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How to get $50 for carpooling up Little Cottonwood Canyon this winter
By Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted - Dec. 22, 2022 at 9:02 p.m.
The Little Cottonwood Canyon road on Nov. 9. Alta Ski Area, Snowbird Resort and Visit Salt Lake teamed up for a carpooling incentive this winter, providing $50 gas cards to some who carpool on the canyon's busiest days. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — Planning to carpool on your way up to Alta Ski Area or Snowbird Resort? You may end up getting a $50 gas card.
The two resorts and Visit Salt Lake — the private nonprofit that promotes Salt Lake County tourism — announced a new incentive to get skiers and snowboarders to carpool in the canyon, as yet another way to reduce traffic congestion during its busiest days of the year.
Alta and Snowbird staff members will keep track of anyone who arrives at their resorts with four or more occupants in their vehicle during the busiest times, such as weekends, holidays and fresh powder days. Those who qualify are eligible to win one of $10,000 worth of gas cards this season, which breaks down to 200 cards altogether throughout the winter.
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Alta and Snowbird on this creative incentive," Kaitlin Eskelson, president and CEO at Visit Salt Lake, said in a statement Thursday. "Any time you can reduce congestion and emissions in the canyons means more time enjoying our world-class ski areas for locals and visitors alike."
The program is the latest effort to reduce traffic congestion this season, especially as the canyon remains as popular as ever, and Utah Transit Authority's ski bus service to the canyon was cut in half by employee shortages.
Earlier this month, the Central Wasatch Commission and other groups announced the return of a ski bus "bypass" program that funds police escorts from the UTA Park and Ride lot in Sandy (2000 East and 9400 South) to the Park and Ride lot at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon during days when the canyon is closed because of traffic congestion.
The program debuted as a pilot program last year, resulting in a 50-minute reduction in travel time, according to the commission.
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Il mese del tenore verdiano XXXI: Todor Mazaroff (1907-1975)
Posted on 1 novembre 2014 by Selma Kurz
Mazaroff (Masaroff) was born in Pavel Banja in Bulgria on 2 January 1907. He began his career with the Sofia National Opera making his debut in 1935 in a production of Prince Igor. In 1937 Mazaroff won a singing competition in Vienna and so impressed Bruno Walter that he was immediately awarded a contract with the Vienna State Opera. His debut was on September 9, 1937 as Radame s. Since he spoke only Bulgarian at the time, his first roles there were sung in Bulgarian while the rest of the cast sang in German. He remained active there until 1953. Due to the outbreak of World War II he was unable to develop an international career. In 1939 he appeared at the Maggio Musicale as Arnoldo with great success and repeated the role at La Scala and the Rome Opera. International appearances took him to La Scala, La Fenice, Prague, Moscow, Paris, Buenos Aires, etc. His appearances in the United States included Chicago, New York and San Francisco. While teaching at the Conservatory in Vienna between 1962 and 1964 he retired from singing in 1963. He gave his farewell tour in Bulgaria in 1968. Todor Mazaroff died in Vienna on September 19, 1975.
This excerpt with Maria Reining is actually from Mazaroff´s very first performance (singing in Bulgarian, while Reining is singing in German) as Don Carlo at the Wiener Staatsoper. What a voice. In these years when emphatic singing was "en vogue" (Lorenz, Rosvaenge, also Pertile) Mazaroff did follow this "vogue" only to a certain extent. and A beautiful timbre, a rich spinto voice pouring out freely and effortlessly, but not sounding over emphatic and remaining essentially elegant and restrained.
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Who or what are the following and why have they been in the news?
Conrad Gillespie
Cory Allen
Call Me Dave
Viola Davies
The Brave Blossoms
Diego Coasta
Suzann Petersen
Mark Colborne
Daraprim
Simple Verse
Red Peak
Jackie Collins passed away. What was the title of her first novel?
Which team won the Solheim Cup
Which famous art critic passed away?
Which former world leader did the Pope meet?
What was the score between Chelsea and Arsenal?
Who won the Singapore GP?
Which team won the Royal London One Day Cup final?
The world's oldest package holiday ticket was found by researchers. Name the three destinations?
Which anniversary did ITV celebrate?
Why might Andy Murray pull out of the ATP tour finals?
Who is the new French Davis Cup captain
What was the score between England's women footballers and Estonia?
Marine Le Pen is to appear in court in France on which charge?
Which company announced it is to cut exorbitant hospital shop prices?
EU interior Ministers agreed to accommodate how many refugees?
Which group announced a comeback after 37 years?
Who announced she is leaving Chelsea?
Which team were knocked out of the Capital One cup by Hull?
Radar is going to be used in the search for the tomb of whom?
The Ashcroft book claims that Boris Johnson demanded how much for London not to make a fuss during the election campaign?
Which song did Warners lose the copyright to in the US courts?
What was the Capital One Cup score between Spurs and Arsenal?
What was the RWC score between Scotland and Japan?
– and Australia and Fiji?
700 pilgrims were crushed to death where?
Which architect walked out of a Today programme interview?
Who contacted Elton John this week?
Francis gave the first ever papal address where?
Which team were accused of breaking the spirit of rugby world cup rules?
ITV fans are up in arms about the world cup anthem World In Union – why?
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Only Connect: Series Eleven: Elimination Match
Headliners v. Bookworms
The Headliners, Duncan Enright, Dave Robinson and Paddy Baker, were beaten 25 – 16 by the String Section in the first round, and I made the comment that I didn't think that either team was the best general knowledge team we've ever seen. Bit mean that, and I'm sorry. They were playing the Bookworms, Katy Bateman, Tristram Cole and Dave Knapp. The Bookworms were narrowly defeated by the Wayfarers in the first round. So the form guide says. . . hang on a minute. The form guide has been completely reliable in the other elimination matches – it's always wrong. So hey, no predictions, and may the better team win.
Round One – What's the Connection?
The Heads began with Two Reeds. They received a music set for their pains, and I'll be honest, I didn't recognize anything before Dave said Beverly Knight for the second. I knew Nat King Cole for the third, though, and that gave us chess pieces. The Heads had it too at this same point. Lion gave the Books – starting position in Shogi. Nope. The Times Crossword Grid was a lot more helpful. That is , how should one put it, diagonally reversible. Flag of Georgia followed – red cross on a white field (cross of St George) with smaller red crosses in each quadrant. The Books tried horizontal and vertical symmetry, but alas twas neither. The letter S finished. The key is rotational symmetry, as the Heads confirmed. Eye of Horus gave the Heads 1965: Opened by Harold Wilson. Hmm – I wanted more. 2011 Defunct Aerial removed. Actually it looked like Dave had it at this point – I didn't. The next clue, though, 1971: Toppled by a kitten gave it to probably every 50 something viewing at home. The Telecom Tower. The Heads took it off 3. Dave K did his team's chances no good at all by asking for the Horned rather than Hornèd Viper, and received – The Berlin Wall – nope, too many – Celebrity Imperfections in Heat – no, never read it – The Right Hand side of the Daily Mail website – I refer you to my previous answer – then – Losers Leaving the Weakest Link. Well, that obviously had to be –Of Shame, as in the walk of. Now, Twisted Flax gave the Heads the most obvious 5 pointer I've seen for some time. Apostle Matthias – well, he was Judas' substitute/replacements, and so substitutes/replacements was my answer for 5. Ben Wishaw as a Peruvian, the next clue, was lovely. You see, Colin Firth was the original voice of Paddington, but I believe voluntarily stepped down when it just wasn't working. Kensington Blue Whale – well, while Dippy the Dpilodocus is on his UK tour at the moment his part is being played in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum by a model of a blue whale. Finally the Heads twigged and took it off three. This left water for the Books. First we saw the late Steve Jobs holding an apple ipod or some such device. Then we saw Marco Polo. I was very pleased with myself for noticing the copy of Il Milione he was holding or I wouldn't have had a Scooby who he was. A VW Polo came next, so obviously all polos. Only – oh Steve Jobs was wearing a polo neck. Sneaky as hell. The Books took it off three as well. All of which meant that the Heads led by 7 – 3.
Round Two – What Comes Fourth?
Water gave the Books Tigris. Now, this was either going to be the river, or Thor Heyerdahl's reed boat. If Ra II came next, then Kon Tiki was the answer. It did come next and that was enough for the Heads as well, who were impressing me a lot more than they did in their first match. The Books' set was difficult compared to this. Basically it was a representation of the four sides of the monopoly board in terms of the streets. So the first had 40% brown and 60% blues, and second half pink and half orange and so on. Now, we're certainly not in American Municipal Bankruptcies territory, but this was tough. The Heads spurned the opportunity to improve their chances and they too asked for a disappointing Horned Viper. Returns was followed by Forever. Hmm, these were Batman films, but, crucially Returns wasn't the first. SO I worked out the next would be Batman and Robin, and the answer therefore Begins. A bonus for the Books, and that is what can happen when you spurn Hornèd. Reeds gave the Books ½ pint lager =3. Sorry, but I knew this one, to my shame. It was Weight Watchers points. In which case working down to 0 could only be water. 25 ml gin=2 I wouldn't have known, but I wasn't changing my answer. 100 ml apple juice =1, and frankly I thought that the 5 points were mine. At this point the Books saw it to gate the answer. I have to say that the Heads had another plum for their last set. I'm not saying I would have had it from 7 = 900, but I definitely did from 6 = 720. This is internal angles of regular polygons, so 4 = 360. Again, no real excuses if you don't get that one. No mistake by the Heads who had it off two. This left the Books with Manchester United (Preston North End). Well, one which should come to mind is that D. Beckham Esq, started his pro career at Man Utd where he also had a spell on loan at Preston. Dave had the connection too, and went for it off one. He offered just Paris St. Germain, and oh, had he only had the second clue he'd have been there. That showed Real Madrid (none) . So he'd have known Paris St. Germain (none) was right. The third was LA Galaxy (Milan) which left an open goal for the Heads, and they managed to shoot over the bar with LA Galaxy (Paris St. Germain). Which lucky escape for the Books meant that they trailed the Heads by 13 - 6
Realistically the Books needed to pull back at least some of the lead on the Lion wall. They began trying to isolate record retailers, but then switched with success to Blackpool attractions – Winter Gardens – Illuminations – Tower and Golden Mile. Island Groups – South Sandwich – Solomon – Virgin and Windward fell almost immediately afterwards. Square dance moves were there as well as the retailers. Very quickly they resolved the last two lines – Allemande Left – Do si Do – Grand Square and Promenade being the dance moves, while Zavvi – Rough trade – Our Price and HMV were the retailers. Alas, they failed to link the word square with dance, and only received 7 points, when they could well have had 10.
The Heads had the chance to pretty much close the show on their wall. They began by trying to isolate a set of diacritics, then computer games. When these didn't budge they tried a set of Beyonce songs. Isolating If I Were A Boy – Crazy in Love – Halo and Déjà vu. Time Crisis – Quake – Doom and Deus Ex, the games followed very swiftly. With Fringe, Grave and Call of Duty it looked fairly clear that the last set were all linked by being Beyond The . . . but the Heads couldn't see it, and had grave as a diacritic – which it could have been. SO the wall froze. When revealed the diacritics were macron – cedilla – hacek and circumflex – while the sea completed the beyond set. This resulted in 5 points, and a lead of 18 – 13. It still looked a tall order for the Books, but at least possible.
Issues around Scottish Independence fell 4 – 0 to captain Dave of the Books. Now we had a game. Things you can take – take a . . . saw the Heads take two and lose 1, and the Books take 2. All square. Tournament formats went to the Books 3 – 1 and they led for the first time in the competition. Painters of $100 million paintings fell one each, and that was it. Wait for it – the Books had won by 2. What? The form guide, the one time I ignored it, was right! Bad luck to the Heads, but they can be pleased with playing a good game. Congratulations Bookworms.
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University Challenge: Round One: Match 11
St. Catharine's, Cambridge v. Southampton
So then, representing JP's own alma mater we had Callum Watson, Ellie Chan, Alex Cranston and skipper Callum Bungey. Their opposition, the University of Southampton, consisted of Will Cable, Sarah Stock, Roland Sadler and captain Tricia Goggins. Now, I never wish bad luck on any team, but I have to admit that I was intrigued, going into this match, to see what JP would say to the St. Catharine's team if they should happen to lose.
Right, controversy struck with the very first starter. The question actually was – in which CITY SQUARE was the statue called The Goddess of Democracy etc. etc. Now, the correct answer is of course Tiananamen Square. However, you listen to it on the iplayer, and you can easily be forgiven for thinking that JP said – In which CITY'S SQUARE – I'm sure that's why Callum Watson answered Beijing and lost 5 for his team. Rather bad luck that. This gave Sarah Stock the opportunity to supply the correct answer. A gentle set of things all linked by an adjective meaning a nationality brought Southampton a full house. Skipper Callum Bungey lost St. Catharine's a further 5 with an incorrect interruption of various definitions of the word salient. Reading couldn't capitalize. Nobody knew Norwegian Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlson. Nobody knew about Peel's second term in office. Finally, and I sense JP was starting to get a little frustrated at this, when he gave several East Anglian locations of large factories and asked what they processed. Callum Bungey gave us sugar beet, which was of course right. Scientific institutions brought St. Catharine's a full house, and saw them narrow the gap to 10. A nice picture starter followed, which showed us the cover of a Terry Deary Horrible History book, with the title removed. It was Roland Sadler who correctly identified it as the Slimy Stuarts. More of the same followed in the bonuses, and Southampton were happy to take the full set. Callum Bungey knew that good old quiz chestnut that a church which does not fall under the authority of a bishop is a peculiar. Well, quite. Bonuses on gin brought another full house, which was enough to ensure that Cats (if it's good enough for JP to call them that, then it's good enough for me, tailed by just 5 points, 45 to 40.
Nobody knew the famous French Maths geezer Clairaut. Now, asked a classic Greek Mythology question, Tricia Goggins made the easy mistake of saying Icarus – yet the flight was completed, so it could only be his dad Daedalus, a fact not lost on Callum Bungey. Another full house on Lithuania compounded Southampton's punishment. The Cats skipper took his 4th starter of the competition when he recognized the definition of a Turing Machine. A couple of bonuses on statistical doo dahs followed. Starter number 5 was Callum Bungey's as he identified about half a note of a song from Les Mis for the music starter. No bonuses on other sung through musicals followed. Be honest, the first one sounded more like a slept through musical, but I digress. Will Cable bull dozed Southampton back into the match by answering that various personages were the brothers of George IV. Quotations about too much of something brought them 2 bonuses, and cut the gap to 30 points. Nobody recognized a series of quotations about Art. Tricia Goggins further reduced her team's arrears knowing that Jaggers in Great Expectations is a lawyer. A full set on families of carnivores meant that they trailed by just 5. Callum Bungey's 6th starter came when he knew that thermal and catalytic are two types of fracking. Good shout. 2 bonuses on Alexander Pope took Cats through to triple figures, and on the cusp of the 20 minute mark they led by 120 to 85. This was one of those games where it was just possible that both sides might make it through, bearing in mind how JP speeds up for the last few minutes.
For the second picture starter nobody fancied a shy at a lovely bit of Poussin, and so the bonuses rolled over. A good early buzz from Will Cable saw him identify the word cartouche, as used in Egyptian Heiroglyphs. 2 bonuses put them on 105. Tricia Goggins guessed a series of musical valves, which gave Southampton back the lead. Bonuses on places sharing their names with breeds of dog brought only one, although all three were gettable if not exactly easy. Nobody knew the next one which was a computer acronym thungummybob – do stop me if I get too technical. Callum Bungey knew about a squawk, which is - oh, let's be honest, I haven't got a clue what it is. Chemistry bonuses were enough to give Cats a 10 point lead. The 8th Callum Bungey starter came from knowing that the two children created by Charles Addams in his eponymous family were Wednesday and Pugsley. Bonuses on New Zealand writers proved elusive, and so even with just a few minutes left the game was not over, although my money was on Cats. Callum Bungey knew that Wotan and Erda in Wagner's Ring were the parents of the Valkyries. A full house on Chinese Emperors pretty much sealed the deal for Cats, and so it was down to Southampton to see if they could get at least a full house to give them a sniff of a repechage slot. Nobody knew the Casa Rosada is the executive mansion in Argentina. I did. It's in the lyrics of 'Oh What A Circus' from Evita. Tricia Goggins knew that Toulouse won the Heineken Cup more times than any other club – 4 times. Southampton needed as many of these bonuses on population as possible. 1 they managed. Nobody knew reptation. Me neither. That was that. Cats won by 165 to 135.
A good match that, quite close. Southampton had a bad patch in the middle of the match, and ultimately that left them a little short at the end. As for Cats, well played, especially to Callum Bungey for a virtuoso starter performance. Mind you, Cats could be up against it if he has an off day on the buzzer next time round.
JP made his first venture into dudgeon when neither team knew that the repeal of the Corn Laws happened during Peel's second term as Prime Minister – "It's famously the greatest achievement of his administration!" he huffed.
When Sarah Stock announced that her answer of Poincare was going to be wrong, this set him up for the every popular, "You're right! . . . It is wrong!" He's here all, week, ladies and gents.
Thermal and catalytic are two types of fracking
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Mastermind: Round One: Heat 8
My first reaction when scanning the line-up for last night's show was that I didn't recognize any of the names, and when I scanned down my contender database it confirmed that they were all Mastermind virgins. Nothing wrong with that either.
First up was Rachel Fullard. Rachel offered us Catherine of Aragon, one of England's finest queens, who did little or nothing wrong, other than fail to provide a surviving male heir, for which she was treated appallingly. I didn't know until this round, for example, that Henry dressed himself in ceremonial yellow to celebrate when he heard that she had died. I remember my History teacher telling us how Henry Died, by using the euphemism 'he died of sensual pleasures' by which we were left to draw the inference that he died of a sexually transmitted illness. Good. Coming back to Rachel, she also did little wrong in her round. The trouble is, with the length of questions putting the ceiling at about 15 for a specialist round, the margins are so tight that you really can't afford mistakes. As it was, Rachel managed 10 and 2 passes – a good round, but unlikely to give her a realistic chance in the last round.
Ed Kent looked well up for the challenge as he made his way to the chair. Answering on the Labour Government of 1945-1951, he was pretty animated on the chair, well, as animated as you can be anyway. Without wishing to shove my own political views in your faces I'd still like to comment that this immediate post-war Labour Government is still well worthy of study, for the scope of their ambition for change even if not for their achievements – and in my opinion these were quite considerable. I managed half a dozen on this round, which was the same as I'd managed on Catherine of Aragon. Like Rachel before him, Ed made 10, although with one fewer pass. If a 14 came along he'd struggle.
I wasn't much of a fan of Rush – be honest, I'd struggle to name any other song of theirs except 'Spirit of Radio', and I can only name that one since my brother went through a phase of playing it about 20 times a day for a week or two after it was released. Invisible airwaves crackle with life etc. etc. Tom Mead, who was third into the chair, offered us a better SS round than we'd seen so far in this show. Ed had answered very quickly, and so did Tom, reaching a final score of 12. It wasn't a 'blow the opposition away' score, but in the context of this show it was distinctly useful.
I cannot in all honesty say that I know a great deal about poet Robert Fergusson. In fact I didn't get a single answer in Andrew Brophy's specialist round on the same. It did give John H the chance to indulge himself in that cod Scottish accent non-Scots tend to put on when they're trying to read Burns. To be fair he did make some self-deprecating comments about it after the round. Andrew managed a final score of 9. Now, that's perfectly respectable in the context of this series. Realistically, it's only 1 less than 10, yet psychologically there's something about getting into double figures, and I felt sorry for Andrew that he just didn't quite manage this.
With only three points separating all 4 contenders theoretically any of them could win. For Andrew to do so, though, he needed to throw in something in the mid teens. He had a go too, but by the middle of the round he was slogging through the questions, and looked behind on the clock. 12 was a decent performance, and was certainly enough to give at least the next two contenders food for thought, although it didn't look like a potentially winning score.
Rachel Fullard found her GK round pretty hard going. Like many, she didn't start at all badly. However a Mastermind GK round, I believe, is designed to allow you to build up a bit of momentum. The proof of the pudding is how you cope when you start getting a couple wrong. Rachel looked a bit unhappy with herself when she went back to her chair. She really needn't have – 8 is fine and nothing to be ashamed of, especially if you're not a quizzer. What made it appear worse was that she passed 9 times. Don't let it get you down, if by any chance you're reading Rachel – as the late, great Magnus Magnusson used to say, It's only a bl**dy game.
As with his first round, Ed Kent was up for it when he came back to the chair. He virtually snapped his answers out, doing the classic thing of only giving surnames when names were asked for. Judging by the quality of a lot of his answers Ed is a quizzer. If he isn't, then he should think of taking it up. Again, we have to consider the context of the series, and in the context of this series, 14 is a good score for GK. It put Ed on 24, which was surely at least enough to put Tom within the corridor of doubt. Another thing it did do, though, was to make it pretty certain that only one of tonight's contenders would be going through to the semis.
I dare say that Tom is also a quizzer. His round was similar to Ed's – both of them answered quickly and with admirable economy, and both of them got many 'quizzer's questions' right – by which I mean the sort of thing the average person will never need to know, but a quizzer will know immediately because it's the sort of thing asked in quizzes. It was close. In the end Tom managed 13, one fewer than Ed had scored. However he had that 2 point cushion, and that was enough to give him a one point win. As a matter of fact, not having passed at all Tom would have gone through if he'd only scored 12. Well played, sir. As for Ed, well I do feel a little sorry, since I can't really see him making the semis with 24, and that's a shame since he'd produced a GK round worthy of a semi place. But then it is a game played over two rounds, and however brilliant your GK, if you don't maximize your score on SS, then you can leave yourself with problems.
Rachel Fullard
Ed Kent
Labour Government 1945 - 1951
Tom Mead
Andrew Brophy
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Aymara Al Zawahiri
Laura Alvarez
Edvald Boassen Hagen
Sebastien Ogier
Photograph 51
Sonja Crisp
Theo Bronkhorst
Hanya Yanagihara : A Little Life
Ashya King
Jerome Valcke
Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov (Vovan and Lexus)
Steve Rannazzissi
Andy Murray's singles win over which player put Britain into the Davis Cup Final?
Who is the new Shadow Home Secretary?
and Foreign Affairs secretary?
Chuka Ummuna gave which reason for quitting the Shadow Cabinet?
Germany suspended all rail traffic with which country?
Who won the Great North Run?
Who won the Walker Cup?
Who won the US Tennis Open – Womens singles?
Who equaled Rocky Marciano's perfect boxing record of 49 – 0?
Which bank announced they will be doubling account charges?
Which title did Anthony Joshua win?
Which prison saw a rooftop protest?
Who will take over from Donald Trump hosting US Celebrity Apprentice?
Which former England cricket great passed away?
What was the result of the US Open Men's singles final?
Who will become the first player to play in 5 world cups?
IN which European country is there to be a TV talent show to find a new National Anthem?
At which event did Jeremy Corbyn 'stand respectfully' without singing the National Anthem?
Which country declared a state of emergency over the immigration crisis?
The 125th anniversary of the birth of Agatha Christie took place in her birthplace. Where?
In the Champions League what was the score between Man Utd and PSV?
and Man City and Juventus?
and Dinamo Zagreb and Arsenal?
and Cehlsea and Maccabi Tel Aviv?
Which England cricketer has been released by Essex?
Which new feature is Facebook going to introduce?
Whose secret chapel in Westminster Abbey was to be opened to the public?
Silvio Berlusconi has been refused entry to which country?
Which two former Cabinet ministers have been cleared of allegations of cash for access?
Which shadow cabinet minister has apologized for suggesting in the past that IRA members should be honoured?
What was won by How to boil an egg and the discovery that the interjection huh? Is part of a universal language?
Who opened the exhibition on Soviet Cosmonauts at the Science Museum in London?
Who was appointed permanent head of the England women's netball team?
Which Wales and British and Irish Lions great was knighted?
What was the Europa League score between Spurs and Qarabag?
and Liverpool and Nordeaux?
and Celtic and Ajax?
What was announced by the Federal Reserve?
With which shadow minister is it alleged that Jeremy Corbyn had a 'fling' in their younger days?
Al Qaeda leader who has denounced ISIS
Elected Deputy leader of Labour Party
Wife of Jeremy Corbyn
Winner of Tour of Britain
Third goalkeeper in England 1966 world Cup winning squad passed away
Won world rally championship
Ousted Tony Abbot as leader of Australian Liberal Party/PM of Australia
Play about Rosalind Franklin, starring Nicole Kidman
US Attorney General who has promised more arrests of FIFA Officials
Lord Mayor of York caused controversy by criticizing the state of the chains of office
Arrested in Zimbabwe concerning the shooting of Cecil the lion
Bookies' favourite to win the Booker Prize
Welsh international rugby player retired through epilepsy caused by head traumas
British boy who received photon treatment and is now clear of cancer
FIFA secretary general – suspended
Russian broadcasters played practical joke on Sir Elton John
Anti depressant revealed to possibly be ineffective
US Comic had to apologize for saying he was in twin towers during 9/11
Founder of Subway – passed away
Software programmer jailed for trying to buy ricin on the web
Differences over policy over EU membership
Mo Farah and Mary Keitany
GB and Northern Ireland
Flavia Pennetta bt Roberta Vinci
Floyd Mayweather JR (bt Andre Berto)
Commonwealth Heavyweight title
Djokovic bt Federer
Mauro Bergamasco
75th Anniversary Service for Battle of Britain
2 – 1 PSV
2 – 1 Juventus
2 – 1 Dinamo Zagreb
4 – 0 Chelsea
Monty Panesar
Malcolm Rifkind and jack Straw
IgNobel Prizes
Valentina Tereschkova
Tracey Neville
3 – 1 Spurs
No interest rate rise
Diane Abbot
Only Connect Series Eleven: Elimination Match
Collectors v. Mixologists
The collectors were, collectively, Daniel Nazarian, Anna Kirby-Hall, and captain Elliot Costi. In all honesty they weren't great in their first round match, where they were quite comfortably beaten by the Railwaymen. On the other hand the Mixologists, Chris Beer, Ewan MacAulay and Sam Swift sowed good form in losing by a point to the distinctly useful Spaghetti Westerners. The form guide said the Gists looked by far the best bet for the win, but in a two horse race either team can win on their day.
The Gists went first, and as a statement of intent asked for Hornèd Viper . Way to go, Sam. The Commitments' Dean Fay. I might well have had a shy at a 5 pointer here – since I know that Dean was the saxophone player in the film/book. Maybe that was too simple and obvious. Spider Murphy didn't mean owt to me. Zoot, though, the third, was the Muppet band's sax player. If Bill Clinton came 4th . . . Well, he didn't, but Lisa Simpson worked just as well. It worked to salvage a point for the GIsts, and we moved to the Lects. They went for Eye of Horus, and their first clue was Palau. All I can tell you about Palau is that it has a simple national flag of a yellow sun on a blue field. Laos' flag has a white disc/sun on a band of horizontal blue between two horizontal red stripes. So discs/suns on national flags was my guess. Bangladesh (red disc on green field) came third – and I guessed that Japan would be the most obvious for the 4th. It was Daniel who clicked on the third clue, and when revealed the last actually was Japan. Both teams off and running then. Twisted Flax started with Darkness Visible. Right – it's the title of a work by William Styron, which is a quotation from Paradise Lost. It's also an oxymoron. I plaumped for titles of works which are quotations from other writers. So we might get 'Tender is the Night' for example. That looked to be blown out of the water by the second clue "The Dementors". Sounded like Harry Potter to me, but then that's my problem. A Bell Jar just as much screamed Sylvia Plath. Were these all, I wondered, autobiographical or semi autobiographical works about mental illness? The first and third were. A rush of blood to the head saw captain Sam offer things which contained vacuums. The last was a black dog. Now, I did know that this was the phrase that Sir Winston Churchill used to describe his periods of depression. And indeed, metaphors for depression was the answer as correctly given by the Lects. For their own clue they opted for Two Reeds, and received a picture set for their pains. In a weird echo of the UC picture set half an hour earlier we saw artists' self-portraits, including Frida Kahlo (looking nothing like Kate Winslet, Jez was right). Lion gave the Gists the music, and a set of pirates gradually revealed itself for a point. What a lovely little set the water set was. I didn't know the Department of Camembert cheese. I did know that Reno is the Biggest Little City in the World, and Nero – and anagram of Reno, was emperor from 54 AD to 68. I had it by this time, but Mr. Rubik – Erno – confirmed it. The Lects didn't get it, and neither did the Gists. Sorry guys – you missed a trick there. After round one the Lects led by 5 – 2, making a mockery of the afore mentioned form guide.
Mo 20:00 suggested Monday at 8pm for the Gists. Tu 19:30 added nothing for me that I hadn't got from the first clue. Captain Sam thought it was times that Eastenders is on. He said a wee prayer, then offered Fr. 20:00. The Lord helps those who watch Eastenders, apparently, since it was right. Good shout. Skipper Elliot fought back immediately by asking in his turn for Hornèd Viper too. Top man. Preston End suggested the word North to me. Stirlingshire suggested East. Working on that, Ham United or Bromwich Albion should do the trick. Not trying to be horrible, but sorry, the Lects picked a juicy wee plum with that giveaway. I'd still rather see an easy set like this than American Municipal Bankruptcies, mind you. Water showed us Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks. Then we had a spark plug. Then boxers sparring. So just something which showed a spa. Sam offered Leamington Spa, which did the trick. Twisted Flax gave the Lects 18 degrees; Astronomical dawn. Huh? Then 12 degrees nautical dawn. Huh huh? Six degrees civil dawn next. 0 degrees, Tony Orlandoan Dawn the answer then? (ask your parents). No, it was zero degrees sunrise, which was exactly the straw that Elliot grabbed at for the point. Lion then gave the Gists RN. Suggested Royal Navy, but then what? BQ didn't help. KB was the last clue. Got it! Chess notation, so Rook – Knight – Bishop – Queen – King – Bishop – so NR – Knight – Rook. The Lects had that. So once again the form book was being given a good old British style 6 of the best, trousers down. To finish the round we had start of the 1929 Wall Street Crash. That would be Black Tuesday. So for a five pointer I suggested Start of Christmas shopping season – Black Friday. The Lects, again plucking something of a plum, took Sterling withdraws from ERM then Irish Deficit reaches 32% of GDP. Anna had already given the correct answer, but captain Elliot seemed a little fixated on Black Thursday for the Wall Street Crash. So they gave a wrong 'un, enabling the Gists to take an unexpected bonus. Which meant that the Lects led by 11 – 8.
The Lects opted for Water. I could see Jeremies and Football club nicknames to start with. The Lects were wonderfully methodical with the Jeremies, and soon isolated Vine – Paxman – Kyle and Guscott. They saw the teams, but not that Irons were one of them, and Cubs weren't. Anna saw a set of yards – court – grave – scrap and dock. That was as far as they got. When the wall was resolved – wolves – cubs – lies and cards looked like things you get a pack of – but they couldn't see it. This left the football teams – black cats – saints – irons and bluebirds. They'd played well up to this point, but 5 points showed the first chink in their armour.
Lion gave the Gists Arabian ports with Dubai, Jeddah, Muscat and Aden. Merlot – Syrah – Pinot Noir and Semillon – all wine grapes - followed very quickly. I could see a set of words like Kuwait, which could be denoted by a single letter and a single figure – Q8. There were also K9 – E10 and B4. Pooch, hound, cur and mutt are all alternative words for dogs. 10 from 10, and maybe if the Lects had picked the plums in the second round, the Gists had the slightly easier wall in this. Didn't matter. This gave them the lead – 18 – 16 – going into the last round. Anyone's game.
A disastrous round for the Gists on things with spots saw the Lects take a full house, and to add insult to injury they lost a point for an incorrect buzz. Weirdly, the Gists then won the next round – film titles with the first letters changed – eg – Sad Max – 4 – 1! 3 – 1 to the Lects on 6 syllable words meant it was 22 all as we went into Manicure kit. Sam had the first – nail polish remover. And he had the second with cuticle nipper and that was it! Time was up. 24 – 22 to the Gists. Well, the form guide was right in as much as it predicted a win for the Gists, but I thought that the Lects had played miles better than in their first match, and could go with their heads held high.
Oh, and Jenny (producer) - I hope that your cold is on the mend. x
University Challenge: Round One : Match 10
University of Reading v. Imperial, London
Welcome to tonight's edition of the clothes show. Oops, sorry, University Challenge. Yes, no media gnashing of teeth over this show's contenders after last week's vestgate. Reading's respectively dressed contenders were Macdonald Ukah, Jan Kamieniecki, Lewis Blackshaw and captain Sammie Buzzard. Imperial's equally unspectacularly clothed crusaders were Ben Fernando, Ashwin Braude, Onur Teymur and skipper James Bezer. JP, on the other hand, was wearing an electric blue taffeta ball gown, a diamond encrusted tiara and a gimp mask. Not really – usual grey suit and mauve shirt and tie combination.
I loved the first two Adrian Mole books that I knew the answer to the first starter as soon as JP said the words "I was racked with sensuality" – and to be fair Lewis Blackshaw didn't need too much more. He earned a set of bonuses on the historic counties of Scotland of which Reading answered 2. The second starter asked which element is 4th heaviest of group one of the periodic table. Now, amazingly, I worked out that it would be potassium. It was a bit early for me to do a lap of honour round the living room, so I stayed seated as Ben Fernando gave the right answer for Imperial. Centenarians looked like a tricky set, but it provided one correct answer. James Bezer knew that susceptibility to hypnosis is rated on the Stanford Scale, and this gave the team a set of bonuses on Abel Tasman. I always prefer an able Tasman to a useless Tasman, me. Full house for Imperial. You sensed that it would favour Imperial when JP announced we'd be seeing a representation of a mathematical construction for the first picture starter, and you were right to do so, when Ben Fernando quickly gobbled up that it was something to do with Mandlebrot. Gesundheit. For the bonus set we had three more fractals. My mind went bye byes for a couple of minutes, but when it came back Imperial had earned 2 bonuses. Jan Kamieniecki knew that the IOC HQ is in Lausanne. Computer programming languages brought them one bonus. This was the third time in recent weeks that I'd heard a question focusing on the fact that Morrissey's autobiography was published by Penguin Classics. Works by Tom Stoppard meant that by the 11 minute mark Imperial led by 80 – 35.
I didn't understand the next question, but the answer was oogamy. Fair enough. Nobody else had it either. I guessed that Tanzimat referred to something which happened in the Ottoman Empire, as did Onur Teymur. Given three bonuses on volcanic eruptions Imperial managed two. For the music starter Onur Teymur identified a wee bit of Ludwig Van, and added one bonus. Jan Kamieniecki knew that Paisley shawls were named after the town west of Glasgow, and Reading managed two of the bonuses on Anglo Saxon rulers that followed. James Bezer knew the computing term defgramentation and came in with an early buzz to say so on the next starter. A full house on planetary astronomy impressed JP, and he awarded the team a relatively rare 'well done'. Ben Fernando buzzed immediately that JP said PPP to give the answer purchasing power parity for the next starter, and it was starting to look very ominous for Reading. Boroughs of New York City brought 2 more correct answers. McDonald Ukah was the first to buzz in with the spelling of diphthong, and this brought them one bonus on people born in Bombay or Mumbai. For the second picture starter we saw Timothy Spall in the role of JMW Turner. James Bezer was the first to say so. More photos of actors playing notable artists brought one more bonus. Now at the ten minute mark Imperial were home and dry with 175, while on 70 Reading needed a huge effort to get into a repechage slot.
A good UC special starter saw Ben Fernando first to figure out that if you combine the initial letters of the capitals of Cuba and Croatia you get the symbol for hertz. They took one bonus on the Karakorum desert, but missed out on one by getting their Kublai mixed up with their Genghis. Ashwin Braude worked out that you can get from the Gulf of Guinea to the Med crossing a minimum of 3 countries. Reflexes only brought one point – and sadly none of the answers involved saying that a reflex is an only child who's waiting in the park (ask your parents about that cultural reference). McDonald Ukah knew that the 2nd emperor of Rome was Tiberius. A gentle set on the Book of Genesis followed – they took two but failed on that old quiz chestnut, the mighty hunter before the Lord, who of course is Nimrod. When expressed as a hexadecimal, C is the letter of the alphabet represented by the number 12. Nope, me neither, but Ashwin Braude had it – pretty quickly too. Imperial picked up one bonus on the Bank Of England, but they really ought to have known that James Watt's partner on the £50 note is Matthew Boulton. Their tails were well and truly up though, and none more so than Ashwin Braude. Who took another starter knowing that the landlocked country surrounded by a group of others that JP mentioned in South East Asia is Laos. They took one of three bonuses on DH Lawrence. Not a problem for them today, but we've seen how profligacy on the buzzers can catch up with you in later rounds. Ben Fernando knew that Mole Day is observed in commemoration of Avogadro's Constant. Fair enough. A couple of chemistry bonuses took them over 250. That man Fernando knew that the summer triangle consists of Deneb, Altair and Vega. A 300 pointer didn't look totally out of the question at this point. Repetitive place names took them to 275 – one full set away. Jan Kamieniecki stopped them from getting the next set by buzzing quickly to identify GB Shaw. 2 bonuses took Reading into 3 figures. James Bezer guessed that Poverty Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing in New Zealand. That finished the game. Imperial were very comfortable winners by 285 to 110.
JP kept his powder dry for most of the contest this week. Indeed it wasn't until the second picture set, when Imperial suggested we were looking at a photograph of Kate Winslet playing Frida Kahlo. He did a very elaborate, slow and exaggerated double take before observing "It doesn't look a bit like Frida Kahlo". The double take on its own would probably have been funnier Jez.
Interesting Fact Of The Week That I Didn't Already Know
Susceptibility to hypnosis is rated on the Stanford Scale.
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§15006. School money; finance committees
1. Municipal schools. Money appropriated for public schools for educational purposes may be paid from the treasury of a municipality by the treasurer of the municipality in the following circumstances:
A. Upon written order of the municipal officers following receipt of a bill of items certified by the superintendent of schools and approved by a majority of the school board or by a finance committee appointed or duly elected by the school board; or [1993, c. 96, §1 (NEW).]
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Ronnie Ashmore is a veteran police officer and two-time chief of police who started his law enforcement career as a jailer and worked his way up through the ranks.
He writes novels involving crime thrillers and westerns. He has an ability to give his characters an authentic voice and a sense of reality.
When he is not working or writing and has some spare time, he enjoys playing golf, fishing, and traveling.
KA: When did you realize you wanted to be an author?
I have written since high school, though I never thought I had a full book in me. I've had short stories and poetry published since high school. Not until the release of my first book, Family Secrets, that, when it started selling, I knew I could do this.
KA: How long did it take you to come up with an idea for your first novel?
My first book, Family Secrets, set to be the first of a trilogy, is a police mystery set in a small town in Texas. Those characters, the people, were in my mind since high school. The storyline was what took some time to flesh out.
KA: How long did your first novel take to write?
From high school to when it was published in 2020 was close to 30 years.
KA: What advice would you give to new authors?
I don't know that I am in the advice-giving position yet. But, solidly, I would say just write your story. Forget all the people who say it has to be this many words, or it has to have this trope. Just tell your story the best you can. Any advice any writer gives is only pertinent to that writer anyway, not the entirety of authorhood.
KA: What does a typical day when you are writing look like for you? Is there anyone who influenced your writing style?
Typical day of writing for me is get up between 3 and 4 AM. Write until I hit my goal, which is six pages per day. I do that for however many stories I am working on at that moment, which is usually two. Then I enjoy the rest of my day.
My writing style is difficult for me to categorize. And while I read everything that interests me, I have my personal list of writers who I enjoy reading like Dean Koontz, Lee Child, Ralph Cotton, Casey Nash, and of course Kelton, L'Amour, and Matt Braun. Probably Elmore Leonard had more of an impact on me than anyone. Really too many to narrow down.
KA: Where did the idea come from for your latest series?
The two series I have that are continuous are about John Riley and Sam Bolton. Riley is a coming-of-age story, kind of, where he is learning his craft as the books go along. Bolton was inspired by a certain girl I know that spawned the relationship between Bolton and his wife and the trials they face in Texas.
KA: How would you approach it differently if you were to repeat it today?
I'd write from a younger age. Though I did short stories, my full-length stories never turned out and I put them aside. If I were starting as a young man today, I would write them and keep polishing until they shined.
KA: What got you interested in writing Westerns?
Louis L'Amour was the first writer I remember reading as a child of about 7. His books were always around the house, so that's what we read. As I got older, I discovered Joseph Wambaugh and Elmore Leonard and others. I'm not sure when the spark to write hit me.
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KA: What can we look forward to from you next?
I am currently writing a couple of new Riley stories; I just released a new Sam Bolton as well. The Riley stories are taking shape and hopefully will be out soon.
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Gordon Parks is best known for his black and white photographs, but he also produced a lot of work in colour. The exhibition includes many colour photographs as well as portraits, documentary photos and fashion photography. Excerpts from Parks's films The Learning Tree and Shaft are also shown, which, in combination with the contact sheets and magazines containing his work, portray the social and political context in which he worked. It was a time in American history in which the Afro-American call for equality rocked the nation.
The self-taught photographer Gordon Parks came from a family of fifteen children and grew up in poverty in the state of Kansas, USA. At the age of twenty-five, he bought his first camera in a thrift store and began taking on assignments in the fashion industry. Starting in 1942, he worked for the photography programme of the Farm Security Administration, a government programme aimed at combating poverty in the rural areas of the United States. In 1948, Parks gained fame with a photo report on a gang leader named ´Red´ in Harlem, New York. He was the first Afro-American photographer to join the staff of the then most popular photographic journalism magazine in the world: Life Magazine. Through his photographic essays, he put stories on the agenda in which Afro-Americans played a prominent role. As a result, a broad audience was introduced to such subjects as poverty, inequality and racial segregation.
Gordon Parks took portrait photographs of leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, such as Martin Luther King and Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, as well as of the boxer Muhammad Ali. Aside from his iconic photographs and photographic essays, Parks became known as the first Afro-American director to direct mainstream Hollywood films. In 1969 he made The Learning Tree, which was loosely based on his own experiences as a black teenager growing up in Kansas in the twenties. Shaft (1971), on the other hand, presented the very first black 'superhero'. It was the start of the popular genre of Blaxploitation: films starring black actors and primarily aimed at a black audience.
Gordon Parks - I Am You. Selected Works 1942-1978 presents the work of a fabulous storyteller. Parks carved out a place for underexposed topics during a turbulent time in the United States. He stands out for his open attitude to the various groups making up a fiercely divided America. Through the striking narrative imagery of his photos and his films, Parks managed to connect with a wide and diverse audience.
The exhibition in Foam is part of a European tour initiated by C/O Berlin.This exhibition is made possible with support from the American Embassy and the Democracy and Media Foundation.
I Am You, by Gordon Parks can be seen from 16 June – 6 September 2017 at Foam. Open daily 10am - 6pm, Thurs/Fri 10am - 9pm.
e-mail pressoffice@foam.org or call +31 (0)20 5516500.


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Boloria chariclea — вид бабочек из семейства нимфалид.

Этимология
Видовое название дано в честь Хариклеи (Харикло) — любимицы и подруги Афины.

Распространение
Арктические области Голарктики: зональные тундры Фенноскандии, России (от Кольского полуострова до Чукотки и Камчатки) и Северной Америки, Гренландия.

Описание
Длина переднего крыла 16—20 мм. Бабочки населяют ерниковые, ерниково-луговинные и полигональные тундры. Время лёта в июле — начале августа. Генерация двухгодичная. Питание имаго наблюдается на соцветиях горца большого (Polygonum bistorta). Бабочки часто сидят в тени камней или кустарников. Гусеница питается растениями фиалки (Viola), а в Северной Америке ивами (Salix). Кормовые растения гусениц в Восточной Европе не известны.

Болории
Насекомые Евразии
Насекомые Северной Америки
Животные, описанные в 1794 году

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It is impossible to talk about technology without talking about the engine that drives it which is software. Businesses today are relying heavily on technology, and this is why they are always on the lookout for new tech trends that will drive business outcomes.
It is a fact that business innovation is a result of software innovation and this makes software delivery a critical aspect in the success of any business. Now that tech is the number one priority for businesses, the question still remains on whether tech innovators or developers are meeting the expectations of users with their products and if not, what is it that they have failed to deliver and why.
To get the answers to the above questions, it is necessary to understand the process of software development which actually happens in stages. The first stage involves the analysis of the requirements which considers the requests of the customer on what the software is to do and the expert opinion of the developer.
This includes analyzing the strengths and weakness of the project and its performance at various stages. The second stage is the design stage which starts with the basic design which includes the designing of the screen, form, code and logical data and ends with detailed design of program units and interfaces.
After the design comes to the coding stage whereby the actual development of the software starts. Once this is done, the software goes through the testing and documentation stage which is meant to assess errors and document the internal design of the software which helps in future maintenance and enhancement of the software. A company that specializes in software testing services can save a great deal of time in the testing stage.
The last stage is maintenance whereby the software needs to be maintained and upgraded from time to time.
Each stage of software development process has its own challenges. For instance, the requirements may be taken incorrectly, poor planning and estimation of both time and resources, lack of cooperation and testing. Of all these, the greatest challenge of a software or app development is in monitoring, troubleshooting and debugging.
This is a process that can only be made easier and smoother by logging. Through logging, developers can get a clear view of what the application code is really doing and help in locating and correcting problems that may arise with your software quickly.
For this reason, developers should have a good logging culture that follows the best logging practices because log files can be hard to work with. This is especially when there is lots of data to deal with, and the same data is spread across multiple servers.
When this is the case, you will not need just any logging framework and library but an improved logging framework like .NET logging for proper log management.
Businesses will be able to enjoy tech innovations if they can give clear requirements to the developers. On the other hand, software or application developers need to put their houses in order by ensuring that they stick to the initial client requirements, meet project timelines and perform proper testing to ensure that the end product is of good quality.
This requires a lot of cooperation among the development teams and discipline of individual developers in following the best software development practices during every stage of the development process.
New Tech in software engineering like infrastructure as code, the cloud, and anti-fragile systems continue to emerge, and more are still to come. User demand and expectations are continually increasing, and software developers need to ensure a continuous delivery of quality products.


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It's been a while since I posted anything to this site – and the reason is not sheer laziness. It is because I had what might be called an epiphany a little over a month ago – one of those "bright lights in the sky" kind of moments, and that's what I want to write about here – what I've called the "hidden secret" of cyclic theory. The other reason it's been such a long time since my last post is that I'm currently directing So You Think You Can Dance and Strictly Come Dancing (the South African versions) … and those shows take up a lot of time!
So what is this "hidden secret"? Cyclic theory (at least the aspect of cyclic theory that Thinking Trading Software uses, as defined initially by JM Hurst) is based on the idea that stock market price movements are the result of the complex combinations of many different cycles. They differ in amplitude (in other words how much price movement they cause), and also in period (how long between each cycle trough – also called wavelength, or the inverse of frequency). I have mentioned elsewhere on this site that one of the differences between JM Hurst's theories (and the theory TTS uses) and many modern day practitioners of cyclic theory is that Hurst constantly emphasised the fact that many cycles combine to produce a composite price movement, whereas the modern team generally talk about cycles in isolation from one another – there is much talk of "identifying the dominant cycle", and then trading on the basis of that cycle only. That's all very well, but the hidden secret I believe I've stumbled upon is all about the ways in which the many cycles combine, and illuminates the reason why tracing only a single cycle can be so disastrous to one's trading account balance.
Let me start at the beginning, and try to explain. The basic cycle (of which Hurst says there are many, in fact an unlimited, infinite number), looks like your standard sine wave. Above this paragraph (if I've got the formatting of this page correct) is a graph showing two complete cycles of such a sine wave. Let's assume that this wave is a depiction of the 54-month (4 & 1/2 year) cycle, believed by Hurst to be present in the movement of stock market price movement. That means that something (call it "social mood" or "the X factor") is causing prices to rise and then fall as depicted in this graph – one complete cycle (up then down) in 4 and a half years. That's all very well – but this doesn't look much like a graph of a stock market price, and that's because a stock market price is moved by a combination of many cycles! So let's start combining them!
Now in this graph (should be above this) I have combined two sine-wave cycles, using Hurst's Principles of Harmonicity, Synchronicity and Proportionality. What this means is that the waves have periods that are a small integer multiple of each other (in this case 2 – the pink wave has a period that is 2 x the period of the blue wave), and the troughs of the waves, where possible, occur at the same time (synchronicity), and the amplitudes of the waves are proportional to their periods (the pink wave is 2 times the amplitude of the blue wave). The white line is the combination of both these sine waves (using the Principle of Summation, which basically states that you add them up!) Now the point I'm getting to is that a trough in the blue wave (the same 54-month wave depicted above) appears differently to another trough of the same wave, depending on the influence of any longer cycles. So imagine that you were trading this 54 month cycle – you would want to buy at the trough of the cycle, and sell at the peak. If all you did was consider the 54 month cycle, you would have made a very disappointing trade at point A in the graph to the left. Although you have correctly identified that point as being a trough of your trading cycle (the 54-month cycle), the price move up from the trough (as shown by the white line) is very disappointing – it is completely different in scale to the price move up from the trough positioned at the extreme left of the graph. So the point I'm making is that one cannot trade cycles in isolation – one has to consider the cycle in the context of all cycles longer than it.
OK, so I've demonstrated that by simply considering the cycle one up (the cycle with the next longest wavelength) from your trading cycle you can avoid some disappointing trades. What happens if you consider more than that? Take a look at the graph above. The blue cycle in this graph represents the nominal 18-year cycle – which is the cycle two up from the 54-month cycle (the 9-year cycle is the only cycle between them). Now look at the white line that is once again the summation of all the cycles considered (in this case every cycle from 20-weeks up to 18-years). I have marked the 54-month troughs with the red arrows A, B & C. Now that we are considering two longer cycles, the effect of the 54-month troughs on the composite price movement (in other words the price movement created by combining all the cycles) are very different. If you'd bought at point A, a 54-month trough, you would have made a pretty profit. Same thing at point B, just with a slightly differently shaped curve on the upward path. Then, emboldened by two successful trades of the 54-month cycle, if you had bought at point C, which is a genuine 54-month trough just like points A & B, you would have been in for a nasty surprise … the price bumps up for a moment (apparently confirming your decision to buy) … but then it plummets. There is of course another 54-month trough that I haven't labelled, at the extreme left of the chart. Buying at that point would have positively made you think you were a trading genius because of the way the price rocketed up for about 6 years!
Unfortunately the situation is even more complicated than combining two cycles as described above. Hurst mentions in his work that the longest known cycle is probably 18 years (and that was back in the 1970's), and one might ask why one should need to know about cycles any longer than that … well this is the hidden secret I've been trying to get to: I believe one does need to know about the longer cycles, all of them (even if they are all lumped into one imperfect and slow movement – what Hurst calls Sigma L) because, as I hope I've demonstrated, the longer cycles have a great impact on the effectiveness of the shorter cycle troughs as buying points.
And so one final chart. In this chart I have combined all cycles from 54-months up to 54-years. I believe there are two alternatives for the cycle one up from the 18 year cycle – a 36-year cycle, or a 54-year cycle. The 36-year cycle has a wavelength 2x as long as the 18-year cycle, and the 54-year cycle has a wavelegth 3x as long. I prefer the idea that the 54 year cycle is in fact the next wave up, because of the symmetry with Hurst's 18-month to 54-month cycles, and also because 54 years is generally considered to be the length of the Kondratieff cycle. But without actual evidence, I'm unwilling to commit to either, and in any case we need not only consider the 36/54 year cycle, but also all cycles longer than them, so the Sigma L "cycle" will by no means be a perfect sine-wave cycle itself. What I have done in the chart to the left is demonstrated both the 36-year cycle (the blue line, composite price is the pink line), and the 54-year cycle (the green line, composite price is the white line).
I have again labelled all the troughs of the 54-month cycle with red arrows, labelled from A to K, and of course there is another trough at the extreme left (or right, because they are the same trough) of the chart. Take a look at each of those arrows, and I think you will agree that trading the 54 month cycle is not merely a matter of buying every 54-month trough. One has to know what is happening to all the other cycles, in order to know whether a particular 54-month trough is likely to result in an impressive price rise. Consider for example point K – that is a 54-month trough, but I certainly wouldn't want to buy there (irregardless of whether the longer cycle is 54 years or 36 years).
One can only trade profitably using cyclic theory if one is able to identify all of the cycles impacting upon a particular stock's price movement at any one time. It is a mistake to say that because price is at the trough of any particular cycle, it will necessarily rise to a degree commensurate with the wavelength of that cycle – the impact of a particular cycle is governed by the status of cycles longer than it (what Hurst calls the underlying trend of a cycle).
Choosing one cycle (as the dominant cycle) is therefore no good as a trading strategy. It was this "epiphany" that has had me working hard at having Thinking Trading Software take this idea into account, and be able to identify the shape of the Sigma L (or sum of all longer cycles) "cycle". I am getting there … slowly. My earlier posts to this site with analyses are, I believe all still valid, but they have a critical missing factor – which is what I guess I could call the Sigma L, or underlying trend factor. Over the near future I'm going to be revisiting all the commentaries and analyses I've made using TTS, and re-evaluating them in the light of the software's new "Sigma L" functionality. I expect that the phasing analyses will not change much, but what will change is the expectation of future price movement. And that after all is what my quest is all about – predicting the direction of future price movement.
If one is trading daily bars and apparent "cycles" of 1-2 months maximum, how many longer period cycles need to be looked at? For example, if the best fit straight line over 24 months is used to detrend the data, then the cycles remaining are detected and subtracted from the price data until nothing is left but "noise" we ignore in this level of trading, cannot the linear trend just be extrapolated for the short term of 1-2 months, to "represent" the rest of the longer cycles being ignored?
I understand, and know that it is not exactly easy to establish the periods and phase shifts of the relevant cycles, but this is where THT comes in.
I don't think that you are "missing" anything. Of course it is impossible to consider an infinite number of cycles – in fact Hurst recommended "at least TWO". Using THT you can determine the status, or "phasing" of several cycles in most cases (depending on how much data you have analysed).
I would be very careful of the "extrapolation" you mention. If extrapolating a line representing all longer cycles was at all mathematically sound then I would have had THT follow that relatively simple process. There is a good deal of mathematical conjuring that happens when it comes to extrapolating lines into the future, and in my experience it is all no better than guesswork. THT uses the cycle wavelengths to project into the future, using a "pattern building" process, not in a way that is similar to the extrapolation of lines using a mathematical process such as linear regression.
Hello to all, I am new here and have just read the article above…..
As per TIME, I have been using combinations of TIME to forecast possible turns for a while now.
I had the idea a cpl of years ago that the mkts had to be DYNAMIC therefore the analysis had to be dymanic aswell, I got the most recent move and then the largest move in the same direction and put on the current turn point that fit the price calculations, and when combining TIME AND PRICE in this manner it is amazing how well it works. I do it on the Daily first, then the Hourly and can break cycles down very well.
This takes consistant monitoring of all the cycles, but working down from the larger to the smaller becomes easier as you get used to it.
I am no expert, but keeping it simple and having patience to see what occurs are the best qualties that can be mastered.
When I work out how to post images I will post to show what I mean.
Your approach sounds very interesting. You should post to the Hurst Trader's User Forum about it, where you can also post pictures, and there is a good deal of discussion about trading the markets using various cyclic theories.
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Orangebukig myrsmyg (Terenura sicki) är en akut utrotningshotad fågel i familjen myrfåglar. Den är endemisk för Brasilien.

Utseende och läten
Orangebukig myrsmyg är en liten (10 cm) och färgglad medlem av familjen. Hanen är mestadels svart ovan, på huvud, nacke och mantel vitstreckad. Ansiktet och örontäckarna är svartstreckat vitaktiga. Den har vidare ett svart mustaschstreck, svartaktiga vingar och stjärt och svaga vingband och kanter. Undersidan är vit med svarta streck på bröstsidan.

Honan har vitstreckad, svartaktig hjässa, medan resten av ovansidan är roströd. Undersidan är djupt orangeröd med ljusare, mer beigefärgad strupe. Även honan har svarta streck på bröstsidan. Lätena beskrivs som en mjuk, tre till fyra sekunder lång drill och ett snabbt, upprepat "tzí-de-de-de tzí-de-de-de".

Utbredning och status
Fågeln förekommer i östra Brasilien, i östra Alagoas och östra Pernambuco. Den behandlas som monotypisk, det vill säga att den inte delas in i några underarter.

Status
Orangebukig myrsmyg är en mycket fåtalig fågel med färre än 50 vuxna individer i varje delpopulation. Den tros också minska i antal, till stor del till följd av omvandling av dess levnadsmiljö till sockerplantage och betesmarker. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN kategoriserar arten som akut hotad.

Referenser

Externa länkar

 Läten på xeno-canto.org

Myrfåglar
Fåglar i neotropiska regionen
Endemiska fågelarter i Brasilien


A funding campaign is underway to return the arctic grayling fish to Michigan.
It's led by Rewild Michigan and the Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative.
The Arctic Grayling Initiative seeks to establish the fish as a wild reproducing population in Michigan.
The groups held a funding event in Traverse City Monday to explain why the fish should return to the state.
First they need money for equipment to develop the eggs.
The DNR is looking at waterways that will suit the fish.
"If they can survive it shows that you have a healthy ecosystem, a healthy water shed and that means that you can have a good quality of life and that's what everybody really wants they want to be able to know that I live in a place that's great and Michigan is a great state and it's time to bring the arctic grayling back," says Jim Dexter, DNR fisheries division chief.
Monday the DNR announced the Maple, Boardman, Upper Manistee, Little Manistee, and Upper Jordan rivers will all be researched for suitability for the fish.


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Yab-yum (literalment del tibetà, «pare-mare») és un símbol comú en l'art budista de l'Índia, Bhutan, Nepal i el Tibet.

Representa la unió primordial de la saviesa i la compassió, representat com una deïtat masculina en unió sexual amb la seva paredra femenina. La figura masculina representa la compassió (karuṇā) i els mitjans (upāya), mentre que la parella femenina representa la saviesa (prajñā).

Significat
El simbolisme està associat amb l'anutarayoga tantra i, si bé hi ha diverses interpretacions del simbolisme en el llenguatge crepuscle, la figura masculina sol estar vinculada a la compassió (karuṇā) i els mitjans (upāya), mentre que la parella femenina representa la visió, percepció, o saviesa (prajñā).

Generalment, el yab-yum s'entén com la representació de la unió primordial (o mística) de la saviesa i la compassió. En el budisme, la forma masculina és activa i representa la compassió i els mitjans hàbils que han de ser desenvolupats per tal d'aconseguir la il·luminació. La forma femenina és passiva i representa la saviesa, que també és necessària per a la il·luminació. Unides, les figures simbolitzen la unió necessària per superar els vels de Maya (il·lusió, engany, somni), la falsa dualitat d'objecte i subjecte.

Iconografia
Aquestes figures es representen freqüentment en forma de murti (estàtues) o relleus, o es pinten en thangka. El yab-yum també es pot representar a través de l'anicònica significació del yantra i mandala.

En el budisme tibetà

En el budisme tibetà, les mateixes idees es troben en relació amb la campana i el dorje, el qual, igual que el yab-yum, simbolitza la dualitat que s'ha de superar. La pràctica tàntrica sagrada condueix a un ràpid desenvolupament de la ment mitjançant l'ús de l'experiència de la felicitat, la no-dualitat i l'èxtasi, mentre s'està unit en ment o en esperit amb la parella.

En el hinduisme

En l'hinduisme el yab-yum té un significat lleugerament diferent. S'abraça la postura que representa la força divina de la creació. El concepte hindú és el d'una deïtat masculina passiva abraçant a la seva esposa, anomenada Xacti, que representant la seva activitat o potència. El yab-yum icònic del Cakrasaṃvara Tantra-Vajravārāhī està influenciat directament per la representació hinduista de la unió de Kali i Bhairava.

El yab-yum en el sadhana

El simbolisme de la unió i la polaritat sexual és un ensenyament central en el budisme tàntric, especialment al Tibet. El practicant realitza la unió com una experiència mística en el propi cos.

Com a pràctica tàntrica, el yab-yum és similar a la karmamudrā o «segell de l'acció». Aquest és un ioga tàntric que implica una parella física. No obstant això, l'objectiu de la pràctica és controlar el lung (vent o alè) propi. Aquesta sadhana és part de l'etapa de finalització.

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Referències

Vegeu també
 Hierogàmia
 Maithuna

Art a l'Àsia
Budisme tibetà
Filosofia índia
Hinduisme
Misticisme
Pràctiques sexuals
Ritus
Art budista


Channeled by Quornesha S. Lemon| Shaman, Author, Transpersonal Life Coach| with Abilities in Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Mediumship, Animal Communication, Healing, Reiki Master Teacher, Crystal Reiki Master, Certified Hypnotherapist, Hoodoo Practitioner, And so much more|Number 28 Appears in flashes, waking life, Meditations, dreams, Pictures or paintings + signs. When a door has closed and another is set to take its place. The Number twenty-eight appears as confirmation that your worries or concerns for another opportunity shall now cease. Anxieties will decrease. It may also signify that you have finally come to the completion of a spiritual venture. It has definitely run its course.
Moving forward, keep your confidence. Do not display all of your secrets to others. As a Helping hand held out could also turn out to be the hand that denies you. In other words, your time, efforts and abilities are sacred. You have now developed the key to use yours in a way you feel. To move forward efficiently withhold as you see fit. Only intervene when it is vital and stay out of the journeys of others.
Twenty-eight is also confirmation or request for you to look into the mirror at the weight you already carry or at how far you have come. You will begin to only add to your course what is necessary and what you voluntarily commit yourself and abilities towards.
Angelic Channel [Clairsentience]: You have finally released what no-longer serves your spirit and even though it may seem stressful that you are on another journey or path, know that this is one you alone were destined to take. Twenty-Eight is symbolic for receiving supplies to do the work you were called here to do. If you sacrifice your tools for the progress of another hunter you become in need instead of supplied. Therefore you can only give of that which you have plenty to share. You now see yourself as your true identity. Heaven did not descend you neither rich nor poor. It is a choice.
Intuitive Conclusion: We each hold a key it is up to us if we will use the key or surrender it. WHY surrender it when there is a door, a final door beyond all journey's just for you? It is up to you to interpret exactly what this key is. Just as snowflakes or people, no two keys are alike. It is never of the same source so to speak.
Moving ahead use your ability of discernment also known as Clairvoyance or psychic abilities. Toss aside all labels about yourself and discover your true self, your soul.
Hi, my name is Moises. Date of birth is 7/28/1990. I came across ur site, I was looking for another meaning to the number 28. I've been lead to other passages, but I'm still not satisfied with whatever I keep coming across. I feel as if the number 28 could be something more to me. If you can really do readings, I'd like you to do a reading on me…..as I said before my name is Moises Camarillo, born on July 28th 1990. I'm also a Leo.
Im whispering number 28 without a reason…What that means? The best is yet to come?


CRISM scene FRT0000B5A3 covers the southern wall of Gale crater, 15 km downslope from the rim. This region is gently sloping, compared to the northern wall, potentially indicating that the Gale basement rocks in the crater rim are mantled by newer material. A fluvial channel also bisects this scene. Fe/Mg phyllosilicates (green) have been exhumed by the central impact crater in this scene. This morphological feature along with the material inside the smaller crater toward the northwest are correlated to mass wasting events in this region of Gale Crater. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover is investigating the layered materials that make up the large mountain in the middle of Gale Crater.
The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) is one of six science instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Led by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the CRISM team includes expertise from universities, government agencies and small businesses in the United States and abroad.
CRISM's mission: Find the spectral fingerprints of aqueous and hydrothermal deposits and map the geology, composition and stratigraphy of surface features. The instrument also tracks seasonal variations in dust and ice aerosols in the Martian atmosphere, and water content in surface materials — leading to new understanding of the climate.


Probably you haven't. Not many people know it's a profoundly effective way of causing pain to diminish or vanish entirely.
I usually don't even remember to pass it on, though my Y2K and since friend, Jeanne, has seen it work. She might use it.
Go find a hammer, put your thumb, thumbnail upward, on the front step.
Draw the hammer over your shoulder and smash hell out of that thumbnail as hard as you're able.
Doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist or atheist. You'll be amazed.
I don't know of any better demonstration of the power of gratitude.
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Ontario Power Authority 2014 – 2016 Business Plan
In the 2014-2016 business plan period, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) will continue its efforts to ensure the reliability, sustainability and cost-effectiveness of the province's electricity system for the benefit of Ontario's consumers.
The most significant initiatives planned for 2014-2016 are:
engaging partners and customers across Ontario, increasing the awareness and capability of all electricity users and providing innovative energy solutions to help cost-effectively meet and exceed conservation targets
working with partners to implement a new, innovative, cost-effective approach to the future of conservation, incorporating feedback from current consultations
planning to ensure the adequacy and operability of the power system by: continuing to identify priorities through ongoing planning and assessment processes, including an annual update on the status and outlook of electricity demand and supply; providing context for public policy development, stakeholder discussions, procurement programs and regulatory proceedings; playing an active role in developing future regional plans; and providing advice and analysis to government
fulfilling the government's Long-Term Energy Plan and directives related to Ontario's electricity supply
strengthening community and public engagement through the establishment of a stakeholder advisory committee, revised program design and enhanced regional planning
encouraging First Nations and Métis community participation in renewable energy, conservation and transmission initiatives, and advancing plans to offset diesel generation in remote communities by connecting them to the transmission system
ensuring that we incorporate the principles of sustainability into the work that we do, through the development of a framework that strengthens our commitment to sustainability and includes approaches for enhanced integration and reporting
managing and settling an increasing volume of contracts – 24,000 megawatts by the end of 2014 or two-thirds of the total electricity system
under ministry direction, engaging with and considering input provided by stakeholders and Aboriginal communities to develop a competitive process for procurement of large renewable energy projects
also under ministry direction, working towards supporting the long-term sustainability of the FIT and microFIT programs, non-utility generation and nuclear initiatives
continuing efforts to further reduce expenses and the cost impact of operations on electricity consumers.
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Minister's letter of approval