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Star Crossed: Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill
|Star Crossed: Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill
|Category: Teens
|Reviewer: Robert James
| Summary: The sequel to the excellent Aries Rising sees Logan McRae take her astrology book to writers' camp, and try to use it to investigate whether the area is really haunted by a folk singer's
ghost. It's not quite up to the first in the series, but still a very good read for teenagers.
|Buy? Maybe
|Borrow? Yes
|Pages: 288
|Date: May 2010
|Publisher: Running Press
Logan McRae is excited by the prospect of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry Jaffa, who starts off by asking them all to write a project idea and then shuffles them around. Instead of her longed-for astrology feature, Logan ends up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylor, whose ghost may be haunting the locality. The only person who doesn't have to switch is the cute boy at the camp, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic – of Sean Baylor. So, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting to get to know each other better – does the ghost exist? Will they get it together? Who will write the best article and get it published? The answers to all these questions and more lie inside the second book in the Star Crossed series (along with some temporary tattoos!)
I'm split on Taurus Eyes. There's no doubt that Bonnie Hearn Hill is a really good writer for teens – her first book in this series, Aries Rising, was a brilliant start, and I've been looking forward to this sequel for a while. I have to say, I don't think this novel quite lives up to the first – but it's still well above average for its kind. I loved Logan, her teacher Mr Franklin, and four or five other characters in Aries Rising, while feeling some of the backup cast weren't so well fleshed out. There's almost a complete change in the characters for this book, other than narrator Logan – her dad and friends Chili and Paige feature in little more than cameos, while no-one else from the first one really appears at all. Given most of the new characters aren't quite so well described as the older ones, this was a shame. On the plus side, Jaffa is a fairly good replacement for Franklin, and Jeremy is the kind of mysterious lead boy that many teen girls will swoon over. Many of the others – Sean Baylor's sister Ren, Logan's rival Vanessa, and her friend Tati – are all a little on the two-dimensional side.
My other slight criticism was the way the astrology's handled. While I appreciate Hearn Hill is aiming the book directly at believers in the subject, I really enjoyed the first one because even as a sceptic, it was good fun to read, with most of the things Logan worked out being attributable to non-astrological reasons like improved confidence in herself if you preferred looking at it that way. In this book, she seems to be ridiculously good at it, guessing people's star signs within moments of meeting them, and it takes away the enjoyable doubt. (I've just realised that I've happily given five stars to books involving psychic vampires, demons and ghosts, so can't quite work out what's causing me to dislike the increased emphasis on the astrology aspect here – perhaps it's just because it seems a jarring change from book 1.)
So, having listed a few criticisms, here's some good points to balance things out – because as I said, this is still a cut above most of the field. The plot is far less predictable that Aries Rising, and the dialogue is still up there with the best recent teen fiction – I love the way everybody talks here. The presentation is also still fantastic – we get bits from Fearless Astrology, the book Logan uses to help her with her articles, notes she writes to herself, a few articles she writes, and the main narrative. And while I've resisted the urge to try the tattoos myself, I'm sure lots of the intended audience will love them.
Recommended to teens, particularly those with a strong interest in astrology (for whom this is easily five stars.)
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to The Bookbag.
Further reading suggestion: For another fun and frothy teen read, Planet Janet by Dyan Sheldon is a great pick.
You can read more book reviews or buy Star Crossed: Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill at Amazon.co.uk
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DeafDigest Sports – July 17-19, 2018
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— random deafsports thoughts
— basketball player winning a gold
— deaf squash
— deaf cricket
— deaf chess
Deaf Sports Collections update
— baseball deaf triplets
DeafSports picture of the day
There were no DeafDigest Sports editions on July 17th and
July 18th, so if you thought you missed getting an edition
these days, there were no editions at all.
Indiana Tech player wins gold
Indiana Tech junior Jason Boateng helped Team USA win the gold medal in
the 2018 U21 World Deaf Basketball Championships, which ended Saturday at
Gallaudet University. Team USA defeated Japan 81-63 and captured its third
straight gold medal. Boateng finished the tournament with 13 points, 14
rebounds and three steals in 28 minutes.
Deaf squash
9th World Deaf Squash Championship 2018 to be held at Toronto Athletic
Club, Canada from October 1 to 6.
Deaf Cricket (India, Pakistan & Bangladesh)
Pak deaf team to feature in BD tri-series
LAHORE: Pakistan deaf cricket team will take part in tri-nation T20
cricket series being held in September in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
"The tri nation series involving India, Pakistan and hosts Bangladesh
will be a test of Pak team's preparations for the inaugural T20 World
Cup being held in November in India," said President, Pakistan Deaf
cricket, Suleman Zaheer, Secretary, Atta ur Rehman and Senior Vice
President, Ishtaiq Ahmad in a panel interview with APP here on Wednesday.
They said the tri-nation series is an important event ahead of
participation in the World Cup and it will help the Pak team to notice its
gray areas before the Cup and to prepare the team in professional manner
for throwing a strong challenge in the mega event.
PDCA officials disclosed that Pak team has never lost to India in any
format of the games since 2005 till today which is a unique record."No
team in international deaf cricket is holding such an honour and we are
confident that our team will put up impressive show to win the tri-nation
event to show consistency," they asserted.
They expressed their gratitude to Pakistan Cricket Board for extending all
out support to PDCA for the betterment of deaf cricket in Pakistan."We
are thankful to Chairman, PCB, Najam Sethi for his personal interest in
the development of deaf cricket and to ensure team's participation in
international events abroad".
Answering a question, they said Pak team for the tri nation series will be
named in few days based on the performance of players in domestic events
at home and international tournaments abroad.
"The selection will be made in a transparent manner and talented players
will be given preference," they added.PDCA officials said participation
in the tri-nation series will be step forward to give final touches to
team's preparations for the World Cup which will be participated by
world's top eight deaf teams.
"Deaf cricket is at rise with each passing day and we are mobilizing all
resources to organize domestic events in different parts of the country to
identify new talent," they said adding "The key to success of Pak
cricket team's sterling performance which it is showing in international
tournaments for the last thirteen years, is selection of players on merit
and hard work of coaches and good management of the team management". To
a question they said Pak team has bright chances to win the World Cup.
See one word in this brief announcement
International Chess Committee of the Deaf (ICCD) worldwide World
Deaf Blitz Chess Championship held from July 6 to 17 at Manchester
in the UK
the one word is – blitz – meaning speed chess!
Normally chess is slow paced, but speed only takes few seconds
to make a move
random deafsports thoughts
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[CSI: NY] - Another Anniversary
Title: Another Anniversary
Fandom: CSI: NY
Characters: Don Flack, Jamie Lovato
Pairings: Don Flack/Jessica Angell, Don Flack/Jamie Lovato
Set In Time: 20 May 2013, last season of CSI: NY
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI: NY and its characters. So, I don't make money from this fiction. It's just for fun!
A/N: I can't believe I still miss Jess.
Another anniversary
"You okay?"
Don Flack looked up from the corner he was seated. He seemed startled, as if she took him by surprise, and tried to hide something.
Jamie walked into the bedroom, eying him. He was strangely silent, keeping her eyes on her, studying her moves.
"Something happened at work?"
He simply shook his head, still silent.
She frowned, "So... what's wrong?"
"Nothing... really", his tone was quite sad.
Lovato crouched in front of him, nodding towards the piece of paper concealed in his hands. "What's that?"
Flack looked guilty and almost scared. He looked at the object he was holding and took a deep breath.
"You can tell me, not going to judge you", she attempted a smile.
He studied her for a few seconds then, after another long breath, he handled it to her.
A picture, not a simple piece of paper. Jamie looked at the young woman in the image, focusing on every single detail, her long brown hair, her deep eyes, her contagious smile. The picture was a little worn, a tell-tale sign it was something it was looked at very often.
"She's beautiful...", Jamie started, trying not too sound deceived or jealous.
"Her name was Jess", he commented with a low voice.
"Oh." She didn't miss the use of the simple past. Jamie sat next to Flack, giving back the picture. She looked at him, wide-eyed, waiting for him to explain. She didn't want to pressure him, she wanted him to tell her in his own time and words.
"She was killed this same day, four years ago. She was a detective, and got shot on a scene", he passed a finger on the picture, outlining Angell's smile.
At first, Jamie was speechless. Flack had always seemed a happy, positive, smiling guy. It was a shock discovering he was hiding such deep pain.
"Did you love her?"
He glanced at her briefly, then looked away. He nodded lightly. "Never told her, though."
"I'm sure she knew", was her simple reply.
"How do you know?", he dared to ask.
She said nothing, shrugging.
"Was she a good cop?", Jamie realized she wasn't annoyed, only curious. And glad he was trusting her enough to speak about his former girlfriend.
"Yeah", a proud smile graced his face, "One of the best. She was smart, witty and funny. Kind soul, open heart and...", he struggled to find his words. It was hard. He stood up and, from a box in his closet, took a piece of paper. Lovato grabbed it: It was the front page of a newspaper. Jessica Angell's determined expression was the first thing she noticed. She skimmed rapidly through the title and the article, then she put it down.
"Those are standard words, written by someone paid to write them down. Void, banal sentences. I'd like to know about her, but I want to hear it from you... if you're up to it", she quickly added. She doesn't want to upset him.
He pondered for a while, then closed his eyes: "She was transferred in our precinct because I was still recovering from the explosion. We clicked, just like that. We started as friends and, then, I kissed her. We didn't spend much time together, few months really, but we did good. We did the best we could." He breathed slowly before going on. "She had a tattoo circling her left wrist. I learnt it by heart, still can see it sometimes. She liked sleeping wearing my shirts and sending me embarrassing texts when I was at work. She drank OJ every single morning, enormous glasses full of it. She used to steal chips from my plate and deny she did so. She was a Devils fan, imagine. She drove me mad singing out-of-key and made me laugh. Every day. Every moment. She made me happy. And stupid. And romantic. She made me think about the future. And families with children. I loved her... maybe a part of me still does", he concluded, feeling guilty because of his last admission.
Jamie stared at Flack's profile, taking in his long lashes, the perfect nose and the slightly flushed cheeks. She touched his face kindly, wiping a tear away. She didn't like his pain. She didn't like his sorrow, she didn't like he was feeling guilty. She stroke his skin, hoping he would know she wasn't mad.
He looked at her with a sad expression. "Sorry, Jamie. This wasn't fair"
She shook her head, "Don't worry. I asked, you trusted me. So I can't be mad. I won't be mad. We both had pasts and lost lovers behind. They made us who we are, and I know you're here with me. You have the right to feel sad today. It's human."
He bit his lips, eyes down. "Thank you", he squeezed her hand.
"Don't mention it. Need something?"
"I... I'd like to be alone for a little bit... if you don't mind."
Jamie stood with a kind smile, "No. I can go home and you can call me when you feel better"
"Could you stay in the living room? I'll stay here, but I don't want to chase you away."
Her smile grew. His words made her feel warm and whole. "Yes, I can. I'll be reading the book I have been trying to end for ages. If you need me...", she touched his hair.
"Yeah... I'm glad you'll be there", his voice broke a little.
She smiled again. When she reached the door she looked back: "Don... I know she knew, because I knew too."
The she left, leaving him with his happy memories of Jessica Angell. After all, this was her day.


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Ryan finds the perfect housemate
Ryan finds the perfect housemate
Searching for a rental property can be made even harder for tenants who want to keep a pet.
Ryan was fortunate in finding a landlord who said yes, based on the breed of dog.
"If we couldn't find a place to take the dog, that would allow us to keep a dog with us, I'm not really sure what we'd do, to be honest."
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Fort Monmouth Chairman Resigns
By Laura D.C. Kolnoski |
FORT MONMOUTH – The chairman of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) has a parting message about job creation and economic development in New Jersey: Modernize bureaucratic rules and regulations or firms will continue to take their businesses elsewhere.
James V. Gorman of Colts Neck, founder and chairman of Blue Warrior Capital LLC and one of FMERA's three public voting members, announced his resignation on Dec. 6, effective Dec. 31. Gorman's tenure began in 2011 as a previous public-private agency – the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority – finished its mission to create a master reuse plan for the fort's 1,127 acres spanning portions of Eatontown, Oceanport and Tinton Falls. Once the plan was finalized, that authority was disbanded and FMERA was created to effect implementation. In operation for almost 100 years, Fort Monmouth employed over 5,000 people, generating about $3.3 billion for the state's economy.
FMERA officials initially expressed frustration over the cumbersome process of leasing and selling fort parcels because every transaction had to undergo an approval process through the U.S. Army. In 2016, the Monmouth County Improvement Authority guaranteed $35 million in notes and bonds to effectively "buy out" the Army's remaining interest, eliminating federal government involvement. Once estimated to take 20 years, Fort Monmouth's redevelopment is now projected for 10.
Gorman was appointed to the unpaid chairman post by Gov. Chris Christie. He has since overseen the sale of 11 properties, with another 17 under contract or in active negotiations. Gorman said the transfer of properties could and should accelerate.
"New Jersey is 49th out of 50th as a good place to do business," he said. "We had substantial corporations and large employers come in, take one look, see the amount of red tape and go someplace else. Amazon's plan to seek a new headquarters is a good example." (Fort Monmouth was eliminated from consideration for Amazon's new headquarters in favor of Newark. A decision is expected next year.)
"It takes up to 30 months for a winning bidder to get shovels in the ground," Gorman continued. "That's too long. These rules and regulations need to be revisited and streamlined for today's conditions, not 1985's. Well-intentioned laws and regulations were put in place to control growth at a time when New Jersey was rapidly developing. The state is pretty much developed now. These regulations can be an impediment to growth."
Before assuming FMERA's chairmanship, the insurance industry veteran and "serial entrepreneur" accumulated 25 years' experience as a chief executive officer with several regulated companies.
"I found pleasantly surprising, and appreciated, how little politics played a role in the fort's redevelopment," he said. "Everyone understood and was supportive of the mission." With a new administration headed by Governor-elect Philip Murphy beginning next month, Gorman decided it was time to leave FMERA.
"As a Christie appointee in a Murphy administration, with two new state senators also coming in, and because all is going so strong in the redevelopment, I don't want to be viewed as a Christie holdover threatening the momentum," Gorman said. "Also, seven years is enough. New blood can come in. My resignation will take the issue of politics out of it." Gorman said he's had no indication of whether he would be replaced by the incoming governor.
Gorman appointed Fair Haven resident Robert Lucky to serve as vice chairman through FMERA's next annual reorganization in September 2018. Lucky and Monmouth County Freeholder Director Lillian Burry are the only FMERA members who also served on the original planning authority. Lucky, Burry and Gorman comprise FMERA's three public voting members. An engineer, inventor and author who worked at the former Bell Labs in Holmdel and won a Marconi Prize, Lucky "will ensure there is no interruption of the momentum we have achieved," Gorman said, adding, "Bob's heart is in exactly the right place."
"I think we've done a very good job of implementing the reuse plan," Gorman reflected. "Eatontown's parcels are mostly spoken for, Tinton Falls is well on its way and Oceanport is coming along next."
Highlights cited by Gorman include the opening of data-security firm Commvault's corporate headquarters and the reuse of Fort Monmouth's former Child Development Center as Trinity Hall High School – both in Tinton Falls – and the rebirth of the former Patterson Army Clinic as AcuteCare in Oceanport.
"CommVault is a very significant marquee firm, a crown jewel of the fort's redevelopment and a top quality employer," said Gorman, who also cited the new exit ramp at Exit 105 on the Garden State Parkway as a major achievement. His advice to the next chairman: "Try to keep politics out of it."
"Jim Gorman provided exceptional, very professional leadership," Freeholder Burry said. "He brought his business acumen, which was necessary to go the next mile. He wanted to get things done. I hope the new governor realizes how critical that position is to our success."
"Chairman Gorman has been a strong advocate for fast-tracking the fort's redevelopment," said Timothy Lizura, New Jersey Economic Development Authority president and chief operating officer. "His dedication has been paramount to its success."
Gorman said he agreed to join FMERA to "pay back to the Garden State which has been so good to me and my family," adding, "The economic damage to Monmouth County from the fort's closure is still being felt. We have not nearly recovered from the hit we took. I hope those long-term, high-paying jobs can be replicated and the mission of redevelopment achieved. Some of that is already happening."
In 1996 the NAACP awarded Gorman a Certification and Award for Employment Practices. Since 1997, he has served as chairman of IEP Youth Services, a Freehold-based charitable organization serving abused children.
This article was first published in the Dec. 14-21, 2017 print edition of The Two River Times.
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Build systems so that anybody can contribute at any amount
Via this posting by Stefan Hagen, I came across this interesting and relevant talk by Clay Shirky about institutions vs. collaboration. Listening to Mr. Shirky, I learned, for example, this:
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When you build cooperation into the infrastructure, as for example Flickr does, you can leave the people where they are, i.e. you can take the problem to the individuals rather than move the individuals to the problem.
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A general aspect of cooperative systems is that it replaces planning with coordination.
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Institutions only have 2 tools: Carrots and sticks. The 80% zone is a no-stick, no-carrot zone. Recall in this regard, that in the photo example that Mr. Shirky talked about, 80% of the contributors – in this example photographers - contributed with a below average amount – in this example number of photos. In this regard, Mr. Shirky mentions that if your system is designed so that you have to give up a quarter of the value, reengineer the system. Build the system so that anybody can contribute at any amount.
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Mr. Shirky mentions that if you want to know what technology is going to change the world, don't pay attention to 13 year-old boys. Pay attention to young mothers.
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Institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure. The more rigidly managed and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be. The point is, Mr. Shirky explains, that there is going to be a massive readjustment. Since we can see it in advance and know it is coming, we might as well get good at it.


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"Good morning, Lord. Together, there is nothing that is going to happen today that You and I can't handle." Do you believe that?
Perhaps an even better statement to make is,"There is nothing God can't handle today as I walk with Him, trust Him and obey." Wouldn't this keep us from becoming: fearful, worrisome, fretful, overwhelmed and frustrated? There is nothing God cannot do! He is our all-mighty God. He knows what steps we are going to make today.
"You know my down sitting and my uprising, You understand my thought afar off. You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high.." Psalm 139:2,3,6
Walk with this wonderful God of ours today being ever so conscience of his presence. He will never leave you alone.


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"Unlike some of his European colleagues who've not been able to make the transition to English-language films (I think especially of Alain Resnais and the late Luchino Visconti), Mr. Fassbinder succeeds brilliantly, with the great help, of course, of Mr. Stoppard. The baroque movements of the camera - it never sits if it can stand, and never stands if it can swoop and soar - produce a visual equivalent to the comic fussiness of the prose style of Nabokov's first-person narrative.
"Mr. Bogarde's prissy gestures mixed with expressions of alarm and lust that are always conscious, as they are with someone a little beside himself, beautifully illuminate this seminal Nabokovian hero, Miss Ferreol is dainty, bovine, vulgar and always sweet and Mr. Spengler, a red-haired German actor, is a mountain of unredeemable second-rateness.
"The Stoppard scriot is a joy for anyone who likes the English language. There are very few puns here. Instead he has miraculously turned Nabokov's exposition into spoken dialogue that matches the tone of the original. 'A line has length but no breadth' says Hermann. 'If you could see it, it would n't be a line.' That's pure Stoppard, inspired by Nabokov, and the result is perfectly seamless." - Vincent Canby, New York Times
"Despair, which was to be Fassbinder's most lavish and expensive production... The list of credits is impressive: the film is based on a novel by Nabokov, the script was written by Tom Stoppard, the leading role was played by Dirk Bogarde. The critics were duly impressed. The Germans in particular, flattered no doubt at making what looked like a major international breakthrough, were dazzled by the film's technical brilliance and apparent thematic complexity...
"The film, which begins in the art-deco interiors, the cafes and streets of Berlin, and ends in the peace of the Swiss Alps, traces, according to Fassbinder, 'the itinerary of a man who escapes from the jungle of an honourable existence and penetrates the free and beautiful world of madness.'
"Hermann is a man who is plagued by a confusion of images. He suffers, to use the pat pyschological jargon, from an 'identity crisis': he is an exile, his papers are false, his history invented, his origins unlcear. He suffers from 'schizophrenia.' from a 'split personality,' from 'dissociation': hence his repeated visions of himself looking at himself, and his vision of the tramp as his double. Stoppard and Fassbinder are, however, sceptical of easy psychologizing (as indeed was Nabokov), Hermann's problems are presented ironically, and when psychology does rear its intellectualizing head it is soon cut down to size with rapid strokes of verbal and visual wit. 'What do you know about dissociation?' Hermann asks a doctor in a cafe, and goes on to elaborate the term as 'split personality,' adding 'I'm thinking of writing a book about the subject - maybe two books.' But the 'doctor' is in any case an insurance broker, and it is he who sells Hermann the fateful life policy.
"The mirror imagery that had for some time been becoming an increasingly obtrusive hallmark of Fassbinder's style reaches its apogee in Despair. Here, however, it is no longer merely a virtuoso mannerism, it has instead become thematic, for Despair is a film about reflections, about distortions, about reality and illusion, above all a film about images. And inasmuch as the cinema is the supreme creator of images it is a self-reflective film, questioning the 'truth' it conveys, looking both through and at a distorted consciousness, and defying us to distinguish the two perspectives. Hermann has got the idea of his crime from watching a film - a film about two identical twins; at the end he retreats from the 'reality' of his life into a 'fiction,' the 'fiction' that he is in a film. The house is surrounded by police: 'We're making a film here,' Hermann calls out, 'I'm a film actor. I'm coming out now... I'm coming out.' Thus we are drawn into the 'distortions' of Hermann's 'madness': the 'fiction' into which he has retreated turns out to be our 'reality,' for Hermann is indeed an actor, and this indeed is a film." - John Sandford, The New German Cinema (1981)


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"If we fail to exercise our freedom in daily food and health choices, we affect not only our own well-being but the well-being of those we care about and who depend upon us for good judgment.
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Bing Xu, Nan Gao, Fushin X Yu; Role of IL-24 in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Keratitis in a C57BL/6 Mouse Model. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):4052.
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The cytokines in interleukin (IL)-10 family are known by their anti-infection and anti-inflammatory activities. However, the biology of IL-24, a member of IL-10 family cytokines, is largely unknown, particularly in the ocular tissue. In this study, we investigated the role of IL-24 in a mouse Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (PA) keratitis model.
Epithelium-injured B6 mouse corneas were pretreated with or without flagellin for 24h, followed by PA (ATCC 19660) inoculation. Samples were collected at various time points post infection and subjected to PCR and immunofluorescence. Mice were subconjunctivally injected with either IL-24 siRNA to knock down IL-24 expression or mouse IL-24 recombinant protein before the inoculation of PA to explore the biological functions of IL-24.
PA infection induced IL-24 transcription on corneal epithelial cells; flagellin pretreatment not only alleviated the infection, but also reduced the mRNA expression of IL-24, but not IL-19 and IL-20, the other two members of IL-10 family that share common receptors. STAT3, a signal mediator in IL-24 pathway, was phosphorated in response to PA infection, and p-STAT3 was mainly expressed in the infiltrated cells, indicating that immune cells were recruited and activated by the infection. IL-24 downregulation alleviated the severity of PA keratitis, and the application of IL-24 recombinant protein exacerbated PA infection on mouse cornea.
These data demonstrate that IL-24 exhibits a detrimental effect on the host defense against PA infection, suggesting that IL-24 pathway may be a new intervention site for treating infectious keratitis.
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It's the final round of fixtures in the Champions League group stage this week and former Manchester United and Liverpool striker and BetVictor brand ambassador Michael Owen has made his predictions for the clashes involving the British sides.
Manchester United v CSKA Moscow
A point will guarantee top spot in the group for United and CSKA's clean sheet in Benfica last time was their first shut out in 32 games. That suggests the Russians will have to score at least twice at Old Trafford and that is likely to be beyond them despite the fact that they have won two away games in the competition already this season.
This is a big week for United with City to come in the Premier League on Sunday and I can't see them making any mistakes midweek.
Prediction: Manchester United 3-0 CSKA Moscow
MORE: Luke Shaw tells Jose Mourinho he's 'ready' ahead of Manchester United's clash with CSKA Moscow
Celtic v RSC Anderlecht
Both sides have conceded 17 goals in their five group games to date but Celtic were comfortable winners of the reverse fixture and can do the double over the Belgians who must win by at least a three-goal margin to have any hope of making it through to the Europa League.
Anderlecht cannot sit back and defend and it is about time that Celtic – without a win in their last six Champions League games at Celtic Park – gave their home fans something to cheer about in European competition.
Prediction: Celtic 2-0 RSC Anderlecht
Chelsea v Atletico Madrid
Twice beaten finalists in recent years, Atletico must beat Chelsea at the Bridge to stand any chance of progressing to the knock out stages. Chelsea have scored in their last 25 home games in the competition whilst the Spanish side have yet to score in their two away games so far in the competition – despite having 32 attempts at goal in those games.
A home win would guarantee top spot for the Blues and a home tie in the second leg of the last 16. It promises to be a cracking, passionate game between two of Europa's top clubs.
Prediction: Chelsea 1-1 Atletico Madrid
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Liverpool v Spartak Moscow
Liverpool will be guaranteed top spot in the group with a win at Anfield and only PSG have scored more goals in the group stages than the Reds. Spartak have lost 22 of their last 28 Champions League games on the road and it is hard to see them causing a shock against a Liverpool side who are in such good form of late.
Liverpool haven't reached the knock out stages of the competition since the 2008/9 season and it would be wonderful to have all five Premier League sides in the last 16 of the world's premier club competition.
Prediction: Liverpool 4-0 Spartak Moscow
Shakhtar Donetsk v Manchester City
A draw would guarantee Shakhtar a place in the last 16 whilst City are already assured of finishing top and have the small matter of the Manchester derby at the weekend. City would like to have a 100% record in the group stages but they are without Kevin de Bruyne through suspension and are likely to rest a number of key players with the weekend in mind.
Prediction: Shakhtar Donetsk 1-2 Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur v Apoel Nicosia
No Cypriot side has beaten English opposition in European competition and I can't see Apoel bucking that trend at Wembley. Spurs have won their last three CL games at Wembley 3-1 but I expect Spurs to keep a clean sheet in a comfortable win, which will end a wonderful group stage for the north London outfit.
Prediction: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Apoel Nicosia
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TV Anchor Mistakes Mo Farah For Amateur Runner
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Mo then replied simply: "No this is not my first time."
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Franklin Veaux has set off on a bold stroll through the minefields of sex positivity, with this post that mostly expounds on what sex positivity is not. As somebody who has long used the term, I found his disquisition useful. I didn't quite agree with his one paragraph on what "sex positive" actually is, though:
Sex positivity at its core is simply the recognition that there is more than one "right" way to have sexual relationships. It is an acknowledgement that human sexuality is incredibly diverse, that different people have different tastes and relate to sexuality in different ways, and that as long as everyone is having sex with consenting adult partners, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with sex, regardless of the way people relate to it. In short, it's a deliberate refusal to place one's own sexuality on a pedestal and proclaim it the "right" way to have sex.
My thought upon reading that was that I'd just boil that down to "Sex positivity is about being non-judgmental about consensual sexual choices." But upon reflection, I decided that's not enough.
Franklin's paragraph, and my sentence, are statements that establish a space by bounding it and excluding things from it. In my sentence, the word "non-judgmental" is key; "acknowledgment that … there is nothing wrong" and "deliberate refusal" are key phrases in his paragraph.
At best, we're describing a lack of sex-negativity with phrases like these. I think being genuinely sex-positive requires something more. Franklin's post details many specific things sex positivity is not; mostly, these are specific sexual propositions or arguments that have been claimed to underlie, and be necessary to, the sex-positive position. And I agree with him that none of these, individually, are necessary to sex-positivity.
However, I do think you can't be sex-positive without — risking tautology here — being positive about some sex. Being "not negative" doesn't quite get you there. Being "not negative" probably suffices to unsubscribe you from the armies of the anti-sex culture warriors, but you've got to take a positive position and celebrate sexuality in some way, I'd argue, to be sex-positive.
Do you have to celebrate all the sex? Of course not. If you're like most people with pronounced tastes and opinions, some of the sexual propositions and subcultures out there will strike you as boring, frightening, risible, or worse. No matter. Sometimes being non-judgmental doesn't require much more from you than keeping your mouth firmly shut. "It's not for me" doesn't make you judgmental, but if you examine your motives for expressing that sentiment, there's usually a parcel of judgment to be found. Sex positive people, I've found, spend a lot of time celebrating what they are into, and waste very few words talking about the sex that doesn't appeal.
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After a briefing Wyedean Canoe & Adventure Centre which frankly we all should have listened to more, the 12 of us paired up, loaded our gear into 6 Canadian open canoes and then launched off into the River Wye.
|The River Wye
There are 2 different canoeing events at the Olympics - Slalom & Sprint, the Slalom is a timed run down a white water course with up to 25 gates to negotiate, the Sprint is...erm...a sprint and can be done over 200 metres, 500m or 1000m - simples.
The Canoeing Challenge:
- Distance: 39 miles, including White Water Rapids
- Time: 3 Days
- Distances: 500m & 1000m(ish)
- Time: As quickly as possible, obviously!
The boys were being boys and in that very first leg we each established that none of us wanted to be last, though this was counterbalanced by the girls being girls and not being arsed about the pecking order so long as they could chat with each other along the way.
Toilets breaks had to be approached with all the tactics and skill of a military campaign: every time the shout went out that someone needed a call of nature the lead canoe became the scouts for a place to stop, what followed was essentially the sight of 6 canoes crashing into any riverbank we could all get to, then a scramble of people each trying to help the most needy to secure their vessel from moving off down the river while others urinated in bushes or against trees - a real sight to behold.
One bathroom break was less successful than most: we'd unwisely opted to stop at a muddy bank - having wedged our 'boats' into the mud as best we could, there was a 4 foot high step onto the brown squelchy stuff, followed by a brief climb up yet more mud to get onto the bank.
On the way back down to the canoes Sophie slipped into the river and was dragged off by the current, the rest of us rallied to get her safely into a canoe but this came at a cost - 'I've lost my shoe'.
For food we would moor up at the regularly positioned pubs along the riverbank and occasionally we'd treat ourselves to a beer - just the odd one as I'm sure you can imagine (I didn't accumulate the belly I had before The Everyman Olympics without knowing my way around a pint glass).
Of an evening we would pitch tents at prebooked locations under the watchful eye of our leader,Will - an ex-marine; in our collective minds eye he could deal with any situation we encountered: if a pack of lost wolves attacked as we slept - Will would organise us in a ring of fire and we'd fend them off...if hippies in neighbouring tents persisted in playing Janis Joplin right through the night - Will could cut off their power supply...if we discovered the campsite toilets had no loo role all-too-late - Will would wipe our...
|Janis Joplin - Will could take her.
On the morning of Day 3 we'd already travelled 30 miles and had bonded as a tightly knit, expert rowing unit, yet now we were to be briefed on a new and dangerous turn in our journey - the White Water Rapids...
The briefing lasted 20 minutes.
The White Water Rapids lasted 3...minutes.
I. Kid. You. Not.
Disappointed and barely endangered enough for any amount of adrenalin to kick in we ALL felt cheated.
Tones and Kate had shot off when the heavens opened - leaving 6 of us lads to wave good bye to Jess, Katie, Laura and One Shoe Sophie as we drew twigs to work out teams...it was race time!
Will & Ali were favourites - Will being the ex-marine and Ali being a big lad, the Dave & Henry combination looked challenging - Dave with his never-say-die attitude and Henry who looked chipper after spending each day in his canoe with a different lady...which left Ryan and I - me being the newcomer to canoeing and Ry with his iffy steering skills.
We guesstimated the 500m point and lined our vessels up, it was tense...'GO!' I yelled - disaster followed.
All 3 crews headed towards the exact same spot - Will & Ali crashed into Dave & Henry and so did we! Both men were thrown into the river - then we nearly crushed Henry, missing only by inches.
By the time they were safely back into their metal racer they were shattered, so the rest of us took advantage.
Pulling us back to gain unfair advantage Will & Ali paddled off to victory.
2nd place is nowhere in a 3 team race, so me and Ryan had our honour at stake as we lined up for the final event - the 1000 metres(ish).
The race started and this time we meant business...till I saw the chance to get revenge on Will & Ali, which backfired on both teams, leaving Henry & Dave a clear run to the finish line and glory...damn me!
We had to cruise the final 2 miles of our 39 mile Slalom listening to the other crews chirping about their wins...I'd completed another challenge for The Everyman Olympics but was wet and gutted.
With Special Thanks to:
Jess, Kate, Katie, Laura & Sophie - without you ladies it would probably have been a testosterone-fueled canoe race to the death (or the pub...whichever came first)
Tone 'Skimmer' Curran - shame you missed the race because you didn't want to get your hair wet ; )
Will & Ali - Cheers for organising the whole thing Will - much appreciated by all! Oh and congrats on the win chaps, albeit by dodgy means, grrrrr
Dave & Henry - Apologies for trying to kill you
Ryan - A valiant team mate (who must work on his steering).
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Vikings for SAGA, point 1
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Wonderful work as always Michael! As was mentioned on the contest really nice subdued tonal quality to your painting. Looking forward to the next unit. You seem to pick subjects near and dear to me with ACW and now Vikings.:-)ReplyDelete
Wicked paint job. Did you distress the shield decals to look a bit weathered? They have an authentic, aged look to them.ReplyDelete
Very nicely painted, Mike!ReplyDelete
Beautifully done Michael! You are really making these hard to resist.ReplyDelete
Very nice indeed! How do you tone down the lighter shades?ReplyDelete
Cracking figures!!!ReplyDelete
Great paint job! The shield transfers turned out nice too!ReplyDelete
Really nice painting Mike, your a very talented chap!!!!ReplyDelete
Great Vikings Mike - the Artizan figures are excellent!ReplyDelete
stunning workReplyDelete
Very nice paintjobs, like the shielddesigns a lot.ReplyDelete
Excellent painting Mike!! Really like what you have done with these guys.ReplyDelete
Very nice painting and the shield transfers look excellent.ReplyDelete
Damn good work Mike, beautifully done.....ReplyDelete
Mike, these are tremendous. I really like the way you've distressed the shields. Very realistic colouring, straight from the sagas!ReplyDelete
Thanks, these are quality models to paint.ReplyDelete
@mr. Bigglesworth: Some of the designs have a battered look. On the middle two I did a little extra work and looking at the comments I will probably do it for the others as well..
@Dux: I use the 3 (sometimes more) layer method from the Foundry painting book; start with darkest colour and then apply lighter colours leaving some of the darker shade visible. I thin the paint for smoother transition of colours. And what really helps to tone down is testors dullcote. Can't do without it.
Great looking vikings, Mike ...look extremely realisticReplyDelete
fantastic figures!!!ReplyDelete
why you don't a look, Impetus Rules?
You can make wonderful bases!!!
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These look great (love the stripes on the bottom pic!) hope to pic up the rules soon.ReplyDelete


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I'm sure Tiramisu is one of your favorite deserts and probably most of you have tried to prepare it at least once.
I've been making Tiramisu for more than a decade, but this is a first time I found a recipe, that is so easy and quick to prepare. And this is the best Tiramisu I've ever had.


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President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his regret over the relationship between the ANC stalwarts and his predecessor Jacob Zuma, Veterans League leader Snuki Zikalala said on Monday.
The relationship was acrimonious and tense, with the 101 veterans calling for Zuma to step down.
Ramaphosa met with veterans in Sandton to discuss their concerns leading up to the 2017 December elective conference.
Zikalala said Ramaphosa had told them during the meeting that he was "saddened by the manner in which stalwarts were treated and he thinks that is something that has to be addressed by the NEC".
The veterans penned a document titled "For the Sake of our Future", berating the Zuma leadership for moving away from the founding values of the liberation movement.
Their call for a consultative conference to be held before the contested December elective conference was shot down on numerous occasions. The ANC, instead, dedicated two days of its July policy conference to deal with organisational renewal, however, the stalwarts boycotted the event.
Opening the conference, Zuma attacked the veterans, calling them "so called leaders" and questioning their weight in the party.
On Monday, Zikalala said Ramaphosa had acknowledged Zuma's transgressions against the stalwarts, including not recognising them. He said they were happy with his reply.
"He said that it was uncalled for because we were raising critical issues that were affecting the life blood of the ANC, because the ANC was definitely going down the drain," Zikalala added.
Ramaphosa told journalists that the party leadership and the elders had a positive meeting over their role in the ANC.
"We had a wonderful engagement with the stalwarts of the ANC. This was a meeting where we were reconnecting, re-engaging with stalwarts and we were briefing them about the moment that we are in now as the new leadership."
Ramaphosa, who was accompanied by his deputy David Mabuza, said they had invited stalwarts to be active participants in the Veterans League and party campaigns heading to the 2019 elections.
Zikalala said the league would rope in past leaders, including former president Kgalema Motlanthe.
"He is prepared to come on board and to have the Veterans League establish themselves as a core thinker of the ANC."
Zikalala said the league had not yet approached Zuma and former president Thabo Mbeki to join them, but their roles were recognised in shaping the party's values going forward.


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Jilliand: A Story of Love and Freedom by Clare Gutierrez
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Bruised, bloody, and barely dressed, she knew it was over.
She had no doubt the Vikings would search for her if she tried to run—especially now, with their companion lying dead. It would be dark soon, and she had no idea where she could go or hide. Jilliand knew they would come for her. The Vikings were not likely to let this go—especially it being an attack by a woman.
She was defeated. Weak and shaking, she stared at the man's body. I think tonight I die.
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Remember the couch that Pamela Bell, founder of Kate Spade, let her children and their friends attack with fabric markers? After spotting the multihued, graffiti-festooned sofa in the pages of Vogue Australia, Sea of Shoes blogger Jane Aldridge and her mother were inspired to do the same to raise money for the Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Aldridges purchased a vintage chair, had it reupholstered in blank canvas, and then hauled it over to hospital. Armed with Sharpies, the young patients each made their mark on the fabric in vivid, near-fluorescent colors. As soon as they were done, the chair was finished with four coats of lacquer to seal and protect the children's handiwork, while imparting a rich gloss to the surface. Set to be auctioned by the Careity Foundation, the Aldridges' "Chairity" is only the beginning—the pair have three more chairs in the works, which they plan on auctioning off on eBay.


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In 1939, a migrant family—one of many in America at the time—pitches a tent on the outskirts of Hammond, Louisiana. The family is picking strawberries, during the spring of 1939, to earn a meager living.
The boy, in the picture, has just returned from the city dump where he found some springs the family will use to fashion beds.
The photo is by Russell Lee, on behalf of the U.S. Farm Security Administration, and is online via the Library of Congress. It was taken in April of 1939.
The photographer provides the following description of the public-domain photo:
Migratory strawberry pickers camp on outskirts of Hammond, Louisiana. Boy carrying springs had just obtained them at city dump. These springs are used for beds.
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Image online via the Library of Congress; Russell Lee, photographer. Reproduction number: LC-USF33-012116-M4 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8a25792 (digital file from original neg.) Public Domain.
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text: In Silver Lake, you're invited to a '90s Bar Mitzvah Dance Party – featuring that holiest of holies, the Macarena. In Eagle Rock, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra plays its 25th anniversary gala concert. And in Echo Park, a Feminist Genealogies Workshop at the Edendale library covers basic timelines of feminist histories in the United States.


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Colin Woodard
Photo: © J. Strohn Woodard
About the Author
Colin Woodard, an award-winning writer and journalist, is currently the state and national affairs writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram and received a 2012 George Polk Award for an investigative project he did for those papers. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents. His work has appeared in dozens of publications, including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Politico, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Bloomberg View, and Washington Monthly. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he is the author of several books, including American Nations and The Republic of Pirates.


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As a travel enthusiast, I am often asked why I like to travel so much. I have quite a few short answers to that question but if I sense someone actually wants to hear my long answer I will occasionally include a tragic yet illustrative story about how travel can change the way we think.
The story that resonates most with me about the power of travel focuses on decisions and the underlying rationale made by Henry L. Stimson, the United States Secretary of War during WWII. Stimson took ownership of the atomic bomb project and was driven to see the project succeed. The definition of success is certainly debatable and not important to the theme of this particular story. The story I tell in my words goes something like this.
After it was decided the US would use the atomic bomb on Japan, a committee put together a list of target cities with justifications of each to present to the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson. Number one on the list was the city of Kyoto. Secretary Stimson was presented with the list and immediately instructed the team to remove Kyoto from the list. In official documents Secretary Stimson cited a number of 'official' reasons why Kyoto should be taken off the list though interestingly, nearly every cited reason starkly contradicted his previous stances. The real reason Stimson took Kyoto off the list so abruptly was because he had actually been to Kyoto. When he was younger he visited and loved the city so much he later returned for his honeymoon. As a Secretary of War, Stimson was willing to use the destructive device on a city but as a world traveler, Secretary Stimson would not even entertain the idea of using the bomb on a city he had visited enjoyably. Secretary Stimson's travels had created an emotional connection that overruled his war logic and spared Kyoto.
Admittedly the story I tell was originally concocted from a series of anecdotes I had put together from bits and pieces of media but I had never dug deeper to confirm the story.
This week I returned to Hiroshima and the Hiroshima Peace Museum to research further.
For those who have not been to Hiroshima, I would summarize the city as 1 part sadness and reflection and 3 parts hope and peace. To me, Hiroshima is extremely uplifting and in no ways a negative experience. It also doesn't hurt they are the mecca for one of my favorite dishes on the planet, Okonomiyaki.
The Peace Museum has a plethora of information including transcripts and meeting minutes from WWII. I focused on the information around the selection of the atomic bomb target cities. I reviewed what I could and concluded the story is mostly true. Stimson did not cite his emotional ties to Kyoto in the formal texts but a review of his dairies and those who were also present suggest his emotional decision to remove Kyoto was immediate and the 'official' rationale came much later.
The bottom line
While the story revolves around a terribly tragic event, I believe it illustrates how powerful travel can be to change the way we think. It is far easier to develop negative feelings and preconceived notions towards places you have never been. It is amazing how quickly those feelings melt away after you actually visit.
As a final note, you won't notice any citations in this post. The point of my research was not to construct an academic argument but rather to confirm that the concept of the story was true. I did not take photos of the transcripts I reviewed at the museum to properly cite my information nor did I continue uncovering facts after I had enough evidence to convince myself the story was genuine.


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Entering the Eurobodalla Business Awards is simple!
Follow the link above to enter the Eurobodalla Business Awards. This will take you to the Eurobodalla Business Awards online entry portal that is hosted by the NSW Business Chamber.
Please note that the entry period is from Monday 2 July 2018 to Friday 3 August 2018.
Businesses can nominate themselves by following the prompts on the online portal.
Please ensure that you read the Terms and Conditions prior to entering the awards.
There will be a number of Information Sessions held throughout the shire to assist businesses in entering. In these sessions you will learn how to enter the awards, how to use the online portal and how to write an award winning entry. More details about these sessions will be available soon.
Businesses are able to enter the awards from Monday 2 July 2018 to Friday 3 August 2017. The entries will then be judged and finalists will be announced on Monday 20 August 2017. Winners will be announced at the Gala Dinner on Saturday 8 September 2018 to be held at the Narooma Golf Club.


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"We are extremely honored to present local legends and 8MM Bar stammgäste TARWATER for their first Berlin gig in a year and a half. Furthermore, the fantastic helsinki-berlin band Eagle Boston managed to score some time in between all their different projects to join us once again. The talented and beautiful Zulu Pearls keep it fresh and close to home. First band is on at 10, Hope you can make it!"
Mittwoch 28.4.2010, 21hr @ Bassy 6€
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Cylindera (Conidera) mindoroana sp. n. (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), a new tiger beetle species from the Philippines
Conidera Rivalier, 1961 is a well-defined subgenus of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) hitherto only known from two species endemic to the island of Luzon. This paper describes the first species from Mindoro, with a doubtful record from Mindanao. Cylindera (Conidera) mindoroana Zettel and Wiesner, new species, differs strongly by an unusual shape of the female's elytra. A diagnosis for Conidera and a key to the species of this subgenus is presented.
Cicindelini, diagnosis, new species, Mindoro, endemic species, diversity, key.


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Region Continues to React to Flooding
Widespread flooding is still an issue across Northeast Arkansas, while the pressure has been relieved somewhat further north. Levee breaches in Randolph County continued to cause issues on Friday, which have allowed billions of gallons of water to spill across thousands of acres of mainly farmland.
As of Friday morning the St. Francis River, at St. Francis, was at 25.77 feet, well above the 22 foot flood stage and over the forecast crest of 25.5. Meanwhile, the levee breaches further south have provided some relief to the Corning area, and as of Thursday afternoon Highway 67/62 was being reopened to traffic between the two cities although commercial traffic was limited. Friday morning the river level at Corning was 15.27 feet, just over the 15 foot flood stage and well above the estimated crest of 14.5 feet.
The lowlands around Datto and Success were also problem areas earlier in the week, although much of those waters have receded as Lawrence County takes the brunt of run-off from both the Black River and Current River as conditions also continue to ease in the Pocahontas area.
Up to the minute river levels, along with current weather conditions, radar and forecasts are available on the weather tab of this website.


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Fresh recruits give Haverhill Borough cause for optimism
With a plethora of new players signed up, Haverhill Borough manager Martin Westcott is optimistic for a good start to the new season.
Borough get their Thurlow Nunn League First Division season under way on August 8 with a trip to Dereham Town Reserves before a home game the following Wednesday with Wivenhoe Town.
There have been some high profile summer departures, with last season's leading scorer Ryan Weaver and winger Owen Longley switching to Haverhill Rovers and Luke Latham joining West Wratting.
However, Borough have recruited a swathe of players, plus physiotherapist Natalie Harman (the first time the club has had tehir own physio), giving rise to hope for a strong campaign.
Player-manager Westcott said: "I think going into the first few weeks of the season we are certainly happy with where we are.
"Maybe we could do with another forward, that would be ideal, but we are pretty strong."
Having their own physio is also an important step for the club, as Westcott explained: "I think having a physio will be more like having one or two extra players in the squad because we will be able to get them back fit and playing again sooner."
Borough have already recruited Hundon's top scorer of the past two seasons, Craig Pruden.
Winger Matt Staines and defender Bartosz Pater have both joined from White Notley, who finished in mid-table last season in the Essex and Suffolk Border League Premier Division.
Former Haverhill Rovers players, midfielder Sam Green and right-back Ryan Holder have also joined as has former Coggeshall Town goalkeeper Graham Smith, who had a short spell there last season.
Both Green and Holder have been out of local football for some time, the former has been living in Australia while Holder has been focusing on his personal trainer business.
Of Holder, Westcott said: "He is champing at the bit to come and play, which is really good news for us.
"He will be a real asset."
Striker Lee Salmons and defender Harry O'Connor are still some weeks away from returning because of knee injuries, but Harry Halls and Aaron Forshaw, who both missed a lot of games last season with injury, are now fit.
Of the season ahead, Westcott said: "We would like to do well in the FA Cup and FA Vase primarily because of the prize money but also because it gives you some status as well.
"We would like to finish in the top three, but I think it's going to be quite an open league this season and there will be eight or nine teams who will be looking to finish in the top three.
"For me, the Suffolk Senior Cup is the one I would also like to do well in."
n Borough play a re-arranged pre-season friendly at The New Croft against Mildenhall Town tonight (7.45pm). The game was cancelled last Friday due to the heavy rain.


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Hello, i'm trying to make the upload of multiple files, but there is no option in the component... Does anyone knows how to do it?
Hi Mauricio.
Supposedly if you use the UseDropZone option you would be able to do that.
However, it seems that this component it's not working properly and some people has had problems when trying to upload a file (I also did a quick and simple test and was able to reproduce the problems).
Hello Gonçalo, tudo bem?
As you said, there seens to be a major problem on the FileUpload webblock preparation: you putted the following logic:
If (HandleURL = "") Then HandleURL = GetOwnerURLPath() + "FileUploadHandlerEntry.jsf"
The fact is I running on a .Net stack... You may guess that 'jsf' is not the extension i need, but 'aspx'.
In short: Changing from "FileUploadHandlerEntry.jsf" to "FileUploadHandlerEntry.aspx" made the upload work again.
As for the 'multiple upload' part, adding 'multiple' to the extended properties in the plataform upload widget did the trick.
Yeah, I just saw that a few hours ago. Just didn't has time to write it here, sorry.
Nice to know it worked ;)


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Savages video
The band Savages is a great all girl post-punk band that came into the studios of KCRW last week. This is the video I made:
For this years SXSW music conference I managed both web-cast for Morning Becomes Eclectic remotely. We had PJ Harvey and John Parish at SXSW and Peter, Bjorn and John at SXSW. For this I put together a simple one camera set-up with encoder, which we sent to Austin and streamed live from Tequilla Mocking Bird Studios. Also for the conference we built a custom page KCRW at SXSW 2009, designed by my colleague, Nathan Lubeck. The site included interactive slideshows posted via cell phone using Flickr, and live video and... Read The Rest →
Beck on Morning Becomes Eclectic
Today Beck stopped by the studios at KCRW to do a Guest DJ set with Nic Harcourt and perform a few acoustic songs. The mixed set of guest DJ/interview and acoustic session made it tricky to produce video since we were streaming live and the guest DJ set was in master control and the acoustic set was in the performance room. I basically set up the Guest DJ set like a web-cam with a wide shot of Nic and Beck from a camera that we had patched into master control... Read The Rest →
The Raconteurs at The Viilage
The session we did at the The Village a few weeks back with The Raconteurs aired on KCRW-FM 89.9 and KCRW.com on KCRW's flagship music program Morning Becomes Eclectic today. For this session I brought the 4-camera set-up that is usually kept at the station. There are 4 pan, tilt, zoom cameras that I control and am able to produce the video live with an audio/video switcher which I change shots with and a camera controller that is able to control the motion of the cameras. This show was pre-taped,... Read The Rest →


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My original plan was to have a community that would crosspost my posts to livejournal, but apparently things don't work that way.
So, since I have different people who prefer to read at livejournal or at dreamwidth, I've got a community at dreamwidth, and I'm individually posting my posts to livejournal. I'm not making a community at livejournal because I'd either have to pay for another account or have ads on it.
This entry was posted at http://nancylebov.dreamwidth.org/556048.html. Comments are welcome here or there. comments so far on that entry.


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NEW BRIGHTON -- Tonight, Miss Dawson and Mrs. Szabo will toss and turn until morning when the two teachers begin another year at New Brighton Middle School.
Second-year special education teacher Samantha Dawson, 26, doesn't want to quell the back-to-school thrill she felt in 1990 when she walked into kindergarten at State Street Elementary School in Baden.
And the excitement of first days hasn't gotten old for Linda Szabo. On Monday, the 53-year-old will begin her 34th year in teaching, 26 of which have been in New Brighton Area School District, most as a special education teacher.
The long hair she sported in 1975 at Central Bucks West High School is now short and silver, and her eyes light like blue crystals when she talks about the lessons she's learned and the students she's taught.
"They are fun. They are funny. I totally enjoy what I do. I would wish this for anybody -- to find a job that you love," Szabo said as she readied Room 113, where she'll teach math to eighth-graders.
Dawson calls that quality "heart." It's what good teachers have. It's "getting up in the morning and feeling you're not going to work," said the 2003 Ambridge Area High School graduate.
Students turned teachers
Back in the '60s, Szabo, then Linda Hunt, was a hippie: long hair parted in the middle, bell bottoms, platform shoes, mini skirts. And dare she reveal it? Hot pants.
The teen wore the short shorts of the late '60s, and she got a "D" in geometry. She's told her students that.
"I hated math. I was so not good at it," she said. "I think that's why I'm a pretty good math teacher because I know how kids don't understand and why they don't understand it."
To be a good teacher you have to go back to being a student, to remember who you were and how you learned, Dawson said. Like Szabo, she hated math, needed help and was tutored after school.
"I wasn't boiling off 4.0 semesters. I was a regular-Joe student," said the 2007 Slippery Rock University graduate, who now teaches language arts, reading and a replacement math course to sixth- and seventh-graders.
Dawson co-teaches the special education students in the classroom with the regular classroom teacher, an approach called inclusion. In elementary school, she remembers special education students -- those with speech and hearing needs -- leaving the classroom in what was called a pullout system.
"I kind of always wondered where they went," Dawson said.
As a newly hired teacher at an intermediate unit in central Pennsylvania in 1979, Szabo drove from district to district and saw each child once or twice a week.
During the 29 years she taught special education in New Brighton, Szabo said the number of students with special needs has increased, and more special needs are addressed -- specifically behavioral problems and autism.
But the kids in middle school are in many ways like their parents were decades ago.
"They're trying to find their way," Szabo said. "They want to be adults. They're not. They want to be all grown up. They're not. They don't necessarily make good decisions, but they want to."
And what they want to know is merely a click away on the Internet, an incredible resource that helps the world spin at meteoric speeds.
Technology in the classroom, the teachers said, is a double-edged gift.
"I think that kids are being made to grow up faster than they should, and they've seen way more than they should of violence, sex on TV, and they're still eighth-graders," Szabo said.
Dawson remembers working at a computer in the second and third grade (circa 1992). It had the old floppy disc, a large monitor that was an icky tan color and a printer that spit out reams of accordion-folded paper.
Szabo remembers printing worksheets on a ditto machine, a primitive photocopier that churned out purple-colored words and pictures. Photocopiers made the job easier.
Whiteboards have replaced chalkboards. Interactive whiteboards let teachers project most anything, including information from the Internet. Last year, Szabo found a Pythagorean theorem rap on the Internet.
"I played it for the kids and they were singing it," she said. "They loved it."'
Hand-held remote-control clickers also allow students to select an answer that can be immediately displayed on the whiteboard.
The district's cutting-edge technology requires teachers to become students. Sometimes, Szabo said, the students know more about the new-tech stuff than the teachers do. Today's computers, calculators and smart phones were their parents' and grandparents' encylcopedias, graph paper and slide rules.
"The kids want to use computers for everything, which doesn't work," Szabo said. Particularly with research papers, she said, because they don't know how to pull the information from the Internet. "They need some old-fashioned research teaching."
Teaching is good work that works best, they said, when the connection between the teacher and student goes beyond curriculum, technology, test scores and grades to life lessons about respect, values, truth and confidence.
Mr. Wetzel, Szabo's "cool" sixth-grade teacher at Peace Valley Elementary, was that kind of teacher. Dawson wants to have what Thelma Watkins, her fifth-grade teacher at Highland Middle School, had.
"She had heart. I could trust her. She had an aura about her, that she was going to help you to learn," Dawson said.


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MC Chaparral Baseball hosts Colby College Sunday, February 18, 2018
The Midland College Chaparrals will host Colby College in a doubleheader. The first game begins at 1:00 p.m. at Christensen Stadium in Midland, Texas.
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last year, i went sugar cookie decorating crazy. it begins again this year; but this time with more help!
Damian helped me out by rolling out the dough and cutting it out.
after he was done with that, i turned around to put the cookies in the oven, and then looked back at him. He had plopped down on the floor and happily stuck his arms all the way into my flour.
"ooooh, i love the way this feels!!!!!"
the picture was too cute too resist taking it.
decorating the cookies was fun, because it turns out, we have quite the artists around.
Randy's cookies always looked so professional and pretty. Ryan really just decorated the cookies so he could immediately eat them.
I think Aaron just liked mixing the icing colors together to see what he could make; turns out whatever combination of colored drops you put, it turns into an icky dark-practically-black color. Oh, well, at least it still tastes the same as the pretty one. He really just made us laugh the whole time.
Damian was very careful about what he wanted on his cookies. he helped me make the dough, so that was fun having him there the whole process of the cookie making.
do these pictures make you want to grab a glass of cold milk and a cookie?
Thanksgiving week this week!
I am so thankful today that it is Monday; i love mondays!
1. Thankful for our Storm Lake "families" that makes this town such an exciting and fun place to live.
2. food; because it really brings people together over meal time. whether it's decorating cookies or sitting down for dinner, eating times are definitely the time to enjoy:)
3.this week is a short week of work and the we get to drive down to Wichita. I love the drives with my husband because we talk about everything and anything.
for now, this'll have to do until i get the chance to take more pics and upate ya'll.
happy monday!


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Mahela Jayawardene Cricinfo Profile Highlights, Mahela Jayawardene Biography, pictures, wallpapers, stats, batting, bowling, today cricket match highlights, Cricinfo Ball by Ball Prediction Highlights Cricket World Cup 2015
Mahela Jayawardene Cricinfo Profile Highlights
Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene known as Mahela Jayawardene, is an expert Sri Lankan cricketer and a previous commander of the Sri Lankan cricket group. He is an expert batsman.
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Jayawardene made his Test cricket make a big appearance in 1997 and his One Day International (ODI) debut the accompanying season. In 2006 he made the most astounding ever score by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket, scoring 374 in the second Test of Sri Lanka's home arrangement against South Africa. He has a test cricket normal of in excess of 50 and an One Day normal in the 30s. He is the first player in the historical backdrop of Sri Lankan cricket to score in excess of 10,000 Test runs. In spite of his generally low ODI normal, Jayawardene is thought to be one of the best batsmen created by Sri Lanka and is for the most part held in high view as a legend of the current amusement alongside colleague Kumar Sangakkara. He is one of just three Sri Lankans—the others being Sanath Jayasuriya and Sangakkara—to have scored more than 10,000 runs in Odis. Alongside colleague Sangakkara, he recorded for the most organization runs for the third wicket in Tests, scoring 5890 runs surpassing 5826 run stand of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, amid the first test macth against Pakistan at Galle International Stadium, which was his last test at the venue. He scored 56 runs at that match, where his partner scored 221 runs.
Jayawardene was a key part of the group that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was a piece of the group that made the last of 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20.
In 2006, Jayawardene was named by the International Cricket Council as the best worldwide chief of the year and he was selected in 2007 as the best Test cricket player of the year. He is likewise known for his fielding aptitudes in the internal ring, with a report arranged by Cricinfo in late 2005 demonstrating that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the most number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the fifth most astounding run-out/match proportion in Odi's. Measurements likewise uncover that c Jayawardene b Muralitharan is the most widely recognized bowler-fielder blend ever.
Jayawardene drove Sri Lanka to Pakistan for a Test arrangement in March–april 2009. The arrangement was directed after the Indian group withdrew from playing in Pakistan, emulating the November 2008 Mumbai assaults. The primary Test finished in a draw. Despite the fact that he scored a twofold century in the first Test, Jayawardene was to leave from captaincy after the second Test in the arrangement. Sri Lanka was in a decent position in the Test with Thilan Samaraweera hitting his second progressive twofold hundred of the arrangement and Tillakaratne Dilshan scoring a century. On their path to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third day's play, the transport that conveyed the Sri Lankan players was shot at by 12 veiled shooters. Jayawardene, alongside six other Sri Lankan cricketers maintained wounds. Six policemen that monitored the transport and two regular people were slaughtered in the assault. He surrendered from bad habit captaincy after the group's World Cup rout. He was delegated as skipper again after Tillakaratne Dilshan's disputable captaincy. He was the commander of Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League. He now plays for the Delhi Daredevils as commander. He won the Spirit of Cricket Award 2013. This was the second example of him winning this honor.
On 25th Feb, 2014 in an Asia Cup installation against Pakistan, Mahela Jayawardene got to be just the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to show up in 600 worldwide ma