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Dining at the The St. Regis Grand Hotel, Rome is as extraordinary as the hotel, has one of the most well know restarunts in Europe and has been nominated by Zagat.
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Vivendo is well layed out, separated in several eating areas and staffed by attentive servers. Our award-winning chefs prepare creative Italian and international dishes including : Potato and Cheese Ravioli on Tomato and Mint Fondue and Herb and light mustard crusted Loin of Lamb with Thyme Artichokes. It is a modern Meddeterennean style restarunt that offers a seasonal menu, delicious Italian wines and has been nominated in 2006 By the Zagat awards as one of the best Restaraunts.
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text: Review: Disrupted – Heavy Death April 28, 2015Micah No Comment Review by Andriana. Disrupted is a five piece death metal act from Ludvika, Sweden. Heavy Death is Disrupted's debut album which you can listen to on Spotify, and buy on Bandcamp. Heavy Death was released in 2014 and stands at only 15 minutes long with 6 songs. Disrupted released a brand new album, called Morbid Death, on April that can be purchased on their label's website. The track that starts it all is "Reverse the Cross." The album kicks off to a real nice start with this song and is a good indication of what the other 5 songs will be like. What one finds when listening to "Reverse the Cross" is powerful growls, fat bass and guitar tone, and blasting drums. What's great about this song, and most of the album quite frankly, is how short the songs are. I am a fan of short songs like this because they don't overstay their welcome. The song hits you, presents you with face melting riffs then leaves you to rot. This song makes you want more and makes you anticipate the rest of the album. The lyrics are in English and vocalist Mikael Hanni pronounces the words clearly and precisely. "Reverse the Cross" plays a solid riff for a portion of the song until there is some tremolo picking towards the end. I think it's a great death metal sounding riff and definitely would be good in a mosh pit. What a fun song. "Suffocation Molestation" blends right in with "Reverse the Cross" and sounds like a part II for "Reverse the Cross" and that is not a bad thing. The riffs are different, of course, but "Suffocation Molestation" retains the hyped up, angry, powerful vibe from the first track. This song is 2 minutes long, just like track 1 and most other tracks on Heavy Death. The drum grooves sound a bit similar to "Reverse the Cross", but like I said: this song is like a part II to the other song. This song builds and builds, increasing the hype to its abrupt ending, again leaving us with our faces on the ground seeking more. "Mutilated, Dissected, Perfected" serves as part III. What I liked about this song is how the guitar chords played along with the vocals. For example, if Hanni went higher in pitch then the guitars would play a higher sounding chord to match. By this point I can see how people would confuse these first few songs because if you aren't paying much attention the songs can mash up. These songs are still cool songs and are enjoyable, but you would have to be listening to tell them apart. "The Dead" is a fat song. It channels a doom/stoner metal shell to surround the inner death metal core that is Heavy Death. It is the longest song on the record at 3:26, but it's doom it has to be longer. The low tuned, fuzzy, fat mammoth that is guitar tone leads the song to victory while not being overpowering. The thickness is most noticeable, but it plays alongside everything rather than in front of everything. That could be the result of sweet mastering/production; nevertheless it is a nice song. There are nice chugged sections for you to bob your head to and the full vocals. It is clear that Hanni puts everything into his vocals, and that is the kind of result one would want. There is more feeling behind the music and it just makes everything sound better overall; and that goes for this whole album. "Heavy Death" also sounds a bit like stoner metal, but not nearly as much as "The Dead" does. This song is faster and is more "true" to death metal. The drums are much more exciting, if you will, in "Heavy Death." The guitar riffs are slower (than the drums) and have more chords played. The final song on Heavy Death is "Urge!" This is one of my favorites on the album and also gives you the best audio summary for Disrupted's first effort. "Urge!" has the powerful growls I have come to expect, fast and slow riffs alike, and the same guitar tone as before. The bass line for this song sounds fun to play and deepens the body of sound here. As I said before, this album features seriously meaty guitar tone, hyped drums, and chunky vocals that hammer in a unique blend of death metal and stoner metal. The album is something one would listen to if you're in a death metal mood, but nothing too extreme, want a better soundtrack to a video game, or if you need a decent tune whilst you be "productive." I've listened to the album at least 5 times and haven't gotten tired of it. The downside I see with this album is the repetitive drums and how songs can mix together if you aren't paying attention. I don't think that is a deal breaker though, especially since it is a short album and there is plenty of room for Disrupted to progress and there are expectations of killer albums in the future. 7.4/10 ReviewAndriana, Death Metal, disruptedShare : Tweet ‹ Review: Redound – Obsessed Cattle Decapitation Teases New Album ›

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Primavera: M83, Girls, The Men, Dirty Three
Reviews and photos from the second day of San Miguel Primavera Sound
Photos by Charlotte Zoller and Erez Avissar; Above:M83 by Erez Avissar. More photos from Friday at Primavera can be seen here.
Today we continue our reports from San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival 2012, going down through the weekend in Barcelona. Check out all of our Primavera 2012 coverage here, and follow our staffers Mark Richardson, Jenn Pelly, and Laura Snapes on Twitter. Stay tuned for much more in the coming days.
Girls [MINI Stage; 8:15 p.m.]
__Photo by Erez Avissar
Girls' live performances play like a rhapsodic wake for a soul that's present at his or her own funeral, begging for second chances as the charade unfolds all too vividly around him or her, and he or she's powerless to stop it. There was never any sense of Christopher Owens being overwhelmed by Girls' sizeable live band-- complete with three female backup singers and flowers draped over mic stands-- as they faced out into the hazy evening sun. But the last-ditch way in which he pleaded for love and divulged his many regrets was in such tremendous contrast to the joy and gusto going on around him that he became a captivating, empty-eyed void at the center of a celebration.
Photo by Erez Avissar
Miles from their scrappy early gigs, Girls' live shows are starting to resemble those of Spiritualized (who played Primavera the previous night). Owens is developing Jason Pierce's way with couching the intensely personal and desperately succour-seeking in bombastic surroundings, without losing any of the small darknesses. Following a skittering "Honey Bunny" and waltzing, harmonica-wrought "Love Like a River", the set reached a crescendo with "Vomit", which was so grand and portentous-- in a good way-- that it almost hit Pink Floyd-level peaks. "Lust for Life" felt winsome and itchy with boyish grit after that epic; thrumming closer "Hellhole Ratrace" reached a hilt with Owens urging, confessing, and admitting that sometimes only you can save yourself. Redemptive stuff.
The Men [Vice Stage; 1:45 a.m.]
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With Ben Greenberg joining as bassist and appearing to fix the Men's line-up for a while after a short series of departures and temporary players, the band's front section is suddenly transformed: Mark Perro, Nick Chiericozzi, and Greenberg often look as though they're in a race to get to the end of the song the fastest, and to swirl their manes the most. Greenberg took vocals on a number of songs that seem new, and indicate another transformation for the band: They played very little of Open Your Heart last night, other than a winding version of the title track, and a clipped-vocal rip through "Turn It Around" (which is apparently "in E," if you're trying to tab that).
Instead, "Bataille", "Night Landing", and "A Minor" muscled up against several new songs, which all shared a similar jagged, hardcore feel. They were confrontational and defiant, far from the soft ruggedness of Open Your Heart, which, lest we forget, nearly veered into country at one point.
The front section's dynamism didn't underestimate the role of drummer Rich Samis, who turned the end of "I Saw Her Face" into a triple speed storm. Despite the fact that the ground was concrete and the crowd was sparse enough to make it ripe for face-planting, a crowd-surfer took flight during the last couple of songs. At the same time, the set veered from punchy and arresting to something of a chunky, mildly bloated sprawl, a jam best saved for the rehearsal room rather than the stage.
M83 [MINI Stage; 12:45 a.m.]
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There was only time to see four M83 songs prior to crossing the festival site to see the Men. The most striking thing about M83's set was the distance between the vocals and the softly crystalline music. Although the effect is different, Anthony Gonzalez mines similar ground to My Bloody Valentine in the way both bands seem to be excavating a sweeter vocal stream beneath their music, a gorgeous, subterranean river hidden beneath towering crags and glaciers. Beneath the flares and firecrackers of "Intro", which felt like Kraftwerk lost in a dreamland, the lyrics implore, "carry on." On "Reunion", the sound of panpipes trailed Gonzalez' voice like ripples following a boat, as muted, stadium-like drums boomed around him.
Dirty Three [ATP Stage; 11:15 p.m.]
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Dirty Three are often referred to in terms of their intensity, whether musical, or the level of mirth provoked by Warren Ellis' bitterness-laced on-stage parlance. But "Furnace Skies", the opening song off their new album, Toward the Low Sun, marks the most profoundly vehement thing that the Australian trio have ever made together. They opened with it last night on ATP's stage, Ellis spiralling his arms by way of introduction, Jim White drumming with octopus-like fluidity and brow-furrowed might as Mick Turner scribbled at the strings of his guitar. Ellis' violin bow was already melting, detached strings blowing flaccidly in the wind as he knelt on the edge of the stage facing Turner, spreading his arms wide in a way that said "smote me, go on, you great cruel sky brute," and howling audibly, even without a microphone.
In the context of Toward the Low Sun, "Furnace Skies" feels like a testament to the frustration that made their eighth album so hard to complete (it took them seven years to make). It's a level of fury that they rarely allowed themselves in the rest of the performance. Aside from Ellis' song introductions, that is: "Thank you very fucking much. Who saw the Cure? I didn't, fuck. This is a song about realizing your whole fucking outbox is full of letters written to people who are dead, and that's why they don't write back, because they've left this mortal coil. It's called, 'Sometimes I Forget You've Gone'."
It's messy and sad, full of tugging, fumbling guitar and militaristic drumming, but never the kind of easy crescendo that you'd associate with heavily emotional, wordless music. (In a great recent interview, Ellis lamented how the term "instrumental" implies that there's something missing from their music, which, frankly, says more than many bands with the full Oxford English Dictionary at their disposal.)
"This is a song about waking up after a festival, and you take the whole world back to your flat, put it in a blanket, fold the corners, and drop it in the sea, and realise: you are happy," said Ellis with grave hilarity. "This is called 'The Pier', or, 'Get Out of My Fucking Face'." Its long, drawn violin slices are some of the most naked of the set, which took an elemental dip, veering away from fluid expression for a period of barely there, shuffling rhythms, jarring pauses, and melodic twinges.
Live staple "Some Summers They Drop Like Flies" brought their set to a resolution, starting with plucked, precarious violin, and ending with Ellis playing so fast that his instrument made a single, consistent tone, accompanied by cacophonous, frenetic drumming. Listening supine from a nearby grassy bank, it felt like the soundtrack to the death of the few stars twinkling through the light pollution above.
Update: A previous version of this piece indicated that Mick Turner is the drummer of Dirty Three and Jim White is the guitarist. It is actually the other way around.


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Joyce, Hello my name is Carm, and I am an oncology nurse. Although I have not experienced a hyperbaric chamber personally, I have had many patients who have. Hyperbarics can help heal any radiation tissue damage as it works on the tiny capillaries that feed bone, mucosa, and skin. When these areas get damage and the get exposed to high levels of oxygen therapy, the oxygen therapy stimulates body growth factors and this causes those capillaries to branch, or reach out and grow new tissue. Most patients say it is boring, that they cannot bring anything into the chamber, but that they bring their favorite movies on DVD and watch them on an overhead monitor, or they listen to relaxing music with CDs that they bring as well. I hope this at least answers some of your questions, Carm.
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Line Erector (Light and Power) apprenticeship
DOT code: 821.361-018, AIMS code: 0281
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Erects, maintains, and repairs wood poles and prefabricated light‑duty metal towers, cable, and related equipment to construct transmission and distribution power lines used to conduct electrical energy between generating stations, substations, and consumers: Directs and assists Ground Helpers in attaching crossarms, insulators, lightning arresters, switches, wire conductors, and auxiliary equipment to poles preparatory to erection, as instructed by Line Supervisor, and assists in erection of poles or towers and adjustment of guy wires. Climbs erected poles or towers and installs equipment, such as transformers, which are ordinarily installed after poles are erected. Strings wire conductors between erected poles with assistance of Ground Helpers and adjusts slack in conductors to compensate for contraction and elongation of conductors due to temperature variations, using winch. Splices, solders, and insulates conductors and related wiring to join sections of power line, and to connect transformers and electrical accessories. May trim trees and brush prior to new construction, during repair of damaged lines, or as part of routine maintenance.
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Man who survived Niagara Falls jump, killed in latest attempt
Kirk Jones, who famously survived going over Niagara Falls in 2003, died in another attempt over the famous waterfall weeks ago.
Jones' body was found earlier this week in Lake Ontario by a fisherman.
New York State Park Police Detective Sgt. Brian Nisbet said it appears Jones was in the Niagara Falls area April 19. On that day, crews responded to a report of a large "spinning ball" in the rapids.
Nisbet told Syracuse.com that the 10-foot ball went over the falls and was recovered, without a person in it, by a Maid of the Mist boat.
After an investigation, Nisbet said it's believed Jones was attempting to go over the falls inside the ball. However, he fell out at some point, which resulted in his death. The incident is still under investigation.
When Jones went over the 173-foot waterfall in 2003, he became the first to take the mighty plunge wearing only his clothes.
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On his first attempt, a witness said Jones went over the edge with his hands over his head before plunging into the water below. The same witness said he then saw Jones pull himself onto rocks down below. He then floated across the U.S.-Canadian border on his back.
Before his initial jump, Jones spoke repeatedly about making a jump from the top, friends and family said.
Syracuse.com said Jones paid a $3,000 fine after pleading guilty to unlawfully performing a stunt for his first attempt.
At the time, Jones said he was trying to kill himself, Syracuse.com reported. However, he later said he was happy to be alive and asked "that no one ever try such a horrible stunt again."
Rick Hampson of USA TODAY and the Associated Press contributed to this article.


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Sunday, January 04, 2009
The Singapore Grip
This is the second of J.G. Farrell's three "Empire" books that I've read. The first was The Siege of Krishnapur, which I finished this summer. The Singapore Grip and Krishnapur follow the same action arc: British imperials realize their danger just a bit too late to avoid getting routed out of their colonial homes-away-from-home. Grip, which followed on the heels of Farrell's prize-winning Krishnapur, is just a bit more ambitious.
Where the entirety of the action in Krishnapur was contained within the (increasingly) harried and cramped quarters of a British magistrate's Residence in rural India (where mutinous sepoys have the English contingent cornered), Farrell gives his readers the run of 1940s Singapore — and, indeed, in some passages a peek into "upstate" Malaysia, where the fumbling British Army engages the advancing Japanese.
The book starts slowly — excruciatingly slowly, as Farrell introduces us to his characters and spins forth their petty preoccupations. Walter Blackett is the middle-aged, self-satisfied entrepreneur planning the 50th jubilee of his company, Blackett and Webb. He's trying to marry off his feisty daughter, Joan. Matthew Webb is newly arrived in Singapore. His father, Blackett's partner, has just died, and Matthew stands to inherit the business, notwithstanding his grave concerns about the workings of colonial capitalism. Might Matthew be a suitor for Joan, or does the American military attaché, Ehrendorf, have a monopoly on her affections? Matthew moves in with "The Major," a restless ex-pat who only dimly remembers his days on the Continent, and the cynical, world-wise Frenchman hanger-on Dupigny (The Cynical Frenchman is always a useful character type).
If you got through that last paragraph, you did better than I did. It took me months to push through the first 150 pages of this book. This is, I think, a difficulty with Farrell's work, as I had the same trouble with Krishnapur. That said, right about the time you're begging for something to break the tropical tedium, the Japanese military swoops in, sinks two British battleships, lands on the Malay peninsula, and commences air raids on Singapore. And the book takes off.
It was a kind of cluelessness that brought Singapore to its knees — and Farrell tells just how with wry humor and pointed commentary. His characters seem like stock characters at first: each one is vested with a particular point of view, and he seems to arrange for them to encounter one another simply so that they might debate the big questions of empire. Blackett's notion is that what's good for his company is good for Singapore — even as his business maneuvers undermine the Allied defense. We're introduced to Singapore through Matthew, fresh off a stint volunteering for the hopeless League of Nations. He's the self-interested Blackett's foil, arguing constantly for a kind of responsible communalism, if not communism outright. Dupigny can't miss an opportunity to roll his eyes at Matthew's idealism. The Major is the stiff-upper-lip Briton who stays above the argumentative fray and, against all odds, pulls a ragged multiracial bunch of dilettantes together into an effective volunteer firefighting corps. Joan, it turns out, is just a bitch (that's not my word: it's Matthew's).
In the end, it's the war that turns these cardboard cutouts into characters, and it's good work on Farrell's part. Farrell describes the particulars of the Japanese invasion and the British withdrawal/defense in considerable detail. You don't need to review the bibliography in the back of the book to know that it's been exhaustively researched. Somehow the history never burdens the plot. Once or twice Farrell's narrative turns away from the Singapore cast to consider the attack from the perspective of a Japanese infantryman. I'm not the biggest fan of these passages. Farrell's shtick is to tell these stories (Grip and Krishnapur) completely from the warped perspective of the hapless colonials, and these brief interludes seem like a bit of a cheat. But I get what he's driving at: while the British generals dither over internal military politics, while Walter Blackett machinates against his business rivals and diverts materials needed for the war effort into his jubilee floats, while Matthew makes and repeats his impassioned pleas for the world's people to come together and care for one another — the Japanese press southward, indefatigably, on a mission, and without distraction.
And that's really how this story goes. If you can survive the brutal build-up to the invasion, this is a worthy read, with some priceless moments (training day for the firefighting volunteers and General Percival and the sound of sawing wood leap to mind). I learned much that I did not know about this theater of the war, and I laughed quite a bit.
UPDATE: I forgot to add, as I intended to do, that I came across the word tarmacadam in this book. That'll be the Word of the Week.
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Although the war is over, without political stability and good governance Sri Lankan economy is unlikely to settle to a sustained growth trajectory. Without economic growth and inclusive development the phoenix of war may come to life again.
Singapore's economic architect, Dr Goh Keng Swee, based on his experience, pointed out that at the developmental stage non-economic factors play a much bigger role than economic factors. Among them, he argued, the role of government is pivotal. The Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen, reiterated these views by arguing that good governance, not less governance, is crucial to addressing the challenges of economic inequality, environmental degradation and terrorism. The importance of political stability and good governance is again re-iterated in the 2008 Growth Report prepared by the Nobel Laureate Michael Spence on behalf of the Commission of Growth and Development.
Political stability is what is most needed for Sri Lanka now. The experience of East and Southeast Asian economies amply demonstrates the importance of political stability in sustaining growth. Single-party rule over a long period provided the platform for a successful take off of their economies. The frequent change of power in Sri Lanka between political parties has created a situation of what the American economist Mancur Olson called a roving bandit. The role of the roving bandit is to plunder as much as possible during his short stay in power without doing anything in return for the plundered. The problem with a single party rule is that it may become a stationary bandit. As Olson pointed out, stationary bandit is still better than having roving bandits around. The stationary bandit has the incentive to make the pie bigger so that he can plunder more while keeping the plundered also better off.
Sri Lanka is less likely to settle to a single-party rule for a long-enough period for the economy to take off. Given this scenario, an alternative would be for all the political parties to agree upon a long-term economic agenda, a blue print, that the ruling party cannot deviate from without the consent of the other parties. The objective here is to set the vision beyond a single political term in office and reduce the engagement of the ruling party in crowd pleasing activities to win the next election. Such an agenda guarantees continuity (instead of complete or partial abandonment of previous party's policy agenda that we have seen in the past) and keeps room open for branching off to new areas. Obviously the key ingredients of the long term policy agenda need to be worked out carefully.
Political stability does not necessarily ensure quality of governance. Although the leadership matters it is wishful thinking to wait for a benevolent leader to emerge and set everything right. In general quality of governance emerges through the type of economic system and political process in place. Open economy, open to international trade and investment, is one mechanism that tends to improve the quality of governance. (In technical terms, quality of governance is an endogenous variable.) Apart from the experience of the fast growing East and Southeast Asian economies, the disciplining effect of economic openness on the formidable bureaucracies of China and India is quite visible now. Even the most promising leaders in closed economies have failed to bring about the changes they desired because of over-powering bureaucracies. Although the Sri Lankan economy remained opened since 1977, the country could not reap the full benefits of an open economy because of the war. It is unwise not to pursue the open economy policies just because of the uneven impact it had so far on the economy.
Private sector driven open economy does not mean that the Government takes a hands off approach. Government's heavy involvement in many sectors, at least until the economy takes off, is essential. Sri Lanka has inherited from its past one of the best irrigation systems in the world. Making full use of this and developing the agricultural sector to create a stable domestic economy that can cushion the economy from international shocks that are transmitted through the open economy requires the government involvement and directive. As Singapore has done it Sri Lanka's successful take-off lies on a "market driven guided economy".
As a final note I would like to emphasise that the aim should not be for faster growth to catch up with others, the aim should be for sustained growth even at moderate levels. Faster growth comes with a price. Apart from rapid environmental degradation, it also tends to degrade human qualities. Sri Lanka stood out as an outlier in the developing world for its high human development indicators despite being a low income country. The war of course took a heavy toll on the economy and therefore on social programs. It is now a matter of reinvigorating this development process that focused more on the quality of growth.


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Most people want to know every single one of the infidelity details of what happened when they discover that their partner was involved in an extramarital affair. When, where, why and what happened? We all have our reasons for wanting to know and they are all different.
But what if your partner doesn't open up about what happened in his or her other relationship with the other person? What if your partner avoids talking about the infidelity details, ignores your questions about it or even pretends that it never happened all together and wants you to do the same?
Here is a look at some of the reasons why your partner may be closed up about the infidelity details:
If your partner is involved in an "I don't want to say no" affair, his or her needs are the priority and yours aren't all that important. So when you ask about the affair or try to discuss infidelity details with him or her, your partner will just shut you out because he or she doesn't see or doesn't care how important it is for you to know unless he or she gets something out of it in return.
If your partner is having the affair as a kind of revenge for whatever reason he or she has, your need to know about the infidelity details and his or her keeping them from you is just another way for him or her to hurt you, which he or she will gladly do so to get back at you.
Maybe your partner doesn't consciously know it or isn't aware that he or she is hiding infidelity details for that purpose, but he or she enjoys seeing you hurt or in pain, and if not telling you will hurt you more, then he or she isn't going to.
There are plenty of other reasons why your partner could be keeping these infidelity reasons from you, some that he or she is consciously aware of and some that he or she is not. But whatever reason your partner has for doing so, look into yourself and ask why exactly is it so important for you to know what those infidelity details are.


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New faces will step up challenge>
DAVID MOYES must buy during the transfer window, irrespective of how well the Blues are doing.
It is fantastic to see them up in third place - and that position is an ideal opportunity to build on.
All the signs are positive that the Blues can maintain their position - we can also dream of them challenging Arsenal and Chelsea, too - but to ensure we maintain our progress we have to bring in new faces to step up the competition for places.
Moyes has already earmarked certain players and they will prove an asset.
Europe is certainly beckoning. Astute moves in the transfer market will ensure this is possible.
P. Franklyn,
West Derby
Bright outlook>
RE the financial figures revealed this week.
They underlined the disasters of last season, but the future is brighter.
This season's form, increased revenue from tickets sales, the release from contracts of several former players, the sales of Rooney and Radz, plus the Fortress fund investment, and you have a different feeling of where the club is headed.
Last season's results, both on the field and off it, should not be forgotten. The board at Everton need to learn the lessons from that season and never repeat them.
Eddie Hunter,
Call for Ball>
RANGERS are a joke! To think they believe they should join the Premiership.
Why not take Bally back if fitness is proven. Surely he's better than the Italian Stallion and Naysmith.
John Graham,
Buy a striker>
DEFEAT against Chelsea was no disgrace, but the way the Blues bounced back at Birmingham is an indication of the new resilience this season.
With Nigel Martyn behind them, the defence looks solid and the win in the Midlands was the fifth this season on their travels.
The success has been down to some hard work, determination to prove critics wrong after last season's dismal show and a team spirit that is second to none. David Moyes has played a key role in this reversal of fortune.
The midfield, through Carsley and Gravesen, in particular, are doing an outstanding job, and the only drawback is the lack of goals. Hopefully, this can be rectified in January when Moyes is given some much-needed money.
Then, who knows what the Blues can achieve . . .
Rob Daniels,
Wind 'em up>
WHY don't Everton apply for a winding up order on Rang-ers?
The Inland Revenue seem to be able to do it on smaller clubs, and why hasn't Gordon Taylor, and the PFA not got involved.
John Summers,
Shocked at value of half season tickets>
I WANT to express my disgust at the latest attempt by Everton to fleece fans.
My friend and I had had season tickets for many years. This year, due to the huge increase in price, my friend (a student) could not afford the outlay in one go.
We have, however, not missed a home game and had been getting the money together to buy a half season ticket in the next few weeks.
I have just been on the official Everton website and seen the information for half season tickets. Obviously, 19 games a season means an uneven amount of games and I expected it to be nine games rather than 10.
But the price - the cheapest adult one being #219 - is outrageous. Doing the maths, it actually works out at #24.33 per game, whereas buying matchday tickets in the same part of the grounds costs less at just #24. This beggars belief.
The only benefits to getting a half season ticket now could be to get cup priority vouchers.
My friend and I will definitely be hoping to regain our season ticket for next season. But we are worried that we may be beaten in the rush if we finish in the top six or so. I suspect that the club realises this.Would the prices be the same if the club had started the season poorly? I very much doubt it.
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There are a lot of people who see no need for forgiveness on their part. In other words, they are completely oblivious to the fact that holding grudges is causing changes in their body chemistry. Not forgiving others is built in to their mental make up. They are quite righteous in their attitudes.
The idea that holding grudges has a negative effect on their body chemistry is news to them. Once they find out what is really going on, they get interested in the actual process of forgiving.
...these are the steps to the process: Make a complete list of every person or entity that has hurt you in any way. Then pick a day and set aside about four hours or as much time as you need, to write a letter to each one, forgiving them for everything bad they have done to you.
After that you write a letter forgiving yourself, in which you absolve yourself of all the things you have done wrong and all the mistakes you have made.
Place all those letters aside for a couple of weeks while you experience the miracle as the burdens lift away from your mind. Then go back to each letter and read it and see if there is anything you would like to add or remove from the letter.
Complete your corrections. Set them aside for a couple of weeks again and experience the freedom from the burdens again. You can go back to the letters for a few times, a maximum of about five times, until you are satisfied that you have noted everything you wanted to say.
Then destroy the letters. You could burn the letters, shred them or crumple them up and cast them upon the waters. How you destroy them is your pleasure.
Finally, say the prayer shown below and heave a sigh of relief. You can repeat the prayer to yourself if and when the memory of the hurts come back to you. That is the simple process of releasing yourself.
Dear God
Having forgiven
I am now Free
From burden
And I like it!
This is how
I will keep it.
Practicing love
And forgiveness.
Growing freer and freer,
Having forgiven
Even myself,
I am free
Every day.
...your hurters have to do with getting out of social isolation? The habit of holding grudges by you is a way station on the path to loneliness.
What happens is that when a person wrongs you, you get angry and you stop talking to the person. You start avoiding the person. Do that a few times and you start to experience loneliness. Do that just a few more times and you arrive at your destination of permanent loneliness.
Almost all the religions of this world have a point of view about it. Religions of course address forgiveness of sins and also get into deeper meanings of the word. However, I had a difficult time agreeing with the point of view of any religion about this word even though I have no problem asking for exoneration for my faults, wrongdoings and sins.
I had a habit of holding on to grudges for decades. Then at church I thought I understood why I should absolve those who had hurt me.
I gave up my collection of long held grudges by using the method I described at the top of this page. I heaved a huge sigh of relief and I have enjoyed wonderful ripples of that sigh of relief for many years now.
So the miracle of forgiveness works. You can use the same technique to absolve those that have hurt you. It will relax your mind enough to make some phone calls and reach out to people you used to know and thus get away from being lonely.
"Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." However, so far it has not been proven to be one of his sayings.
Even so the saying illustrates a very good understanding of anger. It also contributes to a good understanding of why you should be forgiving those that have hurt you.
...the process of forgiving. Dr. Robert Enright and his colleagues had started doing research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. In 1994 the International Forgiveness Institute was formed as a private, non-profit organization. The website is http://www.internationalforgiveness.com/. The institute offers a 20 step process of forgiving.
...are not provided at the website but they provide details about the four stages involved: Uncovering stage, Decision stage, Work stage and Outcome/Deepening stage.
If you want to know those twenty steps you can order the inventory at their website. A great value at this website is the books you can buy to help you learn the art and process of forgiving. Just click on"read more" under Publications at the bottom right of their home page. One of the books is by Dr. Robert Enright and Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons.
...of the matter when I read the following quote: "Milosovic had done terrible, evil things. One can forgive him, but one can also call for him to indeed be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity." - Roy Lloyd.
I read that quote in an article by Gary Thomas here: www.garythomas.com/giving-up-the-grudge. It is a long article but it is definitely worth reading. Grab yourself a cup of your favorite drink, get comfortable and read his article all the way through to get a good understanding of why you too should be doing a lot of forgiving.
Ask yourself if you understand the concept and why you should forgive those that have hurt you. If you find that you are not convinced that you should absolve your hurters, then undertake a study of the concept until you come to your own understanding of it in such a manner that you do forgive them.
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|Fundamentals of Arbitrary Waveform Generation
Papers & Abstracts
Welcome & Opening to Signal & Power Integrity for Electrical Designs & Digital Interconnect
"Gain insight in Signal & Power Integrity from Design to Validation"
From initial concept to compliance testing, Keysight can help you uncover problems, optimize performance and deliver your design on time.
This Seminar will give you insights into:
- New EM simulator design tools for signal and power integrity applications
- Making accurate Power Integrity Measurements using existing and new Oscilloscope tools
- High-speed Oscilloscope probing techniques to make more accurate measurements
- Arbitrary Waveform Generators; how to select the right one for your Digital, optical or electrical Design
Power & Signal Integrity Simulation
"Insight on Power Integrity & Signal Integrity before the first prototype"
It has become much more important to get higher frequency s-parameters for PCB accurately due to ever increasing data rates. ADS 2016 features a host of new technologies designed to improve accuracy of PCB simulations, including two electromagnetic (EM) software solutions specifically created to help signal and power integrity engineers. This solution consists in 4 new EM simulators:
- DC IR drop analysis
- AC PDN impedance analysis
- Power plane resonance analysis
- Power-aware signal integrity analysis
In this session, you will learn the new innovative pure EM based SIPro and PIPro composite technologies for designing high speed digital boards. SIPro and PIPro provides a cohesive workflow with ADS for signal integrity and power integrity applications.
Power Integrity Measurements
"Power Integrity Measurements – Debugging DC Voltage Lines using Oscilloscopes"
The DC power supply is receiving more and more scrutiny as supply voltages continue to get smaller. Supply tolerances are getting tighter as users try to decrease power, increase yield and minimize supply induced signal noise. This paper will discuss tools and techniques for making power integrity measurements such as ripple, noise, spikes, compression, static/dynamic load response and supply induced signal noise and signal jitter.
Included is a discussion of the effects of oscilloscope noise, probe noise, probe attenuation ratio, offset range, input range, connection technique and measuring supply/signal crosstalk.
Paper Goals & Outcome:
- Debug and test PDN's (power distribution networks) with more precision, accuracy and confidence.
- More easily isolate root cause of PDN noise.
- Avoid false negative (or positive) test results.
- Become aware of specialized tools that can make your job easier.
High-Speed Oscilloscope Probing – Single-ended or Differential?
"Gain Insights into High Speed Probing and learn how to make the most accurate measurements"
New active probe architectures for oscilloscopes make gigahertz signal-integrity measurements easier and more accurate, but only for those who understand how the probes work, and the trade-offs among the topologies.
In this module you will learn about:
- Important probe characteristics
- Single-ended probes
- Solder-in and ZIF differential probes
- Browser differential probes
- Offset in differential probes
- Probe input impedance profiles
Fundamentals of Arbitrary Waveform Generation
"Understand Arbitrary Waveform Generators to select the right one for your Digital, optical or electrical Design"
Testing an electronic device or system implies applying the right stimuli to the device or system under test and analyzing the resulting behavior. In some cases, stimuli come from the real world, but in most situations a set of signals must be supplied by an instrument such as an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) to ensure repeatable and deterministic testing. As devices and interfaces become faster and more complex, flexibility of test instruments becomes more and more important. An AWG allows you to generate the most versatile signals.
This paper will present the criteria to consider when choosing an AWG for digital applications, optical and electrical communication, advanced research, wideband radar and satcom. You will learn what is important for the generation of digital, multi-level and PAM-4 signals, wireless and modulated waveforms, and multi-carrier as well as coherent optical signals.
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Kelechi Opara is always lean, but when he needs to get absolutely shredded for a contest or photo shoot he fine tunes his diet and training program with a science-based approach.
Through extensive research and years of practice, Kelechi has formulated a non-linear and calorie partitioning diet that he follows specifically. His outlook on conditioning his body is to stimulate the muscle for growth rather than annihilating it to complete failure.
To get full access to Kelechi's effective tips on leaning out, check out his personal cutting regimen.
Maintenance Multiplier
To find out how many calories you need to gain muscle mass or lose fat mass, you must first calculate your maintenance calories. Your maintenance calorie level is how many calories you need to consume during the day to stay the same weight.
This is calculated by taking your current weight and multiplying it by 15. (Ex. 150lbsX15 = 2250 Calories).
From this you want to add or subtract approximately 500 extra calories per day depending on what your overall goal is. If you are trying to build muscle then add, but if you are trying to lean out then subtract.
Everyone is different, so the following multipliers are a good general rule of thumb:
Average Metabolism, X 15
Male Fast Metabolism, X 16
Female Fast Metabolism, X 14
Thermic Effect of Food
Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) is the energy expended by our bodies in order to process the food we eat. Not all calories are created equal, and different types of foods take different amounts of energy to digest. Generally speaking the more nutrient dense (healthier) the food, the more calories will be burned just from eating it.
The following is a breakdown of the TEF matrix of the macronutrients:
- Protein: On the scale of energy required to digest different foods, this one sits at the top. Digesting proteins is difficult for your body and tends to burn more calories than any other type of food. Some estimates go as high as 30% of protein calories you consume get burned during digestion.
- Carbohydrates: Carbs can be broken down into two separate subgroups; simple and complex. Simple carbs like sugar and refined carbs are easily digested and turned into fleeting energy by your body, and therefore burn little calories during digestion. These types of foods are so easy for our bodies to digest that it only burns an estimated 3% of the calories you consume during digestion. Complex carbs however take much more energy for your body to digest, which is why it is important to eat complex carbs like whole wheat or brown rice.
- Fat: Fat is very easily digested by your body and therefore, as far as TEF goes, should be eaten sparingly.
ON whey protein 2 scoops
ON Beta-Alanine Energy 1 serving
ON Beta-Alanine 2 scoops
during workout
ON whey protein 2 scoops
ON fish oil 5 per day
ON creatine 5 per day
Kelechi Opara's Personal Philosophy
The cornerstones that guide my personal philosophy on daily nutrition are:
- Total calories
- Time of day I'm training
- Day of the week
- Contest prep or photo shoot
Total Calories
When it comes to nutrition the most important aspect to me (should be for anybody) is total calories. Total calories is going to determine whether you lose body fat (or muscle for that matter when cutting is done incorrectly) or whether you gain muscle mass.
To expound further, if you want to gain muscle mass first ensure the total calories consumed exceeds calories spent. If you want to lose weight (body fat) make sure the calories burned exceed the calories being consumed.
Eating every 3 hours IS NOT going to speed up your metabolism, nor does missing a meal or two cause you to lose your hard-earned muscle. The process where your body starts using muscle protein for energy takes approximately 18 hours or so (faster if you're active) before it begins.
As a matter of fact there's evidence that eating too frequently (i.e. every 2 hours) may slow your muscle growth.
Time Of Day
The main reason I eat every 3-to-4 hours (sometimes five hours pass by) is a matter of convenience and not to rev up my metabolic rate. The convenience aspect of it involves breaking up the total calorie amount for the day into manageable portions.
I also structure my meals around the time of day that I train, because I want to make sure the tank is full when I train to have as much intensity as possible in the gym. I usually like eating two hours or at the most three hours before I go to the gym and it usually consists of .25 gram of protein per pound of body weight and the same amount for carbohydrates.
It's important to note that the typical mixed meal takes a few hours to digest so even when you eat three hours earlier there's really no need to eat again immediately before going to the gym. The only time I would eat immediately before going to the gym would be if my last meal was 4-to-5 hours ago.
In that case, I would usually have a whey protein shake and some fast-acting carbohydrates 30 minutes before. The most important aspect is to ensure you reach the amount of calories you have allotted for the day. This will determine if you make your goal of gaining muscle or losing body fat.
After that the timing of your meals takes precedence. This entails making sure your meals sandwich your training so that you have amino acids and carbohydrates in your system to maintain intensity while in the gym.
This is important because training intensity has a positive impact on calorie partitioning (where calories go to muscle or fat) and muscle insulin sensitivity.
Day Of The Week
The particular day of the week and what I'm doing during the day influence my total calorie amount for that day. I don't believe in spending months upon months eating above maintenance calorie levels to bulk.
This tends to lead to fat gain and sometimes lipogenesis - which is the creation of new fat cells where more fatty acids can be stored. So I prefer bulking up in a somewhat slow but steady pace. This generally means I taper my calories in accordance with the amount of activity or rather intensity level in the gym for that particular day.
During the days when I am lifting heavy (mass building days) my calories are the highest, carbohydrates are usually at 2.5 grams to 3 grams per pound of body weight, and protein levels are above moderate levels anywhere from 1.1 grams per pound of body weight to 1.3 grams per pound of body weight.
The relationship between protein and carbohydrates are inversely proportional so when one goes up the other has to come down. This means during the latter part of the week when my intensity level is lower (cutting days), carbohydrate levels will go down to 1.5 grams per pound of body weight and protein levels go up to 1.4 or 1.5 grams per pound of body weight.
It's important to note that depending on your body type (phenotype) the levels will have to be adjusted. This is because some people have high insulin sensitivity while others don't.
Contest Prep Or Photo Shoot
I reverse the order of high caloric days when I'm getting ready for a photo shoot or contest. The advantage of this diet is you don't need to go 12 weeks out to start prepping for a show or shoot; you're always within striking range.
All you have to do is reverse the ratio of days you increase your calories. For instance, instead of going 4 days of high carbohydrates with moderate amount of protein, you will go 4 days of low carbohydrates with high protein.
My training philosophy centers on heavy compound movements always done standing. I perform most of my movements with free weights and interlace them with isolateral movements usually done during the latter part of the week. I do this to make sure one side isn't getting stronger than the other.
I rarely do isolation movements ... for instance you will never find me devote an entire workout session to biceps. Instead, I will superset biceps with a compound movement like legs for example for a more complete workout.
The reasoning I do compound movements is because they tend to give you results faster than the other movements since they allow you to utilize more weight, and you use more than one muscle group.
This means not only are you building more muscle faster, because you're using two at the same time with heavier weight, you are also burning more calories because of this.
In addition, I tend to believe these type of movements increase skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity more so than isolateral or isolation type movements because of the sheer amount of intensity involved, thus improving the odds of calories going to muscle repair, as opposed to being stored in fat cells.
I believe that performing the majority of these compound movements with heavy weights while standing allows me the opportunity to NOT spend that much time doing direct abdominal work. Performing movements like overhead military press for example forces me to utilize my core to stabilize the weight throughout the entire range of motion especially when it's directly overhead.
In addition, other movements that I do, like front squats and pull-ups, tax the core a great deal as well. I believe if people spend more time doing compound movements with free weights (standing) they would spend less time performing endless amount of crunches.
I work my two largest muscle groups and generally the muscle group I want to grow more twice a week. The reason being is that more calories are expended when working the largest muscle group. Also, working out a muscle group once per week isn't optimal if the goal is to gain as much muscle as fast as possible.
This is because after 36 hours, genes such as Messenger Rna (blueprint for proteins) and ribosomes (build the new muscle tissue) as a result of heavy intensive training, disappear.
The old dictum of training one muscle group once per week isn't optimal for muscle growth because you can feasibly work the same muscle group twice, if not 3 times per week, provided you don't "destroy" them (an indication is when you are shaking to do your last rep, which means your Central Nervous System is being taxed) in one session.
I generally avoid going to failure on every set, because I believe that it's far better for maximum muscle growth to stimulate the muscle rather than to annihilate it.
I look at supplementation as an important tool in breaking through a lot of plateaus like weight gain or strength increase. I also view supplements as the nuts and bolts that hold everything together and believe that a multivitamin, protein, fish oil and calcium are important for everyone.
For instance, I remember when I was stuck around 160 pounds and I wanted to gain additional weight. At the time, all I ate was whole foods and I didn't have time to make the amount of food required to gain the additional weight. Discovering protein powder was the best thing that could have happened to me.
After adding protein powder to my nutrition, my weight shot up in mere months. I didn't replace my whole foods with supplements, but added to them. The supplements I use didn't occur by design, much like my method of training. I picked them based on my need and the science that backed their efficacy.
Reasons for Supplements
In this next section, I'm going to list the supplements I take and the reason why I take them.
Nitrocore24 is the protein supplement I take the most. Most people forget about the other aspect of building muscle, which is to retain what you already have ... in other words stopping protein breakdown. This is why Nitrocore24 with its perfect blend of different proteins such as micellar casein, milk protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, whey protein isolate is an excellent choice in my opinion.
The advantage of whey is the speed of digestion at 8-to-10 grams per hour. Casein is a slower-digesting form of protein at about 6 grams per hour which also has advantages of long-term utilization.
Whey has a higher BCAA content while Casein has higher glutamine content. This does not mean one is better; rather they compliment one another. Whey, with its higher rate of digestion and higher BCAA content, is best-suited for protein synthesis (muscle building) and Casein, with its slower rate of absorption, is awesome at stopping protein breakdown. This is why I take a protein blend like Nitrcore24 right after my workout.
I take Gold Standard Whey Protein before I workout, and when I am getting ready for a contest or photo shoot, because I'm a little more stringent on my carbohydrate intake. Now in case you didn't know, not all whey has the same carbohydrate content.
For example, whey concentrate is 80% protein and about 6% carbohydrates, while whey isolates are usually about 90% protein with less than 5% carbohydrates.
I prefer taking whey before I workout as opposed to a protein mix blend like Nitrocore24 because of the rate of digestion and the high amino acid content. Sometimes I take it 30 minutes before my workout and other times especially when I'm on a diet I drink a whey/orange juice cocktail during the workout.
I do this to keep the molecule AMPK (Activated Protein Kinase) at bay. I have learned drinking this during my workout not only helps me trough intense durations, but also keeps me from losing muscle during the low-calorie phase of my diet. (Note: remember to count it toward your daily calorie totals when you diet)
Now besides the role protein powders play in building muscle, another reason I take whey and casein daily is the accumulating evidence that calcium from dairy improves body composition. It partitions calories from body fat to muscle, along with stimulating fat burning in skeletal muscle.
I put equal importance in what I call the nuts and bolts of my entire nutritional/supplement program. Going without a multivitamin, minerals and fish oils is like putting a house together without the hardware, it will eventually come crashing down.
When Calcium intake is low, a high intake of protein can have a negative impact on bone health. This is the reason I include a calcium/vitamin D supplement in my regimen.
There are numerous studies showing that when calcium and vitamin D intakes are adequate, protein intake has a beneficial effect on our bones. I usually take 600 mg of calcium per day during the times my carbohydrates are low and my protein intake is high.
I consider multivitamins and fish oil necessary because I know I'm not going to get all the vital nutrients I need to get on a daily basis. In the same vein, I don't eat anywhere close to the recommended fish servings to satisfy my daily requirement for EPA and DHA that's contained in fish oil.
Because of this, I usually take 5 (1000mg) capsules of fish oil when my calorie levels are at maintenance or above then increase it to 8 capsules when I'm at below maintenance calorie levels. The saturation point for fish oil in our tissues is 1.8g EPA and 1.2g DHA which amounts to 10 (1000mg caps) so 10 capsules is the most I will take in one day.
The benefits of fish oil are numerous, but the primary reason I take fish oil is because of it anti-inflammatory properties. Over the years I've learned that the minor aches and pains (inflammation of joints/tendons) that come from my method of training are alleviated when I take the proper amount of fish oil.
Besides its anti-inflammatory properties, fish oil also improves muscle insulin sensitivity, neuron activity in the brain and calorie partitioning.


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At some point in their academic career, most evening law students face the question of how to build practical legal skills. While legal employers respect the dedication and energy necessary to complete law school while maintaining numerous other commitments, they typically prefer hiring law graduates with practical legal experience. The decision to pursue legal work while in school depends on many factors unique to your situation. We strongly recommend that you meet with a counselor to create a plan to obtain legal experience tailored to your individual needs. As a starting point for your plan, consider these possibilities:
- Volunteer: Most public interest organizations and government agencies are eager to hire law students for volunteer work. There are a limited number of groups that have evening or weekend hours as well. Contact the CSO to find the right opportunity for you!
- Law School Clinics & Externships: There are various clinical programs within the law school. Some of the clinics may allow for you to have flexible work hours. If your work schedule permits some flexibility, you may choose to participate in the clinical externship program which requires a minimum of 8 hours/week. (Ex. Fair Housing Center)
- Research Assistant: Most professors hire at least two research assistants at any given time. The research is conducted on your own time. To find a research assistant position, you may contact your professors directly or ask the CSO if they know of any open positions.
- Local Bar Association: Get involved with one or more of the local bar associations which provide great opportunities to network, to learn more about different practice areas, and to attend excellent programs and social events.
- Attend Career-Related Programs & Job Fairs: The Career Services Office presents a number of evening programs throughout the year. A list of programs for the semester can be found by clicking on the "Events" tab under Symplicity.
- Find Permanent Employment in a Legal Environment: If you are looking to make a career change while in law school, consider working at a law firm or in a quasi-legal work environment. To explore your options, please contact the CSO to schedule an appointment with a career counselor.
- Try Out for a Journal: If you have the time, being on a journal will provide you with excellent writing experience and an opportunity to build relationships that can be helpful down the road.
- Networking & Informational Interviews: Networking is simply meeting people who may be able to help you in your career planning and job searching. Informational interviewing is asking people specific questions about their careers so that you gather information, narrow your career search and make connections with practitioners who may lead to jobs down the road. Read our Networking and Social Media handout to learn more, or make an appointment to meet with a career counselor to discuss how to conduct informational interviews.
- Become a Published Author: Write an article for a legal journal. Bar associations and other professional organizations are always seeking well-written articles on timely legal subjects. Writing an article deepens your understanding of an area of law or a particular issue that interests you and demonstrates to employers your writing ability and commitment to your development as a lawyer.


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Here's a change of pace card. I made this card back in August when I was playing with my new Half & Half stamps and dies from the July Papertrey Ink release. I love these dies.
Cardstock: PTI Rustic White and Smokey Shadow
Patterned Paper: Authentique Journey collection
Stamps: Verve Forever in Our Hearts, PTI Half & Half
Ink: PTI True Black, Tim Holtz Distress Tumbled Glass
Other: PTI Half & Half die


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Great family hit!This recipe from Taste of Home's Healthy Cooking Section. The paprika & caraway add fantastic flavor and the sour cream gives the dish a creamy taste. Wonderful comfort food for a cold evening!Submitted by: BLESSEDMAMAW
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A yummy and great way to get your veggies with the ease of a crockpot meal!Submitted by: MS_PERCEPTION
My Austrian/Hungarian grandmother called this szekely goulash. Even if you don't like saurkraut, give this a try. It is delicious served over egg noodles or rice. I like it with a piece of good whole grain bread to soak up the juices instead of the noodles or rice.Submitted by: SASSYBARI
To be served over noodles.Submitted by: EOLIAN_WOMAN
South of the Border Delight. Very Flavorful.Submitted by: GRAMMA_N
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Prep Time: 5 minutesCooking Time: 4-10 hoursIdeal Slow Cooker Size: 4 quartSubmitted by: DKOZAK54
Simple Hungarian goulash (beef) for the slow-cooker. Recipe for 4 people (fairly generous portion size), for smaller c.2.5L capacity slow cooker. Could easily be doubled for a larger 4.5L capacity pot.You need to start this in a pain - about 10 minutes of frying-time - then transfer it to the slow-cooker and leave for several hours. Ideal if you want to prepare either in the morning or lunchtime, and eat it for dinner.Slow-cooking time recommended 5-7 on medium heat, 7-9 hours on low heat, or if you're in more of a hurry approx. 3 hours on the highest heat.Submitted by: GAMEDAMSEL
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Product Review: Martin MAC TW1 Fixture
If you want a quiet and bright wash fixture that will match all of the tungsten halogen front lights, then you should look at the Martin TW1. I have one about five feet away while I write this; it's running through a sequence of cues and it is hard to hear it. It is not however hard to see it, in fact I have to be careful not to look into the light or risk not seeing anything for a while.
This is not a fancy fixture, in that it has few bells and whistles, however it is a workhorse fixture to have in your arsenal.
Starting at the back of the fixture we have a 1200 watt tungsten halogen lamp. If matching color temperatures will be an issue when adding moving lights to your plot, then this makes life easier. The recommended manufacturer is Phillips; the lamp is from their Fast Fit series designed for quick lamp changes. The lamp is rated at 3200 K with a CRI of 100, and an average life of 300 hours. The lamps come in 4 voltages; 80, 115, 230, and 240 volts, with the highest lumen output in the 80 volt version (33600 lumens).
Since this is a Tungsten Halogen lamp there is an onboard electronic IGBT dimmer, and a mechanical dimmer/ shutter. The IGBT dimmer comes in two flavors; 80 volt and multi-voltage. When using the multi-voltage dimmer choose the lamp voltage to match the incoming voltage. The mains power supply is auto sensing so the unit will work anywhere. The internal dimmers are a plug and play option so that you can carry alternate dimmers and lamps if you so desire. One last option for dimming of the lamp is through use of an external dimmer by way of a Neutrik Powercon connector located next to the power cable.
Some of you may ask why you need a mechanical dimmer if you have an electronic one. The answer is, video. When you reduce intensity with a dimmer, the tungsten halogen lamp will also change in color temperature. This shift towards the red end of the spectrum is not desirable for work with cameras. The mechanical dimmer does not affect color temperature, only intensity.
The fixture comes apart with remarkable ease. Within a few minutes the complete effects assembly can be removed for bench servicing. The effects module consists of a fixed convex lens and a zoom lens on two worm screws. Behind the fixed lens are the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow dichroic wheels, and the shutter. The dichroic wheels are designed as arcs of color starting as points and increasing to full coverage. By utilizing so much of the circle, they achieve excellent color blending.
The fan system is quite interesting. They have one fan mounted on the effects module to cool the internal area around it. What makes it most interesting is the shock mount they developed to help reduce the mechanical noise from the fan.
On the opposite side of the housing they have shock mounted a fan that has two hoses to duct the air around the lamp. Through software you are able to choose from three fan settings. You can choose full, where the fans run all of the time, regulated where they are thermostatically controlled, and off, where they do not run unless convection cooling is insufficient and then they run only until thermostatic convection cooling will work. Because the lamp in the unit shuts off completely, the convection cooling can help achieve silent operation when the unit is not on all the time.
The unit has two DMX512 options, 16-bit Basic, and 16-bit Enhanced. In the basic mode only pan and tilt are 16-bit. In the enhanced mode you have 16-bit or fine control, over six more attributes including dimmer/electronic, dimmer/mechanical, cyan wheel, magenta wheel, yellow wheel, and the zoom lens.
There are two additional lenses as accessories, a Very Wide, and a Narrow lens set. Two Omega brackets with 1/4 turn fasteners are included for pipe or truss mounting. Physically the fixture is 179"L x 14.3"W x 27.9"H with the head straight up. With the IGBT dimmer it weighs in at 59.1 lbs and 60.4 lbs. with the 80v dimmer module. The fixture draws 10.7 amps at 115 v, 60 Hz. Remember this so you don't try and connect two of them to one 20 amp breaker.
In operational tests the fixture performed well moving from color to color cleanly and quietly spinning from place to place.
There has been a need for a fixture of this caliber for some time now. It is only with the development of improved tungsten halogen lamps that a fixture with matching color temperature and enough intensity has become a reality.
Stephen Ellison works with Avcon Inc. and he is the Lighting Editorial Advisor for TFWM. He has been involved in theatre since his days in high school, before the days of memory consoles.


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The demanding 345.89km second selective section of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally, between Al-Khararra and Sealine, belonged to Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and the Chilean duo of Jose Cornejo and Ignacio Casale Catracchia on Tuesday.
They won their respective car, motorcycle and quad categories, as Al-Attiyah and Casale Catracchia extended their outright leads and Australian Toby Price topped the motorcycle overall standings in the five-day desert round of both the FIA and FIM world championships.
Al-Attiyah and his French navigator Matthieu Baumel guided their Toyota Hilux Overdrive to a second successive stage win from the front of the field and have now established an overall lead of 7min 56sec over the Saudi Arabian Yazeed Al-Rajhi, driving the first of three Mini All4 Racings inside the top four. The pair were closely matched until the latter kilometres when Al-Rajhi lost time with a puncture and a navigational error.
"Tomorrow we start in the dunes and we can push a little but, after what happened today, we can control the race and can push more," said Al-Attiyah. "Now the others have to catch us and they can make the mistake."
Al-Rajhi was a little deflated after losing so much time late on: "Nasser was too much lucky today. I had a puncture and the car was sliding at the back for around 40km. I followed him and I see his dust. There were some stones and, with a slow puncture, I stopped. After that, before the finish around 20km, I see all the bikes lost. Timo (Gottschalk) said stay left. We went 3km and came back 4km. It was so frustrating."
Price had to make his way to the front of the motorcycle stage by catching Chile's Pablo Quintanilla and Dubai-based Briton Sam Sunderland. The trio rode together for long sections of the tricky special and Price somehow reached the finish with a lead of 38 seconds over Bolivia's Juan Carlos Salvatierra in the overall standings.
All three front-runners got lost for a long time near the finish and frantic shenanigans trying to find the correct route played into Chilean rider Jose Cornejo's hands perfectly and he tagged on the end of the group as they found the correct route and managed to claim an unlikely stage win after major delays on Monday. Frenchman Adrien Van Beveren set the second quickest time on his factory Yamaha. "Definitely not easy today," said Price, who complained of a shooting back pain as he arrived in Losail. "The last 50 or so kilometres, we made a bit of a navigational error and got sidetracked. Other than that it was a decent day. We just have to regroup and look forward to tomorrow and try and minimise those mistakes. The error by Pablo, Sam and myself brings the others back into the race. The way it is situated, a couple of guys got in between me, Sam and Pablo, so that makes it more difficult for myself. I guess Pablo made the error, Sam followed and I was in two minds what to do. But they were on the gas and I followed. One of those things."
Van Beveren said: "It was nice today. Yesterday I had some problem with the water and my bike stopped. It was really difficult navigation. We started in 11th place because of the result yesterday and it was easier for me. I took my time to avoid mistakes, but I did make some. I lost maybe 10 minutes at one point, but the other riders lose more than me. I also lost time at the same place as the leaders around km 308. I'm not here to win. I am here to learn a lot to win in the future."
Casale Catracchia extended his advantage in the quad category to 14min 19sec after Poland's Rafal Sonik endured a troubled second day in the Qatar deserts.
Vladimir Vasilyev climbed to third overall in the car category, despite three flat tyres. Mini colleague Ricardo Porém was fourth and Kazakh Yuriy Sazonov and Jutta Kleinschmidt rounded off the top six.
Local driver Adel Hussein Abdullah actually began the stage this morning second in the T2 category after the results were amended on Monday evening and Peru's Raul Orlandini was promoted into the lead. But, when the Peruvian hit mechanical trouble early on the second stage, the Qatari became involved in a battle for the lead with Yasir Seidan. His Nissan Middle East-backed Patrol eventually claimed the outright lead and takes an advantage of 8min 46sec over the Saudi into day three.
Michelle Cinotto stopped on the west of the route with technical issues and ceded the T3 lead to Petro Cinotto in another Polaris RZR 1000s
Day 2 – as it happened
When the results for day one were eventually finalised, there were no changes to the top eight in the car category, but Peruvian Raul Orlandini had edged into a T2 lead over Adel Hussein Abdullah and both Qatar's Mohammed Al-Mannai and Kazakh driver Yerden Shagirov entered the top 10 at the start of the second selective section from Al-Kharrara and back to Sealine.
Thirty-two cars were given start times for day two, although Stefano Marrini's Mitsubishi Pajero suffered a cracked cylinder head, leaked oil and the Italian was unable to continue. Qatar's Abdullah Al-Rabban rejoined the fray after working until five in the morning to repair a gearbox bracket after a transmission issue on the first stage. But the clutch failed on the road section to the stage and he returned to Losail.
Charlotte Berton was running near the rear of the field in the third of the QMMF-backed prize drive Nissan Patrols. "It was a tricky first day for us," said the French girl, who got stuck soon after the start of the second stage again. "Two punctures and when you are running at the back of the field and you get stuck, there is no-one there to help you. We lost 45 minutes."
When the transponders were checked and a video image was examined, Quintanilla was eventually awarded the stage win by a second and started first on the road amongst the 14 surviving motorcycles and two quads. Predictably, Price's starting position of third was advantageous and the Australian quickly reeled in both Quintanilla and Sunderland and the trio rode together. Laia Sanz fell and bruised her elbow after 177km, lost seventh place, damaged her works KTM and returned to Losail.
Al-Attiyah led the surviving cars into the special and began to edge away from Al-Rajhi over the early kilometres. But Al-Rajhi was feeling confident this morning and the Saudi hit back and closed to within three seconds of the Qatari after 96km.
Khalifa Al-Attiyah crashed his Toyota Hilux Overdrive close to the second passage control and retired. The car was airborn for around 50 metres before landing heavily and stopping instantly, according to Overdrive Racing's CEO Jean-Marc Fortin. Neither of the crew was injured
Orlandini hit trouble with his Toyota and ceded the T2 advantage to Adel Hussein and Yasir Seidan and the duo continued to dominate T2 when Emil Khneisser's Nissan stopped further into the stage. T3 front-runner Michelle Cinotto also stopped on the western section of the stage.
The leading motorcycle trio looked comfortable until they lost their way close to the finish for a long time and that enabled the chasing group to catch them and benefit from the mistake. The main beneficiary was Cornejo, who recorded the stage win from Van Beveren and Juan Carlos Salvatierra. Price came home in fourth.
Al-Attiyah became embroiled in a fascinating duel with Al-Rajhi and the pair shared fastest times at several of the check points until the Saudi lost time close to the finish and opened the door for the Qatari to extend his outright lead.
Today is the longest stage of the event, at 355.49km, and starts close to the former bivouac at Sealine. The route then heads south towards the Inland Sea and the Saudi Arabian border area, before revisiting the western coastline and turning inland to a finish between Umm Qarn and Abu Nakhla.
2016 Sealine Cross-Country Rally – positions on SS2 (unofficial @ 15.00hrs):
- Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 08min 36sec
- Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 15min 48sec
- Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 31min 08sec
- Jutta Kleinschmidt (DEU)/Philipp Beier (DEU) X-raid CBRA 3hr 39min 29sec
- Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Dmytro Tsyro (UKR) Hummer H3 III 3hr 40min 57sec
- Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 45min 32sec
1.Jose Cornejo (CHI) KTM 450 Rally 4hr 10min 30sec
- Adrien Van Beveren (FRA) Yamaha WR450F 4hr 13min 02sec
- Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) KTM 450 Replica 4hr 22min 30sec
- Toby Price (AUS) KTM 450 Rally 4hr 24min 12sec
- Pierre Alexander Renet (FRA) Husqvarna 450 Rally 4hr 24min 34sec
- Ignacio Casale Catracchia (CHI) Yamaha Raptor 700 SE 4hr 32min 11sec
- Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 4hr 46min 29sec
2016 Sealine Cross-Country Rally – overall positions after SS2 (unofficial @ 15.00hrs):
- Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 5hr 09min 04sec
- Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Mini All4 Racing 5hr 17min 00sec
- Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing 5hr 42min 59sec
- Ricardo Porém (POR)/Tom Colsoul (BEL) Mini All4 Racing 5hr 57min 40sec
- Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Dmytro Tsyro (UKR) Hummer H3 III 6hr 00min 09sec
- Jutta Kleinschmidt (DEU)/Philipp Beier (DEU) X-raid CBRA 6hr 00min 53sec
- Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 6hr 02min 56sec
- Yerdan Shagirov (KAZ)/Vitaliy Yevtyekkhov (RUS) H3 Evo V 6hr 40min 29sec
- Hernan Garces (CHI)/Juan Pablo Latrach (CHI) Ford Ranger 6hr 49min 17sec
- Mohammed Al-Mannai (QAT)/Kamal Khoder (QAT) Chevrolet Buggy 6hr 50min 09sec


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Shape Up Your Summer
Elasticity decreases in muscles over time. Develop a routine to stretch the muscles you use the most. Whatever summer travel lies ahead anticipate the movement most likely to be involved at your destination and begin using those muscle groups before you arrive at your destination to ward off discomfort, soreness or injury.
Skip sugary high calorie baked goods. Replace with nutrient packed juices. This is especially beneficial when aiming at travel to arid climates, where hydration is important, like touring around Moab Utah. Check out the Peace Tree Juice Café. Forego carbonated belly bloating beverages. Swap for tea. Sun tea is easily brewed in the southeastern Utah sunshine. Place a sealed glass container, water, teabags in the window of the vehicle in the parking lot of a trail head. If you have been practicing cardio at home the hikes in Moab will be a breeze!
Speaking of hydration, institute an "appetizer" of water before eating. Drinking two cups of water before a meal helps to eat less. And eating in restaurants tends to have some yummy ingredients whereby more is eaten than is necessary. Skip the chips, wait for the main course or at lunch nibble crispy vegetables. Choose oil & vinegar dressings for salads, not the creamy ones. Lay in supplies to eat a simpler meal, rather than a restaurant meal to shed some weight.
A useful resource for restaurant selection in Moab is the Moab Menu Guide. It is a free paper publication found in the foyer of grocery stores, doorways of many shops, the lobby of hotels and offices of campgrounds. Or find it online in advance on http://moabhappenings.com/menuguide.htm. What are the options for tea and lunch supplies in Moab? Moonflower Market, City Market, Village Market, Walker Drug Store, Hometown Shopko, Family Dollar and Dollar General will have goods.
Check out the many activities found in Moab http://discovermoab.com/tour.htm to begin getting fit for this summer's travels to idyllic southeastern Utah, a place for adventure and movement.


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Where's it warm?Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Stuck in the Big Apple again today. It was a nice day, but now it's cloudy and has really cooled off, down to 63. So I checked to see how it is in Dreamtown. Scattered clouds and 82.
Where would you rather be?
Oh, and while the sun actually sets about 20 minutes later in Dreamtown, it seems more like an hour since in Manhattan the sun disappears behind the buildings even earlier. Just sayin' …


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Today I went to Harmony Hall which is Antigua's most prestigious art gallery. Built on the ruins of an old plantation, its structure is a stunning work of stone nestled on a cliff, giving it a picturesque view. The gallery is a little out of the way, but the drive passes a really scenic lookout that's worth stopping off at. The gallery also has a great restaurant overlooking that cliff so that patrons can enjoy lunch and a visit to the gallery together as a relaxing and stimulating day trip.
The exhibit "Oh Antigua and Barbuda" being launched today was a collection of works by noted local photographers Joseph and Janet Jones. It was a candid and insightful glimpse into local life in Antigua and Barbuda as captured through the lenses of this talented husband and wife team. Photos such as "Sunday Morning at the Standpipe", "A New Take on an Old Tradition", and "The Pageant I" showed exactly what is unique about Antigua and Barbuda, while capturing people just going about the course of living life here. I appreciated this rare opportunity to see such an honest and sympathetic portrayal of local life … which was also somewhat of a time capsule since the aspects of life that it so touchingly captures, are also aspects of life that are rapidly changing here.


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The state of Maryland is obviously named after a Mary, but which one?
It's Henrietta Maria (1609-99), queen-consort of King Charles I. The colony was so named in the royal charter of 20 June 1632 establishing it.1
The founders of the colony, George and Cæcilius Calvert, the 1st and 2nd Lords Baltimore, were staunch Roman Catholics and sought to establish a Catholic colony in the Americas. It is commonly thought that they named it after either the Virgin Mary or the Catholic Queen Mary, but this is not the case. Henrietta Maria, a French princess, was Roman Catholic and served the dual purpose of being both a Catholic namesake and a politically astute choice.2
1Oxford English Dictionary, Maryland, n., June 2008, Oxford University Press, accessed 24 Dec 2008 <http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00302719>;
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, edited by Philip Babcock Gove (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1993), 1387.
2Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada, edited by Kelsie B. Harder (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976), 324.
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18 December 2017UN Women
Olga Berdeu, 50, is a woman with disabilities from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, who attended UN Women's "We have abilities, we want possibilities!" initiative, which aims to strengthen the leadership skills of women with disabilities in the Republic of Moldova. The initiative ran from June to