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Courtney Love found the missing flight MH370
Hole lead singer Courtney Love wrote yesterday that she thought she may have found the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in satellite images posted online, although the company behind the crowdsourced effort had already identified the image as a boat.
Love (the widow of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain) posted her findings on Twitter and Facebook, marking the areas she thought significant with hand-written notes.
Courtney Love found the missing flight.
For a minute – Courtney Love believed she'd found a clue in the case of the disappearance of Malaysian flight 370.
The saga of the missing airplane has captured the public's attention, and Hollywood is clearly not exempt from the intrigue. Love, best known as a musician, actress and wife of the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, tweeted a picture of a body of water with the caption "really? look closer? check it out @DR24 #MH370 and its like a mile away Pulau Perak, where they "last" tracked it."
Adding her two cents and plentiful Facebook clout to the mysterious search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 today was none other than Courtney Love, whose homemade analysis garnered more attention than most by virtue of it coming from Courtney Love.
"I'm no expert but up close this does look like a plane and an oil slick," she wrote, complete with a diagram, to more than 2,000 likes and 1,400 shares. "[It's] like a mile away Pulau Perak, where they 'last' tracked it 5°39'08.5″N 98°50'38.0″E but what do I know?" (Sample comment: "swear to god if courtney love finds the fucking plane.")
Asked if she'd found the spot herself, Love told Daily Intelligencer: "Yeah I went to the satellite site and just uploaded tons and tons of pictures. I really doubt aliens took it. It's got to be somewhere. I'm a little obsessive."
Unfortunately, the spot in question had been previously noticed and ruled out by the crowd-sourcing service Tomnod. "Although it is still an interesting clue, it is looking much more like the other boats operating in the region" – Tomnod said prior to Love's post. "Keep up the good work."
"I mean I don't know anything about aviation per se," added Love via text.
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We Drive the Fiat Multipla of Our Dreams!
And you can too, just buy it – or any number of other cool cars from the Malamut collection
"Do you think we have plenty of room here?" said car collector Mike Malamut, standing elbow-to-fender in his wonderfully eclectic collection of small cars. "When they're shoved together like this it loses something."
That would generally be considered a good problem to have for most people. Can you ever really have too many fun cars? Maybe not, but you can run out of space, which is what's happened here. Mike swears – swears - he's going to sell 50 cars from his 250-or-so car collection. Yes, 50. No messin' around and this time he really means it.
The problem is picking which ones. So far he is for sure selling, among others: a 1965 rotary-powered-from-the-factory NSU spider ($35k), a factory-supercharged 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder ($20k), a 1958 BMW 700 convertible ($32k), 1969 BMW 1602 in beautiful factory Florida green ($23k), 1959 FC150 Jeep Forward Control ($25k), a perfect-looking Ford V4-powered 1970 Saab wagon ($22k) and our favorite, the 1956 Fiat Multipla for $50,000.
The Fiat Multipla of our dreams. Isn't it cute?
Ah yes, the Multipla. It was the Multipla that got us into this whole mess. Your author has always loved Multiplas. Not the new abomination foisted by Fiat on the Italian market, the one with the cleft palate and the drooping schnauzer snout. No, the original Multipla like this one from 1956 -- the original minivan, the car that put Italian families back on wheels after the war. This one is in superb running shape with what is listed as 7000 original miles. It even has the owner's manual and tool kit.
We saw this particular Multipla at The Best of France and Italy car show two months ago and were drawn to it like suicidal Italian car moths. At that show we met Robert Dietz, "car concierge" to Malamut's collection, the man helping to pare down the splendid warehouse full of cars. Most of Malamut's collection is not for sale ever, including racks of split-window VW vans, DKWs, NSUs, Messerschidts, Isettas, and four rows of 356s and 911s, not to mention an exquisite Mazda Cosmo, Toyota 2000GT, Mercedes Gullwing and room after room of other such wondrous accoutrements, including two more Multiplas that are likewise not for sale.
But one Multipla is.
We got to talking with Dietz at that show and the idea of a test drive of the micro minivan came up. Maybe we brought it up. Okay yes, it was us, but wouldn't you try to weasel yourself into a Multipla drive if the opportunity arose? Sure you would. And a couple months later we were at the shop and there was the wheeled Italian-hauler. A lifelong dream about to be realized.
A thundering 22 hp comes out of the big 633cc four
"Here, let me back it up," said Dietz, climbing into the front suicide door.
We took shotgun. Dietz twisted the key from "off" to "ignition," pulled the floor-mounted choke lever, then pulled the identical floor-mounted starter lever and screeee wooshity rattle rattle hummmmm, the rear-mounted 633cc Fiat four roared to life. Or it might have meowed to life. Reverse is over and down and out we pulled from behind the front warehouse.
"You have to time street crossings with plenty in reserve," said Dietz.
Indeed, all of the Multipla's 22 horsepower and 32 lb-ft of torque were needed to get the 1,301-pound (references range from 1,301 to 1,631 pounds curb weight) Fiat up the slight hill outside the collection. But get up it did, just as Italy pulled itself from the ashes of WWII and rebuilt itself into an industrial powerhouse. Eventually. Dietz rowed through the gears as we sped (or not) through the industrial concrete tiltups of Rancho Conejo.
"Everybody loves this car," Dietz said. "You cannot have a bad day in a car like this."
Certainly, we were not having a bad day. And it got better when Dietz switched seats. The engine was still running when we got behind the wheel so we didn't have to start it, just push in the very light clutch, squash the gas pedal about like you'd step on a large bug if you really meant to make an impression on it, and off we went into postwar prosperity - and the outer reaches of Newbury Park. The unusually small power output of a car like this takes a minute or two to get used to, but you do -- pretty soon your brain has recalibrated its previous notion of what constitutes "engine power" and all is well. The gas pedal does feel weird, not so much like a pedal as a cannoli you must step on until the custard filling comes out the side. At that point you get forward progress, if you're serious about the cannoli. References to 0-60 times are also all over the map; one says 54 seconds but most say top speed is only 56 mph, so believe what you want to believe.
Regardless, it is the cutest car you'll see on the road. So cute you want to hug it. But we got to drive it. At least a little bit. The shifter worked pretty well for something 60 years old, though it was vague about where the gears were, at least compared to later shifters. The steering was precise enough and the brakes worked. This was an excellent example of a Multipla -- for all we know, the best extant.
How often do you see a Jeep Forward Control?
All too soon we were back at Malamut's, parking back behind building #1 and then poking around at all the other cars for sale. We made a list of the ones we wanted to buy, regardless of whether they were for sale: The DKW truck, the Saab wagon, one of the Westphalia split-window camper vans, the forward control, heck, pretty much everything that was for sale. The Gullwing, Cosmo and 2000 GT weren't for sale, as was the case with most of the collection.
Every car we looked at, and we looked at 200 or so of them, seemed to be in excellent shape, and everything runs, thanks to the collection's curator/restorer/master mechanic Neil Torrey - and a system of electrical cords that snake throughout the buildings, attached to trickle chargers. Any one of these would be a joy in which to tool around the neighborhood, if Malamut would sell them, which he may or may not do. See, since Dietz came on board to help move some of the cars, Malamut has parted with only six… and then bought another ten. Those good at math will have figured out that, since decreeing 50 cars for sale, the collection has actually grown instead of shrunk.
"He loves these cars," explained Dietz.
"We've just got too many cars 'cause I'm a sick person," said Malamut. "I'm like that guy in the bar who has had too many drinks but still wants another one."
Won't you do your part to help this worthy cause?
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We didn't spend a lot of time aboard the Enterprise NCC-1701-B (and neither did Kirk for that matter). But in that small time, the ship left quite a lasting impression (especially on Guinan).
Making its debut in Star Trek: Generations, this Excelsior-class starship had a unique maiden voyage (despite missing a few important components). But don't worry, this U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B collectible replica was made after all the parts came in last Tuesday. Now that it's fully functioning, it's ready to be added to your collection.


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Angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis are highly complex morphogenetic processes, central to many physiological and pathological conditions, including development, cancer metastasis, inflammation and wound healing. While it is described that extracellular matrix (ECM) fibers are involved in the spatiotemporal regulation of angiogenesis, current angiogenesis assays are not specifically designed to dissect and quantify the underlying molecular mechanisms of how the fibrillar nature of ECM regulates vessel sprouting. Even less is known about the role of the fibrillar ECM during the early stages of lymphangiogenesis. To address such questions, we introduced here an in vitro (lymph)angiogenesis assay, where we used microbeads coated with endothelial cells as simple sprouting sources and deposited them on single Fn fibers used as substrates to mimic fibrillar ECM. The fibers were deposited on a transparent substrate, suitable for live microscopic observation of the ensuing cell outgrowth events at the single cell level. Our proof-of-concept studies revealed that fibrillar Fn, compared to Fn-coated surfaces, provides far stronger sprouting and guidance cues to endothelial cells, independent of the tested mechanical strains of the Fn fibers. Additionally, we found that VEGF-A, but not VEGF-C, stimulates the collective outgrowth of lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC), while the collective outgrowth of blood vascular endothelial cells (HUVEC) was prominent even in the absence of these angiogenic factors. In addition to the findings presented here, the modularity of our assay allows for the use of different ECM or synthetic fibers as substrates, as well as of other cell types, thus expanding the range of applications in vascular biology and beyond.


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Q: File server using Ktor and Local Hotspot on android I am trying to create a server inside an android app. The idea is to create a Local Hotspot from the phone itself and start an HTTP server. Show instructions to users on how to connect to said Hotspot. Then an URL which when visited will automatically download file from the phone.
Server Thread
class Server(private val filePath: File): Thread() {
    override fun run() {
        val file = File(filePath, "test.txt")
        file.writeText("testing file")
        val server = embeddedServer(Netty, 8080) {
            routing {
                get("/") {
                    call.respondText { "Works" }
                }
                get("/files") {
                    call.respondFile(file, configure = {
                        this.setProperty(AttributeKey("Content-Disposition"), "attachment; filename=\"test.txt\"")
                    })
                }
            }
        }
        server.start(wait = true)
    }
}

Local Hotstop setup
        val mWifiManager = baseContext.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE) as WifiManager?
        mWifiManager?.startLocalOnlyHotspot(object : WifiManager.LocalOnlyHotspotCallback() {
            override fun onStarted(reservation: WifiManager.LocalOnlyHotspotReservation?) {
                super.onStarted(reservation)
                val wifiConfiguration = reservation?.wifiConfiguration
                if (wifiConfiguration != null) {
                    Log.d("testing", wifiConfiguration.preSharedKey)
                }
            }

            override fun onStopped() {
                Toast.makeText(baseContext, "STOP", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
                super.onStopped()
            }

            override fun onFailed(reason: Int) {
                Toast.makeText(baseContext, "FAIL", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
                super.onFailed(reason)
            }
        }, Handler())

gradle
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 29

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.extermeprogramming.servertest"
        minSdkVersion 26
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"

        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }

    packagingOptions {
        pickFirst "META-INF/io.netty.versions.properties"
        exclude 'META-INF/INDEX.LIST'
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.0'
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'

    // Ktor, HTTP SERVER
    ext.ktor_version = '1.3.2'
    implementation "io.ktor:ktor-server-core:$ktor_version"
    implementation "io.ktor:ktor-server-netty:$ktor_version"
    implementation "org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.9"

}

AndroidManifes
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.extermeprogramming.servertest" >

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <provider
            android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
            android:authorities="com.extermeprogramming.fileprovider"
            android:exported="false"
            android:grantUriPermissions="true">
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
                android:resource="@xml/paths" />
        </provider>

        <activity android:name=".MainActivity" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

When the Server and Hotspot is turned ON for the first time, the request to url 192.169.43.1:8080/files fails and the Hotspot turns OFF without calling any of the callbacks (onStopped, onFailed). When the Hotspot is enabled again everything works as expected and the file download without a problem and Hotspot stays turned ON.
The only error thrown is from Ktor which says Call execution has been cancelled. Changing the order of steps, first turning on Hotspot and then Server, results in the same exception. I think there is some configuration either in Ktor or in Hotspot which will fix this issue because after the exception when the Hotspot is turned on again everything works.

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With only 4 races left, GP2's 2013 season has reached the time I can make some predictions for the final results after Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
First of all I have to look at this year's in/out driver Robin Frijns. He proved he can win, although Hilmer was undoubtedly a good environment for him. However, given all I had heard from earlier years about how good he was I was disappointed that he wasn't always at the sharp end of the field. Combine that with Sauber recently dropping him and I can't see him making the final step into the top flight.
Fabio Leimer goes into the final four races with a 6-point lead. He had a mixed weekend in Malaysia, winning the feature race from 4th, then dropping from 8th to 12th on Sunday as he ran out of tyres. This was followed by a dominant pole-to-flag win on Saturday in Bahrain, again with nothing at all from the sprint race. To be fair he only lost one place this time, 9th not yielding points on Sunday. Spain and Monaco were the low point for him, scoring nothing across 2 weekends which appeared on the surface to end his title hunt early as Coletti continued his early-season form. A 4th place in Britain on Saturday focused him again, followed by the same result on Saturday in Germany. He scraped a podium on Sunday, following that with identical results in Hungary. Belgium saw the fourth consecutive feature race where he came 4th, the sprint race handing him a further 6 points. A win on the hallowed Monza tarmac completed the comeback, followed by a points finish on Sunday and his first fastest lap of the season. If this form continues he should take the title, but an F1 drive might be hard to come by.
Sam Bird had a slower start to the season, taking 7th and the fastest lap in Malaysia on Saturday and nothing further on Sunday. Sunday became a favourite for Russian Time as well as Sam as he took his and the team's first win in Bahrain. Spain was a barren weekend for him, but Monaco's feature race yielded a victory, as did Silverstone. Sunday saw a top 5 finish as well, although Germany could only return a single point from Sunday. Hungary was the last of the difficult weekends so far, a single point from each race bringing the haul to 3 points from the last 4 races before Belgium allowed pole and the win, albeit at the cost of anything from Sunday. Pole and 2nd followed in the Italian feature race, complete with the fastest lap. 4th on Sunday completed a decent recovery, putting him 2nd overall going into the final 4 races. Unfortunately for Bird, while I can see him beating Leimer through consistency, an F1 drive is unlikely to follow unless Mercedes get him a Friday seat at Williams – especially with Williams looking to forge a link with a GP2 team already.
Stefano Coletti came into the season dominantly, taking the first pole of the year for Rapax. He made the podium and then fought back from 6th to win on Sunday, taking the fastest lap in the process. Coletti was the early pacesetter, taking 2nd and 3rd in Bahrain followed by 4th and a sprint victory – complete with fastest lap – in Spain. Monaco saw him 6th on Saturday and winning on Sunday, both times with the fastest lap. By this point in the season, the expected championship contender Markus Ericsson had only 4 points compared to Coletti's 120. Few would have predicted that the tables would turn from this point to the extent that only 15 more points would come by the close in Monza – 3rd place in Germany giving the only other score of the year. Coletti is unlikely now to take the title but needs to up his game again to hold 3rd. Nasr is only 5 points behind, after all.
Felipe Nasr came into 2013 having never won a GP2 race. As we leave Monza, this is still very much the case but consistency is the key here. He took 4th and 2nd in Malaysia, followed by identical results in Bahrain – note his 2nd to Bird in Bahrain on Sunday was almost a dead heat – before Spain gave him 2nd and 3rd. he reverted to the traditional 4th place in the Monaco feature race, taking the same place in the sprint race. All a poor British weekend could offer him was 7th place on Sunday – no other points were available. He was then 9th and 4th in Germany. Thus far no fastest laps or pole positions had come his way, nor were they to do so before the end of the European season as Hungary gave him 3rd and 5th, followed by a single Sunday point in Hungary and nothing at all in an Italian weekend where everything that could go wrong, went wrong. I've never seen a GP2 engine blow before, until Nasr did it spectacularly. His consistency, as I said before, is the key to his chances but the title is out of reach in my mind now. He should be able to clear Coletti, but we will see how well each perform in Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
James Calado was expected to be at the sharp end this year but the car never quite seemed to be where an ART should be. Teammate Abt was crippled by an apparently underperforming engine, but Calado managed to take 2nd on Saturday in Malaysia to kick off the year well, although nothing came of his Sunday drive. Bahrain was a poor weekend, 6 points the total haul as his first Sunday points arrived. Spain was a wasted weekend for him, Monaco yielding two 5th place finishes before Silverstone saw him finish first 9th, then 3rd as the only Brit on the Sunday podium. Germany saw something of a resurgence, taking a pair of 2nd places and the fastest lap on Sunday. However, Hungary saw a total of 6 points come his way as the car once again seemed lost. Belgium saw a win with fastest lap on Sunday, but only 8th on Saturday meaning his pole position made a huge difference on Sunday. In Italy all he could manage was 6th on Saturday. He is the only driver with a very good chance of being in F1 next year, having already run an FP1 for Force India in Monza, presumably taking the same role for the rest of the year. I do wonder if it will prevent him climbing higher than 5th overall, however.
Tom Dillmann heads an incredibly tight fight for 6th as we leave Europe, despite a scoreless weekend in Malaysia and only 12 points from Bahrain where his teammate won. He scored 10 points in Spain, making up for Bird's poor weekend but failed to score in Monaco. Saturday at Silverstone gave him 3rd and a fastest lap, although the Sunday race only yielded 6th. Germany was worse: 8th on Saturday and nowhere on Sunday. He took the Saturday pole in Hungary but couldn't convert it into a race position, although a 5th and fastest lap in Belgium helped. 3rd and 5th in Monza put him onto 84 points, well behind the top 5 but ahead of the rest of the field, if only by a single point. F1 for now isn't an option, in my opinion.
Richelmi and Ericsson combine to make the DAMS team, reigning champions from the past 2 years who now seem to have taken on the wrong drivers to further their winning streak. After 8 races, lead driver Ericsson only had 4 points from Spain's pole position while Richelmi had 15, along with 2 scoreless weekends. Silverstone gave Ericsson 5 points and Richelmi a further 18, leaving them on 9 and 33 points respectively but well off the sharp end of the field. Victory and fastest lap on Saturday in Germany was the start of Ericsson's too-late recovery, while Richelmi took pole and finished 5th. Sunday was a waste for the team. Hungary gave 28 points to Ericsson and 10 to Richelmi, the two getting closer in the standings now. Ericsson's last score was on Saturday in Belgium, taking 2nd while Richelmi finished 7th, dropping from 2nd to 4th on the Sunday grid. 4th was also available to Richelmi on Saturday in Italy, bringing him to 82 points and leaving Ericsson on 83. Neither can take the title but they can mix it up with the frontrunners if the cars feel up to it. I can't see an F1 seat for either driver in 2014, or at all for that matter.
Focusing now on the teams' championship, let's go from back to front. Venezuela GP Lazarus have scraped only 12 points this year, taking a point in Malaysia, an impressive 10 in the traditionally mixed up Monaco weekend and their final European point with a 10th in Italy. They remain as I have always seen them: a weak team, there to make up the numbers but occasionally doing a Minardi and bringing in genuine talent. This year the talent didn't come through.
Addax failed to score until Spain, taking their first couple of points from the feature race. They then managed an impressive Silverstone weekend, taking 18 points from the round before sneaking a 7th place in Italy to reach 22 points. They rank similarly to Lazarus in my view, with little purpose beyond making up the numbers, in spite of a promising pair of drivers.
MP are the lowest of 2013's new teams, sitting 11th after Monza. They took their first 7 points in Bahrain, followed by 17 in Monaco as they followed the other two backmarker teams in taking a large haul in the principality. Since Monaco they haven't made the points again and now sit on 24, looking warily over their shoulder in case Addax manage another couple of points to overhaul them.
Trident may not have to worry about MP but they are unlikely to improve on 10th this year. They took 8 points in Spain to open their account, followed by 20 in Monaco. Hungary's Saturday race gave them another 4, but Berthon's win and fastest lap gave them an incredible boost on Sunday, although they haven't scored since. They sit on 49 points and 10th overall, having proved they can show flashes of brilliance but little else.
Caterham underachieved this year. They head to Singapore with only 65 points and 9th place, in spite of having promising youngster Alex Rossi on board. 63 of the team's points belong to Rossi, the other 2 to the erratic Canamasas who has really dragged the team down this year. They need to find more consistency in future if they want to be taken seriously as a GP2 contender.
I seem to recall the Arden name being a force to be reckoned with in both GP2 and F3000. How the mighty have fallen, as they now sit 8th with 89 points and little chance of moving anywhere on the table. Evans has put in a good show but Cecotto has been more focused on crashing over the year and has let both himself and the team down, similarly to Canamasas at Caterham. Arden need to sort out their drivers as well or they risk becoming a force in the history books and little else.
ART are another team who have fallen away recently, sitting 7th in the championship with 122 points. Aside from Germany, they have scored less then 20 points per meeting and need to sort themselves out for 2014. In their defence, Daniel Abt was seemingly held back for much of the year by a dodgy engine. Having had it changed for Monza we shall see how he performs in the final 4 races.
Hilmer entered the year with no real expectations, a rookie team who pulled just 2 points from the Sunday race in Malaysia and nothing in Bahrain. However, their unexpected 54 points in Spain put them firmly on the map, in spite of nothing at all coming from Monaco. Silverstone yielded another 27 points, then 29 came from Germany before another barren weekend as Hungary took its toll. Belgium and Italy combined gave them another 34 points but it seemed their form dropped off without Frijns there, making me question how good the team really is. Nonetheless they sit 6th going into the final 4 races with 146 points.
Rapax are only 7 points ahead of Hilmer, matching the haul of Sam Bird alone. Still, given the team isn't one I would normally tout for a title fight I have to admit I am impressed they are in the top 5 at all.
DAMS, as mentioned before, are the shock of the year. Yes they have more as a team than the lead driver at the moment, but only by 6 points. Their last 2 seasons were impressive, this has been a disaster. They will hope they can learn to use the new 2014 car as well as they did with the 2011-13 chassis.
Carlin came into the year with an immediate 32 points, followed by 38 in Bahrain and 35 in Spain. They even managed a steady 20 in Monaco before Britain and Germany gave up only 10 points each and Carlin started to slip. They did pull 46 from Hungary as both Nasr and Palmer did what they could but only 5 points came in Belgium and Nasr's engine failure in Monza finished the weekend for them without a single point. In theory they could still challenge for the title, but it is a long shot now as the season nears its close.
Racing Engineering started the year with 35 points, followed with 29 then nothing for 3 weekends. Those 3 weekends gave the field the chance to close again and lost them an easy run to the title. They clawed back up the order again by close of play in Monza to sit 2nd with 221 points, only 16 shy of Russian Time but without much chance of the title on the basis of season-long form. They face a fight for 2nd if Carlin stay on form.
Russian Time are not a team I expected to leave until last here until mid-season. They managed 37 points in only their 2nd weekend in the series, although at that point iSport were still helping them out. later in the year they managed 52 points in Britain, Sam Bird coming 1st and 5th in his two home races. Belgium and Hungary were weak weekends but Italy gave them 53 points, putting them firmly back on top heading into the final 4 races, with probably the best driver in the field this year as well in the shape of Bird. If they don't take the title I will be disappointed, as it has been an incredible year for the team and they deserve it at least as much as anyone else.


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The 1977–78 DDR-Oberliga was the 29th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's sixth of eight East German championships, thereby equalling FC Vorwärts Berlin's record.

Klaus Havenstein of BSG Chemie Böhlen was the league's top scorer with 15 goals, while Jürgen Croy of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award for a record third time.

On the strength of the 1977–78 title Dresden qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the quarter finals. Second-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the quarter finals. For the first time three East German clubs qualified for the 1978–79 UEFA Cup with third-placed BFC Dynamo being knocked out in the first round by Red Star Belgrade while fourth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig lost to Arsenal, also in the first round and fifth-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena was defeated by MSV Duisburg in the second round.

Table
The 1977–78 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Böhlen and BSG Wismut Gera.

Results

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External links
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The Feriae Latinae or Latin Festival was an ancient Roman religious festival held in April on the Alban Mount. The date varied, and was determined and announced by the consuls each year when they took office. It was one of the most ancient festivals celebrated by the Roman state and is supposed to have predated the founding of Rome — in historical terms, to have dated to a pre-urban pastoral age. It continued to be held into the 3rd century AD, and perhaps later.

The rite was a reaffirmation of the alliance among members of the Latin League, and a truce was honored throughout the festival. Each Latin city sent a representative and offerings such as sheep, cheese, or other pastoral products. The presiding Roman consul offered a libation of milk, and conducted the sacrifice of a pure white heifer that had never been yoked. The flesh was consumed as part of a communal meal as a sacrament. As part of the festivities, the figurines called oscilla were hung from trees.

The consuls were required to attend, leaving a praefectus urbi in charge of the city. If the consuls had to be absent (if, for instance, they were waging war), a dictator was appointed to oversee the festival. Consuls were not supposed to depart for their provinces until after the festival.

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Outgoing Queensland Reds utility James O'Connor has fired back at former Wallabies full-back Greg Martin, lashing the outspoken media personality in a lengthy Facebook post.
O'Connor was released from the final year of his contract by the Reds earlier this week due to "personal issues", prompting Martin to declare the former Wallabies No.10 a "little young punk" and an "immature t-t".
"This could be the greatest waste of Australian rugby talent," Martin told Brisbane radio station Triple M. "He's played 44 Tests for Australia at the age of 25, [but] hasn't played in the last few years because of his bad attitude."
O'Connor was quick to respond, the posting a 1500-word Facebook update in which he slammed Martin's, and wider media, treatment of high-profile sports stars, and appeared to reference the mental health issues plaguing Australian Rules superstar Buddy Franklin.
"Greg then went on to question the legitimacy of my contractual release from the Red's due to my own personal issues ... Greg felt it necessary to question my character when for all he knows; my mental state could be extremely unstable. Surely there is a duty of care for a man in his position with the power to produce media for mass-consumption. The fact is the man is trivialising mental health issues by making such comments when he knows nothing about the circumstances surrounding my release."
O'Connor accepted the criticism that his "previous behaviour was not one of an upstanding individual, but like all people I wish to learn from my mistakes and look to improve upon myself". He wrote that "this year, there were no headlines regarding my so-called off field antics, yet Greg does not hesitate to say I have not matured".
"While my season with the Red's was not as favourable as I would have expected for myself or my team, I did not come back to Australia expecting a warm reception, or a gauntlet welcoming me back to test rugby. I knew full well the mountain I had to climb to get back into the squad, and regardless of my form and injuries it was a huge disappointment to not be included. At no point though, was there an expectation of my inclusion as Greg implied."
O'Connor is tipped to return to France where he may re-join Wallabies stars Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell at Toulon. Giteau told ESPN earlier this week that O'Connor had "trained hard, worked well" in a six-month stint with the European champions last year.


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Teenage mugger, 19, who beat up and robbed a restaurant-goer is spared jail as a judge says his welfare should be prioritised because he was a 17-year-old 'child' at the time of the attack
Byron Daly punched and kicked Shaun Stevens, 35, in Manchester city centre
The thug and 11 others attacked Mr Stevens as he tried to buy some cannabis
Judge gave him a two-year jail sentence, which is suspended for 18 months years
Told Manchester Crown Court that the sentence 'will seem lenient to some'
Byron Daly (pictured) attacked the 35-year-old with 11 other people and has been handed a suspended sentence of the mugging
A teenage mugger who was one of 12 thugs that violently robbed a man has been spared jail by a judge who said the the courts must prioritise his 'welfare'.
Byron Daly was 17 when he and other yobs snatched cash from a 35-year-old after he'd for a meal at a restaurant.
As well as cuts, bruises and a chipped tooth, the traumatised victim suffered sleepless nights due to his ordeal.
Daly admitted robbery and assault but was handed a two-year jail sentence, suspended for 18 months and fitted with an electronic tag.
Judge Elizabeth Nicholls said that because Daly was a 'child' at the time of the attack, he must be dealt with as one despite the fact he faced Manchester Crown Court as a 19-year-old today.
'Giving a 19-year-old charged with this offence a suspended sentence will seem lenient to some but this is the sentence because of the age you were at the time of the incident and the time that has passed since,' she said.
'I have to consider the significant mitigation on your part and the fact that you were 17 at the time of the offence. Had you come before this court as a youth then the primary concern of the courts in such cases is the welfare of the child.
Byron Daly (pictured) was 17 when he launched a sickening attack in Manchester city centre and a judge told court that, because he was legally a child at the time, his welfare must be prioritised in sentencing
'You have committed no further offences since then – moreover you have removed yourself from the other people involved and the lifestyle you were leading. And we have to consider that young men when together in large groups often act differently than they would have when alone.'
But she added: 'You attacked an individual as part of a pack of young men. You set about him punching and kicking him. Fortuitously the injuries were mostly scratches and bruises but the very fact this was such an unpleasant attack with a group attack he was understandably fearful for his life.
'He has told the court of how scared and humiliated he was. His house keys and driving license with his address on were taken making him fear the same group would come to his home with keys and be able to gain access.
'He has since had complications with his health which he understandably feels are a direct result of this attack. Feet were used as a weapon and there was an aggressive pack mentality.
'Seize this opportunity and address the issues you have. You have a girlfriend standing with you. You don't want to spend the rest of your life fearing possible prison sentences. Comply with the terms of this order and get on with your life.'
The incident occurred on April 23 2017 after the victim Shaun Stevens had been out for dinner and drinks in Manchester's Spinngfields district.
Daly (pictured) assaulted the 35-year-old in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens area when he tried to buy cannabis
Prosecuting, Duncan Wilcock, said: 'He consumed half a bottle of wine and some cocktails and went through Piccadilly Gardens with the view to buying some cannabis.
'He acknowledged being slightly unsteady on his feet from the alcohol consumed. A male appeared to him asking him what he wanted and Mr Stevens said he wanted a "20 bag" of cannabis. The male pulled out of his pocket a smaller bag – what the victim said looked like a "10 bag" – and the Mr Stevens said that wasn't enough.
'The man then told the victim that one of his friends had more and to wait here. A few moments later another male appeared with several other males around him. The new male produced a bag which the victim was happy with.
Daly (pictured) got a suspended sentence after the sickening city centre attack in Manchester
'Mr Stevens then found himself surrounded by more and more males. One of the men opened their jacket to reveal inside pockets lined with cannabis. As Mr Stevens looked at the jacket he was surrounded by yet more males and it was at this point that he felt something in his left pocket.
'He realised it was a male's hand and asked the group generally "what do you think you're doing?" He was then told to hand over his wallet and was then hit on the back of the head and fell to the floor.
'He then felt numerous punches and kicks to the body and head from every direction. He felt another hand going into his right pocket and a voice saying to hand over his phone. Mr Stevens says he was screaming for help. Repeatedly being kicked in the body and head. He says he was genuinely scared for his life.
'He lost control of his body function and he urinated himself. The attack went on for about 30 seconds before all the males ran off. The victim then called the police. The value of the items taken were a £70 designer wallet, £30 from inside the wallet along with bank cards and a driving license. The victim's house keys were also stolen.
'As far as injuries, there was scrapes and bruising to the victims head, bruising to the body and a chipped front tooth.
'The victim says he is 'extremely shocked and humiliated' at the way this has made him feel. This was an act of entirely unprovoked violence. He says he is scared to sleep. The men took his house keys and driving license with his address on meaning they have access to his house. He didn't seek medical attention at the time but reports a lot of soreness to his body and jaw.'
Daly initially admitted assault and completed a youth rehabilitation order but there were delays over his prosecution for robbery and he asked to be tried by a jury.
The case was set down for trial in February but he changed his plea to guilty and the case was postponed for reports.
In mitigation, defence lawyer Mark Fireman, said: 'My client is under no illusion over how ugly this incident was but I draw attention to the fact he was 17 at the time – not considered an adult in these courts. The delay in sentencing – resulting in him now being tried as an adult – is not his fault. He would have been be a youth had this case been heard earlier.
'Byron Daly has not had the best start in life and not of his own doing. He has a number of mental health problems. At the time of this incident he was essentially homeless, flitting between hostels which surely only exacerbated his existing mental health problems. His culpability is affected by that.
'At the time of this event he was a young man with no previous convictions. The passage of time is a consideration with more than 2 years elapsing since. He has done everything he can to distance himself from the people and type of life he was leading.
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'He has been referred to a psychiatrist. He has been prescribed to anti depressants. He's making every effort to address his problems. The man in that CCTV footage from 2017 is an entirely different man to the one in front of you today.'
Daly will have to wear the electronic tag for three months as part of a 9pm to 7.30am curfew.
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The Third Annual Coaching Awards will once again follow the Coach Summit in 2018, providing an opportunity to recognise the hard work and expertise of coaches and volunteers in the British baseball and softball communities. The 2018 Coach Summit will take place on Saturday 27 January at the Kents Hill Park Conference Centre in Milton Keynes.
This year, the Awards have been expanded and developed in consultation with the British Softball Federation, to recognise the breadth of the workforce that makes a positive impact in our sports. We all know that without coaches and volunteers, our sports would not be in such good health.
This award is for the coach aged 22 or younger deemed to have made the biggest contribution to coaching, managing and supporting baseball and/or softball in Britain in 2017.
This award is made to the individual who best personifies what it means to be a baseball or softball coach: someone who understands their sport and can use the lessons learned on the pitch to motivate and engage others. He or she has probably played a great number of roles, and without their services to coaching, your club, your league or perhaps even your national teams wouldn't be the same.
Ryan has been nominated for his outstanding and unique approach to supporting and coaching a number of teams at the London Mets Baseball & Softball Club. Ryan volunteers his time mainly for the club's Marauders team, but also helps coach the Musketeers and runs the weekly "Baseball for Beginners" classes which have been incredibly successful at developing new players and increasing participation. His approach has created a culture at the London Mets that welcomes new players and fosters a real sense of team in a short space of time. Universally popular and respected, Ryan is an invaluable contributor to British baseball. Ryan has also been instrumental in founding the GLMSL Softball 101 coaching programme, which has introduced a new team into the GLMSL every year of the six years he's run the programme.
This award was for the coach under the age of 22 deemed to have made the biggest contribution to coaching, managing and supporting baseball and/or softball in the UK in 2016.
Callum has excelled in coaching at the BSUK Academy, Northants Baseball Club and newly-formed Northampton University Baseball, and has also umpired this past year at the National University Baseball Championships.
This award was given for outstanding contributions to coaching young people in baseball and/or softball in the UK.
Jared and Robin have put a huge amount of energy, dedication and determination into building a new youth team from the ground up at Brighton Baseball Club. Many of the boys and girls they worked with had never played baseball before, but under their coaching and leadership the Brighton U11s were national runners-up and the U13s did exceptionally well in challenging established teams.
This award was for the coach who has engaged new participants, not in a traditional club setting but within BSUK national programmes and/or participation projects.
Linni has worked in the North West and beyond since April 2013 to increase participation in baseball and softball, and has not only helped to deliver a wide range of projects, ensuring that new athletes continue to engage in our sports over the long term, but has also been involved with their planning and funding.
This award was for the coach who has done the most during the past year to develop softball within a club environment.
Mike is a founding member of the Crosby Vikings Softball Club and is an enthusiastic and patient coach. The Vikings were formed in 2014 as the fifth team in the Sefton Softball League, with predominantly new players, and Mike's hard work paid off in 2015 when the team won the league title, then went on to compete in National Championships in 2016 and were bronze medal winners in their grade of play.
This award was made to the individual who best personifies what it means to be a baseball or softball coach: someone who understands their sport and can use the lessons learned on the field to motivate and engage others.
Liam has transformed the Great Britain Baseball National Team programme and taken it to a place it has never been before. In 2016 he steered the team to the final of the World Baseball Classic Qualifier in Brooklyn, where one more win would have earned the team its first-ever berth in the Classic itself.
This award was for a volunteer in a non-coaching role who has given up a substantial amount of time to support their local club, team or league and who has made a significant impact on the development of our sports.
David Jones is a true Renaissance Man of volunteering. On the Guildford Mavericks Board, he serves as the Child Protection Officer, Umpire Coordinator and Kit Manager. But his service doesn't stop there: David has extended his passion into umpiring and coaching for the club, and in 2016 took on the responsibility of successfully steering the Guildford through Clubmark accreditation.
This award was made for contributions to baseball and/or softball umpiring during the past year by an umpire who has not only upheld the laws correctly, but contributed to the positive atmosphere we have in our baseball and softball leagues.
Bridget has shown outstanding commitment to the development of fastpitch softball umpiring, both locally and internationally. During the Great Britain Fastpitch League season, she flew from Edinburgh to London for four of the five GBFL competition weekends where she umpired or examined every game, and she also serves as BASU's Fastpitch Officer.
This award is for the coach who best embodies the spirit of grassroots sport and who has engaged new participants and welcomed them into their club, team or league. Through their work in their community, such coaches ensure the development and growth of baseball and softball – not just today but in years to come.
This award is for an up-and-coming coach, aged 22 or under, who has demonstrated a particular interest and ability in coaching.
This award is for a coach who has demonstrated outstanding ability to engage and work with children and young people. The winner will be a coach who has made children of all ages welcome and excited about the sports of baseball and/or softball, as well as teaching them the skills needed to develop and reach their full potential both on and off the field.
This award is for the individual who best personifies what it means to be a baseball or softball coach: someone who understands the sport(s) but, critically, can use the lessons learned on the field to motivate and engage others.


Many homeowners panic when their toilet breaks, especially when it overflows sewage all over the bathroom or renders the toilet unusable. However, panic isn't necessary. Instead, contact Corley as soon as possible. If you need to mop up, do that first. Then, call us. We'll make an appointment to get a plumber in Simpsonville SC to you as soon as possible, so you can get back to the things you'd rather do as soon as possible.
If your toilet is overflowing, it's probably obvious that it needs some work done. However, toilets can have other, less obvious problems, too. We handle the big problems and the small ones, the clear ones and the not-so-clear ones. So, if you notice any of the following things going on with your toilet, give us a ring.
Your toilet runs all the time, or irregularly. Your toilet should refill with water after you flush it. This should only take, at most, a couple of minutes. If you notice that it's running all the time or that it starts running randomly, when it's not flushed, call a plumber to take a look.
Your toilet is hard to flush. If your toilet used to flush normally but now you have to hold the handle down for a long time or try several times before getting a successful flush, something is wrong. We'll get it working again soon!
Your toilet leaks. Maybe your toilet doesn't run all the time, but you hear smaller water sounds coming from the tank. This often indicates a problem with the flapper. We can come diagnose the issue and fix the problem in your tank. In addition to making your toilet work well again this toilet repair should save money on your water bill, too.
If you decide that you'd prefer to install a new toilet in your Simpsonville, SC home, rather than repairing the old one, or if you just want to change things up in your bathroom, we can help you find and install one that will work well for your family. We'll come out and assess your needs and desires, then give you a few possible toilets to choose from.
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Toilet problems can be frustrating, but you don't have to worry about getting your Simpsonville, SC home back to normal. We'll take care of that for your. Our plumbers have excellent training and high levels of skill, so they will be able to figure out what your toilet needs and get that taken care of quickly. They'll work hard and they won't leave your home until they know you're happy with the work they've done.


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Green and blue satellites wander around the space among the excited looks of the children, whom drive a spaceship and try to avoid impetuous 3D asteroids, discovering simultaneously the stereoscopic vision mechanisms. It's the futuristic scenary of Technotown in which rooms the teenagers, using the game, interact with a sophisticated technology and learn important concepts. An original City of Science in which it's possible to "see" music in its heady wavelenght or experience the viscoelastic foams among the innovative Future Materials. To walk inside the transparent of virtual waters or to compete in the composition of Caravaggean puzzles and ancient Rome monuments thanks to the infrared sensors of the interactive floors.
Going on the captivate tour that combines fun anf knowledge, the center of Rome opens its thousand-year-arms to Time Elevator and to the multisense travel through 2.750 years of its seductive history, with spectacular video-audio effects and mobile platforms. A contemporary and exciting story of the Eternal City to be lived togheter with the experience in 5D of "An Ode To Life" which is about primitive men and wild dinosaurs, the Bing Bang and the first human forms.
The School Park of Traffic teach the civic sense and the highway code along the streets equipped with traffic lights and pedestrian crossing, where cars coloured by the kids enthusiasm move foward driven by wishful drivers unfledged.
Full of futuristic magic, the Planetarium offers tridimensional shipping among the stars, while in the Explora laboratories the kids discover the world and science laughing.
The Bioparco greets the little guests with soft puppies, that the structure protects from the extinction risk, like the rare Iranian Leopard that pleases eyes and heart with its funny black spots on its white as milk hair, while at Zoomarine the acquatic park par excellence, social dolphins welcome the kids curious to know theirs funny habits.
You also can't miss a visit to the legendary Studios di Cinecittà, where to walk among the solemn scenaries permanently showed and to live again your favorite films.
Lastly, the immagination of Rainbow Magicland, the popular amusement park. As a parting toast from which grows the wish to come back and live new adventures.
An unsual and complete tour of Rome that becomes perfect if associated with the support of a rental car with driver service, an expert and dynamic guide whom can take parents and children to the difficult movements of the city and around, comfortably reaching the most characteristic places, full of history, secular charm and at the same time haunt of absolute amusement. Multicoloured appointments that weave together precious teachings to the kids' smiles, certainly anxious, at the end of their "trip", to do this exciting didactic tour again.


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Losari Midnight
Antiqued Black Leather Handcrafted Shoulder Bag with Fringe, 'Losari Midnight'
Product ID: U167945
With flirty fringe and an antiqued finish, this black leather shoulder bag goes everywhere in style. The flap hides an exterior pocket and the shoulder strap can be removed to create a clutch. Lined in solid black suede, the purse opens to reveal an inner zipper pocket.
Leather and stainless steel. Polyester lining
Features a magnetic snap closure
Detachable shoulder strap(s)
Genuine leather may naturally show subtle marks, scratches or wrinkles
Bag: 17 cm H x 21 cm W x 4 cm D
Bag: 6.75" H x 8.25" W x 1.6" D
Strap: 124 cm L x 2 cm W
Strap: 49" L x 0.8" W
Strap drop length: 59 cm from strap to bag
Strap drop length: 23" from strap to bag
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Ayu Wardhani
"You must chase your own dream and work on it. Stand on your own feet and pray for blessings for every step you take."
"I was born and raised in Makassar, South Sulawesi. I'm the second of four children, with one sister and two brothers. My parents have been divorced since I was five years old. I never imagined this would happen to me, that I'd grow up with only with one parent and never know how it feels to have a father.
"My mom is the only parent I really know personally. Being a single parent, I am sure it's not easy for her to raise three kids by herself, and our situation made her very strict and disciplined in facing the life. She worked hard day and night just to be able to feed us. She made her children from zero to heroes. I still remember my childhood and the long and winding path we've taken. I'm so proud to have a mother like her. She inspires me to be a strong person who faces and treats this life wisely, and I will be just like her when I become a mother one day.
"Makassar is well known as trading city. Many ethnicities live in harmony there, and the Chinese immigrants along with local people work together in the area's economy. Many historical colonial places can be found in Makassar — for example, the Dutch castle and beautiful Losari beach. There is also a unique tradition in South Sulawesi in which the dead are embalmed and kept at home so the family continues to live together with them.
"I am single but am in serious relationship and plan to marry. My mother always taught me not to depend on anything or anyone. You must chase your own dream and work on it. Stand on your own feet and pray for blessings for every step you take. So far, I've always applied that advice in my life and it always leads me to find the better way.
"I love art and I like to create something unique. That's why each of my designs has a touch of art all its own. Every material comes from a different source and these unique materials stimulate my imagination to start drawing. Like painting, I draw the design that pops up into my head and put it on paper.
"Each design — like a bracelet or bag — is sewn exclusively by an individual artisan. I give the design to the artisan who is dedicated to working hard for a better life.
"I find that sitting down and talking with the artisans personally is better than chatting with my friends via gadgets. I believe each artisan has his or her own art, soul and skills. As a designer, each step of the crafting process is under my supervision so, in the end, everything can be done as planned and quality always controlled.
"I use genuine cow, sheep and goat leather, and use manual sewing tools to work with. I like leather and at the moment, my art it is all about leather. My goal is to introduce my Indonesian leather designs to the world, because many shoppers have told they don't see many design motifs like mine outside Indonesia. They're pretty unique.
"I know Novica from browsing the Internet. So many handmade designs interested me. I found something different that I had never see before when reading each Novica artisan profile and the stories behind the art. I hope Novica can help to introduce our art worldwide and help local artisans in their efforts for a better life."
This item was handmade in Indonesia. Here, UNICEF helped build earthquake resistant schools with clean water storage to withstand natural disasters.


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Value Added Products of Black Pepper
April 13, 2015 Herbalist Off Black Pepper,
1 Green Pepper Products
1.1 Dehydrated green pepper
1.2 Canned green pepper
1.3 Bottled green pepper
1.4 Dry packed green pepper
1.5 Freeze dried pepper
2 White Pepper
2.1 Water steeping technique or retting process
2.2 Boiling technique
2.3 Chemical process
2.4 Decortication process
2.5 Economics of white pepper production
3 Ground Pepper
3.1 Black and white pepper powder
3.2 Cryoground pepper
4 Pepper Oil
5 Products of Black Pepper: Oleoresin
Green Pepper Products
Dehydrated green pepper
This product is prepared from immature green pepper fruits of suitable varieties by processing under controlled conditions. The fruits should be reasonably uniform in size having characteristic pungency, flavour and colour of green pepper. Pepper fruits are blanched in boiling water for a few minutes, drained, cooled and then soaked in sulphur dioxide solution to fix the green colour followed by drying in a cabinet drier at 50°C. Upon rehydration, this product will reconstitute to a good quality product possessing the characteristic pungent, spicy taste, colour and flavour of green pepper, when one part by mass of dehydrated green pepper is cooked for 20 minutes in presence of ten parts by mass of 1 per cent sodium chloride solution. To conform to international standards (ISO/DIS 10621, 1996), the product should have a moisture content of less than 8 per cent. Efforts are underway at various research institutions () to find an alternative for sulphur dioxide which is being phased out due to health hazards.
Canned green pepper
There has been lot of demand for canned green pepper. The pepper fruits after the removal from the spikes are washed in running water and are then kept soaked in water containing 20 ppm residual chlorine for about an hour. They are then covered with 2 per cent hot brine containing 0.2 per cent citric acid, exhausted at 80°C, sealed properly and processed in boiling water for 20 minutes. It is cooled immediately in a stream of running cold water. The addition of 2 per cent acetic acid instead of citric acid gave a product with better colour. However as per international standard, the only substance that may be added to the covering brine is a small quantity of citric acid not exceeding 0.6 per cent by mass of the packing medium and the covering brine must be 1–2 per cent by mass of edible common salt. It has been observed that pepper harvested one month prior to maturity is the best for the manufacture of green canned pepper.
Bottled green pepper
The manufacturing process consists of despiking the fresh green pepper fruits of uniform size and maturity immediately after harvest followed by cleaning, washing and steeping in 20 per cent brine solution containing citric acid. This is allowed to cure for three to four weeks. The liquid is drained off and fresh brine of 16 per cent concentration together with 100 ppm sulphur dioxide and 0.2 per cent citric acid is added. The resulting product is stored in container well protected from sun and rain. As per international standards (ISO/DIS 11162, 1996), the product shall have the characteristic odour and flavour of fresh green pepper, the colour varying from pale green to green.
Dry packed green pepper
This product is prepared just like the bottled green pepper except that the liquid at the final stage is drained off and packed in flexible pouches. Dry packed green pepper which has the same qualities of canned and bottled green pepper can partly replace these products.
Freeze dried pepper
Now-a-days good quality freeze dried pepper are available in the market at premium prices. This pepper retains the original green colour and shape. The details of the process of freeze drying is kept as a guarded secret by the manufacturers.
White pepper is prepared from ripe fruits by removing the outer pericarp either before or after drying. This product is mainly used in food products in which dark particles are undesirable such as in light coloured sauces, salad dressings, mayonnaise and soups. In certain countries white pepper is traditionally used and preferred to black pepper.
White pepper is manufactured by one of the following techniques: (1) water steeping and retting technique — either from ripened fresh berries or from dry berries (2) steaming or boiling technique (3) chemical technique and (4) decortication technique.
Water steeping technique or retting process
When one or two fruits in a spike start yellowing the crop is harvested, thrushed and heaped in tanks through which water is allowed to run for 7 to 10 days. The light fractions of the pepper like pin heads and light berries which come to the surface are removed and the remaining mass is rolled over at least thrice a day during the retting stage. On the eleventh day the outer skin is removed by gentle rubbing and the deskinned fruits(seeds) are put in another tank containing bleaching solution. It is then allowed to stay in the bleaching solution for two days after which they are drained, washed and sun dried.
Boiling technique
This technique, developed at the Central Food Technology Research Institute (CSIR), Mysore, India involve steaming or boiling the mature green fruits for 10–15 minutes. The outer skin of the fruits gets softened during the steaming process and is removed by passing through a pulping machine. The deskinned fruits (seeds) are washed and treated with sulphur dioxide or bleaching powder solution after which they are washed and dried in the sun. The skin recovered from this process may be used for the recovery of pepper oil by steam distillation though it may not be economical.
There are several chemical methods reported for the preparation of white pepper by treatment with acid or alkali, but no commercially viable operation exists. Recently studies have been undertaken for the removal of the outer skin of dried black as well as fresh pepper by microbial decortication and the process is being optimised ().
Decortication process
Whole dried black pepper fruits can be processed to white pepper by employing decorticating machines. The loss of pepper due to breakage will result in reduced yield and hence the white pepper obtained by this method is expensive. Also the characteristic flavour associated with the traditional product is lacking in the white pepper obtained by decortication technique and hence not preferred.
Of the several processes described, the traditional retting process is the most popular and the product obtained by this process is preferred by the consumers. As per international standards (ISO/DIS 959–2, 1996) the product should have only 1 per cent maximum of extraneous matter, 4 per cent maximum of broken berries and 15 per cent maximum of black berries. Also the minimum bulk density should be 600 g/l.
Economics of white pepper production
On drying 100 kg of mature green pepper the yield of black pepper will be approximately 33 kg where as the white pepper obtained by the retting process will yield only 25 kg. Thus it is evident that the cost of white pepper should be atleast 35 per cent above that of the black pepper. The world demand for white pepper is about 38,000 MT which is almost 25 per cent of the black pepper produced world wide.
Black and white pepper powder
Ground pepper is obtained by grinding pepper without adding any foreign matter to the pepper. Grinding can be accomplished by employing equipments like hammer mill or plate mill. It has been observed that the silica content in the ground material obtained from a plate mill is above the permissible level and hence hammer mills with copper tipped hammers are employed for the grinding. The ground product is further sieved and material possessing the required size are packed. The overflow is sent back to the grinding zone for further size reduction.
In modern spice grinding units, pepper is first fluidised for the removal of extraneous matter and then passed through a magnetic separator for the removal of metal particles. It is then passed through a vibrating screen for further removal of extraneous matter and then sent to the hammer mill. The ground product coming out of the hammer mill is fed into a cyclone separator for the recovery of pepper powder. It is further sieved using appropriate sieves and the overflow is recycled. Bag filters are employed after the cyclone separator to prevent the escape of fines into the atmosphere. The ground spice matching the customer's specification in terms of particle size, ash content, pungency, moisture, crude fibre, volatile oil etc. are packed in air tight containers prior to shipping.
Processing for white pepper powder is similar to the above operation except that the starting raw material is white pepper. The flavour of ground white pepper is characteristic, slightly sharp, very aromatic, must be free from extraneous odours and flavours including mouldy and rancid odours (ISO/DIS 959–2, 1996).
White pepper powder can also be produced from black pepper by selective grinding followed by sieving. Before the pepper is subjected to grinding it is conditioned by adjusting the moisture content. The skin fraction which is a by-product of the process can be a feed stock for essential oil or oleoresin extraction.
Cryoground pepper
This new technique of grinding the spice at temperatures much below 100°F will cut down the oxidation of the oils present in the pepper during the grinding operation besides it will assist in the fine grinding of the spice by making the raw spice brittle at low temperatures employed. The cryoground spices disperse more uniformly in spice formulations and the loss of the volatile oil and flavour are very much reduced during the grinding operation.
The usual practice during the cryogrinding is to inject liquid nitrogen into the grinding zone. A temperature controller maintains the desired product temperature by suitably adjusting the liquid nitrogen flow rate. The exhausted gas is recirculated for the precooling of the spice.
Pepper Oil
The aroma of black pepper is attributed to the essential oil present in the spice, which can be recovered by steam distillation or water distillation. The essential oil contains mainly a mixture of terpenic hydrocarbons and their oxygenated compounds with boiling points in the range of 80 to 200°C. The composition of the oil has shown wide variation depending on the cultivar, agroclimatic conditions, region of origin, grades etc with pin heads having the least amount of oil and graded pepper having the highest. With respect to the variation in composition of the oil with different grades, the pin heads (PH) was found to contain the highest amount of sesquiterpenes. It is thus possible to make essential oils to meet different flavour requirements by suitable blending of oil from different grades of pepper.
Industrial process for the recovery of essential oil involves flaking of the black pepper using roller mills and conducting steam distillation in a stainless steel extractor. The material to be distilled is dumped into the distillation unit and compacted near the walls to avoid any channelling of the steam. Dry steam is passed through the bottom of the still. The still will also be heated through the jacket provided for the purpose. The steam comes in contact with the ground pepper particles rising its temperature. The oil present in the oil cells gets vaporised and will rise along with the steam through the still. It is then condensed and the oil being lighter than water, will float on the surface of the condensing water. The oil is recovered using an oil/ water separator.
Several studies have been conducted regarding the flow rate of steam, the direction of passage of steam — whether it should percolate up or down, and the particle size of the ground pepper. It has been observed that by keeping the steam flow rate at half the weight of the charge per hour, economical recoveries of the oil could be achieved in a short span of time. The steam, while rising up through the bed of the spice will condense on its surface and additional energy is required for the evaporation of this condensed water. Other wise there is a likelihood of some oil remaining in the bed itself along with this condensed water. To avoid this problem, a new method called hydrodiffusion is employed in which steam is passed from the top of the bed and the oil rich vapours are condensed and recovered from the stream coming out of the condenser. It is quite uncertain whether hydrodiffusion is being practised for the recovery of pepper oil even though hydrodiffusion is the preferred practice for the recovery of essential oil from flowers.
The oil recovered by steam distillation is allowed to stand over anhydrous sodium sulphate for the removal of traces of moisture. The hydrocarbons as well as the sesquiterpenes present in the pepper oil can undergo oxidation during long storage under the influence of air and light. Hence they are stored in airtight containers before being shipped.
Products of Black Pepper: Oleoresin
Selections from the book: "Black Pepper. Piper nigrum". Edited by P.N.Ravindran. Series: "Medicinal and Aromatic Plants — Industrial Profiles". 2000.
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By Jeremy Sim
Peace-and-quiet Pancake
By Anne Goodwin
By Christopher DiCicco
By Suzanne Vincent
I settle Dad into one of the few chairs with armrests and ask if he'd like me to fetch him a magazine. He shakes his head almost before I've finished speaking. It's his standard response these days: if in doubt, say no.
The street door opens and a couple come in with a little girl. They've not yet sat down when the buzzer goes and the screen flashes above the reception desk: Mrs Tracey Palmer to Dr Aziz Room 5. The woman hitches her bag up her shoulder and sidles out. The little girl scurries across to the huddle of toys in the corner and the man flops onto a seat nearby.
He's wearing a red football top with a name on the back and the figure 8. I could pretend I think he's the real Steven Gerrard and ask him for his autograph, but all I've got to write on is Dad's repeat prescription form. I could ask Dad about Liverpool's prospects this season, but he's turned off his hearing aid against the jangling Muzak, and me.
The little girl shuffles pans on the hob of a red plastic cooker. She has a shock of curly hair that's almost too big for her, like Crystal Tipps from long-ago children's TV. She turns to her dad, a wide grin revealing the gap in her front teeth. "What do you want?"
Beside me, my dad's breath rattles in his chest. Steven Gerrard says nothing.
"Do you want tea?"
"Pancakes?"
No warmth, no manners, but no anger or irritation either. His gaze fixed on an empty space midway between the reception and his daughter, so secure in his refusal he needn't even feign absorption in his phone or the small ads in the local rag.
"What do you want, then?"
What, indeed? I steal a glance at Dad. I'm relieved, in a way, that his eyes are closed. It would be embarrassing to witness this together, take me back to being a teenager squirming between her parents at a sex scene on TV.
"Peace and quiet," says Steven Gerrard.
In one smooth movement, Crystal Tipps returns to her pots and pans. Her smile doesn't waver, like a prima ballerina programmed not to notice the pain in her toes.
She stirs the air in a yellow frying pan with a wooden spoon. I could tell her I'd love a pancake, and tea, and coffee too, but it's her dad she wants to feed, not me. He sits, immobile, betraying no interest in his child. His mind, perhaps, on bigger problems: his wife's diagnosis; the bills that can't be paid. Concerns we couldn't dream of, his little girl and me.
Dad makes a noise that's half cough and half burp. His wrists are stick thin in his frayed shirt cuffs and there's a cluster of bristles under his chin where his razor didn't reach. People will judge me for it, but I can't help him if he won't let me.
Crystal Tipps holds out a blue plastic plate towards her dad. My stomach clenches.
"Peace-and-quiet pancake."
Who could resist such ingenuity? Who could resist that smile?
Staring into space, Steven Gerrard keeps his hands by his side, as if his daughter doesn't register at all. Whatever his worries, surely he could find room for an imaginary pancake. Surely yes would be less trouble than no.
Crystal Tipps returns the plastic plate to the toy-box. She packs away the wooden spoon and the pans. Spirits away her feelings with the toys.
How many real pancakes will she have to rustle up before she makes sense of this moment? How many squirts of lemon juice, how many spoons of sprinkled sugar before she's assured it's not her fault? It could take until she's middle-aged and watching another little girl fail to charm her father, for her to truly understand.
By then, it will be too late to make him eat her peace-and-quiet pancake. Too late to tower over him, forcing him to swallow every chill rubbery bite. Her father will be too old and fragile, his hands too unsteady to hold the plate, his gums too delicate to chew.
Dad's head jerks forward as the buzzer summons him from his doze. The screen reads: Mr Herbert Grayson to Dr O'Callaghan Room 4.
"Mustn't keep the doctor waiting," says Dad.
Fixing my smile, I rise from my seat. I offer Dad my arm, but he shakes his head, pushes against the armrests and, little by little, shuffles to his feet.
Anne Goodwin writes fiction, short and long, from flash to novels, and a blog that hovers somewhat closer to reality. Her first short story was published in 2007 and she now has thirty-five short fiction publications. Recent credits include Amarillo Bay, Short-Story Me, Metazen, Pygmy Giant and Foliate Oak. She loves fiction for the freedom to contradict herself and is scared of bios for fear of getting it wrong. The portal to her writing world is through her website http://annegoodwin.weebly.com/ or sneak a snapshot at http://en.gravatar.com/annecdotist.
July 1, 2014	@ 9:02 am
Thank Rebeka E Bujnowska I like the idea of you reading it aloud!
Rebeka E Bujnowska
June 30, 2014	@ 4:35 pm
This is so beautiful! I read the whole thing out loud, slowly, under my breath. And there were moments which truly took my breath away.
March 3, 2014	@ 4:19 pm
Linda Rosen Heartfelt "peace"
This is wonderful! I'm teary-eyed knowing that I have a 5 year old as well. Just beautiful!
Thanks for reading, Norah, and for leaving such a thoughtful and passionate comment. I'm so glad you were able to connect with the story and, even more, reflect it back to me: I hadn't actually been conscious of the father jumping to attention for the doctor. Yeah, one of my hobby horses too and can be so hard to watch it happening and be unable to intervene.
NorahColvin
February 6, 2014	@ 10:44 pm
Anne, Thank you for sending me to this story. it is beautiful. I agonize for and with the little girl and the woman whose pain, though separate, intertwine. I couldn't make it to the end without crying it moved me so much; the connection was real. It makes me want to cry out "Take notice! She needs your love!" How hard is it to give a smile or a kind word, to accept a gift that is more than just a pretend pancake. It is a gift of love.
Every rejection shuts down a little more inside, but the need still remains, and like the woman, we may continue all our lives striving for that recognition, only to be passed over once again for someone else more important or valued; no time for communication with the dutiful daughter, but eager to jump for the doctor.
Just recently I watched helplessly while a young mother responded in such a way to her toddler who was harnessed beside her. Every few moments he would crawl across the coffee table (which was at a perfect height for this) and she would angrily and repeatedly respond, "Get off the table!" Once when she pulled him off onto the seat beside her, she harshly said, "Stay!" as if talking to a dog. There was nothing else to entertain a toddler, nothing else for her to do. I wanted to tell her to just play with her child, tell stories and sing songs, to just have fun with her child. But it is not appropriate for an old busy body to interfere. I felt sorry for her. She was probably spoken to in that way as she grew up, and is probably still surrounded by people who treat each other similarly. And now her young son is learning the same dysfunctional behaviour. My heart goes out to them and those around them. How can we break this cycle? Governments are pouring money into top-down education. Don't they realise they need to start with parenting education. Parenting is a privilege, not a right, and should be fun for both parent and child.
i apologize for the lengthy response. This is one of my hobby horses!
I LOVED this story and especially the subtle way that the narrator brings her thought back to her own relationship with her ailing dad.
Inspired by this story, I thought long and hard about how I treat my own toddler. I wrote a story about what if the parent could have an experience of realizing their error… I have an excerpt on my blog at http://52storiesin52weeks.tumblr.com/little-monsters. But it's not as masterful as this one!
HewankuSukatanamanPeduli
November 29, 2013	@ 8:09 pm
I am trying to figure out what is behind the scene, as though something is as meaningful as my experience in my lovely home
IdaSmith
Anne, Thank you for this beautiful story. I like the implied correlation between the narrator and her father and the little girl and her father. Without delving into the narrator's past we knew there were similar experiences that stewed under the surface as our own experiences do in our own minds.
Leximize
November 8, 2013	@ 5:05 pm
Knowing the title, one had to wonder, how was the author going to work that into the story? You did it, and well. A wonderful stop-and-smell-the-roses type tale. Thanks.
Linda Rosen
You grabbed my heart with this story, Anne. I felt the narrator's angst wanting to tell the little girl she'd be glad to eat her pancake, and her inner turmoil in regards to her aging father. Beautiful, heartfelt piece.
November 5, 2013	@ 9:47 am
Simply and beautifully written. One of those stories that will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks for your kind comments and thanks also to the editorial team for the beautiful presentation of my story. Readers might also be interested in my blog post connected with the writing of the story:
http://annegoodwin.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/whose-story-is-it-anyway.html
AvalinaDixon
Great moments, the space is excellent!
RudyPerez
November 1, 2013	@ 11:04 pm
Touching and celestial.
Sheena Dabel Boekweg
I love this one.


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Grace Coombs looks ahead to Man Utd fixture
Report by Chloe Pizzy
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Ahead of Sunday's trip to Manchester United, captain Grace Coombs is raring to go.
Training has been good, we've had some tough sessions, but it's all been coming together
Grace Coombs
"I think people are a bit nervous but we haven't had a game for a couple of weeks so everyone's looking forward to getting back playing " said Coombs.
"It's the biggest game, probably the first one everyone looked for when the fixtures came out, so it's probably a mixture of nerves and excitement, but we'll go and we're prepared so we'll see what happens.
"Training has been good, we've had some tough sessions, but it's all been coming together and everyone is really positive and everyone's looking forward to the challenge of the game.
"We're taking each game as it comes, we've got a plan and if we execute the plan then we'll see what happens. Obviously, we're going to try and win every game that we play, but we know that they're a good side, they've got a lot of good players."
When focused on the opposition, Coombs is confident that the pressure will be on the opposition.
"I think the pressure is on Manchester United really. They dropped points a couple of weeks ago so the pressure is going to be on them to win convincingly. We're underdogs so we can go with no pressure, play and see how we get on.
"We want to keep going as long as we can unbeaten, but honestly we're taking every game as it comes and we're learning about each other more and more every week."


Robert Moughtin and his first wife Annie Cowle left the Isle of Man in the early 1820's with their infant daughter Eliza. They first went to Liverpool, England, where they stayed until 1832. Robert and Annie had three more children while they were in Liverpool, Annie Jane (b: 1826) and twins William James and Robert Daniel (b: 1828). These children were christened in the then Cathedral of St. Peter's, Church Street Liverpool.
Liverpool in the 1820's was a rapidly growing city just a short distance across the Irish Sea from the Isle of Man and had, via the Stanleys, strong connections with the Island. Many Manx families resided in Liverpool at this time, but retained their links with the Island (eg. marriages on the Island and burials in family churchyards). Liverpool was a major maritime port and sailors, sailmakers, carpenters etc were in strong demand and many Manx went to Liverpool in search of work, and many settled there - though Manx did tend to marry Manx. Liverpool was also a central port for slaver ships at this time and quite a few of these slavers were run by Manx captains (eg. Crow). After 1830 there was a regular steam packet from Douglas to Liverpool, so communications with the Isle of Man became easier.
In June 1832 Robert, Annie and their young family sailed for the Colony of New South Wales in the Brig 'Sarah'. it was when the Moughtins were booking their passage to Australia that their name was recorded as Morton and, ever since, the family have retained that spelling.
The Mortons arrived in Sydney on 29 October 1832, after five months at sea. Robert very quickly established himself as a Tailor in the town of Parramatta.Annie died less than 3 years after their arrival in Australia. Robert later married a Catherine Griffiths, having a child with her in 1843. In1842 Roberrt was named as a creditor in the bankruptcy of ex-convict schoolmaster James Bradley (transported for forgery in 1813). Robert was owed 7 pound 18 shillings and 4 pence by Bradley.
Robert died in Albury in 1872, where he had been living with his son Robert for some years.
For further details on the Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Moughtin go to Scott Brown's web page "Convicts, Characters and Cads"