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The Hague Transavia Grand Slam | 15 - 20 juillet 2014
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - It has been another successful Beach Volleyball event in The Netherlands for Taiana Lima as she returned to the European country with new partner Fernanda Alves to lead Brazil to their fifth-straight women's gold medal in as many FIVB World Tour events on Scheveningen beach.
With a 2-1 (21-16, 16-21 and 15-12) win in 55 minutes over eighth-seeded Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler of Germany here Sunday, the 11th-seeded Brazilians captured the gold medal in the US$1-million Transavia Grand Slam in only their second FIVB World Tour event together. The Dutch stop was also the 29-year old Fernanda's sixth event on the international circuit while her 30-year old partner is nearing the century mark for FIVB participations.
Lima captured the 2013 FIVB World Tour stop in The Hague with Talita Rocha as the pair won five gold medals last season enroute to capturing the world tour's season championship. After an international stop last month in Berlin, Talita decided to switch partners and played this week with legendary Brazilian Larissa Franca as the pair placed ninth this week.
Lima picked up Fernanda for last week's FIVB event in Switzerland where the pair finished ninth. This week, Lima and Fernanda had to survive an upset bid by a veteran team from Finland Tuesday to earn a spot in the Transavia Grand Slam "money†rounds where they finished second on their pool after losing a 70-minute three-setter to Antonelli and Juliana in group play.
"We have played nine matches this week,†said Fernanda, "so we are tired, but so happy. I'm going to sleep all day tomorrow! "Lima said one thing during the game - 'whatever happens, we are together.' The energy is good and we do our best. Everything is new for me. I played 10 years professional indoor and then the CBV (Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol) asked me to play on the beach. I did it because I really liked the challenge. And I really don't regret it, not a bit!â€
With Fernanda collecting her biggest payday in her brief career, the Brazilians shared the $72,000 first-place prize while the Germans left Scheveningen beach by splitting $50,000 for second-place. In a match played earlier Sunday, sixth-seeded Maria Antonelli and Juliana Felisberta of Brazil captured the bronze medal and split $40,000 with a 2-0 (21-13 and 21-14) in 35 minutes over the third-seeded Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova of the Czech Republic.
After the teams split the first two sets, Fernanda and Lima soared to a 7-4 lead in the third and deciding set before the Germans tied it at 7-7. Brazil scored four of the next five points to move ahead 11-8 and Holtwick and Semmler could not get any closer.
Holtwick and Semmler were seeking to validate their FIVB World Tour gold medal performance last week in Switzerland where they defeated compatriots Karla Borger and Britta Buthe in the first-ever All-German women's finale since the start of the international circuit in 1992.
"The difference between the teams were close,†said the 28-year old Semmler. "I think they were two plays better than us. We also had good chances to make blocking defense. At the end, the Brazilians served well and we didn't have the chance to put 100 percent in every serve that they made. They played good defense and made all the points. We fought hard and we had the chance in the third set to come back. The silver medal is nice, but after the game, it is also tough because you lost.â€
Sunday's finale was the 12th all-time meeting for the Brazilian and German pairs in a FIVB World Tour gold medal match with the South American country holding a commanding 11-1 advantage. Overall, Brazilian women have now won 132 of the 270 women's events on the international circuit. Germany has five gold medal finishes since the start of the women's FIVB World Tour in 1992 with Sunday's gold medal match being No. 28 for the Europeans and 243 for the Brazilians.
With the conclusion of the "prelude†event to the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships when The Netherlands hosts the prestigious event at four sites in the European country, the FIVB World Tour returns to the United States for the second-straight year as Long Beach in southern California hosts another $1-million event. The international circuit returns to Europe in August for stops in Austria (Klagenfurt, July 29-August 3) and Poland (Stare Jablonki, August 19-24).
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Fijalek & Prudel Net Poland's First FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - The names of Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel are now in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour record bo... More...
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Emanuel & Salgado win All-Brazilian Bronze Medal Affair
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - Legendary Beach Volleyball Emanuel Rego has added a new country to his list where he has won international... More...
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Antonelli & Juliana Capture Transavia Grand Slam Bronze Medal
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - For the fourth-time this season in nine international Beach Volleyball starts together, Maria Antonelli an... More...
20.07.2014 08:04:21
Europe vs. Americas for The Hague Beach Volleyball Gold Medals
19.07.2014 22:05:09
Poland Seeks First FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
19.07.2014 19:50:21
Holtwick & Semmler Seek Validation
19.07.2014 17:44:36
Three-set matches highlight Transavia Grand Slam men's quarterfinals
19.07.2014 14:46:43
From Qualifier to "Final 4†for Brazilians Fernanda & Lima at Transavia Grand Slam
19.07.2014 08:15:02
"Moving Day" Matches Spice Saturday's Transavia Grand Slam Schedule
19.07.2014 07:16:45
Chilean Cousins Claim Big Payday
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Americans Doherty & Lucena Tandems Earn Transavia Grand Slam Break-through
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Brazilian Women Continue Strong Transavia Grand Slam Showing
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Unexpected Tandems Earn Transavia Grand Slam Second Round Berths
18.07.2014 14:46:47
Brazilian Women Dominating Transavia Grand Slam
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European Champions Van Iersel and Meppelink disappoint after loss on home sand
18.07.2014 00:55:32
Elimination Rounds Highlight Friday's Transavia Grand Slam Schedule
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Elimination Rounds Highlight Friday's Transavia Grand Slam Schedule
17.07.2014 20:57:03
Latvians Erase Swiss Memories
17.07.2014 18:59:34
American Olympic Medalists Led Transavia Grand Slam Pool Winners
17.07.2014 18:35:39
Travelling Aussies happy on the road
17.07.2014 18:23:51
Dalhausser and Rosenthal on the hunt for a 'turkey' in The Hague
17.07.2014 14:38:14
Beach volleyball gives Apeldoorn a big buzz
17.07.2014 13:25:39
FIVB World Champions Seek Transavia Grand Slam Success
16.07.2014 22:33:15
US and Australian pairs unbeaten in Amsterdam
16.07.2014 22:02:07
Swiss Tanja's pool winners after only one day in Apeldoorn
16.07.2014 21:27:24
Upsets Highlight Transavia Grand Slam Men's Pool Play Matches
16.07.2014 21:02:42
Sand suits Canadian Pavan
16.07.2014 20:21:27
Nummerdor: next year's World Championships are going to surpass everything
16.07.2014 17:37:22
Double or nothing for Bruno
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Germany's Ludwig and Sude making the most of a temporary partnership
16.07.2014 14:50:56
Transavia Grand Slam is the Wimbledon of beach volleyball
16.07.2014 14:46:41
Life is good, but…
16.07.2014 12:47:10
Just like old times
15.07.2014 23:48:08
Amsterdam, Apeldoorn Join The Hague in Hosting Transavia Grand Slam Matches
15.07.2014 16:36:34
Upsets Highlight Transavia Grand Slam Men's Qualification Tournament
15.07.2014 16:34:30
Top-seeded Brazilians Avoid Qualifying Transavia Grand Slam Upset
14.07.2014 20:26:19
Record US$1,000,000 purse for FIVB The Hague Transavia Grand Slam
14.07.2014 16:03:17
Qualifying Rounds Opens Transavia Grand Slam Play Tuesday
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Larissa "Is Backâ€
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Talking Stats: 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour—July 13
14.07.2014 02:43:50
2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour update after nine events
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Double Dutch delight
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European champs ready to give home fans taste of what to expect in 2015
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Three cities for The Hague Transavia Grand Slam
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Transavia Grand Slam 2014 in three World Championship cities
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Corolla fails rigorous crash test.
The 2014 Toyota Corolla received a score of "Marginal," the second-lowest rating, in small-overlap crash testing performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Institute said in a statement that although the 2014 Toyota Corolla is still a Top Safety Pick, it will not receive the more impressive Top Safety Pick+ designation given to cars that score "Acceptable" or "Good" in the small-overlap test.
The small-overlap test is the most rigorous of the IIHS' crash-test procedures. A fixed barrier impacts just 25 percent of the car's frontal surface, simulating a collision where a vehicle strikes a small object like a telephone pole or tree. In August, the IIHS tested several of the 2014 Toyota Corolla's key competitors and rated five of the compact sedans as Top Safety Pick+. Those cars, which scored either "Acceptable" or "Good" in the small-overlap test, where the 2013 Dodge Dart, 2013 Ford Focus, 2013 Honda Civic, 2013 Hyundai Elantra, and 2014 Scion TC.
In the small-overlap crash, the IIHS said that the driver of a 2014 Toyota Corolla would likely sustain serious leg injuries. Moreover, because the steering wheel moved four inches to the right in the crash, the test dummy's head "missed" the airbag and could have hit hard objects like the dashboard and A-pillar. The crash test is shown in the video embedded below.
Acing the small-overlap test and scoring a Top Safety Pick+ designation has become a badge of pride for most automakers. Toyota, however, has struggled with the new test. The Toyota Camry, Prius V, and RAV4 were all rated "Poor" in IIHS small-overlap testing. As a result, Toyota has said it will fast-track upgrades to improve the cars' performance in the IIHS crash test. Such a move is not without precedent: the 2014 Honda Odyssey received several tweaks specifically so the minivan would pass the small-overlap test and receive a Top Safety Pick+ rating.
The 2014 Toyota Corolla has a 1.8-liter inline-four engine that makes 132 hp in most trim levels and 140 hp in the Eco model. Pricing for the new compact sedan starts at $17,610, including destination.


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At this week's press day for The Rum Diary, adapted from the Hunter S. Thompson novel and starring Johnny Depp, Collider got the opportunity to sit down with actor Aaron Eckhart for an exclusive interview. While we talked about his performance as Sanderson, an American businessman involved in shady property development deals in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the '60s, we will post that portion of the closer to the film's October 28th release date.
In the meantime, we did get a bit of an update on the project that he just signed on for Stuart Beattie's I, Frankenstein, an action movie in which he plays the famous beast. Check out what he had to say about that, along with what attracts him to the roles he takes on, after the jump.
Question: Do you know which project you're going to do next?
AARON ECKHART: I have a movie coming out, called The Expatriate, which is a father-daughter CIA thriller. We filmed that in Europe. My character has a 15-year-old daughter, and that was fun, filming with her. And then, for the next movie I signed onto, I'm playing Frankenstein in I, Frankenstein, which is a modern take on Frankenstein.
What was the appeal of a project like that, especially since it's so different from what you've done before?
ECKHART: I don't know. There's no rhyme nor reason. Just the fact that I just said, "I'm playing Frankenstein," is something I never imagined. I don't know what I'm doing. That's my problem.
How is it different from the Frankenstein stories that people are familiar with? Is he more intelligent and evolved, as a character?
ECKHART: Frankenstein is an intelligent, evolved man, and that's how he is portrayed in this movie, for sure. In the book, he's very evolved. Somewhere in time, Frankenstein got dumbed down. He is a beast, but somewhere he lost his heart. I don't know how much heart we'll be able to get into it. It's not a docu-drama of Frankenstein. It's not an insightful look into his soul. It's more of an action movie, really. But, it will be cool.
What draws you to a project? Does it start with the director, for you?
ECKHART: I have no idea. It's different. With a movie like The Rum Diary, with Johnny [Depp], (director) Bruce [Robinson] and Hunter S. Thompson, you've gotta go do it. With Rabbit Hole, with Nicole Kidman, you've gotta go do it. Sometimes it's about good words. Other times, I just want to go hop around and grunt and not say anything. There are those kinds of movies. Sometimes I don't want to say another word in a movie, but I want to be very physical. And then, there's other times where you want to go win an Academy Award. As an actor, you're attracted to good material. You look at your character and you go, "God, I'd love to play that!" All of a sudden, an image will pop into your mind and you can feel yourself playing it. Although, it doesn't fit into your plan and logistically you're already busy, but you end up calling your agent and going, "Find out a way for me to do this movie." For me, there is no plan.


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London, England (CNN) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush was a "true idealist" who displayed "genuine integrity and political courage," former British prime minister Tony Blair reveals in his memoirs.
Detailing the close professional and personal relationship which developed between the two leaders in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S. and during the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003, Blair writes that Bush was "very smart" while having "immense simplicity in how he saw the world."
"Right or wrong, it led to decisive leadership... he sincerely believed in spreading freedom and democracy," he writes in "A Journey;" which hit book stores in the UK on Wednesday.
But Blair, whose premiership overlapped the presidencies of Bush and Bill Clinton, reserves his warmest words for Bush's Democratic predecessor, describing him as a "political soulmate" and "the most formidable politician I had ever encountered." He also defends Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair.
By contrast, Blair describes an initially awkward relationship with Bush when the pair first met at Camp David in February 2001, disagreeing on most social issues as well as being "poles apart" on climate change.
"We got on well but fairly gingerly.... the fact remained he was conservative and I was progressive." But, Bush had a great sense of humor and was "self-effacing and self-deprecatory in an attractive way," Blair says.
Blair said the key to Bush's political success was his "appeal as a normal guy."
"You might not agree with him, but if you're a voter, you would never think you would be uncomfortable or feel inadequate if you met him socially; you would think he'd be nice and easy with you," he writes.
Bush had also displayed the most integrity of almost anyone he had met in politics, Blair says.
"I was asked recently which of the political leaders I had met had most integrity. I listed George near the top. He had genuine integrity and as much political courage as any leader I ever met," he writes.
Blair laughs off as a "great 'George' moment" the episode in which Bush was caught on microphone greeting him with the expression "Yo, Blair!" at the 2006 G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. "It indicated total intimacy," he writes.
The 57-year-old, now a Middle East peace envoy, also rejects suggestions he committed the UK to backing an American-led invasion of Iraq as early as April 2002, when he visited Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
"I made no such commitment -- in fact I emphasized the U.N. route," he writes. But he says he had "resolved in my own mind that removing Saddam (Hussein), would do the world, and most particularly the Iraqi people, a service.
"Though I knew regime change could not be our policy, I viewed a change with enthusiasm, not dismay," he says.
While Bush was persuaded of the merits of pursuing a further U.N. resolution over Iraq and the benefits of assembling a coalition ahead of an invasion, Blair says former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was "unremittingly hard line."
"He thought that the world had to be made anew, and that after September 11, it had to be done by force and with urgency. So he was for hard, hard power," he writes.
Blair candidly admits he had more in common with Bill Clinton, praising his personal charisma and political skills, describing him as "a great guy, a good president, and above all a friend."
"We were political soulmates. We shared pretty much the same analysis of the weakness of progressive politics... We were both informal in style and young in outlook for our age."
Clinton was a "brilliant thinker... who would have shone at Prime Minister's Questions" -- the weekly session in which the British prime minister faces a grilling by lawmakers in the House of Commons.
But Clinton's greatest political strength was an "endless ability for rapport with ordinary people... and to be fascinated even by the most unfascinating people because he was always willing to learn from them."
Blair also suggests Clinton's affair with Lewinsky may have arisen in part from his "inordinate interest in and curiosity about people."
"In respect of men, it was expressed in friendship; in respect of women, there was potentially a sexual element. And in that, I doubt he is much different from most of the male population."


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Leading scorer Shane Long has shrugged off speculation about a January move - and also insists West Brom's mini blip is not a cause for major concern.
The Republic of Ireland international has been in impressive form which has seen him linked with several clubs, including Liverpool, but Baggies head coach Steve Clarke has stated Long is going nowhere and the striker is adamant he is enjoying life at the Hawthorns.
He said: "I'm just concentrating on my football, I'm enjoying playing up front, I love my job. It's very enjoyable at the moment and I'll let the rumours take care of themselves."
The Baggies were lying third in the Barclays Premier League a fortnight ago before losing successive games to Swansea, Stoke and Arsenal.
Long is convinced Steve Clarke's side will soon return to winning ways and all that has deserted them is Lady Luck, as highlighted by the Gunners' two debatable penalties at the weekend.
He said: "I think the only bad performance we have put in was during the first half against Swansea.
"Last week against Stoke it was just a horrible game and against Arsenal two penalties cost us.
"We've still got that confidence in us. We're still fairly close in the league and want to look at the teams above us and try and hang on to them rather than looking down.
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Founded in 2008, Albemarle CiderWorks is a family-run apple orchard and cidery that produces cider from heritage varieties of apples that thrive in Albemarle County. They grow a dozen or so heritage apples as well as other old-fashioned varieties that are blended to create full-bodied ciders to rival those produced in the Colonial era. If you can't make it out to the tasting, their ciders are now available at Beer Run, Court Square Tavern, feast!, Foods of All Nations, Greenwood Market, In Vino Veritas, Wine Warehouse, Market Street Wineshop, Mona Lisa and Tastings.
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I am using papi-5.1.0 on Intel Q9400 ubuntu desktop.
I am trying to monitor native event (shown by ./util/papi_native_avail) perf::CPU-CYCLES of perf_event component, which I add to eventset by using PAPI_event_name_to_code function:
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retval = PAPI_event_name_to_code("perf::CPU-CYCLES", &event_code);
For this event, the returned event code is 0x40000025
To enumerate and list all available components and events, I use following code:
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numcmp = PAPI_num_components();
printf("numcmp = %d\n", numcmp);
for (cmp_idx = 0; cmp_idx < numcmp ; cmp_idx++) {
cmp_info = PAPI_get_component_info(cmp_idx);
if (cmp_info == NULL) {
code = PAPI_NATIVE_MASK;
r = PAPI_enum_cmp_event(&code, PAPI_ENUM_FIRST, cmp_idx);
while (r == PAPI_OK) {
retval = PAPI_event_code_to_name(code, event_name);
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printf("PAPI_event_code_to_name return error(%d) in %s\n", retval, __func__);
printf("0x%x %s\n", code, event_name);
r = PAPI_enum_cmp_event(&code, PAPI_ENUM_EVENTS, cmp_idx);
The output of this code snippet for perf::CPU-CYCLES is
0x400000a3 perf::CPU-CYCLES
As you can see the code is different from code returned by PAPI_event_code_to_name() function (0x40000025).
Could anyone please clarify where is my mistake and misunderstanding? I need to monitor perf::* native events.
Another question is, what is the difference between following 3 events perf::PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES, perf::CYCLES and perf::CPU-CYCLES?
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This report studies the global Motor Soft Starter market status and forecast, categorizes the global Motor Soft Starter market size (value & volume) by manufacturers, type, application, and region. This report focuses on the top manufacturers in North America, Europe, Japan, China, and other regions (India, Southeast Asia).
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History Year: 2013–2017
Base Year: 2017
Estimated Year: 2018
Forecast Year 2018 to 2025
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Global Motor Soft Starter Market Research Report 2018
1 Motor Soft Starter Market Overview
1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Motor Soft Starter
1.2 Motor Soft Starter Segment by Type (Product Category)
1.2.1 Global Motor Soft Starter Production and CAGR (%) Comparison by Type (Product Category)(2013–2025)
1.2.2 Global Motor Soft Starter Production Market Share by Type (Product Category) in 2017
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2 Global Motor Soft Starter Market Competition by Manufacturers
2.1 Global Motor Soft Starter Capacity, Production and Share by Manufacturers (2013–2018)
2.1.1 Global Motor Soft Starter Capacity and Share by Manufacturers (2013–2018)
2.1.2 Global Motor Soft Starter Production and Share by Manufacturers (2013–2018)
3 Global Motor Soft Starter Capacity, Production, Revenue (Value) by Region (2013–2018)
3.1 Global Motor Soft Starter Capacity and Market Share by Region (2013–2018)
3.2 Global Motor Soft Starter Production and Market Share by Region (2013–2018)
3.3 Global Motor Soft Starter Revenue (Value) and Market Share by Region (2013–2018)
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Bellingen and Promised Land on the NSW north coast cast their spell on TV's Deborah Knight when she was a child, and now work their magic on her family.
BELLINGEN IS a little hidden paradise. I grew up in nearby Coffs Harbour and my first memories of Bellingen are of traipsing around behind my brother when he played soccer there, staring at the cows and the incredible fluorescent green grassland.
I often return to Bellingen as I have family there. I got married there in 2005, and always try to escape there for anniversaries and at Christmas.
Bellingen (population 2700) has a fantastic sense of community and diversity: hippies and farmers, and conservatism mixed with radical ideas make for a really interesting melting pot. The environment is stunning; rich farming country that attracts so much rainfall it's like a little ecosystem in itself — lush, green, bucolic. The food's fantastic, there are great cafes, a hatted restaurant and the pub has good food, too.
I'm most drawn to Promised Land, on the outskirts of Belligen. It starts at a little town called Gleniffer. You get there and are deafened by the sound of cicadas in summer. It's on the Never Never River, which has gorgeous little rock pools to swim in and there are great bushwalking and bike riding tracks. On the other hand, you can do nothing but hang out and enjoy the peace and quiet.
We married in a little church in the middle of open fields in the afternoon at Promised Land, then wandered across the paddock to the community hall, which we'd decorated with flowers from friends' gardens.
I'm very jealous of people for having snaffled their little slice of the Promised Land. In a perfect world I'd also have a little property tucked on the river there.
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Silverlight provides several different ways to access data stored in remote locations. Data can be pulled from Web Services and RESTful services and even pushed from servers down to clients using sockets:
- Socket Support in Silverlight 2: Part I
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- Creating a Silverlight 2 Client Access Policy Socket Server
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 introduces another way to push data from a server to a client using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and HTTP. WCF's support for duplex service contracts makes this possible and opens up unique opportunities for pumping data to Silverlight clients. In this first part of a two-part article, I demonstrate how a WCF push service can be created and cover the steps to get a sample service up and running. In Part II, I focus on the client and show how to communicate with a WCF duplex service and listen for data that's sent
Many of the WCF services out there follow the simple request-response mechanism to exchange data which works well for many applications. However, in addition to standard HTTP bindings, WCF also supports several others including a polling duplex binding made specifically for Silverlight which allows a service to push data down to a client as the data changes. This type of binding isn't as "pure" as the push model available with sockets since the Silverlight client does poll the server to check for any queued messages, but it provides an efficient way to push data to a client without being restricted to a specific port range. Once a communication channel is opened messages can be sent in either direction. The Silverlight SDK states the following about how communication works between a Silverlight client and a duplex service:
The Silverlight client periodically polls the service on the network layer, and checks for any new messages that the service wants to send on the callback channel. The service queues all messages sent on the client callback channel and delivers them to the client when the client polls the service.
Creating Contracts
When creating a WCF duplex service for Silverlight, the server creates a standard interface with operations. However, because the server must communicate with the client it also defines a client callback interface. Here is an example of defining a server interface named IGameStreamService that includes a single service operation:
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "Silverlight", CallbackContract = typeof(IGameStreamClient))] public interface IGameStreamService { [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)] void GetGameData(Message receivedMessage); }
This interface is a little different from the standard WCF interfaces you may have seen or created. First, it includes a CallbackContract property that points to the client interface. Second, the GetGameData() operation is defined as a one way operation. Client calls are not immediately returned as a result of setting IsOneWay to true and are pushed to the client instead. The IGameStreamClient interface assigned to the CallbackContract is shown next. It lets a message be sent back to the client by calling the ReceiveGameData() method.
[ServiceContract] public interface IGameStreamClient { [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)] void ReceiveGameData(Message returnMessage); }
Creating the Service
Once the server and client contracts are defined a service class can be created that implements the I GameStreamService interface. The following code creates a service that simulates a basketball game (similar to the one I demonstrated for using Sockets with Silverlight) and sends game updates to a Silverlight client on a timed basis.
using System; using System.ServiceModel; using System.ServiceModel.Channels; using System.Threading; namespace WCFPushService { public class GameStreamService : IGameStreamService { IGameStreamClient _Client; Game _Game = null; Timer _Timer = null; Random _Random = new Random(); public GameStreamService() { _Game = new Game(); } public void GetGameData(Message receivedMessage) { //Get client callback channel _Client = OperationContext.Current.GetCallbackChannel<IGameStreamClient>(); SendData(_Game.GetTeamData()); //Start timer which when fired sends updated score information to client _Timer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(_Timer_Elapsed), null, 5000, Timeout.Infinite); } private void _Timer_Elapsed(object data) { SendData(_Game.GetScoreData()); int interval = _Random.Next(3000, 7000); _Timer.Change(interval, Timeout.Infinite); } private void SendData(object data) { Message gameDataMsg = Message.CreateMessage( MessageVersion.Soap11, "Silverlight/IGameStreamService/ReceiveGameData", data); //Send data to the client _Client.ReceiveGameData(gameDataMsg); } } }
The service first creates an instance of a Game class in the constructor which handles simulating a basketball game and creating new data that can be sent to the client. Once the client calls the service's GetGameData() operation (a one-way operation), access to the client's callback interface is retrieved by going through the OperationContext object and calling the GetCallbackChannel() method. The teams involved in the game are then created on the server and pushed to the client by calling the SendData() method. This method calls the Game object's GetTeamData() method. Although not shown here (but included in the sample code), the GetTeamData() method generates an XML message and returns it as a string. The SendData() method then creates a WCF Message object, defines that SOAP 1.1 will be used (required for this type of communication) and defines the proper action to be used to send the XML data to the client. The client's ReceiveGameData() operation is then called and the message is ultimately sent to the client.
Once the client receives the team data the server will start sending simulated score data on a random basis. When the Timer object created in the initial call to GetGameData() fires the _Timer_Elapsed() method is called which gets updated score information and pushes it to the Silverlight client by calling the SendData() method.


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My reading for the past few days has been Hal Duncan's Vellum, not a new book, came out in 2005. It was one of my many library finds some months back — I liked the look of the cover and a quick check of the blurbs indicated it would probably be up my alley — so I finally settled in to give a full read this past week.
It's interesting reading something so very self-consciously state of the art as well as reverent towards its many roots and sources — as much as writers or artists were producing works based on accretion of older myths and legends and more in the past, so too now, though Duncan is one of those artists that works with a newer canon as much as an antique one. In that sense it's a perfect first novel, because it isn't merely indebted to its forebears but embraces them and aims to haul itself alongside them not simply by trying to make an impact but by explicit authorial intent. It couldn't exist before now, and it couldn't exist without those who had come before — as true a definition of what is 'new' as anything.
An oversimplified but accurate enough summary of Vellum would be Neal Stephenson meets Philip Pullman — from the former, technology set against earliest human myths, post-cyberpunk futures and characters, language as virus as means of control, narratives and secret histories concurrently running across time; from the latter, order versus chaos, infinite realities, a final war in or of heaven, actors beyond binaries. There's plenty of bleedover between the two at many points, making something like Duncan's work easier to come about, but the synthesis is reasonably strong and individual for all the endless references and reworks. (One of the more delightful — and unsettling — moments of Vellum is the first appearance of Metatron, the Angelic figure from Talmudic tradition who functions as the archoverseer of oppression and cruelty in Pullman's work; Duncan's variation on that slant at once acknowledges that reworking and suggests an alternate approach, as does his take on Pullman's Dust.)
It isn't just Stephenson and Pullman, though, far from it — off the top of my head, there's implicit and explicit references to H. P. Lovecraft (more on that later), Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, the Wachowski brothers, David Lynch, William Burroughs, China Miéville, Mike Mignola, Clive Barker, many others besides…a now codified collection of artists aiming to capture disruption and alienation within words and images, across a variety of media. At one point in the book I was thinking that Michael Moorcock had to be another sourcepoint and was subsequently amused to see a brief but handy mention of that writer's own ur-figure amid multiple realities Jerry Cornelius, but it was equally telling to see John Constantine mentioned shortly thereafter as well. Glancing acknowledgements, open tips of the hat, but not just as inspirations — as reclamations, Duncan fitting them into his own story. There's an entertaining arrogance about that.
With all that as buildup, what is Vellum itself? It's actually the first of two books — and I'll be getting around to Ink soonish — but does work as a stand-alone story, at least for me. Duncan is if nothing else one to pull out all possible stops, though, and while there is a linear story at work as an anchor, plus a solid beginning and conclusion, it is as continually unstable collage that the overall read functions, something driving you forward as much as it is sending you down side roads, encouraging you to flip backwards (and almost flip forwards). There are core characters existing under alternate names, alternate identities, archetypal figures, there are retold stories, reworked points of view. Some stories exist in near isolation, others cross boundaries in unusual ways, everything down to the typeface can be and is a signifier. Again, it's not that this approach is uniquely Duncan's, but it is showing a remarkable command for the tools and tropes — not bad for a first novel, plenty of woodshedding must have already gone down for that to happen.
Part of the reason why I've discussed the antecedents so much is to avoid talking about the plot in too much detail, admittedly — if you've already encountered much of that work, you're good to go, and if you know Stephenson and Pullman in particular you are VERY good to go. It makes me wonder what I would think of it if I didn't know any of those writers or artists at all, if I came into this story completely cold. I can say that Duncan does have a sense of drive going that builds the more you read it — I'd initially been dabbling in the book chapter by chapter but after enough groundwork had been laid (enough, but by no means all — in fact there's arguably groundwork being laid up to the final pages) and a sense of urgency started to drive the narrative, it turned quickly into can't-put-it-down quality. So for that reason alone even if you're not fully familiar with Duncan's own sourcepoints, I'd say give it a go and let it begin to build from there — if you just want a good story, you've got it, in all its fragments and digressions as well as the main parts.
The shards that splinter throughout the book's narratives help to keep the 'genre' tag hard to apply, as it should be. One core arc casts the story as a World War I-and-after tale of a tragic wartime romance and its aftermath, a tale of a doomed young soldier, the friend who killed him while being in love with the soldier's sister, the officer who turned the aftermath into a bitter triangle, all against stories of socialist gatherings in Glasgow 1919 through to the Spanish Civil War and after. Another arc — with a connection to that first one, but functioning equally well as a separate story — pushes the Lovecraft fascination to a full exploration and revision of one of his most memorable stories, "The Rats in the Walls," but in a much different context and scale, backgrounds including the Russian Revolution and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. And further arcs and stories on top of that, a teenage girl searching for her lost brother, mercenaries wanting out of a war they signed up for unknowingly, protohistory inscribed on mind, body and soul, and further along.
Lurking behind it all, the Vellum, the landscape of reality that's the 'true' universe, another reworked trope. I think it was Roger Zelazny's Amber books that first introduced me to the concept of the real universe at the heart of the endless variations, back when I was 13, and if there isn't a study of how this trope evolved over the years, there needs to be (it would have to include how that's worked out in Marvel/DC continuities, obviously). Duncan's riff on the idea is introduced fantastically at the start of the book — suffice to say anyone who is a cartographic fiend will be bowled over by the conceit introduced there, and the character who begins the book becomes a key anchor for what follows even as he disappears for long stretches, exploring his own long stretches of space and time.
Two things to note in conclusion, and a negative one first — for all the book's power and ability, there is something perversely parochial about its range, reflective I think of the overall background of the author and many of his reference points. It's a largely British-American universe, seen through those lenses — and that's no sin, but as the global culture as such both stabilizes and mutates, I have a feeling Duncan's work here will be seen more as a twentieth-century holdover more than starting point for the 21st, just as much as a lot of the general fears and concerns raised in the background of its (mostly) 2017 AD setting are products of the state of the world in 2005, when the novel was published. Again, it's hardly Duncan's fault for being born and raised in the UK, learning English as a first language and so forth, but it colors, perhaps more unconsciously than anything else, what's meant to be a story of universal reach and detail. It should be noted that Duncan's my age, though — younger writers will, I think, bring much different and wider reference points to bear when they make their contributions to the canon, and will I think ultimately refresh it all the more strongly, something I've noticed Duncan has discussed himself as part of a larger, to use his words, 'generational change' (more on that shortly).
But to conclude on a positive note — a regular theme from start to finish in the book is gay male love and lust, especially in the face of persecution and worse, and while Duncan doubtless resists the pigeonholing of being called a 'gay writer,' his attention to these themes is part of what helps to separate him from the novel's two key forebears in particular (Pullman's own nod to these issues does form a strong part of The Amber Spyglass but it is a story to the side at all times, for instance). An almost-totally separate story within the novel explores an alternate history (and biology) version of the Matthew Shepard murder, extending the larger thematic points Duncan makes but also showing how it serves as a vivid, harrowing story on its own.
As noted, there's a second book still to read, but it's no accident that Vellum itself ends on a story of quiet rather than earth-shattering apocalypse, being the second and (at least here) concluding part of another narrative arc set in a vague edge-of-the-world refugee town for escapees from an unclear disaster. It is in many ways 'just' a story of romance, of a narrator unsure of his lover Jack and unsure of himself, and not feeling cognizant of how he will face his moment of reckoning, as it's literally termed, via the mysterious figure that acts as the town's protector and judge. How it's resolved lets the reader end here if one chooses, with a sense that there's at least one way that things can end well in an infinite universe of struggle, pain and death.
Be interesting to see how Ink turns out when I get around to reading it. Meantime, no surprise at all to find that Duncan's got a good blog — I recommend his recent post 'Bukiet on Brooklyn Books' both as a general response to the writer and issue referred to in the title and as a brief discussion of that 'generational change' I noted earlier, specifically on how the 'literature'/'genre' war might be finally collapsing as an outworn model of supposed conflict. A while back I noted my dissatisfaction with Michael Chabon's overextended apologia for liking genre fiction added to the end of the otherwise really enjoyable Gentlemen of the Road. To quote myself a bit at the end, "here's to hoping that as time continues the perceived need for this kind of explanation dies away, at the least bit by bit and at the most in a heap." That Duncan is seeing this himself is a damn good sign, so I'll end by quoting him more fully now:
I suspect there's a generational change, with a lot of younger writers not simply indifferent but steeped in paraliterature, happy to use the strange (that which breaches mimesis in terms of credibility warp) and the diegetic (that which breaches mimesis by telling rather than representing.) And not just in an ironic way a la postmodernism but with the sincerity you find in magic realism and fabulism.
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...can prevent writer's butt. And forest fires. But mostly writer's butt. Truly, I spend very little time in the forest these days, so I'm not sure I'm much good at preventing forest fires.
However, sitting for hours upon hours in front of my computer, snacking the day away as I float from the dining room table, to the couch, to my office, and back, has not been kind to my waistline. After spending Saturday on the boat (in a bathing suit, of course) sitting beside my lovely and uber-fit friend, I've decided it's time for me to get my tush in gear.
Now, any normal person might say, "Hey – why don't I start running again!" or "I know, how about a nice refreshing swim?" or better yet "I'll join a gym!"
Yeah. Not me. First of all, I positively melt in the southern heat, and running while getting all icky and sweaty as the sun beats down on me is not my idea of a good time. And swimming, well, its too tempting just to paddle around and play when I'm in the lake. And heaven knows I live too far out to belong to a gym.
So, what's my solution?
Waterboarding. Okay, so it's actually P90x, but it might as well be waterboarding. Having successfully completed the program two years ago, I thought, sure, I can do this again! Piece of cake. An hour and a half of exercise six days a week? Sign me up!
Well, two days in, all I have to say is uuhhhggggnnnrrrrr. Didn't get that? That would be the unintelligible moan you would have heard if you were sitting here with me instead of reading my written words.
My back hurts. My shoulders hurt. My legs feel like two well-formed stacks of jello. My arse hurts, my chest aches, heck, even the balls of my feet aren't happy. It is only through a miracle from heaven that Tony Horton didn't devise an exercise to bulk up the muscles in my fingers, therefore leaving me with the ability to type.
So, what on earth made me think that I could do this? Rake myself over the coals each day (except Saturdays – yay!) before collapsing on the couch each night as a useless, half-dead bag of quivering muscles? I'm convinced I have some sort of inherent disconnect between what I can do and what I think I can do.
Seriously, do you ever watch, say, HGTV and go, yeah, I can retile my kitchen! Or observe a reality show where some former Navy SEAL make a fire out of a tin can, a marshmallow, and a button and roll your eyes and think, well, who couldn't start a fire with those things? Do you sit on the couch and shake your head at the Tour de France cyclists and wonder how far you could bike if you had a $15,000 carbon-frame bicycle in your garage? How about those cake competition shows that you know you could kick there butt in if you were there?
Honest to goodness, I don't know what's wrong with me. I have some crazy, delusional side of me that doesn't seem to get that I'm not superwoman. No, I can't make snowshoes out of the rusted engine of an abandoned lawnmower. No, I will never be able to bike my way through the French Alps, no matter how expensive my bike is. And if I am ever dropped on a desert island without a lighter or a pack of matches, I'm just gonna have to learn to like sushi.
Honestly, I should just give up now and donate my P90x DVDs to some college kid who can actually do this stuff.
But then again… there is a lot of power in mind over matter. I mean, I said I could do a triathlon, and I did. I wanted a screened in porch, hardwood floors, and a finished basement, so I built them. I believed I could make a wakeboard groomsman cake despite the fact I'd only worked with fondant once before, and I figured out how to do it. I envisioned a career as a writer, so I sat down at the computer and wrote.
Which brings us back to the dreaded Writer's Butt. Perhaps I can suffer through a little soreness if it means feeling good about myself and being as healthy as I can. Perhaps the pain, the sweat (ew), and the exhaustion are worth it. After all, I've done this before. I can do it again. And with time I'll conquer the things that have been bothering me. No more tiredness, no more feeling blah, and no more Writer's Butt.
Only I can prevent forest fires and a flat butt. And by jove, I shall.
So tell me, what impossible task do you think you can do? Have you ever tried it, or are you happy knowing that you could do it, if you ever decided to try? ;)


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The Ballston BID seeks to commission up to nine projects, for which it would provide stipends ranging from $2,000 to $12,000. The Ballston BID is seeking a mix of projects, in regard to their duration, media, location and budget; however, all projects must be located in or viewable from key streets and public spaces in the Ballston core. Questions will be accepted through September 30, and responses are due on October 7, 2013, 4 p.m. EDT. Responses will be evaluated by a committee of curators, arts administrators and artists familiar with this field.
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Boortz on board with recount fallacy
In his August 20 column, nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz joined other conservatives in misrepresenting the 2000 presidential election by claiming that "every single recount in Florida, even a recount handled by a media consortium unfriendly to [George W.] Bush, showed Al Gore lost."
Boortz is not alone: FOX News Channel host Bill O'Reilly, radio host Rush Limbaugh, nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck, National Review Online contributor Peter N. Kirsanow, and The Wall Street Journal's editorial page have all been documented by Media Matters for America repeating this inaccurate claim in recent months.
As MMFA has noted on each occasion, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center (NORC) conducted a study which concluded that in at least four different recount scenarios, Gore emerged the winner of the disputed election. The NORC study was sponsored by news organizations including the Associated Press, The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, Co., Tribune Publishing (which owns the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, and South Florida Sun-Sentinel), and The Wall Street Journal itself. According to a November 12, 2001, Washington Post article on NORC's findings, "[I]f Gore had found a way to trigger a statewide recount of all disputed ballots, or if the courts had required it, the result likely would have been different. An examination of uncounted ballots throughout Florida found enough where voter intent was clear to give Gore the narrowest of margins."
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Since no one has chimed in, take a look at the LM3914. It can light LEDs at different frequencies. Also you can daisy chain them to get a higher range of frequencies.
1 - Have like 3 colors of lights and each one is activated by a range of sound frequency, lets say:a --- Red for kicks/basslines;b --- Yellow for claps/snares;c --- Green for Hihats(the colors and quantity are just examples)So basically it would work kind of like an equalizer;
2 - Have one color for each instrument in a band... ... i guess I had to bypass each mic before it goes into the mixer so each one is activated individually and still can mix the sounds on the mixer);
3 - Having a set of lights respond to one single instrument and each color would correspond to a range of notes...(from my knowledge of music, each color would represent a range of sound frequency);
4 - Have a light blinking in sync with a " dubstep wobble bass" (i have this doubt just because it isn't the volume, its a frequency/LFO effect).
I hope I didn't made it hard to understand.Therefore, like i said previously, I want to know if each topic is possible and the necessary gear and also if i can combine some (like 2 with 3 and 1 with 4).
Lights can be El Wire or LEDs, I suppose i can use one or another jsut by making slight adjustments to the circuit/layout.


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Shoppers in the euro zone cut back on spending by the biggest margin in six months in October, economizing on everything from clothes to medical goods and offering little hope of a consumer-led recovery from recession.
The volume of retail trade in the 17 countries using the euro fell 1.2 percent in October from September, the biggest drop since April, the EU's statistics office Eurostat said on Wednesday. That was worse than the 0.1 percent fall forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.
In a further sign of the difficult times for euro zone households, September's reading was revised down to -0.6 percent from an earlier -0.2 percent estimate.
The euro zone's economy, which generates about a fifth of global output, slipped into recession in the third quarter of this year and is expected to contract for all of this year, its second shrinkage since 2009, and a recovery is still far off.
"We think that the fourth quarter will be the worst in terms of growth," said Evelyn Herrmann, an economist at BNP Paribas.
"With periphery countries contracting and even the core going through a cyclical downswing at the end of this year, euro zone gross domestic product is likely to fall by some 0.4 percent (in the last three months of 2012)," she said in a note on Wednesday.
Households in the euro zone have been struggling since the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, constrained by disposable incomes that grew only during the brief recovery of 2010. That weakness has fed back into the downturn, and the bloc's overall output is expected to shrink at least 0.4 percent this year.
Business surveys show an easing in the rate of contraction in euro zone services activity in November, with the shrinkage in manufacturing moderating to a seven-month low, helped by the European Central Bank's plan to buy the bonds of governments that has quietened concerns about a euro zone break up.
But government spending cutbacks aimed at bringing down record budget deficits are having a big impact on the real economy, economists say, and with euro zone unemployment at a record high with nearly 19 million people out of work, retail trade is suffering.
Spending on food, drinks and tobacco fell 0.8 percent in October and shopping for non-food products including clothing, furniture and medical goods dropped 1.4 percent.
Motorists in the euro zone also economized on fuel spending for the third month running because of high oil prices.
Despite tepid global demand for oil as economies worldwide feel the impact of the euro zone debt crisis, Brent crude rose to near $120 a barrel in August and remained high for much of September and October. Brent traded around $110 a barrel on Wednesday.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
The Olympic Theme Song blared from speakers as participants in this year's United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Adult Sports Meet paraded onto the field Sept. 7 at UCP's campus, 102 E. Mermaid Lane, wearing brightly colored, tie-dye T-shirts. There were cheers and high fives as teams assembled.
The ceremony opened with the National Anthem and then Lylian Melendez, director of weekend and evening programs at UCP, welcomed everyone to the 2012 UCP Sports Meet, UCP's version of the Olympics.
She said this year's sports meet coincided with the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games being held in London from Aug. 29 through Sept. 9.
"In the spirit of the Olympic games this summer, we decided to do a sports meet," Melendez said. "The sports meet gives the participants the opportunity to challenge their disabilities and experience the joys of athletic competition among their peers."
More than 100 clients competed in this year's event, which featured wheelchair relay races, water relay races, water catapult games, target toss games and ramp bowling. While all the games are based on some Olympic event, they have been modified. For example, in the water relay race, players use a sprayer to push a ball down the "swim line" to the finish line.
"Depending on the client's functional ability, we take an activity and tweak it so everybody has the opportunity to participate as independently as possible," Melendez said.
The most popular event, according to Melendez, is bowling.
UCP even has its own bowling league. Domita Chellis, an avid bowler, bowls every week with the UCP league at Erie Lanes in Philadelphia.
Another favorite event was the water catapult. The water catapults were designed and built by Springside and Chestnut Hill Academy's engineering class. The activities are constantly being adjusted to accommodate the clients' abilities.
"This year, our target toss is a little different," Mendez said. "Instead of using a bean bag, we decided to use dice because someone who may not physically be able to toss a bean bag might be able to flick a die off their leg."
Beth Loving, adult services occupational therapist (OT) at UCP, said she was "excited" because the activities allowed clients to compete "independently with minimal staff assistance."
"As an OT, I am always looking for ways that allow the person to function and participate to their fullest extent," Loving said, adding that she loves working at UCP because she gets to "see people in their true environment versus the hospital environment."
"I get to help them live their lives," Loving said.
Several volunteers from the Vanguard investment management firm assisted with officiating at the various events and helped to prepare and serve a picnic lunch.
"It's great to be able to help bring some excitement and joy to their lives," said Matt Spencer, who has worked at Vanguard for 15 years.
Charmaine Hamilton, assistant director of programs at UCP, said clients love competing and being outside.
Susan Brooks, who works in the partial hospitalization (PH) program said the clients have been practicing games and decorating T-shirts for the event for weeks.
"The clients are so upbeat and positive today," Brooks said.
"I love the games," said Carolyn Morgan, a participant in the sports meet. "Every year they have it I look forward to it."
Everyone seemed to be enjoying the games and the warm weather except first-time participant Dina Geer who said it was "too hot everywhere." Geer added that she was looking forward to going out Friday night.
Where was she going?
"Anywhere with air conditioning," said Geer with a big smile.


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We all know dogs can be loyal, but sometimes they go above and beyond what we expect.
In this video, a dog in Russia pushes its owner in a wheelchair through a flooded street while a passenger in a passing car captures the moment.
It's unclear how far the pooch pushed or if the animal got the man to safety, but one thing is for certain: it's one incredibly dedicated pet.


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Lesson 18: Hazrat 'Isa Jesus ( a.s.)
The Messiah, The Messenger, and Servant of Allah
Maryam, the mother of Isa
The wife of Imran was a barren and sterile woman, but she heard from her husband that God had promised him a boy who would be able to bring people to life and to cure the sick as well through the power and command of God.1
She believed that Almighty God could do this, and prayed to Him to give her the child.
God granted her prayer and she became pregnant. As a sign of thankfulness for this great blessing and gift, she vowed that she would give her child to the service of the House of God (in Jerusalem).2
The child who was born was a girl, and when her mother saw her she said, "This is a girl, but I will be faithful to my vow; I will call her Maryam She and her children, I commend to Your protection from the mischief of Satan."3
The wife of Imran took Maryam to the House of God. She entrusted her to the custodians of that place. Since the infant was the daughter of their leader, Imran everyone wanted to pay for her upbringing and guardianship so that the honour of having looked after the daughter of Imran would fall on him. In the end a dispute arose between them, and to resolve their differences they drew lots.
Among the custodians of the House of God the draw came out in favor of Hazrat Zakariyya. So Maryam came under the tutelage and supervision of Hazrat Zakariyya and she gradually grew up engaged in nothing but worship and serving the House of God.4
Her purity and devotion reached such a stage that whenever Hazrat Zakariyya (a.s.) went into Maryam's sanctuary; he found heavenly food beside her. He would ask in surprise, "Where does this food come from?"Maryam would reply,
"From Allah; truly Allah gives to everyone who He wants without reckoning." (3:37)
Zakariyya and Yahya
The wife of Zakaryya (a.s.) was also, like the mother of Maryam barren, and for this reason Zakaryya had been without children till his old age. At that time when Zakaryya (as) was looking after the spiritual advancement of Maryam in her sanctuary and saw the infinite mercy of God towards her, he was taken with the desire to have a pious child like Maryam. So he raised his hands in supplication towards God and said,
"O God, I wish you to grant me a pure and pious child a child who will be a source of satisfaction to me, the inheritor of me and the House Of Ya'qub." (3:38, 19:1-6)
Hazrat Zakaryya (a.s.) was engaged in prayer in the sanctuary when angels said to him, "God gives you glad tidings of a child called Yahya who is of the righteous and devout prophets."
Hazrat Zakaryya (a.s.) who was himself old and weary and saw the barrenness and sterility of his wife (and to become pregnant in such conditions was a gift which could not be expected). He said with delight and surprise, "O God, in the state I and my wife are in, how can you grant me the favour of a child?"
In answer to this it was said, "This work is easy for God. Did God the Almighty not bring you forth from non-existence into being? "
Thus Hazrat Zakaryya (a.s.) became one of the Divine prophets and throughout the whole of his life he called people to faith and salvation. In the end he was martyred by one of the kings of Bani Isra'il who wanted to marry the daughter of his own brother against the law of God, and to whom Hazrat Yahya had forbidden this.5
'Isa, Jesus, the Messiah
One day, Maryam6 the girl who had grown up from infancy in the House of God and whose upbringing a prophet of the stature of Zakaryya had undertaken was engaged in worship when an angel appeared to her in the form of a man.
Maryam thought that he was a man, and in fear sought protection from God, but the angel gave her glad tidings, "I have come from your God to give you a pure and perfect son. "
Maryam said, "How, since no man has had contact with me and I am not a fornicatress.''
"Your God," said the angel, says that this work is easy for Him; that it may be appointed as a sign and an indication of His Mercy."
So Maryam became pregnant, and, since she had no husband some gossipers began to make obscene comments about her, and she became grieved so as to be free from these afflictions she took herself far from people, and had to go to a remote place. There she counted the days until the birth of her child.
At last, when the time of delivery arrived, she took refuge from her pain under a dry date palm in the desert, and in that very place she delivered her baby into the world without any mid-wife or nurse.
Loneliness fear of disgrace and the thought of how she would prove her chastity to people filled Maryam with so much anxiety that she said to herself, "Would that I had died before this and had been lost from people's memories."
Then she heard a voice, which consoled her, "Do not grieve, your God has set under your feet a stream, refreshing to the soul. And shake the trunk of the withered date palm that fresh dates may tumble down for you. Eat, drink and calm your mind, and if you see any man point and say, "I have vowed a silent fast, and today I will not speak to any man."
Miracles and unseen help, one after the other made Maryam courageous. So, because of this tranquility, she took her child back with her to the place where she had been living. When the people saw Maryam with the child clutched to her bosom, they began to chide her, and said, "Your father was not a bad man, nor was your mother unchaste."
Without speaking, Maryam pointed to her child. That meant: ask from him what has happened, and you will get your answer.
"How shall we speak to a child of that age!" they said in amazement.
But Maryam's child spoke through the power of God, and in clear distinct speech said, "I am God's servant. He has given me the Book and has appointed me to be a prophet. And wherever I may be He has put me as the bearer of good news and with His blessing; and He has commanded me that as long as I live I should pray and give zakat and he has made me loving towards my mother Maryam."
The clear mind of this child dumbfounded them and this great sign dispelled their incrimination of and suspicion toward Hazrat Maryam (As) and they knew that this infant was brought into existence by the Will of God without a father. And that in the future he would have great rank and responsibility.
Description of the Condition of People Before the Message of Hazrat 'Isa, Jesus (a.s.)
Before the birth of the Messiah, Palestine was in the hand of the Romans. But the people of Palestine, although they had no support to help them to eventual emancipation, were engage' in a struggle with the alien Romans. This continuous fight worsened the condition of Palestine and its people.
The economy was in a shambles and heavy oppressive taxes added to the evil. Free people were either anxious and in chains or were engaged in a life long struggle. Prosperous places came to a standstill and everything fell into ruin and became weakened even the faith of the Jews themselves, so that they no longer abided by the commands of their religion.
Perhaps this weakness of faith was a present for Roman colonisation from the people. Colonialism always has and always will use this gift, because in this kind of struggle the enemy has no need of arms. People who neglect and give up their faith, without their knowing, will be gradually annihilated.
Under these circumstances, in that time full of disturbance and agitation, the need was thoroughly felt for Divine leader to come and save the deviated people from their misfortunes and aberrations.
And thus it was that, with the expediency of the love and mercy of Allah, the Compassionate, Hazrat Isa (a.s.) came into this world. The birth of this beloved one was accompanied by wonders, all witnessed to his exalted and magnificent rank. These were Divine signs that he was God's leader and that the strong hand of God had brought him into existence to establish the great revolution.
The Message of the Messiah (a.s.)
The Injil descended to the person of Hazrat Isa (a.s.) to be a plan for the liberation of those who were lost. The revealed Injil (gospel) has disappeared and the Gospel which are now in the possession of the (Christians are not revealed books.
Hazrat Isa (a.s.) announced his prophetic message and started his activities on a large scale. He took great pains and sacrificed himself to save the Jews and to exterminate the roots of their deviations.
But the leaders of the Jews, who clung to their position and rank, and who thought that these would be destroyed by the coming of Hazrat 'Isa and feared his prophetic mission, plotted together to find ways to create a disturbance to check his progress.
Hazrat Isa (a.s.) was aware of their designs, but he was as steady as a rock, and thus dispensed his guidance and leadership, and informed the people of the superstitions and distortions that had crept into the religion of Hazrat Musa (a.s.).
Sometimes, while he was doing this, he would cure a sick person by the leave of God, or, similarly by His leave, bring to life a dead person, so that they would understand that he had come from God and had been sent by the Unique and Incomparable God.
The End of the Mission of the Messiah (a.s.)
Day by day, Hazrat Isa's friends and followers increased, and the more they increased the more the opposition of the leaders of the Jews increased, to such an extent that they decided to do away with him.
But God concealed him from their eyes, and they crucified another by mistake who resembled Hazrat 'Isa (a.s.), and thus they believed in their error that they had crucified Hazrat 'Isa (a.s.). This fact has been explicitly stated in the Holy Qur'an:
But they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them; and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no certain knowledge but only conjecture to follow. For a surety they killed him not Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power and Wise. (4:157-158)
Therefore, the matters of the cross and the illogical embellishment, which were added to this matter are all without any foundation. For example, the Christians today say that every man is, in his essence, a sinner, although he may not have committed any sin during the whole of his life. That is why Hazrat 'Isa (a.s.) was crucified in the place of these men so that they might be spared the torment of Hell and its Fire. And that is why the Marcion and the Gnostics did not believe in the killing or crucifixion of the Messiah.
Hazrat Isa Messiah, or the Slave of God
What is clear from the Holy Qur'an and even from some of the New Testament which is at present in the possession of the Christians is that the Messiah always considered himself as God's slave, worshipped God, and called people to the worship of the One God. (The Gospel according to St. Mark ch. 12, v. 29.)
Hazrat Isa (a.s.) said:
"It is Allah, Who is my Lord and your Lord; then worship Him. This is a way that is straight." (3:51)
Hazrat Isa (a.s.) never claimed to be a god, and if Christians know him and consider him as God, then it is their own imagining.
Nehru, in his book Glimpses of World History, wrote that the Messiah was never a claimant to divinity or to being a god, but that people like to turn their heroes into a kind of god.
Hazrat Isa (a.s.) was, like other prophets, a man to whom revelation came from God and who was moved to lead and guide society. If he had a miracle, other prophets also had miracles. If he was born without a father, Hazrat Adam (a.s.) was also created without a father or a mother, but no Christian thinks that he was the Son of God.
The Qur'an says:
The Messiah, son of Maryam, was no more than a messenger many were the messengers who passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their daily food. (5:75).
Like all other human beings, they were in need of the necessities of life.
This truth, which has come in the clear word of Allah - the Qur'an - agrees with both wisdom and the intellect, because a man, who, like other individuals, has no power from himself, and thus like other men and prophets is in need of the necessities of life like food and sleep. By the Judgement of wisdom, he does not deserve to be worshipped.
So, according to the intellect, and with the confirmation of the Holy Qur'an according to the existing New Testament (Gospel of St. Mark), and on the evidence of great historians, Hazrat Isa (a.s.) was the slave and messenger of God, and never laid claim to divinity.
But after Hazrat Isa (a.s.), his pure religion lost its genuineness and polytheism and idolatry found its way into it, so that Will Durant in his 'History of Civilization; has written that Christianity did not eradicate polytheism, but has rather adopted it.
Everyone who has studied Christian dogma will confirm that the historian has proved a historical fact. For even now such beliefs as the following are found among the followers of the Messiah.
1) Isa became separated from the essence of God and he is therefore not created, but is called the Son of God;
2) The Messiah was a man, but a man in whom God was incarnate;
3) The Messiah is himself God who showed himself in the form of man.
But we all know that God is not material as a result of which he could exist in space, or separate from himself parts and call himself the Son of God. And we also understand with our wisdom that God has no dimensions as a result of which he could be contained in something or incarnate himself or come forth in the likeness of man.
Moreover, how can it be possible that a God without any need should become in need of food and clothing?
Therefore, if the Christians ponder carefully, they will confess that the Messiah, like all other prophets, is the slave of Allah and has absolutely no claim to divinity.
The Qur'an says:
"They are unbelievers who say, "Allah is the Messiah, Maryam's son." Say, "Who then shall overrule Allah in any way if He desires to destroy the Messiah, Maryam's son, and his mother, and all those who are on the earth? For to Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, creating what He will. Allah is Powerful over everything." (5:17)
Sayings of the Messiah
The Prophet of Islam, the great Messenger (S) said: The disciples asked Hazrat Isa (a.s.), "With whom should we associate?" He replied, "With those whose countenance recalls Allah, and whose speech adds to your knowledge, and whose actions make your eagerness for the concerns of the next world greater."7
The Prophet (S) also said, "The disciples asked Hazrat Isa (a.s.) for guidance for them and he replied, "Musa, Kalim Allah, said to you, "Do not swear in the name of Allah what is a lie, but I say, "Do not swear in the name of Allah, even what is true." The disciples asked for greater guidance, and he said, "The prophet of Allah, Musa, said to you, "Do not commit adultery." But I say to you, "Do not even think of it, because everyone into whose head the thought of adultery enters is like the person who kindles a fire in a painted room, which even if it doesn't burn the room, at least blackens the paint."'8
Amir al-mu'minin (a.s.), Hazrat 'Ali said, "The Messiah, the son of Maryam said, "Fortunate is he whose silence is thought and whose look gives advice; whose house gives him rest and comfort. He repents of his improper actions, and people obtain tranquility from his hand and tongue.'9
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) said, "Hazrat Isa (a.s.) said to his companions, "O sons of Adam, "Turn away from this world towards Allah, and do not enslave your heart to it, for you were not created for this world alone. It has no merit for you. You will not stay in it, and it will not remain for you. What a great many people are deceived and ruined! Whoever is attracted by it, and places his confidence in it will be lost. Whoever likes it and goes after it will perish."10
He also said, "The Messiah (a.s.) told his followers, "Refrain from regarding others wives for it plants the bitter seed of passion in the heart of man and that is enough for your perdition. Alas for he whose aim is the pleasure of this world, and whose actions are sins! None of you know how tomorrow and at the time of resurrection he will be ashamed before Allah."11
1. What was Imran promised to receive from Allah?
2. The wife vowed that she would do what with the gift of Allah if he granted it to her?
3. What name did she give her?
4. Under whose supervision was she entrusted in?
5. Who did one of the kings of Bani Isra'il Martyr?
6. Who came to her in the form of a man?
7. What message did he bring with him?
8. What rumours started going around about the mother of Isa?
9. What comment did Maryam say to herself after the birth?
10. What did the child say to her?
11. Who is the child?
12. What helped Maryam to be courageous again to return to where she was living?
13. What remarks did people make to her when she returned to the place where she lived?
14. What did the child say to the people in return?
15. In whose hand was Palestine in during the time of Prophet Isa?
16. What were the people like?
17. What happened to the followers of Hazrat Isa day by day?
18. What happened to the leaders of the Jews day by day?
19. What did the finally decide to do with Hazrat Isa?
20. Who did they crucify, and did they fall for it?
21. What did the "messiah" consider himself as?
22. What happened to the religion after Hazrat Isa?
23. Name two misconceptions, which took place after Hazrat Isa?
24. What does the Qur'an say about the unbelievers?
25. What did Imam Ja'far As-Sadiq say to his companions?
- 1. Majma al-bayan vol. 2, p. 435.
- 2. See 3:34.
- 3. See 3:34-35.
- 4. Majma al-bayan vol. 2, p. 436.
- 5. Allamah at-Tabataba'i Tafsir Al-mizan vol. 14, p. 26-27.
- 6. See Holy Qur'an, 19-16-32
- 7. Usul al- Kafi vol. I, p. 39
- 8. Bihar al-anwar, vol. 14, p. 331.
- 9. Bihar al-anwar, vol. 14, p. 320.
- 10. Bihar al-anwar vol. 14, p. 289.
- 11. Bihar al-anwar. vol. 14, p. 323.


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Like A Surgeon
A postseason virgin, Roy "Doc" Halladay pitched with surgical precision last night on his way to no-hitting the Reds in his playoff debut.
All I can say is, "Wow!"
After Doc mowed down the Reds in the first few innings, I began to think "Wouldn't it be cool if he threw a perfect game?" Of course, I think this every time a Phillies pitcher retires the side in order for three innings or so. Perfect it would not be, though, as a walk erased that thought. But the no-hitter was still intact!
Due to the rather inconvenient starting time of 5:07 (who comes up with these things, anyway?), I missed portions of the game while picking up the kids from CCD. We also needed to eat dinner, but I left the TV on so we could at least hear it while eating. I was thankfully able to sit down and properly watch the final two innings, as history unfolded across my screen.
Game 1 to the Phils! Hooray! No game tonight; Roy Oswalt will take the mound tomorrow in Game 2.
Random Thoughts on the NLDS so far:
– Just like last year, the lousy sound on TBS is going to drive me crazy! Would someone please get them some better microphones? The crowd always sounds muted and tinny, like it's at the end of a long metal tunnel. It would have been nice to get a sense of the excitement in the ballpark over the broadcast, instead of having to take the announcer's word for it.
– There are no former Reds on the Phillies' roster, though the Reds have three former Phillies on theirs: Arthur Rhodes, Miguel Cairo, and Scott Rolen. No deep meaning, just an observation.
– Speaking of Scott Rolen, does that man ever smile? It's one thing to be intensely focused on the game (i.e., Roy Halladay), but Rolen looks like he's either constipated or plotting mass murder.
OK, so that photo is from last season, but that's pretty much the way he looks whenever the camera happens to show him. Yo, Scott, there are millions of men who would love to trade places with you to play the game they love for a living, so could you at least look like you're having a little bit of fun??


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