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[…] In other news, we’re collaborating with Telltale Games to create Minecraft: Story Mode! Here are some bullet points to celebrate!
Minecraft: Story mode will be a narrative-driven video game created by Telltale Games. It will be about Minecraft.
Mojang is collaborating with Telltale and members of the community to make Minecraft: Story Mode as Minecrafty as possible.
The first episode will be released some time in 2015, and will be available on Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices.
Minecraft: Story Mode will be released episodically, just like The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, or the recent Tales from the Borderlands, which is another developer-collaboration series between Telltale Games and Gearbox Software.
We’re not intending on creating an “official” story for Steve, or explaining the world of Minecraft in detail. It will be a cool game.
The Minecraft 2 thing was a joke. No really. It was a joke. […]
Owen | Mojang Blog
Und die Meldung von Telltale dazu:
[…] Minecraft: Story Mode will be an all-new narrative-driven game series developed by Telltale in collaboration with Mojang. Set in the world of Minecraft, the series will feature an original story, driven by player choice. It will not be an add-on for Minecraft, but rather a separate stand-alone product that will premiere in 2015 on consoles, computers and mobile devices.
Telltale’s game series will mix new characters with familiar themes, in an entirely original Minecraft experience, inspired by the Minecraft community and the game that continues to inspire a generation. […]
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Review And Design Concept For Grouted Multi-Jacketted Friction Balancing Rock Bolt
Peter R K Chileshe
Index Terms: Friction, grout, grouted rock bolt, jacketted rock bolt, load, load balancing, rock bolt, stress abutment, stress-strain, Zambia.
Abstract: Rock is under greater abutment stress and strain on the sidewall periphery of an excavation than deeper in the rock, especially in the immediate aftermath of mining. If some mechanism could be actuated where a grouted rock bolt was able to transfer excess strain energy from the highly stressed section in the sidewall along its length to the deeper part, the load along its length would be balanced or equalised through friction. The result would be increased effective rock bolt anchorage length, reduced rock yield in the sidewall, and lessened grout and/or bolt failure. The paper reviews grouted rock bolts and proposes the conceptual grouted ‘Multi-jacketted Rock Bolt’, as one route that could be employed in achieving frictional load balancing along the axis of the grouted rock bolt, with six variations proposed. The ‘Jacketted Rock Bolt’, would be an assemblage of tubular steel jackets, concentrically fitted within each other. As excavations are mined and rock bolted, friction would be generated between ‘jackets’ in grouted jacketted rock bolts, in response to movement in the surrounding grout and or rock mass. This would transmit frictional energy from one jacket to the other in a frictional balancing system. This is conceptual.
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Portland, CT Real Estate
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8 ways to manage night-time teething troubles
It’s a fact: teething problems are definitely worse at night. OK, it may not be an actual fact, but it certainly feels like it. Most babies start teething at around six months old, although this can begin earlier or later.
This may be the time that your little one seems to be finally settling into longer periods of sleep and now those pesky gums have now sent your baby to back to hourly wake-ups. It’s painful – for both of you. So, follow these tips to ease their discomfort (and yours).
1 Numb the gums
Homeopathic teething granules can help numb the pain and relieve discomfort, and they're safe to use.
The most common ones are Nelson's Teetha Teething Granuals, Ashtons and Parsons' Infant Powders and Fenning's Children's Cooling Oral powders. They are suitable for babies of all ages.
2 Ease the pain
If he seems particularly uncomfortable, offer the appropriate dose of a paracetamol medicine, such as Calpol (or the equivalent chemist or supermarket own-brand, which is cheaper and will work just as well). Don’t do this every night, though, and always check the dosage instructions.
3 Keep cool
A classic symptom of teething are rosy cheeks, and some parents say their baby's temperature rises, although there is no evidence to support this. Make sure your baby is comfortable (the ideal temperature for their room is between 16-20°C). Use a lightweight blanket or lightweight baby sleeping bag. An ear thermometer can tell you his temperature. A fever above 37.5°C is NOT a sign of teething, according to experts, so be sure to get it checked out.
4 Soothe bottoms
As well as the red cheeks on his face, the poor little mite could have a red bottom, too. It’s thought that loose bowels occur during teething because there’s more saliva passing through their tummies than usual, and the result can be one very sore bottom. Four words of advice here: lots of nappy cream!
5 Daytime chews
He may well be cramming everything into his mouth right now, but while teething rings are a great alternative for cuddly toys/car keys/iPhones during the day, they are best avoided at night, as they could be a distraction that keeps your baby awake. And you don’t want any more reasons for him to resist sleep!
6 Greased up
Help prevent night-time soreness around the mouth from all that dribbling, by wiping a little petroleum jelly around his mouth at bedtime.
7 Feeding may not be the answer
The breast or bottle may soothe teething discomfort (although sometimes, feeding can worsen the discomfort for teething babies) but only offer if your baby is still feeding at night. If you have already managed to stop a night-time feeding habit, don’t be tempted to give a feed to comfort him through teething discomfort, as you will just be back to square one! Instead, try other ways of comforting, such as gently stroking, or singing to him.
8 Remember, it will pass
If you’ve been through the trauma of sleep training, you may be horrified to think you’ll have to do it all again. However, you should find that, once cracked for a first time, it’s often more easily achieved on subsequent attempts. And he may just head straight back into good habits once the tooth is through. Of course, there are a few more teeth waiting in the wings to cause trouble, so perhaps bookmark this page ...

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Jenny's comment about my library adventure got me thinking. In particular, I was curious about the Innovative system used both by her library and mine. For North America, I found 538 unique instances of the service. For the arbitrarily-chosen ISBN 0738206679 ( Linked), here's what I found:
|NOT IN COLLECTION||285|
Kind of interesting 1. With a bit more work, I could break down "UNCLASSIFIED RESPONSE" further -- many of these are pages that list multiple services, which could be invidually checked. And "URL UNREACHABLE" is probably too pessimistic; I'm using a short timeout for now just to get through a feasibility test.
The general idea, which I may or may not pursue further, is to create some kind of microcontent companion in various contexts -- on the Amazon site, or at All Consuming, or in any other Web context where ISBNs are available -- so you can know what's available in your local library.
For now, here's a simple looker-upper.
1 Even if all the "CHECK SHELF" items turn out to be available, this (admittedly popular) book will exhibit an even worse failure rate than the 50%-65% mentioned in the Earth's largest library article Jenny cites:
We stock a limited selection of popular titles, but we spend the bulk of our collection budgets trying to maintain a broad collection in all subject areas, “just in case” somebody might come in and want them. As a result most library collections behave according to the well-known “80/20” rule, where a small number of very popular items account for a large percentage of the circulation, while the vast majority of the books in the collection get little or no use of any kind.
This approach to collection development hurts our patrons in two ways. First, we waste their money buying books they don’t use, just in case they might want them. And, secondly, we spend so much money buying books they don’t want, we do not have enough left over to purchase an adequate amount of the material they do want. That’s why those statistics show that the average person fails to find what they came to the library looking for anywhere from 50-65 percent of the time.
That is an awful failure rate.
Hmm. Food for thought. It's got my wheels turning...
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Trapped in gridlock, drivers have been known to fly off the handle – though none has literally been able to fly off yet. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could move traffic into the third dimension, and use the open sky as our highway? What only a few years ago seemed like a crazy idea is now on the verge of becoming reality.
Around the world, companies are working on small air vehicles capable of transporting a handful of people, so-called flying
taxis. Among these is the Kitty Hawk Corporation, which enjoys strong financial backing from Google founder Larry Page. Uber is on the act, as are aircraft maker Airbus and Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight, and Bell, too. Not that German startups such as Lilium in Munich or Volocopter in Bruchsal have been any less active: Volocopter is one of the first manufacturers to test its product under realistic conditions in Dubai, a process which has been ongoing since 2017. This year, Volocopter plans to show what it can do in Singapore, too.
The pace of technological progress has been gathering picking up in recent years, a prerequisite for making these developments possible in the first place. For example, auto pilot systems are becoming ever more perfect. Just like autonomous driving systems on the world’s roads, air -vehicles are getting smarter all the time. This reduces the requirements imposed on the skills of human pilots; the risks of air travel are becoming more manageable.
Another characteristic that all flying taxi concepts have in common is vertical takeoff. After all, few of us have a strip measuring several hundred meters in front of our homes and offices that would enable horizontal takeoffs and landings. Here, too, the innumerable small multicopters – helicopter-like drones with multiple rotors – that have been buzzing around in recent years have resulted in a wealth of valuable experience that can now be transferred to full-sized drones.
presumably, it will be a while before flying taxis truly come into their own
Weight matters, too. Using robust, lightweight materials like fiberglass can reduce the mass of small aircraft. And the lighter a flying taxi is, the less energy it requires to take off. Since all flying taxis feature an electric motor, this has been a sticking point when it comes to making further progress.
The biggest challenge facing R&D teams: the storage density of the batteries really isn’t large enough to enable econo-mically viable operation of these tiny aircraft. According to a study by the consultancy Roland Berger, energy density in this case has to be at least 500 kilowatt hours (kWh) per kilogram. By way of comparison, the battery of a Tesla currently manages 250 to 350 kWh. This means that the range of the current battery generation is still very limited. The Volocopter 2X, for example, needs a recharge after flying just 27 kilometers. This is enough for pilot pro-jects like the one in Dubai. Presumably, it will be a while before flying taxis truly come into their own. So, it looks like we’ll have to wait a few years before hailing a taxi on the roof of the station rather than out on the street in front.


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We all like a bargain ….. more than ever at this time of year judging by the British press (Black Friday), so I have to admit I had a grin like a Cheshire cat as I rode back home late Saturday in the dwindling light and rain. Why?
Well on Friday, while some folk lost all sense of self-respect fighting over 40″ TV’s and coffee grinders, I’d stumbled across a fresh advert on a small online marketplace. A couple of calls later and I’d arranged a trip over to l’Aquila the following day, to bag myself a lovely load of Caponord spares for the princely sum of ….. well let’s just say we never got out of double-digits! Here’s a breakdown of what I got from a low mileage 2005 ABS model:-
- Throttle body including injectors, TPS and throttle cables
- ABS pump, mounts, sensors and wiring loom
- Rear brake caliper, bracket, pump, pedal and brake light switch – with footrest
- Sidestand and switch – with footrest
- Oil cooler and mounting brackets
- Coolant tank, cover and mounting brackets
- Main wiring loom including relays and diode block
- 4x HT leads
- Drive chain slipper block
- Gear lever
- And last but not least … a box of assorted plastics.
It also transpires that he may well have the swing arm as well – €15 to you guvner and €5 postage …. I’m just waiting for the confirmation and that’s my birthay present sorted! 🙂 Unfortunately, no wheels/discs. They’d been sold along with the forks for (wait for it) €150 ……. 🙁
So after stripping the throttle body and ordering up new seals, I decided to model up the manifold/injectors. Click on the injector picture above to open the fully exploded manifold and below are a couple of views of the whole assembly.


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The Facts A Novelist's Autobiography By Philip Roth 195 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $17.95.
In this unconventional memoir, an autobiographical sequel to his most recent novel, ''The Counterlife,'' Philip Roth relates the first 35 years of his life, beginning with his childhood in the 1930's and ending with events leading up to the publication of his pivotal novel, ''Portnoy's Complaint,'' in 1969.
Following a Prologue in which he honors his late mother, Bess Finkel Roth, and his aging father, whom he neglects to call by his given name, Mr. Roth recounts his own life in five segments: ''Safe at Home,'' about his secure but insulated lower middle-class Jewish childhood in Newark; ''Joe College,'' about his years at Bucknell; ''The Girl of My Dreams,'' about his nightmarish marriage to a troubled Midwesterner; ''All in the Family,'' about the controversy his early fiction provoked in the Jewish community, and ''Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin,'' about the cultural turbulence that led him to write ''Portnoy's Complaint.''
Now this ''novelist's autobiography'' is satisfying in certain respects. Its dramatic shape and self-perception is enough to hold any reader remotely interested in a writer coming of age in the 1950's and 60's. As Nathan Zuckerman, Mr. Roth's fictional self, observes in a concluding epistolary essay: ''The whole book seems to be leading to the point where'' certain ''forces in your life intersect, producing 'Portnoy's Complaint.' You break out of a series of safe circles - home, neighborhood, fraternity, Bucknell - . . . to discover what life is like 'away.' ''
Yet the narrative also provokes certain doubts in the reader's mind. These concern not only the purpose of the whole exercise, which Mr. Roth, in an introductory letter to Zuckerman, claims to have been therapeutic at a time when he had lost his bearings. They also have to do with the reliability of the text. After all, in light of the author's acute awareness of confessional narrative's manipulativeness and unreliability, he could not have had any purpose other than irony in calling this highly ambiguous portrait of his youth ''The Facts.''
But hardly have certain questions begun to coalesce in the reader's mind when Nathan Zuckerman comes on stage and not only articulates them but also connects them to further evasions that have not yet even occurred to the reader. ''You show us where away is, all right,'' Zuckerman taxes Roth, ''but what's driving you there you keep largely to yourself, because you either don't know or cannot talk about it without me as your front man.
''It's as if you had worked out in your mind the formula for who you are, and this is it. Very neat - but where's the struggle, the struggling you? Maybe it was easy to . . . leave the Jewish identification behind in a religious sense but retain it in an ethnic sense, to be drawn into the possibilities of goy America and feel that you have all the freedom that anyone else has. It's one of the classic stories of twentieth-century American energy - out of an ethnic family and then made by school. But I still feel that you're not telling all that's going on. Because if there wasn't a struggle, then it just doesn't seem like Philip Roth to me. It could be anyone, almost.''
It's a dazzling performance, and we are about to be impressed by Roth in his guise as Zuckerman excoriating Roth for his evasions. But then Zuckerman pulls the rug out from under our feet by pointing out a further truth about Mr. Roth's maneuvering: '' '. . . it's surface mining, and not much more: in spite of his being very much in control of his defensiveness, the book is fundamentally defensive. Just having this letter at the end is a self-defensive trick to have it both ways.' ''


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Amherstburg hopes looking to the past will promise a bright future for town festivals.
The newest additions to the town’s festival schedule will be the Rhododendron Garden Tea Party and the Amherstburg Uncommon festival, which will both have a Victorian theme.
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The Amherstburg Uncommon festival will be the bigger of the two and will take place over the Civic Holiday long weekend, Aug. 3, 4 and 5.
The event will have a Harry Potter/steampunk theme, and its slogans will be “Be Curious! Expect the Unexpected!” and “Invent/Play/Imagine.”
Attendees are being asked to dress in their best Harry Potter or Victorian steampunk costume.
What is steampunk?
According to Amherstburg’s administrator of tourism and culture Anne Rota, who made a presentation to the town council Monday night, steampunk is “a genre inspired by historical setting, highlighting technology and aesthetic design inspired by the 19th century.”


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Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock Sunday night at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony and everyone, including conservatives, has an opinion.
While Oscars ratings have been cratering for years, the jaw-dropping moment finally has America paying attention.
Smith stunned the crowd in attendance, TV viewers and the internet by smacking Rock while the comedian was presenting the Oscar for documentary feature.
— Movies (@moreoffilms) March 28, 2022
Just before the altercation, Rock made a joke about the shaved head of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
- Jada Pinkett-Smith has been open in the past about her struggles with alopecia.
- Following the exchange with Rock, Will Smith returned to his seat and yelled: “Keep my wife’s name out of your f*cking mouth!”
- During a commercial break, actors Tyler Perry, Denzel Washington and Bradley Cooper could be seen appearing to comfort Smith, who wiped away tears.
Americans were deeply divided in their reactions to the slap heard around the world.
THE LIBERALS: Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts joined a few of their fellow liberals in tweeting out defenses of Smith’s actions. Both Bowman and Pressley eventually deleted their tweets.
— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) March 28, 2022
THE CONSERVATIVES: Many on the right reacted by criticizing Smith, and his alternative lifestyle.
What are the chances Will Smith is a broken man from his wife very publicly having other partners
— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) March 28, 2022
THE WAY OUT THERE: Sonya Renee Taylor, a social justice activist and poet, suggested “white supremacist delusion” might have played a role in the incident.
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Smith would go on to win the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in “King Richard,” a dramatization of the life of Richard Williams, father to tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams.
- “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” he said during his acceptance speech.
- Smith also said he wanted to be an ambassador for “love and care and concern” and apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees.
The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that Rock would not be pressing charges against Smith.

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Amnesty International has issued a fresh call for Iranian president-elect Ebrahim Raeesi to be investigated for crimes against humanity.
Raeesi, the current Chief Justice of Iran, has comfortably won Friday’s election with more than 60 percent of the ballots that were cast – albeit in an vote marked by historic low turnout and widespread calls for a boycott.
Amnesty has called for Raeesi to be investigated over his role in the mass executions of thousands of leftists and other dissidents in 1988.
Raeesi sat as a deputy prosecutor on Ayatollah Khomeini’s ‘Death Panel’ for Tehran, which sent hundreds of prisoners to be hanged and tortured outside of the normal judicial process between July and September that year.
The human rights organization’s secretary general, Agnès Callamard, said that instead of becoming president, the now 60-year-old Raeesi should be investigated for the “crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture”.
“The circumstances surrounding the fate of the victims and the whereabouts of their bodies are, to this day, systematically concealed by the Iranian authorities, amounting to ongoing crimes against humanity,” she added.
During his decades-long tenure in the judiciary, Amnesty accused Raisi of presiding over a “spiralling crackdown” on human rights.
On his watch, the charity said, the judiciary has granted blanket impunity to government officials and security forces responsible for “unlawfully killing hundreds of men, women and children and subjecting thousands of protesters to mass arrests...in the aftermath of the nationwide protests of November 2019.”
IranWire has recently published a comprehensive report detailing Raeesi’s role in the 1988 massacre and his prospects for conviction, as a serving head of state or afterward, in foreign courts under international law. You can read the full report here.

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Indictments issued in fatal crashes in Dover, Barrington, Rochester
Kristina Sanford-Johnson, 44, of 76 Breton Ave., Sanford, Maine, faces two special felony counts of manslaughter in the Oct. 7, 2013, death of Ralph Iovanna, 62, of South Berwick, Maine. According to the indictment, Sanford-Johnson recklessly caused Iovanna's death when she injected herself with insulin and then drove her Nissan Rogue at about 80 mph in a 35-mph zone and ran a red light, colliding with Iovanna's Lincoln Mark VIII.
The collision happened at the intersection of Oak Street and Portland Avenue in Dover.
Sanford-Johnson was seriously injured in the crash as well.
If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 15 to 30 years on each count.
Xianowei Wang, 40, of 843 Middle St., Portsmouth, was indicted on one count of negligent homicide in connection with an Aug. 14, 2012, crash that caused the death of Karen Fare, 34, of Manchester.
Wang is accused of driving a 2003 Honda Accord at an unsafe speed on Route 16 in Rochester when, state police said, she drifted across the center yellow line into the southbound lane and struck a 2002 Ford F-150 pickup truck operated by Stephen Hemeon, 44, of Milton.
Wang's Honda then drifted back into the northbound lane where Wang tried to regain control, but overcorrected, sending the car into a sideways slide, crossing the southbound lane again, according to state police. The Honda then struck a 1996 Nissan Maxima operated by Fare, pushing Fare's car off the road. The Honda then crashed into a 1997 Jeep Cherokee being driven by Eli Moryoussef, 34, of Kittery, Maine.
Wang suffered serious injuries in the crash as did another woman, Erika Otte, 21, a passenger in the Jeep.
In a third indictment, John Shaw, 49, of Barrington was indicted on four counts of negligent homicide in the deaths of a Maine minister and his wife on their way home from a religious retreat on Aug. 31, 2013.
According to the indictment, Shaw was driving his 2002 Ford Ranger west on Route 202 in Barrington at a high rate of speed and while under the influence of intoxicating liquor (two counts) or a controlled drug (two counts) when he lost control and crossed over into the eastbound lane, striking a 2007 Ford Edge head on.
Joel McLain, 77, who was pastor at Victory Chapel Church in Biddeford, was driving the Ford and died at the scene. His wife, Maxine McLain, 77, died later at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
Shaw also suffered serious injuries in the crash.
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Even alpha testers need to go home for the holidays to be with their families. So with that said, Blizzard is preparing to temporarily pull the plug on the World of Warcraft Legion alpha next week.
The Legion alpha test has seen a limited number of testers invited into the game to try out the game's new features. That includes the new Demon Hunter class and the new legendary weapons. There have been no non-disclosure agreement restrictions placed on any of the content, meaning Twitch and YouTube have seen a rapid stream of Legion-related content. With the main purpose of the alpha to help flesh out bugs and other issues, it means Blizzard staff has been diligently keeping an eye on the alpha to fix issues as they arise. The holiday break means they'll simply be recharging their batteries.
The Legion alpha will go offline on December 21, but Blizzard is pledging to it back in the early part of the new year. An official return date is forthcoming, but in the meantime, find the full hiatus message on Battle.net.


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Strong performances are one way to respond to stormy conditions. Italian Alessandro Degasperi and German Diana Riesler took great victories at the 2015 IRONMAN Lanzarote. The wind was as painful as had been predicted, allowing 1,671 athletes to showcase remarkable fortitude.
Degasperi celebrates first IRONMAN victory
Due to a couple of strong riders, some athletes tried to speed it up in the early stages of the race. Mark Oude Bennink (NED) set the pace in the men’s race for most of the way in the water and exited in 48:12 ahead of Stephen Bayliss (GBR). Within only 32 seconds, the first ten athletes stormed into T1, including most of the favorites, such as Germans Konstantin Bachor and Christian Kramer, and Belgian Bert Jammaer.
While Jammaer took over on the bike, it was on Bachor to jump to the front after a few kilometers into the stunning course. These two were accompanied by Kramer and Guy Crawford (NZL), but Kramer and Jammaer were the ones to keep the pace high. The wind was intense but no reason for Kramer to hold back. He got it going from the front and made his move at about halfway through the bike. When he came off with the best split (5:05:32), only Jammaer was within contact. In his last pro race the two-time Lanzarote champion was 3:32 down, and Degasperi was already 9:18 behind.
While bike course record holder Bachor had to drop out on the bike, Swiss Mauro Baertsch was surprisingly in fourth place after the tough windy ride (+9:45). Kramer led the way on the run, though Degasperi hammered into the marathon. Through 15 kilometers he had reduced the gap down to 4:56, then passed Jammaer for second and was only 2:43 down on Kramer at 25k.
"It was tough, but I had a great run today," said the Italian later. With every single step of his run he downsized Kramer’s advantage, and through 35 k the German’s lead was only 30 seconds. Kramer kept on fighting and was able to dig deep, but four kilometers out from the finish line he had to let him through. After ranking fifth in his debut IRONMAN race last year in Frankfurt, 34-year old Degasperi celebrated his first victory. Kramer crossed the line as a true champion after a great race ahead of Baertsch, the Swiss sensation in third.
Riesler takes it on the bike
Germany's Diana Riesler dominated the women’s race thanks to a bike ride that was none other than sensational. She came out of the water in fourth (55:41) behind Austrian leader Michi Herlbauer (53:21). "I totally concentrated on my race plan," said Riesler later. She did not think about the rest of the field and the extremely windy conditions. She played it smart and focused on her watts.
"It was hard, but I knew I was strong," Riesler said, who wowed the crowd as they watched her take the women's race by storm. Riesler passed Herlbauer at about 30 kilometers and was off and away. When Riesler came off the bike with the best split by far (5:37:12), she was in her own race. She was 19 minutes apart from Herlbauer in runner-up position and nearly 26 minutes in front of British Caroline Livesey in third.
Later, the German told us how surprised she was to hear about the huge gap when she started the run – but, no question, she hurried on. The 30-year old ran a 3:16:21 to win the race with a stunning lead ahead of Herlbauer and British Caroline Livesey. It was Riesler’s second IRONMAN victory after taking IRONMAN Malaysia last year.
Top 5 Women
1. Diana Riesler GER 0:55:41 5:37:12 3:16:21 9:56:04
2. Michi Herlbauer AUT 0:53:21 5:58:16 3:15:06 10:13:50
3. Caroline Livesey GBR 0:58:48 5:59:26 3:25:53 10:31:57
4. Li Shiao-Yu TPE 1:05:32 6:07:42 3:12:48 10:33:43
5. Verena Walter GER 0:57:53 6:06:21 3:32:48 10:44:41
Top 5 Men
1. Alessandro Degasperi (ITA) 0:51:11 5:12:13 2:47:16 8:56:50
2. Christian Kramer (GER) 0:48:21 5:05:52 2:59:14 8:59:31
3. Mauro Baertsch (SUI) 0:52:05 5:10:49 2:54:14 9:04:46
4. Miquel Blanchart Tintó (ESP) 0:48:34 5:24:27 2:51:43 9:10:26
5. Bert Jammaer (BEL) 0:48:26 5:09:28 3:08:18 9:12:06
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What’s Eating my Trees, Shrubs & Flowers?
Many insects depend on plant life to survive and thrive. A few insects on a plant is typically nothing to get alarmed about, but when populations spike, damage to the plant can become significant. Some insects will attack the foliage directly, some attack the roots of the plant, and others will actually attack the plant from within. It is important to know what is causing the plant damage.
What Can be Done?
If the environment can be changed to reduce harborage or make the affected plants less desirable, that is the best solution. In other instances strategic pruning of the plant or surrounding plants may produce the desired result. Some insects will need treatment directed at the adult stage while others need control of the larval stage. Some insect and plant combinations will be best treated with a systemic treatment through injection. It is important to consult an expert in the field to understand what treatment option will be most effective and what needs to be done to avoid affecting non-target species. Over ambitious treatments will negatively impact pollinators that are necessary for healthy plant development.
What is an Injection Treatment
At certain times of the year, products that move through tree, shrub, and flower internal systems may be injected into the soil in dosages that will protect the plant from invading and attacking insects without threatening the health of the plant. This type of treatment is designed to control:
Adelgids, Aphids, Black Vine Weevil Larvae, Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer, Flatheaded Borer, Bronze Birch Alder Borer, Japanese Beetles, Lace Bugs, Leaf Beetles, Leafhoppers, Leafminers, Mealybugs, Pine Tip Moth Larvae, Psyllids, Royal Palm Bugs, Sawfly Larvae, Soft Scales, White Grub Larvae and Whiteflies.

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Pianists with a unique viewpoint and the intellectual wherewithal to bring it across are hardly in abundance these days, so Chicago audiences were blessed indeed to hear three such artists over the weekend.
Zoltan Kocsis, who performed a recital Sunday afternoon in Orchestra Hall, defied expectations from the first notes he played. Slender of frame and unassuming of manner, Kocsis nevertheless offered a towering sound, one that perfectly matched the grand vision of his interpretations. More important, his readings of music by Liszt and Schubert were hardly less than revelatory.
Kocsis, born in Budapest 34 years ago, stands even at this early stage in his career as a major interpreter of music by his countryman Liszt, which took up the first half of the program. Last year`s Liszt centenary saw no shortage of performances of Liszt`s more popular works, so Kocsis wisely chose three lesser-known pieces.
Unlike much of Liszt`s oeuvre, the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5 in E minor
(``Heroide-Elegiaque``) has a minimum of technical fireworks. Mood and aura are everything here, and Kocsis delivered these with considerable flair and charisma. Here is an artist who is not afraid to take his time with dramatic pauses, allowing silence to punctuate his thoughts.
Kocsis delivered the rhapsody`s massive chords with weighty grandeur, and he unfolded melodies with an unerring sense of when to push forth or hold back. In the end, the piece carried a stark, dramatic power that showed what a clever interpreter can do with a comparitively lean piece of music.
Liszt`s ``Grosses Konzertsolo`` is anything but lean, yet Kocsis elevated its overblown technique into an inviting musical statement. Kocsis can play as quickly as the next fellow, but he does so the difficult way--by digging deep into the keys for a rich, magnificent sonority.
In the lyric middle section of the work, Kocsis showed a warmth of tone and delicacy of expression more commonly applied to the nocturnes of Chopin. But to Kocsis` way of thinking, Liszt`s melodic phrases needn`t be
overwrought, nor need Liszt`s technically complex passages be played for mere display. Like Jorge Bolet, another great Lisztian, Kocsis sees the musical meaning within the pyrotechnics, and he always makes it vividly clear.
Still, as if to say that there is yet a deeper side to his art, Kocsis also offered Schubert`s Sonata in A Major, D. 959. Some may have found his reading a bit too forward-looking and grandiloquent, but for this listener it was a model of intelligent, forceful playing.
It`s difficult to remember the sonata`s second movement played with more stillness and tragedy. And rarely have the lighter themes of the third movement held a greater undercurrent of anxiety. Kocsis` tone was exquisitely songful throughout, his dynamics ranged from an unusually hushed pianissimo to a warmly rounded fortissimo, and he paced the four-movement work with maturity and insight.
In their own way, the duo pianists Anthony and Joseph Paratore also bring unusual intellectual vigor to their performances, as they did Friday evening at the University of Chicago`s Mandel Hall.
Though the Paratore brothers don`t share Kocsis` technical brilliance, they work on an even more cerebral plane. One won`t often hear Schubert`s Sonata in C Major for Four Hands (D. 812) played with greater gentility and reserve, nor do four hands frequently produce such sweetness of line and transparency of texture.
Even in Saint-Saens` ``Carnival of the Animals,`` the Paratores preferred a carefully manicured approach. That tack was counterbalanced effectively by the uninhibited players of the Chicago Pro Musica, which assisted the Paratores in the original chamber version of the score.
To their credit, these musicians mimicked barnyard braying, cooing and clucking in the grand manner.

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MKTO – Shay’s Spotlight Artist of the Week
MKTO are Malcolm Kelley and Tony Oller. They just released their debut album in January of this year and they are already making a splash with hits like 'Classic' and 'Thank You'. The two met when filming a TV series for Nickelodeon called 'Gigantic', in 2010. They played best friends in the series and apparently had the same taste in music outside of the series. The two decided to collaborate on music forming the group MKTO, an acronym for their names.
They signed a record deal with Columbia Records and their first single was released in 2013. Seems like a whirlwind for most up and coming artists but with acting backgrounds it's just another creative outlet.
Malcolm Kelley played the character of 'Walt Lloyd' on ABC's TV series LOST. He also appeared in the movie 'Antwone Fisher', 'You Got Served' and 'Knights of the South Bronx'. Tony is also a singer/actor who is a Texas native, has appeared in 'The Purge', 'Beneath the Darkness' and 'Unanswered Prayers'.


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Any gallery wall is worth marveling for a minute or two. But stop to imagine a different gallery wall: one that is aswirl with ceramic handpainted plates that have been inspired by historical paintings, porcelain, and works of art. The plates are arranged carefully to catch the attention of passerby (it definitely causes us to linger more than a minute or two). One artist, Molly Hatch is reinventing the gallery wall with her own unique medium: ceramic plates.
Since childhood, she says, her interests have always been with the arts. Throughout her schooling, one artisan medium became her forte, fine art ceramics. "My career in ceramics has led to collaborations with institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Clark Art Institute as well as collaborations with design and industry," she tells us. "In 2014, I installed my largest plate painting to date with almost 500 plates making up a wall installation that measures 22 feet tall by 17 feet wide. My largest piece titled 'Physic Garden' is permanently on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia."
Looking at any of Hatch's work either in person or through her photographs, it's clear as to why she has had so much success with her perfectly placed plates. Currently, she is living her craft as a fine ceramics artist in New York City where she has a gallery and her work frequents the art fair circuit. Aside from her own gallery, her art is on display in various museums around the country. This past November, Molly had an art installation called, "Verse" which is described as "highlighting the visual brilliance of an 18th century Chinese textile, [it] is a gilded deconstruction of historic pattern."
Aside from Hatch's visionary ceramic installations, she also does fine artwork. You may have even spotted her designs before. "I got my start designing tableware for Anthropologie," she says, "and seven years later, I still design regularly for Anthropologie Home, but I also work with about 25 other companies designing under the Molly Hatch brand label."
More spectacular examples of her work can be found at mollyhatch.com. Her historic-inspired ceramics are whimsical in their own right, but you'll notice the same whimsy in her other mediums too. She says that her designs, "have expanded beyond tableware to a wide range of lifestyle products and Molly is actively growing collections of home goods to bring her modern yet traditional designs to the contemporary home."
Feeling inspired? Watch our tutorial for an easy-to-paint flower vase:


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Moonshiner Trapper Yellow Corn Cob Jigged Bone Handle
- 440A Stainless steel blades.
- Yellow corncob jigged bone handle.
- Brass pins and liners.
- Nickel silver half moon “moonshiner” shield and ringed, pinched bolsters.
- 3-1/8″ Clip point and Spey blade lengths.
- Blade Thickness: 1/16″.
- Blade Widths: 1/2″.
- 4-1/8″ closed.
- Made in China.
The East Tennessee hills are famous for the moonshiners who stay one step ahead of the law. Since making the untaxed corn liquor was illegal, it had to be done in secret, maybe at night, with only the moon to light the operation – hence how Moonshiners got their name. A laser engraved “whiskey barrel” pays homeage to the history of East Tennessee on each knife and flask.
Knife Features: 440A Stainless steel blades. Yellow corncob jigged bone handle. Brass pins and liners. Nickel silver half moon “moonshiner” shield and ringed, pinched bolsters. 3-1/8″ Clip point and Spey blade lengths. Blade Thickness: 1/16″. Blade Widths: 1/2″. 4-1/8″ closed. Made in China.
Flask Features: Laser engraved moonshiner design. Two ounce capacity. Lobster claw keyring attachment. Moonshiner artwork designed by Brian Wilhoite. SMKW Exclusive! Made in China.
Bone is a natural handle material prone to cracking. Therefore, some knives may have cracks near the pins or bolsters. Some handles hold dyed material differently.


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FORT DRUM-- New York Army National Guard 2nd lt. Alicia Seda, a member of Company C, 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion from New York City, gets tips on combative techniques from Sgt. 1st Class Michael Benware, from Philadelphia during training here on July 30. Seda and other members of the 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan later this year.
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Ossining Patch -- Mon, 29 Aug 2016 Ossining National Guard Soldiers Complete Annual Training Sergeant Diana Pani and Chief Warrant Officer 2 William Salvi, both of Ossining, completed training in August.
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Sie (Vom Balcone) Meinen Kranz hab' ich gesendet, Aber nicht, dich zu beglücken; Schweigend sollt' er dir verkünden Meiner Seele [bangen]1 Schmerz. Unsre Roße stehn gesattelt, Fort nach Schiras eilt der Vater; Horch, er ruft! -- Von der Geliebten Nimm ein zitternd Lebewohl.
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She (From the balcony) I did send my wreath, But not to make you happy; Silently it should tell you of The fearful grief in my soul. Our horses stand saddled, My father is hurrying away to Shiraz; Listen, he's calling! – From your beloved Take a trembling farewell.
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Lil’ Twist has been arrested for DUI while driving his buddy Justin Bieber’s car on Thursday.
The 20-year old rapper- real name Christopher Lynn Moore – was pulled over for over speeding while driving JB’s Fisker Karma at around 3:30 am in Calabasas. According to law enforcement sources, Twist was smoking a blunt and was clearly high when he was pulled over. Besides that, they found more marijuana in the car.
He was subsequently arrested and taken to a nearby police station, where he was booked for DUI.
Here is a video of him leaving the station after getting booked: