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In partnership with NASA, Virtual Heroes has created a streamlined simulation and serious game which recently saw release on Steam under the title Moonbase Alpha. Clearly part of a marketing campaign, Moonbase Alpha comes to us free of charge and endeavors to enthuse and educate gamers about the space program, albeit in a fictionalized future setting.
While the game lacks a proper tutorial, mechanics and objectives are rather easy to pick up within the first play-through of the mission. A couple more tries, and further tricks to speed up the repair process can be learned, like the sequence of items to transport and repair. As described above however, this is very much a multi-player oriented title. While the first mission is supposed to be doable for 1-2 players, trying to get through it solo I found to be impossible within the 25 minute time limit. Could be that someone more skilled out there might manage to do so, but I could not even get close.
Moonbase Alpha was quite enjoyable for me, with an attractive and clean interface, and the aforementioned ease of learning its mechanics. Nothing jumped out at me as a glaring flaw right off the bat, yet a few minor issues did nag me after a little while. As an artist and graphics professional I have this little peeve about skyboxes in games. Here in particular it is glaringly obvious that the skybox could benefit from a little more love. It is understandable that NASA probably wanted it to be realistic, but looking at the myriad of photographs they make available online I cannot help but think that there are other realistic options.
My other point of contention in Moonbase Alpha is the welding mini-game. It feels very much like an afterthought that just did not see enough development time. Taking a casual game mechanic and throwing it into a larger project has been done before, Bioshock's hacking mini-game comes to mind as a successful example, and doing so should at least be executed properly. When it first came up during a repair I was rather surprised by it and had no idea what I was supposed to do. That lack of warning, particularly given the time-sensitive nature of the mini-game, is the primary problem with it.
In terms of the overall enjoyment of playing Moonbase Alpha, the flaws I point out are probably not very significant. Which is to say that the game is rather fun and more so in multi-player. What does get in the way of overall enjoyment in the long run is the lack of replay value. This is a game that I find to be interesting for a few missions only, after which it quickly becomes repetitive. There is, after all, only one actual mission. As such, Moonbase Alpha is a refreshing but short-lived sim that is worth its price. I would recommend picking it up for something new to play, as a diversion, or for those of us who are busy and don't have long hours to devote to gaming.

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Robin Lehner made 30 saves while giving up just a lone goal, but the Buffalo offense couldn’t find the back of the net in a 3-0 loss to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night at the KeyBank Center.
Lehner posted his sixth straight game with a save percentage of .923 or higher, but the Sabres skaters could not salvage a goal against Bruins backup netminder Anton Khudobin. The 31-year old Russian goalie recorded his first shutout of the season, the sixth of his nine-year NHL career.
Buffalo outpaced the Bruins in shots on goal, finishing the game with a 36-33 advantage. Benoit Pouliot had a few of the Sabres best chances throughout the night with scoring opportunities on three different occasions. He and Kyle Okposo tore down the ice in a 2-on-1 situation near the end of the 2nd period, but the Canadian winger couldn’t find the puck on his stick to shoot at the open net. Pouliot also had two other chances with Khudobin out of position, but neither could find its way to the net before being deflected in front.
Evander Kane made the nicest play of the night early on in the 3rd period. Coming down the left wing he toe-dragged between two Boston defenders and got a great attempt to the far side of the net. Khudobin turned that one aside with his blocker, as he continued to frustrate the Buffalo offensive attack. Kane finished with four shots on net, tied for the team lead with Jack Eichel and Rasmus Ristolainen.
It was past the halfway mark of the contest before the game’s first goal was scored. Rookie Jake DeBrusk weaved the puck up the right wing and angled back towards the middle for one stride before ripping a perfectly placed wrist shot into the top corner of the net. Charlie McAvoy and Ryan Spooner picked up the assists on the goal, but it was the individual effort of DeBrusk earning the score at the 10:14 mark of the middle frame.
Tim Schaller and David Backes added a pair of empty-net goals in the game’s final two minutes to give Boston the 3-0 victory. Schaller cleared the puck from the Bruins’ defensive zone deflecting the puck in off the sideboard, while Backes converted after an extended offensive zone possession with 31 seconds remaining in the game.
The Sabres stay in Buffalo with their next game coming Friday night against the Philadelphia Flyers. Puck drop is slated for 7 p.m. from KeyBank Center.

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Lafayette’s massive Railroad Relocation had many champions over 29 years. But without a push from former Sen. Birch Bayh, it might have never happened. Bayh died Thursday at age 91.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Do the math on the funding Sen. Birch Bayh steered toward Lafayette’s Railroad Relocation Project, a massive effort that rerouted freight and passenger trains and eliminated 42 crossings in downtown and across the city.
The amount comes to less than two-tenths of a percent of the $186 million it took to get the job done over nearly three full decades.
But it was the first two-tenths of a percent. It’s safe to say, that without Bayh – a three-term U.S. senator who died early Thursday, at age 91 – trains might still be blocking Lafayette’s daily commute.
“That’s absolutely the truth,” said Liz Solberg, who managed Lafayette Railroad Relocation through its final two decades.
Bayh’s career was being remembered and celebrated statewide Thursday for his influence on voting rights and his work on Title IX legislation, which was designed to give women equal opportunity in colleges and universities.
From a purely Lafayette standpoint, Bayh’s influence dated to a day in January 1974.
That afternoon, Jim Riehle, then in the first of his six terms as Lafayette mayor, walked Bayh around downtown Lafayette – including where trains rolled down the center of Fifth Street – and took him to the glassed in 10th floor of what is now the Chase building at Second and Main streets.
From that perch, Riehle made his pitch for a plan, several years into local talks at that point, to build a crossing-free corridor for the dozens of trains that came through the city every day. Bayh, a 1951 Purdue grad who had been stopped by trains in Lafayette during his college days, was sympathetic.
Riehle understood that the only way Lafayette had a chance to get Lafayette Railroad Relocation done was to get the project listed among 15 cities chosen for what were called “demonstration projects” that could prove they were moving rails in the name of safety. Bayh, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, found a way to get that done by the end of 1974.
Solberg said Bayh helped get roughly $360,000 for environmental impact study – “That thing wound up being 2½ inches thick,” she said – to get the project started.
Bayh lost a re-election bid in 1980, to Dan Quayle, by the time the dirt moving and heavy lifting started on the rail relocation. Riehle – and former Mayor Dave Heath who followed – found partners who played key roles in in Congress, including U.S. Rep. John T. Myers and later U.S. Rep. Ed Pease, who supported Lafayette’s drawn-out effort that relied so heavily on federal money.
“We had to prove ourselves every step of the way,” Solberg said of a project that included a puzzle of bridges, overpasses and other connected projects, all aimed at knocking out at-grade rail crossings.
In October 2004, Bayh took another walk through downtown Lafayette with Riehle, along with Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski.
By then the tracks on Fifth Street had been gone – aside from a block of rails left as a historical reminder in front of the Monon Theater – since 1994. The last train on other downtown tracks rolled out in April 2001. The Lafayette Railroad Relocation office closed its doors, after several years of mop up work, in 2003.
Instead of the top of the Bank One building, they stood on the platform that connected Riehle Plaza and the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge – both products of rail relocation work – and watched freight cars rumble underneath on the corridor Riehle had described to Bayh 30 years earlier.
Solberg still has dozens of boxes of documents, memorabilia and videos tied to celebrations for overpass openings and last trains out. She said she’s slowly been going through it to see what belongs in an archive and what is worthy of a recycling bin.
“Birch Bayh, no doubt, is a big reason I have so many boxes,” Solberg said.
And a big reason why drivers this morning weren’t stopped at the base of North Ninth Street Hill – or Greenbush Avenue or Fifth Street or Columbia Street – during the drive to work or school?

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There are so many exercises that come with a cost. There’s nothing wrong with not having to pay to join a gym membership. If you’re trying to save money, that doesn’t mean you can’t get some exercise in your daily life. You can still workout while sticking to your budget. Here are some alternatives to gym memberships that will increase your heart rate.
Instead of paying for an expensive gym membership, skip the gym by streaming at a workout at home. YouTube has plenty of free workouts that will get your adrenaline pumping. This allows you to get a heart-pumping workout in the comfort of your own home. You’ll have an excuse to get in a quick workout.
If you miss the community feel of attending a gym, start a running or walking group in your neighborhood. Use Meetup to create groups or join groups in your area. You get to meet new people, make friends, and have accountability partners. You don’t have to feel alone in your workout journey.
Instead of spending money on a gym membership, you can rent used gym equipment. You can turn your home into your personal gym. Start small by looking for the equipment you want to use. Do you want Pure Barre and a yoga mat, or would you rather use a stationary bike and weights?
These little investments are sometimes more affordable than purchasing a recurring monthly membership. According to StatisticBrain.com, the average cost of a gym membership is $ 58 a month. You could use that money to invest in a few pieces of used gym equipment. Plus, you don’t have waste money on gas to get to the gym.
There are free and fee-based apps that are great alternatives to gym memberships. This gives you the opportunity to work out anytime with your smartphone. One popular app is Couch to 5K, a free app that motivates you to run a 5-kilometer race after going through the entire program. If you want a different kind of motivation, download the Zombies, Run app.
This will provide you with a one-of-a-kind running experience, especially if you’re a fan of zombies. Keep in mind that most mobile apps have in-app purchase options to access additional features. Make sure the money you use helps you reach your fitness and lifestyle goals.
The next thing you can do is rent DVDs from your public library. Some of the vintage workout DVDs still work to this day. Your library is well-stocked in workout videos from the years as well as new programs. Rent a few DVDs to see which ones you benefit from. If you find something you enjoy, you can probably buy it on eBay.
There might still be some video rental stores in your area. You can also look through the media section at secondhand stores, thrift stores, and yard sales. You’ll never know where you’ll end up finding cheap workout DVDs.
Walking is a great workout because it’s free and it lets you enjoy the great outdoors. You can burn a lot of calories in a short amount of time. You can take a walk at any time of the day. You can even take a walk with your dog in tow.
When the weather gets warm, take advantage of the parks near you. If you’re not a runner, go for a bike ride, shoot some hoops at the basketball court, or play tennis or volleyball. Invite your family and friends to join you. Even if it’s a nightly stroll along the lake, there are plenty of ways to burn calories for free.
Your backyard can double as a gym. Sometimes doing routine yard work and getting stuff done can help you burn calories. Your yard gives you plenty of things to do like cut the grass, rake leaves, trim hedges, and more. Your yard will look beautiful, and you’ll be in better shape.
Working a desk job doesn’t mean you have to be confined to your seat all day long. Take a walk during your lunch break if it’s nice out. If it’s wintertime, listen to some music and walk a few laps inside your workplace.
Start an exercise group with some of your co-workers if you need some accountability. Find ways that you can move around throughout your day. For example, choose to stand instead of sitting. Take the stairs instead of the elevator whenever you can.


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If your application or database servers have specific input/output (I/O) requirements, it's best to benchmark your new environment to make sure that the new servers will be able to handle the read/write operations. Recently, a new tool has been released called DiskSpd and it is available on the Microsoft TechNet site.
You can simply download the tool and execute it on the machine that you would like to benchmark.
The first argument, -b4k, represents the block size for reading and writing to the partition. Most disk volumes are formatted in 4k blocks, larger database servers typically use 64k blocks.
The second argument, -t4, represents the number of threads. In my test, I set the number of threads equal to the number of cpu cores I had available.
The third argument, -r, refers to the sequential blocks of data that are read from the drive.
The fourth argument, -w50, tells the tool to perform write operations 50 percent of the time.
The fifth argument, -o32, represents the number of requests per thread.
The sixth argument, -d10, represents the duration of the test in seconds.
The last argument, -c8192 testfile.dat, creates a file named testfile.dat that is 8192 kilobytes in size so the tools have data to use to read and write from.
Benchmarking your infrastructure for applications that have specific requirements is now easier than ever with all of the free tools available. Taking the time to test and plan leads to better outcomes before going live with a production environment.

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The death of former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, is discomforting, so says the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Dasuki died on Monday night at a private hospital in Abuja and his remains were buried on Tuesday in Sokoto.
Tinubu in a statement by his Media Office, said: “The late Sultan of Sokoto was not just a foremost traditional ruler, but was also a prominent Islamic leader. With his demise, the nation has lost a national icon, highly-referred royal father and religious leader. Sultan Dasuki was a friend of the late Islamic Scholar Abubakar Gumi and he contributed a lot to the birth of Islamic movement, Jama’atu Nasril Islam.
“Dasuki, the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, was also a seasoned technocrat, administrator, diplomat and business titan. Alhaji Dasuki joined the Northern regional civil service in 1953, heeding the call of the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, for Northerners to join the service. He was later to serve Ahmadu Bello a year later as Private Secretary, during which time he understudied the late sage. He was a close associate of the late Sardauna of Sokoto and imbibed his ideals.
“In business, the late Sultan recorded many milestones and served as a beacon for many later-day businessmen in the country, particularly in the North. From around 1965 until he was crowned Sultan, he left the civil service and concentrated fully on business. He was Chairman of Northern Nigeria Produce Marketing Board, an organisation involved with marketing the export of groundnut and distribution of seeds and chemicals. He later became Director and later Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC).
“He was installed Sultan of Sokoto after the death of Abubakar Siddique, the 17th Sultan of Sokoto, on November 1, 1988. As Sultan, he was a champion of the downtrodden, the talakawas. When in 1996 he was deposed by the late General Sani Abacha military junta, he took his deposition with philosophical calmness and went on to live for another 20 years after, passing on at the ripe age of 93.

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Article by Brisbane-based journalist, university teacher and writer Ella Donald. Ella is a regular contributor to GQ and has also written for Vanity Fair, The Guardian and The Saturday Paper.
From THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE to LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, Australia has a proud tradition of coming of age stories. Whether set in the late 19th century (MY BRILLIANT CAREER), the 1970s (GIRL ASLEEP), the present (52 TUESDAYS), or in far off countries (TANNA, THE ROCKET), these often intimate and exhilarating portraits give us a window into the lives of young people so different from our own, and an undeniably valuable springboard for some of our finest up-and-coming talents.
Coming-of-age stories are numerous in this year’s AACTA line-up. They range from ensemble comedies to two or three-handers and lush period dramas; and are set everywhere from the freewheeling and laidback 1970s of SWINGING SAFARI and BREATH, to the early 20th century upbringing of Errol Flynn (IN LIKE FLYNN), and the late 1950s Sydney on the precipice of change of LADIES IN BLACK. And this is without mentioning BOY ERASED, the story of a young gay man forced to undergo ‘conversion therapy’ in the American south.
These films star actors that, despite their young ages and still-early careers, have already left an indelible mark on their profession. They’ve worked with award-winning directors like Sofia Coppola and starred in some of the biggest blockbusters (Angourie Rice of THE BEGUILED and SPIDER MAN: HOMECOMING, who plays Lisa in LADIES IN BLACK). Some of them are even Oscar®-nominated (Lucas Hedges, BOY ERASED).
But aside from the talents of these already accomplished performers who carry each one of these films so assuredly on their shoulders, what makes these films join the other iconic, home-grown coming of age stories before them are their universality, existing because - and not in spite of - their specificity. Many of the stories these films tell are set in times and circumstances quite distant from our own, but they nonetheless remind us of the journeys of discovering our place in the world we all take and those important lessons we learn along the way.
One such film is LADIES IN BLACK, which is based on the book of the same name by Madeleine St John and tells the story of Lisa Miles (Rice), an introverted high school graduate in 1959 Sydney. She’s torn between expectations and her dreams for the future, her father (Shane Jacobson) forbidding her to accept an offer to attend university. Taking a summer holiday job at the opulent David Jones-esque store Goode’s, she befriends the colourful women who also work in the clothing department, all of whom are facing their own challenges in life with the changing tides of the impending early 60s, and finding independence in all areas of their lives. European immigrant Magda (Julia Ormond) particularly takes Lisa under her wing, showing her the opportunities that exist beyond the small world that she knows. It’s a poignant film for anyone who remembers such a time in their life between adolescence and adulthood and their first steps into the universe that exists beyond their bedroom, a reminder of what makes stories like these so irresistible - we go to the movies to see ourselves, and sometimes we do in the most unexpected ways.
The feature films in competition were screened in cinema in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane during September 2018 as part of AACTA Film Fest. SWINGING SAFARI, BREATH and IN LIKE FLYNN will be available for members to watch online via AACTA TV until 11 October 2018.
Please note, LADIES IN BLACK and BOY ERASED will not be available on AACTA TV. Members will have the opportunity to view these films when they are released theatrically in Australia on 20 September and 8 November respectively.
Follow Ella on Twitter and find her at her website.

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Group transfer reactions provide a powerful approach for formation of complex molecules for pharmaceutical and natural product synthesis. Our study of group 9 transition metal complexes has provided a range of group transfer reactions for formation of C-C, C-N, and C-O bonds from simple starting materials. In Chapter 1, we discuss the intermolecular metallonitrene/alkyne cascade. Previous studies in our laboratory established the direct unveiling of an intermediate with an α-iminometallocarbene reactivity profile by an intramolecular metallonitrene-initiated oxidative cascade process. We extended the utility of this cascade process to intermolecular trapping of the reactive intermediate by a variety of allyl ethers to provide α-oxyimine products in which new C=N, C-O and C-C bonds have all been generated. A variety of substrates were explored, enantioenriched products were able to be generated by efficient transfer of stereochemical information from simple enantioenriched allyl ethers, and the usefulness of the process was demonstrated by an efficient synthesis of the core ring system of the Securinega alkaloids.
Our study of racemic and enantioselective C-H amination strategies is described in Chapter 2. A quinoline-oxazoline amide ligand framework was designed for C-H amination with aryl azides. Ir(I) complexes of this ligand were synthesized. Iridium(III) bis(oxazolinyl)phenyl and bis(imidazolinyl)phenyl complexes were capable of benzylic C-H amination in moderate enantioselectivity. In collaboration with the MacBeth laboratory, a dinuclear Co(II) complex with a redox-active ligand system was found to efficiently catalyze C-H amination to form indolines from aryl azides. The catalyst system was capable of forming 5-, 6-, and 7-membered rings and tolerated medicinally relevant heterocycles, such as pyridine and indole. The ease of synthesis and tunability of the redox-active ligand system make this method advantageous for selective C-H amination.
Finally, Chapter 3 details our enantioselective C-H functionalization with acceptor-only metallocarbenes catalyzed by an iridium(III) bis(imidazolinyl)phenyl catalyst family to give phthalan- and 2,5-dihydrofuran derivatives in excellent yield and enantioselectivity. The reaction was found tolerant of a variety of substitution patterns of the diazoacetate, while the steric and electronic properties of the substrate greatly influenced the reaction yield and selectivity. These results showcased the potential for reaction design based on an interaction of experimental and computational results in developing a foundation for further expansion into highly selective reactions with novel classes of acceptor-only metallocarbenes.

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Bus Departs: 4pm in front of the high school.
Location: Campus of New Albany Schools – the start will be just northeast of the football stadium and tennis courts. Teams should plan to have camps on the grassy area near the MS football field, northeast of the stadium and to the north of where buses will drop off.
Spectator Parking: Spectator parking will be available at the McCoy Center off of Dublin Granville Rd (southeast of the football stadium), the 2-8 parking lot off of 605/Condit Road/North High Street accessible at the Chatham Green Drive light, and the tennis court parking lot accessible via Kardules Fields Way from 605/Condit Road/North High Street. Spectator parking IS NOT AVAILABLE at the high school football stadium.
Entry Fee: The entry fee for spectators is $5 per entrant, per car, with a maximum of $15 per car.
Concessions: Smoothie King and Jet’s Pizza will be on site.
T-Shirts: Limited commemorative meet t-shirts will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. Second Sole will have a stand near the start/finish lines selling t-shirts and other gear.
Awards: Medals will be awarded to the top 25 finishers in each race. The team winners and runners-up will each receive a trophy.


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Between 2000 and 2010, St. Lucie was one of the fastest growing counties in the U.S. With a total population increase of more than 80,000 during that time frame, the demographics and labor force are diversifying into a more knowledge based economy.
Toward the end of 2018, St. Lucie County is at a population is roughly 313,000.
Incorporated in 1905, St. Lucie County is included in the Port St. Lucie, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL Combined Statistical Area. It is comprised of the City of Fort Pierce (county seat), City of Port St. Lucie and St. Lucie Village.


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I had a friend I had known for 10 years, an Afghan-American with an MBA from the University of North Carolina who left the United States to work for the peace and stability of his homeland, ravaged by 23 years of war. Farhad Ahad was a role model for my generation of exiled Afghans holding on tight to our roots. Now he’s dead.
His was not treated as a hero’s death. Heroes are remembered and hailed. Their deeds become the material of legends. Ahad’s death was forgotten, as was his cause – rebuilding Afghanistan.
Last summer this businessman who had spent most of his adult life in the United States returned to Kabul to become the foreign ministry’s acting economics director in the U.S.-backed government, 17 years after his escape from conscription into the Soviet-backed army. On Feb. 24, he and three other Afghan-Americans, including the country’s minister of mines and industries, were killed in a mysterious plane crash off the coast of Karachi, Pakistan. The team was on a chartered Cessna en route to a mining operation where they were to observe the methods in order to emulate them in Afghanistan. They were also key advisers in the country’s $3.2-billion gas pipeline deal with Pakistan and Turkmenistan.
The Pakistani government says it is investigating the crash. But few in the United States have heard about it, even though four U.S. citizens were killed. Their forgotten deaths are a reminder to Afghan-Americans that once again, our homeland is being abandoned. The U.S. media and government used us when they needed us during the war against the Taliban, and now we’re passé – Iraq is the focus – and so is our cause. There’s a collective feeling of betrayal.
We had welcomed the United States to wipe out the Taliban, and had told the American public so through the media. We were the familiar link to what the West saw as a strange, unlucky people. But we did it under one understood condition: You can bomb us now, but you’ll help put the country back together once you’re done. America and the world have stood us up. The Bush administration even “forgot” to include $300 million for reconstruction aid in its 2004 budget proposal until congressional leaders made it an issue.
The war against the Taliban made Afghanistan a local story for the United States, but only for a short time. Isn’t a plane crash with four Americans killed also a local story? This is what my friends in the Afghan-American community are asking. We live and work in the United States, we are American citizens, but our hearts and history are in Afghanistan. We’re feeling now that we are more needed there than here.
The last time I saw Ahad was at a demonstration in the San Francisco Bay area, where the largest Afghan exile community resides. He was the founder of AfghanSolidarity.com, a Web site dedicated to peace and Afghan unity. Through the site, he had organized a protest against the Taliban. In front of the federal building in San Francisco, he and a handful of others shouted for help, not for imperialism. We wanted the Taliban out. They had hijacked our culture and religion. We wanted a democratic Afghanistan in peace. But our shouts were falling on deaf ears. This was a month before Sept. 11, 2001.
After the United States had decided to respond militarily to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, there was a sense of hope. Anyone in the community who spoke against U.S. intervention was shushed. Afghan exiles and locals both seemed to believe a new era was upon us, one in which peace and stability would finally prevail. It was wishful thinking.
Our homeland is better off than it was during the Taliban time, but it’s far from where it should be. Warlords backed by the United States still rule most of the country. President Hamid Karzai’s weak central government struggles to survive. A Taliban and al-Qaida insurgency is gaining strength, as terrorist bombs continue to kill civilians. Many Afghan-Americans have returned to Afghanistan to work for a year or permanently. I was there last summer and plan to go back as soon as I can. We find plenty to do, but not enough money to do it well.
I shuddered when I read this. He was such a patriot. He had left Afghanistan as a teenager. I wondered if those of us who grew up in America have any place in today’s Afghanistan. We’re stuck in a time warp, attached to the country through the nostalgia of our parents’ memories. But there’s little time for introspection. If it’s not our duty to aid Afghans, then whose is it?
We often discuss what the rest of the world can do. How can Afghanistan remain independent and take money from imperial powers? What will be the underlying and more devastating cost of reconstruction funded by foreigners? Will we become pawns of the Great Game of the past century when Afghanistan’s neighbors used it as a buffer zone to contain each other?
We come up with no clear-cut answers to these complex questions of development. But one thing is clear. The United States and its allies, especially after bombing the country, have a responsibility to maintain peace, and reconstruction is part of the answer to peace.
Only when this happens will I believe that my friend did not die in vain.

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There may be many, many reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act – a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasonable argument.
[…]these escapades had occurred years earlier, in some cases decades earlier, when I was in my twenties and thirties. I was forty-one now, well past my climbing prime, with a graying beard, bad gums, and fifteen extra pounds around my midriff. I was married to a woman I loved fiercely – and who loved me back. Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.
It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last ting Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.
The slopes of Everest did not lack for dreamers in the spring of 1996; the credentials of many who’d come to climb the mountain were as thin as mine, or thinner. When it came time for each of us to assess our own abilities and weigh them against the formidable challenges of the world’s highest mountain, it sometimes seemed as though half the population at Base Camp was clinically delusional. But perhaps this shouldn’t have come as surprise. Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics, an others with shaky hold on reality.
People who don’t climb mountains – the great majority of humankind, that is to say – tend to assume that the sport is a reckless, Dionysian pursuit of ever escalating thrills. But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest. What I was doing up there had almost nothing in common with bungee jumping or skydiving or riding a motorcycle at 120 lies per hour.
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I’d been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace.
During my thirty-four-year tenure as a climber, I’d found that the most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the sport’s emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility. When you sign on as a client, I discovered, you are forced to give up all of that, and more. For safety’s sake, a responsible guide will always insist on calling the shots – he or she simply can’t afford to let each client make important decisions independently.
Reaching the top of Everest is supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation; again long odds, after all, I had just attained a goal I’d coveted since childhood. But the summit was really only the halfway point. Any impulse I might have felt towards self-congratulation was extinguished by overwhelming apprehension about the long, dangerous descent that lay ahead.


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Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service (SCRAPS), an open-admission animal control agency in Washington state, has been around since 1922, when dog licenses were $1 and—according to old record books—the most common breed of dog was a “cur.” In those days, everyone knew the animal shelter as a “dog pound,” and “dogcatchers” patrolled the streets.
Today, our animal protection officers work out of a brand-new animal shelter, providing services throughout unincorporated Spokane County and the municipalities within the county. The road to our new regional model has been a long and winding one, with a few speed bumps along the way. It all began when SCRAPS staff and area elected officials envisioned a regional program with streamlined processes and better services for the people and pets in our community. The idea was to take a complicated system with multiple providers and make it simple, easy to understand and functional.
a modern regional animal shelter served as a community resource, offering help with animal behavior problems, providing humane education, promoting responsible pet ownership and encouraging volunteerism while providing a safe haven for homeless animals.
Our move toward this model began almost a decade ago with a simple conversation in a SCRAPS staff strategic planning session. We became more serious five years ago when county government and municipalities within the county formed a regional animal control task force. Government officials recognized that the then-current system was disjointed: A county agency provided service to some areas, and a nonprofit managed needs in others. Built in 1972, the county’s open-admission animal shelter was showing its age.
Officials saw potential benefits to the regional service concept, but they questioned its cost-effectiveness and how a new facility would be funded.
Initially, the task force decided to ask voters to fund a new regional facility, and the measure got on the ballot in 2011. Unfortunately, due to low voter turnout and confusion about language on the ballot issue, the measure failed, so it was back to the drawing board. Everyone recognized the benefits of a regional service, but funding continued to be an issue. We developed a model regional budget which showed that there was some economy of scale—enough to pay the debt on a new facility without increasing fees for participating municipalities. If the county and all municipalities within the county came together, it might work.
At that point, negotiations began in earnest. Spokane County and the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley entered into a 20-year interlocal agreement, and the region’s smaller cities (under 10,000 in population) signed three-year agreements. The new facility was expected to last 50 years; it would take 20 years to pay off the debt.
The new regional shelter needed to be central to the service area, on a bus route for public accessibility and large enough to handle over 10,000 animals annually. It was difficult to find undeveloped land in a central area, and we decided to look for an existing building that could be retrofitted—generally more cost-effective than new construction.
We found a former Harley-Davidson dealership that seemed perfect—on a major arterial road, about 30,000 square feet and centrally located. The building was on 3.5 acres that included green space—definitely a plus for an animal shelter that needs a place to walk dogs and hold events. Built in 2001, the dealership was a relatively modern and energy-efficient structure, which made it even more appealing.
Of course, animal shelters have particular operational needs, so we were careful in planning the layout. We had to think about how the public, the animals and staff would move through the facility. The retrofit was challenging—we had to add additional plumbing and drains in the animal areas. We also had to make our programs fit into the existing shape of the building. We wanted to make sure exam rooms were located near animal receiving and that adoption areas were convenient to the public. Having a good “flow” to the building was critical both for public access and staff efficiencies.The result of that planning is today’s regional shelter—light, bright, open and inviting, with modern HVAC systems to minimize disease transmission. The new shelter has adequate animal housing space, a community room for training and education and enough room for all our special lifesaving programs. Since we opened the doors in June 2014, adoptions have skyrocketed. From January through November, we adopted out 2,514 animals, compared to 1,103 during the same period in 2013! Volunteer numbers have also increased dramatically.
The regional service has brought a new level of awareness to Spokane County. Pet owners are becoming more responsible, understanding the laws and reclaiming their lost animals in our one-stop-shop system. The public is more involved and sympathetic to the plight of our community’s homeless animals.
Moving to a regional model for animal services made sense for our community, and might for yours, too. It was a long road, but definitely worth it. Our community is now part of the solution through their volunteer hours, donations, adoptions and responsible pet ownership.
Our tagline is “Helping People – Saving Pets – Building Community.” It’s a reflection of our belief that today’s animal shelter is not a place that should be hidden on the edge of town or on a dead-end road. It should be part of the community—vibrant, engaging and welcoming.
Nancy Hill is regional director of SCRAPS. She has more than 28 years of leadership experience in the field of animal care, protection and control. She previously served on the board of the National Animal Control Association.

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A blizzard is nothing out of the ordinary for a city like ours. I should be used to it by now, but I can almost feel the bitter, cold air forming ice crystals in my lungs. With every breath, it is harder and even more painful to breathe than the last.
As I walk down the sidewalk of the busy, industrial street, my vision starts to blur, and I begin to feel fuzzy. I just need to make it the last mile to the bridge, and just maybe I won't freeze to death. I didn't do well today, but tomorrow is a new day.
I can feel the numbness creeping up my calves, as I try to walk quicker. The lights from the shopping mall over the slight hill arrived into my view, so I know I am near. A freezing, dense wind gust slams into the side of me, and knocks me off balance. I decide to step inside the mall for a few minutes to warm up.
I plop down on a bench just inside the entrance. After only 2 minutes, I make eye contact with the plump security guard wearing a red, velvet coat. I instantly knew there was going to be a predicament. I just sit still and relish the heat, as I watch him shuffle over to me in my peripheral.
"Excuse me, sir. I am going to have to ask you to leave," he remarks, disgusted.
"May I ask why? I am just seeking to warm up for a little while, and then I'll be on my way," I reply.
"You need to leave now. You are making people uncomfortable, and your stench is making a few people ill."
I rose up and walked out of the mall at a sluggish pace, fighting back the tears. If I could take a shower, I would do it in a heartbeat. I understand that I'm not pleasant to be around, but it doesn't make hearing it any easier. At least I received a few moments of warmth.
I continued my walk down the avenue and eventually reached my destination. I escalated up to the highest corner of the underside of the overpass, curled up into a ball, and rested my eyes. Tomorrow is a new day.
I am awakened by the bright sun reflecting off the glistening white snow and icy roads, along with the angry sounds of cars passing by. I am sure those furious cars are moving, working people.
Hopefully, today is the day where I join the working class.
I figure if I am going to get a job, I need to find a shower. Unfortunately, showers cost money.
I get up off the hard cement, and I head for the car dealership across the street. I creep around the rear and find my golden ticket, the dumpster. I rummage around until I find the perfect piece of cardboard, along with a nearly dead, black permanent marker. I write the basic, "Homeless, please give money," line on the cardboard, and then I stroll towards a bustling intersection.
I occupied the corner for several hours and eventually gained $20. Numerous hurtful words were spewed at me by motorists, and I wish they could only understand my circumstance. I am beholden that a few people were very generous towards me.
I start walking away from the junction and after approximately 4 miles, I reach a thrift shop. I purchase some modest clothes so I may apply for jobs.
The truck stop is about 2 miles away, so I begin my travels. Snow is starting to fall lightly, I pray it doesn't get worse. It is chilly at the moment, but I am fortunate there is no breeze.
I walk inside the truck stop to acquire a shower. As I am waiting for my turn, I obtain a burger and a soda. I am now out of funds. I finally hear my name over the loudspeaker, and my shower is available.
It feels spectacular to be all washed and dressed nice. I know today is the day!
I have a 2-mile walk to the shopping mall, and only a few hours until close. The weather outside is becoming snowier, windier, and colder. I can't let it bother me. I have to keep my eyes on the prize.
Once I arrive, I step inside. I commence immediately from the entrance, progressing from store to store, applying for any position available. All I need is one company to supply me with an opportunity. Many places don't even consider me, strictly because I don't possess a phone. I even told them I would stop by every day, so they could still contact me. After roughly 2 hours, the majority of the stores begin closing their doors. The only places still open are restaurants and bars. I still have hope.
I visit the remaining businesses and apply where I can. I continually am getting shot down, one right after another. Nobody wants to hire a homeless person.
I leave the mall and walk back to my spot under the bridge. I huddle up in my corner and close my eyes. I will keep trying. Tomorrow is a new day.


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Empty Me, Gabrielle Herbst's second album as GABI and first for Double Double Whammy, is a celebration of discovery, collaboration and community - and a leap into bold new territory for the singer and composer.
After releasing her debut album, Sympathy, on Software in 2015 and touring North America and Europe, Herbst found herself in an intense, transformative time. She'd often wake up in the middle of the night needing to write new songs, improvising while half-asleep at her keyboard. In the years to come, these ideas, feelings, and experiments would lead her to a new sound, to healing, and the most direct music she has ever made - including "Sleep," Empty Me's statement of purpose.
When she wasn't applying to the Yale School of Music, where she will be pursuing a Master of Music degree in composition, writing classical pieces for the Nouveau Classical Project, or working on her newest opera, Ashes, commissioned by Roulette and the Jerome Foundation, she was exploring her new songs in sessions with Dale Eisinger in the spring of 2017, focused primarily on piano and voice. However, when she began arranging the songs with harpist Marilu Donovan and bass clarinetist Mara Mayer, she made a major breakthrough. "It was like finding a new sound - and I got really, really into it."
It's a record of ecstatic moments brought into the world through experimentation and openness. Contributions by violist Jacob Falby, flutist Laura Cox, percussionist Matt Evans, and synths by Steve Hauschildt aren't just frills. These parts, like multi-instrumentalist Aaron Roche's horns on "Wild Sunflowers," are sources of power in their own right. "Everyone put their stamp on it in a really meaningful way. Everyone wanted to give to it."
GABI (née Gabrielle Herbst) is a composer and vocalist residing in Brooklyn. Herbst’s experience writing for chamber orchestra and mixed instrumentation inspired her to develop a repertoire of short-form, vocal-centric compositions under the moniker GABI. These were driven by solitary explorations in early 2013 with a dual-track loop pedal. The nine songs composed for her debut album, Sympathy (produced by Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and released on Software Recording Co), embrace the vast potential of the human voice as instrument, story, and landscape. In 2015 she toured Sympathy in Europe and North America - highlighted performances were David Byrne’s Meltdown, Pop Kultur, the Andy Warhol Museum, The Great Escape, Marfa Myths, SXSW, and a series at Roulette curated by Meredith Monk. She is a current Artist-in-Residence at Roulette which, with the Jerome Foundation, commissioned her to compose her second opera, Ashes. She will be studying composition at the Yale School Music in the Master of Music degree program starting in fall 2018. GABI’s anticipated sophomore full-length will be released on Double Double Whammy.
Herbst has premiered her compositions at Roulette, The Stone, Cabinet Magazine’s Exhibition Space, Issue Project Room, HERE Arts Center and National Sawdust. Recipient of the 2011 Artist Residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in partnership with New York Theater Workshop, Herbst received commissions from Roulette and the Jerome Foundation, Sugar Vendil and the Nouveau Classical Project, Duo Noir, Fresh Squeezed Opera Company, and Experiments in Opera at Issue Project Room. She is a 2012 Con Edison Composer-in-Residence through Exploring the Metropolis, Inc. as well as a 2013 Composer-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts. As a featured vocalist she has performed with Valgeir Sigursson, Missy Mazzoli and in Marina Rosenfeld’s Teenage Lontano in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and has recorded for Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, Holy Other, Lapalux, and Steve Hauschildt. She has studied composition with Joan Tower, Martin Bresnick, Marina Rosenfeld and Zeena Parkins, voice with Ilka LoMonaco, and clarinet with David Krakauer. Herbst’s formal training began at an early age, studying Balinese dance and gamelan in Indonesia while learning both the clarinet and piano. She continued her training at Bard College where she studied voice and composition. Her work has been showcased at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, as well as Roulette, who in 2014 commissioned and premiered her first opera, Bodiless.
GABI will be performing at the Double Double Whammy / GRLMIC / Terrorbird Media showcase accompanied by Marilu Donovan on harp and Mara Meyer on bass clarinet.
GABI will be performing as Gabrielle Herbst at Roulette for an opera residency. More info about the opera and arrangement can be found here.
We'll leave you with this incredible track "Fleece" from GABI's first full length "Sympathy"


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Thinking back on my time in Greece – my first trip ever out of the US – I can’t imagine not having this experience when I did. The opportunity to participate in Sunoikisis’s J-Term had appeared out of nowhere, and I applied because I just had a feeling that this was the kind of trip that would take my classical studies learning to the next level. After getting settled in at Chania, our whirlwind journey through the worlds of the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans began. In Chania, we saw the Master Impression seal – something that would end up setting the tone for the rest of our trip. Wherever else we went, Prof. Nagy would refer back to the seal and we always found ways to link the ideas shown in that one seal to what we were seeing at the site.
We learned gradually through Prof. Nagy and Prof. Morrell to make our own connections, to foster an active mind that was always ready to notice the small details that might connect various artifacts or sites. That opportunity to make connections is the thing that I loved about this trip, why this J-Term experience was completely different from any other that I might have had and why it was the best experience of my education to this day. Classroom readings and studies can do only so much, but the opportunities this trip offered brought something more to my study of classics. We climbed the main staircase at Knossos, walked the causeway at Phaistos, and picked olives on the hike up to the Menelaion. We ran a race at the Nimean stadium and meandered among the korai at the Acropolis museum, imagining the times when they were created. We were encouraged to think about the ancient world of which we were getting glimpses in terms of classical texts; we often surprised ourselves with how much we could recreate those ancient empires just from the texts we studied and the sites we saw.
During the final week of my trip, I wrote in my travel journal, “After spending time today with some of the world’s leading scholars on classics, I know that even as I’m taking in so much, I also see more of what I don’t know. But it also makes me see where I want to go and what I want to do. I’m afraid of going back for fear that I will lose this all – I can’t do that. It’s so open here – I feel ready and fresh to learn, expanding with each conversation. I challenge myself to keep this alive.” This trip created new challenges for me as a student and new ideas for me as a person; I look forward to returning someday to continue the learning that was sparked by this one J-Term.
Abby on far right with other J-term participants.


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rukawa ofcourse.. even on the interhigh jump he is still better in it.. he even manage to join the all-japan basketball team after they loose to aiwa high school in the third round of national championship.
rukawa is defintely better. but since sakuragi is the protagonist in the show, i think he might get better than rukawa in time. even mitsui, who has been on a vacation, might be better if he has not stopped schooling. ehe, but playing basketball is not for a single person you know, it takes a teamwork for the group to win.
any one here follow nba??
i like rukawa more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rukawa in 1v1. Sakuragi will never have those ball skills, on the other hands Sakuragi had more potential atletic wise. One of the funniest moments in the manga imo is how he tries an (Air Jordan?) dunk during warm up. That dunk jumping from the penalty line but he slams it right on the ring instead that he scores it but every one was hell a surprised that a high school kid was attempting that. Lets not forget he was only 16 and it was pointed out that their probably wasn't any other guy in high school who could've pulled that of.
Rukawa even beats him in a 1v1 before they went to inter-high if I remember right. But again imo during that inter high match that he failed that dunk during warm up he completely showed while he doesn't has the ball skills, atletic wise he is so much superior to Rukawa, how he stops everyone with only 1y experience is just nightmarish. Let us not even begin his effect on the team, Sakuragi gives tremendous spirit boosts to his team with his attitude and his interventions. But it's like comparing Ben Wallace vs Kevin Garnett.
coz he is soo funny!!
its summer and vacation again..
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Crowds flocked to Ruislip and stepped back in time to the Middle Ages on Sunday (August 16).
Hillingdon Council's Medfest 2015 was a roaring success with spectators able to watch, taste and take part in medieval culture.
The day featured an authentic programme of medieval entertainments, from horseback jousting to living history re-enactments provided by professional re-enactors.
The Great Barn was full of arts and crafts activities with additional food, a Farmer's Market and artisan stalls from the regular Duck Pond Market.
The fields of Manor Farm, Pinn Way, in Ruislip, came to life with armoured knights battling and medieval music and dancing.
No medieval-themed event would be complete without a hog roast and of course stocks, which were enjoyed by all ages.
The festival was free for all to enjoy and will be back again next year.

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The daughter of a man who died in a double fatal car crash near Market Harborough has made a fresh appeal for witnesses.
Jess Phillips, 26, said: “This accident has left a huge crater in our lives and we still don’t know what happened.
“I would urge anyone who knows anything about this accident – no matter how insignificant they think it is – to tell the police.
Jess’ father Matt McKnight was one of two men who died in the crash on the A427 between Brampton Ash and Dingley at about 5.30pm on Thursday, September 25.
Mr McKnight was one of four men in a white Vauxhall Insignia travelling back to Market Harborough from their workplace at boat builders Fairline of Oundle. Mr McKnight, of Heygate Street, Harborough, and Paul Jones, of Warwick Close, Harborough, died in the crash.
Two other Market Harborough men were injured in the incident.
A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said they do not know why the car they were all in left the road.
Now Mr McKnight’s daughter Jess has renewed the family’s appeals for witnesses to the crash to come forward.
She said: “There have been very few people who have come forward.
“There was definitely a car behind that didn’t stop, even though they saw a car leaving the road.
She said potential witnesses should understand the devastation that the fatal crash has caused to Mr McKnight’s family and friends.
“Matt was so highly respected and so loved; here in our family, and in the town, and in the Youth Theatre,” she said.
“Our lives have basically been ruined by this. My mum’s future has been ripped from her.
“My nine-year-old sister is still devastated – we all are.
“We just keep trying to pull each other through.
“Christmas wasn’t Christmas in our house, and our futures have all changed.
“Dad won’t be there for us when we get married, when my younger sister graduates perhaps, when we move into new houses.
“As a family, we just want some answers – why the car crashed, how the accident happened; just the answers anyone would expect.
Mr McKnight also has a 12-year-old daughter.
A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said: “Investigations into what happened are still ongoing.
“Some witnesses did come forward and we’ve spoken to them.
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I received John Nickerson's Silver Star citation and what a citation it is............. You'll never guess but he was awarded the Citation on April 12th 1945 for retrieving 6 men wounded under fire and then knocking out two German machine guns........does this sound like the Barby attack to you. We are very lucky because his file was damaged in the fire in St Louis. You may be aware but there was a fire where all the records are held several years back. His file was reconstructed and we are lucky to get the citation. I attached the citation.....He was awarded the citation by the 83rd Division......which is normal for units such as Tank Destroyer Battalions that are attached to get the award from the attached division.
This is quite a story if in fact he help get the men that were hit from the Barby attack.....and who knows maybe he help get William Ropple from his same hometown.
Reference is made to your letter regarding the awards to which you are entitled.
By direction of the President, under the provisions of act of Congress, 9 July 1018, the Silver Star has been awarded to you by the Commanding General 83rd Infantry Division.
Information card about John Nickerson's Silver Star from the Massachusetts State Veterans Records. It lists Sv*M which means Silver Star.


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Thirty-nine students and four staff set off to London on Tuesday 17th July to take in two West-End shows over the course of two days. On arrival, the students set out on a sightseeing tour taking in Buckingham Palace, Horseguards’ Parade, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square and Green Park.
The students then had their evening meal at Sticky Fingers and then watched a performance of Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.
After a night at a hotel, students were taken on a fascinating tour of the Globe Theatre on London’s Southbank. Students learnt not only about the how Shakespeare’s plays were performed in his lifetime but were also taught about the wider life style of the people of London in the 1500s. They were also treated to an exclusive rehearsal of Shakespeare’s Othello with Hollywood actor Mark Rylance on stage (you can just spot him in the red cap!).
The tour finished off with a performance of Matilda at the Cambridge Theatre before heading home.
All students have behaved impeccably and thoroughly enjoyed the trip.


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Gifted and Talented- "Do Work"
Being really good at something takes work...lots of work.
An "Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience.
Gladwell studied people who are eminent in their fields- musicians, athletes, CEO's, etc.
What he found in common was hard work and practice.
We often think of talent falling from the sky...it doesn't. Good grades, fall from the sky too, right? Maybe, if you are unchallenged. That is why so many of our brightest students get the shock of their lives when they get accepted into the top ranked university of their dreams and have to study for the first time in their lives.
They are surrounded by top notch students with stellar SAT scores in most of their classes.
What separates the "big boys"? Practice! and lots of it... 10,000 hours to be exact. Let's put that into perspective.
If you can put in 3 hours a night 5 days a week, you’ll be at 10,000 hours in less than 10 years.
Mozart, yes that Mozart, was influenced (possibly forced by his father) to learn and perform music starting at the age of 3. He got his 10,000 hours in before becoming a teenager.
How about golf legend Tiger Woods? After team practice in high school, he would stay after and hit an extra 200 balls. That is 1,000 extra attempts at perfect practice each week. Think in terms of months, then years.
Extraordinary talent comes from opportunities as well.
Tiger Woods' father was a golf enthusiast.
Bill Gates went to an exclusive private school that had a computer lab and dial up connection when these things were both rare and expensive and lived near UW, where he and his best friend would sneak into the computer lab at night for extra practice.
There is a difference between intelligence and achievement. Intelligence can go unnoticed and uncultivated. It can stagnate if not exercised and challenged.
Achievement, according to Gladwell, is a group effort. It comes from opportunities, encouragment and being at the right place at the right time (sometimes the right era) and a lot of focused and sustained effort.
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Orchard Drives undertakes all styles of tarmac and asphalt installation work. We use only the best tarmacadam in order to ensure every tarmac driveway we do, is done to industry standards. Regardless if its a new tarmac driveway or simply a re-surface, we guarantee to give you a quality finish each and every time.
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When you get Orchard Drives to install a tarmac driveway at your home, you are getting a skilled and qualified tarmac installation team that have been installing driveways for over 20 years. We come highly recommended in North and East London and have long term work references going back over 15 years in North and East London.
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In regular web development process what do we do? We create one war file which contains all functionality, services, modules or all use cases related to our business. In this approach of development we do not focus to make our application modularise. We may be following modularization in our code but end product is not seperated. Every services, modules are bundled up in single war and this war is deployed on server so that our business will be available for outside world which can make a request to get the required resources. This native architecture of development is called Monolithic Architecture.
In simple definition monolithic architecture is the architecture in which all application components, functionality, modules are bundled up in single WAR. Here modules and functionality are tightly coupled with each other. And all request coming from either from web application or mobile devices or any other sources such as third party will be processed by this war.
Monolithic architecture is simple architecture with not much complexity generally used for development of small application where not much modularization is needed. In this architecture all function/modules are tightly coupled with each other. This monolithic architecture has several advantages listed below.
Easy and fast development : In this we do not have to give much thought to modularity of the application every thing here is tightly coupled and each data required during development is easily available making development easy and fast as we are not dependent in other external services.
Easy deployment : War file generated is simply deployed on server and is ready to serve its client without much configuration.
Easy Load balancing : For purpose of load balancing we have to just created the copy of generated war and had to be deployed on different server.
With all this advantage Monolithic architecture comes with many disadvantages.
Hard to train new recruits : Since our application is large and not modularised new recruits have to learn all application which may result confusion and will consume time and therefore new recruits are not available to assist the development in short period.
Not Scalable : for small change also we have to bring down entire application creating all functional use cases unavailable to client even the change do not have to do with other use cases.
Reduced Productivity : As application developed using monolithic architecture are big and therefore they take long time to build in IDE's which makes the developer less productive.
Continuous development is difficult: As we have to redeploy entire application for small change which make continuous development difficult.
Difficult to change technology of the application : Big and vast application scope makes difficult to upgrade the existing technology or to migrate to newer technology.
Above disadvantages can be mitigated using Microservice Architecture instead of Monolithic Architecture. In microservice architecture entire application is broken down in several small application which communicate with each other using API's. Please read more about Microservices in detail here.


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The City of Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus (BBB) announced today that it has become one of the country's first municipal transit authorities to convert its fleet to renewable natural gas (RNG), rated 90% cleaner than diesel and is considered the cleanest transportation fuel available. Earlier this year, BBB modified its original agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp (Nasdaq: CLNE) to transition the supply of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for its fleet to Clean Energy's Redeem™ renewable LNG (Redeem™), which is non-fracked methane harvested from organic waste in landfills.
With the announcement, BBB unveiled a new Bus ad campaign called "Bigger, Bluer, Skies" to emphasize the lower emissions and sustainability of this type of fuel.
Big Blue Bus has been fueling its LNG and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fleet of motor coaches with fuel supplied by Clean Energy since 2012. The process of harvesting and processing Redeem™ provides a product that has fewer impurities than conventional natural gas and is a cleaner burning fuel source.
"City Council has voiced its support for non-fracked, sustainable sources of fuel, and Redeem™ delivers a fuel made entirely of waste; a more sustainable product at an equal cost. This makes BBB's partnership with Clean Energy to use the Redeem™ fuel a win-win solution," said BBB's Transit Director, Ed King.
The City of Santa Monica is a nationally recognized leader for its sustainability policies and actions. BBB has progressively contributed to the City's sustainability narrative through its use of alternative fuel and ultimate phasing out of diesel-fueled motor coaches. Through this commitment, clean burning and Renewable Natural Gas now power BBB's entire fleet. The modification to the original agreement with Clean Energy to furnish and deliver Renewable Methane Gas, as a replacement for traditional Liquid Natural Gas, is cost neutral to the City. The addition of Redeem™ is a next step in BBB's and the City's sustainability portfolio.
"Big Blue Bus is a leader in sustainability and our ability to partner with it and provide a completely recyclable natural gas fueling option helps reduce emissions locally and shows other cities the power in using Redeem™ renewable fuel," said Peter Grace, Clean Energy's senior vice president for sales and finance.
Renewable Liquefied Natural Gas, Redeem™, is non-fracked methane, harvested from landfills. This gas has historically been burned off into the atmosphere. However, with advances in renewable technology, the gas is now harvested through a series of membranes implanted in the ground of landfills. Renewable Methane Gas is processed through a filtration and refining process and transported via pipeline to end users. As a result of the harvesting and filtration process, it is found that Renewable Methane Gas has fewer impurities than conventional Natural Gas and thus is a cleaner burning fuel source. Operating City transit buses through this waste-to-energy fuel source, Big Blue Bus contributes to fulfilling the City's commitment to protecting the Environment by utilizing the cleanest transportation fuel source available.
To watch a short video about how Redeem™ is made, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VapWtJGVEw.
Big Blue Bus operates a fleet of 200 vehicles transporting more than 61,000 passengers daily across a 51-square mile service area. Nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to a cleaner environment, the entire fleet operates on alternative fuels, including liquefied and compressed natural gas (LNG/CNG), which helps to cut emissions by over 80 percent. Serving Santa Monica and the Los Angeles area since 1928, Big Blue Bus has won numerous awards for its customer service, safety and efficiency.


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This syrup clears the airway and soothes where congested and where it stings: thyme thins and cleans, the elder softens ; the elecampane relaxes and facilitates the evacuation of mucus. Extracts of mountain pine buds and poplar amplify this liberating action. Echinacea, a plant native to North America, is well known for its immuno-stimulant properties. Similarly, propolis that protects the hive, strengthens your resistance and protects you against the worries of the winter. Myrtle essential oil adds to this synergy its anti-infective and expectorant action well known since antiquity.
The harmonious combination of all these ingredients gives the syrup a soothing and pleasant taste appreciated by the whole family.
- Adults: 1 to 5 coffee spoons per day.
- Children: half a coffee spoon, 1 to 5 per day.


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Umakanta Girion May 26, 2017 January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment on Migration from Thunderbird to Outlook in few Clicks! Yes – it’s possible!
If you have never performed the migration from Thunderbird to Outlook, you might be lucky. The solution offered below will let you do that in just few clicks of your mouse. And if you have done that before, you do know the problems faced by a general user through most of the solutions.
If you are curious, just do a simple Google search about Thunderbird to Outlook migration, and you will get the whole picture.
The amount of complications that can come up during Thunderbird Export to PST (Outlook) – or frankly, during any kind of email migration – can hurt anyone’s brains just too much.
If you are an experienced user for email migration, you might pull it off through the manual approach or typical MBOX file converters. But you should know that it’s not the most ideal solution, for it can convert data inaccurately.
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It’s a commercial and carefully developed utility from USL Software that deals with data conversion perfectly well. Built from the grounds up, it can target the Thunderbird database automatically in a single click (no need for MBOX files or any other manual approach). The algorithms dig deep into the folders to look for data and that delivers extremely clean migration.
None of components are ever missed or converted badly. Especially including non-English text and folder hierarchy.
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City Ballet School and international superstar Yuan Yuan Tan, principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, have collaborated to welcome students ages 6-10 from Shanghai, China, to our studios.
The Shanghai students will observe our own dancers Saturday, July 9th, and take a master class taught by Marina Alexandrova (9:30am - 11am) Sunday, July 10th. The students will do a small performance after the Sunday class (11am-12pm), both to which we welcome all to observe. Following the performance, Ms. Tan will sign autographs for anyone in attendance.
Admission will be limited and granted on a first-come-first-served basis. Join us by listing your name on the sign up sheet, or e-mail us at hello@cityballetschool.org !
City Ballet's alumna Nastia Alexandrova promoted to apprentice with ABT!
In January 2016, pre-professional student, Nastia Alexandrova, was accepted by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie into the American Ballet Theatre studio company in New York. After a few short months, Nastia was promoted to apprentice with the company in May 2016. Congratulations, Nastia! We are very proud of you and all your accomplishments.
City Ballet student Rio Anderson featured in an episode of Rituals.
Pre-Professional Student Rio Anderson was recently featured on an episode of Rituals (Discovery Digital Network).
17 year old Rio Anderson has decided to pursue ballet full time, even turning down an opportunity to study at Harvard. She will soon be attending The Royal Ballet School in London, one of the most prestigious dance institutions in the world.
Congrats to Pre-Professional students Rio Anderson and Nastia Alexandrova and their successes at the New York Youth America Grand Prix Finals!
Pre-Professional students Rio Anderson and Nastia Alexandrova successfully competed in the Youth America Grand Prix Finals in New York April 12-15th. They performed beautifully in both contemporary and classical categories, and competed through to the Final Round and were two the Top 22 contestants to perform at the Lincoln Center in New York!
Rio was awarded the overall "Silver Medal" in the Senior Women’s category and offered an academic year-round scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London, as well as a three-month trial apprenticeship with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.
We are incredibly proud of Nastia and Rio and congratulate them on their amazing success!
City Ballet's own Jeraldine Mendoza featured on cover of the May edition of Dance Magazine.
Congratulations to City Ballet Pre-Professional Students who participated in YAGP!
Congratulations to City Ballet Pre-Professional students who participated in the Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals in San Francisco on Saturday!
City Ballet School - San Francisco alumni Jeraldine Mendoza, now a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet - Chicago is featured in a short 5 minute video. Below is the link, enjoy!
Great news from the Pacific North West, where Pre-Professional student Cyan Grattan has received a contract for Oregon Ballet Theater II. Cogratulations Cyan!!!
Congratulation to Pre-Professional student Jennifer Wang!
Congratulations to City Ballet School's Jennifer Wang on accepting a contract with Chicago's Joffery Ballet. Jennifer will join CBS Alumni Jeraldine Mendoza who currently dances in the Joffery Ballet. Congratulations Jen, we are very proud of you!


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Another day of warm 90-degree weather, but we have to start putting showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. A cold front will approach the Hudson Valley, during the afternoon period on Tuesday, which will give us a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
These should be isolated in nature, once that moves thought the region, it will lead to more sunshine for Wednesday and even some cooler temperatures. Another ridge of high pressure will build in and that should dominate our weather for the reminder of the week.
It has been a bit warmer overnight, so some early morning patchy fog on Tuesday morning could persist in certain areas. That should burn off by 8am or so.
Tuesday: Sunny and hot, high near 90. A slight chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Early morning patch fog.
Tuesday night: Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy with a low near 64.
Thursday: Sunny, high near 84.


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A lot of amazing things have happened recently.
Writing collaborations, insane weather patterns, and new friends.
This morning I had big plans for the day. Why? Because it is my day off from work, all the kids are at school, and my wife works. A few things went wrong with this plan but will get to that later.
I have four kids across a wide spectrum of ages. One of my middle children is in college and on the rowing team. I remember this particular part of the training season fondly, or maybe an absolute horror, but yes fondly. I was in shaped back then.
So my daughter is on her way to indoor training, translation let's see how bad this can hurt until it's time to get on the water again. She informs me, possibly in a slight panic, that an ice storm has completely encased her Jeep in frozen precipitation. I calmly explained to her that I've done this before and even though she thinks it is basically un-scrapable, that we can get it done.
The Moon teamwork begins. I use all the skills I've learned in Kansas and abroad, notably how to cut grooves of the ice with the scraper and then break those down. I lean my two hundred pound frame into the work and begin to clear away the windows. Sleet and snow continued to pour down.
Then, a flash of lightning.
Keep in mind it is very dark this early in the morning… And snowing.
Why is this so amazing? Probably because I've been writing a novel with Richard Fox called The Rage of Winter. It is set on a winter world and has some similarities with the Winter War of nineteen thirty-nine — except in a sci-fi environment with the fate of the entire galaxy at stake. Last week I did research on Google about thunder snow, because it sounded cool.
Thunder snow is extremely rare. For reasons that are slightly beyond my scientific capacity to explain, but that I can basically understand if I read it from someone else, you get a thunderstorm in the winter with flashes of lightning. Very cool and scary.
So that was different. I made a video and put it up on our Keystroke Medium Facebook group.
My solo work is still coming along nicely, but I have had fantastic opportunities to collaborate lately. In addition to Richard Fox sharing his writing awesomeness with me, teaching me his very impressive plotting and pacing techniques, I've been working with Craig Martelle on the Darklanding series.
Darklanding is something really special in the world of science fiction. We originally conceived it as something like Firefly meets Tombstone and other old westerns. The characters have taken on a life of their own since then and fans seem to really like it. Episode five, An Unglok Murder, is coming out very shortly and will be a little bit of a murder mystery. Despite my background in law enforcement, I've never written a murder mystery. So this is mostly space opera / Western, but there is a little bit of whodunit.
So back to what's going on today. Turns out we had a snow day which has cut into my writing productivity, but hey the kids like it. Except for one who has a migraine kid, thanks to my genetic code. Life is always interesting. Sometimes it's less easy than other times. I'm happy to be here and feel blessed. Once we get through today's headache, there will be great celebration!
I hope you have an aweome day.

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Leagues and tournaments are big-money business in DreadBall. Crowds will pay a small fortune to see the best and the notorious take to the neodurium pitches to play the Galaxy’s Greatest Sport. Now, with this Organiser’s Kit, you too can set up your own 16-Player DreadBall League.
This Organiser’s Kit contains guidelines, promotional material and prizes so that you can set up your own DreadBall League.


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Villa St Joseph is a medium-sized nursing home facility in Garfield Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga county). The Nursing Home Site profile for Villa St Joseph includes: Pricing, Resident Health and Wellness, Ratings, Activities, Comparisons, Directions, Surveys, and CMS Reviews.
They have 130 beds and 115 residents (which would leave 15 beds available). Villa St Joseph participates in Medicare and Medicaid and are classified as a Non profit - Church related ownership. They offer residential councils. They are not located inside a hospital. They do not belong to a continuing care community.
Villa St Joseph received an overall rating from CMS of 5 stars compared to the OH average of 3.2 and a National average of 3.31. Ratings from residents, family members, and visitors to our site are available below. We encourage you to leave one of your own if you are familiar with their services. We also recommend giving them a call to address any additional senior and nursing care questions you may have after reviewing their Nursing Home Site profile.
They are located at the following address: 5200 Marymount Village Drive in Garfield Heights Ohio 44125.
They can be reached by phone at (216) 332-1100.
The average length of stay at Villa St Joseph is approximately 18.6 days. (this may include both short and long-term care (LTC) visits).
According to our latest records from CMS, the average daily amount billed by Villa St Joseph to Medicare is $630.11 per day (compared to a Ohio average of $692.22) and Medicare reimbursed them an average of $400.64 per day (after any deductible and coinsurance).
Please note that the pricing above is the average billed to Medicare. Each person and case is unique. (Supplemental Insurance / Medicare Advantage Plans, single or double rooms, etc). If you are interested in this facility you should contact Villa St Joseph directly for exact pricing and what options are available for you or your loved one's personal care needs.
The average age at Villa St Joseph is approximately 81 years old.
The last time this data was collected they cared for at least 142 men and 308 women in a one year period that received Medicare benefits. This number fluctuates with each new resident.
Medicare and Medicaid participation for Villa St Joseph began on Jan 31, 2007.
Total Licensed Nursing Hours (Registered Nurses + Licensed Practical Nurses + Licensed Vocational Nurses) averages 2.6 hours per day per resident (the national average is 1.4 hours).
Additional Staffing can be viewed below. Each number represents a Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Employee of the type listed above it at Villa St Joseph. Read how FTE is defined.
Villa St Joseph in GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio has 130 beds compared to the Ohio average of 92.66 and a National average of 106.16.
As of the last update they had 115 residents compared to the OH average of 73.73 and a National average of 86.4.
This results in a 88.46% occupancy rate compared to the Ohio average of 79.57% and a national average of 81.38%.
Averaging the available ratings gives an aggregate star rating of 4.4 for Villa St Joseph versus the OH average of 3.08 and a national average of 3.20.
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The moment of truth has come for North Carolina, which epitomizes the nation’s mounting struggle over the partisan rigging of elections by Republican or Democratic majorities in state legislatures gerrymandering election districts to maintain their party’s lock on power.
What is indisputable, however, is the frank admission of partisan gerrymandering by Republican leaders like Rep. David Lewis, chairman of the legislature’s redistricting committee. Lewis has admitted drawing district lines to deliver Republicans a 10-3 majority in the state’s Congressional delegation even when Democratic candidates poll more votes, as happened in 2012 and again in 2018.
But since then, Justice Roberts has arranged the court’s schedule to pair the North Carolina case, brought on behalf of Democratic voters, with a case from Maryland, brought by Republican voters against Maryland’s Democratic legislature. What has heightened expectations in North Carolina and a bevy of other states is the possibility that a Supreme Court majority, led by justice Roberts, will seize the opportunity to come down hard and even-handedly on both parties, and then issue its first breakthrough decision outlawing partisan gerrymandering.

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