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Tickets didn't cover jackpot
AUSTIN — Officials are celebrating an uptick in Lotto Texas sales this year, but ticket proceeds were nearly $1.2 million short of covering the latest winning jackpot, forcing officials to dip into the state lottery account to cover the difference.
The shortage for the advertised $21 million jackpot that hit July 31 wasn't the first the Lottery Commission has had to cover.
Lotto Texas jackpots are guaranteed to be worth at least the advertised amount, but ticket sales have fallen short of covering 14 of the 24 jackpots won since August 2006, according to figures from lottery watchdog Dawn Nettles and documents posted on the commission's website.
State law allows officials to shift money from the lottery account, which includes sales revenue from all lottery games.
The situation is drawing fresh criticism from Nettles, who said it means either the lottery's operating account or proceeds slated for the school trust fund must suffer.
"They are having to get money from either their operating budget or school fund money," said Nettles, who owns the online Lotto Report. "The state's getting shortchanged."
Lottery Commission spokesman Robert Heith said the funding of the Lotto Texas jackpot "has no effect on Lottery operations or transfers to the Foundation School Fund."
Overall ticket sales, the largest contributor to the state lottery account, totaled $3.7 billion in fiscal year 2009.
Nettles said the situation is compounded because the agency last year spent the last of a reserve fund that previously had been set aside within the lottery account to cover Lotto Texas prize shortages.
Nettles had opposed the reserve fund because she said it came from the percentage of money allocated to players. Heith said the reserve came from sales but not from the players' allocation.
The commission decided previously to do away with the reserve fund after the money that remained was spent, saying it made sense to simply pay prize shortages as necessary.
Nettles said jackpots should be whatever ticket sales will support. Currently, Lotto Texas jackpots start at $4 million and rise as the jackpots go unclaimed. "The lottery is not broke. They make lots and lots of money. But because of these guaranteed prizes, where they don't have enough sales to cover it, they are dipping into their own proceeds," Nettles said.
Nettles also said ticket sales for Texas Two Step, another lottery game, have fallen $2 million short of the amount needed to pay prizes since June 2007, meaning the agency has had to shift that much from its lottery account.
Heith said he couldn't confirm that figure.
Heith said the advertised jackpot is calculated by multiplying expected sales by the estimated cost to fund an investment yielding the jackpot amount over a 25-year period.
According to commission figures, Lotto Texas sales totaled $695.3 million in fiscal year 2001, then began creeping downward, totaling $200.5 million in fiscal year 2009.
Sales have increased this fiscal year to nearly $242.3 million as of July 31, a 35.6 percent increase over the same point the previous year.
"I think the Lotto Texas sales figures speak for themselves as to the assertion that Lotto Texas is struggling," Heith said, pointing to this year's increase. He said, "This game does have a loyal following."
State Rep. Jim Dunnam, a Waco Democrat who monitors the lottery, said the shortfalls raise questions about how the lottery operates.
"The structure of the program is obviously wrong," he said. "If they can't generate the money to pay what they're saying they're supposed to pay through the ticket sales, they need to restructure the whole program."


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It seems impossible right? Two ingredients to make pumpkin muffins? I was skeptical myself to. But being pregnant and wanting to spend minimal time in the kitchen and on my feet I figured this is the type of pumpkin recipe I was up for.
All it requires is a box of plain cake mix (vanilla or yellow). I opted for an organic cake mix because I figured it made this a little healthier. And the second ingredient is just canned pumpkin.
Pour in the cake mix and canned pumpkin. (I added a few generous shakes of nutmeg and cinnamon because I love the aromatic effect of those spices in fall baking). Stir well. Scoop mixture into a lightly greased muffin tin, bake at 350 until a toothpick poked in the middle of the muffins comes out dry.
It's that easy! And these really were so delicious. My husband has now deemed them his favorite pumpkin muffins. And I like that they're so easy to make and there's no major kitchen clean-up either.
These also freeze really well! I like to make a double batch and freeze one batch and just pop one in the microwave for breakfast each morning...hmmm!

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Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
This is the fifth song in Robert Hunter's Terrapin Station Suite. Ivory Wheels was never played by the Grateful Dead. Hunter himself recorded it on his LP "Jack O' Roses" (never issued as a CD). He sings it to the riff played by the Dead in the jam after the "Terrapin Station" portion of the suite.
Ivory wheels on a rosewood trackNotes
Take us back again and again to Terrapin (note 1)
Smokestack thunder - pay the ticket price (note 2)
Clock in the sky says quarter to twice - we roll again
Hello, good soldier, where you been?
Did you take the wrong round to get to Terrapin? (note 3)
Some for reasons great or small
Rise, climb, fall, to get to Terrapin
The demon's daughter used to lay for gin (note 4)
In a shack way back on the skirts of the fens of Terrapin
The demon himself got drunk all night
Collapsed at the sunrise service - he was very tight
Captain Billy Lyon from Louisiana low
Used to chase a bayou girl through here named Peggy-o
Some say he died of love for Peggy-o (note 5)
Others say it was the devil himself laid Billy low (note 6)
Some for reasons known but to them
Rise, climb, fall, to get to Terrapin
One-eyed sailor with a Cheshire grin
That must be the Jack O'Roses bound for Terrapin
Chasing that lady-o through the bayou (note 7)
Swore to God in lightning storm he'd catch her, too
Fortune dealt him such a straight high hand
He saw no reason not to trust it more, and retrieved her fan
The lions looked up in surprise
But they backed right off when they saw the madness in his eyes
Venus rises from the sea
On the back of a mighty Terrapin with a coral fan
Throws that fan to the diamond beach (note 8)
Always a little out of reach - but try again
Some for reasons great or small
Rise, climb, fall, to get to Terrapin
Long John Silver at the wheel, you bet(3) Hunter sang: "You must have took the wrong way round to get to Terrapin"
That deuce of a Staggerlee in the firebox pouring sweat
Must have made pretty good time between(6) Hunter sang: "But I believe it was Staggerlee laid Billy low"
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* Set <tt>QT_SRC_DIR</tt> with the path to <tt>qtbase</tt>, if you don't want to build documentation based on the Qt sources under <tt><QT_PKG_ROOT>/<QT_VERSION>/Src/qtbase</tt>.
* Set <tt>QT_SRC_DIR</tt> with the path to <tt>qtbase</tt>, if you don't want to build documentation based on the Qt sources under <tt><QT_PKG_ROOT>/<QT_VERSION>/Src/qtbase</tt>.
Revision as of 15:33, 5 September 2019
You can install PySide2 via PyPi, using Qt-servers or by building the source package yourself.
Platform Requirements
- Python: Python 3.5+ and Python 2.7 (Please notice there is a known issue with Python 3.6.0, read more.)
- Qt: 5.12 is recommended, but there are Technical Preview wheels for 5.11
- libclang: The libclang library (C-bindings), recommended: version 6 for PySide2 5.12.
- Prebuilt versions of it can be downloaded from download.qt.io.
- CMake (version >= 3.1 required) : The build system required by for building PySide2.
Install wheel from PyPi
Official release wheels of Qt For Python can be installed regularly via pip:
pip install PySide2
Note: This process will automatically install shiboken2 (python module) as dependency, but the package shiboken2_generator will not since it's the standalone binary that can generate Python bindings from a Qt/C++ project. We highly recommend to build PySide2 from scratch if you want to generate your own Python bindings from a Qt/C++ project, because the linking information will not be present in the shiboken2_generator wheel
Install wheel from Qt servers
Official release wheels of Qt for Python can be installed via pip but from Qt servers:
pip install --index-url=https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/ pyside2 --trusted-host download.qt.io
Pre-release (snapshot) wheels containing the latest code changes are available at http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/ For example you can install the latest 5.12 snapshot wheel using:
pip install --index-url=http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/5.12/latest/ pyside2 --trusted-host download.qt.io
Building PySide2 from scratch
The building processes are covered in the platform pages.
- Windows
- Linux/X11
- macOS
- Mobile platforms are currently not supported (iOS, Android)
- Embedded Linux platforms are currently not supported (Raspberry Pi, iMX.6)
After cloning the official repository you must follow the instructions for your specific system.
setup.py build script
The script setup.py in the top level repository is used to build and install the PySide2 package. It takes a mode argument (build or install) and several options (more options are documented in setup.py itself).· The main options are:
- --qmake=/path/to/qmake: Path to qmake of the Qt library to be used
- --cmake=/path/to/cmake: Path to cmake binary
- --build-tests: Builds tests along with some helper packages
- --ignore-git: Prevents setup.py from cloning and checking out the git submodules.
- --debug: Build in Debug mode (some restrictions apply to Windows, see Build considerations)
- --reuse-build: Rebuilds only modified files
- --openssl=C:\Dev\qtdev\OpenSSL-Win64\bin: Path to OpenSSL's bindir which contains dlls (Only required for Windows PySide2 packages)
- --j / parallel # : Number of # processes to use when building
- --standalone: Copies over the Qt libraries (and other library dependencies) into the PySide2 package to make it work on other machines (on Windows all builds are standalone, even without specifying the command line argument).
- --verbose: Prints all compiler invocations when building the package.
A typical invocation looks like:
python setup.py install --build-tests --j 4
A successful build can be tested by running an example:
python examples/widgets/widgets/tetrix.py
You can search for working examples by typing
cd sources/examples git grep "PySide2 port"
Running Tests
To perform all the available tests, just execute:
python testrunner.py test > testlog.txt
Note that to successfully run the tests on Windows you need to point the PATH environment variable to the Qt libdir:
set PATH=E:\Qt\5.12\msvc2015_64\bin;%PATH%
Run only one test(qpainter_test):
ctest -R qpainter_test --verbose
Building the Documentation
Before you build pyside2, ensure that the following requirements are met, to be able to build the documentation:
- Install libXML2 and libXSLT before building PySide2:
apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev # Ubuntu pacman -S libxml2 libxslt # Arch dnf install libxml2 libxslt # Fedora
- Set QT_SRC_DIR with the path to qtbase, if you don't want to build documentation based on the Qt sources under <QT_PKG_ROOT>/<QT_VERSION>/Src/qtbase.
export QT_SRC_DIR=/path/to/qtbase
- Install graphviz and sphinx
pip install graphviz sphinx
make apidoc
The build first runs qdoc on the Qt sources in $QT_SRC_DIR to generate the webxml files, which are then parsed by shiboken to generate reStructuredText files. In the final step, sphinx is run on the rst files to generate HTMLs.
You could also use the docrsts make target to generate only the reStructuredText files.
Using Qt Creator as a project explorer
Qt Creator 4.0+ can be used to open the PySide and Shiboken CMakeLists.txt files as projects, and thus provide usual IDE features for developing PySide - project file navigation, code completion (C++ only), following symbols under cursor (C++ only), syntax highlighting, locator usage, debugging, etc.
Currently there is a limitation that Shiboken has to be built first using the terminal, because the installed shiboken CMake packages will have to be specified for the PySide project in Qt Creator.
The steps for opening the projects in Qt Creator are:
- Open pyside-setup/sources/shiboken2/CMakeLists.txt, and specify a 5.12 Qt Kit to be used
- Build the project as usual (by pressing the build icon for instance)
- Open pyside-setup/sources/pyside2/CMakeLists.txt, and specify the same 5.12 Qt Kit
- Go to projects tab, and under the Build / CMake section find the Shiboken2_DIR setting. You have to specify the path to the folder where the Shiboken CMake package was installed when you compiled Shiboken from the terminal·
- An example path under MacOS is /Users/user/Dev/pyside2-setup/pyside_install/py3.6-qt5.12.1-64bit-debug/lib/cmake/Shiboken2-2.0.0. The path has to be adjusted depending on the user folder name, the version of python and qt, etc
- (Optional) On MacOS you also have to set the ALTERNATIVE_QT_INCLUDE_DIR setting to the Qt kit include path (e.g. /Users/user/Dev/qt511_source/include)
- Apply the CMake configuration changes (by pressing the button), and you should be able to build PySide
Now you can use the project explorer to look through the source cpp files, python files, use the locator feature to open files and file classes / methods, and other features that Qt Creator provides.
Troubleshooting / Known Issues
- Qt 5.9 does not work with OpenSSL 1.1
- When doing a custom Qt build (some unspecified versions for now), It is necessary to have an OpenSSL version of 1.0.x, since there are compatibility issues with newer versions of OpenSSL (see details)
- PySide2 looks at the system installation if the local Qt version does not have a required module
- The only workaround is to uninstall any module from the system, then PySide2 can look at only the Qt path currently being use.
- Qt packages that directly link to OpenSSL (as opposed to runtime discovery) are not currently supported.
- Make sure that the Python environment location where the PySide2 package will be installed is writable (otherwise you might get various permission denied errors). The install location can be found with 99% probability by running:
python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())"


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you sit at home and brush your cat's fur. Oh, Mr. Bits. No one understands you like Mr. Bits does. LET'S GO!
GREY'S ANATOMY – 9:00PM (ABC) It's the two-hour season finale of that show your girlfriend used to watch but doesn't bother with anymore. Show creator Shonda Rhimes has said tonight's episode will be a "game changer," which I assume means that LeBron James will be joining the cast and helping the Seattle Grace doctors finally win an NBA championship. Actually, tonight's episode revolves around a massive crisis (please no ferry crash, please no ferry crash) that could very well leave a handful of major characters dead. Then those characters get to come back as ghosts and have affairs with Izzie. ABC warns that tonight's episode features graphic violence. NICE! Finally, a little something for the guys. ANTICIPATION: THERE WILL BE BLOOD! AND COLDPLAY!
THE OFFICE – 9:00PM (NBC) It's also the season finale for this show tonight, and Kathy Bates returns as Jo, the kooky Sabre CEO. Ed Helms' printer fire plotline takes center stage as Sabre gets in trouble for selling faulty products. I have never had a printer go all fiery on me. But I have touched hot parts of the printer that I should not have touched. And man, does that not feel good. At all. ANTICIPATION: WHISTLEBLOWIN!
PARKS AND RECREATION – 8:30PM (NBC) This is the last episode of Parks until 2011, and that makes me so mad I could punch someone. Parks is being bumped to midseason next year to accommodate "Outsourced," a new comedy I already resent for taking Parks' place. ANTICIPATION: BITTERSWEET!
CSI – 9:00PM (CBS) The team tracks the Dr. Jekyll serial killer. Man, real life never has serial killers this cool. TV gets the Dr. Jekyll killer and the miniature killer. And what do we get in real life? John Wayne Gacy. So he wore a clown suit. Where's the creativity, I ask you? ANTICIPATION: JEKYLL BE HYDIN'!
RIDING THE BUS WITH MY SISTER – 9:00PM (Hallmark Channel) Treat yourself to the 2005 TV movie classic in which Rosie O'Donnell plays a mentally challenged person. It's like "Simple Jack," only someone actually made it. ANTICIPATION: CAMPY!
Thursday Watch List: Finales Ahoy!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you sit at home and brush your cat's fur. Oh, Mr. Bits. No one understands you like Mr. Bits does. LET'S GO!


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If a star is moving toward Earth, its light waves appear to be squeezed together. The decreasing distance between Earth and the star effectively shortens the wavelength of the starlight received by Earth. This shifts the star's spectral lines toward the blue end of the spectrum. If the star is moving away from us, its waves are effectively stretched out when they reach Earth, increasing their wavelength. This shifts the star's spectral lines toward the red end of the spectrum.
The dark lines in stellar spectra are caused by the absorption of specific wavelengths of energy by elements in the star's outer levels. Identifiable patterns of absorption lines that appear at shorter or longer wavelengths than normal indicate that the star is moving. The greater the shift from the normal position of the lines, the faster the star is moving.
In the visualization, the bottom spectrum shows the "normal" postion of absorption lines for a star that is not moving toward or away from Earth. The top spectrum simulates absorption lines for stars that have the motion and speed indicated by the controls.
! Click the "away" or "toward" button, then click on the arrows under the speedometer to change the star's speed relative to Earth.


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Hundreds more Conn. schools receive security money
HARTFORD — An additional 435 schools across Connecticut are receiving state funding to improve school security in the wake of last year's deadly mass school shooting in Newtown.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday that $16 million will be spent to reimburse 75 school districts for a portion of security improvements. Back in September, the state awarded $5 million to help pay for upgrades at 169 schools in 36 districts, for a total of $21 million, as part of the School Security Grant Program approved by the General Assembly.
"This allows us to continue to get resources out to cities and towns that have begun work to modernize their security infrastructure and ramp up safety procedures at school buildings in the wake of the horrific events on Dec. 14," said Malloy, referring to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 first graders and six educators dead.
The awards were based on a school security assessment conducted by each local school district that applied for the state funding. Each participating city and town will be reimbursed between 20 and 80 percent, taking into account a municipality's amount of taxable property and overall number of need-based students.
The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, which is administering the grant program with help from other agencies, has received applications for projects including the installation of surveillance cameras, buzzer and card entry systems, panic alarms, bullet-proof glass and electric locks.
Malloy's office said a future round of funding will be announced soon.


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Margaret Treacy is looking for a job. She'll be among a legion of mid-Hudsonites marching down the aisle this weekend to fetch college diplomas they hope will do more than decorate a wall.
Margaret Treacy is looking for a job.
She'll be among a legion of mid-Hudsonites marching down the aisle this weekend to fetch college diplomas they hope will do more than decorate a wall.
Treacy graduates Saturday with a bachelor's in communications from Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh. She's done what it takes to land a job, judging from the advice of career counselors at The Mount, SUNY Orange and SUNY New Paltz: Get a paid internship, brighten up the resume, master social media and network, network, network.
"I've had a couple of interviews so far," said Treacy, who lives in Monroe and interns at the Orange County Chamber of Commerce. "It's a long process. They want to have several interviews and also interview other people."
Job prospects for the Class of 2013 are far from encouraging. Consider a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.:
The U.S. job market has a deficit of nearly 9 million jobs. College graduates 21 to 24 years old have an 8.8 percent unemployment rate. More than 18 percent of college graduates are "underemployed," working fewer hours than desired and/or in jobs not requiring their degrees. Wages for young college graduates dropped 8.5 percent, adjusted for inflation, from 2000 to 2012.
Cassie Rosina was among an estimated 2,000 people attending the Orange County Job Fair on Wednesday at the Galleria at Crystal Run. She got her bachelor's degree in psychology from Mount Saint Mary in December.
"It's a bad job market," said Rosina, who lives in Goshen. "I'm working as a sales associate ... . We're definitely underemployed, fighting for jobs, going against people with GEDs."
She's thinking of enrolling in law school. "Ideally, I'd like to work for a big corporation that would help with school," she said.
Sarah Otterstedt, a 36-year-old mother of three, thought studying nursing at SUNY Orange would quickly equip her for a job. That was true a few years ago, but not now. Most hospitals want bachelor's degrees.
"So many of our nursing students are going on for four-year degrees," said Petra Wege-Beers, SUNY Orange's director of career and internship services.
That's Otterstedt's plan, too, after she graduates on Saturday.
"At first it was go to school for two years and get a job, but now it's not that way," said Otterstedt, a former Warwick resident who lives in Park Ridge, N.J.
The hottest jobs now are in accounting, engineering and computer science, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers of Bethlehem, Pa., a connector between campus recruiters and career services professionals. A report by the association this month found that slightly more than half of the Class of 2013's seniors with those majors have jobs waiting for them after graduation.
The slow economic recovery has left employers polled by the association planning to hire just 2 percent more new graduates this year than last, a nearly 11 percent drop from what they predicted late last year.
Career service centers at colleges offer students lessons in resume-writing and interviewing skills. They connect them with internships and run career fairs. Some even tutor students on which foods to eat when dining with a potential employer — avoid messy chicken wings — and urge holding drinks in the left hand so the right one stays dry for introductory shakes.
"The students with the most skills will have the best chance to find jobs, because employers can afford to be highly selective," said Ellen Bourhis Nolan, director of career development at Mount Saint Mary.
As for Treacy, the Chamber of Commerce intern, she approaches the job market optimistically.
"Yes, it's rough," she said, "but if you show your passion, show that you want it, you'll have no problem."


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text: Welcome to the Art Gallery of Deb OppermannI am a Canadian nature, wildlife and landscape photographer from Guelph Ontario Canada. My main interests are animals, flora, nature abstracts and scenery but I will venture into other areas. I have received special recognition in the form of competition winners and/or published images including Canadian Geographic, Canadian Wildlife, Photolife, Sigma Canada, Outdoor Photography Canada and PhotoNews. I love to spend my days in nature capturing everything from landscapes to animals to a simple flower or a minute insect. Photography for me, is both relaxing and exhilarating and every capture is pure joy. I am fortunate to have many trails in my area especially along the Speed and Eramosa Rivers, where I can hike alone and spend hours capturing life's most serene and peaceful moments. I spend as much time as I can with camera in hand and when at home, my camera is always ready for visiting wildlife like hawks and herons.In my gallery, you will also enjoy many images from vacationing in northern Ontario.Downloading, printing, altering, publishing, copying or distributing any of these images without my written consent is strictly prohibited - copyright 2020 Debbie Oppermann - All Rights Reserved


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Finishing treatment for cancer can bring about unexpected emotions. Patients often express feelings of fear, anxiety, and sadness just when they and their caregivers elect to feel joy. This presentation will highlight the various emotional and practical concerns that may arise post-treatment and will discuss ways in which to live life while managing these concerns. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
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Arnold Dean's death takes another state sports legend from us
If you are north of 40 and grew up in Connecticut, you knew two voices before all the others. It was Bob Steele in the morning and Arnold Dean at night. The voices of childhood. The voices of the state. The voices you still hear now echoing all the years later.
I still quote Bob Steele, who died 10 years ago. (This is Robert L. Steele. The "L" is for Elmer.")
And I'm proud to have known Arnold Dean, still talking to him as recently as last Saturday, at the UConn football game.
It is with profound sadness that I learned of Arnold's death over the weekend.
The Dean of Sports was 82.
He was the once and future voice of sports on WTIC Radio in Hartford. He began "Sports Talk" every night after the 6 p.m. news in the mid 70s. He is the patriarch of excellence at the state's biggest radio station, later extending to Scott Gray and Joe D'Ambrosio.
"I was 23 or 24 when I met him," said D'Ambrosio, the voice of UConn sports. "I was working at WLIS (in Old Saybrook). One of the many great things about Arnold is that he talked to everybody in the business. He always had time for everybody."
Arnold came from a more civil era. Sports talk was sports talk. Not guy talk. Not shouting. Not cutting off callers. Not self-entitlement. He was a gentleman. And it was through that ironic twist that I first met him.
Arnold was in Iowa City with the UConn women for the 1997 NCAA Regional. I'd never met him. But there we were, gathered in the first media hotel in the history of the world without a bar. Seriously. A media hotel without a bar is like a fat farm without salad: What's the point?
So, of course, we commandeered the breakfast room and turned it into a party area. We were watching the National Player of the Year announcement. Kara Wolters didn't win. I was irritated. And, somewhat loudly, spewed at least six of the George Carlin's seven words you can't say on television.
Arnold was either startled or impressed. He came up to me later and asked if I wanted to be on Sports Talk the next night to express my dismay. Dream come true. I was on with Arnold Dean. It's true how your childhood heroes are the heroes who endure.
Arnold's retirement was quite busy, still involving station work. He also spent ample time reading his e-mail. He is part of the "Pinstripe Brethren," a D'Ambrosio-created e-mail thread of various Yankee fans who pretty much complain the season away.
It's about the most fun you can have for free, believe me.
Arnold was going to join us for dinner next week when The Brethren entertain Yankees radio voice John Sterling, who has become our friend and patron saint.
What a life for Arnold Dean. He was born in Cortland, N.Y., and went to Syracuse. He came to Hartford in the 60s to broadcast the Hartford Knights, a semi-pro football team. He did the morning show after Steele retired. He once did a Big Band show on WTIC. He loved Artie Shaw. He said on WTIC's web site "athletes and musicians always impress the heck out of me."
"Arnold hosted just about every show on the station,' D'Ambrosio said. "His versatility was amazing."
Dean is best known for Sports Talk. This was back in the day there was limited sports talk everywhere. There was no WFAN. D'Ambrosio said WBZ in Boston would do a Sunday night show. There wasn't much else.
"Arnold was the guy in this market," D'Ambrosio said. "The rest of us are picking up the scraps."
The Connecticut media is so much poorer today. In recent years, we've lost Randy Smith, the brilliant columnist at the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. We lost New Haven Register columnist Dave Solomon. Now we have lost The Dean of Sports. They were all heroes of the business.
"Arnold was such a special, special person," D'Ambrosio said. "He never considered himself too big. He was never the story. It was always the game or the athlete he was talking to."
Rest in peace, Arnold. You voice will resonate always.
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.
Republican Thomas Gilmer drops out of 2nd District race after arrest
Arrest more evidence of a state GOP in decline, leadership lacking


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(CNN) -- LL Cool J's collaboration with Brad Paisley, "Accidental Racist," has kicked up a lot of dust, but the rapper seems to have expected as much.
As he told CNN, the song, which is from Paisley's newly released album "Wheelhouse," is a "bold statement" not just for country music, but for music in general.
LL joined the country star in offering what they bill as two sides to a story on race relations, prejudice and stereotypes in the U.S. Paisley sings from the perspective of "a white man comin' to you from the Southland," one who would wear a Confederate flag on his shirt to show that he's a "Skynyrd fan."
"They called it Reconstruction, fixed the buildings, dried some tears. We're still siftin' through the rubble after a hundred-fifty years," Paisley says in the song. "I try to put myself in your shoes and that's a good place to begin. But it ain't like I can walk a mile in someone else's skin. ... I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done, and it ain't like you and me can re-write history. Our generation didn't start this nation, and we're still paying for mistakes that a bunch of folks made long before we came."
In his verse, rapper/actor LL takes the perspective of a "new fangled Django, dodgin' invisible white hoods."
"Dear Mr. White Man, I wish you understood what the world is really like when you're livin' in the hood," LL rhymes in the song. "Just because my pants are saggin' doesn't mean I'm up to no good. You should try to get to know me, I really wish you would. Now my chains are gold but I'm still misunderstood - I wasn't there when Sherman's March turned the south into firewood. I want you to get paid but be a slave I never could ... So when I see that white cowboy hat, I'm thinkin' it's not all good."
He concludes his verse with a peace offering, rapping, "I guess we're both guilty of judgin' the cover not the book. I'd love to buy you a beer, conversate and clear the air. But I see that red flag and I think you wish I wasn't here."
Paisley's reps haven't responded to CNN's request for comment, but they did confirm that "Accidental Racist" was written by the country singer, along with LL Cool J and Lee Thomas Miller.
When CNN caught up with LL at Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, he said he felt the song accomplished what art is supposed to be.
"Music is about, and art is about, connecting different people, and building bridges and breaking the rules," he said. "If it's not compelling, and it's not complex and it's not interesting, then what are we doing it for? So I think that's the right move."
Plus, he concluded, he wanted to do something that was a little different from what he usually offers.
"I needed to do something that was going to be interesting like that, and shake things up, and jump out of the box," he told CNN. "I'm really proud of it, and I hope the world hears it and enjoys it."


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When Fine Dining Calls For Fine Beer
A fervent beer lover I know was sitting in a multi-starred restaurant. He'd made his food selection, and was studying the drinks menu. After glancing at the beer list, he scanned the wine pages before calling the sommelier.
"I was looking for something in a jug red," he said.
"I beg your pardon?" asked the startled sommelier.
"You know, maybe a wine that comes in a box," explained the diner.
"I'm sorry sir," said the sommelier, offended, "We only stock fine wines that complement our cuisine."
The diner swooped in for the kill. "Then why do you have such terrible beer choices?"
No restaurant worth its Zagat rating would maintain a wine selection that consisted of a half dozen brands of white zinfandel. Yet many beer lists are exactly that: several different breweries' interpretations of a single style, the ubiquitous light lager. What an opportunity lost.
Modern high-end restaurants and specialty beer breweries have much in common. Both take pride in using only the best ingredients. Flavor takes precedence over convenience. Both charge accordingly high prices, and cater to sophisticated audiences willing and able to pay those prices.
In recent years, top breweries and restaurants both have combined tradition with audacious experimentation. And both are at ease expressing local identity: these days, the best brewers, like the best chefs, create something that is far more than a faithful European knock-off.
Specialty or craft brewing shares so many characteristics with fine food that Italy's Slow Food movement immediately recognized the affinity and often showcases such beers at Slow Food events.
So it's puzzling that great food and great beer are so rarely found in the same place here at home.
For the most part, good beer exists alongside mundane food: burgers, pizza, wings and smothered nachos are staples of American brewpubs and multitaps.
There are, of course, exceptions where the food aspires to the quality of the beer: Hopleaf in Chicago; RFD (Regional Food and Drink) in Washington, DC; beerbistro in Toronto, or Monk's Cafe in Philadelphia. These are "beer-centric" restaurants, whose owners appreciate that wonderful beers deserve great food.
But what about the opposite: how often do restaurant owners realize that great food deserves wonderful beer?
Beer and the Restaurant Experience
Many fine restaurants play up their wine selections, but hide their light under a beer barrel when it comes to other beverages. Patrons may not realize that good beer is even available, or that it would make an excellent choice with the fare. Food lovers are so accustomed to wine with a meal that diners and restaurant reviewers alike may not expect or notice that an excellent restaurant has—in addition to fine food and an extensive wine list—a strong beer selection. Restaurants don't help when they make no mention of beer as an alternative.
Boston's No. 9 Park, owned by Barbara Lynch, touts its wine program, yet it has attracted attention from beer lovers in the know for the quality of its beer selection. Ryan McGrale runs the beer program, which he admits is a fraction of the restaurant's business.
But the dozen beers he stocks are all sought-after examples of the dozen different styles they represent. Diners asking for a Budweiser will be steered to a Jever pilsner, with its bitter finish, or a Brooklyn Lager. McGrale stocks the hefeweizen from German brewer Aventinus ("a richer, yeasty wheat beer"), Harpoon's well-structured IPA, Maudite from Unibroue ("wonderful with hearty meats or sirloin"), Duvel ("what a wonderful food beer"), and Saison Dupont.
Large bottles of Cisco Whale's Tale Pale Ale or Chimay Grand Reserve make an elegant statement that is completely at home in No. 9 Park's Beacon Hill setting. And diners looking for unusual flavors to finish the evening can choose between a stout from De Dolle Brouwers, Lindemans Framboise, or Melbourn Brothers Apricot Ale.
"Lots of bars in this city have amazing beer lists. People come here to a famous place because they're into the restaurant experience. The kitchen is preparing amazing food, our wine list is excellent: our beer selection should be, too."
It Starts with the Chef
Traditional culinary training equips budding chefs with a basic-to-good understanding of wine, but beer is rarely part of the curriculum. Never the less, a number of celebrity chefs have reputations as "good beer guys," according to Wendy Littlefield, co-founder of Belgian beer distributor Vanberg and deWulf. She cites Rick Moonen, Emeril Lagasse, and Charlie Trotter as examples of chefs who appreciate—although they may not sell—beer.
And she notes a natural appeal beer has for professionals: "Most chefs don't drink wine at the end of the night: it's too heavy. They drink beer."
When a chef takes the lead in bringing great beer to the customers, the public notices.
Greg Higgins makes every beer expert's list of beer-savvy chefs. Higgins Restaurant in Portland, OR, is nationally known for promoting fine local beers and Belgian ales along with its fresh, Northwest cuisine.
Beer dean and Portland resident Fred Eckhardt traces the origin of a well-known beer concoction: "Greg Higgins invented the stout float I have gotten so much mileage from." At the restaurant, Eckhardt says, "He simply promotes Belgian and other wonderful beer imports, plus local and nationally known craft beers, and has an excellent draft beer list."
Higgins' sommelier Warren Steenson is equally enthuaiastic: "Greg Higgins is one of the most knowledgeable chefs I know. His love of edibles and drinkables is unlimited, and that includes beer. People don't want a Bud and a steak; they are looking for true pairings of beer and food.
With over 125 beers on offer, it's difficult to single out favorites. "It's the little guys I really appreciate," says Steenson. "Their beers might offend people who aren't ready to get their feet wet, but these are wonderful beers, worth taking a chance on."
Part of the Landscape
It's hardly surprising that Higgins has made his mark in Oregon. In that part of the country, it's almost impossible not to have beer on the menu. The Pacific Northwest is where the modern American beer revolution began, and beer lovers there are among the country's most knowledgeable.
Further north, in Seattle, Charles Finkel, who was responsible for introducing American audiences to many previously unknown European selections, balked at naming individual restaurants that excel at presenting food and beer.
"A restaurant? Can I name the whole city? You can't go to a restaurant in Seattle without a few micros and some nice imported beers, and staff that have a basic understanding of beer and how to make it part of a pleasurable experience. Beer is a profit center and a part of fine dining here."
Several restaurant groups in the region are committed to bringing beer to the table. Of the four restaurants that make up the Tom Douglas Restaurant Group, the Palace Kitchen is probably the most beer friendly, while still committed to good food.
While more bar-oriented than the white-table cloth Dahlia Lounge, the Palace Kitchen maintains the founder's commitment to using fresh local ingredients in unusual combinations. Chef Sean Hartley Hartley cites the house-made venison sausage with cornichon as an ideal companion to a dunkel weizen ale.
"We serve hearty-flavored food," says Hartley. "We have six taps, most featuring Washington and local Northwest beers. Tom recognizes the charm of local products. He believes you should promote the people around you."
"Beer's just part of the landscape here. You just expect to have some nice choices."
A Fresh Look at Beer
Green Zebra confounds expectations: in meat-loving Chicago, this largely vegetarian restaurant has won accolades and an enthusiastic following. With its spare, modern interior and fresh, sophisticated menu, it may seem like the least likely place to order a beer, but Green Zebra understands that beer offers many more flavor possibilities beyond light lager.
Principal partner Sue Kim-Drohomyrecky explained, "The main thing is to find beers that are as appropriate to our food as possible, as well as beers that are different and new. I wanted to give our guests a different spectrum of beer choice."
What will a diner drink with dishes such as like avocado panna cotta and chilled organic beets with a creamy mascarpone foam?
"The flavors [at Green Zebra] are fairly pure, the preparations are well thought-out, but they are simple ones that enhance the qualities of the food itself. In the beer, I looked for delicacy, complexity, and high acid: something bright and sprightly."
Kim-Drohomyrecky described Green Zebra's "two-tier" beer program: we have a few well-recognized beers: Goose Island Pilsner, and Stella Artois, a crisp classic.
Then, there is a short but creative list of more exotic brews. Kim-Drohomyrecky selected Hitachino Red Rice Ale, which she described as "sake-like, very tart, with nice acidity and a hint of strawberry." Vuuve, a Belgian wit beer has "beautiful fruit, with citrus and spices." She picked Mestreechs Aajt, a Flemish red ale for its "good amount of tartness, a hint of sour cherries, lightly tart, even a little chocolate."
We didn't go for porter or stout: they're too heavy for our menu," she continues.
The beer choices have worked so well Kim-Drohomyrecky has started a similar program at Spring, the longer-established restaurant that is also co-owned with chef Shawn McClain. There, the larger beer list includes La Chouffe and the hard-to-find Italian craft beer Nora from Le Baladin. "It tastes a little like balsamic vinegar," adds Kim-Drohomyrecky, referring to the beer's deep, aged complexity.
Top Taps in New York
Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, is one of the most visible advocates for beer's place at the table. He praises Gramercy Tavern in New York for understanding the versatility of beer, and beer's ability to complement the tavern's eclectic New American cuisine. "Gramercy Tavern was voted a top restaurant in New York in Zagats. They have a serious wine list, and an excellent beer list: 12 taps, and a great bottle list selling at premium prices that people are glad to pay."
At Gramercy Tavern, the beer and food partnership is fully matured. General manager Kevin Mahon waxes as enthusiastic about beer as wine.
He tackles the problem restaurant managers grapple with: what to offer the high-end diner who asks for a mundane beer.
"We like to promote local breweries that are doing such a terrific job. Carol Stoudt in Pennsylvania has a damn good pilsner, no other way to say it. We'll steer people to that beer who come in asking for a Bud or an Amstel Light or a Heineken—or we'll steer them to a Staropramen if they're in the bar. The idea is that if they ask for a Bud, or Heineken or Amstel Light, Michelob, Corona, we have something in that ilk, but from a smaller, boutique producer, something with a little more character that they'll enjoy more."
Gramercy Tavern features Anchor Liberty Ale, Victory Hop Devil, Unibroue Maudite, the Abbey Ale and Monster Barley Wine (served in appropriately smaller glasses) from Brooklyln Brewing Co., and Rogue Chocolate Stout on draft, as well as an impressive bottle selection.
"For the already-converted who know they like beer, the staff does a great job. For example, someone knows Chimay, and knows they enjoy Belgian beers. If the Chimay may be a little heavy for a dish, we have a wide spectrum and can suggest an alternative."
Mahon reserves his greatest enthusiasm for beer and food combinations. "We've discovered that some beers go especially well with certain dishes, We paired scallops with sauterne jelly with Éphémère from Unibroue—it was almost too much! With roasted meats, I love more robust ales—Corsondonk Brown or Schneider Aventinus, with all that dark fruit.
But the home we've really found is beer with cheese. J.W. Lees Harvest Ale has a vinous character; it's sweet, rich, and high in alcohol. With put that with a double or triple cream cheese or by itself, it's fantastic. Or we'd suggest one of the lambics. They have the fruit quality of a red wine, with the acidity and effervescence to be the ideal palate cleanser with cheese."
Confounding Expectations
Diners know that Asian fare is usually a tough match with wine. If they offer anything beyond American mainstream beers, Asian restaurants naturally stock the beers of their home country: Tsing Dao with Chinese food, Sapporo with Japanese, Singha with Thai.
However, these national beers are all basically the same German-derived pilsner style, which arrived in the respective countries centuries after the cuisine was well established. Some are tasty, but nothing is sacrosanct: there is plenty of room to experiment.
The fact that Japanese beer lovers are major consumers of the idiosyncratic beers of Belgium hints that there is potential in this cross-cultural pairing, a potential that has been spotted by a tiny San Francisco restaurant.
The House is a small Pan-Asian gem among the Italian restaurants that dominate San Francisco's North Beach. The décor is spare and thoughtful; the cuisine borrows from both China and Japan, as well as California.
Jeff Anderson buys wine and beer for The House. Although he stocks a couple of regional beers and a European pilsner, most of his beers are Belgian or Belgian–styled.
"I find Belgian beers go really well with the food we have. Doing fusion cuisine, the flavors are bolder, but clean; they match up with the complexity and richness of the beers. People are looking for interesting styles of beer."
"The richer styles like Ommegang go well with fish dishes. The malty sweetness can balance the spicy ginger and soy. In wines, I carry a lot of Rieslings and lighter reds, but beer and sake are often a much better match."
The beer list also includes Unibroue's Blanch de Chambly; and a wide selection from New Belgium in Colorado, including the acidic black beer 1554; the earthy, citrusy Bière de Mars; and the fresh raspberry-filled Frambozen.
Beer and White Tablecloths
In the world of beer and good food, missed opportunities abound. Otherwise wonderful restaurants ignore beer completely, or fail to give decent beer selections any visibility.
The obscurity of beer may reflect financial concerns: wine is generally a more profitable beverage for restaurants than beer. However, the conventional wisdom that applies to single bottles of mainstream beer breaks down when restaurants include rare imported or microbrewed beers on their menus. Granted, the finest beers never approach the stratospheric prices of the finest wines, but if a table of four decides to match gourmet beer with each course, the cost won't be too different from the cost of mid-range wines.
In search of a larger role, beer is up against a circular logic that says that diners at fine restaurants don't want beer, therefore it is not a priority for the restaurant, therefore good beer is not available for discovery by diners or restaurant staff.
The restaurants that break out of that cycle appreciate that the beer list should match the expectations set by the food menu and the wine list. The successful restaurants can build on a tradition of beer with food, or explore new synergies, but the emphasis is on exciting flavor combinations. Conventional beer drinkers are offered a chance to "trade up" from a mainstream beer to a more flavorful alternative; while knowledgeable beer lovers have a selection of that needn't be long, but is of impressive quality.
Gramercy Park's Mahon reflects, "We're not necessarily championing beer, because nobody's following. You can't beat people over the head with this. Before you can experiment with beer and food, you need to experiment with beer. Until you've tasted cooked dark fruit flavor in a beer, or green apple acidity in a beer, or vintage beers that age in the bottle like wine, you're not aware of the amazing range. So much passion goes into making these beers, they really are the alternative and complement to the wine list."
Julie Johnson Bradford
Julie Johnson Bradford is the editor of All About Beer Magazine.
I know this is an old article, but I stumbled upon it, and had to comment. One of my continuing complaints is that good (food) restaurants know nothing about beer and good brewpubs know nothing about food. (I should also add most restaurants in general have generally crappy food, but that's another pet peeve.) I cannot count the number of times I enjoyed a great beer at a brew pub only to be served some of the most disappointing food. It almost seems to me that the better the beer gets, the worse the food gets. And not to be too alliterative, I don't get it. Of course, even at a good food place, good wine is only found if the place has someone employed for whom that is a specialty. Brewpubs need to seek out some better chefs, and perhaps if there were a fancy French word like sommelier for an equivalent beer expert, we could get somewhere at the existing good eats places.
old article but the best restaurants with great beer are in vermont
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(Reuters) - Donald Sterling, banned from owning a pro basketball team for inflammatory remarks he made about African Americans, called the National Basketball Association's action illegal because it was based on a "lover's quarrel" that was "illegally recorded."
"This was an argument between a jealous man and the woman he loved that should never have left the privacy of the living room," Sterling said in a letter to the NBA obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Reuters was unable to confirm the authenticity of the letter.
Sterling, controlling owner of the Los Angeles Clippers for 33 years, came under fire after TMZ.com posted an audio recording of him criticizing a female friend for publicly associating with black people, including NBA great "Magic" Johnson.
The NBA said in a statement on Tuesday night that it had received a response from Donald and Shelly Sterling regarding his termination, and added that the league's Board of Governors will hold a vote on eliminating Sterling's stake at a hearing set for June 3, when he can address the charges before his fellow owners.
If at least 23 of the other 29 owners vote to terminate Sterling's ownership of the franchise, the Clippers would have to be sold, the NBA said.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said last week he would prefer to let Donald Sterling and his wife Shelley Sterling sell the team "on a reasonable timetable" rather than proceed with trying to forcibly terminate their ownership.
Sterling handed controlling interest in his team to his wife, the co-owner, and she began negotiating with the league to sell the club, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources.
Sterling said in the letter that he has received offers "in excess of $2.5 billion" for the team, but did not name potential buyers.
Reporting By Ronald Grover; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore


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Worst because of all those "intervention" reports. Sure, sure, let them blame the girl, Hemsworth. Let her take the hit while you had January Jones straddling you at an Oscar party.
But best because…
Can you imagine breaking up with someone and then her face is, literally, EVERYWHERE? Liam Hemsworth could not escape Miley Cyrus in 2013. He turned to the right and her ass was up in the air. He turned to the left and her tongue was in his face. He turned to the middle and she's on every top 10 list of the year.
Meanwhile, what does he have to show for it? A model who used him to leverage her own name. Three movies that sucked sh-t (Love & Honour, Paranoia, and Empire State), and one hit for which he can take no credit because Jennifer Lawrence is everything.
And she can't stop…
She won't give him a break to close it out. Adore You, the video, drops on Thursday.
Champagne toast to you, Liam Hemsworth. Happy New Year.
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As I was 'plurking' this afternoon, I soon discovered that several people were missing many of their Twitter followers. For many of us, tweeting and plurking is serious business and crucial to professional development. Through the tweets and plurks, I learn a great deal about new technology tools, if someone is streaming a workshop or session live, advice on tech strategies and tools, as well as where and what people are eating for dinner. Granted, the posts about eating dinner or going to bed are not posts that help me grow professionally but the two micro blog tools are my lifeline to what is currently happening in the ed tech world. It is live, up close, and personal with notices of all kinds of learning opportunities available for free presented from all parts of the world.
This evening I noticed on my Twitter profile page that the problem of followers 'disappearing' from our lists was 'almost finished'. I took a screenshot as I found the notice interesting but I don't have complete confidence in the efficiency of restoring the missing followers.
I haven't found an application that has the same features of Skitch where you can highlight and draw on screenshots so I only have a plain screenshot here with a poorly handdrawn circle around the statement of 'almost all'. The statement doesn't cause me to have much confidence in the restoration process.
Just for kicks since I wasn't receiving all of my Tweets, I checked out Twitter's blog and they had a post about the problem of the missing followers. Their explanation of the process is shown below:
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Update: This has been fixed but the actual numbers and profile pictures might not look right until tomorrow afternoon due to caching.
Recently, some people began noticing a decline in their following and follower numbers. We investigated and determined this was caused by an error during a database upgrade. We'll be restoring followers throughout the day to those who were affected and keeping the status blog and Get Satisfaction forum updated with specifics.
So by tomorrow afternoon Twitter profiles 'might' not look right due to a caching difficulty. Okay, but will all of my followers and their tweets show up en masse? I don't think anyone really knows.
To show how important tweets are to us, a fellow edublogger Tom Barrett posted a picture to his Flickr account showing the breakdown of his Professional Learning Network (PLN). The picture was included in his post about missing his Twitter Connections and posted to Flickr. I found it extremely interesting as if I were graph my connections to learning from other ed tech colleagues the dispersion of resources would be very similar.
Notice the amount of the graph attributed to Twitter. I definitely concur that Twitter is a crucial piece of learning in my PLN. If you graphed your PLN resources how much would be allocated for learning from Twitter or Plurk? Stop and think about it – it just may surprise you the depth and volume of learning that occurs from micro blogging. So please continue to Tweet and Plurk and continue to make those networking connections.


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What polynomial, when factored over the field $GF (2^8)$ based on the irreducible polynomial that is used in Rijndael, will factor into all the polynomials in the field?
As I understand it, the polynomial should be an irreducible polynomial and this polynomial must factor all the polynomials. How can I get this polynomial? What steps should I follow?


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Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management: Management Information Systems
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One of a generation of British kids, drawn without rhyme or reason, to sounds from a far away world. A world of field holler, despair, Levee camp and chain-gang moans; of Saturday night fish-fry and Juke Joint foot stomp.A million miles lay between the brooding pulse of Mississippi Delta life and the sanitized shelter of the timid English boy, circa 1962.
50 years on – drawing from a lifetime of adventures, tracking the dark, beautiful resonator, Plant follows his heart and lifts his voice higher and joyous ever away – and beyond –A voice of experience and learning from the sounds of Southside Chicago Electric Blues; of Griot mantras from West Africa; from Louisiana Dance Halls; Greenwich Village Folk hangover; Haight Ashbury indulgences; Moroccan medina breakbeat; the early English radical techno materials, Texas two-step and Bristol Dubstep.Before his recent projects in Nashville with Alison Krauss and Band of Joy, Plant worked alongside the very interesting force, "Strange Sensation", recording the critically acclaimed, multi-Grammy nominated albums – "Dreamland" and "Mighty Rearranger". From this platform, Sensational Space Shifters has developed. Now together these confederates and conspirators dig deeper and more intensely, always twisting and turning, bringing the past into a brilliant technicolour present.
It is impressive company:
Justin Adams- a childhood in the Middle East and teenage years with a soundtrack ofUKpunk set the tone forAdams' musical adventures. He has produced Grammy winning Desert poets Tinariwen and Algerian Rai rebel Rachid Taha, as well as playing guitar and writing with Jah Wobble, Sinead O' Connor , Natasha Atlas and many more. Three award winning albums with Juldeh Camara for Peter Gabriel's Real World label have been the latest in a series of collaborations with Master Musicians from North andWest Africa.
John Baggott- one of the originators of the Bristol Trip hop sound, Baggott cut his teeth as a teenage piano prodigy playing with visiting US legends like Jimmy Witherspoon and Charlie Feathers. He contributed to seminal work by Portishead, combining musicality with cutting edge sonic texturing and sampling, which led him to become a member of the Massive Attack team. He has also composed film and tv music for Emmy award winning documentaries and most recently worked with songstress Anna Calvi on a new album.
Juldeh Camara- Juldeh was taught the Ritti ( one- string African Violin) by his blind Griot father , who was reputedly taught himself by the forest spirits ofGambiawho took his eyesight in return for the gift . A traditional Fulani village musician , Juldeh's exceptional talent and charisma took him first toBanjul,Gambia's capital and then around the world with Ifang Bondi . HearingAdams' Desert inflected Blues he decided the two should collaborate , which led to the groundbreaking Juju records, and in turn to his work with Plant ,where the connections between the Blues and Mother Africa turn full circle.
Billy Fuller – Fuller has been exceptionally creative in the past few years, as a founder member of post rock trio Beak , together with Portishead's Geoff Barrow, he has made two albums and played at the ultra- cool All Tomorrow's Parties Festival amongst many others. He has contributed to albums by Massive Attack , the soundtrack for the Banksy movie "Exit via the Gift Shop", guested with Portishead, and toured with Adams and Camara in JuJu. A rock solid bassist he is a vinyl junkie with consummate taste.
Liam "Skin" Tyson- a surreal Scouser ( Liverpudlian ) who now lives in theMistyMountainsofNorth Wales, his combination of Pastoral acoustic open tuned guitars and electric 21st century psychedelia make him a perfect foil for Plant's balladry and fire. He made a massive impact with Brit Pop group Cast in the 90s who had a succession of chart hits, mentored by figures like producer John Leckie. He built a studio in his Barn where he recorded his Men from Mars project and from where he nurtures local bands in between surfing and touring.
Dave Smith – originally trained as a jazz drummer and orchestral percussionist, a chance encounter with West African music led Smith to study sabar drumming inGambiaover a ten year period. He is the hub of a scene of Jazz and electronic improvisers based around the Vortex club inLondon, where he leads groups such as Fofoulah and Ruhabi , incorporating polyrhythmic African drive into their music. Headhunted by Adams and Camara , he brought a Ginger Baker like energy to their music which now moves to another level in the context of the Sensational Space Shifters.
Plant revels in the excitement generated by the collision of these remarkably powerful forces. Though his contribution to Pop Culture began with his work with Led Zeppelin, his path since has been uncompromising: keep it fresh, spin the bottle, dig deep, embrace the past – visit it – celebrate it – but don't build a home in it.


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State Group AAA quarterfinals (at Jefferson District Park in Fairfax):
Singles (9 a.m.):
Michael Holt (Mills Godwin) vs. Sam Stearney (Princess Anne);
Scott Huang (Lake Braddock) vs. Houston Ward (Stonewall Jackson of Manassas);
Frederic Lilland (Princess Anne) vs. Brett Moorhead (Cosby);
Matine Temory (Gar-Field) vs. Nik Padmanabhan (McLean)
Doubles (1 p.m.):
Matt Waddell and Bharani Sankar (Deep Run) vs. Ward and Devon Norton (Stonewall Jackson);
Lilland and Stearney (Princess Anne) vs. Conor Moran and Jeffery Li (Chantilly);
Alex Craig and Wesley Wong (Freedom of South Riding) vs. Holt and Jack Rotty (Mills Godwin);
Huang and Alex Nesterovich (Lake Braddock) vs. Jake Fields and Stuart McCroskey (Menchville)
Group AA singles tournament (at Virginia Tech):
Semifinals (9 a.m.):
Chiraag Shetty (Tabb) vs. Will Coffey (Blacksburg);
Cam Scot (Western Albemarle) vs. Scottie Taylor (E.C. Glass)
Final (noon):
Semifinal winners
Group A singles tournament (at Radford University):
Semifinals (9 a.m.):
Drew Barsamian (Appomattox Regional Governor's School) vs. Rhodes Kline (George Wythe of Wytheville), 9 a.m.
Kan Tagami (George Mason) vs. John Ferguson (Gate City), 9 a.m.
Final (noon):
Semifinal winners
Girls tennis
State Group AAA quarterfinals (at Jefferson District Park in Fairfax):
Singles (9 a.m.):
Caroline Mosberg (Deep Run) vs. Victoria Olivarez (First Colonial);
Morgan Yang (West Springfield) vs. Kathleen Namey (Colonial Forge);
Emily Pence (Ocean Lakes) vs. Christine Abbott (Midlothian);
Rachel Halinski (Forest Park) vs. Faby Chaillo (George Marshall)
Doubles (1 p.m.):
Lauren Denuel and Jamie Cochrane (Cosby) vs. Mel Waterman and Clara Sartor (Broad Run);
Olivarez and Rachel Wardell (First Colonial) vs. Yang and Molly Prins (West Springfield);
Rachel Halinski and Adrienne Travis (Forest Park) vs. Mosberg and Tori Brown (Deep Run);
Sydney Goodson and Kathryn Emery (Langley) vs. Kait Brogan and Ally McNulty (Cox)
Group AA singles tournament (at Virginia Tech):
Semifinals (9 a.m.):
Wiktoria Plawska (York) vs. Lauren Sledd (Cave Spring);
Sunnie Lampl (Woodgrove) vs. Julie Clark (E.C. Glass)
Final (noon):
Semifinal winners
Group A singles tournament (at Radford University):
Semifinals (9 a.m.):
Aly Metz (Appomattox Regional Governor's School) vs. Grace Sarver (Bland County);
Molly Barb (Central of Woodstock) vs. Rosa Smith (Gate City)
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Semifinal winners
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International League:
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Eastern League:
Richmond at New Hampshire, 7:05
Coastal Plain League:
Petersburg vs. Peninsula Pilots (at War Memorial Stadium), 7:05
American Legion:
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Denbigh Post 368 vs. Greenbrier Post 280 (at Oscar Smith High), 7
Smithfield Post 49 vs. Newport News Post 25 (at Menchville High), 7
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Anyone here wants to run Nurburgring at night? Nothing serious just for fun !
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i'm down to race for fun... but I would like to have some drift meets with people too.. anyways my PSN is SRA__Kenji <--- two underscores
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I'd be glad to join. I usually love 400BHP races. I find it fun to go against low powered cars but driven by good drivers that know how to tune there cars.
Oh and I barely just started drifting. Drifting from GT4 to GT5 is a bit different, so its just too much If I do drift online. But its fun as well
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Licentiate in Translation, Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes, 1987.
TV addict, I'm also lover of literature and a fan of fantasy film.
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Master's degree in Multidisciplinary Translation, FTI-EII UMons, 2018.
Sighthounds are my great love! I have two of my own: an Italian Greyhound known as Nelson and an adopted Saluki called Farsi.
I love Ravel, Haris Alexiou, nonfiction and detectives.
As Office Assistant I mainly look after invoicing and finances.
Scrum half, tackle dodger, try scorer. Motto: leave it all on the field.
BA (Hons) in Swedish and History, Coleg Prifysgol Dewi Sant, 1991.
The bee's knees in apiculture and conflict resolution.
Licentiate in Translation, Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes, 1985.
In my student days my passion for Slavic languages was indulged; since then I've honed my skills in marketing and miscellaneous corporate communication.
At home a lover and maker of music (from Bowie to Bach, Schubert and Brel).
Secret wish: to show off my vocal agility as the Queen of the Night.
Clued-up on investment gurus and organic farmers, drum solos and world hour records, linguistic universals and West Flemish dialects.
A sucker for atlases and dictionaries.
Licentiate in Germanic languages, KU Leuven, 2002.
Credo: translation is about working as a team. Like restaurant kitchen staff preparing dishes against the clock, precisely to the taste of the diners.
Licentiate in Romance Philology, Université catholique de Louvain, 1976.
I gained my master's degree in applied linguistics (translation) from Erasmus University College Brussels, graduating in 2011.
At CT Belgium, I specialise in financial translations into Dutch.
Away from the office – believe it or not – I'm a gifted gamer and self-confessed movie lover.
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Licentiate in Translation, Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes, 2005.
A self-styled fount of knowledge on healthy eating, homemade lipstick and serial killers. (Ask away!)
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The southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) is one of the largest bony fish in the world (3). The incredibly streamlined and powerful body is deepest near the middle of the first dorsal fin (4) and tapers to a pointed snout (3). The lower half of the body is silvery white, whilst the anal fin is a dusky yellow colour (4). The tail is crescent-shaped (3) and the first dorsal fin has a yellow or blueish hue (4).
Southern bluefin tuna spend their lives swimming constantly through the oceans cruising at two to three kilometres per hour (5), although they are able to reach speeds of 70 kilometres per hour (6). Individuals swim together in shoals and these migrate vast distances from spawning grounds in the Indian Ocean to feeding grounds in colder southern waters (4). It is thought that females do not spawn until they reach around 1.5 metres in length, which corresponds to at least eight years of age (5). A mature female will produce several million eggs in one spawning period (5). The breeding season runs from September and October until March (4), and occurs in Indonesian waters (5). Juvenile southern bluefin tuna are then known to group together during the summer months in coastal waters off the southern coast of Australia until they reach around five years old, after which they are more consistently associated with deeper waters (5).
These oceanic fish are opportunistic feeders, preying on a wide variety of other fish as well as crustaceans, cephalopods (such as squid and octopus) and other marine animals (7). Southern bluefin tuna are thought to be long-lived with a life expectancy possibly as long as 40 years (6).
Found throughout the southern oceans, mainly between 30 and 50° South. Southern bluefin tuna breeding takes place just southeast of the island of Java, Indonesia (5).
The southern bluefin tuna is pelagic, inhabiting the open oceans mainly in cold temperate waters (4).
The southern bluefin tuna is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List (1).
The southern bluefin tuna has been heavily exploited over the years and has been fished to the brink of extinction (6). During the 1960s, the annual catch was around 80,000 tonnes worldwide (5). The flesh of this species has a particularly high fat content and is prized in Japan especially for 'sashimi' markets (5), where an individual fish can fetch as much as US$ 10,000 (4). Fishing mainly takes the form of purse seine netting in Australia (6), and longline fishing in the other range states; namely New Zealand, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia (5).
In 1994, Australia, Japan and New Zealand signed the Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna in an attempt to curb the overfishing of this species (5). The Commission for the Conservation of the Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) has subsequently formed and in 2001, was joined by the Republic of Korea (5). The objective of the Commission is to ensure the conservation and optimum utilisation of the global southern bluefin tuna fishery, through management measures including reduced fishing quotas and research (5). Some scientists and conservationists are worried, however, that the Commission does not go far enough, and that global breeding stocks, having been reduced by as much as 97%, will require more drastic measures if they are ever to recover (6).
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