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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New dragons are added regularly!
Skysilk Dragons spend their days drifting through the heavens, their voluminous manes billowing like clouds. Imbued with air mana, their fluffy fur is incredibly lightweight—so much so that it defies gravity, taking on a mind of its own as it puffs upward. This property makes them quite popular among avian species—birds flock together for the opportunity to play among a Skysilk's fleecy crown. Docile and patient, Skysilks are quite tolerant of this treatment, with hatchlings in particular developing tight-knit friendships with their feathered visitors. Interestingly, their lustrous scales always retain their dull gleam, despite the frequent presence of tiny critters.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.


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Watch One Direction in Hilariously Awkward MTV Video Music Awards Promos
One Direction are the breakout stars of 2012, and they're such a big deal that each member of 1D got his own MTV Video Music Awards promo video. And they're all alike — and all hilarious.
In each clip, the camera zooms in on one member of One Direction — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — and films them walking in slow motion, looking around, smiling and generally being just charming and gorgeous, all set to their most recent hit, 'One Thing.' It's deliberately cheesy and very 1990′s boy band — that's the point!
We love all of our 1D boys, but we have to hand this one to Louis. He is such an incredible ham and such an incredibly bad actor, but he's also the most obviously in on the joke. He's such a goofball and he's so much fun to watch.
If these clips are any indication, Justin Bieber and his Beliebers better watch their backs, because these videos are just as "Shareworthy" as the group's actual music videos.
The band's performance will do a great deal to promote their sophomore effort, 'Take Me Home,' which hits stores on Nov. 13. Their upcoming single, 'Live While We're Young,' is already the fastest selling pre-order single ever. One Direction have that 'One Thing,' alright. And then some.
Watch Zayn Malik's 2012 MTV VMA Promo
Watch Liam Payne's 2012 MTV VMA Promo
Watch Niall Horan's 2012 MTV VMA Promo
Watch Louis Tomlinson's 2012 MTV VMA Promo

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Best of Lei Chic 2011: Vertically Challenged
As we ring in 2012, Lei Chic is taking a look back into our archives and bringing you some of the best stories we published during 2011. Enjoy happy new year!
Originally published January 21, 2011
Stairmaster, treadmill, elliptical, repeat.
Your New Year's resolution to get fit really isn't working out. Three weeks in and you're already bored of anything that involves a rotating belt and you jiggling awkwardly in place.
You're looking for a, well, boulder workout option—one that will make you a stone cold fox.
So head to the recently opened Volcanic Rock Gym in Waipio. The only indoor climbing space on Oahu, the facility boasts plenty of routes to scale that are suitable for both beginners and seasoned climbers. Plus, they'll teach any newbie how to belay, put on a harness and basic climbing techniques.
And, though it's obviously an upper body workout, gym owner Justin Ridgely swears that climbing is a full body sport. Spending an hour scrambling all over their climbing walls and bouldering areas, and you'll utilize leg, core, and upper body strength—resulting in more rock and less roll for your physique.
Now that's the kind of scale you can actually get into.
Volcanic Rock Gym, 94-423 Ukee St., Waipio. For more info, call 808.397.0095 or click here.


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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It is an almost unremarked disaster.
In his State of the Union address, Obama mentioned Sputnik, but not Challenger. He only briefly mentioned NASA, the agency that he effectively dismantled and turned into a global warming alarmist press release mill and Muslim pandering laboratory.
But the story of Challenger is also the story of how one of America's greatest achievements was watered down and turned into another grant factory. The Space Shuttle program was always a white elephant. It had no real point, except to run research missions. It had no goal. And now even it is dead and Obama has killed its replacement vehicle.
Probably one of the saddest moments has to be NASA's commemoration of Challenger.
NASA on Friday said "fear of failure" should not hold back its mission to test the boundaries of human space exploration, as the agency marked the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster...
"We who remain on the ground and asked them to fly failed them that day, as we would fail the crew of Columbia 17 years later and as we failed the crew of Apollo 1 19 years before," said Bill Gerstenmaier, who now oversees NASA's human space flight programs.
"We can't let the fear of failure stop us," he said. "The team has learned tremendous lessons from these events," Gerstenmaier told a crowd of about 250 gathered at Kennedy Space Center's Space Mirror Memorial.
But it's not fear of failure that's holding us back, but fear of American exceptionalism.
NASA's human space exploration is now a relic of history, like Apollo. The only way NASA personnel can get to space is by hitching a ride on Russian space vehicles. Just like the billionaires who pay the Russians 20 million for a ride each.
There's nothing bittersweet about this. Just bitter. We did not meet the challenge of challenger. Or the challenge of America. We elected Obama to rule over us and give us a nanny state instead.
Moving on, I was initially not going to write about the so-called 400 Rabbis ad. What's ridiculous about the 400 Rabbis ad is just how much attention it has received. The ad should have been ignored, instead it's been talked up to death. Without the histrionics some conservative bloggers have engaged in, let's cut directly to the chase.
This is an ad taken out by a left wing group which uses Jews as a front. This is an old tactic going back to the Communist days, when front groups would pop up for races, religions and professions all pushing the same line. Jewish Funds for Justice is not a Jewish group, it is a left wing group run by a community organizer. There are hundreds more identical to it which associate themselves with Latinos, African-Americans, Asians and so on and so forth.
The bulk of the 'Rabbis' who signed on are left wing activists. Some are not even Jewish. Some like Michael Lerner (Hillary Clinton's favorite Rabbi) are not even Rabbis. They are the same people who sign on to left wing letters while hiding behind the moral authority of a religion that they undermine at every occasion.
After Hamas won, 400 Rabbis signed a letter urging Bush to "constructively" engage with the Hamas terrorists who are sworn to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews who live there.
Plenty of the signers of both letters are the same. Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Rabbi Rolando Matalon, Rabbi Andrew Hahn, Rabbi Melanie Aron, Rabbi Michael Holzman, Rabbi Lewis Barth, Rabbi Victor Reinstein, Rabbi Steven Jacobs, Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld, Rabbi Phyllis Berman, Rabbi Raphael Kanter, Rabbi David Rosenn, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn and I've hardly even gotten through the first 60 names on the list. I don't have the time or energy to go through both lists in detail, anyone who wants to can do it here and here. Along with the Rabbis for Obama list here.
Remember Rabbis for Obama? Guess what, many of the same names. Again. I documented that way back during the election.
In other words these are many of the same 'Rabbis' you go to if you want someone to sign their name on a left wing petition.
A list with left wing radicals like Michael Lerner, a campus radical who began claiming to be a Rabbi when he got too old to riot on campus, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a freakshow who's played mentor to a generation of anti-Israel and left wing activists, and Rabbi Rolando Matalon of Brit Tzedek Ve'Shalom, a radical anti-Israel organization, have one thing in common. They don't represent Rabbis or Jews. They represent the far left.
That's it. Bottom line.
Conservative blogs should not be treating this as a rabbinical organization. There is no organization here. Just a group of left-wing activists who pull the same stunt over and over again. They know that calling themselves Rabbis will give them more authority, than just sticking their own names on a sheet of paper.
Beck isn't always right, but his statements about Soros are undeniably factual and backed by Soros' own personal recollections. And some of the "Rabbis" on the list are as bad as Soros.
Take Rabbi Tirzah Firestone.
Firestone is on the advisory council of radical anti-Israel organization J Street (funded by Soros) who has repeatedly condemned Israel and promoted Hamas.
Here's one of her op eds
In addition, we must call upon the government of Israel to resume indirect talks with Hamas. It is abundantly clear that military action, blockades, and occupation are unsustainable tactics that will never yield true or long-term peace, but rather engender more anti-Semitism and suffering on all sides.
Demanding that Israel negotiate with terrorists and blaming Jews for anti-semitism for defending themselves, all in one paragraph. Yet we're supposed to believe that this radical anti-Israel leftist is concerned with the memory of the Holocaust. Please.
There's Rabbi Rolando Matalon, another one of the Hamas Rabbis, who blamed Israel for Hamas' victory. Matalon was also instrumental in Clinton's pardon of two Weathermen terrorists.
I could go on, but I don't have the stomach for it. This is the far left masquerading as the religious left. They have their opposite numbers in most major churches in America. They are an unmitigated evil and like Soros, Jews are their primary targets. Believe me, they hate Jews and Israel, much more than they hate Glenn Beck. Some disguise it behind lovey dovey rhetoric, and some just bare their teeth.
These people are not Rabbis, anymore than Father Pfleger is a priest. And calling them the 400 Rabbis only maintains the 'wolf dressed up as grandma' image that they're employing.
After Tunisia, the disturbances have moved on to Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. Despite what is being predicted, I wouldn't count on any of these countries undergoing the same kind of turnover.
Mubarak is a canny old goat and his secret police forces are extensive and effective. And given a choice between complying with Obama's demands and giving in, on cracking down, he will crack down. All that is being accomplished by the calls for Mubarak to democratize and resign is to show how irrelevant America is and how worthless it is as an ally.
Probably the dumbest piece so far comes from Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post
the Obama administration's embrace of Mubarak, even as the octogenarian strongman refused to allow the emergence of a moderate, middle-class-based, pro-democracy opposition, has helped bring the United States' most important Arab ally to the brink of revolution. Mass popular demonstrations have rocked the country since Tuesday; Friday, when millions of Egyptians will assemble in mosques, could be fateful.
Key word here, mosques. Read Muslim Brotherhood. Mubarak will not be replaced by Diehl's imaginary moderate middle class democracy opposition. It will be a tyranny of one kind or another. And the odds are still on the Muslim Brotherhood as the only force capable of replacing Mubarak.
Second, the Obama administration's Middle East experts concluded that there was no chance of serious reform - much less revolution - under Mubarak. So they plotted at playing a "long game" of slowly nurturing grass-roots movements and promoting civil society, in preparation for the day when Egypt might be ready for real reform. In this they badly underestimated the secular opposition that was rapidly growing in the blogosphere and that months ago began rallying behind former U.N. nuclear director Mohamed ElBaradei.
This is so much crap that it could be shoveled to make strawberries. Only a Beltway journalist would take the Egyptian blogsphere seriously as an opposition force. The Egyptian blogsphere consists of mostly middle and upper class privileged Egyptian kiddies. They will be absolutely irrelevant once the shooting starts and they have no role whatsoever in determining who takes over the country.
Mohamed El Baradei's "popularity" is an even bigger myth. El Baradei is mostly popular with Western journalists. No one in Egypt gives two shakes of a donkey's tail about him.
Those demands are coherent and eminently reasonable: Mubarak should step down and be replaced by a transitional government, headed by ElBaradei and including representatives of all pro-democracy forces.
How is this reasonable? ElBaradei hasn't won an actual election. Why should it be assumed that he should take power? Because he's a favorite of the WaPo columnists? Get real.
That government could then spend six months to a year rewriting the constitution, allowing political parties to freely organize and preparing for genuinely democratic elections. Given time to establish themselves, secular forces backed by Egypt's growing middle class are likely to rise to the top in those elections - not the Islamists that Mubarak portrays as the only alternative.
And then happy bunnies will fly out of their ears and sing magical songs about something or other.
Really? Open elections. That are going to be won by the secular middle-class? What secular middle-class? Most of Egypt is poor. The vast majority of it is religious and fanatical. If this had happened in the 1950's, it still probably wouldn't have worked, but there might have been a shot. But now. A secular middle-class government in Egypt?
I don't have the proper words to express how insane and delusional this is. The only secular governments in the Muslim world are run by dictators. And that is how it is going to stay.
A democratic election will be won by the Muslim Brotherhood. No ifs ands or buts. They may temporarily enlist secular allies, but they will ultimately rule alone. They are happy to use ElBaradei as a front, but the end result will be an Islamist regime.
Either Jackson Diehl should learn something about Egypt beyond browsing the so-called Egyptian blogsphere, or be replaced by a talking banana. It's not too late to take the right side.
A footnote, consider the pundits who have urged us to embrace Castro's reforms, but would like us to see remove Mubarak. There is little difference between the men in principle. Mubarak is certainly less of a tyrant than Castro. But Cuba is the left's pet cause. And they fantasize that Egypt will see a left wing government take hold once Mubarak is gone. Fantasies are those are. Iran should have taught them better.
An alliance between secularists and Islamists will lead to an Islamist regime. A sample of the apologetics via Atlas Shrugs shows the excuses being trotted out.
The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda's leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat's paw of Mubarak and America.
If you ever wanted to be around when pundits were explaining that Hitler was really a moderate who wanted to restore Germany, and the real threat would come from a German military regime, you can be witness to it right now.
And if you want to understand why our governments make such awful decisions, here's the author's bio
Bruce Riedel, a former long-time CIA officer, is a senior fellow in the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. At Obama's request, he chaired the strategic review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009
The Muslim Brotherhood are non-violent moderates. This coming from a man who has significant input into administration policymaking. God help us all, seems to sum it up nicely.
Pamela Geller also has coverage of the Sheepshead Bay mosque. I've been aware of this for a while and had been meaning to write about it, but it got overshadowed by the Ground Zero Mosque.
It's a story about a community trying to resist what Creeping Sharia calls the Zoning Jihad. Muslims are operating without regard for the law, building mosques and defying anyone to stop them. And in Bloomberg's New York, it's working.
Geller also has the invaluable Sarah Honig's take on it. It's one of those articles that must be read to get the street level flavor of what is happening in New York.
It was common for the house-proud Irish to keep property in the family, and hence I'd soon reenter the two-story red-brick home in whose wood-paneled rec-room we occasionally whiled away hours. But when I climbed up the grimy station stairs and surveyed the street, I suspected that some supernatural time-and-space warp had transported me to Islamabad. This couldn't be Brooklyn.
Women strode attired in hijabs and male passersby sported all manner of Muslim headgear and long flowing tunics. Kathy met me at the train and astounded me by pointing out long kurta shirts as distinguished from a salwar kameez. She couldn't help becoming an expert. She's now a member of a fast-dwindling minority because "people are running away.
We're among the last holdouts of our generation. My kids have fled." Pakistani and Bangladeshi groceries lined the main shopping drag, and everywhere stickers boldly beckoned: "Discover Jesus in the Koran." An unremarkable low-slung building on the corner of Kathy's block was now dominated by an oversized green sign identifying it as Masjid Nur al-Islam (the Light of Islam Mosque) and announcing that "only Allah is worthy of worship and Muhammad is his LAST prophet." Here too Christians were urged to "turn to the Koran" if they were "genuinely faithful to Jesus."
It wasn't hard to identify the remaining non-Muslim residences. Kathy's was typical. A huge American flag fluttered demonstratively in the manicured front yard, accompanied by a large cross on the door and an assortment of patriotic/jingoistic banners. "We're besieged," she explained. "Making a statement is about all we can do. They aren't delighted to see our flag wave. This is enemy territory."
This is a story that deserves to be told. Because this is part of the spearhead of the invasion. What is happening in the UK and France, is happening here too. We are all becoming Israel. Our geography becoming seized and transformed into a cultural and eventually military war zone.
In other Hussein news, Powerline's Scott Hindraker has a brief roundup of SOTU Sputnik moment reactions, including my own
Scott points out Krauthammer's own NR piece
And of course, once again, there is the magic lure of a green economy created by the brilliance of Washington experts and politicians. This is to be our "Sputnik moment," when the fear of the foreigner spurs us to innovation and greatness of the kind that yielded NASA and the moon landing.
Apart from the irony of this appeal being made by the very president who has just killed NASA's manned space program, there is the fact that for three decades, since Jimmy Carter's synfuel fantasy, Washington has poured billions of taxpayer dollars down a rat hole in vain pursuit of economically competitive renewable energy.
This is nothing but a retread of what used to be called industrial policy, government picking winners and losers. Except that in a field that is not nearly technologically ready to match fossil fuels, we pick one loser after another — from ethanol, a $6 billion boondoggle that even Al Gore admits was a mistake, to the $41,000 Chevy Volt that only the rich can afford (with their extended Bush tax cuts, of course).
I would argue that the real problem is not just that we're picking winners and losers, but what we're not actually picking winners. These are not serious attempts at energy independence, but pork tossed toward particular states and companies. We are not trying to get off oil, foreign or domestic, just spending taxpayer money for political reasons.
There is no comprehensive plan. What I wrote about Obama's high speed rail yawp applies here too
China's high speed rail program is impressive, but also a Communist party project that loses money every year. It's more about control, than it is about economic necessity. If we had expanding urban infrastructure and a booming manufacturing sector, the way China does, then at least we would be building high speed rail in context. But we don't. We're building high speed rail, because the administration likes the idea. Not because American business is in desperate need of it. Like Kathy's biofuels degree, it's another program without context.
Is there actually a comprehensive government plan to switch to biofuels or electric or anything else? No there isn't. Just money being tossed around. Remember Bush pledging 100 million to develop an electric car in a SOTU address. It's just more of the same. Some people in key positions cash in. Research grants get doled out. And nothing moves forward. Biofuels are not meant to move us off oil, but to move money around.
Ramparts has Mark Levin's reaction to the SOTU, for those who have trouble accessing his Facebook
President Obama's foot remains where it has been since the day he entered the Oval Office, on the gas pedal. He's not braking for anyone or anything. All this pre-SOTU spin from Obama's whisperers, gobbled up by the Obama-hungry media, was always nonsense. Obama has no intention of touching entitlements in any significant way, period. Why would he tamper with the New Deal and Great Society when he considers them a good start but insufficiently bold to advance his statist beliefs? Obama has no intention of honestly working with Republicans on health care, cap-and-trade, etc. These are hallmarks of his transformative agenda. They define him and his presidency. His bureaucracy is working overtime to institute them.
It amazes me that some usually thoughtful people seize on anything they can find to argue, or hope, that Obama has been chastened by the last election. For weeks they've pointed to the tax deal as evidence of his "pivoting." Actually, what Obama did is tee-up the tax fight for a time when he believes his class warfare demagoguery can be best employed — during the final weeks of his re-election bid. He already started it last night. And, of course, the Republicans fell for it, hailing the tax deal as momentous. Obama is ready to deal some more, they reckoned — a sad delusion.
I would argue that there has been a mild change in tone, but none in substance. Procedurally compromises have to be made, but they're not favorable ones. It's a Judo contest to see who can flip whom. And the Republicans are in danger of getting flipped.
My article on Warsi's speech, Anglophobia or Islamophobia - What's the Real Problem? has won the Watcher's Council non-council vote.
But I would like to spotlight the third place, New Zeal blog post on the elevation of Patrick Gaspard.
In a move clearly signaling that planning for the 2012 Presidential election is underway, President Barack Obama's "go to" man Patrick Gaspard is leaving the White House to serve as Executive director of the Democratic National Committee...
Gaspard's move also signals the almost complete acceptance of hard-left and labor union influence in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party. In embracing Gaspard, the D.N.C. has surrendered its "commanding heights" to the Party's almost completely dominant far left.
While never a proven member of any of the several radical and Marxist organizations operating within and the Democratic Party, Gaspard has worked with several of the most influential.
He is undoubtedly a servant of the far left.
Patrick Gaspard was reportedly born in Kinshasa, Zaire, after his father, a political opponent of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti, fled there.
Patrick Gaspard's father moved with his wife from Haiti to "post-liberation" Zaire, when its pro-communist leader, Patrice Lumumba, appealed to French-speaking academics of African descent to teach in the impoverished nation.
Three years after Patrick Gaspard's birth, the family moved to New York.
Read it all because it tells us what the 2012 fight will really be like. Obama may make a show of playing nice, but he's relying of Get Out the Vote programs among the union rank and file and the plantation vote among heavily controlled minority groups. This is about to become a very ugly election. I am beginning to have a feeling that 2012 will make 2008 look good.
Closing note from the same article
Barack Obama, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon. He went into community organizing and the DSA/Committees of Correspondence aligned Chicago left, before moving on to the White House.
Patrick Gaspard, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Aime Cesaire. He went into radical organizing and mixed with the DSA/Committees of Correspondence aligned New York left, before moving on to the White House.
Patrick Gaspard was "made" by the same socialist "mafia" who made Barack Obama.
Now these socialist "twin souls" face the struggle of their lives, the war for the White House 2012.
Obama cannot succeed in 2012, without complete control of the Democratic Party machine. He'll surely be sleeping a little easier now, knowing that Patrick Gaspard has back over at the DNC.
This is Obama and his backers doubling down in a big way. Make no mistake about it.


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Posted on: May 22, 2008
Ames is having no luck waving down cars at midnight on Mexico-85 on a Friday in late August, and it's because he's using the one handed wave. I teach him the two handed wave with a headlamp in each hand, and in a few minutes a white minivan pulls over. The driver speaks English, but she's mean and says she can't help us. She has no phone, no room in her car, but she'll alert a tow truck at the next stop. Whatever. We resume waving. A Jeep with Texas plates and a UT sticker pulls over, and we figure we've got it made. The young couple inside speaks only Spanish, but they have tools. They agree to tow us to Monterrey. We use our slackline to hitch the Escort to the Jeep. The driver tells us, we think, that we will go very slowly.
As soon as we are off the shoulder we are going 45 mph. Ames is in the drivers seat clutching the wheel. The road tips downhill and we go faster. There are high rock walls on either side of the road and the occasional pathetic, busted guardrail. The speedometer indicates that we are going 70, 75, then Jeep's brake lights go on. Ames has to tap the Escort's brake just right, so we don't catapult into the Jeep. Stupid climbers, we never doubt the wide purple webbing and carabiners that are holding us to the Jeep, hurling downhill in the dark in neutral.
The next morning we set out to find a mechanico, and soon enough meet a guy named Pepe who does suspensions. Pepe opens the Escort's hood, pokes around and declares that it is the transmission. And si, he can fix it for maybe 600 US dollars, maybe 700 it depends. We decide to leave the car at the Hotel Palmas, and go on to Hidalgo where our friend Luis at the La Posada campground will help us.
The proprietor of the Hotel Palmas will not let us leave the car in his lot unless we pay 15 US dollars a day. Ames refuses. The chica working at the hotel takes pity on the blue-eyed gringo and says we can leave the busted Escort outside her house just around the corner on Fidel Velasquez. Just tell her brother that she said it was ok and don't tell her boss.
Once we get to Hidalgo, Luis takes Ames back into Monterrey to talk with a transmission guy. I go to the Plutonia cave with Will C. from North Carolina, and have a lovely afternoon bouldering in the cave and taking pictures. Luis and Ames return around 5, with the Escort towed safely to Hidalgo and to Ariel's garage. Once we are home and we tell this story, everyone knows who we're talking about. Ariel is, apparently, the man who fixes cars in Hidalgo. Ames has spent all afternoon drinking Sol, and we go climbing in the Virgin Canyon. He is more talkative than usual, and a most enthusiastic belayer, offering lots of encouragement and climbing confidently himself. It may have been unwise to climb with a drunk belayer, but my safety compass wavers according to the relative political stability of the nation I am in.
Sunday is rest day for Ariel, so we go climb on the spires. Ames spends a few minutes wildly humping the grande spire. Monday comes, the day we were scheduled to go home. I send a desperate email from a stranger's laptop before the connection is lost. The weekend visitors are gone. Ames and I climb Estrelitas in about twenty minutes and realize that when it comes to multipitching we are an effective match. We teach ourselves to simulclimb, I introduce the ever-economical simulrappell. The car will not be ready until Tuesday. There is a used transmission in Monterrey and they will go and pick it up in the morning. And maybe a clutch while they're in town. And maybe a transmission support. I suggest selling the car, and Ames laughs. I build a large barricade between Ames's side and my side of the borrowed 6-man tent. Ames is collecting empty Sol bottles for the 7-peso deposit. I put them all on his side. Everything in El Potrero Chico shuts down during the week in the off-season. The café and restaurant are shuttered, and the depositos along the road stay closed. You have to drive or hitch hike to town to get so much as a botella de Coca-Cola. On Tuesday Ames drives the car back to La Posada and I get all excited, but it's a lie, because it won't stay in 5th gear. We can't drive back in 4th? They have plans to remove the transmission tomorrow, fix it or get it fixed, put it back, and test it again. Everyone who meets Ames tells him he should drive a Honda or a Toyota, that this is happening because he drives a Ford. I suggest we sell the car. Ames wakes me up screaming "What?! What?!" in his sleep.
Wednesday it rains all day. I read a 2-year old issue of Cosmo, and suggested selling the car. I give Ames a Cosmo quiz, "How Needy is He?". He is very needy. We try to read sex tips, but they are too graphic for our relationship to bear.
Thursday I go along to Ariel's to check on the Escort. It is gutted, and Ariel has to take his in-laws to the hospital in Monterrey before he can work on it. The in-laws show up, along with a parrot in a cage, and Ariel declares that he will be done with it today, after the hospital. We hit the road that night at 8. As soon as we cross the border the transmission slips out of 5th.


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In KDE SC 4.8, Kate was extended by the line modification indicators. These indicators show you what lines currently contain unsaved data, but also lines that were once changed but now are saved to disk:
With Kate in KDE 4.13, we have two new actions in the Edit menu:
- Move to Previous Modified Line
- Move to Next Modified Line
In the screenshot above, moving to the next modified line does nothing, since we are already at the very end of the document. Moving to the previous modified line first goes to line 4, then to line 2, and finally to line 1. By default, no shortcuts are assigned, so if you you want to use this, it makes a lot of sense to configure shortcuts.
Modified and saved lines are treated equally, so maybe we should rather call it "touched" lines, since all lines that were touched by the user at some point in the edit history are taken into account.
The rationale behind these two actions is to allow fast navigation in the text that you actually work on. Jumping over hundreds of untouched lines is quite handy.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Nelson Cruz thrust his right arm into the air and shouted out in relief while running the bases after hitting his second homer of the night for the Texas Rangers.
After a tough stretch, the Rangers had a loud and clear response Monday night to the message manager Ron Washington delivered the previous day.
Cruz homered twice and the Rangers ended a six-game losing streak with an 8-7 victory over the AL West-leading Oakland Athletics, matching their run total during what had been the majors' longest active skid.
"We were looking for what happened, get some base hits in RBI situations and just keep grinding," Washington said. "They just showed what they have the capability of doing — what they did tonight. That was the only thing that I stressed to them."
Washington had a rare postgame meeting with his team after the Rangers were swept in a four-game series by Toronto, extending their longest home losing streak since 2005. That was part of a 4-11 stretch that dropped them out of first place.
Cruz's second homer was a two-run shot onto the hill in straightaway center field on an 0-2 pitch from Jesse Chavez (1-1) in the fifth. Cruz emphatically responded while rounding the bases on his 18th homer of the season, and second in two innings. It came right after A.J. Pierzynski's RBI double and put the Rangers up 7-6.
"It was the run we need in that situation. It was very emotional," Cruz said. "In our minds, we believe we can do it. We showed what we're capable of doing."
Oakland, which entered the four-game series opener with a three-game division lead over Texas, wiped out an early 3-0 deficit with a six-run fourth ignited by a bizarre play before Neal Cotts (3-1) worked 2 1-3 perfect innings in relief of rookie Nick Tepesch.
Robbie Ross and Tanner Scheppers each worked 1-2-3 innings, then Joe Nathan gave up a run before securing his 21st save in 22 chances.
After being held to two runs or less in a team record-matching six games in a row, the Rangers took care of that in the first three innings. Pierzynski pulled a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole in the second, an inning before an RBI double by Ian Kinsler. That was Kinsler's first hit in 10 at-bats since coming off the disabled list Saturday after missing 25 games with a rib cage injury.
The Rangers' eight runs and 12 hits were both their most in 16 games this month.
In the Oakland fourth, Yoenis Cespedes hit a grounder that ricocheted off third baseman Adrian Beltre toward shortstop. Elvis Andrus was about to throw to first when he saw John Jaso running in front of him toward third.
Andrus threw to Beltre, who made a swiping attempt at a tag. Jaso, sliding headfirst in front of him, lifted his arm into the air trying to avoid the tag and then dived into the base with his left hand. He was called safe by third base umpire Jordan Baker even though it appeared his hand came off the bag while being tagged. Beltre was irate and Washington also came out to argue the call.
"It's a little odd that the umpire can miss the call twice. ... He's right on top of the play and he still missed it," Beltre said. "I got him twice. I know that, because I did it myself, and I went to see the replay to confirm. The replay showed I tagged him twice. I don't know what he saw."
Tepesch then allowed three hits and a walk to the next four hitters, including a two-run single by Seth Smith, who scored on Jed Lowrie's double. Eric Sogard had a sacrifice fly and Coco Crisp's RBI single made it 6-3 and chased Tepesch.
"He made some good pitches in the bottom of the strike zone, and they went down there and they got them and they found holes," Washington said.
Oakland rookie Dan Straily had a 2.21 ERA in his previous five starts, a stretch that began at Texas on May 21 when the right-hander worked seven scoreless innings and faced 22 batters — one more than the minimum for that span — in a 1-0 win over Yu Darvish.
Straily hadn't allowed a homer in his last six starts and 38 innings until Pierzynski went deep. The first of Cruz's two homers came off him as well.
Cruz was the first batter faced by Chavez when he took over for Straily, who allowed six runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings.
"I was up in the strike zone. They were aggressive and I just got beat, plain and simple," Straily said. "Swing early and often. I feel like everyone up there was trying to swing out of their shoes on every single pitch. They got me, that's all there is to it."
NOTES: Cespedes started his fourth consecutive game as Oakland's DH after missing two games because of left hamstring tightness. Manager Bob Melvin wants to see him in the field during batting practice before putting him back in the outfield. ... Rangers starting pitchers have gone 16 games in a row without a victory this month, matching a team record set in 1975. ... It was Cruz's 10th career multihomer game.


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MILAN-SAN REMO, the first monument classic of the cycling year took place on Saturday and was won by Matthew Goss (HTC-High Road).
Goss finished the 298km race by sprinting to the head of a group of eight riders to claim the biggest victory of his career. Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) finished in second place and Phillipe Gilbert (OmegaPharma-Lotto) rounded out the podium as he came in third.
Goss is the first Australian (and first non-European) to win the Milan-San Remo classic.
The race came to life with about 80km to go when reigning champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank) took a tumble on a descent. The disorder that ensued resulted in a split in the peloton, as 44 riders escaped off the front and quickly built up a two minute lead. As well as Freire, riders who were caught in the large bunch behind on the road included major pre-race favourites Mark Cavendish (HTC-High Road), Tyler Farrar and World Champion Thor Hushovd (both Garmin-Cervelo), none of whom made it back to the front of the race.
The finale of this year's Milan-San Remo was riveting. There was constant attacking, as what was left of the front group splintered on the final climbs of the race. Yaroslav Popovych (Team RadioShack), Greg van Avermaet (BMC Racing), Yoann Offredo (FDJ) and reigning Giro d'Italia champion Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) all lit up the front of the race, but all were pegged back by riders chasing behind. As the race approached the final three kilometres, there were ten riders in with a chance of victory, but Goss knew that he was the strongest sprinter there.
The patient Tasmanian watched Gilbert and Cancellara try to break away to steal the victory and remained calm as other riders diligently reeled them back in. As the group came back together in the final straight, Goss made no mistake and powered past the group of non-sprinters to take the win, his eighth of the year.
Earlier in the week, the An Post-Sean Kelly team took part in two separate Belgian one day races. First up was the Nokere Koerse semi-classic which took place on Wednesday. Irish riders Sam Bennett and Ronan McLaughlin made up part of the eight-man team, with Niko Eeckhout once again assuming the role of team leader. As is the case with most Belgian races of this calibre, Eeckhout has finished on the podium before. In 2001, one of his best ever years on a bike, Eeckhout finished third here behind Michel Vanhaecke and Wilfried Cretskens.
This year however, Eeckhout could only manage 12th in the bunch sprint which decided the race. Double Tour de France stage winner Gert Steegmans (QuickStep) took the victory which was his first in over two years. Ronan McLaughlin finished in the bunch in 63rd position, whereas Sam Bennett did not finish. Irish road race champion Matt Brammeier (HTC-High Road) also took part and was the best placed rider on his team in a solid 26th place.
But there was more to come from Eeckhout in the Handzame Classic on Friday. This is a race which has previously been included as a stage in the Three Days of West Flanders. This year however, the race has separated itself from that particular stage race and has been run for the first time as a one-day race in its own right. In awful conditions the race came down to a bunch sprint between 40 riders. The dash to the line was won by Steve Schets (Donckers Koffie – Jelly Belly) as Niko Eeckhout finished just behind in third place for the An Post-Sean Kelly team.
The race was notable for a crash which took place just as the riders were crossing the finish line. An over-eager spectator leaned out to take a photograph and a camera strap hooked the handlebars of the rider who finished in second place, Kenny van Hummel (Skil-Shimano). The crash brought down several riders including the winner Schets as he was in mid-celebration. Nobody was seriously hurt in the resulting chaos which led to the bizarre image of Schets lying on his back in the middle of the road with his arms aloft in celebration.
The next race for the An Post-Sean Kelly team is the Dwars door Vlaanderen this Wednesday, a race won by Niko Eeckhout in 2001 and 2005. Sean Kelly himself finished in third place back in 1987.
Volta a Catalunya
David McCann and Ryan Sherlock of the Giant Kenda Cycling Team are currently taking part in the Tour de Taiwan which got underway on Saturday with a prologue time trial and continued yesterday with a criterium race in Taipei City. McCann is the reigning champion and currently sits in 22nd place just nine seconds off the overall lead currently held by Australian Adam Phelan (Drapac Cycling). Sherlock is 75th in the general classification. The ten-day race continues today with a 118km stage which includes three categorised climbs which will be the first major tests for the riders.
Nicolas Roche, Daniel Martin and Philip Deignan are all due to continue their seasons in the Volta a Catalunya which gets underway today. They will be joined by major G.C. contenders such as Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans, Ivan Basso, Carlos Sastre and Denis Menchov. It is a seven-day stage race in which Irish riders have a good history. Daniel Martin finished second here in 2009 behind Alejandro Valverde and Sean Kelly won this race in 1984 and again in 1986.
Highlights of the 2011 Volta a Catalunya will be shown on British Eurosport every evening this week.


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DESCRIPTIONThe "die" and "warn" functions both report the file and line number where the exception occurred. But if someone else is using your subroutine, they usually don't care where your code blew up. Instead, they want to know where their code invoked the subroutine. The Carp module provides alternative methods that report the exception from the caller's file and line number.
By default, this policy will not complain about "die" or "warn", if it can determine that the message will always result in a terminal newline. Since perl suppresses file names and line numbers in this situation, it is assumed that no stack traces are desired either and none of the Carp functions are necessary.
die "oops" if $explosion; #not ok warn "Where? Where?!" if $tiger; #not ok open my $mouth, '<', 'food' or die 'of starvation'; #not ok if (! $dentist_appointment) { warn "You have bad breath!\n"; #ok } die "$clock not set.\n" if $no_time; #ok my $message = "$clock not set.\n"; die $message if $no_time; #not ok, not obvious
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AUTHORJeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <[email protected]>
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For the past couple of years, newspapers and visual media have been reporting about the rise in the sexual activity during Navratri Dandiya Raas in
Gujarat. In the past week, this blog has attracted several visitors on the topic even though the Dandia Ras related post had nothing to do with sex. So what's the whole issue of this Dandiya Sex?
Young boys and girls make use of the freedom they get during the Navratri nights to indulge in sex. The Dandiya dance goes on till and into the wee hours of the morning. And it is no more a secret that a minority of teenagers make use of freedom provided by the religious festival to indulge in sex with their girlfriends.
Reports appearing the newspapers and visual media suggest that there is an increase of 25 to 30% condom sale during the Navratri period in the cities in
Gujarat. Hotels too make huge profits during the period as room rates for an hour ranges from Rupees 200 to 500. There is also a rise in the number of abortions in Gujarat a couple of months after Navratri.
Is it such a big issue?
Not a major issue yet, but still a concern for parents. And some wealthy parents are taking the service of private detectives to keep an eye on their daughters during Navratri. It might sound funny but it is true.
Certain so called national television channels in
is also blowing the whole episode out of proportion to sell sleaze and gossip. They forget that it is only a minority of teenagers that are indulging in these activities. In their excitement to earn more advertising revenue and popularity, these channels quite often forget the majority of the people and teenagers who celebrate and enjoy Navratri in right spirit. India
These channels also fail to mention the numerous NGOs that are creating awareness among youngsters regarding the issue.
The Big Danger
Some unscrupulous people find it the right opportunity to create fast cash by shooting videos and pictures of teenagers in compromising positions on mobile phones and hidden cameras. These people use it either to blackmail the teenagers or their parents or sell it to websites that publish such contents.
The Solution
Parents should have the courage to discuss about such issues with their children and make them realize the seriousness of the problem. Parents should not shy away from programs or people or NGOs that are discussing the issue. They should encourage their children to listen to such programs.


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Sustainable healthcare isn't just about helping the environment. It's about creating a brighter future for patients, medical staff, and even shareholders.
Cost-efficient and caring lighting goes a long way. Energy-saving illumination systems can help you balance the impact of rapidly rising electricity costs. And with hospital lighting systems based on innovation, you can keep up with the changing needs of patients, and the ongoing advances in medical technology.


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10 Ways to Prepare for Homeownership
Getting ready to buy a home? Here are 10 ways to prepare for homeownership:
1. Decide what you can afford. Generally, a home's sale price should not exceed 2.5 times your gross annual income or salary.
2. Develop your home wish list. Decide what you absolutely must have, and what you would like to have but can live without. Then, prioritize those features on your list.
3. Select where you want to live. Compile a list of three or four neighborhoods you'd like to live in by taking into account items such as schools, proximity to family and friends, commute time and public transportation options, recreational facilities, health care facilities, real estate values, area expansion plans, and safety (crime rates and statistics).
4. Start saving. Do you have enough money saved to qualify for a mortgage and cover your down payment? Ideally, you should have 20 percent of the purchase price saved as a down payment. But, you can buy a home with as little as 3.5% or even no money down. Also, don't forget to factor in closing costs such as appraisal, home inspections, attorney's fee, recording fees, homeowner's insurance prepaid for 1 year, escrow for taxes and insurance. Closing costs usually average between 2 and 5 percent of the price of the home.
5. Get your credit in order. Your credit score and credit history can affect the mortgage interest rate. Obtain a copy of your credit report at www.annualcreditreport.com to make sure it is accurate and to correct any errors immediately. A credit report provides a history of your credit including any bad debts, judgements, and late payments on credit accounts.
6. Determine your mortgage qualifications. How large of mortgage do you qualify for? Also, explore different loan options — such as 30-year or 15-year fixed mortgages or adjustable rate mortgage (ARMs) — and decide what's best for you.
7. Get pre-approved. Organize all the documentation a lender will need to pre-approve you for a loan. You might need W-2 forms, copies of at least 2 or 3 pay stubs, account numbers, and copies of two to four months of bank or credit union statements.
8. Weigh other sources of help with a down payment. Do you qualify for any special mortgage or down payment assistance programs? Check with your state and local government on down payment assistance programs for first-time buyers. Or, if you have an IRA account, you can use the money you've saved to buy your fist home without paying a penalty for early withdrawal.
9. Calculate the costs of homeownership. This should include principal and interest payments of your mortgage, property taxes, homeowner's insurance premiums, private mortgage insurance premiums, maintenance and utilities, and association fees, if applicable.
10. Contact a REALTOR®. Find an experienced REALTOR® who can help guide you through the homebuying process.


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Pima May 20 conference canceled
The first USDA 2003 Pima cotton crop estimate projected a drop in acreage of almost 20 percent for the San Joaquin Valley.
However, with each passing April storm, acreage dropped even more. Some thought the 170,000 acres initial estimate was too low, but now 150,000 may be too high.
Steve Carnes, director of field services for the Supima Association of America, estimates only 110,000 acres had been planted by April 22 and 30 percent of that will be replanted or shifted to Acala varieties because it is too late to replant longer-season Pima.
"Some growers will plant until May 1, but the seven to 10 day forecast doesn't look good. I believe we may end up with only 130,000 to 140,000 acres," Carnes estimates. If that is realized, it will be the smallest Pima acreage since 1995.
"There is so much uncertainty at this time, sponsors of the Pima Production Summit scheduled for May 20 at the Visalia Convention Center have decided to cancel this year's conference," said Harry Cline, editor of Western Farm Press, co-sponsor of the conference along with the Supima Association of America, University of California Cooperative Extension and the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association.
University of California farm advisors and Extension specialists typically use the mid-May summit to address issues with the current season's crop.
Await warming
"I am sure we will have a better handle on the crop once the weather warms, and we can address issue specific to Pima during our summer crop meetings," said Steve Wright, Tulare County UCCE farm advisor.
The much reduced initial planting estimate was largely because of an oversupply and weak prices. However, demand is picking up, according to Jesse Curlee, president of the Supima Association.
Much of the last two seasons' crops went into the loan, but movement out of loan cotton is good right now, said Curlee.
"We know the economy in this country has not turned around and when we talk to our foreign customer, we hear everyone complaining about the economy," said Curlee. "Nevertheless, we see strong Pima sales to places like India and China.
"There seems to be good demand for Pima to be used in better quality fiber products," said Curlee.
That is good news, but this year's weather problems and greatly reduced acreage could create an unwanted side effect.
"The one thing we fear is a shortage of Pima in a growing demand market. Prices can get too high hurting our markets. We hope that is not a fall-out from this year's crop problems," said Curlee.
"Our plans are to resume the annual Pima Production Summit in 2004 and continue from there hosting the event on an alternating year basis," said Cline.
COPYRIGHT 2003 PRIMEDIA Business Magazines & Media Inc. All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group


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In the Old Vic's game revival of this middling Tennessee Williams melodrama, Kim Cattrall is Alexandra Del Lago, a faded screen starlet who has fled the premiere of her comeback movie, horrified at the sight of her aged face.
Setting up the play's most ludicrous twist, she had completely isolated herself from the world, travelling America incognito on a booze and drugs-addled binge after falling in with a handsome chancer called, er, Chance. As the play opens, the two of them are shacked up in an opulent hotel in St Cloud, Florida; what Chance hasn't mentioned is that this is his hometown, where he has a spectacular amount of unfinished business.
On the face of it, American actor Seth Numrich is an odd choice of Chance – he's younger and prettier than the slightly fading 29-year-old he's made out to be. But he puts in such a belter of a turn that it doesn't really matter. With eyes that flit painfully between cocky and defeated, Numrich offers an exceptionally human and committed portrait of a man caught between a painfully pure memory of who he once was and the grimmer reality of who he has become.
It's a great performance and Chance is the play's one great character. His chemistry with Cattrall is odd, however – in her first scene she couldn't be any more preposterous, a barely functional, sub-'Ab Fab' wreck; sparks do not fly, to the point that her eventual demands for sex feel like a naff contrivance. And her queenly resurrection at the end is equally hard to believe. Cattrall gives it a good shot, but if feels like she's putting too much faith in Williams's broad writing, when she could have found a more nuanced way around it.
Her scenes bookend the play – in between Chance gets embroiled in some murky local politics, as he ineptly tries to wrestle his childhood sweetheart Heavenly (Louise Dylan) back from her monstrous father. It's all pretty bombastic, but entertainingly so, and it's to director Marianne Elliott's credit that she embraces this thoroughly, with a thrillingly OTT setpiece scene in a raging thunderstorm. All very watchable, but aside from Numrich's soulful turn the play lacks a centre.
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Get out there and regularly kick that soccer ball around with your kids, you may be helping them prevent a broken hip when they are older, say researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in Chicago, IL.
"According to our study, exercise interventions in childhood may be associated with lower fracture risks as people age, due to the increases in peak bone mass that occurs in growing children who perform regular physical activity," said lead author, Bjorn Rosengren, MD, PhD of Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden. Rosengren and his colleagues conducted a population-based controlled exercise intervention for six years in children age 7-9 years in Malmo, Sweden. In the intervention group 362 girls and 446 boys received 40 minutes of daily physical education at school.
The control group of 780 girls and 807 boys received 60 minutes of physical education per week. Researchers registered incident fractures in all participants and followed skeletal development annually. During the time of the study there were 72 fractures in the intervention group and 143 in the control group resulting in similar fracture risks. The increase in spine bone mineral density was higher in both the boys and girls in the intervention group.
During this same time, researchers performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of 709 former male athletes with a mean age of 69 years and 1,368 matched controls with a mean age of 70 years to determine how many had suffered fractures and rates of bone density loss. Within the former athletes group, bone mass density dropped only minimally from +1.0 to +0.7 standard deviations compared to the control group.
"Increased activity in the younger ages helped induce higher bone mass and improve skeletal size in girls without increasing the fracture risk. Our study highlights yet another reason why kids need to get regular daily exercise to improve their health both now and in the future," said Rosengren.


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UAE's renewable energy capacity is building up nicely, but grid stability needs constant watch
A key driver of economic growth and a catalyst for social welfare and national security, energy has been a priority for policymakers for decades. The challenges faced by the world due to unprecedented energy demand and the prolonged use of traditional energy sources dominate government and corporate agendas.
The global energy transition is progressing with the UAE leading the way as it marks the 'Year of Sustainability' and prepares to host COP28. The UAE joins other nations in facilitating deep changes in its energy sector.
Over the past decade, the UAE has made great strides towards an increasingly sustainable energy. Besides substantial investments in clean energy and emerging technologies, the UAE became the first Arab country to embrace nuclear energy. It has also established the world's largest solar parks and achieved globally competitive rates.
The nation's goal to generate 50 per cent of its energy from clean sources by 2050 is well within reach.
The ongoing transition is not without hurdles. While clean energy capacity continues to rise, the most prominent challenge remains reliable transmission and distribution. The changed energy mix has impacted the resiliency of the electric grid, exposing its vulnerability.
Capping fluctuations
Unlike traditional power plants that generate constant power output, renewable power sources like wind and solar have intermittent production, causing fluctuations. As the percentage of clean energy increases, fluctuations can cause outages or damage to the grid infrastructure.
Managing these fluctuations and maintaining grid stability during this transformative era requires a approach that prioritizes innovation across all aspects of grid resiliency, from generation and storage to distribution and transmission. To achieve this, the scale of capital required in is unprecedented.
As the percentage of renewables is on the rise, consensus among experts is that the best path is to incorporate many different forms of renewable energy resources. While Taqa's 2GW Al-Dhafra Solar Photovoltaic project with the capacity to power approximately 160,000 UAE households is developing towards becoming the world's largest solar power project, the UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant is providing safe and reliable power round the clock to support clean energy development nationwide.
Battery energy storage
Smart, timely investments also play a critical role in energy storage, reducing the reliance on fossil fuel-based peaking plants. R&D of storage technologies that accommodate the variable nature of renewable energy sources continue.
But building battery energy storage systems at grid-scale is the real challenge. Renewable energy, such as solar power, can charge those systems. The UAE plans to develop such systems at scale, enhancing network stability and providing operating reserves while improving system operability overall.
Decarbonizing electricity generation and investing in next-generation storage technologies are only initial steps. Achieving Net Zero requires resilient transmission and distribution networks. There is a clear case for financial initiatives supporting infrastructure upgrades with advanced materials and components, which can enhance capacity and efficiency, accommodating higher levels of renewable energy generation.
Efforts should also extend abroad as stronger regional grid integration enables the sharing of surplus renewable energy, thus creating a larger, more flexible energy market while reducing reliance on fossil fuel-based backup generation.
In Abu Dhabi, Taqa plans to invest $10.9 billion in expanding the local transmission and distribution network as part of the company's vision to increase the share of power generation from clean sources to more than 30 per cent by 2030.
Smart grids
Such efforts are ideally complemented by investments in smart grid technology, including advanced metering infrastructure, sensors, and data analytics. These technologies improve monitoring and control of the grid, facilitating efficient integration of renewable energy sources.
As part of its smart grid journey, Abu Dhabi Distribution Company has already automated over 70 per cent of its primary substations, with plans to automate more. Promoting distributed energy resources like rooftop solar panels and electric vehicle charging stations can also reduce transmission and distribution losses while lowering emissions.
Globally, over $130 trillion of investment in clean energy and sustainable infrastructure is required by 2050 to address major climate challenges. While world leaders must act to reduce carbon output, we must simultaneously invest in all components of grid stability to unlock a cleaner, more efficient, and reliable energy landscape that supports future generations.
Hamad Abdulla Al Hammadi
The writer is CEO, Energy & Utilities and Sustainable Manufacturing, ADQ.
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1968 Princeton Reverb Repairs — A reprised post from my old QRP HomeBuilder website
This somewhat rare 1968 silver face Princeton Reverb had aluminum trim surrounding the grill cloth. We verified its age by the output transformer code, the trim and by serial number. This particular amp ran a GZ34 rectifier in the rectifier tube socket.
Boy, it sounded terrible! According to the owner, it sat in a closet for 15 years; but prior to that, some teenagers had borrowed it to "rock it hard", but brought it back and stated that it did not sound very good. After replacing 4 tubes, the power supply capacitors, the bias capacitor, a B+ chain resistor, and the speaker — this amp sounded pleasant once again.
During physical examination and testing, I found the following problems:
Above — Post CBS Princeton Reverb. The Princeton Reverb was essentially a poor man's Deluxe Reverb with a 10 inch speaker. Rated at around 12 watts, it ran a much smaller output transformer and as a result, offered much less head room than the Deluxe Reverb. The tolex on this old amp looked in incredible shape. All it needed was a good cleaning.
Above — The look on our jazz cat's face says it all. This amp sounded terrible. He
demanded that I make repairs as soon as possible and return it to the owner.
Above — The chassis removed from the wood. The PR chassis proved very compact, lightweight and easy to work on.
Above — A view inside the chassis. This circuit and its schematic looked very much like the blackface pre-CBS version. A few newer, non-Fender parts gave evidence of previous repair(s). This can get scary. Fixing some else's bad repairs may open a Pandora's box. For this particular amp, the previous repairs seemed OK.
Above — The 4 main electrolytic B+ supply capacitors are housed inside 1 can
which is referred to as a multiple section capacitor. This is the old multiple section capacitor. Note the heat disfigured 1K ohm resistor to the right of the capacitor. I removed it and measured 1K6 ohms.
Above — Removal of an old multi-section capacitor is never fun. I used an 80 watt soldering iron, solder wick and a flat screw driver to unlatch the anchoring tabs from the main chassis. After capacitor removal, the remaining solder was removed and I cleaned and buffed the local chassis area.
Above — The new multiple section capacitor. It's diameter measured 1 – 3/8 inches. This means obtaining a special part as modern cans are greater in diameter and won't fit in a vintage amp. I got this cap from Antique Electronic Supply. The number = C-EC20X4-475 and it's a 20/20/20/20 uF @ 475 VDC. Apparently they're manufactured on original Mallory equipment.
Above — The new multi-section capacitor is soldered in. I replaced the disfigured 1K resistor with a NOS version. It ran cool to touch during testing. For safety purpose, I palpated it immediately after the power was switched off and the high voltage was bled to ground. Nowadays, I measure temperature with an infrared thermometer.
Above — Replacing the bias capacitor removed the intermittent ~1 KHz oscillation and decreased hum. I only had an axial type on hand and it worked fine.
Above — The old and new 6V6 finals are shown. A matched set of Electro-Harmonix 6V6s were installed. I loved the sound of these Russian-built EH 6V6 offerings. I also put in a new, low-noise, Sovtek 12AX7a in the number 1 preamp tube socket. Further, a new Sovtek rectifier tube replaced the clanking old rectifier tube. The other tubes seemed OK.
Above — The old and new 10 inch speakers. The speaker choice was made to suit the owner. He wanted maximum head room and plays only clean guitar. I chose a Fender 099-4810-004. This speaker is actually made by Eminence, a company I like and whose products I have used on other projects. The new speaker sounds great and most importantly, pleases the owner. The old speaker cone and surround were cracked and separated. Further, the cone felt stiff + brittle — and a new speaker proved the best way to go. Fender didn't put a great speaker in the PR to begin with.
Above — A rear view of the final tested chassis back in the wood and connected to the new speaker.
Above — The jazz cat now mesmerized by the sweet tone of the restored Princeton Reverb. The parts total ran about $200 and much of it arose from shipping/handling/duty and tax costs to Canada. The owner only wanted to spend a maximum of $200, so it felt good to come in on budget for a change.
Above — My bench back in 2008. I built and repaired many tube amps here.
Tube amplifiers operate at high DC voltages. Repairing, modifying or building tube amps can be dangerous, or in some cases, fatal.


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Reading about Square's latest $100 million in capital raised at a $1 billion valuation, it's tempting to write another Bubble Story. While it's undeniable that it would be hard to do that financing in the wake of the recent Sequoia RIP Good Times era, there's something more interesting to think about here.
First, let me say the Square folks are doing exactly the right thing to raise as much as they can as soon as they can while the Bubble lasts. That was essentially my advice to entrepreneurs in my message to Founders that the Bubble Clock is Ticking. Enough said about Bubbles and Clocks, Square is an interesting deal from another perspective–it's a "Golden Crumbs" financial scaling on the back of a new paradigm story. Money guys love that story. They love to get into it over and over again.
"Golden Crumbs" is a term I got from Bonfire of the Vanities. It stems from business opportunities that involve taking a very small tax on a very large volume. It's a beautiful thing to have a Golden Crumbs opportunity, particularly when it is made all the more plausible by prospects of a paradigm shift. We've watched first the Internet, then Social Networks, and lately Mobile (Square's paradigm shift) step up as reasons to believe by way of paradigm shift. The ideal paradigm shift is one the incumbents have a hard time participating in. Such shifts are called "disruptive", and they give the Golden Crumb harvesters time to get really big before they have to deal with the last generation's Golden Crumb Landed Gentry.
Couple the sexy business model that is Golden Crumbs, the Team that made Square happen, the Mobile Paradigm Shift that makes it possible to Believe and it's got to be hard for investors not to like Square. After all, the last deal that was lined up this well was PayPal, wasn't it? If these guys can really change things with all that capital, the willingness to Believe in them, and the state of the market, they will have earned that valuation.
I can tell you one thing, payment processing is hard for small businesses, and the Internet has changed the landscape in so many ways that help foster small business. Why not fix the payments problems too?