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Danny is an insomniac, and the more he tries to sleep, the more he can't. He decides the only thing left is to go through therapy, and he's plugged into the Cognitive Regression Utilizing Psychiatric Heuristics device, a helmet that lets him explore his own mind. Wouldn't that be "C.R.U.P.H.?" Danny asks the good doctor Reubens. Of course, that wouldn't have made as good of a name, would it?
Crush is a title for patient souls out there: those of us who enjoy taking a step back and really looking at a level before making a move to try to solve it. A puzzle game at heart with light platforming elements, Crush takes us inside the mind of our hero as he tries to figure out why he can't sleep. The last thing I was expecting to find in a game like this was a decent story and a character I actually cared about, but the comic-book style cutscenes along with strong voice acting gave me a reason to keep going outside of the thrill I felt whenever I beat a level, and that rarely happens on the PSP.
It turns out Danny's mind looks like a simplified version of Super Paper Mario: there are blocks and platforms and balls you can roll and bugs to avoid. Danny's brain is a pretty dangerous place, but luckily the machine has many failsafes—if you fall down you'll pop back up pretty close to where you were, and each level sports a checkpoint that lets you save your progress—so you can feel pretty free to explore. In each area you have to find a set amount of colored marbles (get it?) before the exit opens and allows you to leave. Most of the time getting to the exit doesn't involved a straight line, though: you'll have to "crush" the level to get ahead.
When you crush in the game, Danny stamps his foot down and turns the 3D world into 2D, allowing you to bring sections closer, eliminate elevation, or even bring walls together to smash the bugs that are invading his psyche. The game lets you move the camera freely, so your view as you crush determines where you can go. Crush while you're looking down at the top of Danny's head and you can walk from a tall section to a short one without falling, or if you're looking at Danny from the side you can step forward onto another section, and uncrush to find yourself across the board. It's a trippy concept and takes some trial and error to feel comfortable with it, but the mechanic is used to much better effect here than it was in Super Paper Mario; in Crush you have much more control over how the 3D-into-2D change occurs.
There are a few hidden items to find in each level—and each section of the game offers a handy tutorial to get you acclimated to the new moves and puzzles you'll be facing—but unless you like to really stretch your brain, this may be one to stay away from. I was ready to throw my PSP into the wall a few times even on the opening levels (a hint function is there when you feel like you just can't take it anymore).
You're also rated on how you perform on each puzzle and you can replay each as many times as you like to improve your score. These levels can take a long time to sort through; I was thankful that I could flip the system into sleep mode and walk away for a few minutes on many of them. The game does reward a deep level of concentration, and that's the sort of thing that makes the minutes and hours fly by when you're playing. Which is kind of the point of portable games.
Still, aside from the difficulty (or because of it) I felt a great sense of having really figured something out when I solved a puzzle that was giving me issues. This is a very deep and rewarding game, and if you can teach yourself how to take a deep breath and continue spinning the level and crushing to find the route to the exit, you're going to be impressed with one of the PSP's more original titles.
Verdict: Buy
System: PSP
Price: $30
Rating: E10
Developer: Zoe Mode
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Dec. 8, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Bulldogs topped Sacred Heart to win their home opener Saturday at the Fencing Gallery in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The 16-11 win evens the team's 2007-2008 dual meet record at 3-3. While each squad continues to look for its rhythm, it was the foil squad, led by sophomore standout Lidia Gocheva, that picked up seven victories to pace the Bulldogs.
In the squad's 7-2 win, Gocheva took all three of her bouts in dominating fashion: she did not allow a single touch. Fellow sophomore Jennifer Ivers posted a 2-1 record, while senior Umi-shakti Ausar-Sahu nailed down two victories of her own.
The epee squad claimed a 5-4 victory. Sophomore Rebecca Moss tallied three wins. Junior Abigail Fraeman and freshman Pruittiporn Kerdchoochuen both added victories to give Yale the weapon.
Another sophomore, saberist Farrah Kimovec, snagged two of Yale's four victories with the sabre in a tough-fought 5-4 loss to the Pioneers' sabre squad. Sophomore Katherine Arden and freshman Chloe Rossetti contributed the Bulldogs' other victories.
Yale will return to action on Jan. 23 when it hosts Vassar for a dual meet at Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, Conn.
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Newly Collected Grains of Gold Placed in the Palm 𗆧𗰖𗵒𗭭𘃎𘐏𘝞 siw sho ki dy pa ti wyr* (Chinese 新集碎金置掌文) is one of a relatively small number of secular Tangut texts that have survived to the present day. It is a non-rhyming poem comprising one hundred pentasyllabic couplets, in total one thousand Tangut characters, each used only a single time, intended for use as a primer for teaching Tangut characters, in the same way that the Thousand Character Text (千字文) was used to teach Chinese characters. It survives as a single complete manuscript copy and in a number of partial or fragmentary manuscript copies; no printed edition of the text is known — or so I thought when I wrote this post nearly three years ago. In December 2017, Jing Yongshi and Wang Rongfei published a paper describing a previously overlooked woodblock printed edition of Grains of Gold held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts [IOM] in Saint Petersburg. This copy is incomplete, comprising 8 folios of ten lines per folio, covering lines 20 through 98. It is unfortunately missing at least two folios at the front covering lines 1 through 19, as well as one folio at the end covering the final two lines and any colophon. The first six surviving folios are printed, but the last two folios, covering lines 90 through 98, are written in manuscript.
IOM Inv. No. 7676 : lines 65–74
* The Tangut phonetic transcription on this page is the "simple transcription" given in Marc Miyake's Tangut Phonetic Database Version 1.0. Miyake calls this text the Golden Guide in his ongoing translation and analysis of the text. I abbreviate the title to Grains of Gold in the rest of this post.
Copies of the Grains of Gold
The only complete copy of Grains of Gold is a manuscript which was recovered from the fortress-city of Khara-khoto by Pyotr Kozlov in 1908–1909, and is now held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (Tang. 30 Inv. No. 741). This manuscript includes an undated and unsigned preface at the start, and has a scribal colophon at the end. The colophon records that the copying of the text was completed on the 4th day of the 1st month (of an unstated year), and was done by someone called 𘁂𗰔𘄒𘎑𗯿 A'ew Pazhaver. "A'ew" is a Tangut family name recorded in the Tangut vocabulary list Miscellaneous Characters (Chinese 雜字), and the given name "Pazhaver" means "prajñā flourishes", so the scribe was presumably a Buddhist monk. The fact the the copying was completed on the 4th day of the 1st month of the year suggests that the scribe may have specially copied out the text for the new year.
Final pages of Tang. 30 Inv. No. 741 : lines 94–100, final title (below), and colophon
𗵒𗭭𘁨𗈪𘐳 𘃪
The second example of this text from Khara-khoto is an incomplete manuscript version, lacking the last 19½ lines, written out on the back of a Buddhist manuscript (IOM Inv. No. 742V). In the facsimile reproduction, shown below, this text is not so easy to read because of interference from the text on the other side of the manuscript.
Start of Tang. 30 Inv. No. 742V : Preface lines 1–8
In 1989 twenty-eight fragmentary leaves of a manuscript copy of Grains of Gold were discovered in cave B56 of the northern Mogao caves at Dunhuang (Ningxia Provincial Archives B56:14).
Ningxia Provincial Archives B56:14 : lines 87–91
British Library Copies
It comes as little suprise that amongst the thousands of fragments of Tangut texts recovered by Aurel Stein from the fortress city of Khara-khoto in 1914, and which are now held at the British Library in London, there are several fragments of at least two manuscript copies of the Grains of Gold. One copy is represented by a single fragment covering lines 80b through 87a, written over two sides of a single page, with two half-lines per column.
British Library Or.12380/2581 : lines 80b–83a (recto) and lines 83b–87a (verso)
The three fragments below, covering lines 32a–338b and 52a–63b, are also written over both sides of the page, but they only have one half-line per column, so do not come from the same copy of Grains of Gold as Or.12380/2581. Or.12380/2476 seems to be written in a different hand to 2477 and 2478, but given that the three fragments have the same format and were found together it is likely they all represent a single copy.
British Library Or.12380/2476 : lines 32a–34b (recto) and lines 35b–38b (verso)
British Library Or.12380/2478 : lines 52a–54b (recto) and lines 55a–57b (verso)
British Library Or.12380/2477 : lines 58a–60b (recto) and lines 61a–63b (verso)
Two other fragments, which have not yet been digitised under the International Dunhuang Project, also have only one half-line per column, cover lines 64a through 69b (immediately following on from Or.12380/2477), and are written in the same distinctive hand as 2477 and 2478, so certainly come from the same copy as Or.12380/2476 through 2478. Only one side of these two fragments is shown in Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library, but the reverse can be assumed to comprise lines 70a–75b.
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 2 p. 31.
British Library Or.12380/1112 (right) : lines 64a–66b
British Library Or.12380/1111 (left) : lines 67b–69b
Fragments of Practice Pieces
However, the main subject of this post is not a copy of the text of the Grains of Gold as such, but a number of fragments of student practice pieces where the thousand individual characters that comprise the text of the Grains of Gold have been written out many times as a writing exercise. Presumably these pieces were produced by novice monks learning to write the Tangut script under the guidance of an ordained monk, although it is not clear whether they all represent a single copy made by a single student, or whether they are the product of several students (I am tempted to think the former, as no fragments that I have seen so far duplicate the same section of text). The handwriting of these pieces is at best mediocre, so I do not think that they were written with the intention of improving calligraphy, but were simply intended to help the student meomorise the characters by writing them out many times.
Summary of "Grains of Gold" Practice Pieces
All the fragments of Grains of Gold practice pieces listed below were collected by Aurel Stein from the Tangut fortess city of Khara-khoto (see Appendix below), and are now held at the British Library. The first version of this post only covered six fragments of practice pieces which had been digitized under the International Dunhuang Project (IDP), but I subsequently gained access to Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vols. 1–4, and have been able to add several more fragments for which images are not yet available in IDP. The current version of this post covers fourteen fragments, listed in the table below, and has been significantly rewritten since first posting.
The large majority of extent practice pieces in which a student has copied characters of a Tangut text multiple times are copies of the text of Grains of Gold, but there are a few other examples of practice pieces in the British Library that are not copied from Grains of Gold (e.g. Or.12380/120 (A) & (B), Or.12380/231, and Or.12380/3599). These may be the subject of a future blog post, and are not discussed further in this post.
|Preface #35–43
|Preface #105–114
|Or.12380/306 (F) recto
|Or.12380/3540 recto
|(315), 318–319
|Or.12380/306 (F) verso
|Or.12380/3668 (C) verso
|Or.12380/3668 (C) recto
|Or.12380/354 recto
|973–978, 980–981
|Or.12380/365 recto
|Or.12380/354 verso
|End title
|Or.12380/365 verso
Or.12380/36, 39 and 73
Or.12380/36, 39 and 73 are small fragments with a few characters copied out multiple times in vertical columns, from right to left across the page. The reverse of Or.12380/39 is blank; the reverse of Or.12380/36 is mostly blank, with one complete and a couple of partial cursive Tangut characters along the bottom; and the reverse of Or.12380/73 has some cursive Tangut writing and part of a red seal impression. Or.12380/36 and 73 share the same characters from Grains of Gold (chars. 88–92), and it is evident that they are two fragments of the same sheet of paper, torn across the middle (stitched image). The characters on Or.12380/39 appear washed out compared with those on 36 and 73, but as this fragment covers near-adjacent characters to 36 and 73 (chars. 81–84), it may still come from the same copy.
British Library Or.12380/36 : characters 88–92
lon zy thwu khwu le
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Lines 17-18 and Golden Guide: Lines 19-20 for an analysis of these characters]
[joins to top of Or.12380/73]
British Library Or.12380/73 : characters 90–92
thwu khwu le
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Lines 17-18 and Golden Guide: Lines 19-20 for an analysis of these characters]
[joins to bottom of Or.12380/36]
British Library Or.12380/39 : characters 81–84
ny y a she
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Lines 17-18 for an analysis of these characters]
Or.12380/2623 and 2624
Or.12380/2623 and 2624 are two somewhat larger fragments, with columns of Tangut characters from the Grains of Gold on one side of the paper, and a drawing of what appears to be the lower part of a human figure dressed in a robe on the reverse. They clearly join together as a single piece of paper that was torn in half down the middle (stitched image). Or.12380/2625, which was found with these two pieces, and is very similar is shape and size, can be considered to come from the same copy, but is discussed under Preface below.
The characters to be copied out by the student (chars. 371–378) are written in a row along the top of the sheet of paper, from right to left, in a larger size and with a thicker brush than the characters copied out in a column below them. It can be conjectured that the head characters were written out along the top of a blank sheet of paper by the teacher or by a more advanced student (the calligraphy is really not very impressive), for the student to use as a model, copying each character at least twelve times in a column descending from the head character.
British Library Or.12380/2623 : characters 371–375
so lwo de a hon
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Line 75 for an analysis of these characters]
British Library Or.12380/2624 : characters 375–378
hon ba bi dew
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Line 75 and Golden Guide: Line 76 for an analysis of these characters]
Or.12380/354 and 365
Or.12380/354 and 365 were clearly joined together as a single piece of paper, and together form the largest fragment that I have identified thus far. Unlike all the other fragments of practice pieces, which only utilise one side of the paper, these two fragments have the practice characters written on both sides of the sheet of paper. That both sides of this sheet of paper were used may indicate that it comes from a different copy from the other fragments, or it may simply mean that the student wrote the final few characters on the back of the paper rather than starting a new sheet.
One side of the paper comprises eight characters from lines 98 to 99 (chars. 973–981, with char. 979 inadvertently omitted), almost at the end of the text. The other side of the paper comprises eight characters which do not come from the thousand characters of the poem itself, but are the end title: "Grains of Gold [with] preface [in] one volume, finished". This end title also occurs at the end of the IOM copy of Grains of Gold, but with a couple of minor differences: a different word is used for "volume"; and the grammatical particle before "finished" does not occur (see image of last page of the IOM copy at the top of this post).
As with Or.12380/2623 and 2624, the characters to be copied are written in large characters along the top of the page, from right to left, and the student's characters are written in smaller characters in columns running down the page. The student's characters for the final title on the back of the paper are significantly smaller than the characters on the other side, allowing up to sixteen characters per column compared with about ten characters per column, but whether this is because these two sections of the text were written by different students, or by the same student using different brushes, I cannot tell.
British Library Or.12380/354 recto : characters 974–981 (missing no. 979)
my da phy dzen kew [ka] chhen ngon
[joins to left of Or.12380/365 recto]
British Library Or.12380/365 recto : characters 973–975
ko my da
[joins to right of Or.12380/354 recto]
British Library Or.12380/354 verso : End title = "Grains of Gold [with] preface [in] one volume, ..."
ki dy bu a chhi da
[joins to right of Or.12380/365 verso]
British Library Or.12380/365 verso : End title = "... finished"
da jwa
[joins to left of Or.12380/354 verso]
Or.12380/306 (F)
Or.12380/306 (F) is a small fragment of paper, damaged on one side, with two columns of three practice characters written on each side (chars. 315–316 on one side, and chars. 330–331 on the other side). Compared with the other fragments of practice pieces, the columns on this fragment are very widely spaced, with plenty of room for an additional column of characters between each actual column.
British Library Or.12380/306 (F) recto : characters 315–316
ne ba
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Line 63 and Golden Guide: Line 64 for an analysis of these characters]
British Library Or.12380/306 (F) verso : characters 330–331
tshe er
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Lines 65-66 and Golden Guide: Line 67 for an analysis of these characters]
Or.12380/3540 is a very small fragment of paper, which was identified as a writing practice piece by Shi Jinbo 史金波 in Xixia Studies 西夏学 vol. 5 (September 2010) pp. 1–16 《英藏黑水城文献》定名刍议及补正.
This fragment is rather confusing, as text appears to be written in two orientations. Two large model characters (chars. 318–319) to be copied are clearly visible, with the start of the columns of student copies, in very small writing, partially visible. A third large, model character is partially visible behind char. 318. A column of student copies of char. 315 is also visible, but running along the top of the fragment, from left to right, perpendicular to chars. 318–319. The reverse of this fragment is not given in the Shanghai publication, but unclear images of practice characters show through the paper from the other side. This piece is probably part of the same sheet of paper as Or.12380/306 (F).
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 4 p. 230.
British Library Or.12380/3540 recto : characters 315, 318–319
𘔒 𗯶𗨵
ne ... ma kwy
[See Marc Miyake's Golden Guide: Line 63 and Golden Guide: Line 64 for an analysis of these characters]
Or.12380/3668 (C)
Or.12380/3668 (C) has not yet been digitised under IDP. It covers characters 497–504 on one side, and characters 485–493 on the other side, but a damaged piece of paper covering characters 497–499 and 492–493 has been mislocated to the wrong side.
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 4 p. 310.
British Library Or.12380/3668 (C) verso : characters 485–493
shy shin ki swin ha tshew lew gi
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 4 p. 309.
British Library Or.12380/3668 (C) recto : characters 497–504
tsew ha in chhin gew on me thu
Or.12380/2078 and Or.12380/2079
Or.12380/2078 and 2079 together cover characters 934–941, corresponding to the end of line 94a through to the start of line 95a.
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 2 pp. 322–323.
British Library Or.12380/2078 (A) and British Library Or.12380/2078 (B) :
British Library Or.12380/2079 :
khon mor chhe ghwe jon
ly lhwo da
Or.12380/2625 does not cover characters from the Grains of Gold poem itself, but comprises five characters from near the end of the preface to Grains of Gold. This indicates that students not only copied out the entire one thousand unique characters of the Grains of Gold poem as an exercise, but they were also expected to copy out the individual characters of the preface to the poem.
British Library Or.12380/2625 : preface characters 107–111
dzwy shen se ja lhi
[See Marc Miyake's How Long Does It Take to Learn the Golden Guide? for an analysis of these characters]
When I first wrote this post Or.12380/2625 was the only fragment covering the preface to Grains of Gold that I was aware of, but I subsequently gained access to Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library, which includes reprints of several other fragments of the preface which have not yet been digitised under IDP.
Or.12380/3517 is a large fragment with ten columns of practice characters covering part of the preface to Grains of Gold, including the five characters on Or.12380/2625 (with the two preceding characters and three following characters). This fragment is from the top of the sheet of paper as it has the large model characters to be copied running along the top, from right to left, as is the case with Or.12380/2623 and 2624. On the other hand, we can deduce that Or.12380/2625 is not from the top of the sheet as it only covers the smaller characters copied by the student. As the reverse of both 2625 and 3517 have similar cursive Tangut writing, we can conclude that 2625 and 3517 are two parts of the same sheet of paper that has been torn in half across the middle. 3517 has about fifteen copied characters per column, and 2625 has about twelve copied characters per column, meaning that each character was copied out at least twenty-seven times. However, as the columns of copied characters continue beyond the bottom edge of 2625, it is possible that 2625 may only be the middle of three pieces that the original sheet was torn into, and so the number of times each character was copied may be closer to forty. The empty space on the left side of the sheet of paper is unexpected, as the preface continues on for another twenty-one characters, and the last chararacter on this sheet is actually the start of a new sentence.
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 4 p. 212.
British Library Or.12380/3517 : preface characters 105–114
lyr ny dzwy shen se ja lhi o ze vi
The ten characters on Or.12380/2625 and 3517 highlighted in red on the IOM copy of the preface to Grains of Gold
This section of the preface is written in a parallel and rhyming fu-like structure of 2 × 4 character lines followed by 2 × 5 character lines, which I translate below (the grey text corresponds to the preceding and following characters not shown in this fragment):
¹ngwy₁ ²di₄ ²gwi₄ ²pho'₄
¹lyr'₃ ¹ny'₄ ¹dzwy₁ ¹shen₃
²seq₄ ²ja₃ ²lhiq₄ ¹oq₂ ²zeq₄
¹viq₁ ¹lwen₁ ¹kew₄ ¹mi₄ ¹chen₃
Five character lines match [in pairs];
Four [times] two [pentasyllabic half-lines] form stanzas.
Clever and sharp [students] [can complete the text] in a whole month exactly;
Dim-witted and slow [students] [can complete the text] in less than a year.
Or.12380/3558 is another large fragment, with nine columns of up to twenty practice characters. As with Or.12380/3517, the large-sized characters to be copied are written in a row along the top. This fragment covers characters 45–43 of the preface, and was no doubt part of the same roll of paper that Or.12380/3517 and 2625 come from.
Documents from Khara-Khoto in the British Library 英藏黑水城文獻 (Shanghai, 2005–2010) vol. 4 p. 247.
British Library Or.12380/3558 : preface characters 35–43
shen gi chhwo non me u dzyr shwo tshi
This section of the preface covers parts of two sentences, which I translate below. As with the above section of the preface, the text is not written in plain prose, but has a semi-poetic structure, with two strictly parallel seven-character clauses following the word introductory word "Now", and two loosely parallel six-character clauses following the introductory word "Therefore".
¹se₄ ¹shi₃ ¹o₁ ²gha₁ ²dzo₄ ¹cha₃ ²myq₄ ²rar₄
¹kuq₁ ¹myr₄ ¹e₄ ²dze'₄ ¹on'₂ ¹shen₃ ²gi'₄
¹chhwo₃ ¹non'₂ ¹me₁ ²u₃ ¹dzyr₄ ¹shwo₃ ¹tshi₄ ²vo₁
a ²chhi₃ ¹ky₄ ²bu'₄ ¹sho'₃ ²ror₁
Now, following in the footsteps of the ceremonial way [trod by] our ancestors, I hope to make a contribution to the teaching of the people of today.
Therefore, in front of one's eyes urgently needed meanings have been extracted and gathered together in a single volume.
Jing Yongshi (景永时) and Wang Rongfei (王荣飞). 未刊布的西夏文刻本《碎金》考论 [The Textual Research on Unpublished SuiJin in Block-printed Edition of Tangut Script]; in 《敦煌学辑刊》 [Journal of Dunhuang Studies] 2017.4: 8–11.
Kotaka, Yuji (小高裕次). 西夏文『新集碎金置掌文』の研究 [A Study of "Gold Nuggets in the Palm"] part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 6.
Kychanov, E. I. (Кычанов Е. И.). «Крупинки золота на ладони» – пособие для изучения тангутской письменности ["Grains of gold on the palm" — a manual for the study of Tangut writing]; in Жанры и стили литератур Китая и Кореи [Genres and Styles in Literatures of China and Korea] (Moscow, 1969) pp. 213–222.
Miyake, Marc. The Golden Guide (2010–).
Nie Hongyin (聂鸿音) and Shi Jinbo (史金波). 西夏文本《碎金》研究 [Study of the Tangut text "Sui Jin"]; in 《宁夏大学学报》 [Journal of Ningxia University] 1995.2.
Appendix: The Stupa at Kharakhoto
The fragments of the Grains of Gold and Grains of Gold practice pieces held at the British Library were all collected by Aurel Stein from site K.K. II at Khara-khoto during eight days at the end of May 1914, five years after Kozlov left the site. K.K. II was Stein's designation for the ruined remains of the sepulchral stupa (or suburgan) situated 400 m west of the city walls, inside of which Kozlov found the great majority of the books and scrolls that are now in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in Saint Petersburg.
Innermost Asia vol. 1 (1928) plan 17. Detail of Sketch Plan of the Site of Khara-khoto, with the site of the stupa K.K. II marked II (click on the plan to open the full sketch) [sketch plan of the city of Khara-khoto]
Kozlov's excavation of statues, paintings and texts from the stupa resulted in its almost complete destruction, so that all that Stein found when he arrrived was the stupa base covered in debris. Stein's own words suffice to express his dismay at the state that Kozlov had left the stupa in:
A structure quite different in type from these Stūpas and of far greater interest was the ruin, K.K. II, which was pointed out to me on my arrival at the site as the place where Colonel Kozlov in 1908 had secured his great haul of manuscripts, paintings and other antiques. It was situated close to the bank of the western river-bed and about two furlongs to the west of the western gate of the town, and presented, as seen in Figs. 257, 258, a scene of utter destruction. All that could be made out on first inspection was a brick-built platform about 28 feet square and 7 feet high, and on its sides heaps of debris of masonry and timber, mixed up in utter confusion with fragments big and small of stucco, originally painted and evidently once forming part of clay images. Frames of wood and reed bundles, which had served as cores for statues, lay about on the slopes and all round on the gravel flat. All these remains had obviously suffered greatly by exposure after having been thrown down. But even a slight scraping below the surface sufficed to show that, while the remains of paper manuscripts and prints had been reduced, where exposed, to the condition of mere felt-like rags, below the outer layer of debris they were still in fair condition. The careful clearing and sifting of all the 'waste' left behind in this sad condition by the first explorers of the ruin occupied us for fully a day and a half.
The "Famous" Suburgan outside the Fortress at the Start of Excavation [by Kozlov on 12 June 1909]
P. K. Kozlov, Mongolia and Amdo and the dead city of Khara-khoto (1923) p. 551
The "Famous" Suburgan outside the Fortress at the End of Excavation [by Kozlov on 20 June 1909]
P. K. Kozlov, Mongolia and Amdo and the dead city of Khara-khoto (1923) p. 552 (close-up of statues [see also IDP News Issue No. 14 (Autumn 1999)])
Debris covering slopes of base of destroyed Stūpa, K.K. II, Khara-khoto [as found by Stein in May 1914]
Innermost Asia vol. 1 fig. 258.
The base of the celebrated suburgan now [as photographed by Andrew West in August 2016]
My Travels in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in August 2016
Although Kozlov had removed all the complete texts stored inside the stupa, Stein was able to recover thousands of fragments of manuscripts and printed texts, predominantly in Tangut, that had been left behind. Excluding a very large number of very small fragments, Stein reckoned he was able to collect some 1,100+ fragments of Tangut manuscripts, about 300 fragments of Tangut printed texts, 59 fragments of Chinese manuscripts, and 19 fragments of Chinese printed texts (Innermost Asia vol. 1 p. 449). Stein's theory on why so many fragments of texts were found at this site is worth quoting:
In conclusion, passing reference may be made to the great quantity of written pieces torn into very small size that were discovered amidst the wreckage. It seemed difficult to believe that their reduction to scraps, often of minute size, could be due solely to careless digging, though of this, too, there was unfortunately evidence in booklets and convolutes that clearly had been cut through by the hoe or pickaxe. Is it possible to assume that those scraps owed their survival to a quasi-religious custom which compelled the preservation of all writing, however much defaced or injured? The present Chinese practice of carefully collecting all bits of 'waste paper' from streets, shops, &c., in specially set up boxes, with a view to ceremonial burning would offer a certain analogy.
—M. A. Stein, Innermost Asia vol. 1 (1928) p. 449
Tangut Manuscript Miscellanea
- Hundred Dharmas of Mahayana
- Grains of Gold
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Washington, D.C. (September 23, 2010) — The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) stands behind National Take Back Day, an effort spearheaded by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that will allow patients to drop off expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs – which will be collected and destroyed by local law enforcement officials – at designated sites nationwide.
National Take Back Day takes place on Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time and is free and anonymous.
"Some take back programs can miss the mark by failing to provide aggressive law enforcement oversight, or by attempting to create programs that don't work with a community's existing resources. The DEA's National Take Back Day takes both of those concerns to heart, building on both the community resources and diversion prevention elements, as well as a strong educational component," said Jeff Bond, Senior Vice President for State Government Affairs at PhRMA.
National Take Back Day combines necessary law enforcement oversight with educational and grassroots community advocacy to create a voluntary program that attempts to prevent prescription medicine diversion. Unlike unsupervised, unregulated take back programs, the DEA's National Take Back Day offers consumers a voluntary program with guidance on handling unused and expired medications.
PhRMA partners with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the American Pharmacists Association on the SMARxT Disposal Program. This program informs people how to safely dispose of medicines in the trash, and notes the environmental risk posed by flushing medicines down the toilet. PhRMA recommends that all unused medicines, unless specified otherwise by the Food and Drug Administration, should be mixed with water; sealed in an opaque container safely secure from children, pets, and others; then discarded in household trash to be later incinerated or placed in a government approved solid waste landfill. Consumers may also take part in the DEA's National Take Back Day as a way to safely dispose of medications in a way that prevents diversion or potential for abuse.
"America's biopharmaceutical research companies have a long history of supporting partnerships like SMARxT Disposal and the DEA's National Take Back Day that highlight consumer education about safe medication disposal," said Bond. "Providing several voluntary options for safe disposal of unused and expired medications makes that process both environmentally conscious and easy to do."
Both of these efforts are part of our long-standing goal to help prevent prescription drug abuse and misuse. PhRMA encourages patients to take their medicine as prescribed by their health care provider. Numerous studies have shown that when patients fail to take their medication as prescribed by their health care provider, this can lead to poor clinical outcomes, high health care costs, and lost productivity. If under a health care provider's direction some prescriptions are not completely used, prompt and safe disposal of those unused medicines may reduce avoidable consequences and work towards ending prescription drug abuse.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $50.3 billion in 2008 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.2 billion in 2008.
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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) Matthew Dellavedova scored 25 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead Saint Mary's to its 13th win in 14 games, 87-48 over Pepperdine on Wednesday night.
Dellavedova now has 1,871 career points, three behind Daniel Kickert for the Saint Mary's record.
Stephen Holt added 13 points and Brad Waldow 11 for the Gaels (25-5, 13-2 West Coast), who burnished their NCAA tournament credentials with another impressive victory. Saint Mary's shot 52 percent from the floor, was 9 of 17 from 3-point range and outrebounded Pepperdine 47-30.
Stacy Davis led the Waves (12-16, 4-11) with 12 points, and Jordan Baker scored 11. Pepperdine shot a season-low 24.5 percent and made just 13 field goals.
Saint Mary's never trailed, leading 36-19 at halftime and by as many as 38 in the second half. The Gaels have won their last 13 meetings with Pepperdine, although the Waves still lead the all-time series 68-60.


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December 8, 2011
Contact: Abbie Tang-Smith (609) 292-2994
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(11/P138) TRENTON – A host of environmental, student, business, science, and civic leaders from across New Jersey are being recognized for their ideas and commitment to protecting and enhancing our state's environment, as they will be named winners of the 2011 Governor's Environmental Excellence Awards at a ceremony to be held tonight at the State Museum.
Projects and concepts honored include planning initiatives to incorporate green design, transportation, and open space preservation; engaging the public to reduce the use of fertilizers and harsh soaps from entering streams and waterways; building innovative solar, wind and landfill gas energy projects; promoting recycling efforts in their communities; and restoring wetlands in public spaces, among others.
Three of the winners highlight local initiatives to promote stewardship of Barnegat Bay. The Christie Administration has made restoration of the bay from decades of ecological decline a key environmental priority.
"These concepts showcase environmental excellence at its best in our state,'' said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. ''We can all learn from these award winnerss. They are taking action in their communities, recognizing natural beauty, utilizing natural resources and discovering new and innovative ways to improve our environment. The winners and all of those who participated have set a truly high bar for environmental excellence among all New Jerseyans. Governor Christie and I commend their leadership.''
This is the 12th annual awards ceremony. It became known as the Governor's Environmental Excellence Awards in 2006. Coordinated by DEP, the program is sponsored by the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology and the New Jersey State League of Municipalities.
A panel of judges accepted more than 60 nominations that featured unique or valuable environmental concepts or activities.
To learn more about the Governor's Environmental Excellene Awards visit www.nj.gov/dep/eeawards.
Clean Air Category
Winner: Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA), Pleasantville
ACUA is recognized for its solar, wind and landfill gas energy projects. Projects include a 500-kilowatt solar array, 7.5-megawatt wind farm and 5.4-megawatt landfill gas-to-energy project, which provides 100 percent of the electricity needed to power facilities operating in ACUA's 360-acre Environmental Park solid waste facility. The ACUA provides wastewater and solid waste recycling services to the 274,000 residents of Atlantic County.
Water Resources Category
Winner: Ocean County Boat Pumpout Program, Ocean County
Ocean County is recognized for its boat effluent waste removal program for Barnegat Bay. Since its inception in 1998, 727,000 gallons of effluent have been removed from holding tanks of boats that may otherwise have been discharged directly into the Barnegat Bay estuary.
Healthy Ecosystems Category
Winner:New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF), Far Hills
NJCF is recognized for its wetlands restoration project at the 9,400-acre Franklin Parker Preserve located in Burlington County, in the Pinelands National Reserve. Partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service, when completed, this project will convert 1,100 acres of cranberry bogs, blueberry field and disturbed agricultural wetlands back to natural wetland communities.
Honorable Mention: American Littoral Society, Highlands
The American Littoral Society is recognized for its "Bayscape for Barnegat Bay" program which encourages responsible landscaping practices around the bay. This program includes education through workshops and in-ground demonstrations, plus partnerships with business, homeowner associations and residents. In 2011, the program added a Bayscape for Barnegat Bay retail garden center to further promote the sale of native plants in the watershed.
Innovative Technology Category
Winner: Johnson & Johnson Information Technology Center, Raritan
The Johnson & Johnson Information Technology Center is recognized for its unique solar array and stormwater management project. Solar canopies installed over parking lots will produce 2.1 megawatts of power. Stormwater diverted off canopies, which would otherwise run off into the parking lot, will recharge ground water and go to a collection tank to be used to irrigate lawns at the site.
Land Conservation Category
Winner: New Jersey Audubon's Support Agriculture Viability and the Environment (SAVE) Initiative, Port Murray
Operating in 16 of the state's 21 counties, New Jersey Audubon's SAVE initiative has found an innovative and practical way to conserve land by developing a program that makes it economically viable for participating farmers to grow black oil sunflowers for birdseed. Incorporating aspects of the locally grown movement, it guarantees participating farmers a set price and an established market for sunflower seeds through Audubon's 22,000 members. In addition to preserving farmland, revenue from every bag of birdseed sold goes to protecting critical wildlife habitat, including restoring 70 acres of native grasslands at a state wildlife management area this year.
Healthy & Sustainable Communities Category
Winner: Jersey City Green Committee, Jersey City
The Jersey City Green Committee is recognized for its comprehensive sustainable redevelopment planning initiatives, incorporating green design, transportation, urban agriculture and open space preservation. The committee developed many sustainability policies resulting in reduced energy and resource consumption, enabling healthier lifestyles and advancing environmental stewardship.
Honorable mention: Grow it Green Morristown, Morristown
Grow it Green Morristown is recognized for its community garden program utilizing underdeveloped land and donating produce to local food banks and soup kitchens, including more than 2,000 pounds of food this year.
Honorable mention: Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County, Roseland
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County is recognized for its sustainable landscaping and stormwater management training program for military veterans. Through a partnership of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, the Planetree Corporation, and the Veteran Affairs New Jersey Health Care System, unemployed veterans are trained through a green job skills program based at the East Orange Veterans Affairs Hospital.
Environmental Education Category
Winner: Lavallette Elementary School Environmental Club – "Nix Nitrogen 'N Nettles Now" Barnegat Bay nitrogen reduction education program, Lavallette
Lavallette Elementary School 7th graders, their teachers and parent volunteers are recognized for their "Nix Nitrogen 'N Nettles Now" Barnegat Bay nitrogen reduction education program. The students' efforts have led to an increase in public awareness in their barrier island community and have encouraged residents to reduce the amount of fertilizer they apply in their yards.
Honorable Mention: Victoria Pan, Student, Ridgewood H.S, Ridgewood
Victoria Pan, a Ridgewood High School senior, is recognized for her energy conservation and recycling efforts at her high school. She is also recognized for her significant accomplishments providing outreach to other schools so they may duplicate the successes.
Environmental Leadership Category
Winner: Valerie Montecalvo, President, Bayshore Recycling, Keasbey
Valerie Montecalvo is honored for her leadership efforts in the field of recycling and her company's commitment to alternative energy. Under her leadership, Bayshore Recycling operates an array of permitted recycling facilities with a combined capacity of over 10,000 tons per day. Moreover, in 2008, $5.7 million was invested for a 679-kilowatt rooftop solar energy system that assists in powering the day to day operations.
NOTE: This year's award ceremony will be preceded by a tour of the "Essential Life" exhibit by Maplewood artist Tricia Zimic that focuses on wildlife conservation. The exhibit is on view through Feb. 19, 2012.
MEDIA NOTE: Ceremony photos will be posted on the DEP main website on Friday. Media may download these photos or request additional photos by contacting the DEP Press Office. Photos of the Lavallette Elementary School students are available by contacting the Press Office.
Class feature: 7th Graders at Lavallette Elementary School, Lavallette, NJ
Environmental Education and Student Activities Winner
Imagine living on a narrow barrier island – the Atlantic Ocean to your east and Barnegat Bay to your west – and looking forward to dips in the bay during the summer months. But once you the bay's shoreline and wade in, you have to turn back around because you are greeted by the painful stings of sea nettles.
That was the reality that 21 seventh graders from Lavallette Elementary School faced two years ago. When they started investigating that problem in the classroom, they suspected that a contributing factor in the increase in the occurrences of jellyfish could be stormwater flowing into Barnegat Bay. That's when they took action and formed "Nix Nitrogen 'N Nettles Now.'' The student group has spearheaded public awareness campaigns to encourage residents to reduce the amount of fertilizer they apply to their lawns and in their yards.
Their efforts stood out in the eyes of judges for the 2011 Governor's Environmental Excellence Award. The Lavallette Environmental Club is the winner of the "Environmental Education & Student Activities" category.
"It has been a wonderful two years," said Jill Lorenz, a co-leader of the Lavallette Environmental Club. "The kids are always up to the challenge to come up with unique, attention grabbing ideas. They knew that traditional environmental measures wouldn't work and have inspired their classmates and area residents to be more conscious about restoring the bay."
Since May 2010 the students have educated their classmates, the general public and elected officials at nearly a dozen events including assemblies and festivals. They even presented their project at a joint New Jersey Senate/Assembly hearing where they received a standing ovation. The students have also been recognized nationally, finishing second among 131 entries in the Disney Planet Challenge Award in April 2011. Their awards have totaled over $10,000, with proceeds benefitting bay preservation projects.
On top of these accomplishments, the students set two world records including the greatest number of jellyfish hats and the greatest number of jellyfish scarves worn at one time, as documented by RecordSetter.
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After a period of corporate realignment, which has seen the company consolidate its efforts on orchestrated application development technology, Serena will now host a new "annual" user conference is in Las Vegas, slated this year for September 19 – 21.
Although the company's use of the term "annual" somewhat overlooks a two to three year period when the company was not being publicly vocal to developers, the new event will feature the usual developer networking opportunities, support personnel, implementation experts, and product managers for every Serena solution.
The company says that it will also host deep-dive sessions and content specifically designed to provide the most intense and up-to-date information on best practices, optimization, tuning and problem solving. With practical labs and the "geek zone," developers will be able to try out all the newest features and work with some of the leading experts in the fields of orchestrated application delivery, process automation, IT service management, release management, and configuration management.
According to Paul Hewitt, Serena regional sales director for the UK and Ireland, "The relationship between development and business operations has up until now been disjointed. As demand for applications increases along with the associated complexity, combined with a wider range of platforms to support, it is essential that the two teams work together to bridge these gaps through greater use of control and management frameworks. Serena has a strong offering for businesses looking to improve the agility and quality of their application development and delivery, so I am confident that 2011 will be a successful year for the company and I'm looking forward to being part of this."


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GIANT ROO FOSSIL FIND As Monday 5th May phone call from supporting farmers Rob and Gavin who had been digging a farm dam to take advantage of the current drought, reported they had spotted a fossil. "Could we come and look at it?" Two days later plus much sunburn and aching muscles and after voluminous quantities of glue - we have a marvellous new addition to our web museum. See first pics on www.creationresearch.net. Keep watching for more details.
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This giant fossil roo is not only a reminder that the climate of the Darling Downs was once better, being both warmer and wetter, and having much more lush vegetation, but that the history of kangaroos is the opposite of evolution. Since this fossil was buried, kangaroos have devolved or degenerated. Some groups are sadly on the edge of extinction.
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Honda to Build New Automobile Transmission Plant at Hamamatsu Factory
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TOKYO, Japan, November 8, 2008: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced plans to build a new automobile transmission plant within its Hamamatsu Factory in order to strengthen production of automobile automatic transmissions (AT) and continuously variable transmissions (CVT), to meet growing global demand.
The new automobile transmission plant will utilize a portion of the factory site where the motorcycle plant is currently located (the transfer of motorcycle engine production to Honda's Kumamoto Factory will be completed in 2009). With relocation of the existing facilities within Hamamatsu Factory and introduction of a new production line, the plant will make full use of advanced technologies and establish a high quality and highly efficient production system. With the new plant, annual AT and CVT production capacity at the Hamamatsu Factory will increase from the current 700,000 units to 1.1 million units. The new plant is scheduled to become operational within 2010, and related investment is expected to reach approximately 14 billion yen.
Efforts to further improve production efficiency have already begun at the Hamamatsu Factory. Production processes for transmission gears, once spread around the factory, have been reorganized, and a synchronous production system has been introduced in the area of machining. A highly efficient production system will be further established by consolidating transmission assembly processes at the new plant and also by improving logistics system within the Hamamatsu Factory. Moreover, a new flexible production line installed at the new plant will be capable of adjusting production of AT and CVT based on market demand. With the new plant, Honda will enhance the overall competitiveness of its transmission production.
As a leader plant of Honda's global transmission production, Hamamatsu Factory also will continue to enhance coordination with other AT production plants in the U.S., Indonesia, and China, and further strengthen its function to evolve advanced production technologies horizontally to other Honda plants.
The new plant will be designed to address environmental issues from various perspectives including rooftop afforestation, promoting use of rainwater, and adoption of natural lighting.
About Hamamatsu Factory
Start of operation:
April 1954 (Hosoe Plant: September 2001)
Location: Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
Lot size: 212,000m2 (Hosoe Plant: 230,000m2)
Products: Engines for medium-to-large sized motorcycles (scheduled to be transferred to Kumamoto Factory within 2009)
Transmissions for automobiles
Outboard engines (produced at Hosoe Plant)
Employment: Approximately 3,000 associates


text: Cars Teams Series Partners History News Contact 2014 Race Reports 2013 Race Reports Aston Martin GT4 Challenge 2012 Race Reports GT4 Challenge Partners Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 6 - Snetterton — Qualifying Report The 30-minute session started with a dry track so all cars were on slick tyres. Tom Black driving the Vantage Racing # 24 car set the early pace, he was being chased hard by Desmond Smail in the Mardis Gras # 5 car and Pierre Mantello in the Stratton Motorsports with Immun`age and Osato # 22 car. Stuart Patterson in the # 47 Stratton Motorsport car was also setting some very competitive lap times. As the majority of the grid started to pit for their driver changes it was Chris Kemp and Stuart Hall in car # 91 holding the provisional pole position, Tom Black and Alan Bonner in car # 24 were second and third was Adrian Johnson, Clare Johnson and Peter Snowdon in the Adrian Johnson racing # 14 car. With 10 minutes remaining Olivier Bouche set a very quick time of 2:02.832 which was enough for the provisional pole position, but he wouldn't hold pole for long as Stuart Hall started to show his real pace setting a 2:00.809 he then bettered this already blistering lap by setting a 1:59.855 to be the only man to break the 2 minute barrier. This meant that it was Chris Kemp and Stuart Hall in the Stratton Motorsport # 91 car that would claim pole position for the first time this season. Qualifying Result 1. 91 Chris Kemp/Stuart Hall - Stratton Motorsport - 1:59.855 2. 22 Pierre Mantello/Olivier Bouche - Stratton Motorsport with Immun'age and Osato - 2:02.832 3. 24 Tom Black/Alan Bonner-Vantage Racing - 2:03.175 4. 62 Kenneth Greenberg/Andreas Kramer - Stratton Motorsport with TeamWrinkle200 - 2:06.402 5. 88 Sid Sadique/Paul Whight - Stratton Motorsport with 88 Racing - 2:06.724 6. 47 Mark Walker/Stuart Patterson/Paul Bartley - Stratton Motorsport - 2:08.282 7. 7 Mike Brown/Paul Cripps/Dave West - MB Racing - 2:09.163 8. 14 Adrian Johnson/Clare Johnson/Peter Snowdon - Adrian Johnson Racing - 2:09.729 9. 5 Desmond Smail/Julian Reddyhough - Mardi Gras Motorsport - 2:11.294 10. 8 Ben Gulliver/Dan Shepherd - Aston Martin Racing - 2:11.876 Race Report The circuit conditions for the 3-hour race were perfect, with all cars starting on slick tyres. Stuart Hall driving the Stratton Motorsport # 91 machine led the field round on the green flag lap and as the lights went out for the race start it was Stuart who led from Olivier Bouche in the Stratton Motorsports with Immun`age and Osato # 22 car, Tom Black in the Vantage Racing # 24 car was third. Paul Cripps in the MB Racing # 7 car had a fantastic start and moved up from seventh on the grid to fifth by the end of the first lap. Ben Gulliver driving the Aston Martin Racing # 8 car also had a great start moving up from tenth on the grid to eighth by lap 4, this was Ben's first ever motor race but he was already driving like a seasoned pro. By lap 5 Stuart Hall in car # 91 had already created a 14 second lead; Stuart had to push hard as the # 91 car had been given a 120 second penalty for Stuart being an FIA Gold level driver, this would be broken down into three lots of 40 second sections to be served at the beginning of the cars three mandatory pit stops. There was a very closely fought battle going on for fifth spot with Sid Sadique in the # 88 Stratton Motorsport with 88 Racing car holding off Kenneth Greenberg in the Stratton Motorsport with TeamWrinkle200 # 62 machine, he in turn was being pushed very hard by Ben Gulliver in car # 8 and Desmond Smail in the Mardi Gras # 5 machine. Desmond Smail in the # 5 Mardi Gras car was having a great battle with Chris Kemp in the # 91 Stratton Motorsport car and the # 62 Stratton Motorsport with TeamWrinkle200 entry of Kenneth Greenberg. By Lap 22, Stuart Hall had built up a very impressive lead of over one minute and as he approached the first round of pit stops looked in very good shape. The first to pit was the Aston Martin Racing # 8 machine with Ben Gulliver handing over driving duties to Dan Shepherd; this was Dan's first race in the GT4 Challenge of Great Britain as he normally races in the Hong Kong touring car championship. Following the # 8 machine into the pit lane was the leader with Stuart Hall, handing over driving duties to Chris Kemp in the Stratton Motorsport car, before Chris could get in the car they had to take their driver penalty of 40 seconds. The rest of the field all started to pit for their first of the three mandatory stops and by lap 28 every one had completed their first pit stops. After everything had settled down it was Chris Kemp driving the # 91 machine leading but he was being chased down by Pierre Mantello now driving the # 22 Stratton Motorsports with Immun`age and Osato car they in turn were being chased down by Alan Bonner now driving the # 24 Vantage Racing car.Pierre started to catch Chris and by lap 37 had reduced the lead to under a second and on lap 38 he managed to find away passed the # 91 car going down the inside on the way into Hamilton`s bend. On Lap 53 there was a coming together between Tom Black in car # 24 and Adrian Johnson in car # 14, Tom was lapping the # 14 machine but as Adrian tried to get out of the way going into the Bomb Hole, Tom ran slightly wide on entry, spinning the Vantage Racing car and collecting the Adrian Johnson Racing machine, taking both of them out of the race. Adrian managed to get his car back to the pits but it was too badly damaged to continue, Toms car couldn't be moved and forced the race director to put out the safety car to aid recovery of the stricken # 24 Aston Martin. The rest of the field used this safety car period to pit for their third and final mandatory pit stops. Pierre Mantello in car # 22 handed back to Olivier Bouche for the final stint and Chris Kemp handed back to Stuart Hall in car # 91 to conclude this thrilling race. As Stuart was heading down the pit lane at 60pkh, the safety car had just joined the start finish straight meaning that the pit lane marshall had no choice but to hold the # 91 car until the crocodile of cars had passed the pit lane exit, this effectively meant that Stuart had lost a complete lap on the leader. As the cars went for the restart Olivier Bouche in the # 22 car that had a 2 minute lead over Stuart Hall in car # 91 but with only just over 45 minutes remaining this was going to be tough for the Stratton Motorsport # 91 car to reduce the deficit. Stuart was up for the challenge and managed to set the fastest lap of the race on lap 59 setting a 1:59.926 just one tenth of a second off his pole position time, he continued with this very quick pace being on average 2 to 3 seconds quicker per lap than the # 22 car. In third position was the # 7 MB Racing car with Dave West at the wheel after taking over from Mike Brown, who had fought his way through the field. Paul Whight, now driving the # 88 Stratton Motorsport with 88 Racing car was in fourth and was chasing down the # 7 machine. News then came through that at the safety car restart, Paul had overtaken car # 8 before the start finish line, as a result race control gave the # 88 car a driver through penalty on lap 69 taking the pressure off Dave West in the # 7 car. By lap 77 Stuart Hall had reduced the lead to 1 minute but with only just over 10 minutes remaining was not going to be able to catch Olivier Bouche in car # 22, Stuart had taken just over a minute out of the leader in half an hour which was very impressive. The final battle for position was for sixth place with Ben Gulliver in the Aston Martin Racing # 8 car chasing Desmond Smail in the Mardi Gras # 5 car, Ben was pushing very hard but Des was positioning his car in all the right places making it very difficult for Ben to pass. Dave West in the MB Racing # 7 car was still lying in third but got caught up in this battle for sixth as Ben Gulliver tried to un lap himself going down the inside of the # 7 car into Agostinis he made contact with Dave West but both cars continued. As the last lap board came out Stuart Hall had reduced the lead to only 45 seconds, but it wouldn't be enough, as Olivier Bouche and Pierre Mantello who had both driven brilliantly would claim their fifth win of the season. Stuart Hall and Chris Kemp finished in second position; both drivers had driven brilliantlywith Stuart driving his heart out to reduce the gap 37 seconds as the # 91 car crossed the line. Third place went to the # 7 MB Racing car, with Mike Brown, Paul Cripps and Dave West taking their second podium in successive weekends after the team's GT3 car finished first in class and second overall in the Britcar 24 hour race. Race Result 1. 22 Pierre Mantello/Olivier Bouche - Stratton Motorsport with Immun'age and Osato - 82 Laps 2. 91 Chris Kemp/Stuart Hall - Stratton Motorsport - 82 Laps 3. 7 Mike Brown/Paul Cripps/Dave West- MB Racing - 80 Laps 4. 88 Sid Sadique/Paul Whight - Stratton Motorsport with 88 Racing - 80 Laps 5. 47 Mark Walker/Stuart Patterson- Stratton Motorsport - 78 Laps 6. 5 Desmond Smail/Julian Reddyhough - Mardi Gras Motorsport - 78 Laps 7. 8 Ben Gulliver/Dan Shepherd - Aston Martin Racing - 78 Laps 8. 62 Kenneth Greenberg/Andreas Kramer-Stratton Motorsport - 78 Laps Not Classified 24 Tom Black/Alan Bonner - Vantage Racing - 52 Laps 14 Adrian Johnson/Clare Johnson/Peter Snowdon - Adrian Johnson Racing - 49 Laps Fastest lap 91 Chris Kemp/Stuart Hall - Stratton Motorsport - 1:59.926


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John Bokor
(Australia 1973 – )
Kitchen sink, from the series Kitchen suite
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This work is from a series of drawings by the artist on the subject of his domestic environment, both inside his home and in the nearby neighbourhood, places with which he feels an emotional connection.
'I wanted to record my kitchen from all angles as the kitchen surfaces have for some time been a rich source of still life ephemera for me. I often prefer to paint and draw the casual clutter of modern life as it falls than to set up a still life with a pre-conceived composition (John Bokor, email to AGNSW, 2011)'.
Bokor's drawings have a particular intensity, composed as they are of layers of graphite and gesso wash, with drawings and re-drawing visible through numerous superimposed layers. This reflects his method of interrogating his subject, but also its changing nature, which as everyday domestic clutter, changes frequently.
'I would block out part or all of the previous drawing with gesso so that I could build on the construction adding and subtracting objects from my entire field of vision in the hope that what would be produced would amount to the whole scene in front of me, I usually stopped when something I wasn't expecting happened. Most of these drawings have at least 5 layers of drawing (John Bokor, email to AGNSW, 2011)'.
- Place of origin
New South Wales,
- Year
- 2011
- Media
- Drawing
- Medium
- pencil, gesso wash on thick textured white paper (oil paper)
- Dimensions
- 48.6 x 63.2 cm image; 50.1 x 65.1 cm sheet; 78.6 x 104.2 x 2.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "Bokor 11".
- Credit
- Kathleen Buchanan May Bequest Fund 2012
- Accession number
- 362.2012.4


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Buying Guide for Leather Furniture
The warm, rich look of a leather-upholstered seat is at once both upscale and totally fit for full family lounging. Here are 43 high-quality leather sofas for dressing up your den.
1) Baxton Studio Dobson Leather Sectional Sofa | 2) Best Choice Products Modern Sofa Bed | 3) Gordon Tufted Sofa BLUE | 4) Gold Sparrow Jacksonville Camel Sofa Bed | 5) Baxton Studio Sorrento Mid-Century Leather Loveseat | 6) Sure Fit Ultimate Stretch Leather – Sofa Slipcover | 7) Simmons Upholstery Phoenix Motion Sofa | 8) DHP Emily Convertible Futon Couch Bed | 9) Flash Furniture HERCULES Gray Leather Sofa | 10) Epic Furnishings Sofa Sleeper Bed | 11) Homelegance 2 Piece Sectional Sofa | 12) Poundex 2 Pieces Faux Leather Chaise Sofa | 13) Bonded Leather Double Recliner Sofa | 14) Qaba 33" Kids PU Leather Storage Sofa | 15) Poundex F7857 Bobkona Aria Leather Sofa | 16) Signature Design by Ashley 1200138 Bladen Sofa | 17) The PU Leather Klippan Loveseat Sofa | 18) Flash Furniture Harmony Black Leather Sofa | 19) Poundex F7878 Bobkona Shelton Leather Sofa | 20) Baxton Studio Darrow Leather Sofa | 21) The Heavy Cotton Ektorp 3 Seat Sofa | 22) Welsh Chocolate Fabric Sofa Set | 23) Homelegance 9734DB-3 Upholstered Sofa | 24) Baxton Studio Callidora Brown Leather Sofa | 25) Premium Sofa Futon Couch | 26) Signature Sleep 2152007 Casey Faux Leather Sofa | 27) Homelegance 9668BRW-3 Double Reclining Sofa | 28) Modway Engage Leather Loveseat | 29) Baxton Studio Selma Leather Sofa | 30) Amalfi Brown Leather Reclining Sofa | 31) Global Furniture Rogers Collection Sofa | 32) Kardiel Woodrow Midcentury Sofa | 33) Bonded Leather Sleeper/Pull Out Sofa | 34) Sure Fit Ultimate Stretch Leather – Sofa | 35) Signature Design by Ashley Larkinhurst Sofa | 36) Baxton Studio Mid-Century Loveseat | 37) Modway Engage Leather Sofa | 38) Abbyson Foyer Premium Italian Leather Sofa | 39) Crafters and Weavers Leather Chesterfield Sofa | 40) Gordon Tufted Sofa BLACK | 41) DHP Emily Futon Sofa Bed | 42) TOV Furniture Blake Antique RAF Sectional | 43) American Eagle Furniture Valencia Collection Leather Sofa |
Which Leather is Right for My Home?
There are many types of finishing used in leather, so it can be broken down into 4 categories. F or P, AP, A, N ( Lingo used, Durability = how well does it wear. Serviceability = How easy can it be kept clean.)
Category: F or P
This stands for "Finished" or "Protected" aka Pigmented or painted. All meaning the same thing essentially- the leather is usually dyed in a base color ( except for some colors that might be close to the hide color) then an additional process of color is added on the surface of the hide by spraying and topped off with a clear coat for protection.
This process hides or camouflages many of the natural markings in a hide. These leathers have a firmer hand or feel but require the least maintenance of all types of leather. These leathers will also have a corrected grain (embossing) done because of the hide quality.
These leathers will have the most colors available due to the painting of the finish. These fall into the top 20% of hide supply. These leathers are for high traffic applications. The most stain and sun resistance. Think of Pigmented leathers as plywood, you would paint it to cover defects like knots, not stain it.
Category: AP
This stands for Aniline plus or Semi aniline-AP leathers are dyed with aniline dyes which color or stain the hide then a very light micro-pigment color is applied to give the leather some even color or offer a wider range of color options then a pure aniline leather.
A slight top coat is added to give the leather more serviceability. These leathers are softer and more desirable than "F" or "P" leathers and are still good with a family room situation. These leathers fall into a medium price range and offer an excellent choice for those who oppose variations found in true aniline leathers.
Only a limited number of hides fall into this category, if corrected grain hides are used their selection is less critical and the hand will not be as soft. These fall into the top 10% of the hide supply. These leathers are for moderate traffic applications and have a moderate stain and sun resistance finish.
Category : A
Aniline or Pure aniline/ Full aniline
Only premium hides of fully grown animals are used for this application, and only 3-5% of the world raw hide supply are free enough of defects to be suitable, in aniline dying, an extended tumbling process enhances the natural grain and gives an extra softness.These hides are drum dyed in large vats or drums and the color is forced into the hide for many hours permeating throughout.
A soil resistant surface can be applied similar to what is used in fabrics to repel spills and stains. Leather that has only been dyed with aniline dyes is referred to as a "pure aniline" or "naked aniline". Some aniline leathers can go through an additional process where a very light roller coat is added for serviceability (cleanability) hence the name Full aniline.
Think of when you stain a fine piece of wood, like mahogany or walnut to reveal the knots and grain of the wood, this is beautiful same as aniline leathers. These leathers are for light use, lower clean ability, can fade with sunlight.
Category: N
Nubuck, Nubuck, Suede, also Aniline (distressed)-
Nubuck is usually the reverse of the top grain or underside of the hide or it can be the top grain sanded or buffed down to reveal a "nap" or suede like feel. These leathers are the softest but also the least desirable when used in a family room.
One main point is the accumulation or build up of body oils over time causing the leather to turn dark and spills tend to soak in, even if the leather is treated originally because scotch guarding wears off making it almost difficult if not impossible to remove stains without damaging the finish.
Avoid this leather if you need an article to not fade, absorb spills, fade easily, etc. These leathers are for light use, lower clean ability, can fade with sunlight.
The long and short of it is, just because a leather sofa is expensive, does not mean it is the best one for a family room and the same applies to an expensive sofa being just right for a kids playroom. Be sure and purchase a leather that will withstand what you expect from it. A pigment or finished leather (remember "F " or "P" ) will be the most bullet proof so to speak, and aniline-plus leathers in between and pure anilines the most delicate.
Let's talk grading of leather, this is where it gets more convoluted. First there is not a standard grading system used for leather furniture by manufacturers. When a factory assigns a grade to their leather this is dictated by what they pay for the raw material.
The cheaper the leather hide, (or price point) the lower the grade, and the finer the hide, the higher the grade.Some brands use the scale 1, 2, 3, and so on, or 100, 200, 300, or 1000, 2000, or 3000, or maybe A, B, or C. Whatever they use, it has no relation to another company that makes leather furniture, so do not try to compare this way, it is a waste of time and you will be disappointed.
What you can assume is, the lower range brands will have a lower selection of leathers on their products to remain in a certain price point where they market their furniture. The higher end brands will carry a more expensive leather on their product.


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Focus on Funds: Active Managers Running Scared
Brendan Conway on the ways fund companies are scrambling to counter the threat from index funds, and how it affects investors.
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Sharks sweep Canucks
San Jose, CA – Patrick Marleau's power-play goal with 6:42 left in overtime secured San Jose's first-ever sweep of a seven-game series, as the Sharks downed the Vancouver Canucks, 4-3, at HP Pavilion to advance to the Western Conference semifinals on Tuesday.
Vancouver forward Daniel Sedin was whistled for a borderline boarding call at the 13:03 mark of the extra session and the Sharks quickly cashed in, as Joe Thornton rifled a shot from the high slot that Cory Schneider fought off.
Schneider wasn't able to secure the rebound however, and the puck trickled to the low left side, where Marleau pounded it home to send the Sharks into the second round.
"I was just going to the net and found some garbage again and was able to put it in the back (of the net)," Marleau said of his game winner.
Joe Pavelski potted a pair of goals in regulation, including the game-tying goal with 4:27 remaining to force overtime. Brent Burns also lit the lamp, while Thornton added a trio of helpers for the Sharks, who received 32 saves from Antti Niemi.
Alexandre Burrows and Mason Raymond recorded a goal and an assist apiece, while Alexander Edler scored once for Vancouver, which suffered its second straight first-round exit. Schneider stopped 43-of-47 shots in defeat.
"You've got to give credit where credit is due, San Jose played great hockey," Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault admitted. "Their power play gave them momentum and we weren't good enough."
San Jose led 2-1 after 40 minutes, but the Canucks scored twice in just under two minutes near the midpoint of the third to seize control.
A roughing penalty against San Jose center Andrew Desjardins eight minutes into the final frame helped set up the first marker, as Burrows buried a one- timer from in front off a nice backhand feed from Sedin to knot the score at the 9:12 mark.
Just 1:50 later, Edler let fly a slapper from the high slot that sailed high over the blocker side of Niemi to give the Canucks a 3-2 lead.
The Sharks answered on a power play of their own at the 15:33 mark after Kevin Bieksa went off for cross-checking with 5:01 left in the contest.
On the ensuing man-advantage, Logan Couture poked a rebound away from Schneider at the low left side and the disc squirted to the low right side, where Pavelski buried it into the back of the net to tie the game.
Just over 13 minutes into the extra session, Sedin checked Tommy Wingels into the boards deep in the San Jose end. Sedin appeared to get Wingels from the side, but the San Jose center went awkwardly into the boards, causing the officials to issue a boarding minor on Sedin that set up Marleau's series- clinching goal.
"It's playoff overtime and it was shoulder to shoulder," Sedin said of the penalty. "I thought it was a bad call. We didn't lose the series on that call. We should have been better early on."
The Sharks struck first on Burns' tip-in just 2:41 into the contest, but the Canucks answered 5:13 later when Dan Hamhuis' shot from the high slot was deflected in off the stick of Raymond.
With the Sharks on a power play late in the first period, Pavelski buried a long rebound from just inside the right circle to send the Sharks into the second with a 2-1 advantage.
Game Notes
Sedin was issued a game-misconduct for abusive language following his boarding minor in overtime ... These teams met just once before in the playoffs, with the Canucks taking the Western Conference final series in 2011 in a five-game victory ... Vancouver was the top-seeded team in the West last spring when it was eliminated in the opening round by Los Angeles ... The Canucks have lost 10 of their last 11 playoff games since taking a 3-2 lead over the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals two years ago ... It was the first time the Canucks were swept in a best-of-seven series since losing four straight to Colorado in the opening round of the 2001 playoffs ... San Jose won all three regular-season encounters against Vancouver.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's basketball team overcame a 16-point second half deficit and made several key plays down the stretch in notching its fourth consecutive victory with a 59-56 win over archrival Grand Valley State on Thursday (Feb. 27) evening inside FSU's Jim Wink Arena.
The visiting Lakers led most of the opening half en route to a 36-22 halftime edge over the Bulldogs and scored the initial two points of the second frame to push the margin to 38-22 before FSU rallied. After GVSU had taken a 40-27 lead with 17:35 to play, Ferris State went on a 13-0 run to tie the game up with 11:31 left in the contest.
From there, the Bulldogs surged ahead and eventually grabbed an 11-point lead at 56-45 with just under four minutes remaining. However, Grand Valley State trimmed the margin back to a single basket on a three-pointer from Kat LaPrairie with a minute to play to make it a one-possession game.
In the final minute, both teams traded missed shots before the Bulldogs finally rebounded the Laker miss with 15 seconds to go and sophomore forward Christina Branch hit one of two free throws to give FSU a three-point lead. The Lakers got off one final three-point try from the corner by LaPrairie in the closing seconds and also came up with the offensive rebound on the errant miss, but time expired as the Bulldogs preserved the victory.
The win avenged an earlier 67-50 triumph by the Lakers in the first-series matchup on Feb. 3 in Allendale and came in GVSU's regular-season finale.
Ferris State limited GVSU to only 24% shooting in the second half while connecting on 51.9% of its own shots in improving to 10-13 overall and 10-11 in league action. Grand Valley State fell to 14-12 overall and 12-10 in the GLIAC with the setback.
Overall, the Bulldogs hit 44.2% of their field goal chances and were two-of-seven (28.6%) from three-point range along with 11-of-15 (73.3%) at the line. The Lakers finished 37.7% overall and made six-of-20 (30%) three's along with 10-of-13 (76.9%) free throws.
Ferris State received a game-high 16 points from sophomore guard Dena Droste, including 14 in the second half of play alone. She added six rebounds to aid the Bulldog cause.
The Bulldogs also received a near triple-double performance from senior standout Sarah DeShone, who finished with 13 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in 36 minutes of action. Branch chipped in 11 seven and seven boards while sophomore guard Katie Mavis added nine points and five rebounds off the bench.
LaPrairie hit five of GVSU's six three's on the night in finishing with 15 points for the Lakers. Senior forward Dani Crandall also tallied 15 points and had 11 rebounds in a double-double showing while Taylor Lutz added nine points.
Ferris State held a significant edge on the glass with 38 rebounds to only 29 for the Lakers. FSU also grabbed eight offensive boards to six for GVSU with both teams netting four second chance points.
Despite turning the ball over 14 times to only 11 for Grand Valley State, the Bulldogs did own a 13-9 margin in points off miscues and held a decisive 24-9 advantage in bench production behind the play of Branch and Mavis.
Overall, the Bulldogs posted 12 assists, three steals and three blocks compared to GVSU's 11 assists, six thefts and two swats in the game. The contest, which was the 84th all-time meeting between the two West Michigan rivals, featured four lead changes and was tied three times.
Ferris State will close out the season on Saturday (March 1) with a rescheduled game against Saginaw Valley State at Jim Wink Arena. Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. (ET) as the two teams meet for the second time in a week on the heels of FSU's 83-75 road win last Saturday (Feb. 22) in University Center.
Saturday will also represent FSU's annual "Senior Day" game with the Bulldogs honoring a lone senior from both the women's and men's teams between games in DeShone and men's forward Raymoan McAfee. The game can be heard live on Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network starting with the Meijer Pregame show at 12:30 p.m. (ET).
Tickets for Saturday's game are on sale now and can be purchased in advance thru the FSU Athletics Ticket Office, online at StarTickets.com or by calling 1-800-585-3737. For more information, please visit FerrisStateBulldogs.com.