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Prayer in a Busy World by Rev. Jerry Pokorsky
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Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."
The pious Lutheran pastor may have had a point. He said the television set was "the devil's tabernacle." Some would say he was prescient when he made the observation in the early 1950s. Others would say that "Howdy Doody" and "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Milton Berle Show" (not to mention the "Fulton Sheen" program) were not the stuff of the devil. But today with a series like "Sex in the City" and the adult movies (also known as "arrested-adolescent-sexuality movies") of expanded cable, few souls could argue with the pastor's prediction.
Perhaps the pastor did not intend his "devil's tabernacle" epithet as a prediction. Maybe he understood something about the obsessions of fallen human nature. To be single-minded in the face of danger or opportunity may be virtuous. While any fixation that displaces Christ as the source and summit of one's life is diabolical, many fixations risk becoming the "devil's tabernacle": television, the stock market, hobbies and even human relationships.
In this week's Gospel, Christ visits two sisters, Martha and Mary. Martha has a fixation of the moment. She is "burdened with much serving," while Mary "sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak." Martha complains, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." There is irony in the request. Mary seems to be suggesting that the Lord is part of the problem, allowing Mary to relax in His presence. Martha is demanding that Jesus fix the problem He Himself allowed through presumed indulgence. Martha, like many mothers, suspected Mary and her Guest were taking her good work for granted.
Christ responds gently (notice the kindly repetition of Martha's name) bur firmly: "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." Always the master of the moment, Jesus sees Martha's problem for what it is. It is clearly not her busy work of preparation. The problem identified by Christ is Martha's fixation on anxiety and worry. Her obsession was so untoward that it rose to impatience and resentment and likely some jealousy. One supposes Martha wanted Mary to abandon their divine Guest (perhaps to play solitaire) and help with the work of food preparation.
Food preparation is very important. Ask any priest. But listening to the words of Christ is "the better part." Ask any (please God) priest. This passage traditionally has become a helpful launching pad to discuss the superiority of the contemplative life over the active life. This is not to disparage the active life in any way. But the contemplative life gives direction to one's active life (much as the logistical support of an army supports the purposes of soldiers). This distinction is found also in the Book of Genesis. God "works" for six days and "rests" on the seventh, giving man a rule of life. Our work not only is meant to sustain us, but it is also meant to direct us to rest and worship on Sunday.
In this fallen world there are many distractions and distortions. Work can become an end in itself - a diabolical object of worship - rather than a necessary and praiseworthy means leading to worship. Similarly other events and conditions of life easily become ends in themselves, or obsessions and fixations. Martha was "anxious and worried about many things." She was obsessed with worry and made it a kind of "devil's tabernacle" of alternative worship. Her anxieties displaced Christ, who literally stood before her as the center of her life.
Most of us have a good deal of sympathy for Martha because like her we have our own fixations. In honesty, Martha's preoccupation represents us and our inclinations more than the devotion of Mary. We are anxious about our jobs, our health, our opportunities and our relationships. We too easily forget the loving providence of the Lord while turning over our lives to obsessions and anxieties.
In connection with the devil's tabernacle and the false worship of our anxieties, elsewhere in the Gospel, Christ is clear:
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you. O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day." (Mt 6:25-34)


Sometimes failure comes out of nowhere. Other times, you start to count the number of exclamation points you'll be using after FAIL even before anyone's run head first into a hilarious injury.
Apple just unveiled their iPad to a largely unimpressed public, who noted the product appeared to be an iPod Touch that had been inflated to a size that would not fit in your pocket. In that spirit, photoshop for us what other hugely unnecessary product advances could be on the horizon.


Kim Kardashian hasn't settled on a name for baby number four, but she has a possible one picked out.
Kim was a guest on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Monday night, along with sisters Kourtney and Khloe.
Kim revealed that she's considering a family name.
Kim also said that she never officially named her other three kids before they were born, but instead waited to bond with the babies first.
Plus, rapper Nipsey Hussle's music sales surge after his death and 'Game of Thrones' star Sophie Turner says her boyfriend Joe Jonas knows how the series ends, but was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.


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Screen recording on iOS isn't a new feature by any means. There were each reliable and unofficial ways of doing so for quite some time. The difference these days is that iOS 11 is the first of Apple's cell operating structures to introduce display recording as a integrated function. We're only inside the first beta tiers of iOS 11, so this option ought to trade or maybe be revoked earlier than the very last launch, however it's a first-rate function that has been a long time coming. Let's check how you may permit display screen recording on iOS eleven, why you will need to, and a few recording suggestions.
Before iOS eleven, users who desired to screen report their iOS gadgets needed to depend on hacks or QuickTime on a Mac to get the pictures. IOS eleven adjustments that by means of building in the display recording functionality with a toggle in Control Center. The function is a welcome addition to iOS as it opens the door for so much more on the device. With display screen recording on iOS 11 you'll be able to help circle of relatives participants with their utility woes, file bugs to ship to builders, or even create utility walkthrough movies on the go.
Another ability annoyance in display recording will be push notifications. Turn on Do Not Disturb, or set your device into AirPlane Mode to put those on pause and forestall visual interruptions in your recording.
When you start a display recording in your iOS tool, it'll also capture your modern fame bar. That way low battery degrees, and coffee-sign energy as well. If you want to head for a smooth look of a hundred% battery and complete signal, your satisfactory alternative is to plug it into your Mac.
Follow the instructions listed right here, as if you had been going to record on your Mac, but start the recording out of your iOS tool as an alternative. Using this technique will make the iOS show your battery as a hundred%, full provider sign, etc. If you're going via this a whole lot effort though, it would just be less difficult to file and edit after to your Mac.
On iOS 11 beta 1 display screen recording handiest captures what's for your show, now not the sound coming from the software you're looking at. You have the choice to enable recording from the microphone though. To try this, 3D Touch the display screen recording toggle in Control Center and select Microphone Audio at the lowest of the view.
The obvious benefit of screen recording on iOS is that you'll be capable of percentage what you see on-display screen with others. Trying to parent out what's "broken" to your family member's Facebook app? Have them document the display screen as they see the issue. Trying to train someone a way to navigate via a list of menu items? Record a video of you, with microphone audio recording enabled, and walk them via it little by little.
The advantages of display recording on iOS eleven also mean 0.33-birthday celebration apps will reconsider privacy inside their ephemeral content material offerings. While no longer the employer's foremost directive, apps like Instagram and Snapchat might need to look into teaching users at the modifications that built-in screen recording will convey.
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Federighi said a whole VR pipeline has been constructed into the running machine, such as optimizing Apple's Final Cut X video software program for editing 360-degree content material and integrating Mac help for the Steam VR content distribution platform. Unity and Unreal recreation development engines are also supported.
The presentation blanketed a live demo by using John Knoll, a chief innovative officer at Lucas Films' ILMxLAB and Lauren Ridge, a programmer at Epic Games, who walked via developing an immersive revel in within the Star Wars world. The demo used HTC's Vice headset linked to an iMac.
The demo showcased the overall experience of designing immersive surroundings from within that environment. Ridge used the Live controllers to open distinctive kinds of menus to access equipment and content in front of her.
In addition to the radial menus normally visible in Live experiences, Ridge opened a pop-up content browser window of virtual property to vicinity inside the digital surroundings.
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New TV series spotlights Georgia breakthrough discoveries
Holly Korschun
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The pilot episode of "The Future Files" airs Nov. 13-18 on Georgia Public Broadcasting. "Pandemic Threat" features researchers at Emory, Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, and CDC.
"Pandemic Threat"
"The Future Files: Inventing Tomorrow in Georgia Today"
On Georgia Public Broadcasting
Air Dates for Episode 1: "Pandemic Threat"
November 13 – 8 p.m.
November 14 – 10 p.m.
November 15 – 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
November 18 – 1:30 p.m
The threat of influenza – and the inventive work of Georgia scientists to stop it – is the focus of a pilot episode of a new TV series the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) is developing in partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB).
Titled "The Future Files," the series premieres Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. on all GPB stations across the state. It showcases how top researchers at Georgia universities, including Emory, are addressing some of the most challenging problems facing humankind.
"The work taking place in Georgia's university laboratories is exceptional and often fascinating," says C. Michael Cassidy, president of the Georgia Research Alliance. "We have some of the brightest minds in the world here, but not everyone is aware of that. What these scientists are doing to discover and invent new answers to human needs is a story that needs to be told."
The pilot episode of "The Future Files" traces the insidiousness of the flu virus – how it mutates and kills – then spotlights the progress Georgia scientists have made in battling the disease. Series host Faith Salie, a correspondent on "CBS Sunday Morning," explores efforts to develop a single vaccine to fight multiple forms of flu; new instruments to detect the presence of flu in mere seconds; and a novel way to administer vaccines painlessly.
The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation and The Coca-Cola Foundation are providing financial support for the project. Other episodes planned for the series focus on autism, cancer, new energy and regenerative medicine.
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It makes sense that two organisms in the same niche should compete for space and resources. Far more interesting is the fact that sometimes fungi and bacteria will work together in order to colonise the human body. The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus doesn't usually form biofilms when grown on clean surfaces, but in the presence of C. albicans it forms large multi-bacterial colonies using the strands of yeast as a scaffold.


Papa John's Pizza reported its Q2 2018 earnings on Tuesday, and the numbers were ugly.
The embattled pizza chain missed expectations on earnings per share (49 cents vs 54 cents expected) and on revenue ($408 million vs $424 million expected), but most importantly its same-store sales in North America, a crucial metric for food chains, fell by 6% in the quarter. In the month of July alone, same-store sales fell by 10.5%. Papa John's (PZZA) lowered its same-store sales guidance for 2018 to negative 7% to negative 10%.
After the bad numbers came mud-slinging by both the current CEO and former CEO.
In other words, Ritchie and Schnatter actually agree on something: Papa John's needs to change.
The pizza chain needs to do something deeper than simply removing Schnatter's face from its logo, pizza boxes, and vans. It needs a fundamental rebrand.
And Papa John's is preparing to spend big to do it.
That's up to $50 million it will spend in just the final third of the year to scrub Schnatter's image from marketing materials, help struggling franchisees, do a culture audit, and pay legal costs.
Has Papa John's seen the worst of it yet?
There's a lot to unpack from Ritchie's answer to that question.
November was when Schnatter blamed flat quarterly sales on the NFL anthem protests and said that the kneeling "should have been nipped in the bud" when Colin Kaepernick first started kneeling. That's when Schnatter's downfall truly began, long before the July 2018 report about his use of the n-word.
There are two ways to interpret that. You could say Ritchie sounds fittingly aware of the consumer sentiment damage that was done, and acknowledges Papa John's needs to fix its image fast. Or you could see it as naive, or wishful thinking, for him to suggest that July's sales drop was the worst it'll get.


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After a long day enjoying in the Caribbean sunshine, what could be better than working up a sweat in one of Kingston's hottest nightclubs? Jamaicans love to dance and it doesn't take long for the rum to get flowing and the party to really kick off.
Most of the nightlife is centred around the tourist areas, but the most popular strip is without a doubt Knutsford Boulevard in Kingston 5, where the highly popular Asylum nightclub, synonymous with Kingston's hip and happening party scene, attracts revellers of all kinds. Quad is also hot on the club scene, with a jazz café, nightclub and Voodoo Lounge, perfect for shaking a tail feather. A variety of music bars and clubs offering all kinds of music abound, with everything from reggae, rock, jazz, latin and house to keep those hips shaking until the early hours.
Kingston can be dangerous after dark so it might be worth finding out where to go from your hotel before heading out for a big night. Walking at night is not recommended, and it is far better to take a registered taxi.


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9/11/2017: Trump, Pence, Mattis, Sessions Fail to Name 'Radical Islamic Terrorism'
By TUW Media / The United West
Source: Breitbart, by AARON KLEIN, September 11, 2017
NEW YORK — On the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump did not once mention the terms "radical Islam" or "Islamic terrorism" during a commemoration ceremony at the Pentagon.
Those phrases were also not mentioned in speeches today by other Trump administration senior officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Instead of naming the enemy, Trump seemingly went out of his way to use other descriptors in his speech, including "terrorists who attacked us," "barbaric forces of evil and destruction," "horrible, horrible enemies," "enemies of all civilized people," and "enemies like we've never seen before."
Similarly, Pence, speaking at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, referred to the scourge as "evil terrorists" and "global terrorism." Pence did mention "the barbarians known as ISIS," calling the global jihadist group by its acronym instead of the Islamic State.
Mattis, addressing the same Pentagon memorial as Trump, outwardly minimized the Islamic motivations of the terrorists by calling them "maniacs disguised in false religious garb." He referred to "attackers perpetrating murder" on that fateful day, not even using the words "terrorist" or "terrorism."
Mnuchin Admits 15 Percent Corporate Rate Unlikely
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet
President Trump has repeatedly called for bringing the corporate tax rate down from its current 35 percent to 15 percent, but on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin acknowledged that may not be possible.
"I don't know if we'll be able to achieve that, given the budget issues, but we're going to get this down to a very competitive level," he said at an event hosted by CNBC.
Mnuchin did not give an exact number but rather emphasized that getting tax reform done is much more important.
"What the exact number is less important," he said, adding, "what's more important is making sure we have a competitive system."
House Speaker Paul Ryan made similar remarks last week when discussing tax reform and said "the numbers are hard" to achieve a 15 percent rate. Instead, Ryan said a number in the low-to-mid 20s is more realistic.
Republicans across the board want to lower the corporate rate, which is currently 35 percent, as part of tax reform. But if Republicans want to pass a tax bill through reconciliation to prevent a Democratic filibuster, the legislation can't add to the deficit outside the budget window.
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Can't We Talk About This? from "Can't We Talk?" Homepage on Vimeo. Can't We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech is a shocking new film and follow-up video series detailing the concerted effort by international organizations to compel the U.S. and other Western countries to curtail freedom of speech and criminalize criticism of […]
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Israeli Company to Help Build U.S.-Mexico Border Wall Prototype
By Geller Report Staff
Elta North America, which is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, was just named as one of four companies to win contracts to build prototypes of smart systems that will be ultimately used in America's border wall with Mexico.
Two hundred companies bid for this opportunity.
Now, these four companies will face off in a competition to see which comes up with the best model.
Ynet News has the story:
An Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) subsidiary is on the shortlist to construct the new border wall between the United States and Mexico, an enormous project and long-touted campaign promise by President Donald Trump.
Elta North America, the aforementioned IAI subsidiary, was announced Saturday as one of only four companies to construct a prototype for a "smart border" wall, after winning a US Customs tender. More than 200 companies from around the world presented bids for the tender.
Each one of the quartet of companies will receive funding of $300,000-$500,000 to finance the production of said prototype in the coming fall.
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The acrylic workshops were the fourth of our series of all-day workshops for 2016. The workshops were well attended with each of the two days fully booked. Many thanks to those of you who attended one of our all-day workshops for the first time. With such large numbers both workshops were very lively and enjoyable.
Anne kicked off each of the days with a discussion of how to use acrylic paint, some of the people who came along hadn't used acrylics before. She then demonstrated how to produce a background using acrylic primer (gesso) and coloured acrylic. This was followed by a demonstration on how to sketch out an initial idea on cartridge paper. After lunch the fun began and everyone started using the acrylics to paint their chosen dog.
Once again Anne was pleased to note that students from all our venues came together to make two great workshops.
There were some fantastic pieces produced on both days and the gallery shows some of the works in progress.
If you would like to join in next time we hold an all-day workshop keep an eye on this site for news or email Anne and ask her to send you details when available.


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Patagonia Community Raises $10 Million for the Planet in 17 Days, Company will Match
December 16, 2019 /in News /by pOkl76naa
Local communities across the US and Europe contribute to grassroots groups on the front lines of the environmental crisis
VENTURA, Calif. — Patagonia announced today that its community raised $10 million in donations to 1,043 grassroots environmental organizations in 17 days. On Black Friday, Patagonia committed to match individual donations made between November 29 and December 31, 2019, to a $10 million limit. "We're energized by our community's response," said Lisa Pike Sheehy, who leads Patagonia's environmental activism team. "Together we made history—in 17 days, our community raised $10 million for environmental nonprofits. This is extraordinary generosity to some of the most deserving and underappreciated efforts to save the planet."
Donations were made through Patagonia Action Works, a platform that connects individuals with local grassroots organizations to take action on the most pressing issues facing the world today. In the US, environmental nonprofits receive only three percent of philanthropic giving, yet climate change is our biggest existential threat.
"Thanks to Patagonia's donation matching, we can launch environmental campaigns in up to five more countries next year, resulting in new laws that protect rivers, oceans and forests," said Earth Law Center's executive director and directing attorney, Grant Wilson. "We will also be able to train thousands more lawyers and judges on ecological-based legal movements that can save the planet. Patagonia's impact is momentous."
Executive director of the Conservation Lands Foundation, Brian Sybert, said, "Patagonia's donation match is a phenomenal end-of-year boost for Conservation Lands Foundation. It has brought us new donors and doubled major gifts. All of which will help make sure our Friends Grassroots Network—70 community-based groups throughout the West and in Alaska—has the capacity and resources to hold the line against the Trump administration's aggressive campaign to weaken protections and reduce public input on dozens of iconic public lands that they want to hand over to oil and gas development."
Betsy Weber, assistant director at the Environmental Defense Center, said, "With this incredible support from Patagonia, the Environmental Defense Center will remain strong in our fight to prevent a tripling of onshore oil production in Santa Barbara County, to stop the Trump administration from expanding oil drilling and fracking off our coast, and to move forward with offshore renewable energy. These matching funds are providing EDC a huge boost to ensure we have the resources to continue to fight and win in the year ahead."
"The Patagonia match was a game changer for Native Fish Society. This was our largest year-end fundraiser—even before the match! Ending strong means we can start even stronger in our work in 2020 to revive abundant wild fish across the Pacific Northwest. Your support matters and wild fish matter, "said Mark Sherwood, executive director of Native Fish Society.
Eloise Russo, the executive director of City Kids Wilderness Project, said, "The Patagonia Action Works match opportunity has been truly extraordinary for City Kids and has inspired our community to support our work in unprecedented ways. As a small organization, this additional support is truly transformational and will allow us to focus on what we do best: providing high-impact outdoor adventure and leadership development programming for DC youth."
Tens of thousands of individual donors contributed to the $20 million donation, which will go to over one thousand organizations in the US and Europe. The majority of these groups have limited staff and modest annual budgets.
In addition to its $10 million donation match, Patagonia will donate, as it has for more than 30 years, one percent of its 2019 sales to nearly 1,200 grantees. To date, the company has donated more than $110 million to nonprofits working on environmental problems facing communities and the planet.
Patagonia President and CEO Rose Marcario's relevant post on LinkedIn: HERE
About Patagonia We're in business to save our home planet.
Founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973, Patagonia is an outdoor apparel company based in Ventura, California. A Certified B-Corporation, the company is recognized internationally for its commitment to product quality and environmental activism—and its contributions of more than $110 million in grants and in-kind donations to date.
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Regular readers of this blog will know that, when it comes to the denizens of the 41st Millennium, I may have started out with Orks and gone on to join numerous other factions, but at the end of the day my heart belongs to Chaos. Thus it should come as no surprise that the recent influx of power-armoured baddies marching beneath the banner of the true Warmaster has brought joy to my black and bitter heart. It's time to bring my Beasts of Ruin back out of retirement.
If I found myself able to send a message back to my younger self I'm sure there's all kinds of advice it'd be useful to pass on, and honestly there's a high chance I'd forget all of it in the heat of the moment. However one tip that seems like it might be useful to pass on is "Don't choose such a tricky to paint colour scheme for your Chaos Marines. Go for Black Legion or something, they seem straightforward". Never mind eh!
The range of models available to servants of Chaos has certainly moved on a great deal since I swore my soul to the dark powers all those years ago. For one thing this newcomer is considerably bigger and more impressive model than his predecessors who were all distinctly on the short and ugly side by the end.
Indeed until now the Chaos range was looking less than impressive, especially in comparison to many of the other armies GW produce. Over the last couple of years this sapped my enthusiasm and, despite the quality of their Nurgle-worshipping, plague-loving brothers in the Death Guard, I struggled to really drum up the energy for painting Chaos worshippers. Now however, with the Dark Gods smiling upon us, I have grand plans to craft the army I've long dreamed of. The collection is about to undergo a transformation and rebirth as I inventory just who will be allowed to stay, who will be packed lovingly away and who will suffer the ultimate sanction and be broken up for bits. Some of my favourite characters from the old army will even cross the Rubicon Primaris (as it were) and be reborn – rebuilt using the new miniatures so that they may fight on. For now however, before they make their way off the display shelf and into boxes and cupboards, here they are for one final group shot – a last hurrah of my once proud and savage legion.
Of course whilst I fully expect the forces of Chaos to be making their presence felt over the coming months I have plenty of other projects on the boil as well. The gangs of the Underhive continue to gather so expect to see more of them soon, and of course I still have this month's Skaven to round up.
Despite having an inordinate number of miniatures in the house, all our games of Blackstone Fortress have so far featured a mix of unpainted models (the heroes) and various proxies (the villains). Traitor guardsmen and chaos marines are easy to come by on my shelves, and fantasy ghouls were pressed into service as ur-ghuls, but for the rest a more esoteric approach has been required. Rather than spindle drones drifting serenely through the corridors the first adversaries the explorers encountered were a small band of grots, presumably sent on a scavenging mission by their ork bosses.
Fun though the little blighters are however, and despite the space-gobbos have more in common with traditional dungeon dwelling baddies, I really wanted to get the real spindle drones painted up. To me they add a great deal to the atmosphere of the game, calling to mind the fact that this is a strange and incredibly ancient structure, constructed by enigmatic beings in a long lost and now unknowable age (although it's probably a safe bet that in the grim darkness of the far past it was mostly war as well). They're also quite beautiful models, often overlooked alongside fan-favourites like the long-awaited traitor guard or the showstopping cast of heroes, but wonderfully evocative nonetheless.
They're also gloriously alien. There's really nothing quite like them in the 41st Millennium (perhaps they'd fit in with the Eldar but even then it would be a stretch) – and indeed it was because of this lack of suitable proxies that I ended up using the aforementioned grots.
Anyway, for all of these reasons, I decided to tackle them first so that next time we play we'll be able to do so with a bit more style.
Normally I'd tend to steer away from having duplicate models in a collection (indeed regular readers will know this borders on being an obsession) but in this case I think the uniformity actually adds to the impression of anonymous worker drones (plus to tinker with them too much risked destroying the very qualities which drew them to me in the first place). I will however be trying to individualise the Ur-ghuls and traitor guardsmen when I get around to them.
As I was working on them I realised that these would actually qualify neatly for both halves of Azazel's latest hobby challenge. This month it's a two-part challenge – on the one hand we have "Squad: March!" (nothing complicated – just a case of finishing a squad in March), on the other it's a gender-ambiguous model painting challenge. The idea apparently spun off from Fembruary (edit; not strictly true, as I've since been corrected – see Azazel's comprehensive and interesting comment below or, better yet, click on the link above to see the original challenge in his own words), the annual event organised by Alex of Leadballoony which encourages hobbyists to add female miniatures to our male dominated collections. If you've not already seen it the gallery of this year's contributors is well worth a look (not least because he gives a particular shout-out to this hairy heretic).
Essentially the gender-ambiguous half of this challenge therefore makes for a reappraising of the idea that miniature's are automatically "male" unless proven otherwise (honestly I don't think I ever made that assumption but it's fun to play with nonetheless). That space marine? Definitely a bloke. Those Escher gangers? Women without a doubt. But what about those squigs or fleshhounds? Does a lady night goblin really look different to a male one under all those robes? Who knows what those ranks of skeletons looked like when they were fully fleshed?
Naturally these are just perfect for this, being as they are bio-mechanical alien robots. How they go about making new spindle-drones we can only guess – and sadly, this being the internet, someone probably has… (assuming they do and these creatures haven't been drifting around the Blackstone Fortress for however many hundreds of thousands of years it's been floating in space without replenishing their numbers). Of course this could be the perfect moment for me to sidetrack onto a long ramble about human-esque aliens in science fiction and how much it exasperates me (narrow budgets and limited costume department's notwithstanding) when science fiction writers assume that species developing along an entirely separate evolutionary pathway, on a planet with very different environmental pressures, would naturally end up looking just like human's with unusual foreheads. I've grown more relaxed about this over the years (at least in part because if you let it bother you then the range of sci-fi available to you narrows alarmingly) but it used to hack me off righteously I can tell you. Warhammer 40,000, of course, get's away with it by giving science fiction a body-swerve and instead pitching itself as old fashioned fantasy in space (and anyone caught with a funny looking forehead is purged before they infest the entire planet with their deviant xenos creed!). However, rather than plunge any further down this particular rabbit hole, I'm off to rummage around for more aliens to paint (gender notwithstanding!).


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__KEIN_INHALTSVERZEICHNIS__

Die Synagoge in Auerbach, einem Stadtteil von Bensheim im Kreis Bergstraße in Hessen, wurde 1779 errichtet. Die profanierte Synagoge an der Bachgasse 28 ist ein geschütztes Baudenkmal.

Geschichte
Die Juden in Auerbach besuchten zunächst die Gottesdienste in der Bensheimer Synagoge. Im Jahr 1779 erbauten sie ihre eigene Synagoge in der Bachgasse, 1874 und 1911 wurde das Gebäude renoviert. Seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg, als ein großer Teil der jüdischen Männer aus Auerbach Kriegsdienst leisteten, tat man sich mit der jüdischen Gemeinde in Zwingenberg zusammen und hielt in der Zwingenberger Synagoge den Gottesdienst ab. Der letzte Gottesdienst in der Synagoge von Auerbach fand 1932 anlässlich der Trauung von Bella Hahn statt.

Berthold Frank, der letzte Vorsteher der jüdischen Gemeinde in Auerbach, verkaufte die Synagoge mit dem dazugehörigen Wohnhaus 1934 an den Inhaber einer Landmaschinen-Reparaturwerkstatt, der das Synagogengebäude als Werkstatt nutzte.

Bis zum Kauf der Synagoge durch die Stadt Bensheim im Jahr 1972 diente das ehemalige Gotteshaus als Werkstatt. Im Rahmen der Ortskernsanierung wurde das auf dem gleichen Grundstück stehende Gebäude der 1874 erbauten jüdischen Schule, in der sich auch die Lehrerwohnung und das rituelle Bad (Mikwe) befanden, abgebrochen. Die Synagoge wurde 1979 bis 1981 außen renoviert und der Vorplatz hergerichtet. Nach der Innenrenovierung wurde am 26. Oktober 1986 die ehemalige Synagoge als kultureller Veranstaltungsort eröffnet. Der Träger ist der "Auerbacher Synagogenverein".

Auch wenn in Auerbach keine jüdische Gemeinde mehr existiert, so fanden doch drei Gottesdienste in der renovierten Synagoge statt: 1995 die Bar Mitzwa Feier einer Frankfurter Familie mit Landesrabbiner Nathan Peter Levinson, 1998 und 2010 Gedenkgottesdienste mit Rabbi Harry Jacobi und Rabbinerin Rachel Benjamin.

Gedenken
An der Synagoge ist eine Gedenktafel mit der Inschrift angebracht: "Hüte Dich und bewahre deine Seele gut, dass du die Geschichte nicht vergisst, die deine Augen gesehen haben und dass sie nicht aus deinem Herzen komme dein Leben lang und tue sie deinen Kindern kund. 5. Mose. Ehemalige Synagoge erbaut um 1780. Zur Erinnerung an die jüdische Gemeinde in Auerbach. Renoviert von der Stadt Bensheim 1986".

Literatur
 Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum. Band 1: Aach – Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 (Online-Ausgabe).
 Thea Altaras: Synagogen und jüdische Rituelle Tauchbäder in Hessen – Was geschah seit 1945? 2. Auflage, Königstein im Taunus 2007, ISBN 978-3-7845-7794-4, S. 273–274.
 Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler – Hessen II. Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt. Bearbeiter: Folkhard Cremer u. a., 3. Auflage, München und Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3, S. 14.

Weblinks

 Synagoge in Auerbach bei Alemannia Judaica (mit vielen Fotos)
 Auerbacher Synagogenverein

Einzelnachweise

Auerbach
Auerbach
Auerbach
Kulturdenkmal in Bensheim
Sakralbau in Bensheim
Erbaut in den 1770er Jahren
Umgenutztes Bauwerk im Landkreis Bergstraße
Auerbach
Judentum in Bensheim

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Lineups & Game Notes: Mets vs. Dodgers 10:10 pm et.
3. David Wright (R) 3B
4. Yoenis Cespedes (R) LF
7. Kevin Plawecki (R) C
8. Eric Campbell (R) 1B
Los Angeles Dodgers (17-17):
1. Chase Utley (L) 2B
2. Corey Seager (L) SS
3. Justin Turner (R) 3B
4. Adrian Gonzalez (L) 1B
5. Yasmani Grandal (S) C
6. Joc Pederson (L) CF
7. Yasiel Puig (R) RF
8. Enrique Hernandez (R) LF
9. Clayton Kershaw (L) P
SP: Clayton Kershaw LHP (4-1, 2.04 ERA)
METS-DODGERS NOTES: The Mets are 13-10 in Los Angeles (including the playo s) since 2011.
ON A SERIES ROLL: Having secured at least a series tie, New York is now undefeated in its last eight series, winning six and tying one (with this series outcome still to come)…The Mets have not lost a series since April 11-13…Overall, New York is 3-0-2 in road series.
TONIGHT'S TROPHY MATCHUP: Bartolo Colon and Clayton Kershaw have combined to win 339 games (Colon-221, Kershaw-118) and strikeout 4,080 batters (Colon-2270, Kershaw-1810)…The duo has won four Cy Young Awards (Kershaw-three, Colon-one).
PITCH HAND STRONG: The Mets rank second in the majors with a 2.78 team ERA…New York has allowed the fewest homers (20).
PEN PALS: New York's bullpen leads the NL and ranks fourth in the majors with a 2.66 ERA (28 earned runs/94.2 innings)…They have stranded 37 of 46 inherited runners (80%), the fourth-best percentage in the majors…The pen has 29 holds, the most in the majors.
INTERESTING NOTES: Yoenis Cespedes has a .615 OBP vs. lefthanders this year, the second-highest mark in the majors… Bartolo Colon has a 75.1 strike percentage (139/185) in the past 14 days, the highest percentage among 141 qualified starters during that span...Mets starting pitchers have walked 14 of 418 righthanded batters (3.3%) this year, the lowest percentage in the majors.
COLON VS. DODGERS: In seven career games during the regular season, all starts, he is 2-5 with a 5.16 ERA (26 earned runs/45.1 innings pitched)…Struck out 28 and walked eight…His 5.16 ERA against Los Angeles is his fourth-highest mark against any opponent…In his two starts against the Dodgers as Met, he is 1-1 with a 1.93 ERA (three earned runs/14.0 innings pitched)…In three career starts at Dodger Stadium he is 2-1 with a 5.30 ERA (11 earned runs/18.2 innings pitched).
METS VS. KERSHAW: Clayton Kershaw is 6-0 with a 1.34 ERA (nine earned runs/60.1 innings) with 61 strikeouts in nine career regular season starts vs. New York…He went 1-1 with a 2.63 ERA (four earned runs/13.2 innings) in last year's NL Division Series…Notable Mets numbers against Kershaw are posted below…
David Wright: .167 (3-18, 1 2B, 1 RBI)
Curtis Granderson: .188 (3-16, 2 BB, 2 K)
Lucas Duda: .133 (2-15, 2 BB, 10 K)
Yoenis Cespedes: .111 (1-9, 2 K)
Neil Walker: .111 (1-9, 3 K)
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Mets news & notes from last night's ballgame.


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Little Phatty by Bob Moog
Programmable Monophonic Analogue Synthesizer
By Dave Stewart
Bob Moog's final project carries his visionary synthesizer design into the future.
The man may be gone, but the legendary name and instruments live on. Before his death in August 2005, Bob Moog worked tirelessly on the development of a new synth aimed at those operating with restricted finances (in other words, practically the entire musical community). While the top-of-the-range Voyager roamed the galaxy, notching up stellar reviews and accolades from star players, the man whose surname is virtually synonymous with the word 'synthesizer' was down on earth designing a more stripped-down instrument which would offer classic Moog features in an attractive yet affordable package. The result is the Little Phatty monophonic analogue synthesizer, Bob Moog's last design and parting legacy to the North Carolina-based company who carry on his work and his name.
To British ears, 'Little Phatty' sounds like a childish nickname designed to hurt the feelings of a younger sibling, so to avoid tears at bedtime let's call the little fellow 'LP' for short.
The LP has a three-octave (C to C), 37-note keyboard — this is seven notes fewer than the Voyager, which (like the original Minimoog) goes down to a low F. A pair of octave buttons allow the player to access two lower and two higher octaves, giving the keyboard an effective playing range of seven octaves. Played from an 88-note master keyboard, you can access the full range over MIDI without any button-pushing, but the LP's compass extends still further — its analogue oscillators produce discrete musical pitches over nearly nine octaves, virtually the entire MIDI note range. I'm very glad to say that unlike most of its competitors, this synth has a proper built-in power supply rather than one of those hateful little wall-wart adapters. The word 'professional' springs to mind, and better still, the synth will work straight out of the box with anything from a 90 to a 250 Volt power source. Congratulations to Doctor Bob and the manufacturers for not compromising on this important point.
As you can see from the photos, the LP has some unusual and eye-catching design features: the control panel is fitted at a 45-degree angle which emulates the adjustable tilt of a Minimoog control section, but unlike the Mini, the LP's panel is fixed in position and won't come crashing down on your fingers at the slightest provocation. The back view reveals a sharply concave silver-white metal surface running the length of the instrument. In tribute to its maker, this bears Bob Moog's embossed signature rather than the iconic Moog logo. Wooden side panels add a nice vintage touch, a nod to Dr. Moog's illustrious past.
The unique curvy shape gives the unit a distinctive and stylish look, but for me the killer design feature is the intense blue backlighting of the pitch and mod wheels (a feature borrowed from the Voyager) and the big, bright circular blue and purple LED's. These give the LP a truly sci-fi feel — I kept turning off the lights in my music room so I could admire it glowing in the dark. Brilliant, in both senses of the word!
Though the LP offers massive sonic control, it features fewer knobs than you'll find on a vintage synth. The reason for this is that rather than pursuing the old 'one-knob-per-function' approach, the synth has four master rotary controls (one each for modulation, oscillators, filter and envelope generators) which can be assigned to a variety of parameters via 26 push buttons. To assign (say) Oscillator 2's pitch to the master oscillator control, you simply press the 'OSC 2 FREQ' button, which will obligingly glow bright blue. The oscillator control knob now controls Oscillator 2's tuning until such time as you assign it a different parameter. Each of the master controls is surrounded by a ring of 15 miniature blue LEDs which show the current setting — these look great and provide useful visual feedback when creating or editing sounds. The simple, logical front-panel design scheme is clean and uncluttered, and helps make programming quick and easy.
Synth Engine
LP has two voltage-controlled audio oscillators (VCOs) and an LFO which is used solely for modulation — its direct signal can't be fed into the mix. The oscillators have four octave settings (16', 8', 4' and 2'); Oscillator 1's fine tuning is determined by the global tuning control, while Oscillator 2 may be tuned up or down a perfect fifth relative to Osc 1. The VCOs have individual volume controls, which is far preferable to the single 'balance' control you find on many modern synths. Rather than the six fixed waveforms offered on a Minimoog, the LP's VCO waveforms are continuously variable and range from a smooth triangle waveform to a thin pulse wave, via the traditional sawtooth and square waves which form the basis of all simple synthesis. Unlike the '70s synth, the LP has no noise generator. This won't be a problem if you plan to use it for tasteful melodic work, but avant-gardists may miss the ability to launch sheets of shuddering pink noise at their cowering audience. However, the LP has its own ways of creating sonic mayhem, which I'll explain shortly.
The filter used in this synth is the much-admired Moog 24dB-per-octave low-pass type. It sounds smooth, creamy and natural, and being analogue there's no danger of it generating the 'zipper' noises produced by some digital filters. One welcome innovation is the filter's 'overload' parameter, which adds a bit of controlled grunge and makes fat — sorry, phat — bass patches sound even more ballsy.
The filter and the amplifier sections have identical ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) envelope generator circuits — the release can be turned off globally if you want to make sure none of your patches go on sounding after you release the keys. I found that after the customary fiddling with the decay, sustain and filter cutoff settings the envelopes produced plenty of 'snap' and were clearly capable of responding instantly to the fastest lines keyboard players can throw at them.
For a quick blast of nostalgia, the good old 'glide' control permits pitch slides of up to five seconds over the keyboard's three-octave range. These parameters ensure a very good replication of a Minimoog's sound and operation. The fact that they are now fully programmable is a huge advantage, and means that the panicky mid-song knob-twirling '70s synth players had to do in order to change patches is now, thankfully, consigned to the past.
Mad Mod
The LFO has a choice of four fixed waveforms and a frequency range of 0.2 to 500 Hz. The lower frequencies are more than adequate for conventional vibrato, pulsating rhythms and mad arcade-game sound effects, and the upper range can produce all manner of wild timbral distortions. If you need a higher-pitched modulation source you can select Oscillator 2; this introduces FM-style, clangorous and ring mod-type noises, opening up still more avenues for those seeking to make a truly fearsome, ear-bending racket. By using the filter envelope as a modulation source and applying it to pitch, you can introduce pitch-shaping ranging from a gentle lilt to a howling, siren-like alien scream. On a more subtle note, the VCO's pulse wave width can be modulated, which facilitates the creation of nice string and Farfisa organ sounds. Hearing these rich, mobile timbres really made me wish that the LP was polyphonic!
Another post-Minimoog innovation is that Oscillator 2 can now be sync'ed to Oscillator 1, which in tandem with the modulation options means you can create a wide range of flangy vocaloid sounds — big sonic fun.
When it comes to tuning, there's good news and not-so-good news. On the plus side, the LP's global tuning is basically stable and its oscillators don't drift — if you tune them precisely together, they stay that way. However, there's no internal tuning reference or read-out, which means that if you want to be sure the LP is at concert pitch, it must be tuned to an external tuning source. The absence of an A = 440Hz tuning tone makes life a bit complicated; if you're planning to use the instrument on stage, your options are either to tune the LP to another keyboard which you know is in tune (most digital workstations have a tuning read-out) or buy yourself a decent tuner.
Like most analogue synths, the LP's pitch takes time to settle after power-up, so you should allow at least 40 minutes between turning it on and performing your final pre-gig tune-up. One helpful feature is that once you've got the LP in tune, there's an option to deactivate its master tuning control, thereby preventing accidental detuning if your hand should inadvertently brush the control. I noticed that the review unit's octave scaling was out by just over a cent (100th of a semitone) sharp per octave, resulting in a discrepancy of 10 cents over six octaves. This is too small a figure to cause any real problems, but if the scaling were to deteriorate it would require a visit to the service department, as this parameter can't be adjusted by users.
Master Section
The LP's 'master' section contains all the instrument's global parameters: independent MIDI In and Out channels, pitch-bend amount (which, rather eccentrically, goes from one to five semitones then jumps up to seven or 12!), and keyboard priority — you can set this to lowest (as on the Minimoog), highest or last note. A 'legato off' setting means that the envelope generators re-trigger every time you play a new note, regardless of overlaps — this is handy if you're performing a boingy bass line which needs a filter 'twang' on every note.
The master section also contains some hip filter stuff — the filter cutoff (but not the amplifier) can be set to respond to velocity, which is a great aid to expression. You can also change the filter type from the default four-pole (24dB per octave) to three-, two- or one-pole — the latter has a dramatic effect on the sound, rendering the filter dirtier and more buzzy and making the LP sound more like a Wasp or an ARP Odyssey. Being a global setting, any change to the filter type affects all presets, but it's a simple matter to temporarily select a different type of filter for a particular patch.
One feature which will please deep programmers is that in addition to the approximate read-outs for each parameter indicated by the ring of 15 LEDs round each master control, there's a 'precision mode' function which displays each selected parameter's value as an on-screen number.
The supremely logical and well-written manual confirms that we're dealing with a well thought-out, professional instrument.
The best way to judge a synth's sound is to use your ears — my pair (rented from Audio FX) told me that LP's raw, unfiltered VCO waveforms sound good, strong and constant, and have the size, bite, warmth and presence one expects from a Moog synth. I also noticed that there was a minor difference in sound compared to my early '80s Model D Minimoog — this is not intended as a criticism, since the new synth was not intended to be a Minimoog clone. Having said that, it's still interesting to compare the sound of the latest Moog synthesizer with one manufactured 25 years earlier!
Minimoog triangle. Little Phatty triangle. Minimoog sawtooth Minimoog sawtooth (cutoff frequency reduced). Little Phatty sawtooth. Minimoog square. Minimoog square (cutoff frequency reduced). Little Phatty square.With their filters fully open, the two synths' triangle waves sounded identical, but the Minimoog's sawtooth and square waves sounded brighter and buzzier than the LP's. By slightly reducing the cutoff frequency of the Mini's filter it was possible to match their tone exactly. Having done that, the only remaining difference I could discern when comparing the sawtooth and square waveforms was a faint impurity (which sounded like a hint of frequency modulation) in the LP's higher notes. We're talking tiny traces here — to all intents and purposes the two synths sound the same, but audiophiles will be able to hear this small discrepancy.
These drawings show Logic 's graphic representation of the waveforms generated by my Minimoog D and Little Phatty, using a MIDI note playing the pitch of Middle C. Except where shown, both synths' filter cutoff frequency was set to maximum. As you can see, apart from a tiny notch in the top of its triangle wave, the LP's waveforms look practically identical to those of a slightly filtered Minimoog manufactured 25 years earlier!
Although the LP's LFO does not sync to MIDI clock, all of the synth's programmable front panel controls send out MIDI CC data when you tweak them, so you can record filter sweeps and so on into your sequences. Great. To aid performance flexibility, 'performance mode' offers four programmable banks of eight presets which you can step through sequentially in either direction — a nice simple way of putting your patches in the right musical order. If your show runs to a sequencer, you can automate patch changes by recording MIDI program changes into the sequences, leaving both hands free to play outlandish jazz scales, make triumphant gestures at your adoring public and perform those essential 'more of ME in the monitors!' upwards pointing motions at the sound guy.
I liked the LP's 'output on/off' button — you can leave the master volume turned up but kill the output with one button push, useful if you want to check a sound on headphones without the entire audience and your bandmates hearing you do so.
As you would expect, this synth is mono and has no internal effects; it also lacks a digital output and any kind of computer connectivity other than MIDI, which is kind of a relief. It does have an 'audio in' socket for processing external signals, as well as good old-fashioned control voltage inputs for pitch, volume, filter and gate. If you attach a momentary footswitch to the latter, you can trigger the volume and filter envelopes with a foot tap; alternatively, you can get the same effect by applying a 5V gate signal, which would be a good way (indeed, probably the only way) to get the LP's filter to open and shut rhythmically in time with your sequences.
Presets & SysEx
The LP ships with 100 factory preset sounds. These can be overwritten with your own patches, but the factory sounds can be restored en masse via a simple 'system utility' procedure. User patches, performance settings and the instrument's operating system may be backed up via MIDI SysEx (System Exclusive) dumps into a sequencer or other external MIDI recording device. The LP's SysEx dumps support anything from an individual patch to the satisfyingly named 'bulk dump'. As the operating system can be saved as SysEx data, I assume that any OS updates issued by the manufacturers will be in the form of downloadable MIDI files.
I felt the factory presets were pretty good without being wildly impressive. There are some good patches lurking in the list, but in my view the LP has a lot more to offer. Such versatile instruments pose a challenge to their owners — it can take a very long time to get your head round what exactly is going on when you first set up a complex modulation routing. Half the time, adjusting a control produces no change at all to the sound, which can be off-putting. The truth of the matter is that if you're patient and take the time (not easy to do in an age when everyone expects instant, push-button results), you will find whole worlds of unexpected sounds hiding beneath the LP's bonnet. Alternatively, you can scurry back to your soft synths and go through ten million presets looking for the right one, but believe me, it's much more enjoyable (and satisfying) to build a patch yourself using physical knobs and controls.
Looking at the old photos of Keith Emerson, Wendy Carlos, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, et al, surrounded by a forest of patch leads and piles of modular Moog gear resembling a '40s telephone exchange, it's easy to get the wrong idea about analogue synthesis. According to vintage synth enthusiast Gene Stopp, Emerson's main modular Moog patch consisted of three oscillators, a voltage-controlled filter, a voltage-controlled amplifier and modulation — in other words, the same simple building blocks found on the Minimoog, the Voyager and Little Phatty. Many of the patches on Wendy Carlos' groundbreaking Switched On Bach also sound as though they could have been created on a Minimoog without too much bother. This proves that you don't need a room full of equipment and a Donald Trump budget to make musically effective synthesizer sounds.
A retro record label of my acquaintance — I've forgotten who — use as their motto the words 'Into the future with the past!' That seems as good a way as any of summing up the LP's essence. It's a pleasure to review an instrument with such a distinguished pedigree, and gratifying to discover that the blend of old and new features is not just a marketing ploy, but a genuinely powerful and versatile new design capable of producing impressive musical results. Sound creation can be a tiresome business, but the LP goes a long way towards making it easy and fun. I cut my synthesizing teeth (so to speak) on a Moog synth — it was an inspiration to me, and I hope the Little Phatty will inspire as many young players as Bob Moog's creations did during his lifetime.
It does indeed sound 'phat'.
The modulation matrix enables all sorts of mad sonic explorations.
Extensive MIDI control and new 21st-century functions add flexibility and expression to the classic '70s Moog sound.
It's a lot less expensive than the Minimoog Voyager and in real terms, a good deal cheaper than the original Minimoog was back in the day.
The absence of an internal tuning reference or read-out makes tuning a bit complicated.
No noise generator.
No MIDI Thru.
Daft name.
While its contemporary features are very welcome, the LP's most powerful weapon is its classic sound. Analogue circuitry, convincing VCO waveforms and the unbeatable Moog filter evoke the golden age of synthesis and remind us that there's life outside the desktop studio!
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Queens' new 75,000-square-foot municipal garage needed to provide accommodation for climate-sensitive vehicles, offices, truck washing, snowplow mounting, vehicle repair, and maintenance. To give this building the striking design administrators wanted while ensuring the durability it would need to be ready to prep vehicles to combat harsh weather, designers clad the structure with architectural precast concrete panels.
The facility, a single-story, steel-framed building with a mezzanine, had its front façade faced with a curved-glass curtain wall with both clear, shimmering shadowbox and spandrel glass bands atop a limestone base. The rest of the building is clad in textured and flat precast concrete panels.
The precast concrete panels provided a robust material and were easy to erect quickly. The panels were chosen because their aesthetic versatility could provide subtle changes in light and shadow to bring out different details.


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29th Galway Film Fleadh 11th – 16th July 2017
Wed 12 July / Town Hall Theatre / 14:00 / Teens and up
Buy ticketsHuman Rights
"The deep heart and mystery of The Peacemaker are most keenly felt in the personal struggles of its central character, whose recovery from alcohol addiction has profoundly influenced his work."
— Variety
First Feature
Irish Premiere
The Peacemaker is an intimate portrait of international peacemaker Padraig O'Malley, who helps make peace for others but struggles to find it for himself. The film takes us from Padraig's isolated life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to some of the most dangerous crisis zones on Earth – from Northern Ireland to Kosovo, Nigeria to Iraq – over five years – as he works a peacemaking model based on his recovery from addiction. We meet Padraig in the third act of his life in a race against time to find some kind of salvation for both the world and himself.
Official Selection: Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival
The director and Padraig O'Malley will attend
Director James Demo
Cast Padraig O'Malley, Martin McGuinness & Nelson Mandela
Script James Demo
Producer James Demo
Duration 90 minutes
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Jaha's Promise
69 Minutes of 86 Days
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
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Located right at the centre of Aylesbury in Market Square, our office at Market House has just undergone extensive refurbishment to create a fantastic new managed office space for the town.
Our fully serviced office allows you to enjoy total flexibility to grow, downsize or relocate with space ranging from single desks, through to offices for 20 people. A meeting room is available on site and secure fibre internet is provided, with Wi-Fi throughout.
Pricing is fixed and agreed with you, so no hidden costs. We are highly competitive with incentives to help you get established. With a network of offices and business support connections across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, you will be amazed at the value we can offer you and your business.
Aylesbury has excellent transport links with major transport hubs for rail and bus within 5 minutes walk. Both have mainline connections to major local towns with a fast rail link to London. There is plentiful car parking in and around the town centre with long-term permits available.
Aylesbury is a historic old market town but is growing rapidly into a thriving commercial centre. With great transport links to London it is also an attractive commuter base for those working in the capital. It is the county town of Buckinghamshire and is located approximately 42 miles north-west of London and 17 miles south-east of Buckingham.
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre is a £47 million theatre, showcasing West End musicals, touring musicals, plays, opera, ballet, dance, comedy, children's shows and of course Christmas pantomimes.
A few fun facts about Aylesbury are:
The famous, cult classic 'A Clockwork Orange' was partly filmed in the town.
The herald of Aylesbury introduced the death penalty in 1840 for stealing sheep.
The first recorded tornado in the UK struck Aylesbury in 1950.
The Television programme 'Midsomer Murders' is largely filmed in & around Aylesbury.
Aylesbury's heraldic crest displays the Aylesbury duck, which has been bred here since the birth if the Industrial Revolution.
Aylesbury was the location for David Bowie's first performance as Ziggy Stardust and a commemorative statue to him has just been unveiled in the town centre, about 2 minutes walk from the offices.
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Q: Use disabled in reactive form This is my form :
damageInfoForm = new FormGroup({
cause : new FormControl('', Validators.required),
subCause : new FormControl('', Validators.required)
 })

the field subCause is related to the field cause that's why I want to disable the field subCause if the field cause is empty
So I edit my html like that :
  <form class="k-form k-form-inline " [formGroup]="damageInfoForm">

                            cause

                            <kendo-combobox  [data]="causes" [disabled]="generalDataForm.get('mainCause').value==''" formControlName="cause" class="form-control">
                            </kendo-combobox>
                            Sub cause
                            <kendo-combobox  [data]="subCauses" [disabled]="damageInfoForm.get('cause').value==''" formControlName="subCause" class="form-control">
                            </kendo-combobox>

</form>

It works but it gives me the warning It looks like you're using the disabled attribute with a reactive form directive

A: You will have to disable the field by code, not in the html. This can be done the following way when listening to valueChanges of the cause field:
damageInfoForm.get('cause').valueChanges.subscribe(v => {
   if(!v) {
     damageInfoForm.get('subCause').disable();
   }
   else {
     damageInfoForm.get('subCause').enable();
   }});

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Pike sees 63 new virus cases, Morgan 26 as trend reaches younger
David C.L. Bauer, dbauer@myjournalcourier.com
Pike County confirmed 63 new cases of COVID-19 during the past week, with more than half involving people in their 30s or younger.
Fourteen of the new infections were in boys and girls from birth to age 9, according to weekly statistics from Pike County Health Department. There were five cases diagnosed in those ages 10 to 19, four in people in their 20s, and 10 in those in their 30s.
Since March 2020, there have been 2,510 confirmed and probable cases of the coronavirus reported in Pike County and 64 deaths attributed to the disease.
Health officials say the latest round of COVID-19 and its particularly rampant Delta variant is surging in younger people, including children.
Although the Pfizer vaccine has been given full approval for those 16 or older and emergency use authorization for those ages 12 to 15, no COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use in children. Pfizer and German partner BioNTech said Monday that its vaccine has been safely tested for those ages 5 to 11 and it will seek authorization that could make it available to those in the age group as early as October.
The American Academy of Pediatrics said more than 5 million children in the United States have contracted the coronavirus and 460 have died.
In Morgan County, 26 new cases were confirmed between Friday and Monday — 16 in people in their 30s or younger, including six teenagers and four children, according to a briefing from Morgan County Health Department, Jacksonville/Morgan County Emergency Management, Memorial Health System, Morgan County commissioners and the city of Jacksonville.
There were four active breakouts in the county as of Monday: four employees and four residents at Heritage Health; three people at the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired; two people at the Illinois School for the Deaf; and five people at Garrison School.
Since March 2020, Morgan County has recorded 5,002 COVID-19 cases and 117 deaths.
In Sangamon County, there were 209 new cases between Friday and Monday, as well as two additional deaths, one involving a woman in her 80s and one a woman in her 90s.
Since March 2020, there have been 24,472 coronavirus cases and 265 deaths in Sangamon County, according to the county health department.
Most other counties in west-central Illinois update their totals either mid-week or at the end of the week.
Total cases in west-central Illinois counties as of Monday, according to individual county health departments, and vaccination rates, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, were:
1,012 total, 999 recovered, seven deaths
Fully vaccinated: 44.95%; 65 or older: 85.98%
2,474 total, 2,352 recovered, 39 deaths
Fully vaccinated: 49.21%; 65 or older: 80.9%
Jersey County
Macoupin County
6,618 total, 5,226 recovered, 125 deaths
5,002 total, 117 deaths
24,472 total, 265 deaths
930 total, 898 recovered, 20 deaths
688 total, 670 recovered, five deaths
Since March 2020, there have been 1,598,757 COVID-19 cases and 24,639 deaths in Illinois.
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Koozies! I love screen-printing koozies. Seriously one of my favorite pieces of merch to print. These are for my dudes Mic Harrison and The High Score.
Speaking of Mic Harrison and The High Score, they've been in the studio recording a new album, and I can't wait until everyone gets to hear it. I've been lucky enough to get to hang in the studio with my dudes and take some pics along the way.
Then ya know, there's the day job. But that's a different blog.
I haven't really posted anything here in a bit. But I'm still making, doing, moving and shaking.
Ya know, burning the candle at both ends. It's how I do.
Another month of FBFY, check it out.
Doesn't springtime mean mud and smoke bombs to you? Welcome to my inspiration.
Free Mic Harrison and The High Score Songs!
So Mic Harrison and The High Score decided to give the people what they want, 2 free downloads of some fun Christmas tunes.
They have a couple of other Christmas tunes on their bandcamp page, check it out for more goodness.
Don't forget to check out their main website, or facebook if that tickles your fancy.
I just finished working on an amazing project for my favorite fellers Mic Harrison and The High Score. They just put out their very first vinyl in celebration of their 10 year anniversary as a band! 10 years! WHOA!
The record has 2 songs, "Anytime You're Ready" and "Broken Hearted In A Single Wide" both inspired by the great Con Hunley, who was wonderful enough to sing on the track "Anytime You're Ready".
I'm really excited about this project, and how it turned out. YOU SHOULD BUY THIS. I mean, pretty please. These guys are some of the best musicians I know, the nicest guys, and they all work their asses off for their music, while working day jobs to pay the bills.
See even my dawg loves this record. Go order it.
Mic Harrison and The High Score 10 years!
Go to this show. www.micharrison.com for more info.
It's that time of month again FBFY!
CXCW2014annietuffPRINT2, a photo by Annie Clark-Rankin on Flickr.
It's that time of year again http://couchbycouchwest.com/ !
My flickr site, photos. annieTUFF's photos.
Refuse! CMP Art, music, good stuff.
I love making crafty arts and artsy crafts, photography, screen printing, installations, music....but I'm pretty horrible at updating this blog. Check out my instagram for more updates.
So, I won't actually write very much about what I'm working on, just think of this as a picture book in the blog world.


Get ready for trick-or-treat season with these spooky tunes.
This 13-minute film was MTV's first world premiere video.
The idea for this 1984 hit came from a late-night television commercial.
This song is featured on their 2nd album, "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper," and not a part of any Nightmare on Elm Street soundtracks.
There are over 25 cover version of this classic Halloween favorite.
This spooky toon is still a crowd pleaser at dances and weddings.
The original version of this song was recorded in 1948 by Stan Jones.
The musical has been performed all over the world and was made into a film, directed by Frank Oz, in 1986.
Featured on the album, "Excitable Boy," this rock song remained in the Top 40 for six weeks.
What songs give you the creeps? Tell us below.


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Ruby Slipper Fun Badge Tour
Hop on a Fun Badge Tour bus! Join in on this popular tradition by registering for a unique tour of Canada's Capital. A convoy of buses will travel through Ottawa stopping at top secret places, allowing you to show off your square dance prowess to unsuspecting onlookers. A boxed breakfast/snack, and water, and a special gift will be provided. Stay tuned for further details!
Bring sunscreen and sunglasses, and dress according to the weather!
Tour Date: July 9, 2023
Tour Duration: 8 am – 1 pm
Meeting time: TBD
Space is limited so purchase your tickets now.
When this tour sells out, you can join our wait list to be notified when we add additional busses/seats.
Convention registration can be transferred to another person before June 1, 2023 by contacting [email protected] and providing the new person's information.
Cancellation requests must be sent to [email protected].
Before June 1, 2023: A refund, minus a $25 admin fee, will be processed.
After June 1, 2023: No refunds, however the Fun Badge tour can be transferred to another registered attendee at no cost.
All tours are transferrable. Tours are cancellable (with full refund minus $25 admin fee) before June 1, 2023 with the exception of the Fun Badge Tour which is non-refundable.
All sales are final. No refunds or cancellations.
Note: Some items require us to collect additional information about each item (ex: dance level, meal choice, first and last name, etc…). For these items you will need to add them one at a time to your cart and specify the correct information for each item. Example: First and last name of the person going on the tour.
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No Place Like Ottawa – Boat Tour
There is no place like Ottawa, especially on the water. See a side of Ottawa that not everyone sees on this 1.5 hour boat tour along the Ottawa River.
The Emerald City – Parliament Hill Walking Tour
Visit the grounds of the Parliament of Canada including the Senate, Rideau Canal, Plaza Bridge and Confederation Square.
We're Off To See the Women – Women's Walking Tour
Meet up with other women for a walk that stops at points of interest and talks about the contribution of women in Canadian history.
We're Not In Kansas Anymore – Gatineau Hills Day Trip
Spend the day exploring the Gatineau Hills, the Ottawa regions' natural playground including a visit to Wakefield Quebec and a covered bridge.


Remember to keep an eye on the Votes & Surveys page.
We've recently added a feedback form for the Sports Therapists (who many of you have now seen) and a question about a possible Founders Cup entry for next year.
Please let us know what you think; it's your club and needs to cater for what you want!


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Tech Insider
Google's new video-chatting app is finally here, but the best feature doesn't work for iPhone users
Danielle Muoio
Google released a video calling app Tuesday to compete with the likes of Apple's FaceTime.
GoogleWhat it looks like once you're in a Duo video call.
The tech giant first announced the app, Google Duo, at Google IO in May. It's a simple, one-to-one messaging app that doesn't come with a lot of fanfare — you simply scroll through your contacts to see who has the app, click, and connect. But as Nick Fox, vice president of Google's communications division, told Business Insider, that was intentional.
"I'd say if there's kind of one North Star, it was making it super, super simple," Fox said. "It's kind of drop dead simple. And we're kind of maniacal about it — cutting features, turning away features, and making it really, really easy."
Google Duo is entering a crowded space. Apple, Snapchat, and Facebook all offer video-calling services for consumers. That's not to mention Skype and even Google Hangouts. So if it doesn't have any noticeably edgy or cool features, why download it?
Fox argues there are two features that set it apart from its competitors: it's designed specifically for mobile and it's a cross-platform product, meaning you can download it on any device.
"We do believe that video calling should work for everyone," he said. "It shouldn't't be limited to one OS. It should work across Android and iOS."
That could arguably be a jab at FaceTime, which can only be used on iOS devices. But that doesn't really address other competitive apps like Snapchat, Facebook, or, yes, even Skype's mobile app. People who want to make video calls to those with different phones already have an app that will get them there.
Google was sure to play up Duo's Knock-Knock feature at IO. The video shows a live video preview of the person calling you before you even pick up the video call. That way, the person on the other end can start waving or show you were they are before you even pick up.
It's actually a really cute feature, and I could see it being fun to use if you want to tease exciting news like concert tickets you got for your friend.
However, it doesn't work on iOS devices. Fox said that's because Apple doesn't allow third-party developers to access the lock screen, so instead a notification shows when a video call is coming.
"So you don't really get the full Knock-Knock experience on the iPhone until they give us the ability to do it," he said.
This is unfortunate considering Knock-Knock is Google Duo's most interesting and unique feature. For some, the limitation may make it that much harder to justify downloading yet another app when it functions so similarly to what's already out there.
The last distinguishing feature Duo is said to offer is that it provides a video-calling experience even in areas of poor service. As Fox explained:
"When you're in the call, if you're on a really high-quality WiFi network or great LTE network, it will be in beautiful HD, great video, great audio. But as you get to more impaired networks, [the quality] will degrade gracefully from HD to maybe standard definition, and if you get to a network that can't support video, it will again degrade to audio only."
I gave it a shot with Business Insider's Jillian D'Onfro. First we took it from the office, to LTE, and lastly the elevator.
In the office, the quality was clear, but the picture was a bit foggy. Still, totally acceptable by my standards for a video call.
Business Insider/Jillian D'Onfro
Once we got to LTE, the video became pixelated. We got a warning that we were entering an area of weaker service, but it didn't look great.
Business Insider/Danielle Muoio
In the elevator the video call cut off entirely. That's something I'd expect with any video-calling app, but I didn't exactly feel it degraded "gracefully."
Overall, Google Duo is a fine app, but it will probably appeal a lot more to Android users than iPhone users.
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Full of functionality and style, the Training Supply Jacket is made to meet the demands of the modern gym or studio-goer. You swiftly can fold it up and convert it into a gym sack complete with elastic straps. Once it's unfolded out in all of its glory, you have an elegant, longer length silhouette and a shaped hem. And there's a drawstring hood if the weather on workout day looks unpredictable.


The PARSENAME function returns the specified part of an object name. The parts of an object that can be retrieved are the object name, owner name, database name and server name. The PARSENAME function does not indicate whether an object by the specified name exists. PARSENAME just returns the specified part of the specified object name.
The object_name parameter is the name of the object for which to retrieve the specified object part. The object_partparameter, which is of int data type, is the object part to return and can have a value of 1 for the object name, 2 for the schema name, 3 for the database name and 4 for the server name.
The PARSENAME() function can be useful for parsing small strings. It returns parts 1-4 (working right to left) of a string, with each part delimited by periods.
This can be handy when you need to parse an IP address, or very simple CSV strings. Just REPLACE() the commas with periods and you are good to go. Just remember you are working backwards.
This is a system function, designed to parse SQL Server 4-part names, so it only works with periods and strings with 4 parts. But it can be useful!
Another use of the PARSENAME function is to split a 2-part full name into first name and last name.
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White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares is a digital poem, which includes a mixture of primarily the English language with some instances of Spanish. In this work Glazier explores alternatives to our customary experiences, through the use of a generator which changes the text of the poems every 10 seconds, turning it from it's traditional static state to one with movement and change. Furthermore, the evocation of traveling through the images and anecdotes, provides an exploration of a multilingual and multicultural experience. Additionally, the presences of the HTML code leads to a work with multiple possibilities, primarily on how the reader perceives and experiences the work due to the possible technical reading of the code and the multiple possible poetic readings.
Blending Spanish and English and offering a sort of postcard prelude to each of its constantly changing stanzas, White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares is a poem that explores alternatives and crossings. From line to line the reader can enjoy the turns of phrase but then must figure out how to deal with their constantly turning nature. Options include waiting for the line that was being read to re-appear, re-starting from the beginning of the line that just appeared, or continuing from the middle of the word or phrase.
White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares es un poema digital, originalmente escrito en inglés y español. Después la obra fue traducida completamente al español. La obra de Glazier explora los varios alternativos a nuestras experiencias habituales, a través el uso de un generador que muta el texto del poema cada 10 segundos, resultando en un poema dinámico y cambiante, en contraste a su forma tradicional, estático. Además, las imágenes y anécdotas dentro del poema evocan una esencia de viaje, proporcionando una experiencia de la multilingüe y multicultural. Por último, el uso del código HTML convierte la obra en una de múltiple posibilidades, no solo por su generador, pero por su capacidad de ser experimentada y percibida por el lector en distintas formas, como una lectura técnica (de código HTML) o poética.
Author Reading notes: Allow [title] page to cycle for a while, so you can take in some of the images and variant titles. When you are ready, press begin. Once there, read each page slowly, watching as each line periodically re-constitutes itself re-generating randomly selected lines with that line's variant. Eight-line poems have 256 possible versions; nine-line poems have 512 possible versions.
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Feeling the tremors
Scientists in New Mexico are working on technology they hope will one day predict earthquakes before they happen, potentially saving thousands of lives.
The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 will surely go down in history as one of the most terrible tragedies of this century. An estimated 228,000 people across 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean perished when an undersea earthquake triggered a series of huge tsunamis. As with all major earthquakes, the death toll was exacerbated because the victims had little or no warning.
Geoscientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US state of New Mexico are hoping that, God forbid, should another earthquake occur on this scale, they will be able to warn anyone in the strike zone early enough that they can take evasive action. They have developed technology which uses machine learning to track the acoustic signals emitted by a controlled fault in a laboratory, allowing them to predict the time remaining before their artificial earthquake strikes.
Once a secret military base (this is where the atomic bomb was first developed), Los Alamos National Laboratory is now focused on promoting national security through science. Predicting the arrival of a massive earthquake certainly falls into that category.
"This is truly a revolution," says Paul Johnson who is leading the project. "Machine learning allows us to solve problems that have been difficult for us since the beginning of science. In particular, studies of fault physics and earthquake forecasting have been something we haven't made much headway in over the last three or four decades."
But now they are making headway. It's all thanks to advances in the storage and processing of very large quantities of data – so-called big data. "We have faster computers than we've ever had," says Johnson. "Also, we've seen real headway in neural networks – an artificial intelligence approach that allows the computer to learn from new data and update its own results to reflect the implications of new information. These are real game changers."
But how does Johnson and his team simulate earthquakes in a laboratory? He compares it to pulling a brick with a spring across a rough surface, such as a carpet. At first, there's enough resistance to hold the brick. The spring gets longer as you apply more force, and then eventually: bang! The brick lurches forward.
"That's the equivalent of a laboratory earthquake," he says. "Our technology is able to predict when the fault will slip by measuring the quantitative information from the noise it's making."
Credit: Todd Josie
Machine-learning algorithms can predict failure times of laboratory earthquakes with remarkable accuracy. The acoustic emission signal reliably predicts failure far into the future. This is a surprise, Paul points out, because it was assumed that only big movements were relevant for predicting earthquakes. Small fluctuations were previously neglected.
"Surprise is maybe an understatement," he explains. "But there are so many surprises here that nothing is a surprise anymore. It's really hard to know where this will go because it's moving so rapidly."
The speed of discovery is causing tremors within the geoscientist community too. This area of science has been divided for many years over whether faults are deterministic. In other words, do they follow specific patterns that will lead to an earthquake? Or are they random in nature?
What we claim is that we're going to make tremendous advances towards that question. If, in my lifetime, we actually were able to predict earthquakes, that would be remarkable.
Paul Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"We're definitely feeling the heat," said Johnson. "Our work is really the only work that has demonstrated determinism without a doubt. We're trying to be honest with ourselves and the community. We don't claim that we're going to predict earthquakes on Earth. What we claim is that we're going to make tremendous advances towards that question. If, in my lifetime, we actually were able to predict earthquakes, that would be remarkable."
Johnson is ready to accept that he may not end up being the earthquake soothsayer. More likely, he admits, his work will help another scientist in the future to save people from destruction.
Besides, his team faces a major challenge before they can forecast earthquakes in the real world. "Real earthquakes take place on timescales that aren't human: many thousands of years," explains Johnson. "We only have a small window of access, so we lack the big data to build the machine-learning model."
Earthquake disaster movies are usually full of Hollywood A-listers and CGI effects. Johnson and his team are trying to save the world with bricks and springs. You wouldn't bet against them, though. In Johnson's voice you can hear the enthusiasm.
"This a great time to work in this field," he says. "It's the most exciting thing I've worked on in my career, hands down."
Credit: Andrew Buchanan
Already a bad century for earthquakes
History is full of devastating earthquakes, and this century alone has already added some of the deadliest and costliest on record.
Boxing Day tsunami, 2004
It started with an earthquake that struck the sea bed of the Indian Ocean, measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale. The waves spread death and destruction from the Maldives to Thailand, claiming up to a quarter of million lives and costing billions of dollars of damage – all in under ten minutes.
Haiti earthquake, 2010
Haiti is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake (7.0 on Richter scale) which killed well over 100,000 people. Unconfirmed government figures suggest up to three times this amount. The epicentre was just 25 km from the capital Port-au-Prince, causing widespread collapse of buildings. This was a quake that kept on quaking, sending dozens of heavy aftershocks over the following fortnight.
Tohoku earthquake, 2011
In 2011, the Tohoku region of Japan suffered a 9.03 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful recorded in Japan. At 16,000, the death toll was lower than others, but it was the structural damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that dominated headlines, as the authorities raced to bring the reactor meltdown under control.
Nepal earthquake, 2015
In 2015, the eyes of the world turned to Nepal, as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Himalayas with an impact thought to equal 20 thermo-nuclear weapons. Despite the rapid international response, the country is still undertaking a massive reconstruction programme, with remote communities battling the damage to roads, water infrastructure and homes.
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Q: how to avoid cross join? I want to update/replace table data using batch file. And i store old_data in old.txt file and new_data in new.txt file.
old.txt:
101
India

new.txt:
1001
0891

and here is my batch script: demo.bat
@echo off
for /f "tokens=1* delims= " %%a in (old.txt) do (
for /f "tokens=1* delims= " %%b in (new.txt) do (

mysql -u root -p tiger -host localhost -database empsrc -e "update table_name set col_name='%%b' where col_name='%%a'"

)
)
pause

when i execute the above batch file
101 is replaced with 1001 and
india is also replaced with 1001

But,my Expected Output is
101 is replaced  with 1001
India should be replaced with 0891

how can i solve this problem ? can someone help me please

A: The FOR commands will execute one inside the other, creating the combinations of:
101, 1001
India, 1001
101, 0891
India, 0891

You would like one loop that reads in one entry from each file, then
execute the code.
Based on this answer,
here is a script that will echo the strings in pairs:
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Rem First file is read with FOR /F command
Rem Second file is read via standard handle 3
3< old.txt (for /F "delims=" %%a in (new.txt) do (
  Rem Read next line from file2.txt
  set /P line2=<&3
  Rem Echo lines of both files
  echo %%a,!line2!
))

Here is the output: