring - you need to mow it and take away the cuttings.
"It stops the soil getting too rich.
"It's counter-intuitive to a non-ecologist but you want soil to be poorer because you get more species.
"If you just have it rich the big bushy things take offer like grass, bushes and nettles - if you have either mowing or grazing and keeping those in check, you get more diversity which is better for plants, insects and birds."
Rich biodiversity
The stretch being dubbed "The Lower Ormesby Nature Reserve" is home to 13 species of butterfly - including the rare Dingy Skipper - 45 bird species and three rare types of orchid.
A programme of events, walking loops and volunteers to work on the land are in the pipeline.
Ahead of the meeting, Mr Conroy said the site and Ormesby Beck did suffer from litter and fly tipping - but believed it would boost the image of North Ormesby and the wider project at Middlehaven.
He added that a lot of people walked through the area when Middlesbrough FC played at home.
Lower Ormesby Nature Reserve site off the A66, at Shepherdson Way, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough (Image: Google)
Mr Conroy said: "You find as a bird watcher and conservationist that people walk past things that they don't notice are there.
"But when you point them out to them, they're really interested."
Leaders gave the nature reserve their seal of approval at a meeting this week (December 22).
They agreed "site one" west of Shepherdson Way would become the reserve for now - as the site east of the road north of the Six Medals is earmarked for commercial developments.
Middlesbrough Mayor Andy Preston added: "To be clear, as you drive off the A66 towards the Riverside Stadium, the land on the left would become the nature reserve and everything on the right would not."
Promise to look at wider land
However, executive members vowed to consider including the wider stretch in the nature reserve at a later date.
Cllr Ashley Waters, member for North Ormesby, praised Mr Conroy for his efforts and work on the scheme.
He said: "We don't have anything like it in central Middlesbrough - it is something which is special and unique.
"I personally would like to see the commercial site being used as a wider part of the nature reserve."
The easternmost site nearer the empty Middlehaven Sainsbury's is on the open market - with the council setting it aside for an "office, storage or garage showroom type development".
But Mr Preston agreed the larger stretch of land would be looked at again.
The mayor added: "It's up for discussion as it's been identified as a commercial use which could bring income.
"We'll have to balance the financial and economic gain to the town versus the potential environmental gain."
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The rules of quantum mechanics enable technologies that are inherently more powerful than their classical counterparts, including unconditionally secure communication, quantum computing, and quantum-enhanced precision sensing. Translating quantum technologies to room-temperature semiconductor systems is key to making them practical and scalable. However, a central challenge is the need for fundamentally improved quantum measurement and state verification (QMSV) techniques to overcome major limitations of today's theoretical and experimental tools. The goal of this program is to establish general and optimal QMSV protocols to solve the challenges. The program seeks to develop essential measurement-based algorithmic primitives that form an efficient, unifying language for quantum algorithms.
Experiments focus on leading quantum architectures. Recent advances in QMSV, such as compressive sensing or ancilla-assisted tomography, have been shown to offer dramatic improvements in quantum information processing applications. A major focus is on scale-up of room-temperature, semiconductor quantum systems. However, such research can be complicated by the complex mesoscopic environment in semiconductors (especially in ambient conditions) or the short coherence time and weak interaction of photons. These issues will be addressed in semiconductor and quantum photonic systems, as well as advanced trapped ions and superconducting circuit architectures.
Major goals of this program include room-temperature semiconductor quantum memories with minutes-long quantum memories; versatile field-programmable quantum photonic integrated circuits; high-sensitivity nanometer-scale magnetic field probes; advanced optical imaging systems; physically secure high-capacity communications to augment classical communications; and quantum algorithms for solving and simulating classically hard problems.


Goodpasture syndrome (GS) is the clinical entity of acute glomerulonephritis and pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage, and the term Goodpasture syndrome is used interchangeably with pulmonary renal syndrome. This condition is rarely seen in children, has numerous underlying etiologies, and often occurs in the setting of a small vessel vasculitis associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCAs); examples include Wegener granulomatosis and microscopic polyangiitis.
Goodpasture's name has been used in a more specific clinical condition known as Goodpasture disease, which is the pulmonary renal syndrome specifically associated with anti–glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies.  These anti-GBM antibodies produce a characteristic linear deposition along the GBM, one way in which Goodpasture syndrome is differentiated from Wegener granulomatosis.
Because pulmonary renal syndrome is discussed extensively elsewhere (see Wegener Granulomatosis), this article focuses on the specific form of this syndrome associated with anti-GBM antibodies. To avoid confusion between Goodpasture syndrome and Goodpasture disease, the term anti-GBM disease is used.
Anti-GBM disease is defined as the triad of glomerulonephritis (usually rapidly progressive or crescentic), pulmonary hemorrhage, and anti-GBM antibody formation. Despite this triad of clinical findings, patients with anti-GBM disease may present with a spectrum of conditions ranging from pulmonary hemorrhage with minimal or no renal involvement to full-blown renal failure with limited or no pulmonary involvement. Because of limited experience with the disease in children, much of the information presented in this article is derived from the literature pertaining to adults.
Go to Goodpasture Syndrome for complete information on this topic.
The pathogenesis of anti–glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease (Goodpasture disease) is linked to the presence of autoantibodies that react with the alveolus in the lung and the basement membrane of the glomerulus in the kidney. Anti-GBM autoantibodies that are present in the circulation of patients with anti-GBM disease cross the fenestrated endothelium in the glomerulus and bind with the underlying GBM, inducing renal injury.
Anti-GBM antibodies interact with the GBM glycoproteins, almost exclusively the epitope of the noncollagenous domain (NC1) of the α3 chain of type IV collagen. This interaction results in complement activation with glomerular infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes. Fibrinogen leaks through the damaged GBM into the Bowman space, and it is polymerized to fibrin through procoagulant factors from activated monocytes, resulting in crescent formation. These autoantibodies are believed to cross-react with the alveolar basement membrane and cause similar damage.
The degree of cross-linking of the α3NC1 hexamer subunits is approximately 3 times greater in the alveolar basement membrane than in the GBM. The Col 4α3NC1 epitope is thought to be less accessible for anti-GBM binding in the lung, and partial denaturation of NC1 domains may be required for full exposure of this sequestered epitope to the antibody. If true, this theory may explain why pulmonary hemorrhage is often associated with factors that increase pulmonary capillary permeability, such as active cigarette smoking, infections, recent hydrocarbon inhalation, and hyperoxia.
Although anti–glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies cause this autoimmune disorder, usually when a genetically predisposed individual encounters a particular environmental insult (eg, exposure to cigarette smoke, inhaled hydrocarbons, or viral infections), the etiology of anti-GBM production is not yet well understood. Anti-GBM antibody has been described in identical twins, siblings, and first cousins.
An animal model for anti-GBM disease (Goodpasture disease) has demonstrated that a 10 amino acid, nephritogenic, T-cell epitope of Col4alpha3NC1 was capable of inducing an anti-GBM glomerulonephritis in rats. The positive association of anti-GBM disease with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1*1501 is among the strongest reported for autoimmune diseases.
HLA-DR2 is expressed in 88% of patients with anti-GBM disease compared with 25-32% of a control group of blood donors. Simultaneous expression of HLA-B8 and HLA-DR2 is associated with a worse prognosis because of the tendency to form glomerular crescents. Anti-GBM antibody is strongly associated with HLA-DR15 and HLA-DR4 alleles. Anti-GBM disease is seen less often with HLA-DR1 and HLA-DR7; both have strong negative associations, and both are highly protective.
Smoking is closely linked with hemoptysis. In a large case series, 47 of 51 adult patients with anti-GBM disease had a history of smoking.  In all, 37 of 37 smokers experienced pulmonary hemorrhage compared with 2 of 10 nonsmokers. Pulmonary hemorrhage is probably less common in adults than previously reported because of the decreasing prevalence of cigarette smoking.
Influenza type A2 has been associated with anti-GBM disease. Upper respiratory tract infection or flulike illness occurred before the onset of disease in 20-61% of adults with anti-GBM disease.
Presumably, the term Goodpasture syndrome referred to anti-GBM disease, because other causes for the pulmonary renal syndrome that contributed to ESRD (eg, systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE], Henoch-Schönlein purpura [HSP], Wegener granulomatosis) were all listed separately.
In adults, reports indicate a male-to-female ratio of 2:1 to 9:1. The literature about adults has also shown that anti-GBM disease with pulmonary renal syndrome typically occurs in young men, whereas renal disease that occurs in isolation is more common in elderly women.
In the few reported pediatric cases of anti-GBM disease, some children presented with limited renal disease, and others presented with pulmonary hemorrhage alone. [9, 10, 11] In one child, a diagnosis of pulmonary hemosiderosis was made 4 years before anti-GBM disease was seen. Anti-GBM–mediated renal disease resulted in ESRD in most children.
In adults, the mean age of onset is 20-30 years, with a peak incidence in young men aged 20-30 years. A second peak occurs in those aged 50-70 years, with men and women equally affected.
Prognosis in children with anti–glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease (Goodpasture disease) has greatly improved in the past 2 decades, because plasma exchange has been used more aggressively. Reports from the 1960s, before the advent of immunosuppressive therapy and plasma exchange, indicate a 96% mortality rate in adults; in the era of plasma exchange, the mortality rate in adults is 0-41%.
The pulmonary prognosis is usually excellent. Some adult patients have had a low diffusion capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide (DLCO), which suggests residual pulmonary fibrosis. If fulminant pulmonary hemorrhage occurs, it can lead to respiratory failure, which may result in death.
Data collected between 2002 and 2006 show the first year mortality for children in the United States with Goodpasture syndrome and ESRD was 4.2%.  Renal disease may be indolent, resulting in advanced and often irreversible disease at the time of presentation. Renal failure usually requires dialysis, and patients requiring dialysis at presentation usually develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Fewer than 25 cases of immunologically confirmed anti-GBM renal disease have been reported in children. Approximately 90% of patients developed ESRD, and 4 died.
The literature on adults suggests that patients presenting with oligoanuria and serum creatinine level of 6-7 mg/dL do not recover their renal function. Before the advent of plasma exchange, renal survival (with no need for dialysis or transplantation) was less than 25% in adults. According to the current literature about adults, the incidence of ESRD in anti-GBM disease is 25-69%. More recent reports indicate a better outcome with the aggressive use of plasma exchange.
Because relapse can occur, patients with anti–glomerular membrane (anti-GBM) disease (Goodpasture disease) should be educated regarding the potential signs and symptoms of such a relapse. In addition, patients should minimize environmental risk factors associated with this disease (eg, cigarette smoking, hydrocarbon exposure).
Pulmonary relapse can result in a cough, dyspnea, or fatigue. If these symptoms arise, medical attention should be sought immediately because of the potential life-threatening nature of pulmonary hemorrhage.
For patient education information, see Wegener Granulomatosis, Acute Kidney Failure, Kidney Disease, Blood in the Urine, Cough, and Bronchoscopy.
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This image of direct immunofluorescence shows smooth linear staining of the basement membrane secondary to immunoglobulin G deposition. This confirms the diagnosis of anti-GBM disease (Goodpasture disease). Image courtesy of K. Orr, MD.


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Q: entity framework ctp5 get unproxied entity EF CTP 5. I have a single instance where I would like to get the unproxied entity. I can't seem to find a way to do this. I don't want to disable proxy creation all together, just need it for this one query. Can anyone help?
Here is a simple example:
var myEntity = DbContext.Entities.Find(1);
var unproxy = myEntity...?

A: I believe the only possibility is to create new instance of DbContext and turn proxy creation off just to execute this query. The reason is that DynamicProxy is type created in runtime which derives from your original entity type and adds tracking and lazy loading functionality. You can't strip the proxy away once you created it this way. Try this:
using (var context = new MyDbContext(connectionString))
{
  ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.ContextOptions.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;
  var myEntity = context.Entities.Find(1);
}

A: In Asp.Net Core you can use AsNoTracking().
Eg:
var blogs = context.Blogs
    .AsNoTracking()
    .ToList();

More info you can find here.

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Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream
RoTheseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Allister Bain in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1987): Nottingham Playhouse
Antony Bunsee in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999): New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Guy Burgess in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004): University of Texas at Austin, University of Notre Dame, Actors from the London Stage
Andrew Dennis in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1995): Northcott Theatre, Exeter
Joe Dixon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988): Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Martin Doyle in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004): Theatre Royal Bath Young Productions, Bath Shakespeare Festival
Vincent Ebrahim in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997): Tara Arts
Ray Fearon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003): Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Okon Ubanga Jones in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2006): Dundee Rep Company
Jeffery Kissoon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004): Chichester Festival Theatre
Ace Mahbaz in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014): Deafinitely Theatre, The Globe Theatre, Bankside
Robert Mountford in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2013): Lamb Players
Chook Sibtain in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2012): Globe Education, The Globe Theatre, Bankside
Zubin Varla in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016): Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, The Globe Theatre, Bankside
Don Warrington in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1984): Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
Kenji Watanabe in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2009): Southwark Playhouse, London
Edward de Souza in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982): National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre
Other roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream


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Tag Archives: Manny Ramirez
Pedroia is Jolted by News
From Peter Abraham, Boston Globe:
Dustin Pedroia, much to his dismay, is human.
Dr. Lewis Yocum examined the injured Red Sox second baseman yesterday and informed him that the broken medial navicular bone in his left foot will need at least six weeks to heal, not the five weeks Pedroia was hoping for.
"He kind of scared me a little bit,'' Pedroia said last night before the Sox played the Angels. "There's nothing really that I can do. Just time's got to heal me. He kind of told me I can't play unless I feel no pain, which isn't good.
"I didn't realize how serious it was and how long it's going to take.''
Today marks 33 days since Pedroia was injured, well short of six weeks. He is scheduled for a CT scan in Boston Friday, which should give doctors a better idea of how well the bone has healed. Until then, Pedroia will be shut down from throwing, taking grounders or batting practice to give his foot some rest.
"I think the message has been pretty consistent,'' manager Terry Francona said. "I think today maybe Pedey heard it a little bit better.''
Pedroia is hopeful the CT scan will bring good news. But the idea that he could return on the next homestand is not realistic.
"Mentally I'm thinking I'm going to,'' he said. "But who the hell knows?''
Pedroia said his foot "felt weird'' Monday when he tried jogging for the first time.
"Any time my foot pounds on that ground, it didn't really feel good,'' Pedroia said. "[Yocum] said you have to be smart, man. It can definitely hurt you in the long run.''
Pedroia had been under the impression he could play through some pain. But Yocum said that wasn't an option. If Pedroia fractures that bone again, he would be looking at surgery that could keep him out for parts of next season.
"You really can't do that with this injury,'' he said. "That's hard to deal with. That bone can break off and they'd have to put pins in it. That would be a disaster.''
Pedroia was distraught at first but eventually came around to the idea that it wasn't bad news.
"Everything looks great. I'm ahead of schedule,'' he said. "It's just my schedule and their schedule were a little different. That was the only thing. I'm good.''
Ellsbury moving ahead
Jacoby Ellsbury took another step forward in his return when he played six innings in center field for the Gulf Coast League Red Sox against the Rays at Fort Myers, Fla.
Ellsbury walked in the first inning, stole second, and went to third on a throwing error. He then scored on a sacrifice fly. He later grounded into a double play and had a single to right field.
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Manny Returns; Sox Sweep Dodgers
Manny Ramirez's much anticipated return to Fenway Park this past weekend was relatively uneventful as the Boston Red Sox swept the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-6, 5-4, and 2-0 this past weekend. Manny was his typical self, going 4-for-12 with one home run and three runs scored. Despite his performance, the Red Sox starting pitching staff of Felix Doubront (1-0, 5.40), Tim Wakefield (2-5, 5.33), and Clay Bucholz (10-4, 2.47) spread 14 hits, 9 runs, 7 walks, and 12 strikeouts over 18 innings total innings. Bucholz became the first Sox pitcher this season to enter double digits in the win column.
The Sox now sit a mere 1 game out of first place in the AL East race and are tied for the Wild Card lead with the Tampa Bay Rays. After sweeping back to back series, they have a well-deserved day off today and get back at it tomorrow in Colorado when Jon Lester (8-2) takes the mound against Jhoulys Chacin (3-6).
Buchholz, Sox flying at finish – Boston Globe
Dodgers swept out of Boston in 2-0 loss – Los Angeles Times
Red-hot Pedroia puts on a show – Boston Globe
With 10 wins, Buchholz has arrived – ESPN.com
Red Sox / Dodgers Box Score – ESPN.com
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Sox Sweep Diamondbacks
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-5 to complete the sweep. John Lackey threw 6 innings, letting up 4 runs on 8 hits and 2 walks. He struck out 5 and walked 2 while running his record up to 8-3. David Ortiz helped out with a 2-run home run in the third inning. Kevin Youkilis, Marco Scutaro, Adrian Beltre, and Daniel Nava all contributed with RBIs as well.
The Sox bring their winning streak into a weekend series with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the long-awaited return of Manny Ramirez to Fenway Park.
Reynolds' struggles hamper D-backs – MLB.com
Lackey, offense help Boston sweep Arizona – MLB.com
Sox complete sweep – Boston Globe
Pedroia, Sox stay on target, drill Arizona -Boston Globe
Red Sox / Diamondbacks Box Score – ESPN.com
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Sox Topple Diamondbacks
The Boston Red Sox taking on the Arizona Diamondbacks can only be considered the precursor series to the most interesting (only interesting?) interleague series in all of baseball this year – that being the Los Angeles Dodgers coming to Fenway Park and the long-awaited return of Manny Ramirez to Fenway Park. While all of New England is looking forward to Manny's return in one way or another, the games against the Diamondbacks are still important games, especially when the Sox are four games out of first in the American League East and the AL Wild Card.
Clay Bucholz gutted out a decent performance and helped the Sox put away the Diamondbacks 6-3 on Tuesday night. Bucholz accumulated eight strikeouts over 5-2/3 innings on Tuesday night, but struggled in doing so. He let up three runs on seven hits and one walk. The Diamondbacks worked the count, as well, forcing Bucholz to throw 113 pitches in his shortest outing since May 8.
The Sox offense was lead by a resurgent Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz. They combined to go 4-for-7 with three RBIs, four runs scored and one home run (Ortiz – 13). When asked about Pedroia's sudden outbreak, Ortiz said "I told you guys before that's the last guy you got to worry about hitting is Pedroia. I know it's coming, the laser show."
Buchholz, Sox good enough – Boston Globe
Diamondbacks fall to Red Sox, lose 11th straight road game – The Arizona Republic
Buchholz buckles down to fend off D-backs – MLB.com
Ortiz homers as Red Sox down Diamondbacks – TSN.com
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'I'm Just Saying': It's still alive
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LIONEL MESSI will miss Argentina's clash with Morocco today - but how long will he be out for?
The Barcelona star picked up a knock during his nation's 3-1 defeat at home to Venezuela on Friday.
And his club have confirmed he won't feature again during the international break.
Barcelona released a statement that said: "Lionel Messi did not have the return to international action that he would have wanted.
After news of Messi's groin problem spread, there were fears he could miss Barca's clash with Manchester United.
The two sides face off in the Champions League quarter-finals, with the first leg taking place at Old Trafford in two weeks' time.
But it appears Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will have to find a way to deal with Messi after all.
Despite Messi being ruled out of the Morocco game, it seems his absence is merely a precaution.
According to Marca, the 31-year-old will return to action this weekend as Barcelona face Espanyol in La Liga.
His return to fitness will certainly mean he'll be raring to go against United.
And Alan Shearer believes Solskjaer's side need to find a way to deal with Messi after keeping Kylian Mbappe quiet against PSG.
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Bicycle Birdathon 2020
All week we'd been looking at the forecast for rain on Sunday, May 17th, the day of the 35th annual Okanagan Big Day Challenge, now part of the Great Canadian Birdathon. All week I kept thinking that the forecast would change—there's no way that even smart meteorologists can predict the weather so many days in advance, and the weather had been so fine for weeks. But the forecast stuck, day after day. When the alarm went off at 2:30 a.m. my first thought was "Is it raining?" The sound of steady drizzle outside came as a quick answer. The weather people had been right all along.
Sunny break at White Lake
I phoned Eva Durance, the other member of team CORVID 19, and suggested that we until the rain let up. At 3:24 I gave up waiting and off I went into the wet darkness. For the first time since we started using this route, there were no birds calling as I cycled up to the Max Lake Road. Our first bird was a Song Sparrow at Max Lake, followed quickly by the bizarre calls of the resident pair of Pied-billed Grebes. Some Violet-green Swallows twittered overhead, and then a Common Poorwill flushed off the road.
As we neared the end of the track, a Flammulated Owl called three or four times from the steep hillside—a big relief in the spitting rain! Dawn chorus was already slowly beginning in the gloom, and we quickly added Spotted Towhee, Townsend's Solitaire, Hammond's and Dusky Flycatchers, Western Tanager, Black-headed Grosbeak and more. A Barrow's Goldeneye, probably a bird breeding on one of the ponds up Blue Mountain to the south, circled overhead quacking and its wings whistling. Then a Veery called, the first of the year, and a singing MacGillivray's Warbler was a bit of a bonus. The big disappointment was the lack of a Northern Pygmy-Owl, considering I had heard one hear every time I visited this spring.
At Max Lake itself a Virginia Rail called loudly, followed immediately by the whinny of a Sora. With only 40 species on the list as we left the Max Lake Road, we were about 10 behind normal pace, but added Say's Phoebe, Western Kingbird, and Western Meadowlark in the remnant grasslands on the way back to the West Bench rural suburbs. By the time we got back to my house at 06:15 we were in steady rain again, but had caught up a bit in the species total with 54.
Eva listening to a damp dawn chorus along the Max Lake Road
Calliope and Rufous Hummingbirds buzzed around the feeders and the local gang of Cassin's Finches fed on sunflower seeds. The Red-breasted Nuthatch popped out of its nest. We took advantage of the opportunity to throw our outer layers into the dryer and made some fresh coffee and a quick breakfast. As we left the house at 06:50 we added Wilson's Warbler, Evening Grosbeak and a surprise Great Blue Heron flyover. We sailed down the hill and onto the rail trail to the Okanagan River channel. Yellow-breasted Chats and Lazuli Buntings sang on both sides of the trail.
We turned north at the river and cycled to Okanagan Lake at the SS Sicamous. The rain had stopped and the lake was glassy smooth. And empty. Desperate, I dug out the scope and found a single loon along the eastern shoreline—species 74 at 07:40. Turning south, we headed back down the river as the rain began again, this time quite heavy. We were hoping for Belted Kingfisher, Northern Harrier and Blue-winged Teal, but had to settle for Vaux's Swift, Yellow-headed Blackbird and Pygmy Nuthatch.
Skaha Lake, which often provides a wealth of waterbirds, was as empty as Okanagan Lake except for a couple of Common Mergansers. The rain clouds began to lift but the showers continued, even after the sun came out at Kaleden. At the highway lookout above Skaha I talked to a woman who was waiting for the arrival of the Snowbirds; I remember thinking later in the morning that we never did hear them roar by but didn't hear of the Kamloops tragedy until I got home.
The Kaleden hill is about 9 km of steady highway uphill, and I was sweating in the humid sunshowers. There were a few gaps in the traffic, thanks perhaps to the COVID crisis keeping people at home on this holiday weekend, so we actually could hear birds on occasion. Eva was way ahead of me on her e-bike (though I found out later I couldn't even keep up with her when she was using her regular bike), so we missed a couple of sightings—I had a Lark Sparrow and she had heard a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
We turned right onto the White Lake Road and began the steeper climb to Three Gates Farm, where our friend Doreen Olson has always provided water, coffee and good birds. By the time I got there Eva had already seen a White-breasted Nuthatch at the feeder, but I one-upped her when I saw two Black-chinned Hummingbirds while she was inside. Doreen's big contribution this year was a Northern Saw-whet Owl nest in a box along her driveway and a Western Screech-Owl nest in a box down by the creek. Since I'd put up both of those boxes many years ago I feel good every time I see them used.
Northern Saw-whet Owl
We were tempted to spend the rest of the day in Doreen's garden waiting for an Anna's Hummingbird to show, but we eventually gave in to reality and continued the steep climb to St. Andrews. A Lewis's Woodpecker was on its tree this time (we'd missed them last year) and we added Green-winged Teal and Ruddy Duck in the ponds. It was absolutely pouring again when we got a phone call from Chris Charlesworth telling of a Prothonotary Warbler found at Osoyoos Lake by Nathan Earley. "Are you going to go for it?" he asked. I replied that I was on a bike in the middle of a rainstorm and that diversion would add 50 km to an already gruelling day, so no.
The sun came out again as we got to the White Lake basin, and after a few minutes of searching the sage we found a pair of Brewer's Sparrows, but no Sage Thrasher sang. The lake was fairly empty compared to my last visit, but we did add Cinnamon Teal (species #100!), Northern Shoveler, Hooded Merganser, and, just as we were giving up, three Wilson's Phalaropes. We left an hour behind schedule at 1:30 pm, tallying the White-throated Swifts chattering overhead as we sailed down the hill into the Park Rill watershed.
Looking for Brewer's Sparrows at White Lake
I decided to stop at the Willowbrook cattleguard to try for pygmy-owl again—no luck there, but a Rock Wren surprised us with a series of songs from the distant scree slopes. We turned left on to Green Lake Road at Willowbrook and soon met up with the Chafing for Chickadees team coming the other way. We traded laments about rain for a few minutes in the sun, then continued on to Mahoney Lake. There we added Ring-necked Duck and Gray Flycatcher, and just as we were feeling good about that a Pileated Woodpecker called from across the road. I must say that was the best feeling of the day—adding a good bird in the sunshine in the middle of the afternoon doldrums. But it was 5:10 pm and we were losing time and about 50 km from home.
We screamed down the See Ya Later hill (aka the Wall; glad we were going down, not up) to the Vaseux Lake marshes, and crossed the river to the new sewage plant. Some wigeon-like ducks disappeared in flight behind trees, and we didn't add anything new until we got back on the highway and headed south to Vaseux Lake, when some Lesser Scaup showed themselves in the marsh.
At the lake we added Western Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Marsh Wren, Common Yellowthroat, Downy Woodpecker and Ring-billed Gull—a nice haul but a few species were decidedly missing. We were at 117 species, so only three away from 120 and some respectability. We reluctantly turned north as time was running out and muscles were beginning to seriously complain. By the time we got onto the KVR south spur trail at Okanagan Falls just before 6 pm, the rain began once again and steadily increased to a decent downpour. We added nothing over the next hour along Skaha Lake and by the time we got to Penticton we were thoroughly soaked once again.
Rain over Skaha Lake
As we cycled north up the river channel we thought we had a good chance for Northern Harrier, Blue-winged Teal and Belted Kingfisher but no such luck (we found out later that the Chickadee team had seen all three only a half-hour ahead of us, sigh). At the north highway bridge, Eva decided to head home up the hill to feed her horses, so I continued on to the lake by myself, hoping for some new waterbird. I met the Chickadees coming the other way, they just said there was nothing on the lake but one gull and it had "flown away"—I later learned it had been a California Gull which would have been new for us. The Chafing for Chickadees said they were going up to Max Lake to try for owls—I wished them luck and was glad that extra climb wasn't in my plans.
The rain stopped and the lake was calm again when I got there, but absolutely empty. I cycled along the beach promenade to the walking pier and set up the scope for one last search. The plume of Penticton Creek had a Mallard and,… a pair of wigeon! Species 118, our last of the day, at 8:30 pm. I turned back and headed home, climbing the West Bench Hill as the rain started up in earnest. I got home at 9 pm, with 102 km on the odometer for the day.
The gloomy gloaming on the Okanagan Lake walking pier
We held a Zoom meeting the next morning at 10 am to hear the stories of the other teams—almost 50 people in all–that had been out on the Challenge. The Chickadees captured the coveted Green Team Trophy for best non-motorized result—they had ended up with 126 species, including a pygmy-owl at Max Lake in the rain. Sigh. But they definitely put in that extra effort. There's always next year!
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A&W chief executive doubles down on burger chain's growth strategy
An A&W restaurant on Terry Fox Drive in Kanata.
May 14, 2018 3:08am EDT
The first woman to take the helm of A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. spent nearly three decades preparing to lead the company and said the transition "happened very naturally," even if the possibility first crossed her mind five years ago.
Susan Senecal, who in February became the company's fifth CEO in its 62-year history, plans to double down on the fast-food chain's strategy to rapidly grow its store count and continue incorporating more quality ingredients.
"We always have a nice clear set of directions and a set of milestones to achieve," said the newly minted CEO on what's made her shift from chief operating officer smoother.
Senecal started working with A&W some 26 years ago as the manager of a dozen corporate restaurants in Montreal. She's the kind of employee who remembers her start date: March 30, 1992. She loves the brand so much that orange- and brown- hued clothes sneak into her wardrobe to the point she often finds herself accidentally wearing corporate colours.
She moved to a number of different positions before her penultimate role as the company's first chief operating officer in 2015.
With an educational background in biology and computer science, Senecal said 95 per cent of what she knows about the restaurant business was picked up in the industry rather than a classroom. She admits it may be a bit unusual for a CEO not to hold an MBA or even undergraduate degree in business, but her path is less unique in the restaurant business, where people tend to arrive from all different backgrounds and learn on the job – like she did.
Senecal fell for the industry's fast pace and "almost instant feedback." If she implemented a change before lunch, for example, she could tell after the mealtime whether or not it was the right choice, she said.
Now, her focus is on continuing the burger chain's expansion plans. In 2016, A&W said it planned to add 300 locations to its existing 858 Canadian stores over the next five to seven years. It's just two openings shy of 900 eateries as of Sept. 10, 2017, according to its most recently quarterly earnings report.
The company expects to open about 45 restaurants annually over the next three to four years. The chain is particularly interested in industrial areas, like airports.
Granted, that pace does present one of the restaurant's biggest challenges going forward, Senecal said.
"One of the things that we are currently working very hard on is integrating a large number of newer franchisees into our business," she said, adding the company's created new training and support systems to help the newbies thrive.
Over the long term, Senecal anticipates the challenge will transform into a strength, giving A&W both a wealth of experienced franchisees and a steady stream of new energy and perspectives.
She wants to keep A&W as an industry leader in the shift to higher-quality ingredients – a move some industry watchers say has made the chain popular with the important millennial demographic and boosted its bottom line.
In 2012, the company started serving beef from cows raised without the use of hormones or steroids. It later started serving chicken and pork raised without the use of antibiotics. More recently, A&W introduced an all-natural bun baked without preservatives and additives, and produce grown without pesticides.
"We're looking at continued innovation in the menu," she said, falling short of identifying what ingredients may be next.
The 57-year-old believes the company chose her to continue forging A&W's path in part because of her ability to build and maintain strong relationships with franchisees, home office staff, and other colleagues.
Senecal doesn't say much about the intersection of her role and gender.
Reports consistently find women under-represented in leadership roles. Women held 9.44 per cent of the most senior corporate jobs at Canada's top 100 publicly traded companies, according to the 2018 Rosenzweig report, an annual study tracking named executive officers and individuals identified as senior in a company's regulatory filings.
Females served as CEOs at only six per cent of the corporations, including two companies that split the role between a man and woman, according to the report.
When asked about her thoughts on being a female leader of a national company, Senecal highlights that the company is fairly balanced between men and women – with the management team split about 50/50. That's created an environment where both men and women can participate fully and succeed, she said.
Her male colleagues seem to agree.
Neil Farmer, vice-president of operations, worked closely with Senecal when he was a corporate area manager in Toronto and considers himself a big fan of hers since day one.
"Nobody at A&W thinks of her as a female CEO," he said, rejecting the notion of any tokenism. "They just think of her as a tremendous leader."


Our systems are failing. Old models for education, healthcare, government, food production and energy supply are no longer fit for purpose. As the world's population heads towards eight billion, it's clear that we need new approaches. Futurist Mark Stevenson sets out across four continents to find them. From Brazilian favelas to high- tech Boston, and from rural India to a shed inventor in England's home counties, We Do Things Differently travels the world to find the advance guard re-imagining our future.


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I am at the Take Back America conference in Washington DC.
One common discussion here at Take Back America is that conservative economic policy chickens are coming home to roost. Another phrase I am hearing is Wild West Banking. People here are talking about the big story in the news right now: an economic and financial crisis that some economists are saying is the worst since the depression.
For decades, as conservative economics increasingly led to lower wages, loss of pensions and health insurance, and general "you're on your own" economic insecurity many people have been using up their savings while other people turned to borrowing to make up the difference, taking out second mortgages or running up credit cards.
Meanwhile the financial system, increasingly deregulated, cooked up riskier and riskier schemes — like loaning money to people and companies to use to make their payments on their existing debt.
…there was a REASON that Americans were loath to elect a Republican into the government for an entire generation after the Great Depression: They remembered.
But now people do not remember how concentration of wealth, corporations preying on citizens, anti-union policies, etc. LED TO the economic collapse.
The depression was ended by pro-union policies, redistributive taxes, REGULATIONS on businesses and the fuinancial sector, and an understanding that We, the People run the government, and the reason we have corporations is for OUR benefit, not just the benefit of the few.
Over time, as I said, people forgot. And here we are again.
How do we help the public understand what is happening and how conservative policies are responsible?
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Project CARS Official Forum > Other Games > Project CARS > Project CARS on Xbox One > TX or G920 Wheel on xbox1 - do you really need a Win PC?
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i'm thinking about upgrading from my spider wheel to one of those FF wheels. But, the problem is, i always hear about firmware updates and setup and so on via windows PCs. I only have macs. Do you really need a windows pc, or is this just for a initial setup and updates every few month. Because, buying another pc oder at least parallels and a windows licence would add to the wheel costs - without any use else for me.
So, any advice would be appreciated.
You need a PC to do the firmware upgrades to the wheel, I've had my wheel for 5-6 months and have had to do two firmware updates. it's pretty quick but I don't think you can do it via a Mac, maybe borrow and friends PC / laptop?
Well, at work i could uses windows PCs. Do you have to have everything connected? Or just the main base without wheel and pedals?
There are free VM alternatives to Parallels on the Mac. The Windows installer would still cost you though, but perhaps running a Windows trial would be more than sufficient for that since its something that you'll do once a year at best.
Bet you could find a bare minimum windows machine at a local thrift/second-hand store for next to nothing. You're not buying it to do anything but go online once and plug in a USB device, right?
One of the places I knew before I moved away from SoCal had retired High School Dell's for $20 each. Think they had old celeron 1.5ghz processors and half a gig of ram. This was like 10 years ago and they were that cheap.
Thanks for the info, i'll look into the free alternatives.. and i think win7 trials just get black backgrounds and popups ater 30 days. wouldn't mind that at all.
Funny thing.. if just found an old windows pc (one of those acer/asus 'I wish i was a mac mini, at least i'm as small - but slooooow) in a shoebox. Totally forgot that it exists. :D But still i think i'll go the virtual route n my mac, just to save the troube of having even more hardware on the desk.


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These Guys Built a Flying Saucer That Actually Flies Pretty Well
August 8th 19__Kristin Houser__Filed Under: Robots & Machines
[Theremin Intensifies]
A pair of Romanian scientists have built a flying saucer — and it actually flies a lot like the ones you've probably seen in the movies.
Razvan Sabie and Iosif Taposu unveiled the All-Directional Flying Object (ADIFO) in March, releasing a video that not only showed the saucer in flight, but also broke down the engineering that gives the craft the capability to maneuver in all directions.
"The aerodynamics behind this aircraft is the result of more than two decades of work," Sabie recently told Vice, "and is very well reasoned in hundreds of pages and confirmed by computer simulations and wind tunnel tests."
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As impressive as the flying saucer appears in the video, zipping around in all directions, this ADIFO prototype is just "the peak of the iceberg," Sabie told Vice.
Next, the researchers want to replace the craft's small electrical fans with jet engines. After that, they hope to conduct more complex simulations and wind tunnel tests, as well as attempt to demonstrate the updated ADIFO's ability to travel at transonic and supersonic speeds.
Before any of that can happen, though, they say they need partners, but it doesn't seem like they'll have too much trouble finding them — Sabie told Vice that a major aircraft manufacturer and a pair of government entities are just a few of those who've already reached out to express their interest in the strange little saucer.
READ MORE: Romanian Engineers Have Created a Fully Functional Flying Saucer [Vice]
More on flying saucers: A "Flying Saucer" Design Lets Drones Fly Twice as Long


Some European officials may be tempted to adopt the hard-line approach Australia has used to stem a similar tide of migrants. That would be unconscionable.
Since 2013, Australia has deployed its navy to turn back boats with migrants, including asylum seekers, before they could get close to its shores. Military personnel force vessels carrying people from Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and other conflict-roiled nations toward Indonesia, where most of the journeys begin. A boat captain recently reported that Australian authorities paid him $30,000 to turn back. If true, that account, which the Australian government has not disputed, would represent a violation of international laws designed to prevent human smuggling and protect asylum seekers.
The Border Force Act, which took effect July 1, makes it a crime punishable by a two-year prison sentence for employees at detention camps to discuss the conditions there publicly. Australia and Nauru, which depends heavily on Australian foreign aid, have gone to great lengths to keep international journalists from gaining access to the detention center, in which more than 2,200 people have been held since 2012. Last year, Nauru raised the fee it charges for journalists' visas from $200 to roughly $8,000; applicants who are turned down are not given refunds.
European officials have traveled to Australia on fact-finding missions recently. Mr. Abbott, who argues that aggressively intercepting the boats saves lives, has urged European governments to follow his model, and some European leaders seem so inclined.
The world's war zones are all but certain to continue to churn out an extraordinary number of refugees and economic migrants in the years ahead. Those people understandably will head to the most prosperous nations, hoping to rebuild their lives. It is inexcusable that some find themselves today in situations that are more hopeless and degrading than the ones that prompted them to flee.


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Whilst waiting for the coach to be serviced Claire and me popped into Canterbury to have a look around. We visited the Westgate Towers Museum which allowed these unusual shots of Stagecoach East Kent Alexander bodied Tridents. The Towers has to be one of the wonders of the bus world. If watching a double decker squeeze through looks tight, you should see it from the driving cab. Pull the offside mirror in and get as tight to the wall as you dare! I've done this many time when on the Compass service without any issues until one day I went to pull the mirror in .... and it came off in my hand! Yes, that's right, nobody at Canterbury Bus Station believed me thinking I'd hit the Towers too hard and knocked it off!