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Cellist Andreas Heinig, born in Berlin, combines in his playing emotion with clarity and delicacy.
The first solo cellist of the Bayerische Symphonieorchester München (est.in 2006), repeated winner of the German national Youth Competition "Jugend musiziert" and former scolarship holder of several foundations dedicates himself in equal parts to chamber music as well as orchestral and soloist activities. In this manner, committments to diverse ensembles and piano partners have lead him throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as France, Italy, Finland, Russia, and Slowenia.
Heinigs openness towards contemporary music combined with his unique sound has inspired different German composers. A "Salve Regina" for soprano, solo violoncello and orchestra and a cello concerto, both composed by the Munich composer Markus Höring, have been dedicated to him, as well as a cello concerto written by the Berlin composer Helge Pfläging.
His discographic debut came in 2008 with 2 simultaneous recordings: the world premiere recording of Roberts Schumanns cello concerto in a version for solo cello and string quartet, and a rarely heard collection of compositions for cello and bass, have appeared courtesy of hANDm-records. In particular, the adaptation and recording of the Schumann cello concerto based on Schumanns own ideas – initiated by Heinig and realised in close cooperation with Markus Höring and the Amira quartet – has found immense acknowledgement both in national broadcasting and in the written press.
Andreas Heinig studied in Berlin with Gabriela Schwab, professor Josef Schwab and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg and completed his master class with honors under professor Reiner Ginzel in Munich. He also studied chamber music with members of the renowned Petersen-, Vogler- and Tel Aviv-quartets, as well as receiving inspirations by his teachers Peter Bruns, Wolfgang Boettcher and Gottfried Greiner.


Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Catch 33", due on May 16 in Europe and May 31 in the U.S. via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2002's "Nothing" is being described as one continuous 47-minute song divided into 13 parts and is said to be "musically the opposite" of the group's 2004 EP, "I".
The artwork, which was designed by MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake, is "a visual compliment of sorts to the album title, i.e the paradoxes/negations/contradictions of life and death (as we see it in our finest moments of unrestrained metaphoric interpretation) that the lyrics [on the new album] deal with!" according to Haake.


Lago Vista is an incredibly beautiful city that was first developed as a lake resort with summer homes and camping. Now, it is a quickly developing city with all the amenities needed.
As part of the spectacular Texas Hill Country, it offers an abundance of scenery, wildlife, and a relaxing but fun environment. Whether sailing on Lake Travis, enjoying the exquisite sunsets, or hiking in the natural splendor, Lago Vista provides a quality of life that is enticing.
As the gateway to the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, visitors can observe the endangered Golden-cheek Warbler and the Black-capped Vireo in their natural habitat. While in the area, people can often see deer, fox, and armadillos.
There are three golf courses that provide enjoyable golfing opportunities.
LAGO VISTA LOCATION and FACTS -- Lago Vista is on the north shore of Lake Travis and Farm Road 1431. It is 20 miles northwest of Austin and is in the county of Travis County. The zip code for Lago Vista is 78645 and the area code is 512. Its name means "lake view."
A beautiful waterfall seen from the Vanishing Texas River Cruise.
Lago Vista Independent School District serves Lago Vista and the community of Hudson Bend and part of Jonestown. The schools are Lago Vista High School, Lago Vista Middle School, and Lago Vista Elementary School.
Return to Lago Vista Vacation Home.


Following the closing of the transaction, CK Holdings will be renamed as Magneti Marelli CK Holdings. The combined businesses of Calsonic Kansei and Magneti Marelli will create the world's 7th largest global automotive components supplier based on total revenues.
The agreement represents a transaction value of EUR 6.2 billion ($7.124 billion). The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2019 and is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
The new business entity will operate out of nearly 200 facilities and R&D centers across Europe, Japan, the Americas, and Asia Pacific.


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Funerals begin for Palestinians killed by Israel army on Land Day
Palestinians mourn 17 killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during Land Day march calling for return of Palestinian refugees.
Funerals have begun for the 17 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as thousands marched near Gaza's border with Israel to mark the 42nd anniversary of Land Day.
Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip held the funeral for 30-year-old Sari Abu Odeh late on Friday.
He was shot dead earlier in the day after Israeli forces fired live ammunition at protesters and used tear gas to push them back from a heavily fortified fence as they began a planned six-week demonstration demanding the right of return for refugees.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 1,400 others were wounded at the demonstration which commemorated Land Day, which stems from March 30, 1976, when six unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli forces during protests against the Israeli government's decision to expropriate massive tracts of Palestinian-owned land.
Read more at https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/funerals-palestinians-killed-israel-army-land-day-180331064526623.html
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Degrassi Storyline Introduces Transgender Teen Character "Adam"
August 10, 2010 UncategorizedCanadian, charactyer, Digrassi, gay, gay teens, NYC Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center, televisionWill Kohler
Degrassi Junior High iwas a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school. Many episodes have tackled difficult issues such as drug use, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, racism, and divorce, and the series has been acclaimed for its sensitive and realistic portrayal of the challenges of teenage life.
This season iys current incarnation known as "Degrassi" has introduced the character of "Adam" a 15 year old Female to Male Transexual.
Canadian site Xtra went to the set of Degrassi to interview the show's writers about its first trans character and also provided a clip of an upcoming episode in which "Adam:" is assaulted.
Also this season Digrassi there is a closeted gay character and his out (on/off) boyfriend character, both football players.
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SEVENS features a 14-foot-wide by 8-foot-tall retractable screen, four 70" HD LED flat screen TVs and a video wall consisting of four 46-inch flat screens tiled together to form one large screen. On days when there are several games taking place, the video wall can be used to show one game while the big retractable screen can display another, which is any sports fan's dream come true. The atmosphere is enhanced even more by the game-day food and beverage specials that will ensure even the hungriest fans can fill up for less. Among the deals awaiting patrons on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays are buy a bucket of beer and get a free pizza or pound of wings. An additional special for Sundays includes a free commemorative glass for the first 150 guests to purchase a draught beer.
In order to win big, participants will pick the winners of the regular season games each week, with the first pick being free. Weekly winners will receive up to $1,000 in Royal Free Play and the top five will win their share of $2,750 in Royal Free Play each week. The top 10 participants over the course of the season will win their share of $25,000 in Royal Free Play with the top prize winner receiving $10,000 in Royal Free Play.
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This single line of code facilitates the random display of n number of images (image_1.png, image_2.png, image_3.png, etc.) located in the target directory (http://domain.tld/path/random/). For those of you that understand how this works, great! That's pretty much the entire purpose of this article. However, for those that would appreciate some further explanation, let's examine this technique in a little more detail (you have been warned!)..
..where 3 represents the total number of files in the random image directory. With this in place, we are generating and echoing a single random number, thereby changing the file name with each page load. Nice.
Of course, if your random images are not uniformly sized, simply omit this last step. In either case, once you have finished adding the requisite attributes, the randomizing code is complete. Now is the time to upload your document and check that everything is working as intended. If everything lines up as it should, your page should display a random image with each visit.
If, for some reason, things don't exactly "click" as expected, go back through each step and ensure that every detail has been accounted for. You would be surprised how many times I have tested something like this only to discover that some infinitesimal detail is out of place. Check the file path, file names, PHP script — everything! While I don't expect anyone to experience difficulty with this code (it is pretty simple, after all), I do want to make everything as clear as possible to facilitate the successful implementation of this technique!
Clean tutorial as usual. Though, I would split the PHP so that it's no all in the HTML. I mean, I would have that PHP code at the top of my PHP file. I'd have then just the call in the HTML below.
Like CSS separate presentation from content, I would separate the PHP calculations from the HTML.
For such a little task you do, it's almost useless, but if we want for example to have the width & height of our images stored in arrays and use them to have the different heights & widths of our random images generated in the HTML, then we'll find more comfortable separating the code and the output.
Yes WordPress can't seem to take a hint when it comes to code left in comments (keeps gobbling everything up!).. If you have to leave a comment that contains code, please wrap single-line snippets in <code> tags, and multiple-line snippets in both pre and code tags: <pre><code>.
Great snippet, thanks for the idea!
I'm afraid I don't like your approach that much. First height="50" and width="50" shouldn't be in the markup but in the stylesheet, secondly, your alt-text ([Random Image]) is just plan wrong. How can someone grasp the meaning of your image with [Random Image]? I can't. An empty alt-text (alt="") would be probably better.
Johann : adding the dimensions of an image directly in HTML has some advantage over writing it in CSS, i.e on page loading your image won't "push" the text down them as they are loaded, there will be a 50*50 container keeping the place for them.
It seems to me that your are suggesting that the dimensions of the image should be in the stylecheet because it's part of the layout. It's not true : images are fixed content, they have a certain amount of pixels.
If the width & height attributes are accepted in XHTML 1.0 strict, that is for some reason I believe.
About the alt attribute, I'm not sure that an empty alt would be better than labeling the images "Random image". After all, it is a random image. I guess it all depends on what the semantic sens of your random image is.
The blog owner is a prominent web standards writer, so I hope some of you will be able to read it.
Jeff: too bad you can't, it really is some deep discussion on the subject. I have never seen something equivalent on an english website.
About your response to Gabe & Johann, if the aim of this tutorial is to be to simplest as possible, then I think you could drop the variable, and use this shorter code.
i am totally new to this guys, but i wanted to put some random images on my site, i followed this tutorial and can't seem to get it to work. so frustrating! can someone please help?
Being a newbie at php, I'd like to know if this code works for php3, because it doesn't seem to be working on the page i'm working on. Yeah, sorry, it's not my site. Just trying to help a friend.


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Martin Murray gets his last last chance against Billy Joe Saunders
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In boxing it can often seem like there's always one more final chance. But that's not the case when Murray fights Saunders, writes John Dennen
THE super-middleweight division, one of the most appealing in the sport, has been largely dormant in 2020. Caleb Plant, the IBF champion, made a low key defence in February and the WBC title has been left vacant. But the big fight in the division sees Canelo Alvarez box Callum Smith for the WBA championship on December 19. Before that comes Billy Joe Saunders' WBO title defence against Martin Murray on Friday (December 4). The winner will be watching Canelo-Smith closely, eyeing a unification clash for next year. Saunders came close to securing a fight with Canelo himself in May of this year, until the coronavirus pandemic saw that fall through.
"If Martin wins, then he's sitting in the driving seat. If Martin wins then he's got the golden ticket," said Saunders. "It's stacked in my favour on paper but as we know paper can burn and paper can be thrown in the bin. The script can be torn up and thrown away.
"In my own head I need to bring a performance out where people go, 'Well, no matter who's in front of him, he's still going to look sensational.'"
For Martin Murray this will be a final shot at the thing he's fought so hard for, and come so close to winning – a world title. Murray has challenged four times before for world honours, coming desperately close to victory. Nine years ago he drew with Felix Sturm for the WBA title in Germany. Two years later he was fighting Argentine superstar Sergio Martinez, even putting him down but losing a unanimous decision in Buenos Aires. In 2015 he lasted a gallant 11 rounds with the then dominant middleweight Gennady Golovkin. At super-middleweight later that same year, on another away trip to Germany, he fought the WBO champion Arthur Abraham and lost a split decision.
He is now 38 years old and in his 13 year professional career he has fought the toughest competition available. His 12 rounds with hard punching, elite level super-middleweight George Groves wasn't even for a world title. A tough, brave career, but he has so far fallen short of where he wanted to be. This fight, his fifth shot at a world title, is Murray's last chance at the dream. An opportunity like this against Saunders won't come round again. The question is whether it has already come too late. "I know it's my final chance," Murray told Boxing News. "No one's ever done it in five I believe. I've said it before, if you get one world title fight it's big, but five. And no one's ever done it in five. But I truly believe it's my calling. I've been going for so long and there's a reason and this is it. To do what no one's ever done before. So I know it's going to be a hard fight but I'm confident. All I've ever wanted is a fair crack at the whip, a world title fight in my own country and I've got it. Training's gone well and I can't wait.
"I have got everything to win."
The two had been scheduled to fight in 2018 but Saunders had to withdraw twice due to injury. In that interim Billy Joe moved up from middleweight, relinquishing the world title he'd won against Andy Lee and defended impressively from David Lemieux. At super-middleweight he won the vacant WBO world title and has been a class above his two 168lb opponents Shefat Isufi and Marcelo Esteban Coceres. Martin Murray may be a veteran now but is a level beyond Isufi and Coceres.
"I gave him my word that he would fight me and it's a bit later than expected but here we are. It's on," Billy Joe said. "He's coming to win. He never comes to lay down."
Saunders at his best is sharp, slick and impressively quick. Not a big super-middle, he has though given every appearance of getting himself in superb condition for this contest. He did change trainers. After stints with Dominic Ingle and Ben Davison, Saunders has been working with Mark Tibbs. But Tibbs is another good trainer and also a man who knows Billy Joe well. The two worked together previously in Saunders' career, when Mark's father Jimmy was Billy Joe's head trainer. This development won't unsettle Saunders.
But he will want to dazzle against Murray. With an eye on the Canelo-Smith victor for 2021, Saunders will want to showcase himself not only as a possible opponent but as a potential threat. Murray however is a tough man. He's hard to grind down, hard to push back. His defence is solid, his fundamentals sound. Those are the recipe for success but in this instance, Saunders speed and his edge in skill should make the difference for him. The champion is expected to retain by decision after 12 rounds.
On the undercard exciting Northern Irish fighter James Tennyson boxes 16-0 Canadian Josh O'Reilly in an eliminator for the WBA lightweight title.
Super-middleweight Zach Parker is working his way up to get a mandatory shot at Saunders' WBO title. Parker must beat Spain's Cesar Nunez to stay in the running.
The Verdict Expect Murray to give his all, but Saunders might still have the edge.
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Now that we are firmly into conference season compelling regional and national match ups are less likely, but conference results matter in making the national tournament. September's record doesn't matter if you win in October.
The column is on to Week 5 of the 2018 season with news and review based on the games to watch from last week and any eye-catching results.
Winter is coming. With dramatic temperature drops in the past week it reminds me of playing style questions. Do teams in the north, who tend to play a more physical direct style, do so because that is what works on frozen and muddy fields? Will that shift as turf fields become more prevalent in club and high school levels? Scandinavian heritage and legacy? Are there other reasons? "How Soccer Explains the World" by Franklin Foer is an inspiration for looking beyond the game.
No. 19 nationally, mysteriously dropping two places in the national rankings despite winning, and the only team from the North region ranked in the D3soccer.com Top 25 are the Tommie's of St. Thomas. They go up against a Carleton team this week with 3 draws in conference and 4 overall (5-1-4 / 2-0-3). Next week they have a game to watch regionally.
The Eagles rolled along this week adding three wins to the season tally. They have a couple of trap games this week, Gustavus Adolphus (4-5-1 / 1-3-1) and UW-Whitewater (6-5-1 / 0-1-0), teams that have played close games all season, but been unlucky on the scoreboard.
The Central Dutch overcame Wartburg (7-4-0 / 1-1-0). The Knights outshot the Dutch 20(10) to 13(8) and had an advantage on corners of 8-3, but the Eagles scored in the 9th and 67th minutes to hold on against an 84th minute Knights goal and a 2-1 final. Central will have a challenging week with matches against Coe (7-3-1 / 0-1-0) on October 3 and against Dubuque (8-2-0 / 1-1-0) on October 6.
The Pointers won both games this week to boost their record. This week they have the game to watch in the region as they host No. 19 St. Thomas on Sunday, October 7.
The Duhawks had a light week with only a single game; dispatching Nebraska Wesleyan 5-2. Their ARC conference schedule is back loaded to the end of the season.
The Knights fell to Central despite outshooting them and having more corner kicks 8-3. They have another good battle this week against Dubuque on October 3.
The Spartans (8-2-0 / 1-1-0) play Central this week to see if they belong in the conversation.
There are some teams in the region with good records, but low strength of schedule. Kudos for those coaches improving their records, which will in turn help recruiting and team quality - just not enough quality for ranking recognition yet.
Still the one, Mount Aloysius Mounties (9-0-1) are the only undefeated team left in the Great Lakes region. Unfortunately, none of the opponents on their 2018 schedule provide a ranked test but they will face a couple of tougher opponents at the end of October.
The only team from the Great Lakes region ranked in the D3soccer.com Top 25 are the Tartans who had a bit of a stumble in their first UAA contest against New York University (5-4-0 / 1-0-0) on the road. It was a dull affair with each team only having a lone shot on goal in 13 combined attempts.
The Lions won two more games during the week and appear to be set to roll through much of HCAC conference play. Unfortunately for the neutral observer, they don't really have a test till the final two games of conference play.
The Panthers won their only game of the week to open HCAC conference play. On Wednesday, October 3 theye meet the team that knocked them from their conference perch last year, Franklin (4-5-1 / 1-0-0) who may have overscheduled a bit this year.
The Crusaders won two games this week including their OAC conference opener against Baldwin Wallace (6-3-1 / 0-1-0). The Crusaders beat the Yellow Jackets 4-2 and outshot them 14-6.
The Polar Bears added two victories to the tally this week and seem to be on track. Their next game to watch is October 3 against Baldwin Wallace.
A couple of W's to keep an eye on. Wilmington is (7-2-0 / 1-0-0) and grinding out victories along with Westminster (Pa.) at (8-3-0 / 1-0-0).
Still leading the way in the Midwest area is a Central region with three unbeaten teams out of 18 (last week it was 44) and the D3soccer.com Week 4, No.'s 1, 3 and 5! Toughest region in the country?
The Bears moved up to Number 1 in the national rankings. They won both games on the week but did give up their second goal of the season in a 2-1 overtime win over opening UAA conference opponent No. 24 Emory (6-3-0 / 0-1-0) in a game where they outshot the Eagles 34 to 6. Their next games to watch are in two weeks.
The Maroons traveled to cross town rival No. 23 Wheaton (Ill.) (8-2-0 / 2-0-0) and scored in the 15th minute to take the lead. The shot totals and stats were close, but the Thunder scored in the 39th and 74th minutes to take the 2-1 victory giving Chicago their first loss of the season. Chicago recovered to open UAA play with a 3-0 win over Rochester (5-3-1 / 0-1-0).
The Flying Dutch reminded Kalamazoo (5-4-1 / 0-2-0) why they are defending MIAA champs. Hope had a convincing 2-0 win to open conference play. In the game to watch in the region this week Hope travels to No. 23 Wheaton (Ill.) on Tuesday, October 2. Hope jumps back into conference play with Calvin (6-2-1 / 1-0-0) on October 6.
The Titans opened CCIW play by hosting No. 23 Wheaton (Ill.). They were outshot 15-4 and lost 1-0. Their next game to watch is in two weeks.
The Thunder hosted cross town rival No. 3 Chicago in a back and forth game that was even on the stats sheet. The Maroons scored first, but the Thunder equalized before halftime. In the second half they scored again to win 2-1. Their second game in the toughest schedule of the week was at No. 18 Illinois Wesleyan (7-2-1 / 0-1-0) where they were victorious by a slim 1-0 margin but outshot the hosts 15-4. The challenging games continue as they host No. 5 Hope on Tuesday, October 2 in the game to watch this week.
The Knights opened conference play against Kalamazoo (5-4-1 / 0-2-0) and outshot them 21-7 to win 2-0 with both goals being scored in the first half. They play No. 5 Hope on Saturday, October 6 in a game to watch.
The Vikings had another draw and travel to No. 23 Wheaton on October 5 in their only game this week and a major test.
The Gorlocks ran into a buzz saw in No. 1 Washington U (10-0-0) on Wednesday but opened SLIAC play with a convincing win. Who will stop them now, Greenville (8-3-0 / 1-0-0), perhaps?
The Stars are rolling and looking like defending NACC champions.
The Scarlet Hawks Recently joined the NACC and have rolled through a nonconference slate that doesn't have a great strength of schedule. They could continue all season as they don't play Dominican until their final regular season game.


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Baffled – the game where you'll need the memory of an elephant to win
October 22, 2018 by Penny Leave a Comment
Baffled is one of those games where I made the mistake of just getting the rules leaflet out first and reading that in isolation to try to get to grips with the game. I ended up a bit Baffled myself. The trick with games is to actually get the board and other things out of the box first and read the rules in conjunction with them. Games generally make a lot more sense when you do that. Certainly Baffled does!
Aim of the game
The aim of the game in Baffled is to stay in the game longer than any other player. Each player is given a number of "life" cards at the start of the game and when they have used up all their lives they are out.
A test of memory
But what do you actually have to do? I hear you ask. Well – that bit is relatively simple. In theory at least.
You need to memorise the position of 12 symbols on the board. In the centre of the Baffled board are 12 squares, labelled A through to L. They are arranged with three of each side of a central square.
The symbols themselves appear on 12 different tiles and what they are, and the colours are important. The game contains the following:
Numbers: 1 (blue), 2 (green), 3 (red), 4 (yellow)
Animals: Dolphin (blue), Frog (green), Ladybird (red), Lion (yellow)
Fruits: Plum (blue), Apple (green), Strawberry (red), Lemon (yellow)
At the start of the game the symbol tiles are all covered up and placed around the inner square. They are then revealed to players who have 60 seconds to try to memorise where they all are. That doesn't sound too difficult to start with.
Around the edge of the board is a typical board game style path for players to work their way around based on throws of the die. At each square though players are asked to do something related to the symbol tiles.
On the simplest squares they just need to try to remember where a particular symbol is. After making their guess the cover of that square is revealed so everyone can see if they got it right or not. If they didn't then they lose a life.
In addition to this there are squares when a player can challenge another player (of their choosing) to state where a particular symbol is around the board. If the challenged player gets it right then the one asking the question loses a life, so you need to choose carefully.
On other squares players must name what symbols are at two particular locations on the board. Remembering one can be tricky enough, but two???
The squares on the board that really confuse matters though are the swap squares. A player may land on a square where they are told to swap around the positions of two of the symbol tiles. ~Even worse for the memory are the squares where they are just told to swap any two tiles of their choosing!
Winning back lives
As you can probably tell, there are plenty of squares around the board that are full of opportunities for you to lose lives. There are luckily also four squares where you can try to win a life back. Located in the corners of the board these squares require you to find three of one of the symbol types. This could be three fruit, three numbers, three animals, or the three things that are in your colour group. Each player having a playing counter which is either blue, green, red or yellow.
If you have a good memory, and can keep track of all the swapping around of symbols that has been taking place, then you deserve to be able to regain a life!
Baffled – the verdict
We absolutely loved playing Baffled. It was by far one of the best family games we've played lately. The swapping around of symbols keeps even the players with good memories on their toes. It's quite funny watching how frustrated other players can get when they're desperately trying to remember where they saw something. After playing a couple of games back to back they can merge into one. It can be difficult to try to figure out if you are actually remembering where symbols are located in that game, or in an earlier one!
As is fast becoming our measure of whether a family board game is good or not, discussion soon turned to whether my mum would enjoy the game. We're pretty sure she would, but there's also an edge of fear as we know what a good memory and eye for detail she can have!
Baffled – the facts
Baffled is for 2-4 players, age 8+. It is available to buy online here and has an RRP of £22.00 At the time of writing it is available online for £20.80. It is produced by Cheatwell Games.
Disclaimer: We received our copy of Baffled as a raffle prize at Blog On Toys as it had been entered into the Blog On Toy Awards. We were not asked to write a review of the game. This post contains affiliate links.
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Seven League Boots
October 3, 2018 by Penny Leave a Comment
We're suckers for board games that look old and interesting in some way. Don't get me wrong, we also love finding the gems from our 80s childhood that everyone remembers, but sometimes it's nice to just try something completely random. That's exactly what we did with Seven League Boots.
About Seven League Boots
Picked up from a car boot sale, the aim of Seven League Boots is to travel all around the board, visiting each corner and collecting an appropriately coloured counter at each as proof.
To make each step of your journey, you need to have either the appropriate footwear, or a pair of magic boots. That's where the Seven League Boots come in.
How to play Seven League Boots
Each player chooses a playing piece colour and places their piece at the centre of the board on the "home square". They also place a counter of their colour in each of the four corners of the board.
The pile of playing cards (27 in total) are shuffled and four cards are dealt to each player. These are your footwear, which allow you to travel around the board. The remaining cards are placed face down in a pile on the table, next to the board.
Each leg of a journey has a picture of a piece of footwear on it. To be allowed to travel along a path you have to have the appropriate footwear. For your turn you can either play a card and move your playing piece one step around the board, or, if you don't have appropriate footwear, you can use your turn to swap. When you play a card, or swap one, you place it face up on a discard pile, and then take a new card from the face down pile.
The twist in the game is if you have a card with the Seven League Boots on it. These cards mean that you can go along a path that has any footwear on it.
The winner of the game is the first person to return home after collecting all four of their coloured counters from the four corners of the board.
What are Seven League Boots?
Seven League Boots come from European folklore and were boots that allow the wearer to take strides of seven leagues per step, where a league is a unit of length. Boots are often presented to the main character in a story by someone magical to help them complete something significant in the story.
In this game's case the Seven League Boots allow the player who has the card the "magical powers" to travel along any path in the game.
What we thought of Seven League Boots
We played Seven League Boots with Master C when he was off school sick one day. I've been on the look out for games to replace Snakes and Ladders and Ludo for someone like him who can't yet read properly, but loves playing board games.
Once we'd explained the rules to him and how he needed the appropriate footwear to travel along each path he was well away. He thoroughly enjoyed the game, especially because he won. It was nice and simple enough for him to follow what going on and also for him to strategically plan ahead and retain cards that he could see would aid him in getting to where he wanted to go.
For the adults playing, the game had enough complexity to keep us entertained, whilst also being simple enough that my son didn't need help. The design of the board and the playing cards have a very 70s feel about them, giving the game a retro charm befitting of its age.
I can definitely see it as a game that we will come back until Master C graduates on to the next level of board games.
Seven League Boots – the facts
Number of players: 2 – 4
Believed to have been first published by Condor under their Condor Playvalue name in 1974, the game is copyright Seven Towns Ltd.
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Filed Under: Board Games, Vintage Games Tagged With: appropriate footwear, board game, family game, footwear, journey, journeys, paths, Seven League Boots
Deluxe Master Mind
September 15, 2018 by Penny Leave a Comment
Master Mind is one of those iconic games from the 70s that I think everyone from my generation's parents owned. I know mine did. But how many people have actually played it? Or knew that there were several variants released? Including the deluxe Master Mind that we picked up at a car boot sale a while back.
But, before we move on to deluxe Master Mind, let's start with the original game.
The History of Master Mind
Firstly, it's worth pointing out the Master Mind the game has absolutely nothing at all to do with the television programme. Nothing at all.
Master Mind is a code breaking game for two players that was originally developed in 1970 by an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. He showed the game at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair and it was eventually picked up by a UK plastics company (Invicta) who went on to develop and manufacture it.
The couple on the box
The game itself had a bit of an air of mystery about it. The box cover featured a seated business man and a woman of Chinese appearance stood behind him. The game itself is nowhere in sight. How peculiar.
Strangely the pair of them became quite an iconic couple with the man in question reaching some level of fame as Mr Mastermind. My searches online for more about the history of the game came across a fabulous article about the pair of them being reunited years later and talking about how they had no idea quite how iconic they would become.
But, back to the game itself…
Described as being a game of cunning and logic, Master Mind is all about one player setting a code (made up from four coloured pegs) and their opposition trying to work out what it is. Each time they make an attempt to guess, the code maker scores their efforts to give them hints about what they should try next.
The game centres around a complicated looking plastic board and lots of coloured plastic pegs – hence the reason I'm guessing a plastics company got involved originally.
The original game features a code of four pegs which are selected from six different colours. This means that there are a total of 1296 different codes that can be generated by the code maker (assuming they can use duplicate colours in their code).
The code breaker has up to 12 attempts to break the code and each time they are told (using other coloured pegs) whether they have any pegs of the right colour in the correct position, or just how many pegs they have placed are the right colour but in the wrong position.
I hope you're following this. There will be a test at the end!
As if this doesn't sound complicated enough – let's now move on to deluxe Master Mind which is what we picked up at the car boot sale.
Following on from the success of original Master Mind, deluxe Master Mind extends the game so that there are now five holes and eight colours. This means up to 32,000 permutations. Yikes.
One of the most obvious things when you look at the deluxe Master Mind box is that a different couple appear on the cover. Again you have the seated white business man, but this time behind him is a woman of Indian appearance. It's still an iconic look, but a different couple. This extended version of the game also appears to have gone by the name Super Master Mind too. The games inside are identical from what I can tell, but the name different. Possibly for different markets.
Inside the box you're again faced with a familiar looking plastic game board and an array of coloured pegs of two different sizes.
The bigger pegs are used for setting and guessing the code, whilst the smaller black and white pegs are for the code maker to score their opponents code breaking efforts. Also included are some additional smaller pegs for scoring on the same board.
Figuring out the rules
Now, the hard bit for us was working out how to play. Everything we found online told us that the instructions were normally printed on the base of the box. They're not in the edition of deluxe Master Mind that we have, and nor was there an instruction leaflet inside. Luckily we think we managed to piece most of it together from things we found online.
The easy bit is the code maker setting a code and arranging their five pegs behind the included little plastic screen so that their opponent can't see them.
The code breaker then makes a first guess as to what the code could be by arranging pegs in row one of the board. The code maker scores them with a black peg to denote that a colour is in the right position and a white peg to show that a colour is right, but in the wrong position.
Marking the code breaking attempts
Now, the bit we weren't totally clear on is if you tell the code breaker which peg is the right colour in the right position. We did, but I'm finding rules online that suggest you should go either way. This was our first attempt so I was keeping things easy.
With the white pegs though there is no doubt that you don't tell them which colours are the right ones, but just in the wrong position. Instead you just tell them how many of them there are.
We also kept things easy for our first attempt by having the house rule that you couldn't have repeated colours in your code. Obviously this makes things a little easier.
What's it like to play
I actually loved playing deluxe Master Mind once we'd all understood (and agreed) what we had to do. I've quite a logical brain and enjoy logic puzzles so to me it all made perfect sense as to how to interpret the code maker's marking of the code breaking attempts. I can see how this might not be for everyone though.
I found the board a little bit fiddly to use, and again I can see how that might have put some players off. Especially if they had big fingers.
We sat and figured it all out with my mum who remembers having the original Master Mind back in the 1970s, but admits that she doesn't think her and my Dad ever actually played it as it was far too complicated. I certainly recall it being in the games cupboard as a child and me and my sister spending ages just arranging coloured pegs on the board for fun when we decided we wanted a change from Lego.
Modern day Master Mind
You can still buy new versions of the original Master Mind from toy shops and online. Some versions use the name Master Mind (or sometimes MasterMind) whilst others have very similar names for what is effectively the same game. What is obvious though is the absence of Invicta's strong iconic brand.
If you head over to eBay there are plenty of old versions of the game to be found. Either the original Master Mind, the deluxe or super versions or various other versions. We were lucky enough to recently pick up Number Master Mind so watch out for a review of that soon here on Penny Plays.
Filed Under: Board Games, Games for two players Tagged With: deluxe master mind, deluxe mastermind, Master Mind, Mastermind
August 14, 2018 by Penny Leave a Comment
Ever since he realised that there was a second game on the back of the Snakes and Ladders board, Master C has become slightly obsessed with Ludo. It's one of those games that I remember playing as a child as part of a compendium of games, but yet I don't think I've touched it since childhood.
Ludo's origins
I do vaguely remember that Ludo is actually based on the Indian game Pachisi. Described by some as the "national game of India", Pachisi is a cross and circle game (otherwise known as a race game) in which players move around the board, in a race against each other. First played in medieval India, the number of spaces moved was determined by throwing six or seven cowrie shells and whether the shells landed with the opening upwards or not gave you a score.
We've obviously moved on since then, and Ludo is played with a single die now and up to four players. Each player has four counters and each has a corner of the board as their initial home position.
If a player rolls a six then they move one of their counters into their starting position, and from there a second roll of the die determines how many spaces they need to move. Players then race around the cross shape on the board, until they get back to almost where they started. Then they have to head up their coloured strait towards "home" in the centre of the board.
The aim is to get all four of their coloured counters home. But it's not as easy as it may initially seem!
With players having all four counters, and different starting times for them, it ends up with everyones counters overlapping on the board. Even more so if you have three or four players. If you land on a square that already has a player's counter on it then you knock them off the board and they have to go back to their home position, and await a six to start again.
It's also possible to block other players by getting two of your counters on adjacent squares. If you manage this then it means that other plays can not knock you off, but also can't get past you.
The only place on the board where you are really safe is on your home strait, as then no one else can catch you.
The kids' reactions
As I mentioned when I wrote about Snakes and Ladders, Ludo is a much more complicated game, as you an play it with a huge amount of strategy. It's up to you which counters you move when and whether you aim to knock the opposition off the board or not with certain moves. Realistically, it's a huge step up from Snakes and Ladders, but at the same time it's a perfect game for introducing strategy to children.
Master C got so excited the first time that he managed to knock me off the board. He also takes a great thrill from being able to block other players by getting two of his counters together. He may not yet understand all the strategy behind why you might do either of these things, but it's a brilliant way to get him starting to think about them.
It's also helped his mental maths come on even faster. As well as counting out each move of his own, he's also been working out what he needs to roll to knock other players off the board.
Ludo around the world
I admit that I hadn't really thought much about Ludo being played elsewhere until I innocently put a picture of the board up on my Facebook page and a Dutch friend commented.
He pointed out that Ludo looked much like a game in The Netherlands called "mens erger je niet", which roughly translates as "Man, don't get annoyed". Intrigued I went off to do a bit of research and it seems that in German Ludo is called "Man, don't get upset". Ludo also has similar names in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Turkish. In Greece there is also a reference to players behaviour in the fact that they call it "Grumbler" and Italian just call it "Don't get upset".
I had no idea that what I had just thought of as a simple game could bring about such a response from players! And I Guess it just puzzles me even more as to why it so often seems to be found on the reverse of a game as innocent as Snakes and Ladders!
A variety of different Ludo sets (with and without Snakes and Ladders) are available to buy online here.
Filed Under: Board Games, Family Games, Vintage Games Tagged With: board game, family game, games for children, games for kids, Ludo
August 8, 2018 by Penny Leave a Comment
Snakes and Ladders is one of those board games that feels like it's been around for ever. It therefore seems like possibly a bit of a strange one to be the subject of a blog post, but please bear with me on this one.
A few months back Bonn and I came across a copy of it at a car boot sale that we stumbled across on our way back from Harwich on bank holiday Monday. I seem to recall that it didn't cost very much and, as I feel like I'm very much having to restock all the toys and games I have for my kids since splitting from their Dad, I decided to grab a copy. I'm so glad I did.
The game came home with us, ended up on the shelf with some other games and to be honest I didn't give it much more thought at first. Then, as the weather started to improve, Master C and I took to going and sitting at one of the picnic benches in his school playground in a morning, whilst we waited for the school bell to ring. On that particular table is a giant version of Snake and Ladders and we started passing the time in a morning by me rolling an imaginary die and him moving an imaginary counter round the board in an attempt to win before the bell went. One morning I happened to mention to him that we had a real copy of the game at home and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. Bad mum for not telling him sooner I guess!
Since then the pair of us have ended up playing Snake and Ladders quite regularly. It's made me realise what a wonderful game it is for a child his age. On so many different levels.
Firstly, and this almost goes without saying, board games are a wonderful way to engage with your kids. Conversations can happen whilst you're playing. It's like the action of playing a game means that children somehow forget that they normally don't tell you anything about their day at school. It's also proper focussed time with them. No opportunity to pick up your phone and end up down a social media rabbit hole when you're having to take turns.
A game like Snakes and Ladders also introduces children to so many different things. There's the whole concept of taking turns. It may seem obvious to us as adults, but it's a skill that children need to learn. There's maths involved in rolling the die, counting the dots on the surface and then moving a playing piece the right number of spaces on the board. Regular playing of board games can help a child so much with some of what they are more formally taught in the classroom.
In a game like Snakes and Ladders there are rules to follow. If you land on the bottom of a ladder you go up it, if you land on a snake's head you go down it. Simple rules, but again another concept that it's important for children to learn.
And finally, there's the fact that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. As I've discovered, it's very difficult to cheat in Snakes and Ladders, short of not rolling the die correctly. It's totally random as to what you land on and this means that whoever is playing has an equal chance of winning. There's no strategy involved. After the initial disappointment of going down their first snake, children soon realise that even mummy can end up landing on a snake on the final row of the board and soon be back to the beginning. And how Master C laughs whenever that happens!
Interestingly the version of Snakes and Ladders that we picked up came with Ludo on the reverse of the board. A game that I vaguely remembered from childhood and one that I assumed was equally as fair as Snakes and Ladders. How wrong I was! Look out for a whole separate blog post about this game and why it's apparently called "Man, don't get annoyed!" in some parts of the world!
It goes without saying that there are numerous versions of Snakes and Ladders out there. You can find a wide selection online here.
Filed Under: Board Games, Family Games, Retro games Tagged With: board game, educational, family game, Snakes and Ladders
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When you're in the Machno, you'll almost feel as though time has been slowed down as you glide in to the rapids, waiting for the perfect moment to plant those key paddle strokes and nail that boof, flair or kickflip*.
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A nice easy way to carry one or more kayaks on your roof. Just sit the kayaks on their edge and secure to the upright bar. Will enable most cars to carry 4 kayaks if necessary 2 kayaks on each side. Choose a suitable length depending on the depth of your kayak. Normally for sit on tops you would use the 50cm one so that you can reach it over the edge of the kayak when securing it.
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For the better part of a decade, Bitcoin (BTC) has sat at the forefront of the cryptocurrency industry, continually proving itself that it is a reliable project to invest your time and money in. But for proponents of Bitcoin Cash, the crypto that spawned out of August 2017's hard fork of the Bitcoin chain, BCH reigns supreme.
It goes without saying that Roger Ver, dubbed "Bitcoin Jesus" by some, has quickly become the controversial poster child of Bitcoin Cash. Ver recently spoke with the hosts of CNBC's "Fast Money" show to discuss his opinions on the cryptocurrency market, specifically regarding Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
BTC, Bitcoin, is no longer, or at least last December, wasn't usable as commerce as all. The fees became high, the transactions became slow and unreliable, and people like myself and everybody else that was trying to use it for commerce stopped at switched to something else.
Seemingly expressing his positive sentiment regarding Bitcoin Cash, he added that this "something else" could be BCH for "the most number of people." However, as critics constantly point out, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has underperformed Bitcoin greatly this year, with the relative value of the fork falling by over 50% from 0.1834 BTC to 0.08 BTC as it stands today.
Regardless, "Bitcoin Jesus" went on to note that Bitcoin Cash's dismal performance should not be a cause for concern for BCH diehards. Referencing his over six years of experience in the ever so volatile cryptosphere, the outspoken BCH advocate noted that he first invested in Bitcoin at approximately $1, and saw his investment grow 30-fold in 2011's 'bubble'. Following this astronomical run, Bitcoin fell by over 90% back to ~$2, which turned his 30x gain into 'just' 2x.
I hold more Bitcoin Cash then anything else, but I have some Ether, some ZCash, some ZCoin, Dash, Monero and I still hold BTC as well. So a little bit of everything is a good idea, including a bit of Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM). Diversify, diversify, diversify is the name of the game.
Later reverting to his BCH-centric mindset, Ver added that he began to diversify his 99% BTC portfolio around two to three years back when he saw the "writing on the wall" that Bitcoin developers had "an insane idea" to leave blocks small.


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Along with our new location, we've introduced new uniforms to our students. Not only are they stylish, but more importantly, our school uniform exuberates unity and pride. The new uniform was designed with input from our very own instructors and students, they took months of planning and modifications, but we're very happy with the final outcome and our students are very enthusiastic about them too. After a whole day of fitting and choosing, our students will start wearing their uniforms to school every day very soon!
We held a uniform fitting day to accommodate students' needs and provide them with a choice of different styles to choose from. For the summer, they will have polo or dress shirts on top. In the winter, students will have the choice of adding a layer of a sweater on the outside. As for the bottom, there are choices of pants or skirts for our students. Of course, all pieces of clothing are in our school colours of purple and yellow.
We're all so excited to be seeing them on our students and they are just as excited to be representing our school! Look out for us!
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I have a bit of a mixed problem in my Xperia arc s. I started by trying to install apps, and I got that message saying "There was a problem parsing the package". I checked "unknown sources" in settings and made sure that I matched the minimum sdk required or higher and still the same message.
After that I tried to install a different rom, but whenever I flash a kernel I get stuck in CWM and the rom's zip file is not found! Even when I open the sd card from windows explorer it seems that the zip file has disappeared.
I used flashtool to get back to the original rom, but again whenever I try to install an app I face that "Parsing Package" problem again!
So what's wrong here? How can I get my phone working again so I can install apps?
It sounds like you have a bad ROM install. You should try completely wiping the phone and re-installing the ROM from scratch. Make sure to clear the cache, the dalvik cache, and system. Then flash the original ROM back on.
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BARRATT HOLMES reports on the half-million-pound-plus Croydon flats which are 40 storeys up but which were built without any sprinkler system
At 43 storeys, Saffron Tower is Croydon's tallest building, and nearly twice the height of the tragic Grenfell Tower. Photo by Roland Nissan
The private developers who built Croydon's tallest residential tower block used a loophole in planning laws and so avoided the cost of having to fit fire-retarding sprinklers in the multi-million-pound building.
Fitting potentially life-saving sprinklers in the building is estimated would have cost the developers, Berkeley Homes, less than £2million. The properties are reckoned to have been worth more than £200million once completed. According to the latest company figures, the Berkeley Group had revenues of £2.7billion last year.
But Saffron Tower, the 43-storey block which has dominated the Croydon skyline since it was finished last year does not have any sprinklers to act as a safety measure in the possibility of a terrible fire, like the one which claimed the lives of at least 80 people in the Grenfell Tower disaster in north Kensington last month. Grenfell Tower is only 24 storeys high.
"Saffron Square is a modern contemporary development boasting an iconic 43-storey tower situated in the heart of Croydon with excellent transport links into London and Gatwick Airport within 15 minutes," is how Berkeley Group describes its development.
The buildings, including some lower-rise buildings on Wellesley Road at West Croydon, includes around 800 homes as well as some retail units and, according to the developers, offers residents roof-top gardens and 24-hour concierge and residents' gym.
But it has no sprinkler system.
The absence of sprinklers is as much a failure of the planning system as it suggests cost-cutting by the developers.
Industry experts suggest that in new-builds it costs approximately £2,000 per unit to fit sprinklers, which are now seen to be an essential fire safety measure in high-rise blocks since the Lakanal House fire in Southwark a decade ago.
Two-bed flats in the "iconic" Saffron Tower are now being re-sold for £720,000, which suggests that there could have been plenty of "slack" in the builders' budgets to add a sprinkler system in each flat for a couple of grand each.
Builders Berkeley used their registration date to avoid regulations requiring sprinklers
A lack of sprinklers in Grenfell Tower, particularly in the common areas and in the building's lone staircase, has been suggested as having contributed to the dreadful death toll.
Following the Grenfell disaster, Croydon Council has decided to fit sprinklers in all of its tall residential tower blocks. None of the council's towers is taller than one-third of the height of the privately developed Saffron Tower, which was completed in 2016.
Building regulations require all buildings of more than 30 metres high and constructed since 2007 have to be fitted with sprinklers.
The Saffron Square site had stood derelict for a decade until acquired by Berkeley in 2006. Planning permission was granted in by the then Tory-controlled council in April 2008, and work begun on the site in 2011. That was four years after the building regs were revised to require sprinklers to be fitted.
But according to a report in the Croydon Advertiser, Berkeley was able to use the acquisition date, when the site was registered to them in 2006, to determine the building regulations to apply to their pink and purple high-rise.
"The integrity of a building is not determined by one element or product," a spokeswoman for Berkeley said, not seeming in the slightest bit complacent.
"The key is to understand how each whole building is designed, assembled and managed.
"The London Fire Brigade reviewed fire safety compliance at Saffron Square throughout the design and tested it in 2016.
"The building includes fire breaks throughout the cladding system, between each apartment and separating each floor.
"There are wet risers permanently charged with water servicing every floor as well as a smoke ventilation system, rather than sprinklers. We have also appointed an independent expert to review our fire safety strategy and procedures on a regular basis and we routinely work on fire safety with the residents," Berkeley told the Advertiser.
The Saffron Tower owners and tenants may find those comments from Berkeley reassuring. Although many of the residents of Grenfell Tower, at a "mere" 24 storeys tall, were also led to believe that their building had adequate fire breaks and a fire retardant cladding system, so much so that many perished in the fire because they were following instructions to stay in the homes and await rescue.
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6 Responses to Tower developers used loophole to avoid fitting sprinklers
societyofstbede says:
I suspect that Berkeley homes is correct and their building is safe, anyway we know who to goal if things go wrong. On the other hand Grenfell is council owned, remind me when was the last time a council employee / councillor went the gaol for gross failure…
It has been a legal requirement under building regulations since 2007 to fit residential towers with sprinklers.
Clearly, you and multi-billion business Berkeley Homes are right, and the Lakanal coroner, the London Fire Brigade and the law are wrong.
Grenfell Tower is now subject of a criminal investigation. But then, you clearly hold the law in contempt anyway.
Arno Rabinowitz says:
What an unbelievably callous and unfeeling comment! Are you really saying that it's ok for people to die in horrendous fires as long as we can imprison the guilty afterwards?
The useful old English saying — "Penny wise, Pound foolish" takes on an awful significance, when considering fire, construction cost savings, omission of sprinklers, selection of cheaper cladding panels, the cost to society of fire fighting and replacing burned buildings, and above all, the toll and cost of human grief, misery and loss when all goes wrong.
According to the latest edition of Private Eye magazine, it was Eric Pickles who removed the requirement on buildings to have non-flammable materials on their outside, all in the "campaign" to remove red tape.
The perfectly reasonable requirement to use non-flammable building materials had been put in place in 1666, following the Great Fire of London.
Imagine all the lives that the pesky red tape had saved over more than 300 years.
Yes, good points well made…………and was not Pigckles himself not recently seen flying away from Westminster, as he didn't want to carry on being an MP?
Presumably he had already achieved his life ambition of trashing town planning, and burning up red tape, elf n'safety and all that leftie stuff ! And as you mentioned, the London Building Acts.
Maggie would have so been proud!
Maybe he will use his pensioner pass to attend the public Inquiry, when ever that takes place, or maybe they should organise a select Committee, so he can visit his old haunts at Westminster.
In fact, he could go Dutch, and share a taxi with Gaffin'Gav, who surely must be attending too?


ABUJA - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan wants the government to borrow $1bn (£580m) to strengthen the military's capability to fight militant Islamists.
Mr Jonathan wrote to parliament, asking for the expenditure to be approved.
Nigeria has a military budget of about $6.3bn a year but large sums are lost to corruption, critics say.
Mr Jonathan has faced intense criticism over the government's failure to curb the increasingly brutal insurgency waged by the Boko Haram group.
The Islamist group caused international outrage in April when it abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in its heartland of north-eastern Nigeria.
In the letter to the Senate and House of Representatives, Mr Jonathan said he wanted to borrow the extra money as part of a "government-to-government arrangement".
He did not specify which country he was looking at making a deal with.
Mr Jonathan said there was an "urgent need" to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of the armed forces and security services to help them confront the "serious threat" posed by Boko Haram.
"For this reason, I seek the concurrence of the National Assembly for external borrowing of not more than $1bn," he said.
Nigeria's military is receiving help from the US, UK, China, France and Israel to secure the release of the schoolgirls.
Rights groups have repeatedly accused the military of carrying out widespread abuses against civilians, as it tries to hunt down insurgents.
Mr Jonathan sent more troops to the north-east last year after declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the three states worst-affected by the insurgency.
However, Boko Haram has stepped up attacks since then.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says more than 2,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria this year by Boko Haram.
The deaths occurred in around 95 separate attacks in more than 70 towns and villages in the north-east, where Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009.
Amazing! From whom does the Nigerian gvt seek the money? They have the oil and that oil has made billionnaires out of corrupt politicians. This is a case of abusing the kidnapped girls by a country which recently announced a $9 billion budget for the army.


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The Buddhist Art of Dunhuang
The Mogao Caves, which are located in the gobi-desert 25 kilometers away from the city, consist of 492 caves with 25000 square meters wall paintings.
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Brief History Dunhuang, the small town at the edge of the Gobi desert, is located in Gansu Province, China. Dunhuang had become the gateway to the Silk Road during the Han dynasty (205-247BC). The Silk Road had brought Dunhuang not only commercial prosperity but also the development of Buddhist art during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-533). Legend said a monk, Yue Zun, dug the first cave and also cut a statue of the Buddha into the sandstone cliff face of Mingsha mountain, where are now the famous Mogao Grottoes, about 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang. Over 1000 caves were cut out of cliffs between the 4th and 14th centuries. The art of Dunhuang began to decline in the 12th century and was ignored until the early years of the 20th century. Today 492 caves remains in the 1600-meter-long cliff face. The Mogao caves are one of the best preserved and most extensive collections of Buddhist paintings and sculptures in the world. The Buddhist art of Dunhuang is truly fascinating. Manuscripts and Documents of Dunhuang About 60,000 paper manuscripts, printed documents and fragments were found from a secret sealed-up cave, discovered at the end of the 19th. These manuscripts and documents are now preserved in Beijing, Paris, London and St. Petersburg. A good collection of these is in the Stein collection at the British Library, including the World's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra (dated 868). Most of the collection are available in surrogate form. The collection of Dunhuang Chinese manuscripts in the National Library of China has over 10,000 Chinese scrolls. The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) was established in 1993 to promote the study and preservation of manuscripts and printed documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian sites through international co-operation. The organization publishes a newsletter. A joint study of Dunhuang Academy and Japanese researchers was formed for the conservation of the wall paintings and statues. Painted Statues and Flying Apsaras There are about thousand statues preserved in the Dunhuang Grottoes. Here are a few pictures from Textile & Art Publications: Buddha Triad in Cave 427, Sui dynasty (581-618) and Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in Cave 45, Tang (705-780). The walls of the 492 Mogao Caves are covered by the frescoes of over 45,000 square meters. There are about 4500 Flying Apsaras figures found in some 270 caves. Northern and Southern Dynasties (386-588) A Dancer, Northern Wei (386-533) A Dancer, Northern Wei Hunting Scene, Cave 249, Northern Wei Divine Being, Cave 272, Northern Liang dynasty (421-439) Detail of a Legend, Western Wei (535-557) Mountains, Cave 285, Western Wei Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907) Fresco painting, Cave 112, Early Tang (618-907) Mourning Potentate, Cave 158, Mid Tang Procession of Zhang Yichao, Cave 156, Late Tang, completed 865 About
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According to legend, a Buddhist monk named Yue Zun (乐僔和尚), established the Mogao shrine in the desert oasis after seeing beams of light there. He is said to have cut out the first cave and the first statue of Buddha. ...
The Mogao Caves, which are located in the gobi-desert 25 kilometers away from the city, consist of 492 caves with 25000 square meters wall paintings. ...
Fresco painting, from Mogao Grottoes
Detail of a legend, from Mogao Grottoes
Hunting scene, from Mogao Grottoes
The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (Chinese: 莫高窟), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (Chinese: 千佛洞), form a system of 492 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road. ...
The National Library of China (中国国家图书馆) or NLC in Beijing is the national library of the People's Republic of China. With a collection of over 31.1 million items, it is the largest library in Asia and one of the largest in the world. It holds the largest and diverse collections of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world. ...
The Diamond Sūtra is a Mahāyāna (Buddhist) sūtra from the Prajñāpāramitā, or "Perfection of Wisdom" genre, and emphasizes the practice of non-abiding and non-attachment. The full Sanskrit title of this text is the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra. ...
The Northern Wei (Chinese: 北魏; pinyin: Běi Wèi), also known as the Tuoba Wei (拓跋魏), Later Wei (後魏), or Yuan Wei (元魏), was a dynasty founded by the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei, which ruled northern China from 386 to 534 (de jure until 535). ...
Dunhuang (Chinese: 敦煌; pinyin: Dūnhuáng, also as simplified Chinese: 炖煌; traditional Chinese: 燉煌; pinyin: Dūnhuáng in ancient times meaning 'Blazing Beacon') is a county-level city (pop. 187,578 (2000)) in northwestern Gansu province, Western China. It was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road and is best known for the nearby Dunhuang Caves. It has also been known at times as Shāzhōu (沙州), or 'City of Sands', "or Dukhan as the Turkis call it." ...
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About 60,000 paper manuscripts, printed documents and fragments were found from a secret sealed-up cave, discovered at the end of the 19th. These manuscripts and documents are now preserved in Beijing, Paris, London and St. Petersburg. ...
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Dead Roses
Bamboo Sheep
All Things Bright and Beautiful and Corrosive
The Artless Shaman
George the Chemist
Tinder Box
Forming part three of 'The Vortex Vault'.
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies plus 100 numbered and signed copies available from Andrew Liles.
Gatefold sleeve made with 24 point cardstock, with an insert, a coupon and a black Obi Strip around the CD.
The Vortex Vault was originally released as a collection of 12 CDs. The discs came out on the first of every month from December 2006 through to November 2007. The entire collection is available at the Andrew Liles download site.
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For its centerpiece, Part Three of Andrew Liles' collection of rarities features two extended experiments in ambient music and found sound. The first, "All Things Bright and Beautiful and Corrosive," is as bleak as its title suggests, and as varied. Starting off with quiet ambient drones, creaks, and occasional tapping sounds, it also features slowly echoing gongs and washed out crashes of cymbals. For its second movement, soft chimes slip into the mix, adding a sort of creepy music box vibe vaguely reminiscent of Coil's early work, and the emphasis on random and unexpected sound effects calls to mind Nurse With Wound. "George the Chemist" is less eclectic, but perhaps also less unsettling, with softly ringing tones evoking the subtle loneliness of Tor Lundvall or Raison D'etre. It's the scattering of short pieces on Black Beauty though, that prove to be most compelling. Each a quick experiment in melody, they run the gamut from beatnik weirdness on the rain stick-soaked jazz wails of "Dead Roses" to the Tim Burton chiming of "Tender Box." Each is long enough to present a thought, but short enough to leave you wanting more; the eerie dulcimers of "A Numbers Game" in particular would make a good basis for a longer piece. "The Artless Shaman," on the other hand, is perfect just the way it is; any more of its mellow tribal beats and puzzled, puzzling growls, and the fun would be ruined. And Black Beauty is, most importantly, a fun CD; it has its dark places, but Liles' passion for extravagantly weird music comes through even in its bleakest moments.
Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
By: Matthew Johnson
Classical Drone
Things take a decidedly weird turn on the third volume, Black Beauty. For one, although there are still a couple of short tracks that would have fit nicely on Black Hole, there are two much longer tracks, each clocking in at sixteen minutes. In addition, some of the music is considerably more abstract here. The opening track, Dead Roses, is a wispy electroacoustic piece, with a couple of instrumental reference points with some percussion and a few trumpet licks, but which otherwise would fit comfortably with some of the more subdued work of the French-Canadian acousmaticists on the Empreintes Digitales label. On the longer tracks, he has time to show how his drones and melodies transform themselves into each other over time. For example, on All Things Bright and Beautiful and Corrosive, percussion scrapings and boomings with extended resonance mingle with garbled and otherwise treated vocal sounds, finally joining with a melodic loop played on a gamelan. The other long track, George the Chemist, uses slow loops combined with more constant and ominous drones, with a loop played on flute and percussion floating in the middle.


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Arielle Jacobs: From Half Moon Bay to `High School Musical'
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SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle winners
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Play award finalists announced
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`Ha'penny' bails
Ha'penny, we hardly knew ye. Hot on the heels of announcing that the big Irish musical Ha'penny Bridge would be part of its season, the folks at SHN/Best of Broadway have announced that the show has canceled its San Francisco date. "It is with great regret that we will be canceling the scheduled engagement of Ha'penny Bridge, but as producers we feel that the...
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Review: `Gone'
Opened Feb. 11, 2008 at SF Playhouse Stage II Mee's melancholy Gone goes down easy Three stars (Sad beauty) No man was ever born but he must suffer. He buries his children and gets others in their place; then dies himself. — Sophocles Those words open Charles L. Mee's grief-stricken but strangely joyous Gone, having its Bay Area premeire from...
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Arthur Miller's intriguing dates
Reading the almanac in the newspaper today, I noticed something interesting and theatrical. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman opened 59 years ago today — Feb. 10, 1949 — at Broadway's Morosco Theater. And Arthur Miller died three years ago today — Feb. 10, 2005 — at age 89. In honor of this curious chronology, here's a...


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GOD FORBID, GOATWHORE, MNEMIC: North American Tour Dates Announced
GOD FORBID will embark on a North American headlining tour in January, with GOATWHORE, MNEMIC, SCAR SYMMETRY, and THE HUMAN ABSTRACT as support. So far the following dates have been announced: Jan. 06 - Bedford, NH @ Mark's Showplace Jan. 07 - New York, NY @ B.B. King Blues Club Jan. 09 - Toronto, ON ...
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: 'The Poison - Live At Brixton' DVD To Receive U.S. Release In December
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HEAVENLY: 'Spill Blood On Fire' Video Available
French metallers HEAVENLY have posted their video for the song "Spill Blood on Fire" at this location. The track comes off the group's fourth album, "Virus", which is scheduled for release in France on November 13 via XIII BIS Records. "Virus" was released in Japan in September. The complete track listing for the ...
ANTHROPIA Completes 'Question Of Honour' Video Shoot: Photos Available
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STORMENTAL: 'Rising' Video Posted Online
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FRANKIE BANALI's 'Now' And 'Then' Drum Kits
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KING DIAMOND: 'As Long As I Don't F*ck Up The Vocals, This Should Be Our Best Record'
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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman: 'I Don't See Why HALFORD Should Not Play Live Again'
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ALICE COOPER's Radio Show Picked Up By Boston's WZLX-FM
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THE UNDEAD: Book Excerpts Available Online
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Our prayer group in Ohio is over 200 partners strong. We sent prayers via email daily and those who can meet each Monday. We use your posting always. We pray for healing for digital nun. Blessings. We are in this together.
Thank you for this gentle and interesting homily! Blessings on you both and Bro.Duncan.
AMEN!! I love the part about finding our gifts within. All within God. You are in my prayers.


I'm in Porto for a travel photography workshop. Yesterday, I pretty much only got settled in the hotel and took a walk down to the river for an evening meal and a glass of port wine. On my way down there I spotted several nice compositions, all which would require some nice directional light.
When a photographer has a specific light in mind it seems unlikely to happen. I woke up this morning to an overcast sky, and it looks like it might remain like this for quite some time. Luckily, this is where you try and get some moody black and white photos instead.