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Rock 'n' Roll Series Eliminates North American Elite Athletes Program
By: David Monti, @d9monti
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(31-Aug) — Competitor Group Inc. (CGI), the San Diego-based operator of the the global Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and Half-Marathon series, has eliminated its elite athletes program at North American events with immediate effect. The series, which boasts 38 stops in North America in 2013, began with just one event, the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in San Diego in 1998.
"Competitor Group have made a strategic business decision to shift resources in the business," began an e-mail from CGI elite athlete coordinator Matt Turnbull to a group of athlete representatives. "As a consequence the Elite Athlete Program in all North American events has been cancelled with immediate effect."
Race Results Weekly obtained a copy of the e-mail from two different agents, while a third confirmed the program cancellation in a text message calling it, "awful news."
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"The sport just seems under economic assault everywhere," wrote the agent who did not want to be identified.
Turnbull, the former elite athletes manager for Nova International, the British organizer of the Great Run series, said that the cancellation included one of CGI's marquis events in the United States, the 36th Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon scheduled for Sunday, September 15. That event, which had over 15,000 finishers last year, routinely produced the fastest half-marathon times in North America, including the North American all-comers records for both men and women: 58:46 (Stanley Biwott, Kenya, 2011) and 67:11 (Kim Smith, New Zealand, 2011).
"Obviously my biggest concern is Philadelphia which takes place in just over 2 weeks time," continued Turnbull. "I'm aware that some of you have already purchased airfares for athletes and these will be reimbursed in full. If your athlete(s) still want to compete for prize money they are welcome to travel and will be looked after accordingly, though any agreed appearance fees unfortunately will not be paid."
CGI is the successor company of Elite Racing, founded in San Diego by Tim Murphy and the late Mike Long in the 1990's. Elite Racing invented the Rock 'n' Roll race concept in 1997, with the first event, the Suzuki Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in San Diego, held June 21, 1998. The event generated over 18,000 entries in its first year, and was won by Kenya's Philip Tarus (2:10:42) and Russia's Nadhezda Ilyina (2:34:17). The winners received $55,000 in cash and merchandise from Suzuki.
From there, the Rock 'n' Roll brand grew steadily, driven by Murphy's proven formula of generating positive economic impact for cities (an independent analysis by a University of San Diego economics professor, Dr. Kokili Doshi, determined that the first event generated a whopping $78.7 million in economic activity). The series added another marathon in 2000, under the "Country Music" name, in Nashville, Tenn., and a half-marathon in Virginia Beach under the Rock 'n' Roll brand in 2001. Another marathon and half-marathon was added in Phoenix in 2004; a half-marathon in San Jose, Calif., in 2006; and a marathon and half-marathon in San Antonio, Texas, in 2008. The events always featured large elite fields and some of the world's best athletes –Deena Kastor, Haile Gebrselassie, Paul Tergat, Duncan Kibet, Fatuma Roba, Edna Kiplagat, and Meb Keflezighi– all ran in Rock 'n' Roll events.
Long, a former stockbroker whose personal charisma as an athlete recruiter helped the Rock 'n' Roll brand spread, died in July, 2007. Competitor Group, Inc. was formed at the end of that year by a New York investment fund, Falconhead Capital, which joined Elite's race management business with the owners of "Triathlete" and "Competitor" magazines, eventually adding Inside Communications, publishers of "VeloNews" and "Inside Triathlon." With Falconhead's money, the series exploded to over 40 stops worldwide. Falcolnhead sold the company to another investment fund, Calera Capital, in November, 2012.
While elite fields had always been a component the Rock 'n' Roll formula, CGI had tinkered with with that formula several times. Most recently, prize money had been reduced at most of the events to only a $1000 award for the winners, but races like Philadelphia continued to have stronger prize money and also paid appearance fees (the male and female Philadelphia winners earned $3500, $9500, and $3500, respectively, the last three years). CGI also made annual deals with well-known athletes like Ryan Hall, Deena Kastor, and Kara Goucher, who appeared at various Rock 'n' Roll events over the last several years. The status of those arrangements is unknown (Hall is scheduled to run the Rock 'n' Roll San Jose Half-Marathon on October 6, a CGI representative said just last week).
Turnbull, a tireless advocate for professional road running who sometimes lived for months out of a suitcase, was greatly saddened by the new direction his employer was taking.
"Both Tracy Sundlun (the CGI executive vice-president) and I are truly heartbroken that this has occurred and I'd like to thank you all for your support over the years at our races," Turnbull wrote.
Turnbull also said that the elite athletes program at CGI's European events would remain unchanged, led by Portugal's Carlos Moia and Spain's Miguel Mostaza.
Editor's note: David Monti is the elite athlete coordinator for the New York Road Runners and the ING New York Marathon. Thank goodness for the future of the sport and inspiring future generations of runners the NYRR exists.
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Post Dinosauria – The Mammals Got Big
Why did the Mammals get Big after the Cretaceous Mass Extinction?
With the dinosaurs dead and gone, it was the mammals that took over the mega fauna roles in the Palaeogene and with the exception of the Phorusrhacids in South America, the mammals went onto to dominate food chains and ecosystems across the planet. However, the types of mammals that became the biggest plant-eaters and carnivores varied as the Cenozoic progressed.
The question remains, as to how the mammals, so long in the shadow of the Dinosauria, were able to diversify and dominate, leading to the evolution of animals many thousands the times heavier than their Cretaceous ancestors just twenty million years later.
The Class Mammalia, has ancient roots. Many unique groups of small mammals evolved during the Mesozoic, but today there are only three main Orders, the monotremes (egg laying mammals), the marsupials (possums and wombats etc.) and the most successful Order to date – the placentals (bats, hoofed animals, tigers, dogs, whales and of course, ourselves).
In a new study, published in the scientific journal "Science", an international team of researchers have concluded that the mammals were able to exploit food resources and adapted to colder climatic conditions and this combination of factors led to them increasing in size. Some of the largest mammals, for example, rivalled the dinosaurs in terms of bulk. Indricotheres, ancient ancestors of modern rhinos, were perhaps the largest. Weighing over 15 tonnes and standing nearly 5 metres high at the shoulder, these giant herbivores are known from Oligocene strata from the famous Hsanda Gol formation and other fossilferous strata of the Asian sub-continent.
A Scale Diagram of an Indricothere (Paraceratherium)
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The research project funded by a US Foundation National Science grant brought together scientists from universities all over the world to track the mammalian fossil record and analyse how they diversified and grew bigger.
Researcher Jessica Theodor of the University of Calgary (Canada) commented:
"When dinosaurs went extinct, maximum mammal size was between one and ten kilogrammes, in that size range. But it did not take long for mammals to start growing after the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, leaving loads of vegetation for others to eat."
She went on to add:
"Twenty-five million years later, we have mammals that are a thousand times bigger."
The two year study, conducted by researchers from around the world, examined the mammalian fossil record in a bid to understand how the mammals became big. With the dinosaurs around, the quick-metabolising mammals had to try to compete with larger reptilian rivals for food resources, the mammals were not able to compete. With the mass extinction event, mammals took their opportunity and rapidly came to dominate.
The research team concluded that trends in mammalian growth were seen on all the continents, what was happening in Asia was also being mirrored in the Americas and Europe.
Researcher John Gittlemen of the University of Georgia stated:
"It includes information on the size of all mammals, living and fossil, from around the world. The database is powerful and unique."
Having compiled such an extensive database, examining large body bones and tooth fossils, both of which provide solid evidence of overall animal size, the researchers were able to draw conclusions regarding the science of growing big.
Jessica Theodor concluded:
"There is strong selection pressure for herbivores to get really big. Being big protects you from predation because very large herbivores do not get preyed on very much."
In addition, falling global temperatures over the later stages of the Palaeocene and the Eocene would have led to the evolution of bigger body sizes, as large animals are able to maintain a constant internal temperature more efficiently than smaller creatures.
Jessica added:
"Large mammals do not have to work so hard to stay warm, so cold climates tend to favour the evolution of large mammals. More food would have been available to bigger mammals because their stomachs were larger and produced compounds that could break down tougher parts of trees and plants."
Larger animals could accommodate a larger gut, permitting these creatures to specialise in different kinds of herbivory eating parts of plants that are not that nutritious. Such animals could rely on gut bacteria to break down plant cellulose.
Interestingly, the scientists discovered that just because you are "top dog" one day or epoch, there is no guarantee that you are going to stay on top.
Reflecting on this finding, Theodor said:
"It was not the case that say, elephants get big and then elephants are always the biggest mammal [land living] on the planet. There are times when it is giant rhinos, there are times when in South America it is all kinds of weird things including – believe it or not camels."
Commenting on the study, a spokesperson for Everything Dinosaur stated:
"Camels are ruminants and being big permits them to have large guts to handle fibrous vegetation. Today we think of camels as animals living in dry, arid environments, however, many extinct species were at home in forest habitats and grassland environments."
The change in dominance implies that there is something fundamental about being a large mammal. The research team have concluded that the "top dog" niche exists apart from who is filling it. It is an open space into which some type of mammal will move.
This research suggests that in the future other types of mammal may grow large to take over from the Proboscidea (animals with trunks such as elephants) as the largest land living mammals. Giant pigs, racoons, or horses perhaps?
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What months do the Royals play the best?
They are slow starters, but love the summer months.
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Turn the page on your calendar, the Royals can put May and that 11-game losing streak behind them. With a fresh new month, the Royals are undefeated in June, and with a good month they can put themselves firmly in contention for a playoff spot this summer.
Has June been a kind month to them in the past? Let's take a look at how the Royals have done each month historically, from worst to best.
March/April (502-603, .454)
Best April: 1978 (14-5), 2003 (17-7)
Worst April: 1992 (3-17), 2006 (5-17)
If it seems like the Royals are traditionally slow starters, that's because they are. The Royals have ended the first month with a losing record in 31 of 52 seasons April baseball was played. The worst was in 1992, when the Hal McRae-led bunch dropped 15 of their first 16 contests. It is no surprise the 2005, 2006, and 2018 clubs stumbled out of the gate, but the 2017 team still had their championship core, and buried themselves in a 7-16 hole that may have cost them a post-season spot.
On the flip side, the 2003 Royals won their first nine games in a row to begin the year, and a 17-7 start in April helped fuel a surprising run that kept them in contention through the summer. The 2015 Royals also got off to a solid 15-7 start to show the league that their pennant the previous season was no fluke.
May (664-757, .467)
Best May: 1976 (20-10), 1987 (18-9)
Worst May: 2006 (8-21), 2013 (8-20)
May has seemed like a pesky month for Royals in recent memory. The 2009 Royals were cruising along with an 18-11 record until an 11-17 May that ended with an eight-game losing streak that carried over into June. The 2013 Royals made a late charge and may have made the playoffs had they not been torpedoed by an 8-20 May. Even the 2014 Royals seemed doomed early in the year with a 12-17 May that saw them demote struggling third baseman Mike Moustakas. And a poor May (that followed a poor April) cost General Manager Allard Baird his job in 2006.
But some Royals clubs have overcome the May curse. The 1976 Royals won 16 of 19 at one point in May, to finish with a 20-10 record that month and a one-game lead in the West over Texas. The 2016 Royals looked like a team ready to repeat as champs when they went 17-11 in May, winning 12 of 15 to end the month.
July (651-722, .474)
Best July: 1978 (20-8), 1977 (18-8)
Worst July: 2004 (7-20), 2016 (7-19)
July is the month of the non-waiver trade deadline, and more years than not, the Royals play like sellers. A young 2012 team had hopes that a decent July could give them a taste of contention and entered the month just six games out of first, but a 7-19 month ended those dreams. Not even a Cy Young season from Zack Greinke could save the 2009 Royals from going 7-19 in July - Greinke went winless despite a 2.53 ERA in five starts that month. The 2016 Royals looked on their way to being back in the mix, but a 7-19 month but that in doubt.
But George Brett's Royals teams thrived in July. In 1977, the Royals were hanging around .500 until a hot 18-8 July kickstarted them towards a club-record 102 wins. The 1978 club won ten in a row and went from being down a game to taking a four-game lead for first. And the 1980 club went 18-9 that month on their way to a pennant.
September/October (725-769, .485)
Best September: 1977 (26-6), 2008 (18-8)
Worst September: 1974 (8-22), 2002 (7-19)
Teams want to finish the season strong, and a few Royals teams have done just that. The 1977 Royals went on an absurd run in September, winning 26 of their final 32 games to coast to a division title. The 2013 Royals made a surprising run at the end of the year to creep back into the Wild Card hunt, going 17-10 in the final month of the season.
Most of the poor finishes were on bad teams - 2002, 2007, 2010. But the pennant-winning 1980 club also finished poorly, going 12-19 in September, but that is probably because they entered the month with a whopping 19.5 game lead in the division and were on cruise control.
June (673-696, .492)
Best June: 1972 (18-9), 1976 (19-10)
Worst June: 2018 (5-21), 1970 (7-19)
The 1972 Royals got off to a dreadful 13-24 start, but a hot 18-9 June steadied their season as they finished close to .500 that year. It was in June that the 2014 eventual pennant-winning Royals would first make their move, winning ten in a row at one point, and going 17-10 in the month.
The rebuilding Royals have been particularly dreadful in June. The 2018 (5-21) and 2019 (10-17) clubs fell apart that month, but in 2020 the team actually went undefeated in June! Well, it was just one game, but still.
August (739-735, .501)
Best August: 1980 (23-7), 1989 (21-8)
Worst August: 2005 (5-21), 2008 (7-20)
Some Royals clubs have absolutely folded in the August heat. The 2005 Royals went 5-21 with a 6.13 club ERA in the month of August. That's what happens when you have Runelvys Hernandez and Jose Lima in your rotation.
But for the most part, Royals teams play well in August, the only month where they have an overall winning record. The 1980 club pretty much clinched the division in August with a 23-7 month. The 1989 Royals climbed to within a few games back of the mighty A's and the Bash Brothers with a 21-8 month. The 2016 Royals followed a dreadful July with a red-hot 20-9 August that gave them hopes of climbing back in the Wild Card hunt. Even the 90-loss 2012 Royals managed to go 17-11 in August.
Why do the Royals play so well in August? Well they have a home-field advantage with the weather. Tell 'em, Ichiro.


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Our guide will pick you from your hotel to start your visit to the Citadel of Saladin, where panoramic views of the city of Cairo can be seen. Here you will also visit the spectacular Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt. Your next stop will be at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities where over 120,000 objects in its 107 halls – including the treasures of Tutankhamen (King Tut) – are exhibited. . You will then proceed back to your hotel in Cairo.
After breakfast, you will drive southwards to Egypt's first capital, Memphis where you will visit the ruins of the temple of Ptah, the fallen colossal statue of King Ramses the 2nd and the Alabaster Sphinx of King Amenophis the 2nd. A short drive from Memphis lies the oldest, ancient cemetery of Sakkara. The world's first monumental stone building, the Step Pyramid of King Zoser, built by the engineer Imhotep almost 5,000 ago, still stands. After visiting the complex you continue to one of the Mastabas (tombs) built nearby, such as those of Ptah-Hotep, Mereruca, Idut or Ti for an inside visit.
You will then proceed to the Giza Plateau, where the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World is found, the imposing Pyramids of Giza. During your visit to the Pyramids you will have time for unique photo opportunities of the three Pyramids from the Western Plateau. Continue down the valley where the guardian of this mortuary complex, the Mighty Sphinx, bears witness to the passage of time and man in eons of silence. Then Transfer to the
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Breakfast. Visit the Kom-Ombo Temple (Located in Kom Ombo town, 45 km north of Aswan. It is built on a hillside overlooking the Nile. This temple was constructed in the Ptolemaic Roman era for the worship of god Haroeris and Sobek, the crocodile god. It is noted for relief engravings on its walls which show ancient surgical tools, bone saws and dentistry tools. Nearby there are three mummified crocodiles. They are now in Hathor's chapel). Sail to Edfu. Visit The Edfu Temple (Lies in Edfu town, 123 km north of Aswan on the west bank of the Nile. It dates to the Ptolemaic period. It was dedicated to the worship of god Hours represented as a falcon. It is one of the most beautiful Egyptian temples, distinguished by its huge splendid structure that blends Pharaonic and Greek architecture. Its grandeur competes with Luxor temples. It is the second largest temple after Karnak. It also houses the Nilometer and a huge pylon at the entrance). Cross the lock. Sail to Luxor. Dinner on board & Overnight in Luxor.
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Mad Max: Fury Road dominated with six wins for production design, costume design, makeup and hair, film editing, sound editing and sound mixing. And yes, it is remarkable that the costume designer (I was rooting for Sandy Powell who dress the inimitable Cate Blanchett in Cinderella and Carol, and was nominated for both) looked scruffy and underdressed for the occasion but with the glitz on the back of her jacket, it's clearly a style choice. The cobbler needs new shoes? It's the only movie I haven't seen and my son says I really should, if I want to call myself any kind of feminist. It just looks a shade too loud and violent for me!
The big wins were all over the place, a mix of the expected and surprises. In my opinion, the Best Picture award could have gone to Spotlight, The Big Short, Mad Max or the expected winner The Revenant, but Spotlight, a great movie with an important message and a fabulous ensemble cast won, along with Best Original Screenplay, and that felt right.
The Revenant still won critical awards, recognizing Alejandro Inarritu for his genius with Best Director, Emmanuel Ubezki for his vision with Best Cinematography & Leonardo DiCaprio with Best Actor as much for his acting as for his endurance in the wilds while making this movie and his endurance in the industry —he's been a working actor since the late 80's, his first of five nominations came in 1994 for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Leo, always a winner in a tuxedo, was sweet and humble as the winner, and used his win to remind us of the reality of climate change. So now that's it, done. As much as I love him we don't have to worry about Leo & Oscar, we can go back to wishing Leo & Kate would reunite in something. Anything. Or perhaps he and Brie could get up to something good?
When Brie Larson won Best Actress as expected, her Room co-star Jacob Tremblay cheered her on, looking as proud as only a real son would be. And the moment he stood up and craned his neck, his mouth wide open with wonder at the sight of the Star Wars characters on stage was out of this world. I hope Hollywood doesn't change that kid, that he doesn't grow up too soon. Famous last words.
Mark Rylance—who stole the Best Supporting Actor award from presumed winner Sylvester Stallone—made one of the best acceptance speeches of the night. I became familiar with Rylance in last year's Wolf Hall where he gave a similarly low-key, absolutely brilliant performance as he did in Bridge of Spies. Rylance won my heart with his gracious acceptance speech when he said: "I want to just say thank you to my fellow nominees. I don't know how they separate my acting from your glorious acting in these wonderful films that you're in, which everyone must see. I don't know how they separated the five of us from all the other supporting actors who are making films at the moment. It's a wonderful time to be an actor and I'm proud to be part of it." That's the kind of celebration of film I want to see more of.
Alicia Vikander —second only to Cate Blanchett in terms of What a dress!—won for Best Supporting Actress and while I LOVE Kate Winslet and thought she was brilliant as usual in Steve Jobs, Vikander broke my heart in The Danish Girl. I've said it before in this space, Vikander almost stole the movie from Eddie Redmayne.
While the 'who are you wearing' ridiculousness was rightly de-emphasized, Cate Blanchett wore it amazingly well. The dress was striking in its simplicity of construction, perfect fit, flattering color and all those frothy flowers, which only Cate, strong, outspoken, feisty Cate could pull off without being overshadowed.
The good news is there are already stories with men and women of color coming down the line. Films made prior to, and having nothing to do, with this big to-do. Movies made by producers, writers and directors who already recognized the value of showing the world as it is.
The first is Our Kind of Traitor, which you'll find under the tab Movies Based on Books 2016. Based on the LeCarre novel, Our Kind of Traitor stars Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris (in a role not written as black), directed by a woman, Susanna White. They didn't talk about that lack of diversity last night. It's coming out May 13 in the UK, no date so far in the US. Perhaps this controversy will stir things up? Hope so!
The Ink Factory also has Message from the King with Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans & Theresa Palmer coming out sometime in 2016. About a 'mysterious outsider named Jacob King from South Africa arrives in Los Angeles to avenge his younger sister's death.' My husband worked on that one, produced by LeCarre's sons, Simon & Stephen Cornwall, the men behind the Ink Factory label. And I went to the wrap party and met Chadwick, a hunky nice guy with a whole lot of charisma.
We'll also be seeing Star Wars leading man John Boyega playing a pivotal part in The Circle, a role not specifically written as black in Dave Eggers novel, but cast as a young black man by director James Ponsoldt. I just finished the book; loved it but have a feeling I'll love the movie more. At 500ish pages, there's definitely material that can be edited away to make a fine film.
So that's just a few projects to look forward to seeing at next year's Oscars.
Did you enjoy this year's show? Let me know, I love hearing your thoughts.
I didn't get the Costume Design Oscar to Mad Max at all, especially given the competition with Cinderella (and in the trailer they passed to show us the costumes, the actors were basically half-naked).
I didn't see The Danish Girl yet but when Alicia Vikander won I briefly thought that the Academy didn't want to give the two Titanic co-star an Oscar the same night. I absolutely loved Kate's performance in Steve Jobs but it seems Alicia's win was deserved.
I was surprised by Spotlight, honestly. I was almost sure that Inarritu wouldn't win both Best Director and Best Picture this year but I thought that would give it to The Martian for popularity's sake. Happy that Mad Max didn't win though!


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Kogleaks (Bolboschoenus) er en slægt med 4-5 arter, der er udbredt på alle kontinenter, bortset fra Antarktis. Det er flerårige, urteagtige planter med udløbere. Stænglerne er trekantede og bladbærende. Bladene er stift oprette og græsagtige med en trekantet spids. Den endestillede stand af småaks er omgivet af flere højblade. Hvert småaks har over 5 blomster, som er 3-tallige og uregelmæssige. Frugterne er trekantede stenfrugter.

 Strandkogleaks (Bolboschoenus maritimus)

 Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
 Bolboschoenus robustus
 Bolboschoenus yagara

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Cape Town - Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City are starting from scratch in the defence of their Premier League crown, as he braces himself for a tougher challenge from their title rivals.
City reached 100 points as they dominated the Premier League last season, with a 19-point buffer separating them from second placed Manchester United.
But boss Guardiola expects the rest of the Premier League's top six clubs to mount a sterner threat this time around, with Liverpool investing heavily, and Arsenal and Chelsea under the stewardship of new managers.
Ahead of Sunday's clash with Arsenal, the former Barcelona manager added that City's performances last season are no guarantee that they can have such success again.
"We were the best, definitely, no doubts about that, but we don't play alone. We can do our job but the others can do their job too," said Guardiola.
"We can do our job the same as last season but maybe Liverpool or United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Tottenham can do much better and they win.
"We can be excellent but the others can be excellent too. We cannot deny the other contenders. There was a gap last season but this season I don't know.
"Because of what we did last season now we are going to win? Nobody can assure me of that. We start again. That is why it is fascinating, it is a new challenge.
"But winning helps to win more. During the season we will have really bad moments - it is impossible to have the perfect season all the time - but when you win one title you can win another one. It helps for the future to know that."
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0h h1 – Games for Android 2018 – Free download. 0h h1 – An interesting puzzle game with colored tiles.
0h h1 for Android is a challenging puzzle game where you need to tap tiles into a red and blue pattern, to meet a whole bunch of strict rules. You can't have three consecutive tiles the same color, no two rows or columns can be the same, and you need to have the same number of red and blue tiles in each row and column.
You'll have to think a few steps ahead about how to change all the tiles so you can meet all these stringent conditions. It calculates a score based I guess on how long it took you, and how many steps, so you can try to beat your own score. I guess the ultimate challenge would be to fill the empty spaces correctly the first time.
You can play on a 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, or 10x10 grid. The 4x4 game is fairly easy to master but good for a bit of fun. 6x6 is more challenging, but good to give your mind a bit of a workout. Anything bigger than that just seems like too much to manage. How are you meant to juggle all the different rules and combinations at the same time? It's possible to finish them, but only by following the suggestions, not really by thinking the whole through for yourself.
I like the simple game design, and it seems pretty original. But having solved the puzzle once, there doesn't seem like there's that much to make me want to keep doing it again and again.
The tiles the game starts with are locked so they can't be changed. I guess this is to make the game more difficult, so you can't change anything you want, and constrains it a bit. I'm not sure if there is always just one solution; but it seems like there would be multiple possibilities, especially on larger grids.
Unique logic games are finally seeming to become a really cool fad on the mobile game platform, which I'm really digging. 0h h1 for Android is a game that cleverly borrows a few ideas from really popular puzzle games and puts a cool twist on them. Also, what does the name of the game look like to you?
Gameplay is grid-based and the main way I can think to describe it is comparing it to Sudoku with colors. You're not trying to figure out a math problem necessarily, but you're trying to fill out a grid with a few limitations. First off, you can't have more than a few of the same colored tiles next to each other. You also have to have an even amount of colored tiles in each column and row.
A typical 4x4 game is really simple, so the game let's you dramatically increase the difficulty by allowing you to increase the size of the board. Just bumping it up to a 6x6 board is a pretty decent bump in difficulty, but not overly so.
The game's aesthetic and UI is really great. Everything is really simple and I really enjoy the black, red, and blue color scheme the game has going on. It just feels really clean.
0h h1 is a logic game with difficulty that scales to whatever you want. Unlike other level-based puzzle games, you can set your own difficulty and every game is based on your own decisions, which is a really unique idea. I'd definitely recommend giving this a go the next time you've got a few minutes to kill.


Ever wonder what goes on at REAL during the winter??... Nope, we don't all take off to the Caribbean...Or close for the winter.
We're right here in Cape Hatteras, improving all areas of the experience so that each year gets better. Here's a sneak peek at what we've been up to.


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With almost 250 different diagnosis codes to choose from, it's no wonder that diabetes is among the most difficult diseases to code. Yet once you understand type, control, drug use, complications, and comorbidities, diabetes coding can be as straightforward as coding any other condition.
So, these five basic coding hints will help you streamline the way you code this prevalent condition that now affects so many.
Coders in the otolaryngology specialty can quickly narrow down their diabetes code choices by bypassing three of the five diabetes categories that are rarely used in the otolaryngology setting.
As the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) explains, category E08 (Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition) features secondary codes that are caused by underlying conditions such as cystic fibrosis or diseases of the pancreas, while category E09 (Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus), as the descriptor explains, are secondary codes used when the diabetes is brought on by drug or toxin poisoning (Source: https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/1100/fpm20131100p22-rt1.pdf).
Otolaryngology coders will also rarely reach for category E13 (Other specified diabetes mellitus), as the codes in this subsection are used when genetic defects and pancreatectomy cause the diabetes.
This leaves coders with two main categories for the two main types of diabetes: E10 (Type 1 diabetes mellitus) and E11 (Type 2 diabetes mellitus).
Joy Dugan and Jay Shubrook, authors of "International Classification of Diseases-10 Coding for Diabetes" (http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/diaclin/early/2017/08/10/cd16-0052.full.pdf), then suggest coders look at the level or degree of diabetes control.
ICD-10 does not include any explicit reference to controlled or uncontrolled diabetes. However, the level of control is indicated as a complication in the fourth and fifth characters: EXX.64X in the case of hypoglycemia (blood sugar levels below 70 mg/dl), and EXX.65 for hyperglycemia (blood sugar levels above 130 mg/dl).
Dugan and Shubrook also remind coders that "long-term" simply means that the drug therapy is intended for an extended duration, and the code can be used immediately once the drug use begins.
EXX.8- — … with unspecified complications.
The only exception to this sequence is E11.0- (Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hyperosmolarity), as this complication, where extremely high blood sugar levels occur without the presence of ketones, is unique to type 2 diabetes.
E11.621 — Type 2 diabetes mellitus with foot ulcer.


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Longs Peak was named after Major Stephen Harriman Long - an American army officer and explorer. He encountered it in 1820 but didn't climb the peak. Besides, the first ascent recorded was on the 23rd of August, 1868, by John Wesley Powell and Party. Again, the first woman to ascend the mountain's trailhead was Addie Alexander in 1871
Further, Longs Peak is known as the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park. It is also the northernmost fourteener in the Rocky Mountains.
Prominently, Longs Peak can be seen from Longmont, Colorado. It resembles a beaver when viewed from the northeast.
It is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness of the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, United States.
Longs Peak is a fantastic summit which makes it one of the most desirable Peaks in Colorado. Nevertheless, it is one of the toughest fourteeners to climb.
Longs Peak has an elevation of 14,255ft (4345m) with an elevation gain of 1,536m.
It is one of the most striking summits in Colorado, rising 9,000 ft (2,700 m) above the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Longs Peak is located in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder County, north-central Colorado.
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There are various trails to get to the Longs Peak summit. Moreover, the Keyhole route is the most popular among them all. The route feature a 15miles roundtrip with an elevation of 5,000 feet.
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Margaret Stone | www.artheat.net: A group show featuring work by Zanele Muholi, Andrew Putter, Pierre Fouche and Werner Ungerer, Ernst Van der Wal, Lizza Littlewort, Robert Hamblin, James Tayler, Julie Donald, Kai Lossgott, Jody Paulsen, Igshaan Adams, Genevieve Louw and Johke Steenkamp, William Martin, Lindsay Nel, Andrea Brand, and others.
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De César voor beste debuutfilm (Frans: César du meilleur premier film) is de César-filmprijs die jaarlijks wordt uitgeraakt aan de beste debuutfilm. Deze César werd voor het eerst uitgereikt in 1982, toen nog onder de naam César de la meilleure première œuvre. Van 2000 tot 2005 werd deze César uitgereikt als César de la meilleure première œuvre de fiction. Vanaf 2006 werd dit César du meilleur premier film.

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Jaren 80
1982: Diva - Regie: Jean-Jacques Beineix
 Le Jardinier - Regie: Jean-Pierre Sentier
 Neige - Regie: Jean-Henri Roger et Juliet Berto
 Une affaire d'hommes - Regie: Nicolas Ribowski
1983 : Mourir à trente ans - Regie: Romain Goupil
 Josepha - Regie: Christopher Frank
 Lettres d'amour en Somalie - Regie: Frédéric Mitterrand
 Tir groupé - Regie: Jean-Claude Missiaen
1984 : Rue Cases-Nègres - Regie: Euzhan Palcy
 Le Dernier combat - Regie: Luc Besson
 Le Destin de Juliette - Regie: Aline Issermann
 La Trace - Regie: Bernard Favre
1985 : La Diagonale du fou - Regie: Richard Dembo
 Boy Meets Girl - Regie: Leos Carax
 Marche à l'ombre - Regie: Michel Blanc
 Souvenirs, souvenirs - Regie: Ariel Zeitoun
1986 : Le Thé au harem d'Archimède - Regie: Mehdi Charef
 Harem - Regie: Arthur Joffé
 La Nuit porte-jarretelles - Regie: Virginie Thévenet
 Strictement personnel - Regie: Pierre Jolivet
1987 : La Femme de ma vie - Regie: Régis Wargnier
 Black Mic-Mac - Regie: Thomas Gilou
 Je hais les acteurs - Regie: Gérard Krawczyk
 Noir et blanc - Regie: Claire Devers
1988 : L'Œil au beurre noir - Regie: Serge Meynard
 Avril brisé - Regie: Liria Begeja
 Flag - Regie: Jacques Santi
 Le Jupon rouge - Regie: Geneviève Lefebvre
 Le Moine et la sorcière - Regie: Suzanne Schiffman
1989 : La vie est un long fleuve tranquille - Regie: Étienne Chatiliez
 Camille Claudel - Regie: Bruno Nuytten
 Chocolat - Regie: Claire Denis
 Drole d'endroit pour une rencontre - Regie: François Dupeyron

Jaren 90
1990 : Un monde sans pitié - Regie: Éric Rochant
 Peaux de vaches - Regie: Patricia Mazuy
 La Salle de bain - Regie: John Lvoff
 La Soule - Regie: Michel Sibra
 Suivez cet avion - Regie: Patrice Ambard
 Tolérance - Regie: Pierre-Henry Salfati
1991 : La Discrète - Regie: Christian Vincent
 Halfaouine, l'enfant des terrasses - Regie: Férid Boughedir
 Mado poste restante - Regie: Alexandre Abadachian
 Outre mer - Regie: Brigitte Roüan
 Un week-end sur deux - Regie: Nicole Garcia
1992 : Delicatessen - Regie: Marc Caro en Jean-Pierre Jeunet
 Les Arcandiers - Regie: Manuel Sanchez
 L'Autre - Regie: Bernard Giraudeau
 Fortune express - Regie: Olivier Schatzky
 Lune froide - Regie: Patrick Bouchitey
1993 : Les Nuits fauves - Regie: Cyril Collard
 Nord - Regie: Xavier Beauvois
 Riens du tout - Regie: Cédric Klapisch
 La Sentinelle - Regie: Arnaud Desplechin
 Le Zèbre - Regie: Jean Poiret
1994 : L'Odeur de la papaye verte - Regie: Anh Hung Tran
 Cible émouvante - Regie: Pierre Salvadori Le Fils du requin - Regie: Agnès Merlet
 Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel - Regie: Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa
 Métisse - Regie: Mathieu Kassovitz
1995 : Regarde les hommes tomber - Regie: Jacques Audiard
 Le Colonel Chabert - Regie: Yves Angelo
 Mina Tannenbaum - Regie: Martine Dugowson
 Personne ne m'aime - Regie: Marion Vernoux
 Petits arrangements avec les morts - Regie: Pascale Ferran
1996 : Les Trois Frères - Regie: Didier Bourdon en Bernard Campan
 En avoir (ou pas) - Regie: Laetitia Masson
 État des lieux - Regie: Patrick Dell'Isola en Jean-François Richet
 Pigalle - Regie: Karim Dridi
 Rosine - Regie: Christine Carrière
1997 : Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? - Regie: Sandrine Veysset
 L'Appartement - Regie: Gilles Mimouni
 Bernie - Regie: Albert Dupontel
 Encore - Regie: Pascal Bonitzer
 Microcosmos - Regie: Marie Perennou en Claire Nuridsany
1998 : Didier - Regie: Alain Chabat
 L'Autre côté de la mer - Regie: Dominique Cabrera
 Les Démons de Jésus - Regie: Bernie Bonvoisin
 Ma vie en rose - Regie: Alain Berliner
 La vie de Jésus - Regie: Bruno Dumont
1999 : Dieu seul me voit - Regie: Bruno Podalydès
 L'Arrière pays - Regie: Jacques Nolot
 Le Gone du Chaâba - Regie: Christophe Ruggia
 Jeanne et le Garçon formidable - Regie: Olivier Ducastel en Jacques Martineau
 La Vie rêvée des anges - Regie: Érick Zonca

Jaren 2000
2000 : Voyages - Regie: Emmanuel Finkiel
 La Bûche - Regie: Danièle Thompson
 Les Convoyeurs attendent - Regie: Benoît Mariage
 Haut les cœurs ! - Regie: Solveig Anspach
 Karnaval - Regie: Thomas Vincent
2001 : Ressources humaines - Regie: Laurent Cantet
 Nationale 7 - Regie: Jean-Pierre Sinapi
 Scènes de crimes - Regie: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
 La Squale - Regie: Fabrice Genestal
 Stand-by - Regie: Roch Stéphanik
2002 : No Man's Land - Regie: Danis Tanovic
 Grégoire Moulin contre l'humanité - Regie: Artus de Penguern
 Ma femme est une actrice - Regie: Yvan Attal
 Le Peuple migrateur - Regie: Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin en Jacques Cluzaud
 Une hirondelle a fait le printemps - Regie: Christian Carion
2003 : Se souvenir des belles choses - Regie: Zabou Breitman
 Carnages - Regie: Delphine Gleize
 Filles perdues, cheveux gras - Regie: Claude Duty
 Irène - Regie: Ivan Calbérac
 Mon idole - Regie: Guillaume Canet
2004 : Depuis qu'Otar est parti… - Regie: Julie Bertucelli
 Il est plus facile pour un chameau... - Regie: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
 Père et fils - Regie: Michel Boujenah
 Qui a tué Bambi ? - Regie: Gilles Marchand
 Les Triplettes de Belleville - Regie: Sylvain Chomet
2005 : Quand la mer monte... - Regie: Gilles Porte en Yolande Moreau
 Brodeuses - Regie: Éléonore Faucher
 Les Choristes - Regie: Christophe Barratier
 Podium - Regie: Yann Moix
 Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré - Regie: Jean-Marc Moutout
 2006 : Le Cauchemar de Darwin - Regie: Hubert Sauper
 Anthony Zimmer - Regie: Jérôme Salle
 Douches froides - Regie: Antony Cordier
 La Marche de l'empereur - Regie: Luc Jacquet
 La Petite Jérusalem - Regie: Karin Albou
 2007 : Je vous trouve très beau - Regie: Isabelle Mergault
 Les Fragments d'Antonin - Regie: Gabriel Le Bomin
 Mauvaise foi - Regie: Roschdy Zem
 Pardonnez-moi - Regie: Maïwenn Le Besco
 13 Tzameti - Regie: Gela Babluani
 2008 : Persepolis - Regie: Marjane Satrapi en Vincent Paronnaud
 Ceux qui restent - Regie: Anne Le Ny
 Et toi, t'es sur qui ? - Regie: Lola Doillon
 Naissance des pieuvres - Regie: Céline Sciamma
 Tout est pardonné - Regie: Mia Hansen-Løve
 2009 : Il y a longtemps que je t'aime - Regie: Philippe Claudel
Home - Regie: Ursula Meier
Mascarades - Regie: Lyes Salem
Pour elle - Regie: Fred Cavayé
Versailles - Regie: Pierre Schoeller

Jaren 2010
 2010 : Les Beaux Gosses - Regie: Riad Sattouf
Le Dernier pour la route - Regie: Philippe Godeau
Espion(s) - Regie: Nicolas Saada
La Première Étoile - Regie: Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront - Regie: Léa Fehner
 2011 : Gainsbourg, vie héroïque - Regie: Joann Sfar
 Simon Werner a disparu - Regie: Fabrice Gobert
 L'Arnacœur - Regie: Pascal Chaumeil
 Tout ce qui brille - Regie: Géraldine Nakache en Hervé Mimran
 Tête de Turc - Regie: Pascal Elbé
 2012 : Le Cochon de Gaza - Regie: Sylvain Estibal
 17 filles - Regie: Delphine en Muriel Coulin
 Angèle et Tony - Regie: Alix Delaporte
 La Délicatesse - Regie: Stéphane en David Foenkinos
 My Little Princess - Regie: Eva Ionesco
 2013 : Louise Wimmer - Regie: Cyril Mennegun
 Augustine - Regie: Alice Winocour
 Comme des frères - Regie: Hugo Gélin
 Populaire - Regie: Régis Roinsard
 Rengaine - Regie: Rachid Djaïdani
 2014 : Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! - Guillaume Gallienne La Bataille de Solférino - Justine Triet
 En solitaire - Christophe Offenstein
 La Fille du 14 juillet - Antonin Peretjatko
 La Cage Dorée - Ruben Alves
 2015 : Les Combattants - Thomas Cailley'''
 Elle l'adore - Jeanne Herry
 Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice - Lucie Borleteau
 Party Girl - Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
 Qu'Allah bénisse la France - Abd Al Malik
 2016 : Mustang - Deniz Gamze Ergüven L'Affaire SK1 - Frédéric Tellier
 Les Cowboys - Thomas Bidegain
 Ni le ciel ni la terre - Clément Cogitore
 Nous trois ou rien - Kheiron Tabib
 2017 : Divines - Houda Benyamina'''
 Cigarettes et Chocolat chaud - Sophie Reine
 La Danseuse - Stéphanie Di Giusto
 Diamant noir - Arthur Harari
 Rosalie Blum'' - Julien Rappeneau

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Streaming movie service Redbox Instant by Verizon will fully launch to the public before the end of the first quarter, the venture's CEO said today at a CES 2013 breakfast.
As we've mentioned before, Redbox Instant by Verizon will compete with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and other streaming players. But unlike those services, Redbox has the advantage of having 42,600 physical kiosks across the U.S. that offer new releases. Redbox Instant subscribers get four DVD rental credits each month and unlimited streaming for $8 per month.
Redbox Instant by Verizon CEO Shawn Strickland spoke to a small group of journalists this morning in Las Vegas to talk about the service's goals and how it will work when it launches soon.
Redbox Instant by Verizon has 7,500 "streaming and transactional movie titles" today, but you can stream from a library of 4,500 films at any time using a subscription. It's adding more titles every day, it said, so we expect that more than 4,500 will be available upon the full launch. And, of course, you'll also be able to take advantage of Redbox kiosks as well for new DVDs.
Strickland said that the service will focus only on movies now, but he did leave open the possibility of TV content some time down the line.


St Gabriel's School is proudly a Catholic school.
This means that our school supports the teachings and ethos of the Catholic Church and is based on the values of the Catholic faith.
Our school has a rich heritage and is built on the strong faith foundations passed on through the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Building on this heritage, we aim to prepare the students in our care for their future by assisting them to know God and to nurture their relationship with God.
St Gabriel's School was opened in 1955 with an enrolment of 85 students. Today St Gabriel's School is a thriving educational community comprising of 310 students from 29 different cultures. The school is staffed by more than 25 teachers and Educational Support Officers.
Our school strives to be a heart-filled faith community, valuing relationships, pursuing excellence in learning and living the gospel message of love.
(The donations include money also raised in 2015).
St Gabriels community fundraised for Catholic Charities in term 3.
All term they had 3 wheelie bins collecting donations of toiletries, socks and beanies and food which they delivered directly to the Hutt St Centre and the Other Way Centre, (Aborginal Catholic Ministry).
On their feast day they made prayer flags which are now displayed in their courtyard (see photo) and celebrated with an ice cream in a cone.
They also assigned a different catholic charity to each week of the term on their school calendar.
The teachers made an effort to make that charity a focus for the week in particular during prayer but also learning.


Two labels that have been looking for some sort of return to form of late are Berlin's Mojuba and Cologne's Kompakt.
Kompakt's troubles have been slow to manifest since the label has been home to some of the better electronic albums of the last few years: Superpitcher's "Kilimanjaro", Thomas Fehlmann's "Gute Luft", The Field's "Yesterday and Today". The loss in form has also been difficult to pinpoint due to the label's scope. But these two facets perhaps also highlight where the problems have been. In chasing the more indie-orientated sounds of Walls, Rainbow Arabia and WhoMadeWho, the label's dancefloor side has largely remained stuck in the confines of Kompakt's signature sound, mercurial and slow, and built comfortably close to the indie-electronic divide so as not to alienate the vacillating crowd. Alternatively, whereas the albums have generally been praised, they have also deflected criticism away from the less strong showing of the label's singles and lack of club direction. There are still too many novelty tracks coming out of the label, like Matias Aguayo's "I don't smoke" for example, even Wolfgang Voight's "Kafkatrax" to a point, which feel like an in-jokes that, when out on the floor, don't always make you feel like dancing or laughing.
The barometer of Kompakt's success has always been the annual Pop Ambient and, even more so, the Total series. Both had slowly been heading for stagnancy before "Pop Ambient 2009" looked to inject some interest by opening the door to new names such as multi instrumentalist Marsen Jules, Sylvain Chauveau and, in 2010, Brock van Wey aka Bvdub, who has now become a welcome staple there. The fall of the Total series has been more disasterous, with last years "Total 11" being one of the labels lowest points. One of the included tracks was Superpitcher's "Lap dance" another novelty in-joke track that epitomised what was going wrong.
Perhaps as a direct response to this, this year's edition "Total 12" stripped the collection back to its original two vinyl and one CD size with stronger results. While not all tracks are mind blowing, an acceptable premise for a compilation, there isn't much here that feels like filler. The labels indie and electronic sides get a decent showing and some of the tracks almost feel like it could be the days of old, especially Wolfgang Voigt's tender "Frieden" and Michael Mayer's daring "That's what I told Sanchez". But Mathias Aguayo's "I don't smoke" is still there for those who still need the humour.
One of the most important artists of the Kompakt canon is The Field aka Axel Willner who is just about to release his third album "A looping state of mind" with similar artwork and largely similar palette to his former two albums. The lack of an extensive step in a new direction for Willner is frustrating for Field fans and the label looking for regeneration, but nonetheless, it is a solid release and maintains Kompakt's strength in albums. Plenty of jagged, skipping loops, washes of drone and most prominently on this album, even more emphasis on the pop form of the tracks, which is no mean feat for their extended duration.
Gui Boratto's imminent album "III" is also another healthy sign from Kompakt. Gutsy, catchy and rugged at times, although overall slippery and dizzying, it has all of the Brazilians trade mark qualities. As with the excellent "Chromophobia", tracks segue together well and the blend of post punk and dance floor is kept in healthy balance to reward the club and home stereo. Sadly "The Drill" is the lead single and not necessarily one of the better tracks, but, ironically, one of the more Kompakt sounding tracks from the album.
As if sensing the problem, Mojuba later re-released "Untitled" as "Cosmoride" slowed down and without the infringing vocal sample, but hardly a statement of confidence.
The scattering of releases around the two Stereociti singles also failed to improve the labels stock. The legendary Oracy received faint praise for "Bass mood", but in the end there was a certain clumsiness to the sound, viscous heavy bass, gloopy acid, slowed mumbling vocals and incongruous jazzy snare hits were hardly the stuff of the future. Nick Solé kept things consitent with two solid releases, whereas the normally bankable Sven Weissemann hit a purple patch with a same-old sounding ep that failed to move on from his seductive deep house sound. Indeed, Weissemann's piano-driven album "Xine" for the label was endearing, but somehow fractured and unrepairable. While it was Sterociti who inadvertently ushered in the dark times, it seemed that his recent "Kawasaki" album might have pulled them out, but not quite. A promising, atmospheric beginning did not however, come to an overwhelmingly satisfying climax, despite a handful of decent tracks, and like Kompakt, Mojuba waits for another key stone release to turn the corner again.
The track "Klass" on the "Kawasaki" album is one of the standouts for its dubby vibe alongside the moody "Expanses".
An interesting feature of "Klass" is its inclusion of a sample by Count Ossie & Mystic Revelation of Rastafari from the 1973 album "Grounation" similar to this poem (no audio available for The Wee Hours).
"Vampire" was also remodelled into "Third Quarter (Vampire of Mumbai)" from the recent "Drawn and Quartered" album, while Monteith's previous album "Roots and wire" also contained a track called "Grounation (Berghain drum jack)" in honor of Count Ossie's album.
Frank Sinatra also has a similarly titled, but totally unrelated track, from what is considered one of the first concept albums.


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In Your Garden: Planting
C.H. Middleton
Mr. Middleton will describe the planting of Roses, Raspberries, Fruit Trees, and Shrubs.
Plantings, whether of roses, fruit trees, or shrubs, may be made any time now up to the end of March, provided the ground is not frosty or waterlogged, and this afternoon C.H. Middleton is to demonstrate before the television camera how planting should be done.
A common mistake is to plant too deeply. The tree should be set at the same depth at which it was growing previously, and there is usually an old soil mark on the stem just above the roots to guide you. Roots should be pruned before you plant; broken or torn ends trimmed off, and the long coarse roots shortened; and-a very important point-they must be spread out nearly flat in the hole. Don't put manure among the roots; plant firmly. These and other tips will be given by C.H. Middleton today to those who are likely to be engaged in the business of planting in the weeks to come. He will also give special hints on the planting of raspberry canes.
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with Van Dock, Cartoonist, Paddy Brown, Diseuse and The June Dancers.
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with Ronald Frankau, Comedian, Michaelson, Cartoonist, Paddy Brown, Diseuse and The June Dancers.
In addition to the June Dancers, an unusual dancing act, Michaelson, a cartoonist whom viewers have seen before, and Paddy Brown, a diseuse who has been very successful in West-End non-stop revue, this evening's cabaret is noteworthy for the appearance of Ronald Frankau.
The son of Frank Danby and the younger brother of Gilbert Frankau, the novelists, Ronald Frankau left Eton and slowly but determinedly drifted on to the stage. He made his first appearance in the chorus of A Country Girl at Daly's. His first real success was with his own concert party, called 'The Cabaret Kittens'. Since December 1934, his double act on the air with Tommy Handley as Murgatroyd and Winterbottom has been one of the highlights of broadcast Variety. On the stage and in cabaret Ronald Frankau is now one of the biggest attractions. He is entertaining both as a singer and as a raconteur.
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Let us take a day in Balzac's working life, a day typical of thousands.
Eight o'clock in the evening. The citizens of Paris have long since finished their day's work and left their offices, shops, or factories. After having dined either with their families, or their friends, or alone, they were beginning to pour out into the streets in search of pleasure. Some strolled along the boulevards or sat in cafés, others were still putting the finishing touches to their toilet before the mirror prior to a visit to the theater or a salon. Balzac alone was asleep in his darkened room, dead to the world after sixteen or seventeen hours spent at his desk.
Nine o'clock. In the theaters the curtain had already gone up, the ballrooms were crowded with whirling couples, the gambling-houses echoed to the chink of gold, in 'the side streets furtive lovers pressed deeper into the shadows-but Balzac slept on.
Ten o'clock. Here and there lights were being extinguished in houses, the older generation was thinking of bed, fewer carriages could be heard rolling over the cobbles, the voices of the city grew softer–and Balzac slept.
Eleven o'clock. The final curtain was falling in the theaters, the last guests were turning homeward, from the parties or salons, the restaurants were dimming their lights, the last pedestrians were disappearing from the streets, the boulevards were emptying as a final wave of noisy revelers disappeared into the side streets and trickled away–and Balzac slept on.
Midnight. Paris was silent. Millions of eyes had closed. Most of the lights had gone out. Now that the others were resting it was time for Balzac to work. Now that the others were dreaming it was time for him to wake. Now that the day was ended for the rest of Paris his day was about to begin. No one could come to disturb him, no visitors to bother him, no letters to cause him disquiet. No creditors could knock at his door and no printers send their messengers to insist on a further installment of manuscript or corrected proofs. A vast stretch of time, eight to ten hours of perfect solitude, lay before him in which to work at his vast undertaking. Just as the furnace which fuses the cold, brittle ore into infrangible steel must not be allowed to cool down, so he knew that the tensity of his vision must not be allowed to slacken: "My thoughts must drip from my brow like water from a fountain. The process is entirely unconscious."
He recognized only the law which his work decreed: "It is impossible for me to work when I have to break off and go out. I never work merely for one or two hours at a stretch." It was only at night, when time was boundless and undivided, that continuity was possible, and in order to obtain this continuity of work he reversed the normal division of time and turned his night into day.
Awakened by his servant knocking gently on the door, Balzac rose and donned his robe. This was the garment which he had found by years of experience to be the most convenient for his work. In winter it was of warm cashmere, in summer of thin linen, long and white, permitting complete freedom of movement, open at the neck, providing adequate warmth without being oppressive, and perhaps a further reason why he had chosen it was· because its resemblance to a monk's robe unconsciously reminded him that he was in service to a higher law and bound, so long as he wore it, to abjure the outside world and its temptations. b woven cord (later replaced by a golden chain) was tied loosely round this monkish garment, and in place of crucifix and scapular there dangled a paper-knife and a pair of scissors. After taking a few steps up and down the room to shake the last vestiges of sleep from his mind and send the blood circulating more swiftly through his veins, Balzac was ready.
The servant had kindled the six candles in the silver candelabra on the table and drawn the curtains tightly as if this were a visible symbol that the outer world was now completely shut off, for Balzac did not want to measure his hours of work by the sun or the stars. He did not care to see the dawn or to know that Paris was waking to a new day. The material objects around him faded into the shadows -the books ranged along the walls, the walls themselves, the doors and windows and all that lay beyond them. Only the creatures of his own mind were to speak and act and live. He was creating a world of his own, a world that was to endure.
Balzac sat down at the table where, as he said, "I cast my life into the crucible as the alchemist casts his gold." It was a small, unpretentious, rectangular table which he loved more than the most valuable of his possessions. It meant more to him than his stick that was studded with turquoises, more than the silver plate that he had purchased piece by piece, more than his sumptuously bound books, more than the celebrity he had already won, for he had carried it with him from one lodging to another, salvaged it from bankruptcies and catastrophes, rescued it like a soldier dragging a helpless comrade from the turmoil of battle. It was the sole confidant of his keenest pleasure and his bitterest grief, the sole silent witness of his real life: "It has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard my thoughts. My arm almost committed violent assault upon it as my pen raced along the sheets." No human being knew so much about him, and with no woman did he share so many nights of ardent companionship. It was at this table that Balzac lived-and worked himself to death.
A last look round to make sure that everything was in place. Like every truly fanatical worker, Balzac was pedantic in his method of work. He loved his tools as a soldier loves his weapons, and before he flung himself into the fray he had to know that they were ready to his hand. To his left lay the neat piles of blank paper. The paper had been carefully chosen and the sheets were of a special size and shape, of a slightly bluish tinge so as not to dazzle or tire the eyes and with a particularly smooth surface over which his quill could skim without resistance. His pens had been prepared with equal care. He would use no other than ravens' quills. Net to the inkwell–not the expensive one of malachite that had been a gift from some admirers, but the simple one that had accompanied him in his student days–stood a bottle or two of ink in reserve. He would have no precaution neglected that would serve to insure the smooth, uninterrupted flow of his work. To his right lay a small notebook in which he now and then entered some thought or idea that might come in useful for a later chapter. There was no other equipment. Books, papers, research material were all unnecessary. Balzac had digested everything in his mind before he began to write.
He leaned back in his chair and rolled back the sleeve of his robe to allow free play to his right hand. Then he spurred himself on with half-jesting remarks addressed to himself, like a coachman encouraging his horses to pull on the shafts. Or he might have been compared to a swimmer stretching his arms and easing his joints before taking the steep plunge from the diving-board.
Balzac wrote and wrote, without pause and without hesitation. Once the flame of his imagination was kindled it continued to glow. It was like a forest foe, the blaze leaping from tree to tree and growing hotter and more voracious in the process. Swiftly as his pen sped over the paper, the words could hardly keep pace with his thoughts. The more he wrote the more he abbreviated the words so as not to have to think more slowly. He could not allow any interruption of his inner vision, and he did not raise his pen from the paper until either an attack of cramp compelled his fingers to loosen their hold or the writing swam before his eyes and he was dizzy with fatigue.
The streets were silent and the only sound in the room was the soft swish of the quill as it passed smoothly over the surface of the paper or from time to time the rustle of a sheet as it was added to the written pile. Outside the day was beginning to dawn, but Balzac did not see it. His day was the small circle of light cast by the candles, and he was aware of neither space nor time, but only of the world that he was himself fashioning.
Now and then the machine threatened to run down. Even the most immeasurable will-power cannot prolong indefinitely the natural measure of a man's physical strength. After five or six hours of continuous writing Balzac felt that he must call a temporary halt. His fingers had grown numb, his eyes were beginning to water, his back hurt, his temples throbbed, and his nerves could no longer bear the strain. Another man would have been content with what he had already done and would have stopped work for the night, but Balzac refused to yield. The horse must run the allotted course even if it foundered under the spur. If the sluggish carcass declined to keep up the pace recourse must be had to the whip. Balzac rose from his chair and went over to the table on which stood the coffee pot.
Coffee was the black oil that started the engine running again; for Balzac it was more important than eating or sleeping. He hated tobacco, which could not stimulate him to the pitch necessary for the intensity with which he worked. "Tobacco is injurious to the body, attacks the mind, and makes whole nations dull-witted," but he sang a paean in praise of coffee:
"Coffee glides down into one's stomach and sets everything in motion. One's ideas advance in column of route like battalions of the Grande Armée. Memories come up at the double bearing the standards which are to lead the troops into battle. The light cavalry deploys at the gallop. The artillery of logic thunders along with its supply wagons and shells. Brilliant notions join in the combat as sharpshooters. The characters don their costumes, the paper is covered with ink, the battle has begun and ends with an outpouring of black fluid like a real battlefield enveloped in swathes of black smoke from the expended gunpowder."
Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee-machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe. He rarely allowed anybody else to prepare his coffee since nobody else would have prepared the stimulating poison in such strength and blackness. And just as in a sort of superstitious fetishism he would use only a particular kind of paper and a certain type of pen, so he mixed his coffee according to a special recipe, which has been recorded by one of his friends: "This coffee was composed of three different varieties of bean-Bourbon, Martinique, and Mocha. He bought the Bourbon in the rue de Montblanc, the Martinique in the rue des Vieilles Audriettes, and the Mocha in the Faubourg St. Germain from a dealer in the rue de l'Université whose name I have forgotten though 1 repeatedly accompanied Balzac on his shopping expeditions. Each time it involved half a day's journey right across Paris, but to Balzac good coffee was worth the trouble."
Coffee was his hashish, and since like every drug it had to be taken in continually stronger doses if it was to maintain its effect, he had to swallow more and more of the murderous elixir to keep pace with the increasing strain on his nerves. Of one of his books he said that it had been finished only with the help of "streams of coffee." In 1845, after nearly twenty years of overindulgence, he admitted that his whole organism had been poisoned by incessant recourse to the stimulant and complained that it was growing less and less effective, and that it caused him dreadful pains in the stomach. If his fifty thousand cups of strong coffee (which is the number he is estimated to have drunk by a certain statistician) accelerated the writing of the vast cycle of the Comédie humaine, they were also responsible for the premature failure of a heart that was originally as sound as a bell. Dr. Nacquart, his lifelong friend and physician, certified as the real cause of his death "an old heart trouble, aggravated by working at night and the use, or rather abuse, of coffee, to which he had to have recourse in order to combat the normal human need for sleep."
The clock struck eight at last and there came a tap at the door. His servant, Auguste, entered with a modest breakfast on a tray. Balzac rose from the table where he had been writing since midnight. The time had come for a brief rest. Auguste drew back the curtains, and Balzac stepped to the window to glance at the city which he had set out to conquer. He again became conscious that there was another world and another Paris, a Paris that was beginning its work now that his own labors had for the time being come to an end. Shops were opening, children were hastening to school, carriages were rolling along the streets, in offices and counting-houses men were sitting down at their desks.
To relax his exhausted body and refresh himself for the further tasks that awaited him, Balzac took a hot bath. …
— Stefan Zweig, Balzac; translated by William and Dorothy Rose
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"If the Feds were doing their job, we wouldn't have had to address illegal immigration reform at the state level. But, until they do, we're going to keep fighting in South Carolina to be able to enforce our laws."
The United States, with some 11 million undocumented migrants, sorely needs national immigration reform, which Obama has said he will try to pursue if he is re-elected.
Opposing flexibility on immigration politically can be very thorny cheap nfl jerseys in the United States, where most people are either descended from immigrants or are immigrants themselves.
But with the economy sputtering and unemployment high, many conservatives argue immigrants take jobs away from American workers. Opponents however maintain US workers simply will not do the toughest of jobs -- like farm work and meat processing -- commonly taken by migrants in the country illegally.