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This being my first experience with this site, I wasn't sure at all what to expect. That being said, I couldn't be happier having done it. Gourmet food, top notch jazz band, mimosas on the outside deck while taking in the sites, this cruise had it all. The staff were absolutely friendly and seemed genuinely interested in providing a good time for all. Perfect for family (I took my grandmother), couples, friends, maybe even strangers. If you're on the fence, just go for it. You won't be disappointed.
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Feral es una novela de ciencia ficción del escritor español David Jasso.

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La trama transcurre en la colonia espacial Runa, un planeta dedicado a la extracción de mineral. Sus habitantes viven apaciblemente en unas instalaciones diseñadas por la empresa Minerspace hasta que un ente biológico procedente del espacio exterior llega con el único propósito de encontrar el aliento vital de los hombres y aniquilarlo.

La avanzada tecnología del invasor y su capacidad para transformar seres vivos en engendros con un futuro peor que la muerte desatarán el horror.

Aunque la historia discurre por las premisas de la ciencia ficción, el terror circula por sus páginas, muy al estilo de Alien, el octavo pasajero.

La novela destaca por incluir un capítulo final autorreferencial, en el que aparecen como personajes de la historia diversos autores españoles de género, como  Víctor Conde, Sergio Mars, Roberto Malo, Carlos Sisi, Magnus Dagon, Juan Ángel Laguna Edroso, Miguel Puente, Rubén Serrano y otros.

La novela resultó finalista de los Premios Ignotus 2010.

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Orange County trial begins for Michael…
Orange County trial begins for Michael Avenatti, accused of embezzling millions from clients
Attorney Michael Avenatti, center, leaves the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana on April 1, 2019. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
By Sean Emery | semery@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: July 21, 2021 at 1:57 p.m. | UPDATED: July 21, 2021 at 4:31 p.m.
Michael Avenatti, the high-profile civil attorney who gained fame through a lawsuit against Donald Trump and ensuing cable news appearances, embezzled nearly $10 million in settlement funds that should have gone to his clients, a U.S. attorney told jurors on Wednesday, July 21.
The latest criminal jury trial involving Avenatti began at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, with the Century City resident denying that he ever stole from any client.
Avenatti – who made the last-minute decision to represent himself in this trial – first appeared in the public eye while representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against Trump. He quickly became a broadcast news favorite with his fiery denunciations of Trump, and even mulled his potential presidential prospects.
Then came a flurry of federal criminal cases in California and New York, sparking his public downfall.
The current trial focuses on 10 counts of wire fraud, related to allegations that Avenatti defrauded five clients by stealing money they were owed from settlements he had negotiated.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett Sagel told jurors that Avenatti would hide exact terms of the settlements from his clients, deposit the funds in a bank account he controlled, embezzle money from the funds, and lie to his clients to prevent them from discovering the thefts – at times falsely claiming the agreements hadn't been finalized, or paying them smaller amounts of money as "advances."
"They trusted Michael Avenatti completely, and he violated their trust and stole their money," Sagel said.
Avenatti denied embezzling any settlement money, telling jurors that his firm took on complicated cases other law firms wouldn't touch, and that he and fellow attorneys spent money up front and the firm was entitled to recoup expenses if successful settlements were reached.
"We represented thousands of little guys, the Davids versus the Goliaths," Avenatti said. "We gave people who had no chance a fighting chance."
The prosecutor began his arguments by saying Avenatti allegedly stole from a $4 million settlement for Geoffrey Johnson, who became a paraplegic from injuries he sustained at the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. Avenatti spent years avoiding paying the millions owed to Johnson, who needed to buy a wheelchair-accessible home and van, the prosecutor said.
In 2016, Avenatti took the case of Alexis Gardner, a woman living out of her car, and successfully reached a $2.75 million settlement with Gardner's ex-boyfriend, former NBA player Hassan Whiteside. The reason for the legal action is unclear. Avenatti hid the terms of the settlement from Gardner, the prosecutor alleged, and spent much of the money on a private airplane for his company.
Avenatti also hid the terms of a $1.9 million settlement agreement he reached with a Colorado company regarding an intellectual property claim on behalf of Gregory Barela, prosecutors said.
The last set of allegations involved Avenatti's work with Michelle Phan, an early social-media influencer and founder of the cosmetics company Ipsy, and Long Tran, who owned stock in the company.
Avenatti negotiated a stock repurchase agreement between Ipsy and Tran and Phan worth more than $27 million, the prosecutor said. But Avenatti embezzled about $4 million he owed Tran and Phan, the prosecutor alleged, instead using the money to pay off his creditors and avoid bankruptcy.
Avenatti said he went out of his way to aid his clients, including paying hefty medical bills for Johnson and living expenses for Gardner.
At one point, Avenatti appeared to allege that he was wrongfully investigated, telling jurors that "this case didn't start with a crime, it started with a target," before U.S. District Judge James V. Selna quickly cut him off and advised him to "tell the jury what you are going to prove."
The Orange County trial begins just weeks after Avenatti was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge in New York for trying to extort Nike. Even after the current trial he will still face additional charges in Orange County, including allegations he provided false tax records to obtain a multi-million-dollar business loan, and in New York, where he is accused of skimming money he owed Daniels related to a book deal for her memoir.
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Classics Appreciation: Helstar – Nosferatu Review
Published by blondiemacfilthy on October 22, 2020 October 22, 2020
To start off with, the biggest strength of this record, Helstar's fourth, is that it manages to be innately balanced without really sacrificing anything. Namely, between cutting, thrashing force and its sickly, gothic atmosphere; the juxtaposition of its cutting rhythm guitar work and its flowing, studiously composed neo-classical styled lead work. Nosferatu feels like the album that their other 80's albums were basically building toward – Remnants of War and A Distant Thunder are two records that are, certainly, quite brilliant a lot of the time in their own right. Brilliantly brash records that marry the melodicism and epic scope of US power metal with the aggression of thrash metal. They're both albums that deserve spots in your record collection. But Nosferatu, even with the ballyhooed difference between sides A and B, is the record in which they put everything together so crisply and efficiently. Not everything about it is 100% perfect, of course. However, i's the record of theirs where everything about it serves a purpose and falls into the right place within the context of the record. There's none of the occasional awkwardness that marks, say, the second half of A Distant Thunder or even the Priest-leaning debut record. Nosferatu is the sound of a band who knows exactly what they're doing and just goes out and does it. There's nothing wasted about it.
This is definitely the band's thrashiest and most forceful record on the whole, mind you – while still very much a traditional metal record, the riffcraft of guitarists Larry Barragan and Andre Corbin has a distinctly Megadeth-esque feel; the riffs themselves carry with a distinctly cutting quality throughout its running time. It brings to mind less the motion of a hammer swing and more of a finely trained swordsman: still heavy as hell, to be sure, but in a manner that brings to mind finesse and athleticism than the bludgeoning force of a hammer. Early Slayer – as in, Show No Mercy kind of early – isn't really a far-off comparison either I think.
Still though, part of the band's masterful sense of composition is knowing how to juxtapose the slicing & dicing thrash parts with a great sense of melodic acumen than most. The opening one-two of "Rhapsody in Black" and "Baptized in Blood" make it apparent fast – the opening, medieval melodic sensibility of the opening acoustic melody gives way into a barrage of thrash riffing that works wonders as a preamble for the rest of the record, surging into the aforementioned "Baptized in Blood". Every riff in that song is essential and absolutely forceful; the band works a deft touch balancing hooks with aggression and atmosphere throughout (particular the way they balance that lick between the verse riff, akin to flipping a knife between your fingers). The way the guitars work off the rhythm section is pure charging thrash ecstasy, and the middle section where they work over a set of dicey riffs that builds back into both of the solos is fucking masterful. Rivera's voice is, naturally, in fine form – for this record he opts less for a conventional "80's metal" vocal style and has more a keening, floating style that evokes something stagier than most of the decade's performances. It's one where he opts more for pure mood than ball-busting screams (though he has more of a few of them throughout), and it's a style that works masterfully in concert with what the rest of the band does.
What makes this such a nicely varied record, in its approach, is that the band doesn't have to sacrifice aggression to make its theme and atmosphere work. Nosferatu evokes the decayed, gothic feel of Dracula by its distinct sense of minor key melodicism and working it in next to the more aggressive material. The irritating stupidity of shoehorning in some grotesque, sickly major key melody as an "uplifting" pop hook against the rest of a song is mercifully absent from this record. Rather, the band has enough discipline in their craft to balance the thrashy riffage with the more ornate melodic passages – or perhaps more accurately, work in both of them together – without letting things become overly samey or slapped together. Pretty much every song on this record has a pretty distinct identity – "To Sleep, Per Chance to Scream" is certainly quite striking when juxtaposed against the opening one-two, especially with the way the verses suddenly drop into a swaying, keening chorus riff & vocal line. Or even how "The Curse Has Passed Away" is fundamentally built around the idea of its ornamented acoustic melody – itself the most overtly gothic, dusty-feeling moment of the record – and the force of its surging riffing that first comes in 38 secs in (the "Here I Stand Before His Evil Lair…" part) and fundamentally work off each other for the rest of the song. And then there's "Perseverance and Desperation".
This song is pretty different from the rest of the record in that it was mostly Andre Corbin's creation (he recorded both of the guitars on the song, or at least that is what he mentioned based off an interview from about 10 years ago) and is more of a straight up shred piece than anything else on the record. Despite the obvious stylistic difference from it and the rest of the record, it proves to be a brilliant, thrilling track in its own way – built entirely from a set of melodic themes that give way into a flowing, expressionistically melodic performance that treads the fine line between masterful song construction and pure wank. In that respect it brings to mind something off Yngwie Malmsteen's debut – where the wankiness and flash is part of the appeal, but more disciplined listens reveal an incredibly precise sense of melodicism, note choice and the ability to refer back to disparate melodic themes/riffs without entirely losing the thread. "Perseverance and Desperation" is a brilliant song that, despite the formal flashiness of its style, never wastes a moment or note and uses it flesh out the atmosphere and vibe of the record. Sometimes you don't need words when your hands say everything that demands to be voiced. That it doesn't succumb to the pampered feeling of later PM or feel like a distinct bid to court the then-shrinking hair metal audience is a feat in and of itself.
The concept of the album, notoriously, only covers the first half of it, tracks one through six – the rest of Nosferatu is a set of stand-alone tracks. Sort of akin to the difference between the first half of King Diamond's Fatal Portrait and the rest of it, sans the final track. It is true that the second half of this record isn't quite as strong as the first, if nothing else but because that first half is some of the best metal ever laid down. That isn't to say the second is really a slouch, though – "Benediction" is perhaps the most aggressive cut the band ever came up with before some of their more modern work; a purified displaying of vicious thrash riffage that lurches from part to part without losing its thread. "Swirling Madness" has one of the most memorable choruses of the record; Rivera has this echo/delay effect over his voice that somehow just kind of works when it's straining against the guitars, especially as how he goes lockstep with them during the verses. The finale track recalls the ornate melodicism of the first half of the record, an off-kilter wind-swept semi-ballad that isn't soppy or forced. The final solo in particular and the way the last part of the song builds into it makes for a rather haunting finale to the record as a whole.
It's honestly rather shocking and unfortunate this album didn't have much of an audience in its own era. It does an excellent of weaving together several disparate strains of metal into something genuinely cohesive and memorable (despite the thematic differences between sides A and B); the performances are stunningly good throughout – I've neglected to mention it but the rhythm section on this record is killer, especially the bass playing – and it has an incredible production sound that suits the songs without being overly polished or sterile at all. It was largely ignored despite all that – guitarist Larry Barragan theorized that it was perhaps because it wasn't thrash enough for most thrash fans, and it wasn't melodic enough for most other trad fans of the era's tastes, in an interview from a few years ago – which is a shame.
Metal's history is, however, replete with albums shunned by the mainstream, only to be eventually adopted by the underground as a rightful all time classic. You can certainly hear the influence Helstar had on later bands – for my part, I can't help but hear it in bands from Cauldron Born to Demon Bitch, personally. Even still, there aren't a lot of records that really match this one, for all of the reasons I've enumerated throughout the review. You can't really go wrong with 80's Helstar, honestly – all four of those records, despite the constant of personnel turnover (especially across the first two), are brilliant. Some of their later work is very good as well, but this one is the best record of their career, hands down. Perfect music for when the Autumn sets in, the leaves change color and you begin steeling yourself for the impending chill of winter. Masterful record.
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Having formed upon the date of the Summer Solstice in 1990, there is effectively one real constant with this band regardless of all the turnover that happens within their ranks. That is, Rich Walker, the guitarist and main songwriter of the band, unflinchingly delivers great metal pretty much every time the band puts music out, no matter how sporadic. It doesn't matter if you pick any of the other full lengths or even the EPs – both Halcyon and Death's Crown is Victory would be the highlight of a lot of other band's careers. Still though, New Dark Age has always been the top of the heap, and for my part one of my favorite doom metal albums in general.
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Wino brought a sense of despair that feels more working class-adjacent than anything else. The kind where you work a shitty job that barely pays enough to live on and not enough to meaningfully save up for anything. You get drunk night in and night out on shitty cheap beer (and if you're lucky, maybe some whiskey) to numb the sense of smoldering rage deep down in the pit of your stomach. There's a sense of passive-aggressive, languid hopelessness around the Wino albums.
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Home » national news » Suresh Kalmadi declines post of lifetime president of Indian Olympic Association
Suresh Kalmadi declines post of lifetime president of Indian Olympic Association
Speed News Desk | Updated on: 11 February 2017, 6:41 IST
Suresh Kalmadi has declined the post of lifetime president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) after the controversy over his involvement in the Commonwealth Games scam.
Former sports minister Ajay Maken, on 28 December, raised the issue saying that this was not good for sports as well as India's image and asked incumbent sports minister, Vijay Goel, to initiate action to end this mess.
Kalmadi's lawyer Hitesh Jain was quoted by CNN-News18 saying, "Kamladi has decided to not accept any official position till his name is not cleared in all legal cases."
He also said that the IOA on its own decided to give him a post. He further added that this was not a forced step.
Earlier, on 28 December Ajay Maken in a press conference said, "The decision of IOA of making them life time presidents is not good for sports and for India's image. I don't understand as to what kind of message they want to portray by making them the life time presidents."
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"When we talk about sports and emotions related to sports, it should be very pure. If they want to clean this mess then they have to rise above politics and do it," he added.
The Congress leader further said the countdown of bad days for Indian sports has begun post this irrational decision.
Also Read: Kalmadi, Chautala as IOA lifetime presidents will dent India's image: Ajay Maken
"I cannot believe that chargesheeted people are being made the presidents of IOA. How can anyone justify this? I am happy that the Sports Minister issued a strong statement on it. I would also request him to take action regarding this," he added.
He also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government to act on this matter and demanded the IOA's decision to be reversed.
He appealed to all the politicians involved in the IOA to ensure that this decision is reversed and Indian sports remain clean.
"Cutting across party lines, this decision must be taken back. There is no reason that this cannot be solved, if the Sports Ministry wants they can do that. And if there is any PIL against this decision in the court than the Government of India must support it," he added.
The Sports Minister, on 27 December, lashed out at the IOA for making tainted Kalmadi and Chautala as life presidents of the sports body.
Goel said the move was "totally unacceptable" as the duo was facing serious criminal and corruption charges.
The IOA during its annual general meeting named Kalmadi and Chautala as life time presidents.
Kalmadi, tainted by the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games corruption scandal, was also the former Athletics Federation of India president.
Chautala, headed Indian Olympic Association between 2012 and 2014, when it was suspended by the International Olympic Committee. The ban was lifted in February 2014.
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Home News west ham united and everton enter race for burnley striker chris wood
West Ham United and Everton enter race for Burnley striker Chris Wood
West Ham United and Everton have joined Aston Villa in the race to sign Burnley striker Chris Wood this summer, Football Insider reports.
The New Zealand international has been a consistent performer for the Clarets, netting at least 10 Premier League goals in each of his four seasons.
He has two years left on his contract, but the Clarets are open to selling him for at least £30 million. The fee could rise to £40m if there is a bidding battle.
Villa were recently linked with his signature, and it is now reported that the Hammers and Toffees have entered the pursuit of the 29-year-old.
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The Hammers sanctioned the sale of Sebastien Haller to Ajax in January and failed to land a suitable replacement before the transfer deadline.
This left them with Michail Antonio as the only recognised striker, and they struggled in a few games where he was on the sidelines.
The lack of another genuine striker cost them in the end as they finished just two points behind the final Champions League spot.
They will still be playing Europa League football. Wood would be a like-for-like replacement for Haller with his physical presence.
The Toffees have also been linked with Wood's services, but they have a similarly-built striker in Dominic Calvert-Lewin in their ranks.
Wood has a better chance of cementing a starting spot with the Hammers, as Antonio can operate out wide where he has played most of his career.
There is also the lure of European football while knowing that manager David Moyes is a big admirer and wants him to spearhead the attack.
Wood has netted 47 goals in the top-flight for Burnley from 127 appearances.
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U.S. combat brigade to leave Iraq well ahead of schedule
By Chelsea J. Carter, CNN
Updated 7:39 PM ET, Sat October 15, 2011
U.S. soldiers patrol a a newly dug ditch in Iraq. The country's leaders said U.S. soldiers won't receive Iraqi immunity after 2011.
The brigade was originally scheduled to be among the last to leave Iraq at the end of 2011
The move comes amid talks on legal immunity for U.S. troops after withdrawal deadline
"The United States and Iraq have not come to an agreement," says one brigade official
A Pentagon spokesman says talks are still ongoing
A brigade of U.S. troops originally scheduled to be among the very last to leave Iraq is being pulled out of the country months ahead of its planned departure, military officials said Saturday.
The announcement follows news this month that a deal to keep American troops in Iraq past a December 31, 2011, deadline to withdraw was on shaky ground after Iraqi leadership said any remaining U.S. forces would not be granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and other top brass have repeatedly said any deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the withdrawal deadline must require a guarantee of legal protection for American soldiers.
The Fourth Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, based at Fort Bliss, deployed to Iraq in August to replace two withdrawing brigades. The troops were sent with the understanding they would be among the last to leave the country and were told to expect up to a 12-month deployment, though it wasn't clear how long they would stay in Iraq. But brigade officials informed hundreds of military families gathered Saturday at its headquarters that their troops would begin returning home within weeks.
When family members inquired why soldiers were returning early, they were told by a military official: "Basically, what's happened ... is that the United States and Iraq have not come to an agreement," according to a CNN reporter who attended the meeting.
Additionally, the brigade official told families: "We were over there for a couple of missions. Those missions are finished."
A U.S. military official in Iraq, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to CNN Saturday the early withdrawal of this brigade, citing a number of possible reasons, including the lack of a deal on the legal immunity issue and the fact that the State Department is "standing up" its operations faster than expected.
When the United States and Iraq agreed in 2008 to a withdrawal deadline, the two countries also signed off on a Strategic Framework Agreement that calls for a long-term bilateral relationship. As part of that agreement, the State Department is deploying thousands of workers to Iraq to take over where military officials leave off in their dealings with the Iraqi government.
U.S. officials in Washington on Saturday declined to comment on reports that troops were being withdrawn ahead of schedule or because of a breakdown in negotiations, except to say the United States is committed to withdrawing all troops by the December 31 deadline.
"At the same time we're building a comprehensive partnership with Iraq under the Strategic Framework Agreement including a robust security relationship, and discussions with the Iraqis about the nature of that relationship are ongoing," said Tommy Vietor of the National Security Council.
Pentagon spokesman George Little also dismissed reports of a breakdown in talks with Iraqis, saying "Suggestions that a final decision has been reached about our training relationship with the Iraqi government are wrong. Those discussions are ongoing."
Officials at Fort Bliss said the brigade's return is in line with the U.S. planned departure.
"In the process, we are bringing troops back home to meet the December 31st agreed-upon deadline," said Lt. Col. Dennis Swanson, a public affairs officer for the First Armored Division.
When asked about the legal immunity issue, Major Gen. Dana J. H. Pittard, commander at Fort Bliss, said, "We're going to do what's right by our soldiers."
"We shouldn't see American soldiers in Iraqi courts on trumped-up charges," he said.
His comments echo recent statements by Panetta and U.S. Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno.
Panetta said last week that negotiations over the legal immunity issue are ongoing between Iraq's political leadership, U.S. Ambassador James F. Jeffrey and Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. The meetings include discussions about the rights of American troops and what will be required in order for those troops to assist Iraqi forces in the future, according to Panetta.
"If you're going to play a large role in dealing with another country where it requires, as I said, a large group of troops to be on the ground and to be dealing with that country, I want to make damn sure that you're protected," Panetta told sailors last Friday during a visit to Naples, Italy, home of the U.S. 6th Fleet.
U.S. officials have been pressuring Iraq's leadership for months for an answer to whether it would request a troop extension, with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen saying over the summer that the U.S. needed a a decision by August.
The negotiations have been strained following WikiLeaks' release of a diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children, were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an airstrike as initially reported by the U.S. military.
The Pentagon dismissed the cable from U.N. investigator Philip Alston to U.S. officials, saying it had investigated the claims and found there was no merit.
Shortly after the WikiLeaks cable gained attention in news reports in September by McClatchy Newspapers, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered an investigation into the deaths outside of Tikrit.
U.S. officials have long said they believe Iraq may need help with training, counterterrorism, air defense, command and control and intelligence operations. Any U.S. troops remaining to do those jobs might also need additional security forces.
The prospect of U.S. troops staying beyond the end of the year sits uncomfortably with many Iraqis, who have routinely questioned American motives following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Sadrist political party is closely aligned with al-Maliki, has vowed to escalate armed resistance if the U.S. military does not leave as scheduled, a move that could destabilize the country should his militia repeat the bloody battles it waged against American and Iraqi forces during the height of violence.
Odierno said last month that there would be risks in leaving a large force of U.S. troops in Iraq, noting such a force could provoke new claims of U.S. occupation and distract from efforts to develop the Iraqi military's abilities. He would not comment directly on reports that the White House administration had decided to leave between 3,000 and 5,000 troops, should they be requested by Iraq.
Odierno, who served as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that training of Iraqi security forces was not complete.
"We need to probably be there to assist them at certain levels for a while," he said last month in a question-and-answer session with journalists at the Pentagon.
As of last week, 41,000 U.S. military personnel remained in the country, according to Major Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, spokesman for U.S. Forces-Iraq. Buchanan said Wednesday that "we are on track, and we will meet our requirement to redeploy the last remaining military personnel from 41,000 down to zero by the end of the year." A brigade typically consists of between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers.


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Nguyễn Đức Anh Quốc (born 19 July 1992) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a striker for V.League 2 club Phù Đổng.

Honours

Club
Nam Định
 V.League 2: 2017
 China-ASEAN Cities Football Invitational Tournament: 2016; runners-up: 2017

References

https://thethao247.vn/profile/nguyen-duc-anh-quoc-tt5129.html

1992 births
Living people
Vietnamese footballers
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Cooperative checkpointing: a robust approach to large-scale systems reliability
by Adam J. Oliner, Larry Rudolph, Ramendra K. Sahoo - In ICS '06: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Supercomputing , 2006
"... Cooperative checkpointing increases the performance and robustness of a system by allowing checkpoints requested by applications to be dynamically skipped at runtime. A robust system must be more than merely resilient to failures; it must be adaptable and flexible in the face of new and evolving cha ..."
. Cooperative checkpointing can be easily implemented on top of existing application-initiated checkpointing mechanisms and may be used to enhance other reliability techniques like QoS guarantees and fault-aware job scheduling. The simulations also support a number of theoretical predictions related
Statistical mechanics of complex networks
by Réka Albert, Albert-lászló Barabási - Rev. Mod. Phys
"... Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical links. While traditionally these systems were modeled as ra ..."
Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical links. While traditionally these systems were modeled as random graphs, it is increasingly recognized that the topology and evolution of real
A Fast Quantum Mechanical Algorithm for Database Search
by Lov K. Grover - ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY OF COMPUTING , 1996
"... Imagine a phone directory containing N names arranged in completely random order. In order to find someone's phone number with a probability of , any classical algorithm (whether deterministic or probabilistic) will need to look at a minimum of names. Quantum mechanical systems can be in a supe ..."
Imagine a phone directory containing N names arranged in completely random order. In order to find someone's phone number with a probability of , any classical algorithm (whether deterministic or probabilistic) will need to look at a minimum of names. Quantum mechanical systems can be in a
Checkpointing and Rollback-Recovery for Disitributed Systems
by Richard Koo, Sam Toueg - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, VOL , 1987
"... We consider the problem of bringing a distributed system to a consistent state after transient failures. We address the two components of this problem by describing a distributed algorithm to create consistent checkpoints, as well as a rollback-recovery algorithm to recover the system to a consiste ..."
We consider the problem of bringing a distributed system to a consistent state after transient failures. We address the two components of this problem by describing a distributed algorithm to create consistent checkpoints, as well as a rollback-recovery algorithm to recover the system to a
Supporting Real-Time Applications in an Integrated Services Packet Network: Architecture and Mechanism
by David D. Clark, Scott Shenker, Lixia Zhang , 1992
"... This paper considers the support of real-time applications in an ..."
This paper considers the support of real-time applications in an
Exact Sampling with Coupled Markov Chains and Applications to Statistical Mechanics
by James Gary Propp, David Bruce Wilson , 1996
"... For many applications it is useful to sample from a finite set of objects in accordance with some particular distribution. One approach is to run an ergodic (i.e., irreducible aperiodic) Markov chain whose stationary distribution is the desired distribution on this set; after the Markov chain has ..."
For many applications it is useful to sample from a finite set of objects in accordance with some particular distribution. One approach is to run an ergodic (i.e., irreducible aperiodic) Markov chain whose stationary distribution is the desired distribution on this set; after the Markov chain
Specificity and mechanism of action of some commonly used protein kinase inhibitors
by Stephen P. Davies, Helen Reddy, Matilde Caivano, Philip Cohen - Biochem. J , 2000
"... The specificities of 28 commercially available compounds reported to be relatively selective inhibitors of particular serine� threonine-specific protein kinases have been examined against a large panel of protein kinases. The compounds KT 5720, Rottlerin and quercetin were found to inhibit many prot ..."
The specificities of 28 commercially available compounds reported to be relatively selective inhibitors of particular serine� threonine-specific protein kinases have been examined against a large panel of protein kinases. The compounds KT 5720, Rottlerin and quercetin were found to inhibit many protein kinases, sometimes much more potently than their presumed targets, and conclusions drawn from their use in cell-based experiments are likely to be erroneous. Ro 318220 and related bisindoylmaleimides, as well as H89, HA1077 and Y 27632, were more selective inhibitors, but still inhibited two or more protein kinases with similar potency. LY 294002 was found to inhibit casein kinase-2 with similar potency to phosphoinositide (phosphatidylinositol) 3-kinase. The compounds with the most
A saliency-based search mechanism for overt and covert shifts of visual attention
by Laurent Itti, Christof Koch , 2000
Libckpt: Transparent Checkpointing under Unix
by James S. Plank, Micah Beck, Gerry Kingsley, Kai Li , 1995
"... Checkpointing is a simple technique for rollback recovery: the state of an executing program is periodically saved to a disk file from whichitcan be recovered after a failure. While recent research has developed a collection of powerful techniques for minimizing the overhead of writing checkpoint f ..."
files, checkpointing remains unavailable to most application developers. In this paper we describe libckpt, a portable checkpointing tool for Unix that implements all applicable performance optimizations which are reported in the literature. While libckpt can be used in a mode whichis almost totally
CORE: A Collaborative Reputation mechanism to enforce node cooperation
by Pietro Michiardi, Refik Molva - in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Communication and Multimedia Security , 2002
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Comedy Central Announces Summer Lineup: New Series, Returns of 'South Park,' 'Broad City,' 'Tosh.0'
Kellie Freeze May 16, 2017 2:00 pm
(L-R): This summer on Comedy Central, Daniel Tosh returns in Tosh.0, Jordan Klepper headlines a new special, and Kevin Hart presents a new standup series
Comedy Central has announced its summer 2017 programming schedule, and the slate features big name comedy specials, new series from hot comedic talent, and the return of favorite series.
New series premieres include The Jim Jefferies Show, Hood Adjacent with James Davis and Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level. New specials coming to the network include Comedy Central's Colossal Clusterfest and Jordan Klepper Solves Guns.
Donald Trump Impersonator Gets Star Billing in New Comedy Central Show
Anthony Atamanuik stars in 'The President Show' beginning April 27.
Returning to Comedy Central with new seasons this summer are South Park, Tosh.0, Broad City, Idiotsitter, and Legends of Chamberlain Heights.
Comedy Central's Summer 2017 Premiere Dates
10/9c, Comedy Central's Colossal Clusterfest (World Premiere)
10/9c, Tosh.0 (Season nine premiere)
10:30/9:30c, The Jim Jeffries Show (Series premiere)
8/7c, Idiotsitter (Season 2 premiere & Episodes 1-4) — The entire seven-episode second season will air across this Saturday and the following Saturday. Adventurous odd couple Billie and Gene head off to college, where Billie is determined to fulfill her lifelong dream of being a college professor, and Gene learns what it means to be a coed.
10/9c, Jordan Klepper Solves Guns (Special Premiere)
8/7c, Idiotsitter (Episodes 5-7)
11/10c, Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level (Series Premiere)
11:30/10:30c, Legends of Chamberlain Heights (Season 2 premiere)
9/8c, Hood Adjacent with James Davis (Series Premiere)
10/9c, South Park (Season 21 Premiere) — Season 21 features 10 new episodes.
Happy 420 From 'Broad City': Watch Abbi and Ilana Toke up on Weed's Biggest Day (VIDEO)
In the latest 'Hack into Broad City' video, things get weird when Abbi and Ilana share a bowl in honor of 420.
10:30/9:30c Broad City (Season 4 Premiere) — This season finds Abbi and Ilana experiencing New York City in a whole new way: in the dead of winter. Among other adventures in Season 4, the two get new jobs, celebrate their Friendiversary, receive a visit from Abbi's mom, trip on mushrooms, discover their witchdom and travel to Florida.
New Series/Specials (Descriptions from Comedy Central)
Comedy Central's Colossal Clusterfest
This 90-minute special hosted by @midnight's Chris Hardwick, looks inside Comedy Central's three-day festival of comedy and music. Hardwick recaps the top performances and moments from the festival and checks in with a cast of comedian correspondents for special on-the-ground interviews and interactions with performers and fans.
The Jim Jefferies Show
The Jim Jefferies Show will take on culture and politics. Each week, the Aussie comic will tackle the week's top stories from behind his desk and travel the globe to far-off locations to provide an eye-opening look at hypocrisy around the world.
Hood Adjacent with James Davis
Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, one block away from where "[email protected]#$ goes down," James Davis shares his perspective on the world he grew up in and the world he grew up next to. Hood Adjacent with James Davis explores contemporary urban topics through a unique, hybrid style of comedy that bridges the gap between urban and mainstream comedy.
Jordan Klepper Solves Guns
Jordan Klepper believes he can fix America's gun problems…in one hour. His strategy is simple: change the minds of every gun owner in the United States one person at a time. In this one-hour investigative-comedy special, Klepper spotlights the legal obstacles to gun control and presents personal testimony surrounding the issue of gun violence in America as he talks with experts, enthusiasts and activists spanning the ideological spectrum of the gun-control issue.
Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level
In this showcase filmed at LA's historic Orpheum Theater, Kevin Hart bestows his stamp of approval upon the next generation of stand-up comics.
History Greenlights Kevin Hart's The Black Man's Guide to History
'Kevin Hart Presents: The Black Man's Guide to History' will shed a light on lesser-known black history stories.
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BATON ROUGE — Last week, the NFC South.
This week, a comfortable lead for the No. 1 seed in the NFC Playoffs.
That is what is behind and in front of the New Orleans Saints (11-2), who play at Carolina (6-7) tonight at 7:15 on ESPN at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
With the Los Angeles Rams losing, 30-23, at home Sunday night to Philadelphia, and 15-6, at Chicago last week to fall to 11-3, the Saints can clinch the NFC Playoffs' top seed for home field advantage until the Super Bowl by winning two of their last three games.
The Saints hold a one-game lead in the loss column over the Rams and the head-to-head tiebreaker because of a 45-35 win over Los Angeles in New Orleans on Nov. 4. On Dec. 23, the Saints host Pittsburgh, which is 8-5-1 after beating New England, 17-10, on Sunday. The Saints close the regular season at home on Dec. 30 against Carolina.
Should the Saints finish with the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the NFC, they will receive a bye through the first weekend of the playoffs on January 5-6, which is the wild card round. The divisional round will be January 12-13 with the NFC and AFC championship games on Jan. 20. Super Bowl LIII is in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Feb. 3.
The Saints have not lost a home playoff game since Jan. 3, 1993 — 36-20 to the Philadelphia Eagles. They are 6-0 at home in the postseason since then with a wild card win over the St. Louis Rams on Dec. 30, 2000, a divisional win over Philadelphia on Jan. 13, 2007, divisional and conference title wins over Arizona and Minnesota on Jan. 16 and Jan. 24, 2010, respectively, a wild card win over Detroit on Jan. 7, 2012, and a wild card win over Carolina on Jan. 7, 2018, of last season.
New Orleans is just 2-7 all-time on the road in the postseason with the only wins in Super Bowl XLIV, 31-17, over Indianapolis in Miami on Feb. 7, 2010, and in the wild card round, 26-24, at Philadelphia on Jan. 4, 2014.
The Rams final two games are against a pair of 3-10 teams - at Arizona on Dec. 23 and at home against San Francisco on Dec. 30. Los Angeles was a 12-point favorite over the Eagles (7-7).
"Yes, it was a good weekend," Ingram said of the Saints 28-14 win at Tampa Bay last week and the Rams' loss to Chicago that put the Saints in the lead for the No. 1 seed. "We were able to go on the road and get a comeback win, and obviously the Rams lost. But we still have to handle our business. We still have to continue to improve stuff, continue to get better."
Ingram, meanwhile, can become the Saints' record holder in career rushing touchdowns with one against Carolina. He tied former Saint Deuce McAllister for the club record with his 49th rushing touchdown last week at Tampa Bay.
Ingram and the Saints, though, have bigger marks on their minds.
Since the season opening loss to Tampa Bay, the Saints won 10 straight before a 13-10 loss at Dallas on Nov. 29. That one-game losing streak was stopped at Tampa Bay last week.
MORE: What happened to Saints' passing game?
Brees and Saints coach Sean Payton also want to get the offense back on track, as it has slumped in recent weeks. After getting just 10 points at Dallas, the Saints trailed Tampa Bay last week at the half by 14-3. The defense, meanwhile, has kept the Saints in games by limiting its last five opponents to 17 points or less.
"We've been doing a lot of things well," Payton said. "Some other things we have to clean up and get better at."
But mainly, it is all about the Saints taking two of the next three so they have a better chance to win it all.
"Explaining it and making sure the players understand the significance of today's format, what the seeding process is like, and what it means, I think is important. Clearly, this is an important game for us," Payton said.


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package mfi.filejuggler.jobs;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import mfi.filejuggler.annotation.FileJugglerJob;
import mfi.filejuggler.helper.ExternalBackupHelper;
import mfi.filejuggler.io.FileJugglerFile;
import mfi.filejuggler.io.SFTPClient;
import mfi.filejuggler.maps.KVMemoryMap;
import mfi.filejuggler.model.Job;

@FileJugglerJob(cron = "* * * * *", failureCountUntilStartLogging = 2, hasCryptoConfig = true)
public class ExternalBackupFTP extends Job {

	@Override
	public void runJob() throws Exception {

		List<String> valueList = KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueList("temp.backup.key.ftp");

		if (valueList.size() > 0) {

			String backupRoot = StringUtils.trimToNull(KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueFromKey("application.properties.backupLocal"));
			String environmentName = KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueFromKey("application.environment.name");

			// Getting credentials
			String ftpHost = KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueFromKey("secureentry.account.backup.ftp.host");
			String ftpUser = KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueFromKey("secureentry.account.backup.ftp.user");
			String ftpPass = KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueFromKey("secureentry.account.backup.ftp.pass");

			boolean developmentMode = StringUtils
					.trimToEmpty(KVMemoryMap.getInstance().readValueFromKey("application.properties.developmentMode"))
					.equalsIgnoreCase(Boolean.TRUE.toString());

			SFTPClient ftpClient = new SFTPClient();
			ftpClient.connect(ftpHost, ftpUser, ftpPass, developmentMode);

			try {

				for (String filename : valueList) {

					String kvKey = filename;

					filename = ExternalBackupHelper.lookupFilename(filename);

					String uploadFileName = ExternalBackupHelper.ermittleDateiNamen(backupRoot, environmentName, filename);
					String path = new FileJugglerFile(uploadFileName).getParent();
					FileJugglerFile fileToUpload = new FileJugglerFile(filename);

					ftpClient.uploadFile(fileToUpload, path);

					KVMemoryMap.getInstance().deleteValueFromList("temp.backup.key.ftp", kvKey);

				}

			} finally {
				ftpClient.disconnect();
			}
		}
	}

}

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Wildlife Poaching: 4 Reasons Why You Should Care About the Issue
When most think of poaching, they picture violence that affect animals worlds away, but the consequences reach beyond herds of elephants in Africa.
Ivory Poaching
Feb. 10, 201403:38
July 16, 2015, 4:19 PM UTC / Updated July 16, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC
By Elisha Fieldstadt
When most people think of wildlife poaching, they might picture violence against animals worlds away. But the consequences reach far beyond herds of elephants in Africa.
Lawmakers and wildlife experts will gather Thursday in Washington to discuss ways to curb poaching in Africa, including limiting demand for products like ivory and rhinoceros horns in the United States, China and elsewhere. The White House calls the sprawling market for threatened wildlife an international crisis.
"Poaching just escalated literally overnight," said Ginette Hemley, senior vice president of wildlife conservation at the World Wildlife Fund and one of four experts testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
Just one sobering statistic: More than 1,200 rhinos will be poached in South Africa this year, Hemley told NBC News, compared to the 13 that were illegally killed in 2007.
So why should Washington and Americans care?
Animal rights and the environment
Elephants, which are poached for ivory, and rhinos, which are poached for horns, are often at the forefront of conservation campaigns. But other animals are poached, too, including tigers for their skins and sharks for their fins.
Fewer than 3,500 tigers are left in the wild, said Kelly Aylward, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Washington office director.
The steady march to extinction faced by species around the world will expand outward, Aylward said, as endangered animals often play key roles in their ecosystems. For example, elephants eat brush, preventing it from overgrowing, and their excrement fertilizes the soil.
The rise of poaching "doesn't bode well for the future — how those interactive ecosystems will work without key species," Aylward said.
Cash-starved terrorist organizations have turned to trading ivory, which the Elephant League has dubbed "the white gold of jihad." The illegal wildlife trade nets $8 billion to $10 billion a year in all, according to the WWF.
A Global Financial Integrity report found that terrorist groups like the Rwandan Democratic Liberation Forces, which led the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s, and al Shabaab, responsible for the 2013 siege of a mall in Kenya, use huge profits from the ivory trade to pay for their violence.
Ivory tusks sold to fund terrorism
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And the money from ivory that isn't being funneled to the terrorist groups is destabilizing African countries by fostering government corruption, Hemley said.
"The value of the products from rhino horns and ivory is so great that there's a huge incentive to get involved," Hemley said.
Widespread corruption keeps away foreign investment and makes finding a legitimate livelihood difficult for many poachers, Aylward said.
To make matters worse, many African countries depend on wildlife to attract tourists.
Related: Drones Used to Stop Elephant and Rhino Poachers in Africa
When Obama visited Tanzania in 2013, he said wildlife is "inseparable from Africa's identity and prosperity." The country, where many people work in tourism and national parks, announced in June that 60 percent of its elephant population has been lost, Hemley said.
The consumer effect
Lawmakers in Thursday's hearing hope to get a better idea of where and how to allot money to fight wildlife poaching. But everyday people can also do their part.
Demand for Ivory fuels elephant poaching
It's illegal to import ivory in the United States but legal to buy it. "We are pushing the government to close that loophole to really stem the demand within our own market," Hemley said.
And sellers often falsely market illegally imported ivory as antique. If Americans stop buying ivory, other countries — including China, which has the biggest market — will follow suit, Aylward said.
"Being a consumer in the U.S. is actually a very powerful position to be in," she said. "In this global world, what Americans think about (ivory) could reflect on other cultures and likewise."
Related: U.S. Crushes 6 Tons of Illegal Ivory to Send Message to Poachers, Traffickers
Elephant tusks — the ivory from which is often used in musical instruments or jewelry and carved into trinkets — may have once been a symbol of "prestige and honor," but that perception needs to change, Aylward said.
Americans have the ability to stem the horrific environmental, economic, and safety effects of wildlife poaching if they "simply don't buy ivory," Hemley said. "We can't point the finger unless we clean up our own act."
Elisha Fieldstadt
Elisha Fieldstadt is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.


In Teen Addiction, husband-and-wife team Dr. Ronald P. Santasiero and Dr. Cherie Santasiero share their personal and professional insights from years of treating young drug addicts, using traditional and holistic medicine.
Too often we look at teen addicts as bad kids whose lack of motivation get them into their predicament—and keeps them there. But research shows that addiction is more like a disease, not a lack of willpower. So, what can we do to prevent teen addiction, and how can we help young adults already suffering from substance abuse?
Writing to educate and encourage parents, educators, and health care professionals, their essential resource guide offers in-depth scholarly information as well as personal stories. They debunk myths; clarify the difference between addiction, dependence, tolerance, and abuse; answer how much genetics, as well as emotional and conduct disorders, can contribute to addiction; and much more.
If our society doesn't start addressing this epidemic of teen addiction soon, we will lose a significant portion of our next generation.
Thankfully, there's good news: with awareness and compassion we can take the first steps toward a hopeful future for our teens. This book will help you start the journey.
Cherie Santasiero, PhD, MNLP, is a transpersonal psychotherapist with a doctorate in Ro-Hun, a Jungian-based psychotherapy from Delphi University. She is also a master in neuro-linguistic programming, a clinical hypnotherapist, and a Reiki master.
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Drug Addiction Rehabilitation: What Works the Best?
Our Blog post on The Rock Father Magazine:"In support of their new book, Addicted Kids - Our Lost Generation: An Integrative Approach to Understanding and Treating Addicted Teens, Drs Ron and Cherie Santasiero stop by to share their list of ten important tips to help parents prevent addiction with their children..."
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For the recipe, see Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan (it's also here on Culinate) or read Everyday Insanity, as it was Cindy's pick this week. Don't forget to check out the TWD Blogroll!
P.S.: I forgot to mention that I swapped out some of the AP for spelt flour, one of my favorite flours to use in muffins and fruity cakes like this. Also, I think this cake would be tasty with raspberries, and I may try that out later in the season.
Looks just beautiful. This was tasty and delicious, I must say. I'm thinking this will be a fine breakfast for me in the morning as well….great suggestion.
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This was an excellent breakfast food! Thanks so much for baking along with me. Your cake loks beautiful, I enjoy visiting your blog each week. Have a great day.
This is a perfect little snack cake. Definitely a repeat. Caramel and tart blue berries. What's not to love.
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It does look lovely and moist. I just love big, fat sweet blueberries (not the season though here in New Zealand).
I'm putting this on my summer list of things to make with blueberries.
this recipe is the epitome of summer!
You sure do have a big whomp of blueberries. Looks fabulous.
There is a simplistic beauty in this cake and how you photographed it that I absolutely love.


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The Director of the Center. Gamalei Alexander Ginzburg commented on the message that the daughter of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin had been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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Earlier today, Putin said that his daughter experienced the Russian vaccine from COVID-19 for yourself. He also announced the registration in Russia, the world's first vaccine against the coronavirus. According to the head of the Ministry of health Murashko, was the first coronavirus vaccine showed high efficacy and safety.
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This month, Roger Deakin's cult favorite book about swimming the waters of Britain will be published in the U.S. for the first time. (Photo: LeonidKos/iStock)
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'Waterlog' Is a Classic Ode to Wild Swimming
This month, Roger Deakin's cult-favorite book about swimming the waters of Britain will be published in the U.S. for the first time. In her introduction to the new edition, writer Bonnie Tsui reflects on what she's learned from it over the years.
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It began with a rainy day in a moat.
The idea of a long swim through Britain came to the naturalist Roger Deakin in a period of personal sadness and isolation. The year was 1996: at the age of 53, he found himself alone, at the end of a long relationship. Besides that, he missed his son, Rufus, who was off surfing and adventuring on the eastern coast of Australia.
Though breaststroking across the moat near his home in a downpour might seem to be the very picture of misery, the act lent Deakin a sense of buoyancy and purpose. Watching the bright plash of raindrops dancing across the surface of the water animated him: "I grew convinced that following water, flowing with it, would be a way of getting under the skin of things…. In water, all possibilities seemed infinitely extended." That day set him in motion, leaving frustration and stasis behind. He would embark on an aquatic journey to find something new—and surprising, and beautiful—in his country's wild waterways.
He spent much of the next two years swimming and writing what would become the bestselling Waterlog. First published in the UK in 1999, the book quickly became the bible of a modern wild swimming movement, a word-of-mouth guidebook for those who wanted to dip into the waters he described. Though it's now a celebrated classic of the nature-writing canon, Waterlog has never been available in the U.S.—until this month. Its arrival to our shores couldn't come at a better time.
Water, of course, connects us all. Planning his swimming travels made Deakin feel closer to his son, so many thousands of miles away but immersed in the same ocean. (We may give names to different parts of that ocean, but any map will show you that it's all the same water.) In a funny kind of serendipity, during the time that Deakin was making his iconic swims across Britain as documented in Waterlog, I myself was in Australia, swimming and adventuring during a semester abroad. Perhaps I even crossed paths with Rufus in Byron Bay. All I know is that I, too, was moved to journey toward water, by a period of my own melancholy.
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I was a 19-year-old college kid, and I knew next to nothing about the world. It was sophomore year; the only international travel I'd done was summer visits to my grandfather in Canada. I was twitchy with unhappiness: my parents' marriage was about to end, my relationship with my boyfriend was imploding, and I couldn't fix either one of them.
"Proposed place of study." I'd examined the study abroad application on my desk closely, rolling the words around in my mouth. Proposed place of study. I asked myself the question that heartsick young people everywhere ask themselves: What's the farthest place I can get to from here?
The answer, it turned out, was Australia. And so I decided to go swimming in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef.
Like Deakin, I knew, even in the planning stages of my adventure, that I wanted magic: immersion in a world outside myself. I would learn how to breathe underwater. In the process, I would learn how to give myself over to possibility.
I've always been a swimmer, so it follows that I've always been a seeker. Even as a child, I often felt there was something more to see, and that water could take me there. I've spent much of the last several years seeking out the global swimming stories that became the book Why We Swim. Over many hours of research and reading, I got to know Roger Deakin, the bard of British open-water swimming, through the eloquent, watery words he put down.
What I first loved about his writing on swimming was the otherworldliness he so keenly discerned. In Waterlog, the bewitching, Alice In Wonderland quality comes through: "When you enter the water, something like metamorphosis happens. Leaving behind the land, you go through the looking-glass surface and enter a new world…. You see and experience things when you're swimming in a way that is completely different from any other."
This passage ended up in my own book. "Your sense of the present," he added, "is overwhelming." Time itself could be altered; how awesome that was! What's more, this was accessible magic, ready to be felt by anyone who made the plunge.
He rendered the pulse of life in exquisite, granular detail: the rolling squeaks of starling birdsong, hairy tangles of seaweed, innocent tadpoles decanted from an aquarium into the wild.
Upon rereading Waterlog this year, I noticed the shifting moods of a character as reflected in place. Of visiting the Norfolk coast—"close to home, yet remote"—Deakin observed that there was "no anti-depressant quite like sea-swimming." Holkham was the place he usually went when he was feeling blue: "Striking out into the enormous expanse of cold sea, over the vast sands, I immerse myself like the fox ridding himself of his fleas. I leave my devils on the waves."
I leave my devils on the waves. I am writing this, it must be said, in a time when our peripatetic ways have been profoundly changed, perhaps forever, by a global pandemic with no firm end in sight. So many of the days can feel dark and disconnected. But there are little joys, escapes, pinpricks of light. Even though the radius of our travels is smaller and closer to home, there is so much to notice, and appreciate.
Deakin, expounding on the sensory pleasures of his environment, reminds me to pay attention. He rendered the pulse of life in exquisite, granular detail: the rolling squeaks of starling birdsong, hairy tangles of seaweed, innocent tadpoles decanted from an aquarium into the wild. Plunging into an alpine rock pool caused one to spring out "on the knife-edge between aching and glowing."
He reminded his fellow Britons of the rich swimming history embedded in their everyday. He communed with eel fishermen in the Fens, traced limestone swimming holes in the Yorkshire Dales, observed (with a touch of concern) bridge-jumping traditions in Norwich. At the edge of an icy, high-altitude lake in Wales, he trembled, naked, pondering the geologic age of the surrounding rock, and saw the humor: "I was a prehistoric creature in my glistening wetsuit, ready to be fossilised unless I kept moving."
Deakin was a traveling salesman for outdoor swimming; I mean that in the best way. His was the eye that noticed, and noted—the way a certain river with its salmon runs and shoreline barbecues, say, combined "the play of wild life with the play of human life."
I, for one, was sold.
When I swam my way around Australia as a student, I saw immediately that the country's obsession with swimming was something I could get behind. I landed in Sydney, a beautiful, sun-spackled city, so shiny and exhilarating to me. I spent more time sampling the public pools and glorious beaches than I did studying. I left, months later, my skin browned from the sun and marked by jellyfish stings and other marine-life love bites.
I made trips to points west, along the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne, and north, to Byron Bay and the Sunshine Coast. Eventually, I worked enough to earn passage all the way up to Cairns, the jumping-off point to the most famous coral reef in the world. I remember the moment I first sank into a pool with a scuba tank and made myself take a breath underwater. My body tensed, resisted. Not once had it ever been fully submerged and told to breathe in at the same time. It took deliberate thought, a conscious wrestling with primal, instinctive fear. That first inhale through the scuba regulator in my mouth was deafening to my ears. It opened the portal to the undersea universe.
I spent two weeks on the reef, learning how to manage myself safely in the water. Eight of us travelers from all points on the planet had come together to live on a boat with our captain and our divemaster. We logged dives twice a day and wrote cryptic messages to each other underwater. We saw eagle rays, puffer fish, nurse sharks, massive mountain ranges of thriving coral. We learned to be gentle with the reef and the fishes, and with each other. By the end we were no longer strangers.
It has been 25 years since I first set off on what has become a career of writing and swimming and, more recently, surfing. What I have learned from this period of global swimming lessons—from being immersed in the wild, the world—is that water cannot wash away your troubles. But being in it can buoy you, long enough for you to register a fresh perspective.
I never met Roger Deakin; I wish I had. But I feel that reading his words, and discovering our parallel journeys, brings the world a little closer, draws the swimming community a little nearer, in a time when so many of us are feeling isolated and deeply alienated from our fellow humanity. More than two decades later, during a year-plus period of pandemic that closed most pools, open-water swimming has a fierce new appeal for Americans. So many letters have come my way describing the writers' elation at the freedom and magic that swimming in the great outdoors has lately granted them.
To cope with loss, pain, grief, we keep moving. We seek something new and beautiful to propel us to a different way of being. In the first U.S. edition of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, one of our wisest watermen, guides the way.
Excerpted from WATERLOG: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin. Published with permission from Tin House. Copyright (c) 2021 by Bonnie Tsui.
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Q: How to I get distance "value" from google maps distance matrix api? I am autofilling an input field with the below which gives me distance.text value which is expressed in km but I'd like to get the distance.value for precision distance.
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A: Actually, Sorry! changing the line to...

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...works. I just needed to clear my cache for the .js file change to kick in. =/ =/ =/

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