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The recent quincentenary of the foundation of Venetian ghetto has been marked by a number of conferences and other events. The ghetto was initially populated by many Jews who had fled from Venice’s mainland empire, where they had long been settled, as a result of the dislocation of the wars from 1509 onwards. In this respect, their experience of war was not dissimilar to that of other Venetian subjects caught in the path of war. One Venetian chronicler observing this stream of refugees to the metropole at this time took the opportunity to evoke the Venetian foundation myth. They came to Venice, he wrote, like sons seeking the protection of their mother or chicks sheltering under the wings of their mother – just as in the time of Attila when this ‘scourge of God’ had persecuted Christians and they had fled the mainland for the lagoon and founded Venice. The chronicler went on to describe how no humane person (‘persona humana’) seeing such a mournful spectacle could not fail to provide shelter out of pity for such desperation. Some Venetians, he claimed, sheltered ten refugees, some twenty, some thirty, some forty, and many were placed in churches, hospitals and even in the newly-built but uninhabited warehouse-residence for the German community, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (now a flashy shopping centre) by the Rialto bridge.
However, the experience of mainland Jews did differ in some respects from that of their Christian neighbours. When Brescia passed from Venetian to French control in 1509 the Brescians marked the change in authority by pillaging Venetian property in the form of the Jews. This pillaging has been presented as a ritual event by the Bologna Seminar coordinated by Carlo Ginzburg, but the theft or destruction of Jewish stores of pledges and lists of debtors by Brescians and French troops in the mini-sack which accompanied their arrival in 1509 was also highly opportunistic. According to the Jews who reached Venice a few days later they had lost as much as thirty thousand ducats. King Louis XII conceded the Brescian request ‘pro veneratione Religionis Christiane’ to prohibit Jews from living in the city and from lending money in the surrounding district. However, subsequent attempts on the part of the council and the new royal government to trace the pledges lost in 1509, to reconstitute the list of debtors and even to extend some protection to the remaining Jews failed or were rejected and it seems as if the Jews gave up on Brescia and like many other Jews in the terraferma moved permanently to Venice.
The suspicion that the Jews were intent on revenge and enrichment because of such experiences helps to explain the anti-Jewish theme which ran through the vivid account of the bloody sack of Brescia in 1512 written by Marco Negro. He calls the French the ‘enemies of God and of humanity, bloodsuckers, and people without laws or faith, not worthy of being called Christian.’ It was reported that Jews stole some of the funds of the monte di pietà and that this money ended up in the hands of some Milanese Jews together with the communal archive. Negro went much further than this and in an echo of the blood libel (that Jews killed Christian children and consumed their blood) he described a massacre in the Brescian duomo with Jews filled with lust for Christian blood among the French attackers. Negro alleged that the French commander Gaston de Foix himself led Jews in cruel raids on regular clergy and friars and looted holy objects. The king of France was characterized by Negro as the ‘most greedy, cruel and unjust supporter of thieves, libertines and Jews.’
As might be expected the entry of troops into Italian towns during the Italian Wars was often characterised by violence and the looting of Jewish property. A chronicler in Modena recorded the sacking of some Jews by the Swiss in Rome in January 1495. In anticipation of regime change with the approach of the French the Neapolitans sacked very rich Jews in the city who had fled there from persecution in Spain. Even those who escaped from the Jewish quarter to the safety of the castle were sacked. The local chronicler Giuliano Passero estimated the sack to amount to two thousand ducats. The news from Naples passed on to Ludovico Sforza in Milan in February 1495 included a note to the effect that the Jews and ‘Maranni’ (crypto-Jews) had been pillaged and that while the latter had been saved in ships the Jews had been ‘cut to pieces’. From Bari it was reported a month later that all the Jews had been expelled by the local inhabitants and that a booty estimated at 16,000 ducats had been taken from them. Similar examples of such looting and violence were reported throughout the Italian Wars.
It seems that these troubles could contribute to both Jewish and Christian concerns about divine intentions for men and women. Some Jews followed kabbalistic calculations that 1490 marked the year of Jewish deliverance, while for others the year 1495 with the pope’s flight before the advance of the French army (albeit only to the Castel Sant’Angelo within the city of Rome) and Charles VIII’s entry into Naples, where the Jews were sacked but quickly put under his protection, marked the beginning of years of suffering that preceded deliverance. In Christian eschatology, of course, the final conversion of all the remaining Jews was one of the signs of the Apocalypse. It is probably in this sense that we should understand the presence in Marin Sanudo’s compilation of verses about the arrival of Charles VIII in Italy of a poem about the conversion of the Jews.
The providential hopes and fears of Italians were widely stirred by the arrival of Charles VIII, a man judged very ugly by many Italian witnesses (judge for yourself here) and acclaimed by others as the ‘king of fierce countenance’ foretold in the Book of Daniel (8: 23); indeed, the rise to power of the friar Girolamo Savonarola in Florence drew strength from this eschatological sentiment. It is useful, though, to consider the fate of Jewish lives and goods as part of the social history of the Italian Wars. They were an especially vulnerable group during the sacks of cities given their stores of pledges or lists of Christian debtors; but they were also a resented local presence because they fell under the direct protection of higher authorities such as the Neapolitan king or the Venetian doge rather than the local powers. When royal or republican protection failed they were forced to flee – forming another episode in the long history of Jewish mobility, the subject of a conference in Edinburgh in July.
Milan, Archivio di Stato, Carteggio Viscontea-Sforzesco, potenze estere, 252, 253
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, It.VII.323 (8646). Donà, Tommaso (attr.). ‘Cronaca di Venezia fino al 1528’
— It.IX.363. Marin Sanudo (comp.), ‘Composizioni poetiche volgari e latine intorno le cose d’Italia sul finire del sc. XV’.
Coniger, Antonello. ‘Recoglimento de’ più scartafi’. In K. Pelliccia (ed.), Raccolta di varie croniche, diarj ed altri opuscoli, così Italiani, come Latini, appartenenti alla storia del Regno di Napoli, 5: 5-54 (second pagination). Naples: Bernardo Perger, 1782
De’ Bianchi detto de’ Lancellotti, Tommasino. Cronaca Modenese. 2 vols. Parma: Pietro Fiaccadori, 1862-5
Dei Conti, Sigismondo. Le Storie de’ suoi tempi dal 1475 al 1510. 2 vols. Rome, 1883. Facsimile reprint. Foligno: Accademia Fulginia di Lettere Scienze e Arti, 2015
Passero, Giuliano. Storie in forma di Giornali. Ed. Vincenzo Maria Altobelli. Naples: Vincenzo Orsino, 1785
Bowd, Stephen D. Venice’s Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010
Krauss, Samuel. ‘Le roi de France Charles VIII et les espérances messianiques.’ Revue des Etudes Juives, 51 (1906): 87-96
 Tommaso Donà (attr.), ‘Cronaca di Venezia fino al 1528’, Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, It.VII.323 (8646), fols. 223r, 223v. See also ibid., fol. 244v for a similar use of the example of Attila.
 Tommaso Donà (attr.), ‘Cronaca di Venezia fino al 1528’, Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, It.VII.323 (8646), fol. 223v.
 Bowd, Venice’s, 199-200.
 Ibid., 200-05.
 De’ Bianchi, Cronaca, 1: 129.
 Dei Conti, Storie, 2: 106; Coniger, ‘Recoglimento’, 30, 31.
 Passero, Storie, 66-7.
 ‘Li Iudei et Marani sono stati pigliati. Li Judei sono stati tagliati a peze et li Marani sono salvati in Nave.’ ‘Novelle arrivate de presente da Napoli scripte in lo dicto loco à 20 di e altre novelle à 21 de Febraro’, in Milan, Archivio di Stato, Carteggio Viscontea-Sforzesco, potenze estere, 252
 Letter dated at Bari on 22 March 1495 to the Duke of Milan, in Milan, Archivio di Stato, Carteggio Viscontea-Sforzesco, potenze estere, 253.
 Krauss, ‘Roi di France’.
 Marin Sanudo (comp.), ‘Composizioni poetiche volgari e latine intorno le cose d’Italia sul finire del sc. XV’, in Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, It.IX.363, fol. 58v.

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U.S. blocks some solar materials made in China's Xinjiang region
The U.S. has barred some solar products made in China's Xinjiang region, marking one of the Biden administration's biggest steps yet to counter alleged human rights abuses against the country's ethnic Uyghur Muslim minority.
Xinjiang — where advocacy groups and a panel of United Nations experts say Uyghurs and other minorities have been subjected to mass arbitrary detention and forced to work against their will — produces roughly half of the global supply of polysilicon, a material critical for solar panels and semiconductors. China has denied the allegations, saying they're an attempt to undermine successful businesses.
The move targeting Chinese manufacturer Hoshine Silicon Industry (Shanshan) Co., Ltd., announced Thursday, has implications for solar's supply chain and could force U.S. companies to find material elsewhere. It comes after both the Trump and Biden administrations accused China of "genocide" in a campaign to erase the culture of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs.
More: Biden balances climate need with human rights in Chinese solar ban
"Personnel at all U.S. ports of entry have been instructed to immediately begin detaining shipments that contain silica-based products made by Hoshine," the White House said in a statement. "The United States will not tolerate forced labor in our supply chains."
The steps fall short of a broader ban that had been sought by some activists, organized labor and lawmakers. But a person familiar with the U.S. move, who spoke anonymously before the announcement was made, said further actions may follow and investigations are ongoing.
The U.S. decision will "not impact the majority of imports," though it represents "a substantive but measured first shot across the bow by the Biden administration," Height Capital Markets analyst Benjamin Salisbury said in a note to clients.
Hoshine is a dominant producer of the metallurgical silicon used to make solar-grade polysilicon, with its product supplying solar manufacturers such as Daqo New Energy Corp. Wacker Chemie and a unit of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings are also customers, according to a Sheffield Hallam University analysis released this year. Hoshine's shares fell 7.2% in Shanghai trading Thursday.
The U.S. is trying to cripple the industrial development of Xinjiang, and seeks to force poverty and unemployment on the region, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said Thursday at a regular press briefing in Beijing. "China strongly condemns the sanctions that the U.S. imposes on Chinese companies based on lies and disinformation," he said. "China will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies."
The U.S. Department of Labor also updated its "List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor" to include polysilicon made with forced labor in China, according to the White House statement.
Separately, the Commerce Department added five Chinese entities to its export blacklist. According to a notice on Thursday, they are Hoshine; Xinjiang Daqo New Energy Co. Ltd.; Xinjiang East Hope Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd.; Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology, Co. Ltd.; and Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps., which has previously been sanctioned. American companies that sell to those entities will then require approval from the U.S. government.
Hoshine, East Hope and GCL-Poly didn't immediately reply to emailed requests for comment. Daqo could not comment on the issue, head of investor relations Kevin He said in a text message.
In May, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said officials "believe in some cases" that Chinese solar products are being produced by forced labor and confirmed the administration was mulling restrictions.
But Group of Seven leaders clashed earlier this month over how strongly to rebuke China over alleged forced labor practices. In the final communique, the G-7 called "on China to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, especially in relation to Xinjiang."
U.S. solar companies, which rely heavily on imported photovoltaic panels, had already begun shuffling supply chains in anticipation of the action. And at least one polysilicon producer in Xinjiang — Daqo New Energy Corp. — had opened itself to the possibility of audits and outside scrutiny in a bid to shield itself from U.S. sanctions.
The Solar Energy Industries Association, a Washington-based trade group, which recently unveiled a traceability tool aimed at helping solar importers and manufacturers track the supply of materials, had said it supported the planned action. "The fact is we do not have transparency into supply chains in the Xinjiang region, and there is too much risk in operating there," the association's general counsel, John Smirnow, said in an emailed statement.
Still, the Biden administration's move "could have a significant negative impact on the whole U.S. solar industry," Roth Capital Partners LLC said in a research note for clients. "If implemented, module imports would need to prove that there is no content from Hoshine in order to enter the U.S."
Hoshine produces about 800,000 metric tons of metallurgical silicon annually, according to Roth. "Access to solar modules in the U.S., in our view, could be severely limited by this order as we believe isolating and tracing MG-Si through the supply chain could present a significant challenge," Roth said.
While Xinjiang is a major polysilicon hub, the material is sent for further processing in factories in other parts of China and other countries before it's ultimately assembled into the solar panels that are shipped to the U.S. That creates additional challenges and would mean supply chain verification efforts would almost certainly require the cooperation of Chinese manufacturers.
A 1930 trade law bars the importation of goods that are mined, produced or manufactured by forced labor — and empowers the federal government to seize the products or block their entry into the U.S. Under former President Donald Trump, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in January issued a withhold release order targeting cotton and tomato products produced in Xinjiang.

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All the standard trappings of a light romantic comedy. (spoilers)
The problem with 'Only You' isn't so much that this low-budget fare is structured upon ever romantic comedy cliché you can think of. Andrew McCarthy plays the misguided fool who is torn between the insincere bimbo (Kelly Preston) that he spends the Christmas holiday at a tropical resort after being dumped and in a drunken haze, travels there with his new companion. The clerk at the travel agency (Helen Hunt) who wouldn't give him a refund for his trip earlier in the evening coincidentally shows up there too, on a freelance photography gig (seriously, these people must be traveling on supersonic rockets to get from Chicago to the beachside resort so quickly). And of course, the gold-digging bimbo treats him like crap and he slowly starts to realize that perhaps, the real girl for him, is the genuine travel agent/photographer he spends a lot of time with on his vacation when the bimbo is constantly hanging out somewhere with more manly men who swoon her. And yada, yada, yada... the foolish protagonist must make up his mind about what kind of lady he wants, and well... it's not only typical to romantic comedy plots, it's typical Andrew Mccarthy.
Granted the movie does offer at least a few laughs, but the movie would've been much more believable had all of this not happened in the course of about ten days. True, McCarthy's character was impulsive, but it didn't seem to square that Helen Hunt's character was, too. But of course, this is a movie. And not even a really good one, either.

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’s film, TV and animation efforts, including the future of the DCEU.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that filmmaker of The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker and Guardians of the Galaxy Farm, James Gunn as well as Peter Safran of Aquaman, Shazam, and their sequels are the new co-CEOs of
Studios while Peter Safran is responsible for business and production, though both are reported as continuing to direct and produce projects. It’s also mentioned that throughout the rumoured four-year deal, James Gunn will be exclusive to
characters we’ve loved since we were children,” Gunn and Safran shared in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We look forward to collaborating with the most talented writers, directors, and actors in the world to create an integrated, multilayered universe that still allows for the individual expression of the artists involved.
stable of characters is only equalled by our commitment to the wonder of human possibility these characters represent. We’re excited to invigorate the theatrical experience around the world as we tell some of the biggest, most beautiful, and grandest stories ever told.”

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Sunday, February 08, 2009
Peter Meilstrup's 4-speed Retro-Direct Bicycle
Peter Meilstrup stopped by Bike Works yesterday with still more evidence that the Retro-Direct Revolution is well underway. Peter's bike features dual freewheels, a KORE chain tensioner and a front derailleur to give him a total of four unique gear ratios. It's a very sweet bike.


A lot of us are thinking about independence on this historic day. What does it mean for us as Americans, that despite our efforts to change the direction of the country by our traditional method of electing a President and Congress from a different Party, the country is still heading in the wrong direction at breakneck speed?
Many Democrats and people who lean to the left are realizing that Barack Obama is not whom he pretended to be. Leading the pack is the LGBT community, which is planning a massive protest on October 11th. But where, I must ask, are the pro-choice women, and the men who support them?
After Obama’s mind-blowing refusal to overturn the Bush “conscience clause,” and his breaking of his promises to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, it seemed clear that our Dear Leader was determined to embolden and empower the so-called pro-life movement even more than George W. Bush did.
Et voila, the fruits of His Labor (h/t taggles).
Nineteen pro-life House Democrats signed a letter last week to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressing their opposition to any health care reform that includes abortion funding.
“We cannot support any health-care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan,” the letter read.
The congressmen did not take a position for or against the so-called “public option” feature of the health care reform bill, which involves the creation of a government-sponsored health insurance poll, but the congressmen were blunt about what they do not want.
“Plans to mandate coverage for abortions, either directly or indirectly (are) unacceptable,” they wrote.


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These teachers went on strike but still made sure their students got breakfast and lunch
Statewide, teachers in West Virginia walked off the job this week in a historic strike, but a group of educators at one school still made sure their students — a majority of whom rely on school breakfasts and lunches — got to eat.
The public-school teachers walked off the job to protest for higher pay and better benefits, causing all 55 counties in the state to shut down schools. But teachers at Beckley Elementary School were concerned about kids who rely on school-provided meal programs — 300 out of the 430 students at their school — so the faculty got together and made sure the kids could still eat during the strike.
The teachers, who have some of the lowest salaries in the country, pooled their own money and donations from local businesses to make sure the kids ate, a gesture that’s nothing short of heroic.
“[The strike has] put a lot of people in an unfortunate situation, so that’s why we’re hoping if we can get the community, parents, even the children themselves, and everybody to get behind this and understand that you know, this is not easy for any of us,” Patrick Williams, a social worker at Beckley Elementary, told local news station WVNSTV. “We care about our youth, they’re our number one priority is our children, and that’s why we’re doing this kind of event where we want to feed them free food.” false
To make sure the kids got to eat, the teachers posted up at a local grocery store with pizza, fruit, and water bottles on the second day of the strike. After catching wind of the idea, local restaurants donated pizza and snacks for the kids, too. At the end of the lunch event, the teachers reportedly had 60 boxes of pizza left and decided to deliver to students’ homes.
Parents and guardians of Beckley Elementary students who came out to support the teachers seemed truly grateful for the free breakfast and lunch.
“Their presence has been all over the area today. I've never seen anything like that," Danny Burdette, whose niece Autumn attends the school, told the Register-Herald. "It's truly amazing, and the free food for the kids is a blessing.
In West Virginia, school meal programs are important for student health and educational performance. In fact, according to CNN, 1 in 4 students in West Virginia lives in poverty. For these kids, the meals provided by the school are often the main ones they eat in a day.
Beckley Elementary isn’t the only school in the state trying to keep students from going hungry. Across West Virginia, teachers on strike are putting their students’ health first. In Charleston, teachers at Horace Mann Middle School packed and distributed bagged lunches before the walk-out. Educators in Rivesville also put together bags of food for students during the strike.
It’s not yet clear whether the strike will result in better wages and benefits, but their efforts to keep kids in their towns fed prove they deserve way more money.


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Edison, N.J. - A pair of Loyola forwards were honored by the MAAC after leading the Greyhounds to a 2-0 week, the conference office announced today. Junior forward Jamie Darvill was named Co-Offensive Player of the Week, while freshman forward Mark Jaskolski was named as the Rookie of the Week for the second time in three weeks.
Darvill earned the recognition after scoring six points in the two Greyhounds wins. A native of London, England, Darvill assisted on Eddie Dines' goal in a 1-nil victory over Princeton and followed that by scoring two goals and notching an assist in leading the Greyhounds to a 5-4 win over Quinnipiac. It was Darvill's second acknowledgement after scoring three goals on the season's opening week.
Jaskolski earned Rookie of the Week accolades for the second time in three weeks after scoring the game-winning goal against Quinnipiac with just 31 seconds remaining in the contest. The goal -- which ended a furious Bobcats comeback -- was the first of Jaskolski's collegiate career. A native of North Potomac, Md., he also was named Co-Rookie of the Week after assisting on the lone goal in the Greyhounds' 1-0 win over Mount St. Mary's back on September 20.
Darvill shared his Co-Offensive award with Canisius' Alan McGreal. Iona's Nils Binstock was named Defensive Player of the Week.
The Greyhounds also found out that they had moved up five spots in the College Soccer News national poll, advancing from 19th to 14th following its wins last week. The NSCAA/adidas coaches poll, where the Greyhounds are currently No. 16, is announced on Tuesday.
With non-conference play concluded, Loyola (8-0-1) opens defense of its MAAC Championship with its bi-annual trek to Buffalo, visiting Niagara on Friday and Canisius on Sunday. The Greyhounds open the home portion of their MAAC schedule when they host Marist on October 17 at 4:30 p.m.

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A two-day information fair began at Boishakhi Mela field in Jamalpur town this afternoon.District Administration and Transparency International of Bangladesh (TIB) jointly organised the fair.Additional Deputy Commissioner Md. Rassel Sabrin formally inaugurated the fair. A total of 31 stalls were set up by government and non-government organisations in the fair.
A discussion meeting was also held at Boishakhi Mela field today. Masuda Akhtar, President of Conscious Citizen Committee presided over the discussion.Additional Police Super Mohammad Shariful Haque, Civil Surgeon Dr. Moshaerul Islam and newly elected Mayor of Jamalpur Municipality, Mirza Sakhawatul Alam Moni addressed the discussion.The fair will conclude on January 27.(BSS)


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Good songs to learn on ACOUSTIC guitar?
I don't have an electric guitar so PLEASE do not recommend me any electric songs that require distortion, unless they have clean riffs that would sound good on acoustic. Some songs I've recently learned that I like include Another Hero Lost by Shadows Fall, Risen by Shadows Fall, Sunburn by Fuel, Come Clarity by In Flames, and Lonely Day by System of a Down. I'd prefer it not to be all just straight chords but will keep an open mind.
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Randy Rhoads - Dee
WASP - Hold On To My Heart
Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman
Collective Soul - Run
Collective Soul - The World I Know
Def Leppard - Two Steps Behind
Bruce Dickinson - Acoustic Song
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Oh you mean a grandpa's guitars
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first day of my life ~ Bright eyes
*its my favorite*

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The Culling: Conclusion
A sitting room. Red all around, a diffused glow. In the middle of the room, a pinprick, a dot of darkness floated suspended in the air.
The darkness started growing tearing open bigger and bigger. I opened my mouth to sing a spell and my voice was stopped I couldn't make a sound. Fearfully, I backed away from the growing darkness.
A hysterical, gibbering sobbing scream filled the room and I saw Garoth trying and failing to grab the sides of the void with bleeding hands. He saw me and lunged forward his mouth filled with fangs...
My eyes opened to see the blue of my cloak stretched above me in the morning light. I could hear a light tapping of rain on the outside. I slowed my breathing as I looked around my small makeshift tent. Absently I traced the muscles of the hard bulwark of my chest with one hand. I felt calmer. It had been only a dream.
I was camped in a stand of trees by the King's highway several miles from the castle. I was waiting for Michael to rejoin me. As the tapping of rain subsided I crawled out into the drear of the early morning.
I peered through the grey mist at the highway. It was completely deserted.
Then I heard it. Maybe it always been there as a low thudding but it was getting louder. The heavy beat of drums the sound of thousands marching forward. The sound obscured all others and the ground was shaking with the force of it. I quickly gathered up my cloak, feeling it reform from a tent as I pulled it over my shoulders.
A massive shape was coming towards me in the mist. It was huge, large enough to make one of the giant grizzly bears of the forest look minuscule by comparison. I knew instantly it was, "Michael!" I felt his huge arms around me before I even saw his face.
He kissed me and all of me felt for a moment like it was just us, we were the only two in existence, the whole world was the two of us kissing. We paused and I looked into his blue eyes.
"Gregor, my life. It has been many days. The world is not lovely when you are not beside me." His voice rippled through me.
All I could do was breathe his name once but he heard everything in that.
We walked to the highway where the army was marching forward. As they passed, they saluted us and continued their march forward. "I bring you a gift Gregor! All the king's men! We have the full army without a drop of blood spilt."
"Michael, this was our dream. You are repairing the wound of Durness and Eoghan, here and now. And you have done far better than me these past few days." I said thinking of my encounters with the wizards.
"Gregor, I believe you repaired the folly by yourself, with your own magnificent rod several weeks ago," Michael said with a salacious wink, "But what of the wizards? We have seen no sign and the men have ceased worrying about their retribution."
I told him briefly about my dealings, finishing with, "So one is in some kind of eternal torment damnation and the other has had her identity and powers destroyed. Clearly, I am not so persuasive as you."
"Gregor, it is the nature of the world that those with the most power never give it up easily. Their ambition and hatred destroyed their ability to work with us long before you ever came to call."
"Then what of the king, Michael? Will he also be destroyed?"
"I think not Gregor, for he has realized by now that his power has fled, he has no power to lose," Michael smiled confidently.
We led the army until we were within hailing distance of the squat gray fortress of the king. It looked hunkered down, smaller and less grand than either of the wizard towers, this building was designed for defense.
An inhuman bellow issued from the open gateway of the fortress and an enormous troll thundered out. It was dressed in filthy, rotted rags which exposed most of its body including its fetid, bulbous sexual organ. The smell of rancid piss and shit accompanied its appearance. The creature was dragging a club made from the entirety of a felled redwood, spikes thicker than an ordinary man's neck studded the free end of the massive weapon.
"Even though you are the stronger, allow me some fun," Michael breathed in my ear, simultaneously staying me with a gesture and sweeping off his cloak. He was still wearing the simple tunic and breeches of a peasant, his hard and huge muscles only slightly obscured by the loose clothing.
He strode up to the giant beast. The creature snickered, leered and scratched its big organ at seeing a lone figure moving toward it. I saw the creature's eyes focus and then widen with fear as it took in Michael's monstrous size. Its own hulking bulk was no match for the overwhelming thickness of Michael's colossal muscularity. As Michael sauntered nearer, his overpowering size became even more apparent. The creature's great legs would humble most tree trunks however Michael's forearms massively gnarled and distended with muscle were easily twice the girth of the troll's gigantic limbs.
The creature should have run or been paralyzed with fear. Even if it didn't understand how infinitely more powerful, Michael's strength was, some animal survival instinct should have sent it running like a fragile fawn from a crushing avalanche of granite. The creature had no awareness of how disproportionate the fight was. It grunted with effort as its two great arms levered up the great redwood club. Ponderously, it swung the bulk of the club, twisting to torque up the greatest force into the movement. Michael could have easily evaded the blow but instead kept walking right into it.
A great, cracking roar of sound erupted as the irresistible force of the giant swing met the titanic, immovable object of Michael. The club shattered against Michael's impenetrable mass, shredding his outer clothing. We watched as the heavy metal spikes, literally splattered by the force of the blow against the hairy alabaster of Michael's skin, bounced away flattened, unrecognizable.
Michael's manhood was fully exposed and his flaccid magnificence was fully five times the size of the troll's now puny looking genitalia. The creature gaped at the impotence of its blow and the useless remnant of its weapon.
Michael paused and moved one of his behemoth arms up, explosions of muscularity rippled across his exposed torso with the motion, and theatrically yawned covering his mouth with his hand.
The soldiers cheered for the bravado of their humongously massive leader. The troll bellowed in a rage and began to charge Michael. It would have been so easy for Michael to destroy the foul, creature utterly with a single blow but Michael suddenly moved in a blur away from the creature.
Before the troll could even take a single step Michael had crossed several hundred feet to the castle. With a single easy motion he yanked out the heavy portcullis. The shattered steel chains were still in the air while he blurred back towards the charging troll with the massive gate, ripping it into pieces as he moved. His hands moved fast warping and reshaping the hard metal into giant sized manacles.
Then he was behind the creature almost gently manhandling its great limbs and manacling them with the transformed pieces of the gate. He finished by chaining the creature with a thick metal stake driven deep into hard rock. This all happened in almost a blink, I was startled by the sound of portcullis chains crashing down. I wondered if the soldiers thought it was magic, so quick were Michael's movements.
The troll struggled helplessly against the weight of the metal that Michael had effortlessly forged with his grip. It's sluggish brain not comprehending what had occurred. It let out a mewling, beaten sound at Michael's retreating figure. I summoned clothing to cover Michael. We were overwhelming enough without Michael's nakedness awing everyone into stupefaction.
After Michael's little show of force, the king's instant surrender was anticlimactic.
The day moved forward in a blur of military displays and speeches and by the evening Michael and I were both crowned as kings while the former king was escorted to his home village.
We acted quickly with multiple decrees. The first was that the culling ceremony would result in the chosen boys to be sent to training at the castle. It was our idea that the Brotherhood in our fair land would become all variety of public servants, that the strength of our kind would serve the weaker making all the land a stronger place. We also treated with the men of Taiga to open the former lands of the Folly for cultivation. The once sterile lands were now the most fertile in our corner of the world.
Years past and the work of transforming a broken country to a land of prosperity and happiness, seemed unending. Having the power to single handedly annihilate any hostile neighbors around us made coming to agreements an easier task than that faced by our predecessors.
This part of my life was filled with much happiness, but the darkness of the culling, while scrubbed from my own country, remained in the world.
One night, I left my body and floated free in the nether world of the spirit. The world still was mostly covered in darkness however now the lights of Taiga were joined by the lights of my own Mediolanum. I felt pride at that. I turned towards the blinding white brilliance of the valley of the Elders. I now approached with ease no longer buffeted by the power that they emanated.
They became aware of me.
Many of the men I had known had passed beyond the bounds of the world since my visits so many years ago. A few of the brightest burning lights still remembered me.
"Ah, Gregor who changes the world, we see our prophecies fulfilled," spoke a familiar burning form in the voice of gales.
My own burning light did not waver from the force of his voice and when I spoke the shock waves of my power buffeted many of the elders' flames. "I am honored to be remembered by the elders and wish to discuss the possibility of changing the deep magic."
A swirling in the matter of the elders and all was silent and then, "Gregor, for one such as yourself there exist many possibilities. The deep magic is all that makes up the movement of the universes. It is the substance of creation. To change it is to threaten the very fabric of what is. Even for you it may be impossible to make a change without being destroyed utterly and the danger of destroying everything that is, is very great.
"We tell you this because among all we know, you are like our beloved son and we trust what drives you forward." There was a long, considered pause. Finally, the great voice spoke again, "If you must attempt this, go to the forest of green silences where the heartbeat of creation is most easily heard."
"Great fathers, you are what has bound me to the Brotherhood even in my darkest days of bitterness. I am always your grateful son." I became briefly one with them, part of their tremendous energy. I could feel a change in my place among them. I felt I was at least as powerful as the mightiest among them and I drew them to my greater light. Despite this we all understood I was not ready to join their number, I still had my own life to live and promises to keep. My beacon like light separated from the elders and then I departed to my earthly form.
I opened my eyes. Michael lay sprawled beside me softly snoring, the moon's light in our room turning his magnificence to silver. The dark hair of his chest breaking the sheen. Some part of me wanted to curl up in his safe warmth and never leave, I leaned over and kissed his forehead and breathed in his scent.
My dearest forgive me.
I left our room and crossed the castle to a room shielded from the rest of building for magic lessons. I sat on the cold flagstone and thought of the forest of green silences and began the spell of passage. The room melted away and I was sitting in a meadow outside near a dense thickness of trees.
The trees were enormous, larger than even the great buildings of Taiga. The woods were so densely grown on all sides that no passage was possible for even a small child much less a being as large as I.
I called out, "To she who walks between branches and he who guards with fang and hoof Lady and Lord of Green Silences one who has need begs entrance."
Her voice was melodious and almost evaded the edge of my hearing, "Gregor, we know of what you would do and grant you leave to enter."
I heard not a sound but the shadows around the trees seemed to deepen and I found myself peering at a path into the wood.
I entered the stillness of the forest, the ground was soft with moss. I could feel a sense of the center of the place and my path led me to it. The morning light was lifting the gloom and for a second I thought I saw the green skin of the lady and the antlered head of the lord watching me. But when I looked more closely there was nothing but the forest.
In the heart of the wood, I stripped my clothing and lay face first in the moss and sang a spell of joining. I felt myself falling into a vastness of life of power. I felt my being pushed into the big pulsing rhythms of the world. Was it breathing or a beating? It was through me and I was of it. I could feel the earth leaning and spinning to this huge movement.
I began to be aware of parts, fit together, it was a massive machine exquisitely balanced and fit together each part depending on the other. Did it have awareness; this great engine of everything that was? I could not tell, I only felt my heart beating in time to its workings. For the first time in many a year, I felt small and insignificant.
I pulled energy from within and sent a questing. Something in these intricacies answered me and with effort I moved through the colossus of the framework, feeling the deep magic pulling me back towards the world I belonged in.
After what seemed days or hours, time has no meaning here, I saw it and recognized it as my goal. It sat dark and precious turning in the light, linking and continuing. I studied its place in this great machine.
I then pulled all of my power into me, feeling my strength, my great potency even in this place. I flung my force at the darkness pulling it by force from its place.
It came away, unmoored from its place in the magic. It burst into red and vanished.
There was a sudden wrenching a tearing and I was pulled apart. I could feel my limbs being pulled, popping from their sockets, my essence was being pulled into microscopic thinness. I pulled with all my power but the force was relentless. I could only slow its unyielding tearing of my being. I felt a blackness descending and some part of me wondered what I had wrought.
Dark and pain and coldness was the tendril of my consciousness as I held on.
Light and warmth bathed me and I pulled new power into me. The force began to slowly yield. Small, infinitesimally small movements drew me back into my form and so slowly the pieces fit back and the great beating continued. I was myself and I let the current of the deep magic sweep me back to my place in the world.
Darkness again but warmth. I slept.
Light flickered and my eyelids flickered open to the green and gold of the forest. I heard a familiar soft snoring and felt Michael's massive arms wrapped around me. I turned in his arms to face him and kissed the dark stubble on his face, "You saved me."
His eyes rimmed with exhaustion blinked open, "Gregor, you are awake. I feared you would never again awaken. I felt you slipping away." Michael's eyes sheened over with tears.
"I am here my dearest and thanks to your strength, I believe I am well." I beamed my smile, my love into him.
Michael smiled,"If this is a dream, may I never waken and if this is real, then I am truly the most fortunate of all men who walk this earth."
"Oh my tired savior. I put you through this and you are thankful. I ..." I stopped too full of feeling and kissed him pulling the bulk of his body into mine. I could feel his pulse, the physicalness of him. I squeezed him.
We made love in that sacred place and I felt blessed and completely restored. Michael was kissing the vastness of my chest as I held him. He suddenly stopped.
He gently pulled out of my embrace, blinking wetness from his eyes, "But Gregor what did you do here? What evil came upon you that was so great?"
"The world is now a changed place, Michael. The culling is no more. No longer will the pollen refuse to fall on one of the brotherhood. No longer will the wise women use that tool to kill us when we are young."
Michael sat up looking startled, "There will be many of us Gregor, maybe too many for the world."
"I know the culling is the greater evil and the world will find a balance. It will and we will shape it in a better way."
We pulled on our clothes and walked out of the forest in our own thoughtful silence.
Michael's smile broke through like sunlight, "How we will recruit our civil servants?"
I returned his grin, "Maybe we can just ask them. There is no longer a reason to hide."

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The people are proudly wearing garments of shame.
Amidst the chaos, we all agree that the victim is to blame.
Humans now blindly say that night and day are the same.
Henceforth the world we live in is now burning in flame.
Oh, my Lord, how twisted is the image of the cruel fame.
Human soul is the next target within the corruption’s aim.
A bestial nature spawned from the broken morality frame.
So it twisted men and women in order to insult His name.
And no laws, and no judges of men could calm and tame.
The land was veiled in darkness, and the bleak sorrow came.
The headless people treasure and worship the scarlet dame.
She usurped the throne of men by fabricating a false claim.
The young mark everything ancient and traditional as lame.
It is perfect time for harvest, since everyone plays the game.
The Fisher King reigns, and we are all burdened by the maim.
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Dying woman fulfills dream, rides first Red Bus to Logan Pass
WEST GLACIER – Two months ago, Rhonda Hendricks was undergoing treatment at Kalispell Regional Medical Center's infusion room when she let the nurses in on a little secret. Rhonda, 49, said that while she had been to Logan Pass on Going-to-the-Sun Road's opening day, she had always wanted to be the first one to the top.
Of course, accomplishing such a feat would be tough, even without Rhonda's challenges. The Kalispell woman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003 and had been battling the disease for a decade when she found out earlier this year that a tumor had formed on her stomach. A specialist said it was unlikely she could beat the disease and she was put in hospice care.
It was uncertain if Rhonda would be healthy enough to go to Glacier on the Sun Road's opening day this year, much less lead the pack. But at 8:41 p.m. on July 2, she rode the first Red Bus of the season to Logan Pass.
In early May, soon after Rhonda told the infusion room nurses of her opening day wish, they contacted her husband, Doug Hendricks. Doug and the nurses, including Sandy Shaw, Amy Vanderpool and Karen South, secretly made some calls to see if they could organize the trip. Working with Xanterra Parks and Resorts and the National Park Service, Rhonda's friends and family were able to secure her a spot on the first Red Bus trip of the season.
On Wednesday afternoon, when Glacier National Park officials announced that the Sun Road would open sometime that night, Doug rushed home to get Rhonda. Three hours later, with Rhonda still wiping away tears from the news of her surprise trip, her close family and friends arrived at the Lake McDonald Lodge for their trip up the road.
For the Hendricks family, Glacier and the national parks have always been a special place. The family moved to the Flathead Valley from Missouri 14 years ago and since then they have spent as much time in the park as they could. When their two children, Nicholas and Vicki, were younger, the family would often take long road trips to hit as many of the western parks as they could. But Glacier has always been Rhonda's favorite.
"It's always been near and dear to my heart ever since we first got up here," Rhonda said. "Whenever I cross into Glacier, all of my cares just fade away. This is such a blessed place."
About 15 minutes after Rhonda's Red Bus departed the Lake McDonald Lodge, it arrived at Avalanche, where the gate blocking the final 16 miles to Logan Pass was unlocked just after 8 p.m. The Sun Road was open for the season. Nearby visitors cheered and one kid screamed, "The Sun Road is open! The Sun Road is open!"
As the Red Bus climbed its way up the road — around The Loop and along the Weeping Wall — a line of cars quickly began to follow the bus on its way to the Continental Divide.
As the sun inched closer to the horizon, Rhonda and her family traded stories about their favorite trips to the park.
"It doesn't matter how many times you come up here or what time of year it is, you'll always see something different," Doug said.
Vicki Sims, Rhonda's 29-year-old daughter, said the last decade has been tough for their family, but that they were thankful to be given an opportunity to let her mother achieve her dream.
"Not every day is good for her," Sims said. "But this is a good day."
An hour after leaving the Lake McDonald Lodge, the Red Bus pulled into the parking lot at Logan Pass. There the family watched the sunset and mountain goats walk along the high cliffs across the valley.
While at Logan Pass, Lauren Alley of the Glacier National Park Conservancy presented the Hendricks family with a certificate commemorating a memorial tree planted in the park in Rhonda's honor.
The Hendricks don't know what will happen next for their family, or how much more time they have with Rhonda. But they plan on spending as much time as they can this summer in her favorite place.
"I tease my friends that at my funeral I want people to know three things about me: that I loved God, my family and Glacier National Park," she said. "I just love it here."


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Last night I went to see the superb Ukulele Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall as part of Radio 3's Proms season. One of the best things about my job is that I now get to work on projects across all networks and not just Radio 1.
The orchestra had encouraged the audience to bring their own ukuleles so that they could all join in on a rendition of Ode To Joy. Approximately 1000 people brought their instrument and the result was incredible.
We wanted to capture the experience with an image of the entire crowd that would enable people to find themselves playing their ukuleles... A chance to prove they had performed at the Royal Albert Hall. Not an easy task given the size and shape of the venue. However, with a super-wide lens and using Microsoft's Deep Zoom we did it.
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Well, it’s no mystery that I love wise-ass little children, Especially if they are dumb and funny. I was a bad student with poor reading and studying skills. During one vocabulary test I didn’t know the definition of any of the words. So, I just wrote funny definitions. I made it all up. I figured the teacher just had to pass me for being funny and creative. No dice. I got and F. But the teacher did write “very funny” on top of my paper. No studying and being funny finally paid off when I became a cartoonist. So, my advice is follow your heart and fuck school!
Nuzzle returns with his first 4-panel comic strip in a long time. There’s no reason for Nuzzle to ever straighten out his life as long as there’s laugh to be had. Nuzzle is probably my most consistently irresponsible character. It’s really bad that I make jokes about a heroin junkie – but in Underworld anything goes and Nuzzle will never go straight. Underworld is my TAZ: Temporary Autonomous Zone.
Here’s a classic-style 4-panel Underworld strip starring Snuff and Creep Rat. A completely silly and magical situation that’s a little rude the way I like it. This would work great animated – hell, it could even be done live action. If Buster Keaton had worked blue, and I was gag writing for him, I would have pitched this.
Here we return to one of my favorite types of comic strips. I save one-liners and bits and pieces that I’ve overheard at bars and on the streets and dump them in a bar situation. I get to have fun drawing different weird characters without the pressure of the set up and punch line comics format. I’ve already collected a bunch of one and two-liners for the next one.
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In the realm of electrical engineering and automation, high power relays are the unsung heroes that enable seamless control and operation of heavy-duty electrical equipment. These robust devices act as a powerhouse of switching, capable of handling substantial electrical loads while maintaining safety and reliability. In this blog, we will delve into the fascinating world of high power relays, uncovering their secrets and understanding their significance in various industries.
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b. Arc Suppression: The interruption of high current can produce arcing, which can be damaging and dangerous. High power relays are equipped with arc suppression mechanisms to prevent arcing and maintain the integrity of the electrical contacts.
c. Low Coil Power Consumption: Despite their ability to handle significant loads, high power relays consume relatively low power in their coil circuit, contributing to energy efficiency.
d. Versatility: These relays come in various configurations, including single-pole, double-pole, and three-pole options, catering to a wide range of application requirements.
High power relays find application in diverse industries, where they serve as essential components in critical systems. Some prominent applications include:
a. Industrial Machinery: High power relays are extensively used in heavy machinery and manufacturing equipment, enabling precise control and automation of processes.
b. Power Distribution: They play a vital role in power distribution systems, managing the flow of electricity in substations and ensuring efficient transmission across the grid.
c. Transportation: In railways, marine vessels, and electric vehicles, high power relays govern various functions like traction control, signaling, and power management.
d. Renewable Energy: High power relays are integral to renewable energy systems, regulating the flow of power from solar panels, wind turbines, and energy storage systems.
High power relays are the unsung champions of electrical switching, enabling the smooth and reliable operation of heavy-duty equipment across industries. Their ability to handle substantial electrical loads while maintaining safety and efficiency makes them indispensable in critical applications. From industrial machinery to power distribution and renewable energy systems, high power relays prove their worth as the powerhouse of switching. As technology continues to advance, we can expect further enhancements in their design and performance, solidifying their position as essential components in the ever-evolving world of electrical engineering and automation.


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The scariest villain this Halloween is a "haunted" firearm that kills ... people.
Co-creator Scott Aukerman said the team has “no interest” in working with Donald Trump.
It's just a sketch, it's just a sketch, it's just a sketch...
Season 4 of "Comedy Bang! Bang!" premieres Friday, Jan. 9, at 11:00 p.m. ET on IFC. Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts are getting
So why does this qualify as a comedy podcast? Because it's damned funny! The analysis and review of the episode turns out to be a field ripe with comedic possibilities, which are fully exploited in the course of the show.
Fred Armisen is such a good guitar teacher that you'll learn chords you never even knew existed. This is going to be intense
Moreover, I watched the Sunday morning political shows for six years, and if you want to talk about a venue that is just
Aukerman has built an empire: Earwolf Media produces not only some of the most popular podcasts with celebrity hosts (Including flagship Comedy Bang Bang, which Aukerman hosts once a week), but also Comedy Bang Bang the TV show.
Scott has since gone on to co-create Earwolf Media with business partner Jeff Ullrich, and create the Comedy Bang Bang TV show for IFC. I spoke to Scott about his Mr. Show and "Run, Ronnie Run" (the Mr. Show movie) days.
This week's edition of "Comedy Bang! Bang!", IFC's bizzaro variety show, is a much-anticipated musical episode. So why is
Looks like there'll be a mini-"Saturday Night Live" reunion on this week's episode of "Comedy Bang! Bang!" Watch the clip
If you're tired of talking about Miley Cryus' raunchy dance moves at last night's VMAs, check out the moves that Sarah Silverman
Jerry Seinfeld recently said that today's late night talk shows give him "a sad feeling." Well, "Comedy Bang! Bang!" host
Pizza and bagels and hot dogs, OH MY.
On next week's episode of "Comedy Bang! Bang!", we get to see a reunion of sorts of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, the creators
"Comedy Bang Bang!" starring Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts returns to IFC on July 12. The new season is slated to have
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Dustin Haney has been riding a high ever since Scratch opened its doors back in 2013. His dishes have garnered attention and set a competitive standard for restaurants in the area, but the dish that started it all for him was one he used as a 17-year-old in Virginia Beach to impress his also-17-year-old girlfriend.
"It was chicken pancetta alfredo – sautéed chicken, wilted spinach, rendered pancetta and Parmigiano-Reggiano cream, served with penne. I know ... pretty lame," he grins. "It was, however, the first complete dish I learned all the components of, and the first dish I felt confident enough to replicate outside of work."
Haney, naturally, has a nostalgic appreciation for the dish – that 17-year-old girlfriend is now his better half, and on occasion, when the mood strikes, he'll bust it out for old time's sake. "The dish is, at best, very elementary, but it taught me how to replicate mise en place, how to adjust and control variables, and how to see a dish through to its completion without supervision." While Haney's sure-shot chicken pancetta alfredo will never appear on Scratch's menu, that "lame dish" did teach him another valuable lesson – that cooking can please, and even impress.

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To the Editor:
Your April 28 editorial and Bob Herbert's April 19 column unfairly characterize Republican efforts to clean up the regulatory environment to allow for better environmental protection. I support better enforcement of environmental laws based on a foundation of sound science, realistic regulations and a smarter partnership between the Government and the private sector. Building a process that encourages cooperation rather than litigation (like that spawned by the broken Superfund program) will result in better environmental protection.
Rep.) TOM DE LAY Washington, April 28, 1996
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Future Brightens for Men’s Tennis
For the third time in the past four years Stetson men’s tennis has produced a Top 25 recruiting class, according to rankings released earlier this week by TennisRecruiting.net.
The Hatters’ two-man recruiting class of Alexandre Hillhouse (Toulouse, France) and Sven Thiergard (Dusseldorf, Germany) ranks No. 24 among “mid-major” universities nationwide. The rankings do not include the addition of recent Kentucky transfer Fabian Penzkofer (Tutzing, Germany).
“It is always nice to be recognized, and we are certainly excited about next season,” said Stetson head coach Christophe Noblet, who arrived at Stetson in July 2015. “But this does not guarantee us anything, and we will need to work extremely hard in the fall if we want to be successful next spring.”
Hillhouse is a six-time regional champion and a former French doubles champion.
Thiergard led his high school team to the finals of the National Schoolsport Tennis Championship in Germany. As a singles player, he has been ranked a high of No. 124 in Europe and No. 876 worldwide by the International Tennis Federation.
Pepperdine topped the recruiting rankings for mid-majors, followed by SMU, Gonzaga, Fresno State and Louisiana-Lafayette. Liberty (13) is the only other ASUN Conference program ranked in the Top 25.
Editor’s note: For more about Stetson Athletics, visit GoHatters.com.


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Discover the highly-anticipated lineup for Sound Haven 2023, the South’s wildest and weirdest bass music festival in Jaceland, Tennessee. From heavy hitters to up-and-coming artists, experience the artistry and booming Funktion One sound. Get your limited tickets and follow Sacred Hive for updates!
Sacred Hive Productions’ fifth annual Dubaween wins the award for Nashville’s dopest Halloween party. For two days, fans got to enjoy fabulously spooky decorations, bumping bass music, and top acts […]


How cocky can I, as a Scandinavian, be of our accomplishments and our impression on the global mobile industry? I’m of course thinking about Nokia and Ericsson! Both previously makers of mobile handsets, and nowadays making magic on the backend of cellular network technology, worldwide.
Do we still have that digital head start that we fought so hard for in the 1990s? Obviously, this blog post won’t give a definitive answer to that question. But this is my contribution to the subject of an eventual Scandinavian lead in the mobile industry and perspective on mobile tech, usability and the need for speed. How do Sweden as a nation compare to the US regarding the, once again, popular concept of “digitization”. Well, this post is a attempt to start comparing, and to give you as a reader some data to begin benchmarking your website against the really big companies of Fortune 500, and the biggest ones of Sweden.
My book, Web Strategy for Everyone, deals with the issues of both speed and user needs when on mobile. Also a lot on design principles such as mobile first, responsive web design, adaptive, single page applications (SPA) and progressive web apps. Buy the book Web Strategy for Everyone directly from the publisher Intranätverk. Continue reading “Mobile performance and usability of Fortune 500 companies”
This material on web analytics was left over when I wrote on the book Web Strategy for Everyone, a book now available from the publisher Intranätverk ›
This is an intro for you who do not yet know if web analytics is for you.
Does your website have any visitors? Do you care about what the users do and whether they manage to achieve something beneficial during their visit? If you do not work at all with web analytics or measurability, one can wonder what the point is to publish anything at all. To work actively with web analytics is your chance to know if your website-related work and investments are meaningful – take that chance! Continue reading “Guide to Web Analytics – an introduction”
If you haven’t noticed already, both Lara Callender Hogan and Ilya Grigorik have released their books on web performance for free. Free as in read-on-the-web, not as in ebook or print, of course. Both Lara and Ilya originally released their books with the publisher O’Reilly Media, also known as “you know, the animal book’s” according to some of my friends. Continue reading “Designing with performance in mind – especially your intranet”
For the first time ever, Firefox is passing Microsoft’s web browser(s) measured globally. This is according to Statcounter’s data for April this year. Their data should be quite credible, despite the sometimes strange local variations in the choice of browsers, since they collect data from three million websites and has had fifteen billion page views. Continue reading “Microsoft lost the second place to Firefox”
Yes, today is a great day. For several reasons. Not only is it two years ago, the Swedish original edition got released, but also that the English book is released – Web Strategy for Everyone. The icing on the cake, May 17 is also the neighboring country, Norway’s, national day which makes this date quite easy to remember.
You can lay you hands on the e-book today, it is sent to you shortly after you check out your order. The printed book, though, will take a few weeks before it is sent. The e-book’s formats are ePub, PDF and Mobi, they cover virtually all mobile phones and tablets, and Mobi is specifically for you with an Amazon Kindle. If you’re looking for a different format I can recommend that you download the program Calibre, then you can convert to many more formats yourself.
The best offer is, I think, to purchase both the e-book and the printed book. It costs about 25 $ + VAT. Then you get 90% discount on the e-book.
Order the book at Intranätverk – from 10 $ + VAT › Continue reading “Web Strategy for Everyone released today”


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John Turner Honored by Midwest Regional Turf Foundation
The Midwest Regional Turf Foundation recently honored Purdue alumnus and Bayer Environmental Science Sales Representative John Turner with its 2006 Distinguished Service Award.
The Midwest Regional Turf Foundation, founded in 1946 for turfgrass research and education at Purdue University, presented the award to Turner for his continued commitment to the turfgrass industry.
Turner, who was national formulator account manager for Bayer Environmental Science from 2002Ė2005, recently took on a new role with Bayer as senior sales specialist for the lawn and landscape division, covering the northern Midwest. Prior to joining Bayer Environmental Science, Turner worked for TUCO and Bayer Garden and Professional Care as a turf, pest control and formulator sales representative.
In addition to being honored with the 2006 Distinguished Service Award by the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation, Turner has been the recipient of such awards as the Bayer Masters Award, the Bayer Leadership Award, Howard Johnsonís Enterprises Achievement Award and the Illinois Turf Foundation DSA in 1995.
A 1980 graduate of Purdue University, Turner earned a bachelorís degree in agronomy with a minor in turfgrass management. Throughout the years, Turner has continued to support his alma mater and the MRTF, serving as president for two terms in 1989 and 2000.
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School meals are provided by Alliance In Partnership (AIP) who cook on site. AIP’s philosophy is to provide quality, freshly cooked food, attractively presented to a high standard and at an affordable price.. The meals are cooked and served by Sarah and Des and there is always a meat and vegetarian option, with bread and salad available daily. In addition, there is a jacket potato option daily if children would prefer.
Children are able to swap daily between packed lunch and school dinners.
Children who are not having a school meal can bring their own packed lunch. We encourage children to make healthy choices in their packed lunch as well and therefore ask children to not bring chocolate bars for their lunch. Water is always provided or children can bring their water bottle with them from the classroom, but no other drinks should be brought to school. We are a nut free school and therefore ask that no nut products are included in children’s packed lunches.
All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 receive a free school meal each day under the Universal Infant Free School Meals (UIFSM) scheme. Each child will receive a delicious, nutritional meal which will help them maximise their learning potential at this critically important time in their school career, without the need for you to register.
In addition to this scheme, families who receive certain benefits may be eligible for the Free Schools Meal scheme. This enables children to receive free school meals after Year 2 and raises an extra £1,320 per year of funding for the school. Being eligible for free school meals may also entitled families to subsidised visits so even if your child is in the infants it is worthwhile to apply if you think you meet the criteria.
If you wish to check if your family is entitled to the Free School Meals Scheme, please click here.
If you meet the criteria, please complete and return this form to the school.
If you do not meet the criteria there is no need to complete the form as your child (if in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2) will still receive a meal under the Universal Infant Free Schools Meals Scheme, which does not require you register.
If you have any concerns or queries, please contact the school.
If parents wish, they are able to pay for their child to have milk at morning break time. This is supplied through Cool Milk and children can be registered by following the link. Please note children who are eligible for Free School Meals are also eligible for free milk.
At break time fresh fruit is available for Infant children. Junior children are allowed to bring a snack of fresh fruit or vegetables to eat at morning break if they wish.Please note children are only allowed fresh or dried fruit or vegetables at break, no cereal bars please.


text: The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impact for scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several scholars have therefore analyzed the relationship between publication and patenting activity of university researchers, and most articles report positive correlations between patenting and publishing activities of scientists. However, previous studies do not account for heterogeneity of patenting activities. This paper explores the incidence of patenting and publishing of scientists distinguishing between corporate patents and patents assigned to non-profit organizations for a large sample of professors active in germany. While patents assigned to non-profit organizations (incl. Individual ownership of the professors themselves) complement publication quantity and quality, patents assigned to corporations are negatively related to quantity and quality of publication output.


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