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Most insurance covers a portion of your bill. Traditionally, you are responsible for paying the deductible and a percentage of other costs. Deductibles and copayments are generally collected at the time of admission. If these are not collected when you are admitted, someone will contact you during your stay to arrange for payment.
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Online sales of funds in China are disrupting the dominance of commercial bank distribution but the latest tie-up between two giant firms has limited scope, say some analysts.
The Chinese fintech giant's chief executive, Eric Jing, sets out his big idea ahead of an eagerly awaited IPO, tipped for next year.
An insider's view on how a scrappy e-commerce startup became the world's largest retailer.
Taiwan's launch of an online funds supermarket face challenges, partly from local banks. In the second part of a two-part series, industry observers suggest looking to China for ideas.
Chinese fund houses are increasingly selling products via smartphone, but marketing mobile platforms does not come cheap, and competition is heating up.
Online travel agent Tuniu Finance has started selling funds run by China Universal and is tipped to benefit from analysing its customer data to make product recommendations.


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Com. Nwabunwanne Lauds The Launch Of The Pharmaceutical Centre In Oba, Idemili South
The Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Hon. Collins Nwabunwanne, says the launching of the Coordinated Wholesale Center for Pharmaceutical And Allied Products will enable drug manufacturers and importers key into government drugs distribution policy.
The Commissioner who made the assertion while interacting with Journalists during the ground Breaking ceremony of the Center in Oba, Idemili South Council Area, maintained that with the development, pharmaceutical products sold to the public are guaranteed as being safe, genuine and of good quality.
He extolled Governor Chukwuma Soludo for the giant stride, adding that the federal government drugs distribution policy will equally ensure that the channel of distribution provide good platform for curtailing the dispensing of fake, adulterated, substandard and expired drugs.
Commissioner Nwabunwanne further explained that the Coordinated Wholesale Center will create jobs for the teeming Oba and Anambra youths in general.
Some traditional rulers present on the occasion, Igwe Kenneth Orizu of Nnewi, Igwe Benjamin Okeji of Omasi, traditional ruler of Abacha, Igwe Emeka Iluno of Ifitedunu, igwe Peter Ezeamama of Engwu Umuoyia and his Olumbanasaa counterpart, Igwe Pius Omachonu, applauded Prof. Soludo for the initiative, and appealed to him to ensure that the number of the traders are well documented for even distribution of the shops.
Other traditional rulers who also spoke at tge event, including Igwe Conel Onnebunne of Akwaihide, Igwe Christopher Ndibe of Umuorum, commended the governor for the project, and appealed to him to build more residential houses close to the Center to enable traders access the site easily.
The royal fathers who recalled the efforts of the late Professor Dora Akuyili in sanitizing the drug market through her war against fake and adulterated drugs, prayed God to rest her soul.

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Manchester’s iconic Palace Hotel is set to be renovated in a multi-million pound project which aims to ‘rediscover the soul’ of the building.
Starwood Capital, the American investors who bought the property last year, have claimed in the media that the property has become ‘corporate and lifeless’ in recent times and have submitted plans for the overhaul.
Guest bedrooms, suites, wining and dining areas will all get a full-scale upgrade under the masterplan.
General manager Richard Morrell said to the Manchester Evening News: “This is a significant investment which was needed for an iconic building – and it’s an exciting time to see it being replenished into one of the greatest hotels in the north of England.”
Originally finished in 1895, the Palace was designed by Alfred Waterhouse – the renowned architect behind both the city’s (then) town hall and Manchester University – as a home for insurance firm Refuge Assurance.


Allahabad: Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh is called the stronghold of Azam Khan. Here he used to run a single umbrella, Elkin once he went to jail, since then his fort fell heavily. Now the situation is that in the elections where no one stood around him, today his candidate is facing defeat. Last year, SP had to face defeat in Azam Khan’s bastion in the by-elections held in December after Azam Khan went to the Legislature. For the first time a Hindu candidate from Rampur became MLA by winning.
Akash Saxena defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Aseem Raza
In those by-elections, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Akash Saxena defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Aseem Raza. But now in a case related to this election, the Allahabad High Court has issued a notice to Akash Saxena. Aseem Raza has challenged the election of Akash Saxena from Rampur seat in his election petition. Raza alleges that Akash Saxena adopted corrupt methods to win the election. On this basis, Aseem Raza has requested the court to declare Akash Saxena’s election as MLA invalid.
Aseem Raza has filed a petition in the High Court
The petitioner alleges that Akash Saxena and the police did not allow voters to leave their homes to vote. Raza claims that these voters were his supporters and they would have definitely voted in his favor. After this, Raza had also complained in this regard to the Election Commission. Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh, while hearing the election petition filed by Aseem Raza, issued notice to Akash Saxena and directed the matter to be heard in the first week of August, 2023.


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BackgroundBased on the manga (comic book) and anime series "Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!", Victorious Boxers puts you in the boxing ring as one of the main character, Ippo Marunouchi, working his way up to pro placement. Progress through the ranks to earn new special moves you can execute using the game's unique and challenging control setup. In addition to following Ippo's story you may go against a friend and choose from 40 boxers to play as.
- Over 40 different playable characters, with their own unique moves
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One of the best boxing games I've ever tried... and I've tried a lot..

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters presents itself as a movie, and indeed: You can now plunk down $15 or whatever for a ticket at your local multiplex, load up on soda and nachos, and spend 132 minutes (not including previews) watching characters say, howl, or screech things and monsters slam each other around, all amid dimly lit rainstorms and backed by very loud noises. It is, technically, A Movie.
But King of the Monsters feels oddly stilted, even for a monster movie. The sequel to the favorably reviewed 2014 Godzilla (and the latest entry in a long and storied litany of films about the kind of lizard-like monster) lurches back and forth from kaiju-battle spectacle to brain-numbingly dull human drama. It feels not unlike a particular sort of video game, in that the interstitial bits of dialogue between the human characters serve mainly to get us from one big showdown to the next.
But a good video game also invests time and effort in those bits of dialogue and drama, so that players get interested in its story and themes as more than just window dressing for the parts where they solve puzzles and shoot at stuff. A good movie should probably do the same.
Alas, King of the Monsters does not. But I’m grateful for the film nonetheless, because it gave me 132 minutes to sit patiently and ponder an important question: If everyone seems to be loving the spectacle, should it matter to me if the rest of the movie is a bore?
Godzilla: King of the Monsters has a rote, endlessly recycled plot
The story of King of the Monsters is not at all interesting, but in brief: It takes place five years after the events of the 2014 film, in which the human world discovered that monsters were real, and a lot of people died. Emma (Vera Farmiga) and Mark (Kyle Chandler), a pair of married scientists who have since split up, were there in 2014 with their two young children, one of whom was killed during the attack. The other, Madison (Millie Bobby Brown), is now a teenager.
Emma and Madison live in a rainforest in China, where Emma, a paleobiologist, works for a secretive coalition called Monarch; its goal is to find the monsters, which haven’t been seen since 2014. Her main project is tweaking a machine called Orca, which emits radio frequencies that reduce the monsters from raging whirlwinds of destruction to much more docile (if enormous) beasts. Meanwhile, Mark is far away, trying to forget monsters by studying wolves.
Then, in a series of bone-wearingly predictable developments, it turns out that some ecoterrorists also want to find the monsters for nefarious means, and that some of the good guys might actually be bad guys, and that humans both caused the impending END OF THE WORLD (by provoking the rise of the monsters) and could maybe also save it, yadda yadda yadda ...
Look, if you have seen any summer blockbuster made in the past decade, I’m confident that you could write a plot outline for King of the Monsters on the back of a napkin in a matter of minutes. The ante on the end-of-the-world blockbuster has been upped so many times that their plots have become largely interchangeable. It doesn’t matter if the threat is Thanos, or Decepticons, or aliens, or whatever — the end of the world has to be looming, the means of destruction has to be bigger than ever before, and blammo, you’ve got a movie.
Which is why it’s patently silly to try to shoehorn monsters (or more specifically, kaiju, the Japanese monster tradition to which Godzilla and his ilk belong) into that endlessly rote story arc, if you’re making a mostly Americanized version of the Godzilla story. People are not here for plot. Whether or not the world is about to be destroyed matters very little to the audience.
In fact, why have humans in this movie at all? I found myself wondering as I watched. Some may counter with the notion that viewers need to see other people onscreen to “relate” to a film, and to that, I say I think they are deeply misunderstanding why people go see movies like Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
It’s just not the kind of movie that people want to relate to. Godzilla: King of the Monsters has two purposes. The first is to give audiences a way to watch big creatures fight each other. The second is to overload the senses.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters works, by some measures
On the sensory overload front, Godzilla: King of the Monsters delivers by blunt force. My parents like to tell a story about how, when I was an infant, I slept so soundly that they could go into my bedroom in their fixer-upper first home and pound nails into the walls without waking me up. After King of the Monsters, I suspect that I may actually be lulled to sleep by overwhelmingly loud noises, and I present as evidence the fact that I struggled much more to stay alert throughout its two-plus hours of wall-to-wall BRAWWWW and BLOOOAAAM and SCREEEEE and CRUUUUUUUM than I do during the quietest of quiet dramas in a language I don’t understand.
Honestly, this almost aligns with the film’s cockamamie plot, since the monsters, too, are lulled into docility by a particular frequency. Perhaps King of the Monsters is just on my alpha wavelength.
Coupled with the spectacle of monsters bashing one another to bits in epic battles — after dropping from storm-strewn skies in retina-searing flashes of light, or arising from the mighty ocean as radioactive war machines, or arriving onscreen in some other grand and overwhelming way — there’s just a lot to take in. It doesn’t look particularly cutting-edge, and because all the monster brawls are staged in dark rainstorms, it can be hard to make out what’s going on, but if you think of it as an animated film, it’s not half bad. Plus, it’s exciting when Godzilla finally shows up. (The movie’s named for him, after all.)
All of which is to acknowledge that the reason people watch kaiju movies is to see kaiju fights, and there are a lot of kaiju battles in King of the Monsters.
What leaves me in a quandary as a critic, though, is that it’s a cardinal rule of criticism to judge a movie on the basis of whether it succeeds for the audience it’s made for. And by that measure, King of the Monsters succeeds on the whole. But the film suffers from trying to add too much dialogue and drama without doing enough to make it interesting or even original; if you’re betting that someone might say, wide-eyed, “Long live the king” at some point during the movie, well, you may collect your reward.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is cynical, in the way blockbusters too often tend to be
But critics don’t only judge movies on the basis of the audience they’re intended for. And as the 2014 Godzilla shows — it’s a film that boasts strong storytelling and moral gravity and some pretty awesome monster work — blockbusters don’t have sacrifice one for the other just because they’re blockbusters. Plenty of films have found a balance between action and all the other elements that can help make a movie resonate; think of the Planet of the Apes series, for instance, or various Star Wars installments. Even Avengers: Endgame adds heart and a sense of unpredictability to its save-the-world tropes.
In fact, if you aim to take your whole movie seriously, rather than simply focusing on the monsters, you may wind up expanding your audience. King of the Monsters, for example, could have leaned into the heritage of kaiju movies and explored the interaction between man and nature, between fear and awe.
At the very least, it could have suggested to its target audience that they are sophisticated enough as viewers to watch a movie that does multiple things at once, and sophisticated enough as consumers to demand more from their entertainment.
In that regard, King of the Monsters feels like a cruelly cynical example of a blockbuster cash-in with no heart, an assembly-line product, the movie equivalent of indistinct, high-sodium corn chips designed to fly off the convenience store rack to satisfy hunger pangs, only to be forgotten an hour later. In exchange for your money, they’ll feed you the least they possibly can. (The difference here is that movie theaters want to charge you a lot of money to see the latest blockbuster, rather than just a buck or two for a snack.)
Corn chips are fine. But if you subsist on corn chips alone, you’ll end up sick.
Which leaves me, as a critic, with little to say. Godzilla: King of the Monsters has big monster fights in the rain. But it feels by the end like you’ve just spent hours of your life on a fleeting amusement park ride.
If the humans don’t matter, why bother with them at all? Why make these ham-fisted attempts at plot if you’re not going to turn the humans into real characters? Why not just let the monsters duke it out for two hours and call it a day?
Or, alternatively, try to give those characters something approaching a spark of humanity, and turn their environmental apocalypse into something that might make the audience think for half a second about their own world?
That’s not too much to ask of a movie — especially a blockbuster with fighting kaiju. It’s too bad King of the Monsters couldn’t rise to the challenge.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters opens in theaters on May 30.


|Publication number||US6497049 B1|
|Application number||US 09/663,214|
|Publication date||Dec 24, 2002|
|Filing date||Sep 15, 2000|
|Priority date||Sep 17, 1999|
|Also published as||DE10029048A1, DE10029048B4, DE29916394U1|
|Publication number||09663214, 663214, US 6497049 B1, US 6497049B1, US-B1-6497049, US6497049 B1, US6497049B1|
|Inventors||Wolfgang Holzapfel, Heinz Tovar|
|Original Assignee||Dr. Johannes Heidenhain Gmbh|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (7), Classifications (5), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
Conventional optical position-measuring devices usually include a measuring graduation as well as a scanning unit, which is movable relative thereto in the measuring direction. On the side of the scanning unit, there is generally a light source, collimator optics, one or a plurality of scanning graduations as well as one or a plurality of opto-electronic detector elements. The position-measuring devices, in particular the scanning unit, are often required to be as compact as possible. These requirements can be fulfilled by guiding the scanning beam in an appropriate manner. In particular, folded scanning beam paths are advantageous, which, in addition to the components described above, further include one or a plurality of deflector or reflector elements disposed on the side of the scanning unit.
German Patent 26 15 676 describes an optical position-measuring device having a folded scanning beam path. The collimator optics and a deflector element are integrated in a single optical component. The component having the optical double function in the scanning beam path can be a mirror lens. However, details of the mirror lens, in particular with respect to its manufacture, are not described in this patent. According to this patent, the proposed mirror lens provides deflection and collimation of the beams of light, but has a relatively large unit volume. Also, due to the proposed optical path in the mirror lens, light cannot be prevented from reaching the collimator optics directly from the light source, without any previous deflection of these beams of rays. Consequently, a desired pupil separation is not guaranteed when using this component for folding the scanning beam path.
A similar mirror lens in the folded scanning beam path of an optical position-measuring device is also known from German Patent 36 09 211 A1. A disadvantage of this design of a mirror lens is// that two reflector surfaces are required to produce the desired deflection. However, highly exact reflector surfaces require a considerable effort during manufacture, similar to the manufacture of two spatially separated, curved lens surfaces via which the scanning beam enters and exits.
The present invention is an optical position-measuring device which includes a scanning unit having a compact design. The optical components in the scanning beam path ensure a good signal quality of the resulting scanning signals, and also can be manufactured in a simple manner.
In one embodiment, the invention is an optical position-measuring device having a scale and a scanning unit movable relative thereto, comprising a light source, a plurality of scanning graduations, at least one opto-electronic detector element, a mirror lens disposed downstream of the light source, and a single plane reflector surface formed on the mirror lens. The invention also includes a first and a second partial surface portion of the mirror lens, the first partial surface portion having a different curvature than the second partial surface, disposed opposite of the single plane reflector surface such that beams of light entering the mirror lens through the first partial surface portion impinge on the reflector surface and are reflected towards the second partial surface portion. The curvatures of the first and second partial surface portions are selected such that a collimated beam of light exits the second partial surface area, and that optical axes of the first and second partial surface portions intersect one another in a plane of the reflector surface.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the scanning unit includes a mirror lens which, in addition to the optical collimation effect, allows the scanning beam path to be deflected or folded. The exemplary mirror lens has only a single plane reflector surface, opposite of which two partial surface areas having differently curved surfaces are arranged. In each case, one optically active partial surface area is allocated to the incident beams, and the other to the emergent beams. The different partial surface areas are preferably designed as optically active or imaging asphere, which results in a larger usable image field angle.
Due to the folding of the scanning beam path according to the present invention, the desired compact design of the optical position-measuring device is obtained. The mirror lens required for this design is easy to manufacture, which results from the approximated piano-convex shape of the mirror lens which ensures a simple moldability of the two partial areas having different optical properties. The mirror lens can be manufactured both from glass or from plastic. The mirror lens is preferably manufactured by one-sided glass pressing, i.e., the convex side of the mirror lens having the two differently curved partial areas is pressed, whereas the plane side having the reflector surface is polished. During manufacture, it is thus possible to form the reflecting plane surface markedly more precisely, or truer in shape, than the convex lens surface.
The design of the mirror lens also guarantees a good quality of the scanning beam, in particular a good collimation of the beam.
Further advantages and details of the present invention are revealed by the following description of an exemplary embodiment of an optical position-measuring device, on the basis of the enclosed drawings.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the objects, advantages, and principles of the invention.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic representation of an embodiment of the optical position-measuring device according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the mirror lens used in the scanning unit according to the embodiment of the optical position-measuring device depicted in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3a is a side view of the mirror lens shown in FIG. 2; and
FIG. 3b is a top view of the mirror lens shown in FIG. 2.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional view representation of an embodiment of the optical position-measuring device according to the present invention. This device includes a scale 20 as well as a scanning unit 10 which is movable relative thereto in a measuring direction x. Measuring direction x is oriented perpendicularly to the plane of the figure. In this embodiment, the depicted position-measuring device is used for detecting linear relative movements between scanning unit 10 and scale 20, along the x axis. This position-measuring device can be used, for example, in a numerically controlled machine tool for detecting the relative position of the tool and the workpiece in a highly precise manner. The position-measuring device according to the present invention can alternatively be used as a rotary measuring device.
On the side of scale 20, an incremental graduation track of known design is arranged on a carrier body 23, and forms a measuring graduation 21. For example, carrier body 23 can be a steel measuring tape. In the exemplary embodiment shown, in addition to measuring graduation 21 for generating the displacement-dependent incremental signals, a reference marking 22 is also mounted on carrier body 23 of scale 20. In the measuring operation, an absolute reference is established in known manner during position measuring, using reference marking 22 or by generating a corresponding reference pulse signal.
Both measuring graduation 21 and reference marking 22 are composed of a succession of partial areas alternating in measuring direction x, which have different optical properties. For example, highly reflecting and non-reflecting partial areas can be formed on the measuring graduation and the reference.
Reference marking 22 is formed in a known manner, and includes a periodically distributed partial areas having different reflection properties. A plurality of similar additional reference markings 22 can be provided along the respective measuring distance, at defined positions neighboring measuring graduation 21. For example, these can be distance-coded reference marks.
Scanning unit 10 of the depicted position-measuring device includes a light source 11, a mirror lens 12 having a deflecting and a collimating effect, a scanning plate 13, as well as a detection unit 14. In scanning plate 13, there are two window regions 13.1, 13.3 having scanning graduations, whereas two further window regions 13.2, 13.4 have a transparent design, i.e., without graduation patterns. A first pair of window regions 13.1, 13.2, together with further components of the optical position-measuring device, is used for generating the displacement-dependent incremental signals. The second pair of window regions 13.3, 13.4 is used for generating one or a plurality of reference pulse signals. On the side of detection unit 14, provision is made for a first detector arrangement 14.1 having a plurality of opto-electronic detector elements for detecting the incremental signals. A second detector arrangement 14.2 for detecting the reference pulse signals is located near the first detector 14.1.
In the following text, the scanning beam path for generating the incremental signals inside the depicted position-measuring device will be explained. The beams of light emitted by light source 11, for example a high-radiance infrared LED having a small emitting surface, are deflected and aligned in a parallel or collimated manner by mirror lens 12, and pass through the scanning graduation in window region 13.1 of scanning plate 13.
Subsequently, the beams of light reach measuring graduation 21 on the side of scale 20. The measuring graduation can be a reflection measuring graduation. The beams of light are reflected by measuring graduation 21 in the direction of transparent window region 13.2 of scanning plate 13. Subsequent to passing through transparent window region 13.2, the beams impinge on detector arrangement 14.1 in detection unit 14. Detector arrangement 14.1 is used for detecting a resulting stripe pattern and for generating the displacement-dependent incremental signals. For a description of additional details for generating the displacement-dependent incremental signals, reference is made to German Patent Application 199 41 318 of the applicant, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The use of mirror lens 12 enables a compact design of scanning unit 10 of the optical position-measuring device, according to the present invention, as is shown in FIG. 1. FIGS. 2, 3 a, and 3 b, show mirror lens 12 in a perspective view as well as in two sectional views.
Mirror lens 12 has only a single, accurately formed plane reflector surface 12.1, opposite of which two different convex curved partial surface areas 12.2, 12.3 are arranged. In turn, the partial surfaces have a defined optical effect on the beams of light passing through, respectively. The beams entering through a first partial surface area 12.2 impinge on reflector surface 12.1 and are reflected there in the direction of the second partial surface area 12.3, through which the beams exit mirror lens 12. Partial surface areas 12.2 and 12.3 have a different curvature, and are designed in such a manner that a well collimated beam of light exists subsequent to exiting second partial surface area 12.3. As shown in FIGS. 2, 3 a, and 3 b, the respective partial surface areas 12.2, 12.3 are represented in dashed line through which the respective beams of rays enter or exit, respectively.
In the exemplary embodiment shown in the drawings, the partial surface areas 12.2, 12.3 of mirror lense 12 are formed as aspheres. The optical axes OA1, OA2 of the two aspheres can intersect with one another in the plane of reflector surface 12.1. Light source 11 can be arranged in the focus of mirror lens 12, on optical axis OA1 of aspherical partial surface area 12.2. This arrangement corresponds to a centering of the two lens elements in partial surface areas 12.2, 12.3. In this manner, an excellent imaging quality or collimation effect is guaranteed.
In this example, F2-glass can be used as material for mirror lens 12. Plane reflector surface 12.1 can be a rear surface mirror having an aluminum coating.
In addition to the desired folding of the scanning beam path and the resulting compact scanning unit 10, mirror lens 12 offers further advantages. In particular, mirror lens 12 can be manufactured in a manner requiring relatively little effort, for example using known hot-pressing methods. Subsequently, plane reflector surface 12.1 is ground and optically polished and the two partial surface areas 12.2, 12.3 are molded in a joint operation using a composite hollow tool, according to the required radii of curvature.
Within the scope of the present invention, further alternative possible embodiments exist. Thus, it is possible to adapt the optical effect of the two partial surface areas 12.2, 12.3 to different requirements for the scanning beam path by a suitable dimensioning. For example, these partial areas can be designed as customary spheres.
In the exemplary embodiment shown, the mirror lens has a plano-convex overstructure. However, the resulting optical effect is identical to that of a biconvex lens. In this manner, a plurality of possible embodiments can be made, depending on the scanning requirements, for example, by adapting the different partial surface areas optically in a suitable manner, the intensity distribution in the cross section of the collimated beam of rays can be influenced as desired.
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|Jan 16, 2001||AS||Assignment|
|Jun 15, 2006||FPAY||Fee payment|
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Rustic Southwest Metal Art Trivet - Texas Longhorn
This is a trivet made with real metal, with a clean rustic finish. Great for western decor and southwest style and is also perfect for anyone who wants to show their Texas pride. This trivet is sturdy enough to hold hot pans and will still look like beautiful art for your kitchen when not in use.
Decorative trivets make beautiful gifts and are great additions for any kitchen, cabin, bunkhouse, or lodge style.
Approximately 8.5" wide by 6" tall, actual piece is shown.

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ARES MK16 LB AEG Airsoft Gun[D014203086 / AEG34LTDX]
The STAR MK16 LB Deluxe Version comes fitted with an ergonomic grenade launching module in which the trigger lies beneath the standard trigger. This allows for the user to launch their M203 BB shower without hesitation and without changing hand position on their gun. It takes 40mm shells and it has the feature of catering for both right and left-handers, when you eject the launcher for loading, it can pivot slightly to the left or right for easy loading and unloading.
This MK16 benefits from being quick to disassemble as well as quick to re-assemble, it takes about 30 seconds for each process. The outer barrel is also a swift process, taking a mere 5 seconds to do so. The QDB and ELDB system have a quick change process also. The stock adjusts to 6 positions with an adjustable cheek piece on top of it. The entire body feels incredibly solid since it's made of the best possible materials; a Nylon Fiber lower receiver and Aluminum upper.
Manufacturer: STAR Airsoft
Muzzle Velocity: 330-350FPS
Magazine Capacity: 170 Rounds (mid cap)
Battery Type: Mini
Package Includes: Gun, EGLM, 170 round mid cap magazine, extra compensator, speed loader.
Ergonomic Grenade Launching Module
Flip up Front/Rear sights
Ambidextrous Magazine Release
Ambidextrous Selector Switch
Functional bolt catch
Front/Rear sling mounts
- Battery and charger are NOT included.
- Optic is NOT included.
- Manufacturer: Star Airsoft
- Muzzle Velocity: 330-350FPS
This gun is supper pricy yet the longer I have it the more I love all the cool fetchers. The quick take down is sweet, the best part is the quick change out spring ya thats right you can actually changing the spring with out taking the gear box out of the lower receiver. You unscrew the screw on the back and with a rather large hex you push in and turn the spring guide 90 degrees and it comes out!!! The best thing ever!!! Sweet for running as close to field limits as possible as sometimes weather affects your seals just enough to push you over. Any how sweet gun the elgm is awesome too thou heavy.
quick change out spring
quick take down
quick change out barrel
no ugly wires
Soldered motor pins
Heavy set up
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Pros; small size, google play, retro gaming, use with controller.
Cons; controller issues: controller has switch allowing alternating as game controller or mouse mode, this causes glitches. mouse mode often scrolls up by itself. Extra controller is $100


Are wearables the gadgets of the future?
In the last few years we have seen a new trend emerging – wearable technology. From Google’s now defunct Glass to Microsoft’s HoloLens major manufacturers are launching gadgets that you can actually wear. Most of today’s wearables are wrist bands, acting as an extension to our smartphones – tracking our location, our hear rate, transmitting messages and reminding us of our appointments. But I think these gadgets are only at the beginning of their “lives”, with much more potential to be explored in the future.
Perhaps the most popular of today’s wearable gadgets is the smart watch. It is basically a limited smartphone small enough to wear around your wrist. Besides just telling the time, it has a series of other functions in it – it can act as a GPS navigation device, a fitness tracker, and more. It has one basic problem, though, that limits its functionality – it is small enough to wear it around your wrist. A smart watch will never be as multi-purpose as it could be because of its limited size. It’s too small to comfortably write a message on it, and voice to text dictation is out of the question for most of us – it would be awkward to dictate a text message in public, especially if it has a highly personal content. The small screen size makes the smart watch fail as a gaming device, too – holding up your wrist long enough for a notable session at the euro palace casino would make you tired too soon. So what is the smart watch good for besides being an elaborate fitness tracker?
I think the best combination of wristwear and technology is MICA, the smart bracelet designed by Intel and Opening Ceremony. MICA combines the stylishness and looks of a luxury bracelet with the possibilities of technology to create the perfect accessory for the modern day woman. MICA has its own SIM card capable of connecting the device to the internet. It has apps like Calendar, Reminders, Yelp recommendations – for when she is looking for a place to drink a good coffee – and a messaging service to stay in touch with friends and relatives even when answering the phone is not an option. All these functions are concealed in a stylish and elegant accessory, made of the most precious materials – gold, ivory, sapphire glass and others. The MICA is a different approach to wearable technology – combining it with style instead of loads of special features.
Wearable tech has another path it can take in the future – the one started by Google’s Glass. Although the product itself is dead for the public at this moment, it is still very much alive for specific uses like healthcare, for example. This is an application where wearable tech can be especially useful – think of micro-surgery, non-invasive checkups and more.


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This is getting exhausting but I shall persevere!
First I should say that our latest beginners quilting course started today and it was lovely to work with such an enthusiastic group - I can't wait to see their homework at the end of next month!
Coming up next week is the little heart hanging workshop. I made this about 5 years ago and still love it. I have seen many versions and my favourite is one made about a hundred years ago as a friendship quilt - each heart was signed by a friend. It's really easy to make, and there are still places if anyone wants to sign up:
This is a Christmas wreath I made a few years ago - all in felt. I just saw it hanging in the corner of the workshop - I'd forgotten all about it!
And my last one for today is a rag doll I made. I made one for my mother on her 80th birthday and liked it so much I made one for myself - she sits in the hall by our log basket.


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Did Snow White have a child?
Soon afterward she had a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and therefore they called her Little Snow-White. And as soon as the child was born, the queen died.
Is Harry Potter a fairytale?
Harry Potter, being written in the modern age by a single writer, and not in the style of folk tales, is not generally considered a fairy tale. It is both Urban fantasy and a School story .
Did Snow White actually die?
Snow White doesn’t die properly, she falls into the ‘Sleeping Death’ until the Prince kissed her. Then he takes her to his castle, which is among clouds probably because it’s in the distance.
What do the 7 Dwarfs represent?
The Seven Dwarfs could actually be angels from Heaven, all of whom represent fractions of Snow White’s personality. This could explain why the dwarfs have names for verbs: Doc (which may represent intelligence), Sneezy, Happy, Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy and Grumpy.
Who is Snow White’s kid in descendants?
Does Snow White get married?
In movie and in folklore, Snow White and the Prince fall in love and get married (never mind that in the original tale, Snow is only 7 years old). In the movie, the seven dwarfs chase the Evil Queen into the forest, where she tumbles off a cliff—with a push from a convenient lightning strike—and falls to her death.
What is the type of Cinderella story?
This story belongs to the fantasy genre because it involves magic, which does not exist in the real world. More accurately, Cinderella is a fairy…
Is Cinderella a fantasy story?
To start, a fairytale is a story within the fantasy genre. Fantasy, on the other hand, is the genre itself. Harry Potter may be a fantasy, but not a fairytale, while Cinderella is a fairytale within the larger genre of fantasy. Those things are the sub-categories that fall under its fantasy classification.
Why is Rapunzel’s daughter in a wheelchair?
Alex Dacy, also known as Wheelchair Rapunzel, is 25 years old. She has a rare, genetic disability called spinal muscular atrophy, which causes muscle loss. We subconsciously, or consciously, stigmatise those with disabilities as we preclude them from the conversations which are naturally around us.
Does Snow White die after eating the apple?
Snow White is hesitant to accept it, so the queen cuts the apple in half, eating the white (harmless) half and giving the red poisoned half to Snow White; the girl eagerly takes a bite and then falls into a coma or appearing to be dead, causing the Queen to think she has finally triumphed.
Who is Tiana’s daughter in descendants?
Descendants 3 is adding to its pool of baddies. The Disney Channel Original Movie is going to New Orleans for some new faces for its third outing, bringing aboard The Princess and the Frog’s voodoo villain Dr. Facilier and his daughter Celia, EW can exclusively reveal.
Who is Ariel’s daughter in descendants?
Who will play Carlos in descendants 4?
Disney Channel has also confirmed: “The absence of the character Carlos, played by the late Cameron Boyce, will be acknowledged in the storyline and Boyce’s memory will be honored in the telecast.” Boyce, 20, died in July 2019, just one month before the final movie premiered.
Is Cinderella a heroine?
Cinderella, heroine of a European folktale, the theme of which appears in numerous stories worldwide; more than 500 versions of the story have been recorded in Europe alone.
What age did Cinderella die?
Does Rapunzel have a daughter?
In the past, Rapunzel had two daughters, Anastasia and Drizella, and made a deal with Mother Gothel to be locked in a tower in exchange for the safety of her family. Six years later, Rapunzel frees herself and when she returns to her family, she discovers she has gained a stepdaughter named Ella.
What is Cinderella age?
Who is the strongest Disney princess?
10 Strongest Disney Princesses, Ranked
- 8 RAPUNZEL – TANGLED.
- 7 POCAHONTAS.
- 6 BELLE – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
- 5 JASMINE – ALADDIN.
- 4 TIANA – THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG.
- 3 ANNA/ELSA – FROZEN.
- 2 MERIDA – BRAVE.
- 1 MULAN.
What does Cinderella mean?
: one resembling the fairy-tale Cinderella: such as. a : one suffering undeserved neglect. b : one suddenly lifted from obscurity to honor or significance.

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I was then again sidetracked! I was supposed to be downloading themes for my new bargain hunting site when I got hooked on uploading photos for the the photo book I’m making for our family travels for the past year. Then while I was at it I got diverted again to editing and doing digiscrapbooking for said photo book.
Now its, almost six pm, time for me to stop blogging and I haven’t done any posting for the new blog! Whew!
And while I was doing some digital scrapbooking, I got diverted again into looking for storage, particularly craft storages. I am addicted to crafting. I could never stay in a some place and not have some sort of hobby so materials I accumulate is no laughing matter. For now, I’m into crocheting and I’ve already got about two boxes of yarns and all.
So I got surfing and found these.. Aren’t they just adorable? I would give up (no, not my arms..) maybe my eyelashes.. for a set of these..Both are from The ContainerStore.
Sycamore & Platinum elfa Hobby Room
White elfa Mesh Craft Room

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Drops of the eye in the form of a transparent, colorless or slightly colored liquid.
clonidine 2.5 mg
Proxodolol 10 mg
Excipients: benzethonium chloride, sodium chloride, citric acid, sodium citrate pentasecylhydrate, water d / u.
1.3 ml - a tube-droppers (5) polymeric - packs cardboard.
1.5 ml - a tube-dropper (5) polymeric - packs cardboard.
2 ml - a tube-dropper (5) polymeric - packs cardboard.
5 ml - a tube-dropper (5) polymeric - packs cardboard.
5 ml - a bottle-droppers polymer (1) - packs cardboard.
10 ml - a bottle-droppers polymer (1) - packs cardboard.
INSTRUCTION FOR THE SPECIALIST.
Description of the drug approved by the manufacturer for the printed edition of 2011.
Combined antiglaucoma preparation. Clopheline and proxodolol reduce intraocular pressure by reducing the production of aqueous humor and increasing its outflow.
The effect occurs 15-30 minutes after instillation, reaches a maximum after 2-6 hours and lasts for 24 hours.
Does not affect the accommodation, refraction and the size of the pupil.
Different forms of glaucoma:
- closed-angle (in combination with miotics);
- secondary (in case of insufficient effect of monotherapy with proxodolol or clonidine).
The drug is instilled in the conjunctival sac of the eye 1 drop 2 times / day. Perhaps a combination with pilocarpine, which is instilled 1-3 times / day.
AT single cases: decreased blood pressure, slow heart rate, dry mouth, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, but to a lesser extent than from the use of one clonidine.
- bronchial asthma;
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
- Chronic heart failure;
- AV-blockade of II-III degree;
- arterial hypotension;
- Children's age (there is no sufficient experience of using the drug in children);
- individual hypersensitivity to the components of the drug.
With caution should take the drug for type 1 diabetes, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum.
PREGNANCY AND LACTATION
If it is necessary to prescribe the drug during pregnancy, you should compare the benefits for the mother and the risk for the fetus.
It is not known whether active substances are excreted in breast milk, therefore it is recommended to abolish breast-feeding during the lactation period, at the time of application of the drug.
During the period of application of the drug, it is not recommended to wear soft contact lenses. When using hard lenses, remove them before instillation and re-put them 15-20 minutes after instillation of the drug.
The dropper should be closed after each use. Do not touch the tip of the tube to the eye.
Impact on the ability to drive vehicles and manage mechanisms
Patients who, after instillation, temporarily lose visual clarity, it is not recommended to drive a car or work with complicated equipment, machines or any other complex equipment that requires a clear vision immediately after instillation of the drug.
Data on cases of overdose of Proxopheline are not provided.
Increases the effect of pilocarpine on intraocular pressure.
With the simultaneous administration of systemic alpha or beta-blockers, it is possible to intensify their hypotensive effect.
TERMS OF RELEASE FROM PHARMACY
The drug is released by prescription.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF STORAGE
List A. The drug should be stored in a place protected from light, inaccessible to children, at a temperature not exceeding 15 В° РЎ. Shelf life - 2 years.


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I’ve been working with writer/director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) on some concept art for his adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Revival. Josh, a long-time Stephen King fan, has also been working on an adaptation of King’s The Stand, as well as an adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and X-Men: The New Mutants. They are casting now for Revival and the movie should be shooting later this summer.
Here is one of the images I’ve done:
And here are some rough sketches trying different camera angles:
Earthling Publications’ edition of Good Girls, Glen Hirshberg’s follow-up to Motherless Child, will be up for preorders tomorrow. Here’s a preview of my wraparound artwork for the dustjacket, and below are some sketches showing the progression of the art.
Both Glen and the publisher thought the pose of the character might be a touch too menacing and thought perhaps her facial and arm expression could be toned down, so I tried a number of alternative poses.
Both liked pose D with the minor adjustment of making her fingers less ‘vampire-esque’, so I tweaked it and added it to the main sketch to see how it would work within the whole image.
Remember to head over to the Earthling Publications website tomorrow for more information on the book and to make preorders!
The Subterranean Press edition of White Night (the ninth book in Jim Buthcher’s Dresden Files series) is now out. Check out my interior illustrations for it below.
Dark Regions Press have started selling prints in their online shop of some of the artwork created for their books. Amongst those available are my cover illustrations for World War Cthulhu and New Moon on the Water. More of the images I’ve done for Dark Regions Press may be made available as prints through their online shop in the future. A number of the interior illustrations for World War Cthulhu by Edward M. Erdelac are also available right now. You can check out the full range of their prints here.
As I’ve been posting some reamarques recently, here are some more I did last year. The client sent me his copy of Storm Front and wanted me to do a whole bunch of remarques throughout the book. Here’s a selection of some of the remarques I did for it, including a double-page spread of a line-up of various characters that appear in the Dresden Files series.
It’s been ages since I posted any so I think it’s time for some more remarques. Last year I had a special request to do some ‘joint’ remarques; the client had copies of the four Subterranean Press editions of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War books (Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony and Zoe’s Tale), and not only wanted them all remarqued, but was wondering if it was possible to do each one in such a way that all four remarques could be put together side by side to form a giant image. It was a fun challenge to work out how to do this so that each image would work on its own as well as part of a larger image too!
In addition, he also had copies of The Shining and Doctor Sleep he wanted doing in a similar way. For these, rather than a continuous image as such I had the idea of doing a ‘mirrored’ composition.
Here is the cover design for the latest installment of Robert McCammon’s Matthew Corbett series coming from Subterranean Press. Freedom of the Mask will be published in May and will be available in trade, limited and lettered editions; the limited edition contains an exclusive bonus novella The House at the Edge of the World and artwork not included in the trade edition. I did a number of B&W and colour illustrations for the main novel and bonus novella which I’ll post here after the book has been released.
Golden Spiral Media have just launched their new podcast 11.22.63 A Look Back, which will discuss the forthcoming original Hulu show produced by JJ Abrams and starring James Franco, based on Stephen King’s novel 11.22.63.
The podcast promo and intro episode are up already and can be listened to at their website http://112263podcast.com or on iTunes and Stitcher.
I was thrilled when they asked to use one of the alternative colour versions of the artwork I’d done for the Polish edition of 11.22.63 for their podcast album art.
Besides 11.22.63, Golden Spiral Media also do podcasts on other shows such as Doctor Who, Person of Interest, Sleepy Hollow and many more, so be sure to check them out!
The artwork I originally did for China Miéville’s The City & the City has found a new home! It now graces the cover of the Ukrainian edition of the new thriller novel, Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz, which is published by Book Club.
I’ve made the shortlist for ‘Artist of the Year’ in the This is Horror Awards 2015, which are now open for voting. You can see the full list of categories and nominees and find details on how to cast your vote over at the This is Horror website. Voting closes on Monday 25 January. Good luck to all the nominees!


Wildcats stumble, Tigers roll to rout 41-3
BATON ROUGE, La. – The message was delivered swiftly and severely on Saturday night in Death Valley: The University of Kentucky football team, improved as it is, still needs several more bricks to complete this rebuild. LSU, meanwhile, looked like a wrecking ball.
The Wildcats, sabotaged by special teams, stonewalled on offense and gashed on the ground defensively, took a 41-3 beating at Tiger Stadium. They came in needing one win to be bowl-eligible for the first time since 2010, to have a three-game SEC winning streak for the first time since 2006 and to start 3-1 in the conference for the first time since 1999.
"You get humbled really quick in this league," said UK quarterback Patrick Towles, who finished 19 of 36 for just 146 yards. "We were kind of riding high and we kind of got punched in the gut."
The Cats (5-2, 2-2) limped out of Baton Rouge having not even threatened their first win at LSU in 16 years. The Tigers (6-2, 2-2) left with a 44-3 record in Saturday night home games under coach Les Miles, still having only ever lost to No. 1- ranked teams.
Mark Stoops' group, outgained 423 yards to 217, was not ready to challenge that historical trend.
"They really took it to us from the opening kickoff return all the way through the game," the UK coach said. "Nobody likes to lose that way. To be really physically handled was what sticks out to me, along with our mistakes. We need to coach better. I take responsibility for that. We'll get it corrected and we'll move on. We can't let one game define us."
Facing his former special teams coach, Bradley Dale Peveto, and without his current special teams star, J.D. Harmon, Stoops' Cats were carved up in the kicking game. And, as he said, right from the start.
Peveto now coaches LSU's special teams and Harmon was serving a first-half suspension – not imposed by the league but by Stoops after talking with SEC officials about a near-targeting penalty that wasn't called on Harmon last week against Louisiana-Monroe. He was sorely missed in this one.
Kentucky's opening kickoff was short and the return long – 58 yards, plus a 15-yard face-mask penalty on Blake McClain. The Tigers started at the Cats' 29-yard line and punched it in from there on a 1-yard Leonard Fournette touchdown dive for a 7-0 lead after less than three minutes.
Following a UK three-and-out, LSU returned the game's first punt 17 yards to near midfield, then quickly tacked on a field goal for a 10-0 lead with 7:30 to go in the opening quarter. Another three-and-out for the Cats preceded the backbreaker: a 67-yard punt return for a touchdown on which the Tigers sprung Tre'Davious White with a crushing block on UK safety A.J. Stamps.
LSU led 17-0 with 5:47 left in the first quarter. The special-teams gaffes were far from over.
"We got outcoached. We got outplayed. We didn't show up," UK special teams coach Craig Naivar said. As for the impact of Harmon sitting out: "We're not a one-man team."
A 21-yard punt return to near midfield set up a 32-yard touchdown pass from Anthony Jennings to star wideout Travin Dural, who blew by cornerback Fred Tiller along the right sideline and hauled in the deep ball for a 24-3 lead with 44 seconds left in the first half.
Then the Tigers added insult to injury. Kicking off from its own 20 after a personal foul on the touchdown, LSU squibbed it and Kentucky's return team watched the ball bounce between them. No Wildcat pounced on it, so the Tigers did – at the UK 37.
The sixth special-teams mistake of the half led to an LSU field goal and 27-3 lead at the break.
Kentucky's defense had actually stiffened for a long stretch, forcing three consecutive punts in the first half, but its offense never got much traction against a fast, furious Tigers defense and the thunderous noise of an announced crowd of 101,581.
"It was ugly," offensive coordinator Neal Brown said. "Didn't have them prepared to play. Didn't play well enough, didn't coach well enough. Got beat in a lot of one-on-one situations and didn't make plays. Didn't start very well, got in way too many third-and-long situations. Not us, not very many people in the country are going to be successful in third-and-long against these guys."
The Cats' most productive first-half drive, a 13-play march to the LSU 11, only produced a field goal. Then, with the defense heating up and a chance to make it a game before halftime, Kentucky went for it on fourth-and-2 from the Tigers' 29 and tailback Jojo Kemp was swallowed up for a loss.
That play came on a direct snap out of the "Wildcat" formation that gashed South Carolina but has subsequently been sniffed out by both ULM and LSU.
"That was a big turning point in the game. I don't know if we were good enough to win it – I don't think with the way we were playing – but we would've made it a lot more competitive, for sure," said Brown, who doesn't believe opponents are adapting to stop the Wildcat. "I'm not sure they schemed it any better. We just got beat in some one-on-one situations."
The Tigers dropped the hammer in the third quarter, thanks to tailback Terrence Magee. He set up a pair of his own touchdown runs with breakaway plays: 38 yards before a 9-yard score, then 35 yards before a 23-yard TD. His second made it 41-3 with 3:27 left in the third and fans flooded the exits, all but emptying the cavernous stadium.
LSU's 303 rushing yards are the most UK has allowed under Stoops.
"That's what we'd like to look like some day," he said of the Tigers.
Even worse for the Cats: Talented freshman tailback Stanley "Boom" Williams took a nasty helmet-to-helmet shot on a third-quarter kickoff return and lay motionless on the turf for several minutes in a scary scene.
Stoops rushed onto the field to check on him and players from both sides took a knee as Tiger Stadium went silent. Eventually, he sat up and the crowd cheered as he stood and slowly made his way to the sideline, wobbly and with the assistance of two medical staff members. Stoops said he'd been evaluated for a "head injury," but was well enough to travel back to Lexington with the team.
The bad news: it only gets harder from here. Kentucky will host top-ranked Mississippi State and Heisman frontrunner Dak Prescott next week. There had been a great deal of excitement about that showdown before Saturday night. Now, surely some trepidation.
"We'll see how we respond," Stoops said. "We'll see how resilient we are and how tough we are."
Kyle Tucker can be reached at (502) 582-4361. Follow him on Twitter @KyleTucker_CJ.


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TEAMtalk understands American striker Daryl Dike is almost certain to be remaining in England this summer, but it remains to be seen whether that will be with Barnsley or not.
The 20-year-old, who has already been capped by the USA, joined Championship Barnsley on a loan-deal from Major League Soccer side Orlando City earlier this year. Dike has been outstanding since arriving with five goals already to his name and he has played a major part in Barnsley’s push into the promotion play-off picture.
Dike won player of the month awards from both Barnsley and Football League World.
“I’m honoured to be voted player of the month for March,” Dike told the Barnsley website. “Honestly, it’s just a result of having great service and guys around me!”
Dike’s winning goal against Birmingham was also voted the club’s best of the month and Tykes boss said afterwards Valerien Ismael.
“It was something unbelievable,” he told the Yorkshire Post.
“In my career, in 29 years in football it was an unbelievable strike and an unbelievable feeling for Dike and for the guys. Congratulations to the guys for a big win.”
However, only promotion for Barnsley would likely see the Championship side keep Dike. They have an option to make his deal permanent set at around £17m with a 20% sell-on. But Dike’s progress has not gone unnoticed elsewhere.
WATCH: Erling Haaland's thunderous volley
Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland showed why he is considered by many as one of the world's best finishers at present, with this impressive strike in Norway training.
We understand that up to half the Premier League have scouted Dike, and the interest is increasing on a weekly basis. Manchester United and Chelsea are amongst the teams who have been impressed with Dike’s talents, along with the likes of Everton, Leeds, Wolves, West Ham and Newcastle who have all watched him closely.
TEAMtalk understands that Everton have shown the most interest in the forward. Carlo Ancelotti and his backroom team must now decide whether to follow up their interest with an official bid for the player.
Richarlison’s bad blood with Thiago
Meanwhile, Everton forward Richarlison has revealed his red card challenge on Liverpool midfielder Thiago has led to a frosty atmosphere between the two players.
Richarlison was given a straight red card for a challenge on the Spaniard during the 2-2 draw in October. He consequently missed three games, the Toffees losing each of them as their strong start crashed to a halt. Thiago endured a much longer spell on the sidelines as result of the tackle though, missing over two months of action.
Now almost six months on from the heated contest, the Brazilian has suggested Thiago holds a grudge over the incident.
Speaking to journalist Thiago Asmar (cited on Sports Witness), he claims his attempts to make amends in the immediate aftermath were ignored.
“The last game I made that challenge on Thiago and got sent off. My goodness,” he said.
“Then I went on Instagram to apologise and such. He only saw it. I said ‘I’m going to delete this message too, since he doesn’t want to reply’. Then I went there and deleted it. He didn’t answer, no.”
The pair went head-to-head again in January in the second Merseyside derby of the campaign. However, the relationship had not improved by then either.
“Then there was the derby now, at their home,” Richarlison added. “He didn’t look at my face, I didn’t look at him, either. The game goes on. He ignored the pigeon.”


Intentional Biology is about the use of biology as technology. Humans have explicitly herded, farmed, used soil inoculants, and bred plants and animals for thousands of years, and now this effort is moving to the molecular level. Biology is a medium for creation. But because we don’t yet know enough to manipulate biological systems with either certainty or safety, IB is also about the science we need to do to get to that point.
The portrayal of current genetic “engineering” as precise and well defined is inappropriate today. Few genes are known quantities and the process of introducing a foreign gene into an organism produces uncertainty about both the gene’s function and the function of the DNA into which it is inserted. Genetic engineering techniques are abysmally primitive, akin to swapping random parts between random cars to produce a better car. Yet this ignorance will fade.
To be clear: the portrayal of future efforts as “intentional” is not meant as disrespect to the biologists on whose shoulders the future stands. However, progress in understanding the molecular details of biological systems and making use of that knowledge will require new experimental techniques and, more importantly, new ways of thinking about what measurements to make and how to interpret the results.
When we can successfully predict the behavior of even simple biological systems, then building new things is the next step. Therefore, to begin, the scientific foundation of an Intentional Biology is a Predictive Biology, and improving human health, resource usage, and human interaction with the world around us will be but the initial benefits of this endeavor.
By ‘predictive biology’ we mean a theoretical structure and quantitative models, wherein the system is represented at a level of resolution accessible by experiment. Current experimental methods do not provide data of sufficient resolution to build or constrain quantitative, predictive models of biological systems. As in disciplines such as physics, chemistry, and engineering, theoretical and experimental tools will progress in concert, one occasionally outstripping the other.
Is this a Good Idea?
One of the purposes of this web site is to encourage dialogue about the possibilities enabled by biological technology. There is tremendous opportunity in the development of this technology, but we have already seen that it is far too easy to accidentally release genetically modified (GM) organisms into the environment. We hope that hastening the creation of an Intentional Biology with better coordination and understanding of the underlying science will minimize such occurances. For instance, the present debate over genetically modified foods is more indicative of the poorly planned use of an immature technology rather than a failure of the technology itself. At present we simply can’t predict the effects of tinkering with a system as complex as crops and their pests. But as with the progression of every other human technology, from fire, to bridges, to computers, biological engineering will improve with time.
Achieving an Intentional Biology, and specifically a predictive biology, is, in some sense, inevitable whether we like it or not. Money will continue to flow into the NIH and into biomedical research in general. The models and experimental tools that will be developed to understand human disease and generally improve human health are exactly the technologies that will enable an intentional biology. Because it is difficult to imagine that research directed at improving human health either will be or should be stopped, we should immediately begin discussing implications of technology that will soon be developed.
The Need for Open-Source Biology
We need to consider both the endpoint, living in a world when an intentional biology exists, and the process of getting there. What promise does the endpoint hold? What are the dangers? Is it possible to get distracted on the way there, and what happens if we do? What happens if we don’t make it all the way there?
“Endpoint” is, of course, a misnomer. There will never be a point where we are satisfied, there will never be a point where science or technology is finished. However, we can envision a set of circumstances and abilities that when accomplished will suffice to define the “endpoint”. We will list some of those circumstances, some of the technological requirements, but the community as a whole will decide how to define what should be done and how to accomplish it.
The challenge is to make sure that the “endpoint” is somewhere we all want to live. Will the tools be available to everyone? How will they be used? As the tools are developed, inevitably at different rates, how can we ensure that they are not used improperly, or that they result in more good than harm? What will happen during the time period when we can radically manipulate biological systems, but do not have the technology to remedy mistakes? (Note that this describes our current situation.) It is this transition period that requires the most vigilance. We suggest also that we endeavor to move beyond the transition as quickly as possible. Thus the importance of Open-Source Biology. What better way to keep track of what is going on than for everybody to know? There is an existing example of this kind of effort to learn from, the open source software movement. As Eric Raymond has written, it is clear from observing the hacker and cracker communities that a knowledge base increases markedly faster when people share information. Stated this way it is an obvious point, but both the academic and industrial communities seem confused about it today.
Models, Simulations, and Design Tools
Models of large numbers of components are different than models of small numbers of components in both physical and computational structure.
Models are representations of our knowledge of a system. The behavior of some models, such as a Newtonian model of 2 masses connected by a spring, are understandable without significant computational aid. In contrast, describing the motion of a pendulum with two hinges along its length requires numerical simulation. Of direct interest to people trying to understand biological systems is the yeast mating signal transduction pathway. A model of the signal transduction portion of this pathway includes 17 proteins and, because experimental techniques do not yet exist to sufficiently constrain the model, ~25,000 potential interactions between those proteins. Understanding the molecular details of this system requires numerical simulation of its behavior.
When models of biological systems develop to the point they can be used to predict the effects of perturbations, they will become de facto design tools for systems of the constituent components. A design tool developed from a predictive model will provide a basis not just for building new systems out of components already described in the model, but will also provide a “device physics” description of the components. An understanding of biological components on this level is critical for building new components with new functions either through artificial selection, tinkering, or rational design.
Building technology based upon biological components requires the ability to get information into and out of sytems of those components. In the near term, this biological input/output (Bio-I/O) capability will likely utilize electrical manipulation of cells and their biochemistry for input, and changes in engineered optical properties to read the state of system. These technologies will provide a toolbox of test and measurement techniques for building models and for the eventual design process.
Rational Design of Biological Systems
Deterministic vs. Stochastic Engineering
Conceptually, we imagine three approaches to building systems out of biological components. The first is to tinker, trying out combinations of parts to see what happens using experience and iteration. The second is to let evolution take its course, with a guiding hand from educated humans. The third is to develop a framework for rational design. Broadly speaking, biological engineering to date has employed the first and, very recently, the second approach, but not the third. While these first two methods have produced interesting examples of useful proteins, the construction of multicomponent systems, for example, sensors, or information processing systems, will likely require rational design.
Distributed Biological Manufacturing
Whereas most manufacturing today is highly centralized and materials are transported considerable distances throughout the assembly process, in the coming decades human industry will use distributed and renewable manufacturing based upon biology. Renewable manufacturing means that biology will be used to produce many of the physical things we use every day. In early implementation, the organism of choice will likely be yeast or a bacterium. The physical infrastructure for this type of manufacturing is inherently flexible: it is essentially the vats, pumps, and fluid handling capacity found in any brewery. Production runs for different products would merely involve seeding a vat with a yeast strain containing the appropriate genetic instructions and then providing raw materials. It is not clear how complex the fabrication task can be, and there will certainly be some materials and tasks which are better suited to other manufacturing techniques, but biology is capable of fabrication feats not emulatable by any current or envisioned human technology. In some ways, this scheme sounds a bit like Eric Drexler’s nanotechnological assemblers, except that we already have functional nanotechnology — it’s called biology.
The transformation to an economy based on biological manufacturing will occur as technical manipulations become easier with practice and through a proliferation of workers with the appropriate skills. Biological engineering will proceed from profession, to vocation, to avocation, because the availability of inexpensive, quality DNA sequencing and synthesis equipment will allow participation by anyone who wants to learn the details. In a few decades, following the fine tradition of hacking automobiles and computers, garage biology hacking will be well underway.
Considerable information is already available on how to manipulate and analyze DNA in the kitchen. A recent Scientific American Amateur Scientist column provided instructions for amplifying DNA through the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and a previous column concerned analyzing DNA samples using homemade electrophoresis equipment. The discussion was immediately picked up in a slashdot thread where participants provided tips for improving the yield of the PCR process. More detailed, technical information can be found in any university biology library in Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, which contains instructions on how to perform virtually every task needed in modern molecular biology. This printed compendium will no doubt soon join the myriad resources online maintained by universities and government agencies, thereby becoming all the more accessible. Open-source biology is already becoming a reality.
As the “coding” infrastructure for understanding, troubleshooting, and, ultimately, designing biology develops, DNA sequencers and synthesizers will become less expensive, faster, and ever simpler to use. These critical technologies will first move from academic labs and large biotechnology companies to small businesses, and eventually to the home garage and kitchen. Many standard laboratory techniques that once required a doctorate’s worth of knowledge and experience to execute correctly are now used by undergraduates with kits containing color-coded bottles of reagents. The recipes are easy to follow. This change in technology represents a democratization of sorts, and it illustrates the likely changes in labor structure that will accompany the blossoming of biological technology.
The course of labor in biological technology can be charted by looking at the experience of the computer and internet industries. Many start-up companies in silicon valley have become contract engineering efforts, funded by venture capital, where workers sign on with the expectation that the company will be sold within a few years, whereupon they will find a new assignment. The leading edge of the biological technology revolution could soon look the same. However, unlike for today’s integrated circuits, where manufacturing infrastructure costs have now reached upwards of 1 billion dollars per facility, the infrastructure costs for renewable biological manufacturing will continue to decline. Life, and all the evolutionarily developed technology it utilizes, operates at essentially room temperature, fueled by sugars. Renewable, biological manufacturing will take place anywhere someone wants to set up a vat or plant a seed.
Distributed biological manufacturing will be all the more flexible because the comodity in biotechnology is today becoming information rather than things. While it is still often necessary to exchange samples through the mail, the genomics industry has already begun to derive income from selling solely information about gene expression. In a few decades it will be the genomic sequence that is sent between labs, there to be re-synthesized and expressed as needed. It is already possible to synthesize sufficient DNA to build a bacterial genome from scratch in a few weeks. Over the coming decades that time will be reduced to days, and then to hours.
Intentional Biology and Development
As open-source biological manufacturing spreads, it will be adopted quickly in less developed economies to bypass the first world’s investment in industrial infrastructure. Given the already stressed state of natural resources throughout much of the developing world, it will not be possible for many of those countries to attain first-world standards of living with industrial infrastructure as wasteful as that of the United States. The developing world simply cannot afford industrial and energy inefficiency. A short cut is to follow the example of the growing wireless-only communications infrastructure in Africa and skip building systems to transport power and goods. It is already clear that distributed power generation will soon become more efficient than centralized systems. Distributed manufacturing based upon local resources will save transportation costs, provide for simpler customization, require less infrastructure investment, and as a result will likely cost less than centralized manufacturing.


Dynt is back and explores communalism in India. India has gone rapid saffronization with religious minorities, Adivasis and Dalits facing violence on a day to day basis.
Dynt brings you a three part analytical series on what ails India.
In Episode II we talk about the impact of protests like Not In My Name and why revisiting Bengal’s land reforms is the key to India’s fortunes.
Episode III releases on Tuesday 12.6.2018


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Jun 19, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
The Indians and Angels took a 1-1 tie into the tenth inning and Albert Pujols did what he was supposed to to: with two men on and two out, he hit an RBI single to right, scoring two and putting the Angels up 3-1. To the bottom of the 10th we go.
For reasons that — until the postgame interviews anyway — are known only to Mike Scioscia and God, Scioscia put Cam Bedrosian in for the save. The same Cam Bedrosian who has allowed six runs on seven hits in five and a third innings while walking five so far this year. Sure, it’s hard to have faith in Ernesto Frieri these days, but how is he a worse option than Bedrosian?
Anyway, here’s what Bedrosian does: walks a guy, strikes out a guy, gives up a double and walks a guy. Scioscia has seen enough and calls in Frieri. Now with no margin for error. Frieri gets David Murphy to fly out to left and then Nick Swisher comes to the plate. And he did this:
Maybe Cam Bedrosian is the future of the Angels bullpen. And, of course, he’s not the one who gave up the slam to Nick Swisher. But why you throw him in the game in that situation to leave that kind of mess for the next guy given how poor he’s been lately is beyond me.
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Introducing The New Dolfans NYC Logo
Well the Dolphins have a new logo and everyone kept asking us if we were going to update our…. well the answer is yes and here it is! It was designed by infamous comic book/skate board/heavy metal illustrator James “Barf” Callahan. He designed our last logo and I had to hit him up again. I have been fortunate to have known Barf for over a decade and I knew he could take the Dolphins new logo and make it our own. We stuck with the old Dolfans NYC sun, but since the helmet was gone the NY was no longer an option. I asked Barf to do something to make our logo stand out and he came up with the water dripping off the Dolphin. Personally I think it’s bad ass. It makes our logo stand out from the Dolphins version and his scowl makes him look a little more “New York”.
I hope you guys like the logo as much as we do and we will have new t-shirts on sale at Slattery’s Midtown Pub week one. New logo, new bar, new year. Let’s Go Dolphins!!


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It is October 9, 2006. Tommie Smith and John Carlos carry on their shoulders the coffin of the man who, on October 16, 1968, did not raise a fist, but held out his hand to demonstrate against racial discrimination in the United States.
His name was Peter Norman, white, and he came from Australia, a country with almost as tough apartheid laws as South Africa’s. In his country, too, there were tensions and street protests, generated by heavy restrictions on non-white immigration and laws that discriminate against Aborigines.
But let’s take a step back:
The games of the nineteenth Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968. They start on 12 October and end on the 27th of the same month. The political climate was heavy. On 2 October 1968, close to the Olympic Games, the tragedy of the Tlatelolco massacre took place. Thousands of students protesting against Gustavo Díaz Ordaz’s repressive government were surrounded and killed by the army. The country was traversed by the tensions that characterize the entire year, from the student protest to the offensive in Vietnam, from the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bob Kennedy to the Russian tanks that suffocate the Prague Spring in blood.
This, the climate of the eve. It was the inaugural ceremony that dispelled bad thoughts. Suddenly, everything else was left out. Only cheerful and smiling faces for the four-year appointment, which compares the strongest athletes in the world. It is the best of young people who compete in athletics, basketball, gymnastics, while another youth outside the stadium is trying to change the world. An attempt at a revolution made up of some successes and many defeats.
What you see are Tommie Smith number 307 first place, won the 200 storey race setting the new world record in 19’83, Peter Norman number 297 (the white athlete) second place and John Carlos number 259 third place. Racism reigned strongly in American society, and for this reason the two black athletes decided to use their awards to demonstrate in favor of the human rights of African Americans.
On October 17, 1968, during the awards ceremony, Smith and Carlos gave birth to what is probably remembered as the most famous protest in the history of the Olympic Games:
The two African American athletes show up without shoes, on their feet only black socks, Smith wore a black scarf around his neck, Carlos wore a colorful beaded necklace to represent a lynched black. Peter Norman in solidarity I wear the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the podium. The two blacks also wanted to wear two pairs of black gloves, but one of the two American sprinters had forgotten his pair in the locker room and Peter Norman came up with an idea and told them “guys share your gloves … one will put the right and the other the left “For this gesture all three suffered serious consequences.
Between the notes of the US anthem, Smith and Carlos bowed their heads and raised their fists to the sky, representing the most important gesture of protest at an edition of the Olympics. Much of the audience booed the gesture and Avery Brundage, president of the Olympic Commission had Smith and Carlos immediately expelled from the Olympic village. Upon their return home, the two black athletes did not have a good reception, suffered insults and even death threats, remained unemployed for years, but the Australian Peter Norman also suffered heavily the consequences of that 17 October 1968, marginalized by the Australian media and could not participate in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, and despite being the fastest Australian athlete at that time, he was not called to the organizing committee in the 2000 Sydney Olympics either. Even today in Australia his 20’06 remains unbeaten.
Peter Norman dies at the age of 67 suffering from a heart attack and at his funeral Smith and Carlos carried his coffin on their shoulders. They paid for their travel ticket out of their pocket to go and say hello to their white friend for the last time. An apology from the Australian parliament only came in 2012, two years after Peter’s death.
Tommie Smith interviewed after many years said: Did I do the right thing in Mexico? I would probably be richer and more popular now, but I would have had to go against my principles.
Tommie, Peter and John never wanted to be stars or legends, but they didn’t, because in a country where there are hundreds of thousands of Johns and hundreds of thousands of Carlos, if you type these two names at the same time, it comes out. photo of the third classified in the 200 floors of 1968, and if you add the name Tommie next to the very common surname Smith, the photo of who won that race comes out.
The economic benefits pass,
a gesture carved in history is forever !!
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