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CHICAGO, ILL. – JULY 8, 2016 – Tanisha Wright broke an 85-85 tie with a long jumper with 29.4 to play and the Liberty came up with a pair of defensive stops down the stretch to pick up an 88-85 win over the Chicago Sky on Friday night at Allstate Arena.
Despite the Liberty (14-6) leading by as many as 15 in the second half, the game tightened heading into the fourth quarter, and Chicago (7-11) twice knotted the score late in the fourth quarter but was never able to retake the lead as New York had an answer each time.
Following an Allie Quigley jumper at 3:10, Sugar Rodgers dialed up a big 3-pointer, her fifth of the evening, to put her team back on top, only to see Jamierra Faulkner complete a 3-point play on the other end.
Tina Charles put the Liberty back up by two with a layup on the ensuing possession, but Tamera Young answered right back to make it 85-85 with 1:58 remaining, where the score remained until Wright's late game winner.
It was career-victory No. 200 for Liberty head coach Bill Laimbeer, who became the 7th coach in WNBA history to accomplish the feat and boasts a career record of 200-151. Wright's free throw with 15.1 on the clock gave her 3,000 career points.
Charles, the league's leading scorer, finished with 29 points and nine boards to power the Liberty offensive attack, and Rodgers finished with 21, shooting 5-of-8 from 3-point range.
The Liberty got off to a strong start, leading 11-6 early in the game after Rodgers pulled up for a triple in transition, and thanks to Charles' 11 first-quarter points, New York was in front 24-22 after 10 minutes of action.
The lead quickly grew to double figures as the Liberty opened the second period on an 8-0 run, capped by a pair of Rebecca Allen free throws. The New York advantage reached as high as 13 in the first half, 41-28, after Carolyn Swords cleaned up an offensive rebound and went off the glass for two.
New York started the 2nd half on a 5-0 run to rebuild the double-digit lead as Rodgers hit a three on the first possession and Swin Cash was good from the baseline to make it 55-44, leading to a Sky timeout.
After the brief stoppage the Liberty kept rolling, making it nine unanswered to open the third as Charles went high off the glass for a bucket, making it 59-44. More than three minutes into the period Allie Quigley snapped the Sky out of their shooting drought with a corner trey.
That basket marked the start of a 15-6 Chicago run that ended with a Jamierra Falkner 3-pointer to pull the Sky back within four, 65-61, and the margin was only five heading into the final period.
Down to two as Quigley stroked her sixth triple of the game, 71-69, and had a chance to take the lead. Charles hook shot makes it 78-75
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[MANGA] what went wrong in bleach?
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Ok. Things that i think needed to be improved...
1) SS people getting too much screen time.
- Due to popular demand, Soul Reapers from SS got more screen time, overshadowing the peeps that need it most. SS people are already awesome, I get it. But the screen time should have focused on the main protagonists, since they need those screen time to show their development. Well, instead, they are left to crumble and amount to nothing...
2) Dragged on meaning less fights.
- Kenpachi/Nnotria, Szayel/all, etc. These fight got dragged on and on and all their fights only accomplished is that one side wins. If the battle chapters have meaning (like Ulquiorra Antagonist Arc, IMO) I wouldn't have mind. But I don't feel any special regarding those fights and I think they were just waste of chapter pages....
3) Inconsistent Power-Levels during fights
- Teh whole "Enemy powered up, Hero is screwed. Next chapter, Hero powered-up, Enemy got screwed. Next Chapter, Hero talks about how he/she/it better than the Enemy" formula. Might not follow the whole sequence, but the fights most of the time follows the almost the same formula. It's getting boring at times, and is the source of bashing, rants, etc etc.
i like lots of stories, it would be a great idea to do a ark with only ss characters, like something happens, and we see different SS characters troughout the evenments. i think ichigo could get less screentime, because right now i wanna know more about other character since ichigo's story is getting rapidly boring
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May 7th has always been a special day for me, just as any birthday would be for anyone else. But I truly love May. Everything about the month brings such happiness and it's always a joy to start the month off with my birthday.
May is one pretty little lady, with her flowers blossomed and lush, with occasional southern thunderstorms treating me every so often growing up. It was the month school was let out so it was the best of both worlds, it was spring one week and summer the next. Every thing and every one is so alive and giddy.
I wanted to bring that back to Utah this year for my twenty-fourth. People say twenty-four is a good age. I can't help but believe them, and I have to remind myself that any age in your twenties is going to be a good year. So I'm taking it all in. I told myself by making a New Years Resolution that I'd practice my southern cooking and learn to master the food I grew up on and share it with my friends. What better occasion then your birthday? I always corner myself into a project that's very much over my head, but I secretly think I love a good challenge. I'm pretty sure I get it from my mama.
So with that said, I made up a menu of fried cajun pickles, with a remoulade sauce, jalapeno cheddar cheese grits and bbq chicken, and Minnie's Chocolate Pie. I was going to attempt beignets, but when I realized the heavy load I was carrying already and the fact that my friends had actually piled into my bungalow on time, I just had to throw in the towel at some point.
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Tonight couldn't have been more perfect. It was low key, I had great company, and the Zoo couldn't have been any more wonderful. He was such a big help, coming home early from work to help me finish cooking - eh I admit, I didn't fully make all of the food completely by myself, but I was desperate on time here. But I loved that he wanted to make it work for me. I can say, as much fun as I had, I won't be throwing parties anytime soon. Like forever. They are great and all but boy do they kick the can right out from under you. I can tell you right now, I am spending my day tomorrow doing loads of dishes and watching my tv shows in bed and I don't even care. Im whooped. Im whooped and I'm happy. Happy to be alive.
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Steve Winwood eased into his late afternoon set at Mile High with "I'm a Man." A hit from his original band, The Spencer Davis Group. As I headed out of the photo pit to find Matt, I couldn't help but sing along with "Can't Find My Way Home," which is a song from another Winwood band, Blind Faith which also included Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker.
Andy wishes that Steve Winwood would sing him lullabies.
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But Newhall Land said it may make a lower offer for the partnership. Newhall Land wants to buy the limited partnership to obtain mineral rights Newhall Resources holds to land in California. That would give Newhall Land, a real estate limited partnership, the right to develop the property.
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In October, Newhall Land offered $7.50 for each of Newhall Resources' 4.4 million units.
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An interview with photographer Tom Wood at his home in Wales, who revealed the unseen images that anticipated his seminal 'Looking for Love' series for a special Dazed project.
I'm in a car in Caerwys, North Wales, admiring the drizzly view through the valley, and my taxi driver is singing along to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". The so-badit's-good soundtrack might be the same, and the smell of stale cigarettes may have seeped into the seats, but we're a long way from the Chelsea Reach, the Liverpool club where photographer Tom Wood hung out every weekend during the 80s, camera in hand. The photos he took affectionately chronicle the nights out of a generation that had no idea of the rave years around the corner. "They're looking at me looking at them, looking at each other," says Wood in his living room, later on. They're also looking, as the eventual book title put it, for love: that sweat-drenched, lagersoaked, one-night-only, hands-in-the-air, holding-back-the-tears kind of love common to 20-somethings of any era.
"It was always a dilemma whether I had a right to take pictures, to move into the situation and fire a flash into someone's face, into this sea of bodies," he recalls, poking at a low-burning log. "But I thought if I don't do it, who's going to do it?" We're at the photographer's home to discuss his cult 1989 photobook Looking for Love, as well as the never-before-seen images from those years uncovered for this issue. Every week, he would have a few pints with friends – too many would upset the balance between "concentrating and feeling free" – and pop into the Chelsea Reach on the way home. "When you photograph in the nightclub you only get one picture because you're using a flash. You just shoot and then the situation is gone, you can't work around it. One wrong look destroys a picture – a really dirty look in someone's eyes, saying fuck off."
The fact that this look is so rarely seen in the Irish photographer's work is proof of his close relationships within the communities he has called home. "Most people I knew by sight or name," he says. "(And) I'd do the same thing over and over again. I would be in the Chelsea Reach on a Friday night, then photographing on the bus and at the market on Saturday morning, football in the afternoon and then Chelsea Reach again in the evening."
As we flip through different photobooks and explore cupboards full of negatives, the conversation is peppered with memories of the people in each photo: shipyard workers, skinheads outside a police station, schoolgirls on buses, cleaning ladies, the residents of a mental hospital. The same faces pop up again and again, at different points in their lives: "I photographed her daughter's 21st the other day," "He was my bus driver," "He died in a car crash in Ireland… I should send some to his family." That some of these lives seem troubled is what makes them so ordinary. "What I liked about the people was they were just really normal," he says. When the camera flashes through a pub window, you might even catch a glimpse of the Photie Man – as Wood was affectionately dubbed by local kids – reflected in the glass.
Wood, resolved to shoot society's overlooked corners, has always employed similarly unpretentious distribution methods, giving local hairdressers prints for browsing alongside the magazines, and sitting a box outside his house for local kids to come pick up photos of themselves. To this day, graphic photographs of drunken encounters are proudly displayed on middle-aged men's mantelpieces – men "now married to someone else", he sagely notes.
From his early days as a Butlins photographer to his current landscape work, Wood hasn't strayed from the mantra he scribbled in a journal in his art school days: 'It has got to be real.' "I would see prostitutes in the doorway next door, under the street lamp at night and with their kids during the day," he says. "What was going on in art school seemed like a game. This seemed more interesting and raw." It's a memory that underlines Wood's commitment to respecting the fullness of an individual's life in his photography, both happy snaps-sunshine and after-hours glow: "It was that realness I responded to in the Chelsea Reach." For Wood, photography's small epiphanies are as useless to try and explain as why a turn of phrase might sound more beautiful in Irish, Welsh, or even a Liverpudlian accent: photie man, for one. "There's no analysis, just instinct," he says in his own, soft voice. "You take pictures and you go somewhere else. You forget about yourself."
Taken from the spring/summer 2016 issue of Dazed, with previously unpublished photos from Tom Wood.


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Making Progress! 26 June 2009Posted by Oliver Mason in Apple, iphone, objective-c, programming.
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DAY 11 and the pace is picking up. I managed to sort out two of the four tabs of the app, one including a table display of Esperanto/English dictionary entries (with the proper Esperanto diacritics), and the other one being a live-search on the English gloss entries. This one even pops up an automatic keyboard when first selected; the tab bar controller sends it a message when it has been activated. I even managed to answer a question on stackoverflow.com on that issue.
I also found somewhere a hint on how to automatically shrink the label size if the text is too long, wrote a converter from the Esperanto x-notation to unicode, etc. Really pleased! Both of these will appear here later.
One thing I don't like too much is writing all the UITableViewDelegate methods when using a table. Quite a lot of boiler-plate code, but then, it is quite powerful. I just couldn't be bothered writing yet another set of those methods for the final tab, the info view part. But there is nothing technically difficult with it. Objective-C is also getting easier and easier, and the auto-completion feature and API doc integration of XCode really helps. Though I think for serious code I will still use vile…
That leaves pretty much only the core part of the app: the Esperanto morphological analyser. I will implement this as a finite state machine, and working with Cocoa has given me the idea to implement it using delegates; an abstract hull which calls methods on the delegates whenever it needs to retrieve data, or match something. I have the feeling that this is pretty similar to Erlang's OTP frameworks.
It is a really rewarding experience to see your own app on the iPhone. If only I was better at designing the tab bar icons! And I can already foresee one objection: one of the tabs has a star icon, the star being the Esperanto symbol. I think I need to change that, as the star is reserved for the 'favourites' meaning, and I don't think Apple would appreciate the use of a star (even if it looks slightly slimmer) with another meaning.
More problems solved 24 June 2009Posted by Oliver Mason in Apple, iphone.
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DAY 10, second part. I was really annoyed by those database errors, and built in assertions to check for the size of the file, and whether the file existed at all. I think sqlite creates a database if the file doesn't exist, and on subsequent runs the database is then empty and failure happens.
Then I had the nice situation where the program worked in the simulator, but not on the device (I wanted to check the speed on the actual phone). Again, first the file doesn't exist, and then it's empty. XCode didn't seem to copy the file over. Finally it dawned on me, as I was searching for mentions of problems with copying files into the documents folder: my database file was not in the documents folder, it was within the application bundle. I thought about copying it over when the app first starts, but then, why bother? It's a read-only database, so all I needed to do was to change the path in the db init code, using the application bundle instead of the documents folder, and hey presto, success!
I guess the problem was that I looked at the sample code for db stuff in the iPhone development book. Here a database is created in the documents folder, and I assumed that would be where my db should reside. Confusing, but finally sorted. Now I can go to sleep in peace!
Every character is important 23 June 2009Posted by Oliver Mason in Apple, iphone, objective-c, programming.
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DAY 10, and a little bit of progress. I found one error, which was about to drive me mad, until I more or less by accident stumbled over the solution on stackoverflow.com; in answering a slightly different question, Rob Napier commented on a bug in the way NSLog() was used.
NSLog(@"Returning %@ rows", [nodes count]);
Here, the -count method returns an int, but the %@ symbol expects an object. Result: a bus error. You need to use %d instead. And here was I, thinking how great it is not to bother with the old printf format codes, using the %@ way instead. I hate the primitive type/object distinction!
I then also found that I had created two superimposed Table Views (did I mention that I don't really like Interface Builder after all?), so that my table got overwritten and looked all wrong. Now I'm struggling with getting the table to start at the first entry, not the 35th (indexPath seems to start counting sections at 1, rather than 0), and all of a sudden my database won't work.
Preparing a straightforward SQL statement suddenly fails. I did not change that part of the code, the database file is still the same as it used to be before the error occurred, and I did tell XCode to do a full clean. Still, the error remains.
Tab Bar Errors 22 June 2009Posted by Oliver Mason in Apple, iphone, objective-c, programming.
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DAY 9 and more frustration. My ViewControllers didn't seem to be called, and NSLog messages I put in didn't appear on the console. And the whole thing crashed without me knowing what was going on.
Having another look at my iPhone development book, I realised the first mistake: the TabBar Controller wasn't aware of which controllers to call up for the various tabs, something you need to set up in Interface Builder. Still don't really like that way of doing things, as the fact you've done it (or not, as the case may be!) is not easily transparent.
After completing the tab bar attributes, the log messages suddenly turned up, which was good, and it also doesn't crash. Well, at least not where it used to crash. Now it crashes in the loop where I read stuff out of the SQLITE database, and it crashes after the second iteration. Wonder what the cause is. Probably memory management. Mixing Objective-C and plain C makes things a bit confusing. And I don't like that NSString is an object you need to allocate, but NSInteger is basically just an alias for int, so a primitive data type rather than an object.
Anyway, more bug hunting coming up. It all feels terribly slow, but then I'm only spending a few hours every couple of weeks on it at the moment.
App Store Idiots 20 June 2009Posted by Oliver Mason in Apple, iphone.
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You have to be very careful when looking at reviews and ratings in the iPhone App Store (does 'App Store' need the 'iPhone' qualifier?). Some reviews are good and point out genuinely positive or negative issues with apps, but the majority can safely be ignored, as shown by the uselessness of their comments ('this app is rubbish, I want my money back') and their inability to match what they say with what they do. The number of times I have seen reviews where the reviewer wrote 'This app gets 5 stars from me!' when they actually gave ONE, or the reverse ('this cr*p app gets zero stars from me', but giving 5) is astonishing. Either those people are innumerate or incapable of keeping more than one thought in their head.
I haven't got any hard facts, but have read somewhere that people are paid for leaving positive reviews of some apps and negative reviews of competing ones. That is about the only explanation for the number of stupid reviews that isn't too depressing.


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July 11, 1955
Dear Dad & Russ,
Well, here I am again. And just as soon as we get an O.K. from Ottawa, I am coming home. I'll dash off an airmail letter to let you know. Also, just the minute I have my travelling itinerary laid out, I shall also airmail you the details. And if I am allowed to return via Paris I shall send you a cable just before leaving Paris, telling you exactly what time I shall be arriving in Ottawa. Keep the Ford in good shape, please!
As I shall be flying home via commercial airlines I shall only be allowed 44 or 66 pounds of luggage, depending on whether I'm in First Class or Tourist. Therefore, I am sending one of my airpacks home with John Plourde. John leaves here tomorrow and leaves Saigon next Saturday. He will be in Ottawa approximately eight days later. As soon as he gets to Ottawa, Dad, he will be giving you a phone call and I would appreciate it very much if you would drive over to his place and pick up my suitcases. I've given John the keys, too, so perhaps you could open the suitcases and sort of air them out for me. I'm enclosing a list of of the things I'm sending with John and you can get his address off this list. I'm also enclosing a copy of the "Declaration of Articles Acquired Abroad". John has the other copies for Customs purposes.
This morning I had my 14th shot in the arm. This time it was for cholera.
July 14, 1955
You know, at times this really is a mad old world we live in isn't it?
By the time you receive this letter yours truly (that's me) will probably be flitting about from India to Pakistan to Iran to Egypt, Greece, Italy and Paris, France. Or, perhaps I shall be atop the Eiffel Tower in Gay Paree taking in the sights! The whole point is, anyways, by the time you receive this letter I shall either be on my way home to Ottawa or just about to leave for home.
And it all happened so suddenly, really it did.
Up until a little over a week ago I was labouring under the impression that I still had another month and a half to go at the very least. Today, a wire arrived from Ottawa authorizing me to proceed to Ottawa IMMEDIATELY! And just before we closed up the office at 1 o'clock today, a PRIORITY wire was sent to Saigon requesting our Delegation there to please reserve my air accommodation at the earliest possible date!
Just like that. I'm practically on my way home now. So folks, it's just a matter of waiting for Saigon to reply to our telegram (which shouldn't take more than two days) and then away I go!
So tonight I must start getting things organized for the Big Trip. Which might prove to be quite a job. It's amazing how much stuff you can collect in11 short months!
I might mention here that after you receive this letter, please don't write me 'cause I just won't be here no more!
July 16, 1955
If you two have nothing better to do next July 29th at 3:45 in the afternoon, then how about jumping in the Ford and driving out to Uplands Airport to pick me up?
Things have happened fast around here lately! Last night the wire came in from our Delegation in Saigon telling me my flight schedule. Which is as follows:
- Depart Saigon 1100 hours 21 July
- Arrive Paris 1420 hours 22 July
- Depart Paris 2230 hours 28 July
- Arrive Montreal 1215 hours 29 July
- Depart Montreal 1450 hours 29 July
- Arrive Ottawa 1545 hours 29 July
Which means that two weeks from this very minute I shall be home again!! Hard to believe, eh? I leave Phnom Penh next Tuesday, July 19 for Saigon, then at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning I'm on my way!
Needless to say, I've got just oodles of things to do before leaving next Tuesday. Please don't be worrying about me one little bit. I'm so accustomed to flying about strange foreign lands now that it's just like taking an Ottawa street-car! You'll be hearing from me from Paris.
Lots and lots of love,
What David didn't know was that, while on his way home via Saigon, he would witness an attack on the UN headquarters in the Majestic Hotel!
And, following along eventually was this, from Gene Loo.
And so, David arrived back in Ottawa… but not for long!


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The GCA has secured former England rugby player Matt Dawson MBE to speak at its annual conference. He will share his team-building and personal commitment expertise with delegates at the event this month, joining entrepreneur Patrick Grant, world-renowned economist, Roger Martin-Fagg, and 'Shark Warrior' Lesley Rochat.
The conference will take place in Warwickshire from January 21-24. Delegates who attend the 2018 GCA conference in Stratford-upon-Avon will be able to hear Matt Dawson speak on Tuesday, January 23.
Mr Dawson is one of England's most capped players of all time. He was a scrum half and a key part of the team that won the 2003 World Cup.
GCA chief executive Iain Wylie said: "We've just confirmed Matt as our Tuesday afternoon speaker and we're absolutely delighted. It's quite a coup to have such a big name draw for this year's conference and someone who is well-known not just for his sporting prowess but also for his more recent media appearances on all sorts of popular television programmes including the BBC's 'A Question of Sport'. In 2006, he won 'Celebrity Masterchef' and, in the same year, came second in 'Strictly Come Dancing', so has a real drive and flair for winning."
Mr Wylie continued: "As a rugby player, he played more than 70 times for England, and famously his pass in the dying moments of the 2003 World Cup final resulted in the kick that won the game. Matt also captained England and played on three Lions' tours. As part of the world-beating team, he was involved in a revolutionary set-up that introduced new ideas and professional attitudes.
"He witnessed first-hand the organisation and team structure, the handing of responsibility to individuals and coaches, the culture of team and player accountability and the analysis of performances."
Since his retirement, Mr Dawson has developed two parallel careers: in media and in business. He's a regular commentator on live matches for BT Sport and BBC 5Live. He's also one of the longest serving team captains on the BBC TV show A Question of Sport, which has been on air for more than four decades.
In business, Mr Dawson works with commercial property firm The Instant Group, and also with the facilities management giant, Sodexo.
Iain Wylie added: "Working in these areas has given him an insight into business, how its run and the expectations of clients, and how to deal with everyday challenges, from getting groups to work together to having accountability for results.
"Matt applies lessons from the pitch and dressing room, and combines them with his commercial knowledge to deliver messages on everything from staff engagement to leadership culture. As well as offering serious business insights, he also adds humour and understanding to his presentations."
The GCA's annual conference will be held Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon January 21-24. More than 300 delegates are expected to attend the event. Places for the event can be booked via the GCA website www.gca.org.uk.
For other information, please call 01244 952170, visit www.gca.org.uk, log on to www.facebook.com/pages/GardenCentreAssociation or follow the organisation on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GC_Association.
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text: Riding back from Stockton-sorry folks, not in the mood for company. Took a picture and came home. Left and came back to Alabaster by way of Hwy 41 north from Monroeville to Camden. An absolute beautiful ride. Good road but follows the land. Up and downs with lots of turns in between. Not as intense as GA, NC or TN but fun. Was totally beat after a 400 mile day, but still smiling about Hwy 41. What is your close to home favorite.


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Green light for Hornsdale wind farm
Credit: Read more on Adelaide Now. www.weeklytimesnow.com.au 6 July 2012 ~~
Final State Government approval has been given for the construction of a $900 million, 105-turbine wind farm in South Australia.
The 315 megawatt Hornsdale wind farm, to be built 15km from Jamestown, would be the state's largest, with the capacity to generate 1,050,000 megawatt hours of electricity a year.
The Development Assessment Commission gave provisional approval to the development in May, with Planning Minister John Rau yesterday giving developer Investec Bank Australia the green light to begin the development.
Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said the project would create up to 250 construction jobs locally.
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Divers race to get leisure of group out of Thai cave as rains return
MAE SAI, Thailand — knowledgeable divers Sunday rescued four of 12 boys from a flooded collapse northern Thailand where they were trapped with their soccer instruct for greater than two weeks, as a deadly and complicated operation unfolded amid heavy rain and the possibility of rising water underground.
Eight boys and the teach remained interior the daftar poker Tham Luang Nang Non cave as authorities paused the overseas effort to replenish air tanks along the treacherous exit route.
Extracting everybody may absorb to 4 days, however the preliminary success raised hopes that may well be finished.
"The operation went a good deal enhanced than anticipated," noted Chiang Rai performing Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn, who's overseeing the mission.
He instructed newshounds the four rescued boys were taken to the clinic within the city of Chiang Rai, the provincial capital, for contrast, and the next phase of the operation will resume after about 10-20 hours.
The names of the rescued boys have been no longer launched.
His announcement, at a news convention more than an hour after helicopters and ambulances were seen rushing from the cave area, drew cheers and applause.
Narongsak had dubbed Sunday to be "D-day" as the complex effort was launched within the morning.
He observed 13 overseas divers and 5 Thai navy SEALs have been taking part in the key leg of the rescue: taking the boys from the place they have been sheltering and through dark, tight and twisting passageways filled with muddy water and robust currents.
Two divers had been to accompany each and every of the boys, all of whom were researching to dive handiest due to the fact July 2, when the primary searchers found them.
Cave rescue consultants accept as true with an underwater escape to be a last hotel, specially with people untrained in diving.
The dying Friday of a former Thai navy SEAL, Saman Gunan, underscored the dangers. The diver, the primary fatality of the rescue effort, become working in a volunteer ability and died on a mission to region oxygen canisters along the route.
however Narongsak observed previous that recent gentle weather and falling water degrees had created most fulfilling circumstances for an underwater evacuation. these conditions won't ultimate if the rain resumes, he referred to.
After the four boys had been faraway from the cave, heavy rain all started falling.
The advantage for rising water and the dwindling oxygen ranges delivered to the urgency of getting the group out. Efforts to pump water out of the cave had been set returned by means of heavy downpours.
Narongsak stated Saturday that experts advised him new rain could shrink the unflooded house where the boys are sheltering to simply 108 square toes.
The next part of the operation would commence sometime Monday after rescue teams refill the supply of oxygen tanks alongside the route.
On Sunday evening, Thai navy SEALs posted a celebratory word on their facebook web page, saying: "Have candy dreams all and sundry. good nighttime. Hooyah."
The boys and their instruct, whose crew is prevalent as the Wild Boars, became stranded after they have been exploring the cave after a convention game on June 23.
Monsoon flooding cut off their escape route and averted rescuers from finding them for well-nigh 10 days.
The ordeal has riveted Thailand and captured the world's attention. the search and rescue operation has involved dozens of overseas experts and rescuers, including a U.S. defense force group.
Elon Musk's space X rocket company validated a "tiny child-sized submarine" that might potentially support the babies throughout the narrow, flooded cave passageways. A spokesman for Musk's Boring Co. tunneling unit, which has four engineers at the cave, mentioned in an electronic mail Sunday that Thai officials had requested the device. If the tests had been successful, the sub would be positioned on a 17-hour flight to Thailand. He posted a video of a diver checking out the gadget in a pool.
President Trump tweeted Sunday: "The U.S. is working very intently with the executive of Thailand to help get the entire toddlers out of the cave and to safeguard. Very courageous and proficient americans!"
The boys sounded quiet and reassuring in handwritten notes to their households that were made public Saturday. The notes had been sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, again-and-forth experience.
some of the boys, identified as Tun, wrote: "mom and pop, please don't be anxious, i am stunning. I've told Yod to get ready to pick me out for fried chook. With love."
"Don't be worried," wrote a different boy, Mick. "I pass over everybody. Grandpa, Uncle, mom, Dad and siblings, i like you all. I'm satisfied being right here inner, the navy SEALS have taken good care. Love you all."
One particularly touching note from an extra boy pointed out: "I'm doing amazing, but the air is a little bloodless, but don't agonize. despite the fact, don't neglect to install my party."
In a letter of his own, instruct Ekapol Chanthawong apologized to the boys' parents for the ordeal.
"To the folks of all the children, presently the youngsters are all wonderful, the crew are taking first rate care. I promise i will take care of the children as most desirable as possible. I need to say thanks for the entire assist and i are looking to apologize to the parents," he wrote.
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uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns - Computer Science > Performance
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Abstract: Does the advent of flash devices constitute a radical change for secondarystorage? How should database systems adapt to this new form of secondarystorage? Before we can answer these questions, we need to fully understand theperformance characteristics of flash devices. More specifically, we want toestablish what kind of IOs should be favored or avoided when designingalgorithms and architectures for flash-based systems. In this paper, we focuson flash IO patterns, that capture relevant distribution of IOs in time andspace, and our goal is to quantify their performance. We define uFLIP, abenchmark for measuring the response time of flash IO patterns. We also presenta benchmarking methodology which takes into account the particularcharacteristics of flash devices. Finally, we present the results obtained bymeasuring eleven flash devices, and derive a set of design hints that shoulddrive the development of flash-based systems on current devices.
Autor: Luc Bouganim INRIA, Björn Jónsson Reykjavík University, Philippe Bonnet Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhag
Fuente: https://arxiv.org/


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Michael Newman Wins Massive $374k at Seminole Casino
Not too long ago, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino hosted the Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open Championship, an event that featured a massive guaranteed prize pool of $2,000,000. 48-year old Michael Newman, who is a recreational player, closed out the championship, gaining a hefty payday of $374,240 - the biggest of his career by a long way!
Here are some details of the tournament:
- Name: Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open 2017
- Venue: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
- Type: $3,500 - No Limit Hold'em
- Entries: 585
- Prize Pool: $2,000,000
- Dates: November 24-29, 2017
There were days of preliminary tournaments before the Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open could kick off - an event that saw a number of poker pros and those who can be called some of the best in the game. However, it was a local player Michael Newman who walked away with the riches, doubling his career live cashes with this event. Previous to this, his highest was just $30,640, for winning 12th place in the same event back in 2015!
Newman was ecstatic with this victory, saying this to tournament officials - "It's probably the best thing that I've ever done in poker."
Coming into the final day of the event, Newman was not one to be favoured looking at the stacks, with poker pro Ari Engel being the chip leader. However, that changed with Engel drawing dead to Newman in the first hand itself.
The final six had combined career winnings of almost $30 million, and that goes to show that a recreational player can also make in big in poker. By the time we were ready for heads-up play, Newman had clearly become favourite, as he had a 5-1 chips lead over Matas Cimbolas, one of Lithuania's bests. However, it would be a steep mountain to climb for Cimbolas.
Cimbolas held 3-3 in his hand, while Newman decided to gamble with a Q-7. The community cards were 10-6-2-2, with Cimbolas clearly in the lead, but 7 on the river card gave Newman a tournament win - his career best one!
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I don't like to share. I don't like people to touch my fucking shit, I don't like people to borrow my shit, I don't even like people to see my shit. I want to be someone who likes to share, who says, "Oh here, take mine," and really means it, because those are such nice people, except, that they actually make me feel shitty about myself, so maybe they're bad people deep down. Maybe they shove their lending and their niceness down your throat so you feel horrible about the fact that you don't want to loan your books out because you never get them back. Nobody gives books back. I don't. Sometimes I do eventually, but not for a really long time. They sit on my bookshelves until they become emotionally attached to my books and then they can't leave because it would be too traumatic for everyone.
Also, sometimes stuff gets broken or lost, which brings me to my next point, using the word "point" fairly loosely.
I spend every Thursday with my nephew. (It used to be Fridays, which is not relevant, but since I'm not going to lend you anything, I can at least give you accuracy where possible.) This started when he was six months old or so, I'm not really sure (where possible), let's just say once a week for roughly three years. He's irreplaceable. It took nine months and literal blood, sweat and tears to make him. I won't let my autographed copy of American Gods leave the house and my sister lets me take her child. She doesn't even instruct me. I mean, I've been doing it for a while now, but even the very first time she didn't do much more than point out the formula. She didn't tell me not to drop him on his head, which I imagined doing every time I carried him for like a year. At least. Not imagined in a wishful way, you understand, but in a nightmarish way. In my head, I would trip walking down the hallway, and the floors are tile so there would be nothing soft to drop the baby on and probably I would end up falling on top of him and crushing him anyway, so it wouldn't really matter that the floors weren't soft. But there was never a, "Don't drop the baby," or "Don't leave him alone in the car/dryer/tub," or even, "Don't let him suck on a knife," which, ok, any adult should know, but still. She just handed over her very best thing and trusted me. To me, that is amazing.
You're probably thinking, 'Her sister lets her borrow a baby, a firstborn only son and she won't let her borrow a fucking book?' Well, I will let her borrow a fucking book. I often offer to lend her books. The fact that I have a copy of her house key and therefore the ability to repo any book at any time hardly crosses my mind. If you're wondering why I suddenly got onto books it's because all my favorite things are books or dogs…not that dogs are things, and not that I'd lend them. And not that my nephew is a thing either. Don't make a big deal about the order there; it was a random train of thought.
It may be appropriate to put some trust of my own into the world to pay it forward, although I hated that movie and swore never to be nice to anyone after I saw it. Sometimes things strike me in ways that I'm sure were not intended. In spite of that, this is a call to put more trust in humanity, well some humanity, and I'll see how it goes. Don't worry, I'm only calling myself, unless you want to be called, it's your decision. And for the record, I'm totally generous with my crappy stuff.


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text: I know that a mac forum might not be the right place for a question about PCs, but I'll post it here, since some of you tech-savy people might be able to help me. in our appartment, we have set up a home network that is connected to the university dsl network through a router. the problem is that at Muenster University, we need to log in through a complicated VPN-connection that Panther's VPN panel can't deliver... this is what I do now: - I have two computers hooked up to the network (besides my roommate's PCs): a self built PC running XPpro connected through LAN and my tiBook running X 10.3.2 connected through an Airport Extreme basestation. the PC is set up to access the web through said VPN connection, this works fine. - I currently browse the web on my tiBook by logging on my PC through Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client (so my PC's desktop is displayed in a Window on my tiBook) to make it short, this sucks! I'd rather have web access on my 'book so, here comes my question: - there must be a way to set up the PC to share its web connection to my Airport Extreme basestation, so that I DON'T have to login with VPN (the PC is already doing this...), but how do I have to set up XP? I have two ethernetcards in that machine, is it possible to share the connection through the second card to my basestation/tiBook, in order that this procedure does not interfere with the appartment's main network (the PC is set up in a closet and is always running anyways)? I would be very thankful if someone could help me with this, since it's driving me crazy for weeks!!! thanks vSpacken


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These days I have been buying bananas regularly as bananas is high with potassium which is good for regulating the sodium level in our body. Too much sodium affects the level of blood pressure.
Today, I baked this banana bread using a muffin tray which shortens the baking time by half if it is baked in a loaf tin. Looks like an energy saving tip, hehehe! which I discovered.
This recipe is adapted from Stephanie of Joy Of Baking with some modifications to the ingredients such as substituting a portion of the brown sugar with jaggery sugar. Maybe is for this reason, the muffin shaped banana bread looks a little darker than usual. Anyway, it is okay to me.
The banana bread is soft, moist and of course aromatic with cinnamon and vanilla essence. Can't wait to let it cool completely before I tried a piece while still warm, hmmm… it is awesome.
Really, didn't expect the bread to be that good, so much difference from store bought. There is no overly strong scent of banana essence, non-greasy and the sweetness is just perfect. This recipe is a keeper and I wouldn't mind baking this bread often.
[makes 6 large size muffin shape banana bread
or 10cm x 20 cm greased loaf tin]
Dry Ingredients [ sifted and mix together]
130 gm plain flour + 65 gm wholemeal flour
1 tsp baking powder + 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder + ¼ tsp salt
45 gm dark chocolate chips
Wet Ingredients 1 [mash and mix together]
3 medium size bananas or 2 large bananas – peeled and mash with a fork
120 ml plain yoghurt
1 tsp baking soda
Wet Ingredients 2 [whisk together]
1 large egg
60 gm brown sugar + 60 gm jaggery sugar [gula merah]
60 ml corn oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
- Sift and combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Mash bananas in a bowl, mix in plain yoghurt and baking soda. Mix till well combined.
- Whisk wet ingredients 2 until sugar dissolves and blend well.
- Combine the mashed banana mixture with egg mixture lightly with a spatula.
- Pour it into the dry ingredients. Mix lightly until well incorporated. The batter is thick.
- Scoop into prepared muffin tray until 80% full.
- Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees C for 15-20 minute. Test with a skewer before removing to cool on wire rack.


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CBSE Class 12th result 2017 was declared on 28th May 2017. Aditya Jain a commerce student from Vidyalaya (Sector 27, Chandigarh) scored 99.2% and secured the third rank.In an exclusive interview, Aditya Jain shared his success story and preparation strategy. Highlights of this interview are given below.
In the interview, Aditya has given the credit of his success to his parents and teachers. According to him, parents supported him morally and teachers provided him with all sort of academic guidance.
CBSE Class 12 Topper 2017: Raksha Gopal's Interview Video ‒ (AIR 1, 99.6%)
CBSE Class 12 Topper 2017: Bhumi Sawant's Interview Video ‒ (AIR 2, 99.4%)
According to Aditya, in class 11 and class 12, it was necessary to stay away from social media. Besides studies physical activities like sports are also important, he added. When he was asked about time management then he told the interviewer that he set a target for every day and every night he checks whether he had finished that target. Aditya used to study 5 - 6 hours besides tuitions and school.
According to him, studying too much in a single seating will not help much and you will get stressed if you will study 10 – 12 hours a day. However, if one will study for short duration with concentration then he or she can easily score well in CBSE Class 12 board exams.
This year, CBSE Class 12 board exams were held from 09th March to 29th April. A decrease of 1.03 % in overall pass percentage was observed in CBSE Class 12th result 2017. However, overall pass percentage of girls in CBSE 12th board exam result 2017 is better than boys by 9.5%.
Raksha Gopal from Amity International School in Noida topped with 99.6%. The 2nd rank was secure by science student Bhumi Sawant from DAV, 8-C, Chandigarh, who scored 99.4%. Commerce students, Mannat Luthra and Aditya Jain jointly secured the third rank, having scored 99.2% and both are from Bhavan Vidyalaya, Chandigarh.
CBSE Class 12 Topper 2017: Interview with Bhumi Sawant ‒ (AIR 2nd, 99.4%)
CBSE Board Exam 2017: Class 12 Biology Paper - Video on Reactions of Students and Teacher
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Haitian-Canadian DJ and record producer, Kaytranada, is becoming more of a household name (just check out his Wikipedia page, and the number of remixes and collaborations he's participated in over the last several years). Wasiu's "Artbeat Cypher" begins with an interview with Kaytranada at the Red Bull Music Academy, where he talks a little about ArtBeat and the beginning of the Piu Piu beat movement in Montreal, of which Wasiu, Lou Phelps (Kaytranada's brother), and KNLO are all underground hip-hop and/or beat-making heroes. If you don't know about ArtBeat, which is a Canadian society that comes together to show off the nation's greatest and up-and-coming best beatmakers, check out this awesome historical article from Vice.
This bass-heavy track is filled with other Canadian artists who might be lesser known, but offer just as much punch, as they cut with lyrics promoting the understated hip-hop scene in Montreal, and show just how much people in States are missing. As Wasiu explained recently:
"This song is a tribute to everyone who was a part of Montreal's pivotal PIU PIU movement. It's me, Lou Phelps and Montreal Legend producer/rapper KenLo in the crowd at an ArtBeat show spitting in a cypher over one of Shash'U's cuts. For those who don't know, KenLo and Shash'U are two OG's who influenced many local Montreal producers. Kaytra did a special on BBC Radio for Benji B explaining how they both inspired him. Obviously, Lou Phelps and I are part of the new generation of this Montreal rap stuff, so it's like a dope mix of OG's and youngins on this track. All in all, it's a tribute to the movement that started at ArtBeat, with producers and rappers showing off and creating buzz for themselves and the city."
Check out more about the PIU PIU beat-rap Montreal scene and ArtBeat via these Vimeo documentaries.


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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Garibaldi Park Playground- North Vancouver
Garibaldi Park Playground is midway down Garibaldi Drive, off Mt Seymour Parkway in North Vancouver.
The park itself is a large grassy area with tennis courts, shade, some nice landscaping, the occasional large deer and a lovely playground. You can park along the road which is very close to the playground- good, if like me, you're juggling a feisty preschooler, a wriggly baby and a husband who cannot be separated from the exciting sports game on the car radio.......say no more.
The playground is a newer construction and has two main structures linked by various climbing features. The higher big-kid structure features a really nice high wobbly plastic slide- for extra static on hot dry summer days! There are bright activity wall features underneath the high platform which is accessible by a number of climbing options- curved ladders, platform steps and things to hang from. Between the two structures they have paid nice attention to detail using pod, flat steps and sort of hanging steps- wish I'd got a close up of these but my mind was elsewhere (feisty preschooler, wriggly baby and that darn sports game that had stolen my husband). Both sides have chunky platform steps and the smaller kid side has a lower plastic slide and a climbing wall.
There are toddler and big-kid swings, a bouncy thing, a very cool seesaw and an awesome climbing rope pyramid that 'A' got nicely tangled in- all on a bed of woodchips. I didn't see washrooms, but again, I stand to be corrected on that one because of the aforementioned diverted attention, but even without frilly amenities, this is a lovely playground in a pretty park that managed to have a cool breeze on a hot day.
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Dark side of a hero: Famous rescuer of Hurricane Katrina faces murder charges in New Orleans. Zeitoun.
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Rancid, repellent, repugnant—"willfully offensive" and that's just the review.
Those Olympic records. Better training? Hi-nutrition diets? Hi-tech equipment? Smarter coaches? Or is something else responsible for those dazzling track and pool performances? Engineered for success.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Bank of America Corp. shares slipped along with the broader market late Friday and sent financial stocks to a loss for the day and the week.
Shares of the nation's largest bank fell 0.6% on Friday and are off more than 4% this week and off about 30% in August.
The bank recovered from its lows of the day before the close.
Bank of America shares traded off 0.6% after trading down as much as 2.5% earlier.
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The Use of Legalese in Non-Policy Debate Resolutions.
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This paper explores the use of "legalese" in non-policy debate resolutions. After defining legalese as legal jargon and terminology, the paper discusses how resolutional words and terms function within intercollegiate debate. It next deals with the purpose and practice of legal jargon within legal scholarship and practice, noting that there is increasing recognition within law schools and law offices that legalese has declining value. The paper then discusses the effect of legalese within Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) advocacy, maintaining that it provides much more confusion than clarity. The paper concludes that since legalese has little potential for a positive effect on students' advocacy or their future careers, and since it does not make the resolution more commonly understood, its use should be discouraged. Seventeen footnotes are included. (SR)
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My first time when I saw Bullet For My Valentine in other country than Finland. The show was so fucking awesome!!!
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This week we're featuring interviews of the amazing authors who are taking part in the prize portion of our competition. Remember, to take part in YA Flash Death Match, all you have to do is follow.
Author Leah Cypess has graciously donated a signed bookmark gift pack for three lucky voters! She's awesome and inspiring so check out her interview out below...
I have confirmation when I was eight-years-old, I told my grandmother I would be an author when I grew up. But I have a feeling I made up my mind even before that.
Why did you chose to write YA fiction?
I've always liked YA, and the four manuscripts I wrote before Mistwood were always intended to be YA. Originally, I thought Mistwood was going to be my first attempt at an adult fantasy novel... until some time after I finished it, when I realized there was nothing stopping it from being YA as well.
What is your favorite book?
Only one? Are you kidding me? ;) For now, I'll say The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, and then keep going before I get a chance to change my mind...
Who are some of your favorite authors?
Rattling off the first 5 that come to mind: Megan Whalen Turner, Juliet Marillier, Dave Duncan, Sharon Shinn, Connie Willis.
What inspired Mistwood?
An image in my mind of a supernatural creature being hunted in a misty wood. I have no idea where it came from, but it popped into my mind one night, and I picked up a pen and started writing.
What is the main thing you hope readers will gain from your book?
The main thing is a really enjoyable reading experience -- the kind that makes me close a book with a happy sigh.
Do you have any upcoming books or projects to share?
I'm currently working on the revisions for a companion book to Mistwood... currently scheduled to be published in 2011 (though it does not have a title yet).
Where is your favorite place to write?
The New York City subway. I lived in Brooklyn and worked or went to school in Manhattan for many years, and those long commutes were incredibly productive.
What would you tell other aspiring YA authors?
Well, first I'd direct to them to an awesome article by Jennifer Crusie, which I reread recently and remembered how much I love: Rats with Islands: How to Survive Your Publishing Career. Its basic message is to not give up, but she says it far more eloquently than I could.
And second, I'd add that it's important not to pin all your hopes on a single manuscript, no matter how great it is. I wrote and submitted four manuscripts before Mistwood. They all got positive responses -- each one got at least one revision request from an editor, and one went to the acquisitions committee at two different imprints -- but eventually, when each had been rejected by every publisher in existence, I had to move on to the next manuscript. If I had remained focused on my first book, or written sequels instead of completely new books, I never would have gotten an offer for Mistwood.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Interview with YA Fantasy author Leah Cypess
Posted by Michelle Sussman at 7:30 AM
Labels: contest, inspiration, Leah Cypess, Mistwood
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- J. L. Jackson said...
That's great advice!! It's nice to hear someone talk about the publishing experience.
- June 28, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Karly Kirkpatrick said...
I agree, great advice! Thanks for sharing with us, Leah!
- June 28, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- Theresa Milstein said...
It's good to hear a published author's path. And it's also good to know that not necessarily the first manuscript that gets published.
- June 28, 2010 at 8:49 PM
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Since the American Catholic bishops lack the courage to protest injustice within their own church, why should anyone respect their moral authority to condemn injustice in society at large? It seems they have chosen to reaffirm the basic commandment of the hierarchy: ''Do as I say, but not as I do.''
Historically, societal injustice has been corrected only when its victims have learned the value of organized disobedience as a weapon. How can the bishops preach that value as long as they place such a premium on obedience to an anachronistic papacy?


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May 31st – June 2nd
We have hit a good stride recently, John and I, with being able to fully enjoy our free time together – because our free time is free. We have made loose plans and let the rest depend on what needs and what wants to be done in those moments. It has been a lovely shift from the down-to-the-minute-to-get-it-all-done plan (even planning the "fun" moments – which kind of thieves all the fun away), and the over-commitment we are accustomed to (re: "Yes" to everything asked of us lest I feel guilty, or I fear of what people think of our answer.)
Lately there has been a flag waving over my heart and my life – We cannot be all things to all people. Only One can! That has been a freedom for me, a gentle song softening the tough way I measure myself. Perfection is not required of me. Dependence is, like a little kid.
I am learning the delicate dance of balancing a strong hand to protect, and an open hand to give away. Both are beautiful and needed it their time, and it's been a growing point to listen with John. What is God saying? What is the Father telling us to do?
Saturday morning, John made us wheat pancakes topped with fruit (my request – Saturdays are the best days for breakfast!) We were sitting at the table with our PJs and our food, and I prayed. I took a moment to cover our friend Billy who sells his roasted coffee at the Saturday mid-town market. "Let him sell the most bags he has ever sold today." Amen, and we ate, enjoying the quiet Saturday morning, the open sliding-glass door, and each other's company.
One hour before the market closed, John and Billy had sold only 20-some bags of coffee – not really a banner day. They prayed. Billy asked for 5 more bags. John asked for 10, then bumped it down to 8.
The last hour, they sold 11 bags of coffee – and people were still buying even when the boys were breaking down the tent.
That is my Father. We ask for a little. Then we get bold and ask for a lot! And then we do not want to "push it" or be disappointed, and ask for something more modest, more reasonable.
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A female laid eggs on the boat. We must move the boat. How can I move the eggs, so that the female can care for them? I am on a busy sport lake in Michigan.
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
The estimated cost of the rebuild is expected to top $100m so that still leaves the Diocese having to pony up in the order of $65m ... $100m for a 'Church' ... give me strength.
The Anglican Bishop of Christchurch has welcomed the contribution as very generous. Methinks the words 'very generous' are somewhat understated. How much additional social housing or whatever can you get for $25m?
I don't give a flying f**k that Winston First and Labour support the deal. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. For me the 80/20 rule is clearly in play and this is very much a 20 going on zero.
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The Christchurch Cathedral has become a local political, and now national football, led by such as the Catholic Jim Anderton and the so called Mayor Lianne Dalziel.
As a precedent Anderton wants everybody else to pay for the rebuild of the Basilica.
I as a real Taxpayer object that my money is being used to play politics.
It is up to the owners of the church as to how they are to proceed - not bribed to make them look bad in not jumping for joy.
As I like the cardboard one there is no reason that a contemporary one would not be aesthetically pleasing at a much lower cost to the Church.
Central Christchurch is and will probably never be the same as it was before the earthquakes - which are still rattling.
Office buildings cannot find tenants as staff now in the perimeters will not work there again.
- July 4, 2017 at 2:00 PM
- Ciaron said...
This is what hacks me off about the situation. There seem to e to be three main groups:
1/ the Diocese.
2/ the Preservationists
3/ the Fiscally Prudent.
If 2, that aren't also 1 would STFU and GTFO, 1 could get on with it and 1 & 3 would be happy.
I don't think it's fair for 3 to be critical of 1, when 2 demand outcomes.
- July 4, 2017 at 2:09 PM
- Adolf Fiinkensein said...
I have to agree with you vet.
Next thing you know the Ngati Abdulla mosque will have its hand out for a grant.
- July 4, 2017 at 2:26 PM
- The Veteran said...
Adolf ... dunno if the Ngati Abdulla Mosque was destroyed in the quake but certainly the Catholic Basilica was along with assorted Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist Churches so the obvious question ... why not them too? Answer ... with Jim Anderton a leading figure in the 'give a little/lot' mob ... watch this space.
Those arguing for the restoration of the Cathedral are ascribing to it something it never was. Ok, the Wizard liked it as a backdrop to his 'sermons' but it was never a thing of beauty (like the old St Pauls in Wellington) but rather a second rate replica of some minor English cathedral. A church is a building ... nothing more and nothing less. It's the people that matter and the $100m plus could be far better spend doing 'Gods' work elsewhere.
The government has bowed down to the Cantab squireocracy on this one and I don't like it one bit.
- July 4, 2017 at 3:47 PM
- Adolf Fiinkensein said...
"A church is a building ... nothing more and nothing less."
Spot on the money, Vet.
- July 4, 2017 at 5:12 PM
- gravedodger said...
As a taxpayer being squeezed for a bit of the Gummint $15 million and a rate payer being forced to contribute to the CCC$10 mill for a bit of masonry I am just a teeny bitty upsetty.
Now a Five million that I might see paid back by ETNZ to keep the Wizards in house for now has a good chance of a positive balance of payments.
A freekin pile of Halswell stone owned by a tax exempt bunch of Padres and their handful of .." Parishoners", many who will be negative as tax status, is pandering to insanity and will never repay a cracker to my economy.
I have a mate who hosts as a volunteer at the "cardboard place of worship" who agrees with me it more than fills the needs for tourism and worship.
A function that could have been accomplished by one of the "Skylines" Sir Richie promotes.
The house of worship I attended almost every Sunday during School terms for four years in the closing years of the sixth decade last century was also munted. in 2011 and is fully restored on the corner of Beally Avenue and Victoria Street, AFAIK achieved on insurance and good old Presbyterian application.
How to access OPMs in one easy lesson, " here endeth the lord's word".
- July 4, 2017 at 5:33 PM
Veteran......"Your comment on the $10 million for the rebuild is churlish indeed and totally ignores the downstream economic benefits likely to accrue to the country as part of the tourism and culture challenge. Even Mr Mallard thinks its a good investment and so do 89% of responders to an on-line poll so not sure where that leaves you."
Your words on the "gift" of 5 mill for a boat. Just changed the context a bit.
Populism and nationalism are a dangerous weapon that opposition parties cannot oppose at the risk of being "out of step with the public thinking" or thought of as being "churlish".
Krystalnacht was a popular move and had a feel good factor, the invasion of Poland was extremely popular with public. Now should it be a building or boat? Neither...but if I had a gun to my head I would take the building as the current cup races were had NO publicity in Europe or the UK until the last race even then you had to hunt for it. Outside a few aficionado's in the US and the whole of the NZ population it was really a non event.
Lord Egbut
- July 4, 2017 at 7:25 PM
- The Veteran said...
Egbut ... I support the $5m for the Americas Cup in the same way I endorsed the decision by government to support the RWC and the World Masters Games with the latter not figuring much in the UK also. The economic benefits accruing the Cup defence are well documented including an estimated 208,000 hotel bed nights for the expected 10 plus challenger crews and their support teams alone and never mind the visitors. OTOH I would suggest the number of visitors who ever went to Christchurch solely to view the Cathedral you could count on your left hand with three fingers missing.
You yourself in a previous post derided the Cathedral rebuild and indeed, my comment about the Cathedral being a poor second rate imitation of a minor UK Cathedral had its genesis in that post of yours.
For what it is worth I believe the deconstruction of the Cathedral with portions of it left in place where people could sit and reflect on quakes and after-mouth was the way to go. I repeat again, the Cathedral is a building and nothing more and this Cathedral was a very ordinary building with nothing much to commend it.
The Opposition parties were ahead of the government in this one and government was playing catch-up. To all of them I say a plague on your respective houses.
There is no established Church in NZL and, even if there were, no church should receive government support to help construct/maintain places of worship.
- July 4, 2017 at 9:00 PM
Thoroughly agree......except the proposed economic advantages of the cup are pure speculation due to the bad sportsmanship shown on all sides with their constant recourse to law.
Why aren't the Hoteliers associations and other commercial interests who will benefit from this largesse donating? Why should it be taxpayer funds when a hundred big name companies will get free publicity on the back of this? If the US govt. gave team USA 20 mill there would be an outcry from US taxpayers not to mention the other countries.
At least a building will be stand until the next earthquake and its economic life is measured in decades and not until the next TV commercial.
As you pointed out money is better spent on low cost housing or helping talented kids from deprived areas through higher education.
Church or boat?.....neither
Lord Egbut
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Are you done yet, are you done yet, are you done yet, all afternoon lol!! Needless to say they took longer than they should have, one let unpicked as I sewed it inside out, did I tell you this thermal knit is impossible to pick from right and wrong side, so I had two left legs.
Apparently I took 'FOR AGES' to finish, you made William's faster - yes cause William didn't know I was making them and didn't keep interrupting me lol!
Anyways - thermal knit again in 'heather' colourway, unicorn embroidery as she is obsessed with them thanks to Amy and Iain - and 'build a bear' unicorn - named Daisy. Kwik Sew children's pattern, size small - I should have made the pants a wee bit longer, but I think she'll push them down to her hips and they'll be aokay. I have a plum coloured version of them ready to cut out and I'll make them up next weekend, but I won't tell K until they are finished.
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Gan called up for Harimau Muda
Australian-born midfielder Brendan Gan has been called up for the Under-23 side's training camp in preparation for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
The 26-year-old Kelantan midfielder, who qualified to represent Malaysia through his father, was among the over-age selections, joining Terengganu winger Nor Farhan Muhammad, PDRM striker Bobby Gonzales and JDT captain Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak.
At least one of them, however, will be dropped because the Asian Games tournament only allows three over-age players per nation.
The majority of the training squad are made up of the Harimau Muda A players that spent the last six months in Australia, with Malaysian Super League youngsters such Nazmi Faiz Mansor, Junior Eldstal, Fadhli Shas and Wan Zaharulnizam Wan Zakaria filling up the reamining spots.
Head coach Datuk Ong Kim Swee will finalise the squad nad trim it down 20 players before the team head to China on September 9 for their final preparation.
The South Korea showcase will kick off on September 14 with the Harimau Muda taking on the host nation in the opening match.
Malaysia's 25-man 2014 Asian Games training squad in full:
Farhan Abu Bakar (Harimau Muda A), Firdaus Muhamad (Harimau Muda A), Shahrul Saad (Harimau Muda A), Amer Saidin (Harimau Muda A), Azrif Nasrulhaq Badrul Hisham (Harimau Muda A), Nazirul Naim Che Hashim (Harimau Muda A), Fandi Othman (Harimau Muda A), Gary Steven Robbat (Harimau Muda A), Saiful Selamat (Harimau Muda A), Amirul Hisyam Awang Kechik (Harimau Muda A), Ferris Danial Mat Nasir (Harimau Muda A), Faizat Ghazli (Harimau Muda A), Izham Tarmizi Roslan (JDT), Fadhli Shas (JDT), Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak (JDT), Bobby Gonzales (PDRM), Nazmi Faiz Mansor (Selangor), A. Thamil Arasu (Selangor), Ahmad Hazwan Bakri (Selangor), Brendan Gan (Kelantan), Wan Zaharulnizam Wan Zakaria (Kelantan), Junior Eldstal (Sarawak), Ashri Chuchu (Sarawak), Zubir Azmi (Terengganu), Nor Farhan Muhammad (Terengganu),
The standby list
D. Kenny Pallraj (Harimau Muda A), K. Satish (Harimau Muda A), Ridzuan Abdunloh Pula (Harimau Muda A), Nurridzuan Abu Hassan Saari (Harimau Muda A), Aminuddin Noor (PKNS), Arip Amiruddin (PKNS), Khairul Fahmi Che Mat (Kelantan), Wan Zack Haikal Wan Noor (Kelantan), Ronny Harun (Sarawak)


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The Missus came across a railroad excursion in Michigan that looks like fun: The Coopersville & Marne Railroad. It's located about 20 miles north of Grand Rapids. Kind of a long way to go for a short train ride, however, coming up on the 12th, they have the Del Shannon car show and train ride. According to the website, they have 500-600 cars lined up as well as a decent helping of motorcycles on display. That'd be worth the drive. Kind of short notice for me, though. I'm scheduled for a 5K that morning - not that I couldn't bail out of that with very little remorse. It would cost me my entry fee as well as my dinner bet with Jimmy. Hate to lose that bet without a fight, though.
Cuzzin Ricky and I considered hitting the Illinois Railway Museum on our way back from Milwaukee a couple of weeks ago. We had talked earlier about a trip to there as well as the car museum in Volo. That'd make for a nice 2-3 day trip. I've never been to the Volo Museum and it's been a long time since I was at the Railway Museum. Need to check both of those out one of these days.
Locally we've got the Hoosier Valley Railroad. I've been on there stuff quite a few times but that's been a while now as well. Last time was when the steam train came through. I should ride the motorbike over one of these nice Saturdays and go for a ride. They go out of business if you don't support them. It's only $12.00 and I've been wanting to shoot a roll or two of B&W.
There's also the New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart, IN. I've been there before but Cuzzin Ricky hasn't. We're planning on checking that one out when we go to the Studebaker Museum in South Bend. I told Rick I'm going to the Studebaker museum this year come hell or high water. Absolutely no reason not to go see things that are within a couple of hours of drive time.
I've got a birthday fast approaching. I'm going to be 67. Looking at it realistically, I've got maybe 10 - 15 years left. I've got a lot I want to do and see yet. No sense in wasting any of those precious years laying around the shack. Need to get out and ride the rails!


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