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What is a Good Science Fiction Book?Credit: Nardsdesign
What is a good science fiction book and how did I conclude that these particular ten were the best ones? To begin, by definition, there's only room for ten, best classic science fiction books on the list so, of course, I had to leave some deserving authors out of the mix. Secondly, it's my list and it is completely subjective. Make what you will of that comment.
Nevertheless, if you enjoy science fiction, I hope to give you a semblance of a starting point to see how the modern form of this genre has progressed from its early roots to its modern actualization. It is imporatnt to bear in mind that each and every one of the novels on this list was written over 25 years ago. It is simply a testament to the foresight and writing skills of their authors that these novels are still, not only readable, but also extremely relevant to today's world. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I did.
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Isaac Asimov
While Hari Seldon and his disciples predict and manage it all behind the scenes, through their use of pyscho-history, the main players, the General and the Mule, struggle mightily to avoid their respective fates. F&E vividly portrays the socio-political conflicts that influence this future society and that permeate our own even now, 60 years after its publication. This novel is, as are its prequel and sequels, eminently readable as pure space opera or as a thought provoking insight into the human psyche.
The Stars My Destination (1956)
Starting as a captured merchant spaceman, Gully Foyle, bespectacled in full face tattoo, endures adventure after adventure as he charms, bribes and blackmails his way across the galaxy. Despite his repeated failures, Gully is special for he learns the secret to "jaunting" across apace and not just planets. Have a little faith and read this spectacular but somewhat unnerving look in to the basest motivations of the human race.
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960)
Predating the purges performed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia by a decade, Miller's description of the Simpletons and their methods is incredibly prescient. Leibowitz, a former Jew turned Roman Catholic, defies this mob and is eventually betrayed and martyred. Leibowitz's legacy has only begun, however. Mankind does rise again but to what ultimate end? The novel is justifiably renowned for its scholarship, literary skill and its consideration of knowledge, religion and absolute truth.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Robert Heinlein
One of Heinlein's more difficult novels to "grok," SIASL still holds a fascination for those interested in society's conflicted mores about vice and virtue. Ostensibly raised as a Martian, the orphaned Valentine Michael Smith is eventually returned home to Earth by a rescue party. He is at once incredibly wealthy – he owns Mars – and indescribably naïve. His travels throughout Earth, as he discovers sex, drugs and violence, makes for an unforgettable novel. Be sure to look for the unexpurgated version.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Philip K. Dick
While I'll admit an unwholesome fascination with the alternate history of S.M. Stirling and the Draka, Philip K. Dick is the one author who always provokes some serious thinking regardless of the setting. It is 1962 and the Fascist powers have reigned supreme in WW2. They now conspire and intrigue against each other. The novel is wonderful as a "what if" story but Mr. Dick interlaces it with all sorts of interesting hypotheses. From the draining of the Mediterranean to space travel to Mars to alternate history, novel-within-a-novel, Mr. Dick is at his best.
Ringworld (1970)
Imagine a constructed world that is one million miles wide and completely circles their star at the same distance as the Earth circles the Sun. Those facts describe Ringworld and, to put it in perspective, it has approximately three million times more area than our own planet Earth. Almost needless to say, this environment provides endless possibilities which Mr. Niven and other writers have explored in dozens of other novels and short stories. Still, the first time is always the best and the original Ringworld novel is a great romp through a great universe.
The Forever War (1974)
Two soldiers, William Mandella and Marygay Potter, and their comrades always fight, usually die and sometimes survive in this brutally honest but ultimately heartwarming story of war and love. Conscripted in the early years of a war against an alien enemy, the Taurans, recruits undergo a grueling set of training exercises where pass/fail means the difference between living and dying. Unfortunately for those who survive, the worst is yet to come. Since neither side has a faster than light drive, time dilaton has a serious effect. One never knows if he will encounter an enemy with weapons from the past or from the future. The results are typically military, snafu'd.
The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
This novel is undeniably attractive as it is one of the few to posit an alien species with more problems than our own. Throughout their history, the aliens of the planet described as the Mote, have never been able to reliably control their urge to propagate. Combined with relative isolation of their planet, this proclivity inevitably leads to overpopulation, massive wars and a breakdown in civilization. The Moties always plan for this and leave a technological archive behind the "Door." Can the humans help stop this abominable cycle. Only Crazy Eddie knows for sure.
Neuromancer (1984)
William Gibson
Not too bad for a first novel, Neuromancer not only won a Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dock award, it also essentially created the entire cyberpunk genre. Henry Case and his savior, Molly Millions, traipse across an ever lighted Chiba City landscape while attempting to outhustle the powers that be. The novel is particularly dark in that in with every success, the protagonists use the gains to disable themselves with old afflictions. An excellent work that has had enormous influence on rue literature but that may have also promulgated interest in the much less palatable graphic novel phenomenon.
Ender's Game (1985)
Easily the weakest entry on the list, I include it because it is one of the few, excellent sci-fi novels that can be understood by a child. Indeed, the novel is rife with the themes of duty, honor and responsibility. It should be included in the curriculum of every grammar school in the country. It is a far better choice for educating our children than the discredited claptrap of Rachel Carson, the pseudo-intellectual ghost writings of Hilary Clinton and the semi-literate drivel of Maya Angelou. One precaution, however; only read every other chapter.
Rather watch a science fiction movie? Check out this article, "The Best Science Fiction Movies by Decade."
N.B. Yes, I have heard of H.G. Welles, Philip Jose Farmer, Arthur C Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Frederick Pohl and, of course, Cordwainer Bird – so don't bother. Thanks for getting this far, I'd love to know what you think about the Best Classic Science Fiction Books. Regards - hil


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24 Rep Picks to Read this Fall
by Brooke
Art & Photography + Biography & Memoir + Essays + Fiction + Food & Drink + Graphica + Humour + Kids + Picture Books + YA Fiction / October 03, 2016
Fall is here! And fall = not feeling guilty about staying in all weekend with your books. So if you're ready to curl up with a blanket and a good read, but not sure which book to pair with your pumpkin spice beverage, let some of the pros help you out with some of their favourite books of the fall season.
Judy Parker
by Sarah Domet
"I am eagerly anticipating The Guineveres. The editors at Flatiron Books have not yet let me down as they have introduced me to new voices and new stories in the past. Debut author Domet's story of the complicated nature of female friendship is already receiving early rave reviews, including a comparison to The Virgin Suicides. I can't wait!"
by Marsha Diane Arnold, illustrated by Renata Liwska
Dani Farmer
Ryan Muscat
"Jeff Chang is one of America's most astute cultural observers, and in We Gon' Be Alright, he turns his attention to race in America in light of police killings of unarmed civilians, Ferguson, and Black Lives Matter. Chang is the acclaimed author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation, and Who We Be. Built around a central essay on Ferguson and the killing of Michael Brown, We Gon' Be Alright is an impassioned and charged look at the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race in America."
"In what's sure to be an instant classic in the vein of Ramona Quimby, Gertie's Leap to Greatness is a sweet and heartwarming story about a precocious and sassy young girl trying to be the best fifth grader ever, in order to show her absent mother what she'll be missing if she leaves town. This is a masterful debut novel for Kate Beasley, and the book is also filled with gorgeous illustrations by the fantastic Toronto cartoonist Jillian Tamaki, a Governor General's Award and Caldecott-winning veteran."
Laurie Martella
Lorna MacDonald
Saffron Beckwith
Jenny Enriquez
by Tom Gauld
by Claudia Rueda
Karen Beattie
Ali Hewitt

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Wow Dog Such Game Much Fun Well Parody, Well if you don't understand those words I got some bad news for you. Those who actually think that Flappy Bird has been removed from the Play Store and happy to see that, well I don't mean to startle you, but instead of Flappy Bird, now Flappy Doge is ruining everyone mood. Instead of that stupid Bird, there is a Cute Dog, who is a part of a famous meme now a days, is flapping its way through the pipes. The gameplay and graphics are the same, except there is a huge dog in background and some text has been modified. If you think that Flappy Bird was not fun, try this one, you will absolutely love it.You can download this app From Google Play store, but we are hearing a lot of people having problem with Google Play Store, so we are providing the link of Apk File of Flappy Doge.
Before we get any further, lets look at the Features of Flappy Doge:
- Such Dog instead of Bird.
- Game gets a little easy.
- Huge dog in background.
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- Death Sentence is "Such Death"
- FAP instead Flap
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- Allows your device to Install from Unknown Sources. Go to Settings > Security and Tap Unknown Source.
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- While installing, if ask for any Installation Process, Choose "Package Installer" and if there is a Pop-Up Choose "Decline"
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Helga's diary | Helga Weiss
Andrew Green - 28 April 2013
Clues in the recently published childhood diary of Helga Weiss lead Andrew Green to a conversation with the venerable survivor, and memories of music at Terezín begin to flow
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If disaster strikes, how exactly does a eurozone nation hit the emergency escape button on the euro?
Once considered an outlandish scenario, it is no longer taboo among economists.
Whether it is the entire euro project collapsing or just one country jettisoning the single currency, analysts agree on rule number one: Prevent panic.
If the currency itself implodes, eurozone authorities could no longer recognise the euro as a common currency, said Paulo Reis Mourao of the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal.
"This would trigger a series of procedures that would require national central banks to issue currencies again," he said.
The old currencies have been destroyed, even if Europeans are estimated to have kept a fair bit of the old money in their drawers: the equivalent of 6.8 billion euros in German marks, 1.7 billion euros in pesetas, 1.3 billion euros in lira and 600 million euros in French francs.
It would take months for national mints to produce new currencies, and some countries would have to abandon producing the euro during that period. Spain, for example, now prints five- and 20-euro notes.
According to a Wall Street Journal report Thursday, some European central banks are considering how to reprint their national currencies. Irish officials quoted in the story denied they were doing so, however.
If the weaker eurozone members' currencies such as the Greek drachma, Spanish peseta and Portuguese escudo were revived, their values would likely plunge while the German mark would gain strength, analysts said.
Prices of imported products such as oil would soar.
"Our purchasing power would slump," Mourao said. "We would need 10 to 15 years to stabilise the situation."
The consequences — including people's savings losing half their value, according to some studies — would be sufficiently drastic to panic entire populations and create a run on the banks.
That would lead to "a collapse of the financial system," predicted Federico Steinberg, economist at Spain's Real Instituto Elcano.
"The introduction of the euro was a very delicate process, planned over a period of more than two years, and so, ideally, those who want to abandon the euro would take the same time to undo it," Steinberg said.
"The problem is that if there is an exit from the euro it will probably be abrupt and disorderly."
One solution, analysts said, is to take people by surprise.
"Everything would have to be decided secretly in a single night and the next morning the markets, the banks would be closed for at least 12 hours to prevent anyone moving their money," said Franco Bruni, professor at Italy's Bocconi University in Milan.
The next step, Bruni said, would be a race between countries to devalue their currencies so as to boost exports.
"One way to do it would be to announce it one day without anyone knowing in advance: we are freezing your accounts because we are going back to the old currency," said Gayle Allard of Madrid's IE Business School.
But "how do you make enough notes in secret?" Allard asked.
Once a country had exited the euro, though, she predicted a "wonderful" impact on exports as it regained power over the currency and allow its value to fall.
Eduardo Martinez-Abascal, professor at IESE Business School in Madrid, said the authorities would need to mount a "spectacular" publicity campaign to explain what they had decided to do and what the advantages were.
A weaker currency had its benefits, Martinez-Abasca agreed.
"Greece would be able to sell overseas at half price," he said, and as a cheap destination it would haul in tourists.
Then there are the legal complications to consider.
"Imagine a Spanish bank that owes money to the Netherlands. How do you calculate its debt if you abandon the euro: in florins or in pesetas?" asked Thomas Cool, former economist at the Netherlands' Central Statistics Office.
And, he asked, would the public debt remain denominated in euros, forcing the state to default, or would it be converted into the old currency, infuriating the financial markets?


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Ron Green Jr. joins Global Golf Post
Veteran journalist will cover PGA TOUR for expanding digital weekly
WINTER PARK, FLORIDA (January 21, 2013) – Award-winning sports journalist Ron Green Jr. has joined the staff at Global Golf Post, the world's first digital-only golf news publication.
"We are excited about the combination of talent and experience Ron Green Jr. brings," said Brian Hewitt, Global Golf Post editor-in-chief. "And we are even more enthused about having Green as our own writer and reporter — a 'dedicated line' if you will — covering the PGA Tour on a full-time basis. This is an important step forward for Global Golf Post."
Over the past two decades at the Charlotte Observer, Green has written about golf, college sports, the NBA and NFL. He has covered more than 50 major championships and five Ryder Cups.
Green's decorated career is highlighted by six first-place awards from the Golf Writers Association of America, multiple APSE Top 10 awards, as well as the Sportswriter of the Year awards in both North Carolina and South Carolina.
Green will travel across the United States to bring in-depth PGA TOUR coverage to Global Golf Post readers, through the new Global Golf Post blog and the weekly digital magazine issues. He makes his debut at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course, Jan. 21-27.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Green received his B.A. in Political Science. He resides in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife and daughter.
About Global Golf Post
Global Golf Post is the first digital-only free weekly golf news publication in the world, offering the passionate golf enthusiast an extraordinary online experience that can be accessed across all major devices. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., The Post publishes three distinct editions serving the U.S., Canada and Europe. All are delivered overnight Sunday 50 weeks a year to a global and passionate golf audience.
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Digital Abstracts by Peter Tarka
Peter Tarka born in 1992 is an art director, designer, and Illustrator currently based in London, UK. For being in graphic design since 2008, Peter sure knows how to deliver strong creative render works. His works have graced the pages of many publications worldwide and he continues to work on commercial assignments for clients ranging from car manufacturers to financial institutions. Follow him on Instagram.
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This webinar will address the fundamentals regarding application of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (both laws are designed to protect individuals with disabilities) to the post-secondary setting. The emphasis will be on arming qualified students with allergies severe enough to be considered disabilities with information sufficient to enable them to negotiate the process and procedures for obtaining "academic adjustments" (modifications to policies, accommodations, and supports). We will address the laws' definition of a disability, schools' responsibilities, the responsibilities of individual students with disabilities, documentation issues, and participating in the "interactive process" in which schools are expected to engage.
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I know this is ridiculous, but I have already changed my title page. (Not keeping it simple, am I?) Thanks for all who commented on the previous color scheme, and while it worked well for this particular photo, I don't think they are colors I would use again on my PL pages... so I switched to colors I will be more likely to use (and have already used on my Week 1 page) throughout the year.
Thanks for looking. AGAIN! :-)
Credits -
Cathy Zielske -
Minimal Year Starters
Life Basics Minimal No. 01
Toothy No. 04 Paper Pack
Toothy Seaside Paper Pack
Simple Patterns No. 02 Paper Pack
Ali Edwards -
Everyday Sentiment Strips Brushes and Stamps
Hello Life Boxes 3x4 Brushes and Stamps No. 05
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Around Words Brushes and Stamps No. 06
Arctic Whites Paper Pack No. 02
Clean Stitched Circles: White No. 01
Little Layette Element Pack (stitch)
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text: While homemade nuke detectors patrolling our waterways seems sufficiently plausible, remote-controlled rats searching for explosives is certainly pushing the bounds of acceptability, but to expect a swarm of "highly trained" bees to sniff out destructive material (without getting medieval on somebody) sounds like an awful lot of buzz. Nevertheless, an 18-month research study -- dubbed the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project -- at the US Energy Department's Los Alamos facility has just concluded, and team members have announced resounding success in teaching your average bee to "stick their proboscis (that tube they use to feed on nectar) out in the presence of explosives." The DHS sees potential in using the little buggers to "find dynamite and C-4 plastic explosives" as well as relatively dodgy "Howitzer propellant grains." Scientists have used a reward system to train the animals, by offering up a "sugar treat" each time they correctly signify explosive material, and suggest that teams of detectors (read: incensed bees) could be carried about in "portable containers about the size of a shoebox." While theoretically, this plan may seem sound, what happens when our enemies start covering their tracks in nectar -- or worse, when the insects unleash a painful revolt against our own brethren?


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The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to capture images of star-forming regions and distant star-burst galaxies. With the addition of contributions form Europe, the MMA evolved into the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a proposed array of 64, 12-meter antennas. The project is now part of the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities budget request. Increased costs, however, have forced the NSF to reconsider the number of antennas. To help with that review, NSF asked the NRC to assess the scientific consequences of reducing the number of active antennas from 60 to either 50 or 40. This report presents an assessment of the effect of downsizing on technical performance specifications, performance degradation, and the ability to perform transformational science, and of the minimum number of antennas needed.
In the past few years, programmatic changes at NASA, issues raised by the NRC report, Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century(CQC), and scientific and technological advances combined to prompt consideration of a reexamination of the overall science strategy set forth in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium (AANM). Discussions followed between the Board on Physics and Astronomy and NASA and NSF that resulted in a request by the two agencies to prepare a short report addressing the points leading up to calls for the reexamination. The report was also to assess progress towards the vision set forth in the AANM and CQC studies. This letter report presents the result of that study. It reviews the context that led up to the request and the most exciting advances in astronomy and astrophysics and key technological developments since the AAMN report was published, and it provides an outlook for fulfilling the decadal vision of the two previous studies.


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First, here is a chart of my posts per month during the lifetime of the blog. The year of 2011 was quite regular with the exception of August and December, with an average and a median of 9 posts per month. On the other hand, there was a drop in posts during the second half of 2012. Looking back, this coincides with my renewed interest in digital games (for instance, I pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 in eary June.) I can't say I had less time for hobbies overall but I didn't put as much energy in tabletop games, as it is evident.
I should note that JF's contact (by means of the "liebstar award") was also important for me to re-evaluate this blog and my involvement with the hobby. I think that the six-month break was good but I don't feel I can (nor I should) rely only on digital games for my gaming hobby.
In 2013, I intend to keep posting 4-8 times a month, meaning at least one new post per week. Given my history of posts, this seems like a viable goal. I have many games to try, models to build and a few campaign ideas so the content of the blog will remain focused in those subjects.
Over these two years of solo tabletop gaming I've learned that recording and reporting one's experiences is a significant part of the fun, from which the player can think about, create new scenarios and sometimes even reach conclusions that go beyond the scope of gaming. Although this is rewarding in itself, sharing these things through a gaming blog and discussing them with others make the experience much better. So I would like to thank all the occasional and regular readers and all other gaming bloggers.
Happy 2013 for all of us!


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An If Statement is used to perform an action, depending whether or not a certain Statement is true. If the Statement is true, the program does something, otherwise nothing happens. This is known as a Boolean test — the result is always true (1) or false (0).
We tend not to consciously think of using If Statements in our day-to-day lives, but we make many unconscious decisions and use assumptions to accomplish tasks. Computers are not very good at making assumptions, so you have specify exactly what you want them to do, one tiny step at a time.
Think about making a piece of toast. You subconsciously go through a series of If Statements to accomplish this:
Example 8.1
If bread bag is closed, open bread bag.
If bread is in bread bag, remove bread.
If toaster is too far away, move to toaster.
If toaster is not plugged in, plug in toaster.
If bread is not in toaster, put bread in toaster.
If toaster is not turned on, turn on toaster.
If toast is not done, wait.
If toast is done, eat toast.
We don't think about it, but those are basically the steps you must go through to make toast. That's a lot like how computer programming works.
Create a simple If Statement to check the contents of a Variable.
First, declare a Simple Variable and give it a numerical value.
Example 8.2
var x = 5;
Now, check the contents with an If Statement:
Example 8.3
If (x == 5) {
x = 6;
Note the difference between == and =. Two equals signs means "is equal to", whereas one equals signs assigns a new value to the variable. != means "is not equal to". The following may result in an error message:
Example 8.4
If (x = 5) {
x = 6;
This Statement will check if the content of x is 5. If it is, x will be given a new value: 6. Otherwise, nothing will change.
What appears between the ( ) are Arguments, just like in the Methods() you looked at in the previous chapter. In this case, the program is going to check if x is equal to 5. This part of your code must always appear between parentheses. What you test can vary widely and we will discuss that further below.
The following is a perfectly valid line of code:
Example 8.5
If (x == 5) { x = 6; }
That said, your code will be much more readable if you always ensure that your Statements clearly indented as in the first example, or as in the HTML DOM examples from Chapter 4. The closing curly brace should always appear directly below the Statement that opened it. This makes it easier to know which lines of code belong with the If Statement and which do not. Always indent code so that elements which are wholly contained within another element are indented one tab (or five spaces). All examples shown here will follow this practice, and you should too.
A longer If Statement would look like this:
Example 8.6
If (x == 5) {
x = 6;
y = 7;
z = 10;
In the first example, you checked for equality (==). This is only one of many tests you can perform. Just like in grade 3 math class, you can check the following:
Example 8.7
|Less than
|Less than or Equal to
|Greater than
|Greater than or Equal to
|Not equal to
You can also create comparative Arguments using String Methods.
Example 8.8
var x = "Weather";
if (x.length > 3) {
x = "Climate";
or you could have:
Example 8.9
if (x.match("Weath")) {
x = "Climate";
If your XPath captured a piece of information, you could use an If Statement to check if it was something you wanted to put into Zotero. For instance, perhaps you would want to include it if it contained the word "title". If it passed the test, you could run the lines of code that will save it to the title field in Zotero. Otherwise, the program would ignore it and move on.
You can test multiple things in one Statement, or check if one of a defined list of conditions is true. To do this you use && (and) and || (or).
The following checks if x is greater than 4 AND if x is an even number.
Example 8.10
if ((x > 4) && (x%2=0)) {
Zotero.debug("The condition has been met");
We can do the same to check if x is greater than 4 OR if x is an even number.
Example 8.11
If ((x > 4) || (x%2=0)) {
Zotero.debug("The condition has been met");
In the first case, you know x is an even number that is greater than 4. In the second case, you know that either x is greater than 4, or it is an even number.
Having this flexibility comes in very handy when you are attempting to write an If Statement that fulfills your specific needs.
Sometimes you will require more complex decision-making than that provided by a simple If Statement. What if you have several conditions that need to be checked? Perhaps you need to know if the String contains the substring "author" or if it contains the substring "publisher". You have two options: you could insert several If Statements in succession, or you could use an Else / If Statement.
Several If Statements in a row might work, but be aware that each Statement will be checked. This might not be desirable. For instance, what happens if multiple If Statements match and you are only looking for one match?
For example:
Example 8.12
var x = 3;
if (x < 9) {
x = x + 2;
if (x == 5) {
x = 6;
In this case, x will end up with a value of 6, as both If Statements will match and will therefore change x.
If you only wanted to run the first If Statement that matched, you would use an Else/If Statement.
Example 8.13
var x = 3;
If (x < 9) {
x = x + 2;
} else if (x == 5) {
x = 6;
This Statement will start checking at the first Statement (x < 9) and stop when it finds a match. In this case, the final value of x is 5.
There is no limit to the number of Else/Ifs you add to a Statement:
Example 8.14
var x = 3;
If (x < 9) {
x = x + 2;
} else if (x == 5) {
x = 6;
} else if (x > 12) {
x = 1;
} else if (x == 10) {
x = 11;
The series must start with a properly formatted If Statement, to which unlimited Else/If Statements can be appended. The advantage of this over multiple If Statements is that it requires fewer lines of code. It also stops as soon as you've got a match. By organizing your list of Else/If carefully, you can ensure that you end up with the results you want.
Sometimes you want a condition that will catch everything that didn't fit one of your other Else/If statements. This works much the same as "otherwise" works in day-to-day speech. If the toast is done, eat it. Otherwise, wait. You cannot attach a condition to an Else Statement but you can assign lines of code to be associated with it.
Example 8.15
var x = 3;
If (x < 9) {
x = x + 2;
} else if (x == 5) {
x = 6;
} else {
x = 0;
If (x < 9) {
x = x + 2;
} else {
x = 6;
Adding Else is only useful if you want something to happen when your other conditions are not met. If you want nothing to happen if the arguments in the If Statements are not true, simply leave out the Else Statement.


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A registered dietitian nutritionist, Marsha has been a voice of reason and a thought leader for the last three decades in helping women move away from restrictive notions of food and health so that they can better adopt a sustainable approach to eating well.
She has spent the last three decades working to help women give up dieting rules and understand how to truly take care of themselves through mindful eating and living. Her mission is to help women learn to enjoy eating and living well, without worries about health and weight. She encourages women to embrace their love of food, which you might call being a foodie. If so, it's appropriate because being a foodie means you pay attention when you eat -- a recipe made in heaven for eating well.
Since 1986, Marsha has been a part of Green Mountain at Fox Run, the Vermont women's retreat that pioneered the non-diet approach to health and healthy weights. An accomplished writer, she has written hundreds of articles for popular magazines, newsletters and professional journals, and has worked extensively on a national basis to produce curricula and pamphlets to educate the public about nutrition and about the impact of dieting and the diet mentality on eating behaviors, including binge eating and emotional eating.
Long active with several national professional associations, Marsha recently stepped down from the board of the Binge Eating Disorder Association in order to serve as the president of The Center for Mindful Eating.
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In October we hosted the 1st Charing Cub Scouts at Bull Heath with a view to making a bug hotel (as previously mentioned at meetings). With 19 cubs and 4 leaders it was a rather busy but most enjoyable affair. The cubs were divided into four groups and allocated the tasks of 1) sawing logs to size 2) log-I-sticks i.e. carrying said logs from whence they were sawn 3) an excavation group and 4) a floating party who went on bug hunts and such. The tasks were rotated so all participated in each event.


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The flip side of discipline is recognition. Individuals who do a good job need to be recognized. Recognition accomplishes several things: It lets the person know that she or he is doing a good job, it helps raise the person's confidence and encourages him or her to continue achieving, and it lets others know that the individual is doing a good job and is appreciated. Rudy Giuliani recognizes the contributions of his people by mentioning their names in his writings and his public statements. Shelly Lazarus at Ogilvy & Mather fosters a culture in which individual contributions matter; she calls her agency a "meritocracy."[3] Mother Teresa believed that recognition for service has its own rewards, the sense of serving God by serving the people who are most in need.
It is important to separate the concepts of recognition and reward. Recognition is the acknowledgement that someone has done a good job; reward is the benefit associated with the recognition. In other words, employees are recognized for a good job and rewarded with a gift or bonus. Many companies practice pay for performance, awarding bonuses for the achievement of goals. While people may debate the benefits of this system, in such a system it falls to the manager, who sometimes also functions as coach, to evaluate an individual's eligibility for bonus. This practice clouds the development role of coaching because it equates development with compensation. The two are independent of each other. Compensation is linked to job performance; development is linked to individual growth and improvement. Good coaches, therefore, must learn to separate their role as arbiters of compensation from their role as developer of talent—not an easy task.
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Not so steady..
My tip yesterday didn't come anywhere, but another of my bets DID.
I put a fiver e/w on Steady Eddy's selection, on SP odds. (I don't usually do that..)
Anyway, it won, and made me £70 return. WOW! that's more racy than steady..
Flushed with success, I then went on to lose a tenner on a "certainty" football bet.
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In Reply to: is that Wes Studi in Mystery Men? posted by Chula the Chihuahua on July 12, 1999 at 10:31:24:
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The law requires that you list every creditor address on every piece of mail received in the last 90 days before filing a bankruptcy. There are creditor addresses on both the front and back of each statement/bill. These credit reports are intended to supplement, not replace the demands and statements you recently received from your creditors/collection companies.


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Depa wins Saudi ministry contract
Jeddah, January 5, 2009
Depa Limited, a leading provider of interior contracting services, said its subsidiary, Depa Saudi Arabia has been awarded a $7.84 million contract to renovate the office of the minister of defence and aviation (Moda) in Jeddah.
The five-month contract was awarded by Al Yamama Company for Trading and Contracting. Under the agreement, Depa SA will renovate all four floors of the Moda building.
The renovation and the fit-out works of offices and public areas is due to be completed in April this year.
This is the fifth win for Depa SA, following a $11.2 million contract earlier this year, strengthening the company's presence in the largest Arab economy.
Depa sees significant opportunities for renovation work across the region during the expected slowdown of the real estate market, said a company official.
"For example, hotels typically take advantage of lower occupancy rates to renovate properties and the company is in talks with a number of hotel operators to carry out this work," Mohannad Sweid, CEO of Depa explained.
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IOC: 2020 Madrid Olympic bid costs 'attainable'
The IOC believes the $1.9 billion construction costs for holding
the 2020 Olympics in Madrid are "attainable" for the
recession-hit country.
"The IOC is very well aware the games simply cannot get more
expensive, more expensive and more expensive every time," IOC vice
president Craig Reedie said Thursday at the close of his evaluation
commission's four-day inspection of Madrid's Olympic bid.
With Spain sinking into a second recession in three years and
with unemployment at 26 percent, the financing of Madrid's Olympic
project was always going to be a key factor.
"We were certainly made aware by the bid committee where the
Spanish economy is, and we thank Madrid for their openness and
honesty," Reedie said. "They told us that the Spanish economy has
had a very difficult time, but that it has stabilized and will
improve, and we have noted that in our report."
Madrid organizers say 28 of the 35 venues are already built,
meaning construction and infrastructure costs will be relatively
"As chair of the commission I think we have looked closely at
the capital costs and we believe them to be attainable," Reedie
Gilbert Felli, IOC executive director for the Olympic Games,
said the inspectors had looked at the bid committee's budget "with
good eyes." He said that taking into account "our past
experience, we believe that the numbers proposed to us are
Madrid is competing against Tokyo and Istanbul. The panel has
already visited the Japanese capital and will be in Istanbul next
By comparison, Tokyo's budget for capital costs is $4.9 billion,
and Istanbul's is $19.2 billion.
The full IOC will select the 2020 host city by secret ballot on
Sept. 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"We were greatly impressed by what we have seen here," Reedie
Outside the hotel where the IOC was based, a group of 30 health
care workers protested by blowing whistles and sounding an
ambulance siren.
Reedie said he had seen "a couple of protests" but that none
of the demonstrators had asked to speak to members of the IOC.
"We've also seen the enthusiasm for the games that exists in
Madrid, and a great interest in sport that exists in Spain," he
Felli said Madrid had clearly learned from its previous bids,
having lost to London for the 2012 Olympics and Rio de Janeiro for
the 2016 Games.
Felli said Madrid had also already invested in a largely modern
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On 5th November, Google celebrate the 120th Birthday of Raymond Loewy with a nice Doodle showing Pennsylvania's Railroad S-1 steam locomotive.
Raymond Loewy was an industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its cover on October 31, 1949.
Born in France, he spent most of his professional career in the United States. Among his designs were the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos, the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola vending machines, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 and S-1 locomotives, the Lucky Strike package, Coldspot refrigerators, the Studebaker Avanti and Champion, and the Air Force One livery. His career spanned seven decades.
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North Las Vegas Airport is a government-run airport owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation located three miles northwest of downtown Las Vegas, the central business district and historic centre of the city of Las Vegas.
Locally Called Northtown, North Las Vegas Airport is the second biggest airport in Las Vegas and the third largest in the state of Nevada. It opened on December 7, 1941 as a Sky Haven Airport however when Hughes Tool Company bought the airport in 1968, its name has been changed to North Las Vegas Air Terminal.
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Few of our elderly Barkurians may be aware of the practice to venerate a small but very attractive statue of St Peter the Apostle, our patron, on 29th June every year, in our Church at Barkur. In 60's till early 80's this practice was on, which I witnessed and the decorated image was placed in the sanctuary,in front of the Main Altar, most of the time near the St. Joseph's……..Almost Nine days Novena prayer used to be there and many devotees from far and near, used to put in their petitions, prayers, candles and donations in the box…..!
This was the scenario about 30 –40 years back, there were no computers, no TV, no mobiles. In the whole town of Barkur there were only five land telephone lines. Even the Church had no telephone…!
People had to depend on Radio and newspapers both for information and entertainment. Native folklore yakshagana, traditional sports like Kambala, feasts like rathotsava were the only occasions to public to enjoy en-masse. In our parish annual feast in the 3rd week of Dec every year was the one young and old eagerly waiting? However, Dec last week feast of neighboring Brahmmavar and 2nd week of January in Sastan too was attended in large number by us. Even if the feast was missed for compulsory school attendance, it was the evening Drama's in all these parishes we never missed….!
We the Barkurians, always remain grateful to all the educational Institutions in our town, especially these three – Maryknoll Hr Primary School, National Junior College and Maryknoll High school, all three of them having a colourful history of yeomen service and achievements for more than 50 long years. These are the Schools where most us studied, during those days of scarcity, poverty and poor transport facilities. Today, parents have options, money and amenities to send their children to the distant and distinguished, Schools and Institutions of their choice....!
Indeed it's a great day; John & Joyce are Celebrating 25 years of married life.
About 25 years ago to talk about 'John and Joyce' was as easy as drinking a glass of water. I spoke innumerable times, during n number of occasions, during various celebrations in their family, both in Barkur and here in Muscat..... They were 'Brand Barkurians' then.....today the couple is 'Brand Mangalore in Muscat'; they have grown to be the popular faces amongst Mangaloreans in Oman. It's a proud privilege to me, as their Friend for the last 4 decades, rather known to the family for the last 50 odd years....and to raise the toast on their Silver Jubilee....!
No doubt almost 10% of our life is closely associated with this primary School. In other words on an average 7 long years we spent in this almamator - mostly in studying, partly playing and as a whole enjoying.......! Now this Institution, a temple of learning, Maryknoll Higher Primary School, Hosala - Barkur, is at the threshold of celebrating Platinum Jubilee in December, 2015 – 75 years of fruitful existence – 1940 - 2015 in the service Barkurians.
We were fortunate to have well dedicated teachers – I mean; at least half a dozen of them entirely dedicated their life of themselves to the profession chosen, remaining away from families of their own.......! The teachers who taught us in Class one – Agnes Fernandez and Josephine Montherio, In Class II Jethruz Gonsalves and Angeline Fernandez, Class III - Mary D'Souza......were just few names, who remained unmarried, but taken care of the students in their hand with mothers love.
History is a subject always fascinates most of us, though many of us, so I am, not qualified enough to analyze the same, scientifically. One such topic, we failed to understand is the legend of Jain King Bhutala Pandya, always referred, as the nobleman who first ruled from Barkur throne, as early as 78 AD, hence the name Barkur and a claim that his descendents ruled the place later for almost 300 long years! It is equally important to note here, except a book referring to this dynasty, which looks more like imaginative and exaggerative, to narrate a story that may or may not, really taken place almost 2000 years earlier, since the book written was in 14th century. No other historical evidence, structure, is yet to be traced at Barkur, as most of the monuments, one can find in the place, the most ancient one, date back to 9th Century AD and others thereafter……
DOWN MEMORY LANE…..formation years of St. Peter's Association, Barkur – Mumbai 1983 – 1988. A flashback…..!
An organization to complete twenty five years in the service of Barkurians in Mumbai is not a small achievement and 'St. Peters Association Barkur – Mumbai', stand tall among all contemporaries to cross this historical mile stone.
Barkur parish is the oldest in the Varado, next only to Milagres Cathedral Kallianapur, and was served by the Priests from here from 1854 – 1861 it is said, every week and Rev. Fr. Caetao Joao Fernandes, used to offer Holy Mass in the thatched prayer house, built on the same location, where stands the present Church.
We Barkur-online Team call back the contributions and services of each and every one of them, for the past 150 odd years, to make the Barkur a better place to live, pray and prosper together. Many of them are in heavenly abode and few of them are at the evening of their lives and most of them are still serving in different parts of the world in various capacities……
It is our intention and sincere efforts as well to give more details, in the event of our visitors wish to have them, in phases in coming days…..Please send in your feedback to us to include missing details wherever it rightly deserved……..
That nobleman at the Bennekudru Temple annual festival, in December 1992, rightly predicted now some 20 years ago, when he saw a boy at his tender age of just five, dancing to the Hindi Film tunes on that pleasant evening, that 'one day this boy will bring glory to his parents and this place, and reach to the heights of name and fame…...' That 'cash prize' from his hands is the beginning of the saga of a great achievements, innumerable gifts, certificates and trophies, now found place in the showcases in his home at Barkur and Muscat, startles any visitor at once, that too….. at this young age of just 25……!!


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I'm so sorry guys but I wanted to try a new way to make my pages, and it looks like it's taking longer than how I used to do it. However, I can say that it definitely looks better, and everything looks on model. So, I'm gonna use this new way of making pages for the main pages aswell. Guess old habits die hard ^___^'.
I can't believe it! It's been one whole year since I've signed up on ComicFury, and created the website for my first published webcomic, Heroes in Training! To commemorate this day, April 1st, I'm posting this special Traditional Art Piece for Heroes in Training! (Albeit a little late, whoops!) One that I will actually make a tradition for my webcomic, so that we can all see how far our heroes in training have come along. Hopefully next year we'll have two more heroes on the cover! I've learned a lot about art over the last year, and have become a better artist as result. I hope that I can get even better by next April 1st! (Oh man, why did the anniversary have to be on April Fool's Day. xD) Thank you for all of the people who've read my webcomic, and continue to read it until now!
Watch out for a special anniversary page on April 7 to celebrate the day that Heroes in Training's first page went online!
Hey guys, I'm really sorry but I'm not gonna be able to upload anymore pages until either the last week of March, or the first week of April. So, it looks like I'm back on hiatus again. I'm kinda bummed out because I really wanted to get Issue #1 done soon, so we can all get to really exciting parts of this saga. Anyway, I'll be busy until the third week of March because the school year is coming to a close, and I've got a very special Graduation Video in the works for our grade. However, those who follow me over at GameJolt shouldn't worry because I'll still be able to update Space Pilot every other week, since it doesn't take as long for me to update that game, than it is for me to finish one page of my webcomic. I'll actually have an update out for that tomorrow, so check that out over at http://gamejolt.com/games/space-pilot/212060 ! I'm also gonna continue uploading a new piece of fan art, or original art every friday! Also for those wondering, I also wasn't able to upload for FanArt Friday over at my DeviantArt (tjblazer85.deviantart.com) because of the same reasons, school's just been keeping me busy. Anyway, thank you for being patient with me, I can't wait till the next page goes up! Till then, keep on training!
Hey guys, sorry I won't be able to upload Page 13 today. I'm currently busy with my school's Science Fair, and another school project. I probably won't be able to finish, and upload Page 13 till February 16. Again, I'm really sorry for not being able to meet the deadline, and I'd like to thank all of you for patiently waiting for each page. Till next time, keep on training!
Sorry guys, finishing Page 12 is taking much longer than expected. I'll probably be able to upload Page 12 by tomorrow. I'm also gonna stop advertsing a set time for my uploads, because I just realized that I don't usually upload on the same time anyway. However, you can still expect pages to be uploaded on the days that they are due on. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish my pages faster so that I won't miss anymore deadlines. I really want to share this story to the world, and I want to give you guys, my patient readers, a good story to read. Thank you so much for being patient with the deadlines. I'll do my best to upload Page 12 sometime tomorrow. Till then, keep on training!


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Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes to move back to Curragh
December 12, 2012
Tattersalls Ireland have announced that the €125,000 Super Auction Sales Stakes is to take place at the Curragh Racecourse on August 24th 2013 a month before the September Yearling Sale on the 24th and 25th September.
Marketing Director, Simon Kerins said; "We have had a good history with the Curragh Racecourse and likewise have been delighted with our association with Fairyhouse Racecourse who have gone to extraordinary lengths in staging our Sales Race over the past few years, the latest being run, the eve of the Sale this year. The timing of this race is crucial and the move to The Curragh will allow us stage the race a month earlier than this year. The return to the Curragh in August and over the Anglesea course of 6 furlongs and 63 yards will increase the chances of better ground and give us a greater lead in time prior to the Sale.
On a separate note we are pleased to confirm a full refund of entry fees for horses balloted out of the Tattersalls Ireland €125,000 Super Auction Sales Stakes and Tattersalls Ireland George Mernagh Memorial €100,000 Sales Bumper run at Fairyhouse Easter Festival in 2013" .


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Read this: Market report: Tullow and BSkyB in the spotlight - Telegraph
Summary: The first is that, while the status quo is unchanged and the split of games is broadly similar, there is significant cost inflation of about 35pc. Worries about both possible outcomes are likely to return and weigh on BSkyBs shares, the analysts warned clients, sending the broadcaster down 26 to 892p, a 2.9pc fall. Two years ago, Tullow stock changed hands for more than 16 apiece, but a series of offshore drilling disappointments knocked the companys once-glowing exploration track-record. - telegraph.co.ukRead full article: Market report: Tullow and BSkyB in the s…
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Remember the 'Peanut Line?'
They called it "the friendliest train ride in the world."
Over it's century-long run, the Peanut Line primarily carried cargo. Anderson Windows in Hudson was a major source of cargo, and there are accounts of it hauling large loads of ice that was used to refrigerate meat cars in South St. Paul.
It also carried passengers, starting in 1982. While the official passenger service would later die down, the train was known to stop and give people a lift to the next town if they needed. The train ride from Hastings to Stillwater and back again was 16 hours, starting around 6 p.m. every weekday. But that was quick compared to the alternative. A trip from Hastings to Stillwater by horse and buggy took two days.
What makes the Peanut Line special wasn't its cargo or its makeup. What made it special was the people.
Throughout its use, the line was operated by just a handful of people. In the early days it was Wes Kelley, Chuck Nolan, Louie Dodge, Bob Dodge and Buzz Peterson. Later, Dodge and Peterson had Jack Godfrey and Frank Quitter on the crew. When the Peanut Line made its last run in 1978, it was train master William DeGidioi, brakeman Stee Seleski, conductor John Godfrey, engineer N.C. Schnell and brakeman Ken Lindala that said goodbye to the local legacy.
All along the route, residents knew the trainmen. A June 1960 newspaper article reads, "Once St. Croix Beach woman has never failed to greet the crewmen while another has never missed flashing her porch light in acknowledgement."
In "City on Seven Hills – Columns of Oliver Towne" by Gareth Hiebert, the author writes that the railroad crew knew every foot of ground along the line and the names of all the people who lived on either side of the track.
The nickname "the Peanut Line" is said to have come from an old engineer who had the habit of wrapping peanuts and candy in newspaper and tossing the bundles to waiting children as the train passed by.
The railroad hasn't run since Sept. 14, 1978. But some remnants of the line can still be found.
Part of the trail system in Afton State Park runs on the old railroad bed. Proposals have been made for a trail linking the Hastings bridge to the Prescott bridge, utilizing the abandoned Peanut Line route. It's also a likely route for the proposed St. Croix Valley Regional Trail, which would link pedestrians and cyclists in Hastings to Afton and, eventually, Stillwater and possibly Superior.
The information for this article was gathered from old local newspaper clippings collected by the Hastings Pioneer Room.


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Katy Livingston
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Katy Livingston is our most successful swimmer to date. Joining our club c.1994 she started her Modern Pentathlon career representing the mighty S&M. Katy's hard work and positive attitude towards training paid off, as can be seen by her international medal record below. Katy became our club captain in 2002 along with male captain Daniel Hill, who she later described as "her motivator"!! Katy broke many club and moors league records during her time at S&M (some are still standing) her name can still be found on many club gala trophies . Katy described the club as "being great for swimmers of all abilities" and "Every member has something to swim for, and they really make you feel part of a team".
Between 2003 and 2005 Katy competed at three World Junior Championships, winning team gold medals in 2003, in Athens, and 2005, in Moscow and relay silver medals in 2003 and 2004. She also won team silver at the 2004 European Junior Championships.
In May 2007 she won a silver at the Moscow senior World Cup event. In June at the European Championships in Riga she finished 6th in the individual event, qualifying her for the 2008 Olympics. She also won a silver medal in the team event, with Georgina Harland and Mhairi Spence, and gold in the team relay event, with Harland and Heather Fell. These performances led to her being named the British Olympic Association's modern pentathlon Olympic athlete of the year for 2007.
In 2008 she won a gold medal in February's World Cup event in Cairo and went to the World Championships, held in June in Budapest, winning the individual bronze medal.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Katy finished 7th overall in the women's individual event.
Click on Katy Livingston to read all about her visit to the Club in 2008 to meet old friends and swimming coaches, after a fantastic 7th place in the Beijing Olympics. Of course, as she prepares and competes in London 2012, we wish her the best of luck in what will be a proud moment for our small club.
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Saltburn and Marske ASC Club Captains Roll of Honour
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Anna Betterton and Ale Proffittx. 2016 Club Captains.
Click on Club Captains Roll of Honour to view all the names of past and present club captains since 1998.
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Click HERE to see te Feedback on Moors League Indivdual Gala Oct 17th 2015
Click the link to see Moors League Ability Gala results 26/09/15http://nasc.co.uk/liveresults/MLMeet15/
Click HERE to see the Feedback on the Ability Gala, Eston 26/09/15
Click HERE to see a photo gallery of the Ability Gala 26/09/15
Click HERE to see the Feedback on the 33rd Annual Teaspoon Gala
The annual club gala took place at Redcar Swimming Pool on 22 November 2014 during which a total of 8 club records were broken and over 200 personal best times recorded.
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Why are Nigerians talking about Anthony Joshua a.k.a AJ all of a sudden? Why are they just realizing now that he is a "Nigerian Prince"? Everyone, from prominent men of God, to government officials, is falling over themselves to get his attention or attach themselves to him.
The Ogun State government is reportedly even set to name the Sagamu International stadium and a street after him. Where were all these people when he was denied the chance to represent Nigeria? Where were they when he was keen to represent the country at the 2008 Olympics?
He is crowned heavyweight champion of the world and now a worldwide sensation, so he is now Nigeria's most celebrated sports hero. Had Nigeria not blessed him with their unique food, specifically Eba and Egusi, he would not have made it…yes?
This is not to play down AJ's awesome victory or say that he does not deserve all the attention and acclaim he is getting from around the world, or even just Nigeria. He certainly deserves all that and more.
Actually, the fact that he is still willing to identify with his Nigerian roots is absolutely amazing and deeply honorable. Nigerians, on the other hand, should be ashamed of their blatant display of hypocrisy. What lessons are they teaching the youth in the society by their obvious trend of only recognizing and applauding Nigerians, especially those in diaspora, when they have achieved a feat or when they are substantially successful?
Yet we wonder why there is a brain drain and all the young bright minds are looking for a way to leave the country.
Do you reckon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, possibly the greatest writer of our time, would have been known around the world had she completed her university education and pursued her passion for writing here in Nigeria? Even if she did succeed to become a writer while in Nigeria, do you think Nigerians would put her on the pedestal they have her on today?
How about the Visual artist and singer Laolu Senbanjo who was struggling in Abuja for a long while before moving to America? It was not until he collaborated with Beyonce and gained world recognition that Nigerians started to attach themselves to him, referring to him as the "Nigeria's born American King of Visual Arts".
Then there are the musicians like Asa, and Nneka; how many afro soul musicians make it in Nigeria? Take them abroad, and once they are endorsed by the West, Nigeria suddenly embraces them. What is it with Nigeria and this attitude really?
Why can Nigeria not invest in their citizens or give them the support they need to become successful persons in the future, rather than wait for other countries to give them the opportunities they were denied in their country. We only try and reclaim them after they have reached their full potential and achieved success.
Let's do better. Put structures in place to encourage the growth and success of Nigerians. Nigerians, patronise home grown talent and businesses. Let's start shining the light from inside… OUT!
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NWSB Insider and Seattle Mariners blogger Ben Lypka tells us why western Canada roots for the Blue Jays instead of the Mariners. He says in BC we only have all 162 games on TV, Jays Central, Jays 24/7, recaps and replays of every game and postgame shows. What's a desperate fan to do with such a lack of Blue Jays material to absorb? He says we cheer for the Jays because we can all relate to Toronto due to the fact that we share this great land of Canada.
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NWSB Insider and Seattle Mariners blogger Jonathan Irwin reports on the third game of the series versus the Toronto Blue Jays. The Headline: Blake Beavan was masterful as the Mariners complete the sweep—their second in a row—against the Jays. John Jaso was again the man. The Mariners have now won 7 in a row. The M's scored the runs they needed to and found a way to win this one.
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Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater will be a game-time decision for Thursday's contest against the Green Bay Packers.
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater will be a game-time decision for Thursday's game against the Green Bay Packers, reports NFL.com's Ian Rapoport.
Bridgewater injured his left ankle in the fourth quarter of last Sunday's 41-28 win over the Atlanta Falcons and is listed as questionable.
According to Rapoport, the Vikings plan to make their starting quarterback decision 90 minutes before kickoff.
Bridgewater took over as the starter after Matt Cassel was lost for the season with a foot injury. If Bridgewater can't play, backup Christian Ponder will start.
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Minnesota has 10 players listed on its injury report. Linebacker Chad Greenway and tight end Kyle Rudolph are out against Green Bay.
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The joint Buffalo/Johnson County Recycling Center building that is in the drawing stages was sent back to the engineers for changes by the Johnson County Commission at a meeting Wednesday.
Commissioners Smokey Wildeman and John Gibbs, County Road and Bridge Supervisor Scott Pehringer, and Recycling Boardmember Skip Hancock attended the meeting at Grizzly Engineering, and looked over the plans they had drafted based on wants of the recycling board, the City of Buffalo and others involved in the project.
After seeing the cost and the relative complexity of the facility, the commissioners felt a re-design was warranted.
Wildeman explains the commissioner's position on the matter.
The new building for the recycling center became necessary when the county opted to build the new courtroom facilities at the new criminal justice center, which required relocating the old recycling center to its proposed location behind the Dollar Store on Butte Avenue.
The changes to the plan, according to Wildeman, will not affect the timeline for building the new building or the destruction of the old one.
The new building is scheduled to be complete July 1, and the old building will be moved or torn down soon after to allow construction to begin on that portion of the courtroom facility.


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*Aaliyah is headed to the big screen.
S2Smagazine.com reports that singer B. Simone will play the late singer in a feature film that is scheduled to hit theaters in late 2015.
Popular author Zane will write the film's script. Among those named as possible co-stars are Terrence Howard and Wood Harris. Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah's uncle and former manager is working on the film, according to S2S.
In addition to appearing on the big screen, the film differs from the Lifetime biopic in that favorite tracks recorded by Aaliyah before her death will be used as well as some never-before-released music.
"We're in a position where we can do the feature film and we can do the music," said a source close to production told S2S.
Despite the TV movie airing later this year, those connected to the big screen project don't think that will decrease the public's appetite for an Aaliyah film in movie theaters.
"I think if we do our due-diligence, people will watch the TV movie and still say, 'I need to see the feature film,'" the source said.
*As plans continue for Aaliyah's big screen treatment, a photographer who worked with the "Are You That Somebody" vocalist before her death is taking ABC to court.
According to theJasmineBRAND.com, Eric Johnson filed a federal lawsuit against ABC and Walt Disney over a photo shoot he did with Aaliyah. The self proclaimed "highly successful, award winning professional photographer" claims the network published intimate pictures he took of the singer without his permission.
Johnson cites June 2001 as the date "he shot a series of photographic portraits of Aaliyah just months before her tragic death in August of that year." In addition, Johnson details how he captured intimate beautiful shots of the singer, some of which he says become to define Aaliyah following her death.
Johnson further states that he "maintained the majority of the Aaliyah photographs in his private personal archive since the June 2001 photo shoot. These photographs have never been commercially exploited in any manner, or even shown to the public."
Earlier this year, he provided digital copies of 13 Aaliyah photographs to an online photography magazine, L'Oeil de la Photographie ("L'Oeil") and authorized the publication to use the pictures for a story they were doing on the entertainer.
Weeks later, Johnson claims, "ABC then infringed on his exclusive rights in two of the Aaliyah Photographs by reproducing, modifying, distributing, publicly displaying, and/or offering for further reproduction, distribution, and/or public display, unauthorized reproductions of the Photographs At Issue by means of hosting on their computer servers and displaying on the ABC News Radio Website web pages containing articles."
Johnson's suit notes that the photographer "has not authorized, granted permission, assigned or licensed rights to any of the Defendants to use his photos.
He is suing for an injunction against ABC from using the photos and to remove them from their website, along with damages for the copyright infringement.
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Skillfully blending facts, fancy, and a vision of the earliest days of moviemaking, the artful Mann (Wisecracker, 1998, etc.) resurrects the first movie star as a hot-ticket 107-year-old discovered in a Catholic nursing home in Buffalo by twin brothers who promptly start fighting over her to further their own agendas.
In reality, Florence Lawrence was the Biograph Girl, cinema's brightest star, by 1910, and a suicide by 1938. Here, she's a sharp-witted, caftan-clothed, chain-smoking centenarian named Flo, stumbled upon by freelance journalist Richard Sheehan when the man he was supposed to interview in the home turns out to have just died. Captivated by her, Richard wants her story, but the first tantalizing clues that she's the Biograph Girl run up against the seemingly insurmountable fact of her having committed suicide. While Richard's sleuthing eventually gets the LAPD involved, with the result that the body in Florence Lawrence's Hollywood grave is exhumed, his idealistic documentary filmmaker brother Ben also takes an interest in Flo, spurred on by the sympathetic nun in charge of the home, who sees in Ben's eyes the eyes of her former lover. Ben's high-powered agent catches wind of Flo's mysterious and glamorous past, along with the scandal surrounding her at present, and suddenly Ben is having a script greenlighted by Hollywood's biggest mogul—on the condition that he can tease the truth from the reluctant Flo and turn it into docudrama. Will Ben sell out? Will Richard save Flo from his brother? Will forcing Flo to confront the shadows in her past be the end of her?
For all the camp and melodrama, a finely detailed and satisfyingly complicated mystery, aided in its allure by several characters simultaneously coming to terms with how they came to be who they are.


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A lot can happen in a year. Timehop, formerly known as 4squareand7yearsago, is a small startup that will send you a daily e-mail of where you were or what you did exactly one year ago according to your social media activities. This could include your Foursquare check-ins, Facebook status updates, tweets, or Instagram photos. Now, the service is updating to add an even more personal touch to your daily past: Your text messages.
Announced via its blog, Timehop will send you a random conversation from your text message history — of course, with your permission for the site to access that information.
"Your text messages are a rich part of our personal history. They capture the most important parts of our lives—the moments and stories shared with close friends," the Timehop blog states. "But they're usually trapped in our phones with no way to get them out. With the release of Timehop Sync, we're letting our users unlock that rich history."
Timehop has been getting relatively positive reviews from the nostalgic especially those who are involved with social media or have gone through a big year. I, for one, can certainly say this past year has been quite huge for me and a daily reminder of where I was in 2011 would probably make me laugh at how young I was. The service could even lend a bigger shock if it could bring back memories of what happened more than a year ago, when I was still in college. Of course, this addition of text messages memory would probably make matters even more embarrassing but hopefully also endearing.
"Nicole Thomas, 23, an art director from Brooklyn, said she nearly cried when Timehop reminded her of her good fortune in landing a job last year," The New York Times reported. "Austin Sevener, 26, a survey programmer in Fort Worth, said he hadn't realized that he had bought his wedding ring on the same day as a lunar eclipse."
The idea for Timehop stems from the Internet adaptation of physical journals. "For centuries, long before the internet existed, people have kept diaries and taken photographs. They do this to document their lives, so they can look back later," Timehop founder and CEO Jonathan Wegener said in a Quora thread. "Looking back is a really pleasurable activity, and it's hard to explain why. Personally I think, in some weird way, that looking back makes us feel like we can control the passing of time."
The startup began humbly last year, and received $1.1 million in funding this past January. Since then, several services have tried to replicate the concept. If you're looking for more than just the major social media activities, Memolane will aggregate everything you've ever done on the Web, including via Flickr, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr, Last.fm, WordPress, and more. Are you nostalgic enough, or afraid of what might be brought back to life?
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From the cover:
"The action-filled, epic conclusion to the Death on the Treklant Trilogy!
You have raised the ire of the goblin warlord, and now you flee his kingdom with war parties hot on your trail. You must reach the borderland town of Felsentheim, for if you do not, no alarm will sound to harken the coming of the Dogs of War!
Shall you claim the glory of heroes and warn the people or accept your doom and suffer death in the Treklant?"
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Reality and fashion star Khloe Kardashian revealed her new flaming red hair at Wednesday's People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles. She was accompanied by sisters Kim and Kourtney and wore a dress by Alexander McQueen with Louboutin shoes. She told reporters that her new red hair was a work in progress. "I am on my way to red. I am doing some more red tomorrow. I am in the process," she said. She also joked that Kim and Kourtney would probably go red too after seeing her new flaming tresses.
The afternoon before the awards show was more low key for Khloe, however. She did some shopping, trying to keep a low profile, and eventually let the paparazzi get a few pictures.