UP Board 12th Results 2017: upresults.nic.in UP Board 12th Inter Results 2017 to be declared tomorrow at 12 Noon
And the wait is about to over! Students who appeared for UP Board Class 12 board exams can heave a sigh of relief as the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) will announce Intermediate Exam Results tomorrow, June 9, 2017 at noon.
The examination was held between March 16 and April 21 and saw more than 60 lakh students. The result will be announced from the board office at Allahabad.
Students waiting for their UP Board Intermediate Results 2017 should keep their roll number, registration number and date of birth handy to check their results Once the results are declared, they will be able to check them on the Board’s official websites mentioned below.
The UP Board, also known as Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, was established in 1921 in Allahabad. It was founded for the promotion and development of Secondary Education in Uttar Pradesh and started conducting examinations in 1923.
The result will be available on the official website of the board. This year, 26 lakh students appeared for the Class XII exams.
Students can also check their results on UPRESULTS.NIC.IN.
How to check your results
Step 2: Click on the icon
Step 3: Enter your roll number and other required details
Step 4: Check your marks
Step 5: Keep a printout for future reference
About the UP Board
Historical Over View:
The Board was set up in the year 1921 at Allahabad by an act of United Provinces Legislative Council. It conducted its first examination in 1923. This Board is one in India which, from the very start, had adopted 10+2 system of examination. The first public examination after 10 years education is High School Examination and after the 10+2 stage, there is Intermediate Examination. Prior to 1923, University of Allahabad was the examining body of these two examinations.
At present the Board is the biggest examining body in the World.
In view of the ever multiplying load of work in successive years, the Board had been experiencing considerable difficulty in controlling and conducting its activities centrally from Allahabad. As such four Regional Offices of the Board were established at Meerut(1973), Varanasi(1978), Bareilly(1981) and Allahabad(1987) under the control of Regional Secretaries; the head office still being at Allahabad with Secretary as the over all executive head. Now Regional Office at Ramnagar (Nainital) has been separated from U. P. Board due to the creation of Uttaranchal as a new state w.e.f. 08-11-2000. Presently , the Board is holding the examinations and preparing the results of nearly 64 lakh students.
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Riding To Buy Fresh
In 2007, the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission started the Buy Local Challenge (BLC) to highlight the economic and environmental benefits of sourcing and consuming local ingredients. “And since then,” said Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, “it’s really taken off across our state.”
“Six years ago,” he said, “you did not see the amount of produce that was available in grocery stores that was advertised as ‘local.’ This movement, this awareness—the future is all about local economies.”
The BLC, along with the Maryland Department of Agriculture, promotes a market-driven and sustainable farming culture, where farmland preservation and environmental stewardship positively impact the quality of the air and water, and where consumers and leaders play equal parts in the development and sustainability of local agriculture. A balanced community should be full of safe, nutritious food and a clean and healthy environment.
On July 16, local Washington and Maryland chefs put their pedals to the metal to promote these initiatives—literally. In an effort to build relationships with area farmers, wine and cheese makers, and purveyors of produce and other farm-raised products, some of our favorite cooks revved up their motorcycles for a bike tour of some Maryland-based farms.
The Chefs Go Fresh tour, a joint function by the Maryland Department of Agriculture and Georgetown Media Group (i.e., yours truly), was a day of friendly chatting, sputtering engines and enlightening connections. The day began with a breakfast hosted by Robert Wiedmaier at his restaurant Brasserie Beck, full of fresh, local fare. From there, the chefs were off, as their bikes roared through downtown before breaking free in the back roads of Maryland countryside, stopping at farms for presentations by farmers.
The first stop was Shepherds Manor Creamery in New Windsor, run by husband-and-wife team Michael and Colleen Histon, who produce artisan sheep’s milk cheese. From there, Black Ankle Vineyards was just down the road. An environmentally sustainable estate vineyard, Black Ankle produces wines with complexity, depth and subtlety to rival old world styles.
The day concluded with a locally-sourced lamb roast hosted by Bryan Voltaggio, local chef darling and native Frederick, Marylander, who was a finalist on television’s “Top Chef” in 2009. His new Fredericksburg restaurant, “Family Meal,” was a fitting location to wrap up this day of camaraderie and culinary affection. Chefs and farmers sat around long tables and bars sharing heaping plates of fried green tomatoes, deviled eggs, country fried chicken, sautéed greens, baked beans and heaps of smoky, delicious lamb.
There is tremendous mutual benefit in supporting local farms, from better and more nutritious ingredients to lessening of energy consumption for food transportation. If everyone across the country embraced the Buy Local Challenge, it would bring a positive and profound impact to our farms, our communities and our planet for generations to come. It’s nice to know that our chefs agree.
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There are a total of 24 Michelin-star restaurants in Chicago. This includes a single three-star restaurant, Grant Achatz’s Alinea, three two-star restaurants, and 18 one-star restaurants. Michelin released its 2021 Chicago guide despite most restaurants remaining closed due to the pandemic.
After a difficult year for restaurants in the city which included some high profile closures, the city did receive some good news in the awarding of two new two-star restaurants in Ever by chef Curtis Duffy and Moody Tongue by Jared Wentworth, as well as one new one-star restaurant Porto. Chicago remains one of the US's thriving centres for culinary talent and with the wealth of talent at work in the city, there is a bright future ahead with surely more stars to come.
Sadly, three restaurants are conspicuous by their absence having closed their doors permanently due to the pandemic. These include Band of Bohemia, the country’s only Michelin-starred gastropub, Blackbird, a West Loop landmark that counted President Barack Obama and Michael Jordan among its former diners, and Jean Joho’s Everest, perched atop the Chicago Stock Exchange since 1986..
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2 New York Candidates May Soon Become the First Openly Gay Black People in Congress
"Growing up poor, Black and gay, I would never have imagined that someone like me could run for Congress," Mondaire Jones told TIME
Two candidates in New York are on their way to becoming the first openly gay Black members of Congress.
The state held its Democratic primaries on Tuesday, with final results expected to be counted by June 30 once all the absentee ballots are in.
However, early counts show that lawyer Mondaire Jones and New York City Councilman Ritchie Torre are poised to win their primaries, paving the way for their victories in the November general election. (Both of their districts reliably vote Democrat.)
According to TIME, should both candidates win in November, Jones and Torres would be the first openly gay Black members of Congress. Torres would also become the first openly gay Afro-Latino congressman.
“Growing up poor, Black and gay, I would never have imagined that someone like me could run for Congress, let alone be a leading contender for the Democratic nomination,” Jones, who is running in New York’s 17th Congressional District in the lower Hudson Valley, told TIME. “I’m really grateful for this opportunity to inspire people and to change history.”
Jones previously worked in the Department of Justice during President Barack Obama's administration and recently served as an attorney in the Westchester County Law Department.
The 33-year-old has won the backing of prominent progressive figures such as Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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As of 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Jones had around 44.8 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.
"The historic nature of this moment is not lost of me,” he told TIME. “It’s not just about representation. It’s about what your lived experience brings to policy discussions.”
“Growing up, had I been able to see someone quite like myself in Congress, it would have been direct evidence of the fact that things really do get better,” he added. “This has been a long time coming — approximately 244 years.”
Torres is running to represent New York’s 15th Congressional District in the Bronx.
The 32-year-old was first elected to the N.Y.C. council back in 2013 at 25. He became the youngest member of the council and the first openly gay elected official in the Bronx.
As of 2 p.m. on Wednesday, the Times reported that Torres had 30.5 percent of the vote.
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I've been using this bullet on deer with good success for about 11 years now off and on in front of 90-100 grains of Pyrodex RS. When I started muzzle loading, my rifle liked that bullet so I bought a mold and it's basically the only one I've used in .50 caliber.
I shot a big buck last thursday evening at about 40-50 yards using this same load and it's the first time I ever had a ball stay in the animal. It went through high in the shoulders breaking his spine and some other bones on the way through. When I recovered the bullet just under the hide on the far side, it had mushroomed all the way back to the base and must be close to twice the original diameter, I'd call that darned good bullet performance. Needless to say, he went down where he stood, and I'm gonna keep using that load. I'll try to post some pictures of an unfired bullet and the recovered one for comparison, but if you're looking for a good design for hunting, I can vouch for the Lyman Plains bullet.
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Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

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Platform: Collectibles, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Developer: Disney Interactive
Category: Casual, Family
Release Date: 10/22/13
Price: 39.99 usd
Disney Infinity boldly goes where no play set or toy has gone before with Toy Story In Space Play Set. The starter play set comes equipped with Buzz Lightyear , Jessie, and a new adventure that will have you blasting off, unlocking toys, gadgets, Buzz Lightyear’s Jetpack and more to use in your Toy Box. This play set became available on various consoles for the price of $39.99 on Oct. 22, 2013.
Gameplay and functionality for the Toy Story in Space Play Set varies across consoles.
- Buzz: Power up with Buzz Lightyear and prepare to defend the galaxy! With his hard-hitting shoulder charge and jetpack, there’s nothing and no one this Space Ranger can’t blast to infinity and beyond.3-2-1-blast off!
- Jessie: Yee haw! Saddle up with Jessie and harness her shoulder charge for some fast-mobing action. When it comes to rounding up villians, this bold and brash gal doesn’t know the meaning of the word “whoa”!
- Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii U Unlock the Toy Story in Space Play Set and play up to 2-player local co-op. Bring unlocked toys from the Play Set into your Toy Box through a variety of ways, including collecting capsules, earning spins, finding Disney Infinity Character Chests, or accessing the Disney Infinity Avatar Vault.
- Nintendo Wii Unlock the Toy Story in Space Play Set and play in single player mode. Bring unlocked toys from the Play Set into your Toy Box through a variety of ways, including collecting capsules, earning spins, finding Disney Infinity Character Chests, or accessing the Disney Infinity Avatar Vault.
- Nintendo 3DS Unlock the Goo Valley Gameboard and the Arena Battle (Goo Valley) mini game. Play up to 2-player local co-op.
The story is about Buzz Lightyears Star Command calls for your help to save an alien town from destruction! Gear up with Jessie and Woody (sold separately) in this space adventure, but beware of uninvited visitors. Its up to you to unravel Zurgs master plan to destroy the planet!
The story isn’t very cinematic to be honest but it is up to par with other playsets in that department. Maybe a little better but this isn’t really what Disney Infinity is about. Disney Infinity is about the players imagination and it’s creations. The story just gives you insight on what you can do with the Toy Story Play Set and what is available.
I can say that me and my kids enjoyed the play set to the max. They didn’t want to go a day without playing it once we had it. They spend hours alone in their toy box entitled “Fun Land”. I have to admit it’s fun everything they packed into it which now includes things from the Toy Story Universe.
The playset has added more hours of fun to the infinite adventure that is Disney Infinity.
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Nutrition Bookmarks 2" X 7" Pack of 50
Food can be so much more than simple fuel.
These are perfect for nutrition and diet awareness month! Remind your audience that choosing healthful, balanced meals can be a fun way to experience new flavors. It can also be the basis for fun social experiences like dinner parties or holiday celebrations.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans explains that focusing on nutrient-dense food is a good way to ensure you get all of the nutrients you need in the calories allotted. Healthy foods taste great!
These bookmarks highlight that message, presenting colorful and healthy foods in a way that will appeal to your consumers even as it inspires them to make more healthful decisions. They include all of the positive eating messages about dietary patterns from the Dietary Guidelines, too. And they have beautiful food photos and drawings on the backside.
Nutrition bookmarks make great prizes, giveaway items, and decorations for displays.
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A key feature of the of Gigabyte dating back to 2006 were its Ultra-Durable motherboards, which were unique for their design as having "All Solid Capacitors". On 8 August 2006 Gigabyte announced a joint venture with ASUS. Gigabyte developed the world's first software-controlled power supply in July 2007.
An innovative method to charge the iPad and iPhone on the computer was introduced by Gigabyte in April 2010. Gigabyte launched the world’s first Z68 motherboard on 31 May 2011, with Onboard mSATA for Intel® SSDs and Smart Response Technology. On 2 April 2012, Gigabyte developed the world's first motherboard with 60A ICs from International Rectifier.
Gigabyte designs and manufactures motherboards for both AMD and Intel platforms, and also produces graphics cards and notebooks, with AMD and Nvidia GPUs, including the GeForce GTX 980 and the Radeon R9 290X.
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Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm
Scarface: Money. Power. Respect is a Turn-based Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by FarSight Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is an addictive game that challenges the player to make strategic decisions and raise his power by directing his character.
It supports both single-player and multiplayer modes. However, in single-player mode, the player needs to command the character in street-level and try to complete a series of challenging missions to make a profit.
The multiplayer mode pits up to four players against each other for glory and fame. While playing the game, the player needs to manage his production and deal with other drug dealers to earn money.
Scarface: Money. Power. Respect is a real-time strategy game that offers enjoyable gameplay to immerse the player deep into the strategic gaming experience. The game provides a well-written storyline and brilliant visual details.
Star Wars: X-Wing is an Adventure and Single-player Space Simulation created and published by LucasArts. It is an enjoyable simulation in which the player controls a Rebel pilot who battles for the Galactic Empire before and during the climactic battle based on the first Star War film.
According to the story, the player can choose one of several playable characters and get into the space station where he leads a team and completes a series of tasks, such as survive in the space, face off fierce enemies, move in the right direction, and more.
Like other space flight simulations, the game puts the player in the control of various starfighter in massive space combat against enemy spacecraft. During the game, if the player touches any probe, he will lose his life. So the player has to use his weapons and try to eliminate all the enemy ships to progress.
There are a series of missions that consist of different types of challenges, such as dogfight, escorting, convey attacks, and more. Star Wars: X-Wing also includes core features such as multiple modes, interact with non-player characters, unlock achievements, excellent storyline, and smooth controls.
More About Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm
Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm is an Addictive, Tactical, Strategy, Single-, and Multiplayer video game developed by Target Simulations. The game offers a brilliant combination of Turn-based and Real-time Strategy game elements.
The game takes place in the fictional setting of Europe, where two forces are fighting against each other for taking over the world. In the beginning, the player needs to choose his side and command his army throughout the battlefield to take on opposing forces.
The player starts the game with limited resources that need to build units. The game lets the player move across the world from an isometric perspective. During the gameplay, the player can get full control of his army to attack opposing forces and dominate the world.
Different units, lots of upgrades, powerful enemies, play with his friends, and several weapons are the most prominent features of the game. Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm provides excellent game mechanics, brilliant visuals, and dynamic background music.


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Gap's going global
Gap Inc. is on a global retail spree.
As part of an accelerated global expansion plan, the San Francisco-based retailer has inked deals with existing franchise partners in Paraguay and Hungary to open new stores.
In Paraguay, the retailer is partnering with Neutral to open its first Gap store in the country. Two more stores will open in Budapest through a partnership with the Trimera Group’s Gottex Brands.
While Gap has previously said that it plans to expand in various Asian markets, for now it seems to be focusing on markets south of the border.
Earlier this year Gap said it would open stores in two cities in Colombia, including a Banana Republic in Medellin and a Gap in Bogota. The retailer also has signed an agreement with Neutral Duty Free to open its first Gap store in Uruguay. Its first stand-alone Banana Republic also will open in Mexico this year.
By the end of 2013, Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) expects to have a presence in eight Latin American countries, including Chile, Panama, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru and Brazil with expectations to add a brand presence in Costa Rica in the near future.
Gap has significantly grown its store base over the past six years and currently has over 300 franchise stores in 40 markets across the world.
Renée Frojo covers hospitality, restaurants, retail and nonprofits for the San Francisco Business Times.
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Not all the action for Melbourne Storm’s Women in League Round celebrations will be on the field.
A gameday event has been launched to promote the club’s newly created Women of Storm program and provide a great opportunity for networking, as well as hearing from some inspiring special guests.
Supported by Suzuki, Coles and Banks Botanicals, the Women of Storm cocktail function will be held at The Glasshouse, just a short walk from AAMI Park where Storm will take on the Gold Coast Titans in round 21 of the NRL on Friday, August 5.
It gets underway at 3pm, with the NRL match, which completes two weeks of Women in League activities, scheduled for a 6pm kickoff.
Confirmed on the guest speakers list are NRL Commissioner and former Queensland Government Minister Kate Jones, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival chair and former Westpac Investment Bank executive Pippa Crawford, and 2022 Storm captain Christian Welch.
Tickets are available, here.
Storm launched its Women of Storm program earlier this year, providing a new platform to celebrate and empower women to drive positive change, inclusiveness and equality.
“We recognised a bigger opportunity to not just celebrate this as part of a Women in League round but create a program that spans across the whole year,” Storm CEO Justin Rodski said.
Our mission is to create a genuine and meaningful program that helps to drive change.Justin Rodski
“We had several existing initiatives already in place, which we have now formalised under one holistic program to create a clear vision for the Storm Group.”
Last week, the club released its Women of Storm men’s and women’s warm-up tees. Taking inspiration from the phrase ‘Strength in Equality’, the tee showcases strength, the Victorian Women’s Trust and a ‘=’ sign.
The playing squad will wear the tee for pre-game warm-ups in Rounds 20 and 21 and at a training session in the coming week.
Women of Storm beanies and scarves are also available online at the Storm team shop.
In the lead-up to the Titans game, Melbourne Storm will also highlight its strong decade-long partnership with the Victorian Women’s Trust.
Established in 1985, the Victorian Women’s Trust operates with the vision that ‘full gender equality = a world where women, girls, non-binary and gender diverse people take up all of life’s opportunities with respect, safety and dignity.’
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Blockbuster has provided little confidence that it will be able to recover on its own and it's debt load isn't its only issue. Last month, the video rental company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $434.9 million, or $2.24 a share, as same-store sales fell almost 16%. This dour result came as a majority of the retail industry began to recover.
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The first thing that comes to mind the moment one considers Asian dating is a beautiful Asian sole. There is no doubt that Asian dating is growing rapidly one of the most powerful forms of flirting, but some do not understand that there are happy Asian, married girls as well. Many are led to assume that there is only a select couple of happy Asian single young girls. However , which is not true. In fact , there are more happy Asian wives than there are unsatisfied married women of all ages.
A cheerful Asian partner must have an effective husband. It does not mean this individual has to be good-looking and with a good job. It means he should be a great listener, adoring and giving. While some say that money resolves all challenges in matrimony, https://pastbrides.org/asian-brides/thai/ that may not end up being true in every single marriage.
There are many factors that can make a marriage completely happy. A happy Cookware woman should know her individual self prior to she gets into marital relationship. She has to visit terms with who completely, what she needs and how she will be remedied in the Oriental culture. This wounderful woman has to be able to admit and understand the boundaries set by her husband. And she also must respect the person the woman with marrying as Asian men are typically very valiente.
Oriental dating is all about making the woman come to feel wanted, much-loved and beautiful. This kind of starts with the man. He must treat his wife with respect trying to be as happy and contented as possible. If a man is happy with his wife, the girl will be also.
You will find happy Hard anodized cookware married girls for all various kinds of people. Many are single father and mother. Others have got jobs outside of the home and tend to be looking for a stable relationship. Some are from upper income brackets and want the safety of marital relationship. There are even have been women who are not raised to think of life as being a family nevertheless are now happily married.
So if you are looking for Asian, hitched women, only make sure to look above race. This does not mean you should be white. Nevertheless , you must be looking for Asian women who healthy your meaning of what a successful, happy Oriental wife need to be. Once you have seen this type of girl, you will not wonder why so many persons from around the globe have observed happiness with Asian wives.


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Settle down Nate!
Active recovery by foot. Gotta keep them bones strong right?
Yeah, that was fun running hard. Definitely good for the bones. :)
You are a monster
I didn't at all remember what the previous times were like, and just ran hard, so it was nice to see it was faster than you [Jim] and I had run before. :)
How do you like the riding/racing out there in norcal? Kinda sick of the cold here in colorado. We have great roads when it's nice out, but 90% of the racing here is office park crits.
I think Northern CA is pretty great most of the time. Sometimes it's rainy and cold, but on average throughout the year, it's probably some of the best weather, air quality, and training grounds that you could hope for.

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Apple Watch Series 6 blood oxygen monitoring available in more than 100 countries
Apple on Wednesday revealed Apple Watch Series 6 blood oxygen monitoring, a major new feature for the company’s wearable line, will be available in more than 100 countries when the device debuts on Friday.
According to Apple’s Watch feature availability webpage, the Blood Oxygen app that powers the new health capability will launch in 109 countries. Previously, the company said blood oxygen monitoring would be available in “certain countries” on Sept. 18.Along with typical compatibility in the U.S. and major European Union states, the feature is also set to debut in important regions like China, Japan and India. Those markets sometimes receive new health-related features months or years after a domestic release due to local government restrictions.


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(Photo via The Philadelphia Tribune)
(*Updated at 3:25 p.m. on 6/2/20 to include comment from the Pa. Dept. of Corrections)
A coalition of organizations has launched a hunger strike to force Gov. Tom Wolf to release incarcerated individuals to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania prisons.
In a May 28 letter, Free People Strike called on Wolf to release 1,800 individuals eligible for release under an April 10 reprieve order Wolf signed to help aid the Department of Corrections in qualifying individuals for transfer or home confinement amid COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons.
The organization has not heard a response from Wolf’s office since sending the letter.
*The Capital-Star reached out to Wolf’s office for comment and received a statement from the state Department of Corrections, saying the department is aware of the letter addressed to the governor.
“The temporary reprieve program, along with other measures implemented since the onset of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania, have resulted in our ability to reduce the state prison and community corrections populations. Our facility population is down 2,359 since April 1 and down 2,933 from March 1,” DOC Press Secretary Maria Finn said in an email to the Capital-Star.
Free People Strike organizer Jackson Kusiak said he and two other organizers have not eaten in five days. More than 20 people joined in the strike on Monday as a show of solidarity.
Kusiak said “the governor has been silent,” and that his group has been calling and emailing his office everyday.
Twenty-five organizations in the state support the hunger strike, including the Human Rights Coalition, where Kusiak does criminal-justice reform advocacy work.
“If he’s willing to meet with us to talk about how he’s going to release people so they don’t have to die in prison, we will talk with him,” Kusiak said. “Police and the prisons show indifference toward Black people dying in prison, and the governor continues to be silent.”
The letter also called for an expansion of the reprieve order to include people incarcerated for a drug-trafficking offense, people who served at least 75 percent of their minimum sentence, individuals over the age of 60 who completed at least 50 percent of their minimum sentence, the medically vulnerable regardless of offense type, and people incarcerated due to technical parole violations.
Here are other demands outlined in the letter to Wolf:
- Expand the reprieve order to suspend sentences for new technical parole or probation violations in an effort to allow facilities to safely distance people from one another;
- Sign three commutation applications recommended by the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons for individuals serving life in prison without parole;
- See that released individuals receive access to housing, food, and medical care, including treatment for those who tested positive for COVID-19;
- The governor and Secretary of Corrections must ensure prevention, testing, and medical care for those who remain incarcerated;
- Issue an Emergency Removal Order on the Berks County Residential Center, an ICE facility in Philadelphia, to release all families to a relative or sponsor.
There have been 141 reprieve releases so far, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The DOC implemented a statewide inmate quarantine on March 29, where Corrections Secretary John Wetzel described it as “forced social distancing” in a statement. There are 25 state prisons and more than 44,000 inmates. County prisons are not operated by the DOC and are not subject to this quarantine mandate.
The Corrections Department began a state prison reopening process on May 26 using a five-phase strategy.
In a May 22 statement Wetzel said that as counties move from red, yellow, and green in Wolf’s statewide reopening plan prisons in those counties will gradually increase the number of inmates allowed at a time and programs will cautiously move away from cell-based activities.
The demands were adapted from letters written this spring by ACLU-PA, Amistad Law Project, the Abolitionist Law Center, ACT UP Philly, Inside Justice, and a 2016 letter from the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition.
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LeyeT won’t change the world but she will make us feel better.
Los Angeles-based artist LeyeT is back with a brand new sigle titled “Most People,” a track that celebrates friendship, attention and mutual aid. In a world that is facing anxiety more and more, her light-hearted pop song is more than welcome. As always, the track is based on a simple and warmful guitar riff and an infectious chorus. About “Most People,” LeyeT explained:
This one made me cry the day I wrote it. I brought the idea of “most people won’t get it” into a session with two of my close friends Zack Burke and Dylan Emmet. They loved it; the song felt like it wrote itself in a matter of hours and on the car ride leaving the session listening to the demo, I got so emotional! It was what I needed to hear myself during a time when I was feeling super overwhelmed. At the heart of what I want to provide for others through my artistry is clarity – my hope is that this song helps to bring that about and to help re-affirm sense of self.


Throughout the years I've come to know Sebastiaan and his music quite well and it always is completely world class, first rate and most impressive! On this CD he almost outdoes himself with great self-penned compositions and arrangements and fantastic playing from literally everyone. I've been a big fan of Gerard Presencer's since I heard him on a Joe Locke CD and it's great to hear him in this setting...these are great musicans who deserve to be known the world over! - Randy Brecker
Sebastiaan writes curious and intelligent music of depth and passion. His intricate harmonic approach is very interesting to me also. For these reasons and others, it's been a genuine pleasure to take part a little bit in these recordings and I wish Sebastiaan all the success he deserves with this new release. -Gary Husband
what else can I say other than it's amazing! It goes without saying that the playing would be incredible considering yourself and the list of guest contributors but the writing is absolutely breathtaking so congratulations! - -Brett Garsed.
Sebastiaan Cornelissen is one of the most musical drummers/composers I have encountered in recent years. I was delighted to contribute my part to his upcoming album "Uturn". - Alexander Machacek
Since first coming on the scene in the early 2000s, composer and drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen has emerged as one of the most distinctive new voices on the European fusion scene. Whether acting as a leader, sideman, or group member, Cornelissen's playing combines a sharp sense of empathy and staggering technique with impressive improvisational grace and intensity. His compositions are subtle and melodically memorable, while presenting fertile challenges for improvisation. Uturn, available Abstract Logix Music, is the second solo album from Cornelissen, who currently divides his time between the UK and his native Holland.
Born of transition and experimentation over the past four years, Uturn is a vital, organic statement marked by the multifaceted gifts and restless creative spirit of its maker, Sebastiaan Cornelissen. While best known as a peerless drummer, whose supple, almost melodic playing both drives and colors the ensemble he is performing with, Cornelissen is also featured on Uturn as a composer, producer, guitarist, and engineer. He brings to each role a dynamic, inventive sensibility, and sense of improvisation that imbues not only his playing, but his approach to structure, texture, and composition.
The process that resulted in the project began in 2003, when Cornelissen moved to Nottingham, England to teach. "That was quite a gamble," he recalls, "since I didn't have the luxuries that I did at home – like a studio and drums, or someplace where I could make loads of noise all day and night. I searched for ways to be able to make music somehow, and ended up buying a very simple laptop. I started to create a bunch of fragmental tunes, where instead of drums I would make loops and beats using samples of me playing brushes on whatever I found in my garage. Those miniature compositions on the laptop were the beginning of it all."
Living to the UK also forced Cornelissen, already well-known in his home country, to establish himself in an entirely new scene. "I had to start from scratch again," he reflects. "Since nobody knew me, I didn't have a stamp on me as being a particular kind of drummer. So I got a lot more experience in loads of different musical situations." The combination of a wider range of musical experiences with his growing stash of laptop-composed songs laid the foundation for Uturn, which he began working on in earnest in 2005. "By 2005 I had moved back home," he recalls, "but teaching and performing commitments meant that I had to travel back and forth, sometimes twice a week, between England and Holland. I always had my laptop around, and whenever possible I'd put on one of the tunes and have friends play solos over it."
The result of four years of recording, mixing, re-recording, and editing, was a kaleidoscopic album that melded a jazz-derived fluidity with the crackling energy of rock and deep rhythmic grooves that owed equally to funk and swing. A variety of recording approaches were utilized, along with a rotating cast of musicians, including Gerard Presencer on trumpet and flugelhorn; keyboardists Gary Husband, Scott Kinsey, and Steve Hunt; guitarists Susan Weinert, Leonardo Amuedo, Richard Hallebeek, Alex Machacek, and Mike Outram; and bassists Frans Vollink, Johnny Copland, Jimmy Earl, Gary Willis, and Tom Kennedy. In addition to drums, percussion, loops, and programming, Cornelissen contributed keyboards and guitar while mixing and engineering the entire album.
Cornelissen's diverse musicality is rooted in his upbringing in a creative, supportive family. His grandfather was a talented painter and sculptor, and his father is a well regarded double-bass player who performed for several decades with the Radio Symphony Orchestra and taught at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Very soon after Sebastiaan showed an interest in percussion, his father traded one of his basses for a set of drums, and the young musician quickly excelled in this warm, encouraging atmosphere. He was performing by the age of ten, and studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam from 1997 until 2001. There he came into contact with a like-minded group of musicians inspired by the possibility of fusing jazz-like improvisational freedom with an increasingly sophisticated compositional and technical approach. With pianist Rob Van Bavel he formed the group Isotope, who released two albums that helped to establish Cornelissen as one of the country's finest and most innovative young drummers.
Cornelissen's solo debut, Aggressive Attack, was released in 2002. Largely acoustic in conception, Aggressive Attack featured Cornelissen as composer and bandleader in a more jazz-oriented context. In 2005 Cornelissen was featured on a pair of releases showcasing two sides of his increasingly broadening vision. Timeline was a riveting fusion date with Tribal Tech bassist Gary Willis and Lale Larson on piano, rich with startling playing, wit, and a conversational sense of interplay. A duo project with bassist Frans Vollink, One Spirit was a more expansive outing that included contributions from Van Bavel and Larson, along with Richard Hallebeek (guitar), Susan Weinert (guitar and guitar synth), Martin Verdonk (percussion), Randy Brecker (trumpet), and Gerard Presencer (trumpet).
Uturn features many of those collaborators, in very different settings. "I wanted something more produced," Cornelissen explains, "as opposed to the much more live recordings I did before. The concept was to use my studio's full potential. Layering sounds and drums. On the track '4 Hands,' for instance, I play brushes and sticks in the same bar. Overlapping grooves and using samples are heard a lot, too, and not just in the drum parts."
"Some of the tracks were overdubbed piece-by-piece from scratch," he continues, "and others were cut almost completely live. I always added or altered something, though. 'Fruits & Fibre,' which is the name of a cheap cereal I was eating, is based on a little loop of me playing a copper oilcan and a cereal bowl with my fork and spoon. Throughout Uturn I made my own sounds from samples I recorded – sometimes with a guitar, sometimes bells or a glass or whatever was around. So, in the basics, it really gives something personal to the general sound of the tunes."
The only outside composition is "England Green," written by legendary British keyboardist Gary Husband, who is heard on three of Uturn's fourteen tracks. "Gary is wonderful as a musician and person," Cornelissen says. "He helped me out a lot with this album. I have listened to his music ever since I was 6 or so, so you can imagine how it feels to have him in the band. I have to pretend that I know how to play drums!" As important an influence as Husband was on the project, the biggest contributor might have also been the smallest. "Having my son, Caspar Tristan, had a major impact. His arrival made me think differently about how I use my time and my energy."
Looking back on the competed project, on all the layers of composition, improvisation, samples, live performances, edits, and mixes, Cornelissen is now curious to take an entirely different approach. "Almost every tune brings up a memory now, or a feeling," he concludes. "But by the time one tune is finished the one I did before it already sounds old to me. Maybe after this I will make a live album of this music and see how different it would turn out!"
released August 9, 2014
Hadrien Feraud, Gary Willis, Scott Kinsey, Tom Kennedy, Steve Hunt, Richard Hallebeek, Frans Vollink, Mike Outram, Jimmy Earl
Dutch drummer/composer Sebastiaan Cornelissen studied at The Conservatory of Amsterdam. He has worked/recorded with: Randy
Brecker, Jim Beard, Gary
Willis, Gary Husband, Mike Miller, Steve Hunt, Wayne Johnson, Susan Weinert, Scott Kinsey,
Tom Kennedy, Gerard Presencer, Hadrien Feraud, Alex Machacek, Damian Erskine,
Jimmy Haslip, Richard Hallebeek, Jimmy Earl, Frank Gambale, Mike Outram a.o....more
Yes, they know their instruments, how to play together, to support each other and the idea of the song. Are they mixing genres/styles? Maybe, in the end it's probably based on the blues. Yeah!
Favorite track: 6Toli freejazzy
Note that Mc Hacek should be written with a haček on the c, i.e. č. But let's not be picky here, because Mc Hacek actually is Alex Machacek, who's missing the haček, too. His 1999 debut album surely meets open ears among the Zappa and Holdsworth fans. In fact, there are several references to Zappa's "Black Page" super-hyper-masterpiece. Besides that, there's a lot of first-class fusion music on this album, composed either by Mc Hacek himself, or by his bass/keyboards bandmate Tibor Kövesdi. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)


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Cocoa in burger buns? Seems a little odd to you? Not to me, it doesn’t. The thought of adding some chocolate flavour in buns without the sweetness and fat, seemed too good to pass up when I first saw them at Palachinka, Marija‘s beautiful blog. And when she describes these buns as “incredible”, I have to agree.
They do really well (in my opinion) as burger buns also, if you’re willing to take a chance and do a bit of “out of the box” thinking where burger buns are concerned.
I have made Marija’s Whole Wheat Cocoa Buns a couple of times now. The last time I made them, I slightly tweaked (which is the one on this post) her recipe and I liked this version too. While she suggests trying the buns with dulche de leche, I thought this tweaked version would make good burger buns.
As for the patties, I just put together what I had on hand the particular day I made them as a snack for tea. Whenever I soak chickpeas, I always add a little more than I need. I cook them, then drain and freeze the extra chickpeas for later use so I almost always have some in the freezer.
I also made double the recipe of the patties and froze the left over patties and used them with these buns to make vegetable burgers. Use whatever you would like inside your vegetable burgers. My burger has some lettuce (surprisingly, considering we don’t really like lettuce but I had some I needed to use up), onion, tomato, sweet and sour mango chutney and cheese. This makes my vegetable burger reasonably strong in the “healthy” department too.
Whole Wheat Cocoa Bun Burgers With Chickpea Vegetable Patties
For the Whole Wheat Cocoa Buns :
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 3/4 tsps active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 tbsps cocoa dark powder
- 3/4 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsps milk
- flax seeds for sprinkling
For the Chickpea Vegetable Patties :
- 1 onion medium , finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp ginger paste
- 1/2 tsp garlic paste
- 1/4 cup cabbage finely shredded
- 1/4 cup carrots grated
- 1/8 cup sweet corn (frozen)
- 1 potato big boiled
- 1 1/4 cups chickpeas cooked
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 3/4 tsp cumin powder
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp chilli powder (adjust to taste)
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 2 tbsps coriander leaves chopped
- to taste salt
- cutlets a little oil for pan frying the / patties
- To make the Whole Wheat Cocoa Burgers, start by dissolving the honey and yeast in 1/2 a cup of warm water and allow to prove.
- Mix all the other ingredients, except the milk and flax seeds, in a bowl or food processor bowl. Add the yeast mixture and enough water to mix into a smooth and elastic dough. Shape the dough into a ball and place in an oiled bowl, coating the dough with the oil, and cover. Allow to rise till double in volume.
- Gently deflate the dough and divide into 6 equal portions. Shape each portion of dough into a bun. Brush the buns with milk and sprinkle with flax seeds. Cover wit a towel and allow the buns to rise a bit, for about 20 minutes.
- Bake at 190C (375F) for 35 minutes till the buns sound hollow when tapped. Since the cocoa would give the buns a brown colour, it would be a bit difficult to judge how brown the buns would have become. This recipe will make 6 burger buns.
- To make the Chickpea and Vegetable Patties, start by mashing the chickpeas and boiled potatoes very well, so no lumps remain. Keep aside.
- Heat 1 1/2 tsp oil in a pan, and sautxe9 the ginger and garlic pastes and the onion till it turns translucent and soft. Add the spice powders and 2 tbsp of water and continue cooking over low to medium heat, for a minute. Now add the cabbage, carrot and sweet corn and sautxe9 for another minute, on high heat. Turn down the heat to medium and add the mashed chickpea-potato mixture and salt. Mix well, and finally add the chopped coriander leaves. Take off the heat, and make sure the kebab/ cutlet/ patty mixture is well mixed.
- Once the mixture has cooled a bit, divide it into 8 equal portions and shape each into kebabs/ cutlets/ patties. If you feel the mixture is too crumbly and difficult to shape, you can add a tbsp of chickpea flour (and a tsp of water, if required) to the mixture and mix well. These kebabs/ cutlets/ patties will be slightly soft, but should not fall apart easily.
- If you use a non-stick heavy pan, you just need to lightly grease the pan to cook the cutlets/ patties. Cook them 3 or 4 at a time, until golden brown and slightly crisp. Then turn them over and similarly cook them on the other side too.
- You can also lightly brush the cutlets/ patties with oil and either grill or bake them. Use them in vegetable burgers and serve with oven baked potatoes (optional) for a filling meal. They can also be served as a side dish to a main meal. This recipe makes 8 patties, approximately 2" each.
- If you make the kebabs/ cutlets/ patties slightly smaller, you can serve them as appetizers or a snack, with tomato ketchup or coriander-mint and sweet and sour tamarind chutneys.


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Night (Harry Potter)
It is night, and it is dark, but he is not scared. Enchanted stars twinkle on his ceiling, there is music playing somewhere.
He knows he is safe.
More than the stars and the music, he knows he is safe because of them.
She is soft and blazing red, with green and happy eyes. When she holds him, he feels warm inside.
He is harder, noisier, with black ruffled hair and eyes that hide behind glass. When he holds him, he feels brave.
The baby has no words for any of this, but he knows it inside.
He is safe.

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In the new article, Force sensing helps hydrogen electrolyzers efficiently harness energy, Randy White, OEM Business Development Manager at Interface details how products made the the leader in force measurement are used for increasing operational efficiencies in renewable energy production.
Published in Design News in November 2022, the article focuses on using advanced sensor technologies to measure critical infrastructure that is used for hydrogen production and storage. As outlined in the article, Interface is a supplier of choice for innovative solutions used in the energy industry. Randy details how Interface LWHP14 Precision Load Washer Load Cells are used to monitor tie rods and submit results via a WTS-AM-1E Wireless Strain Bridge Transmitter Module for accurately reporting critical measurements in real-time.
Here is a quick excerpt from the article, Force sensing helps hydrogen electrolyzers efficiently harness energy.
The use of hydrogen as a clean and reliable renewable energy source has been a carrot on a stick for green energy innovators for many, many years. Scientists and technologists have understood the positive impact of hydrogen for a long time, and even harnessed it at times, but the ability to reliably store and harness this energy at a reasonable cost has previously eluded them. However, hydrogen is back in full force as storage and battery technology has advanced, giving new life to the promise of hydrogen.
Hydrogen is critical to the future of green energy because it is an optimal solution to storing renewable energy from other sources such as wind and water. In certain areas, like California, we’re actually producing too much energy from renewable sources, but have no place to store. This is leading to a tremendous amount of resource loss. Therefore, hydrogen innovation has come back to become a storage solution to curtail waste and hold enough energy to power more infrastructure with green energy.
Watch the actual use case in our animated Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Tie Rod Monitoring Application Note.
Interface engineers and application experts work to design force measurement solutions that are customized for unique applications. Our solutions are available as stand-alone and at scale to include in manufactured parts, components, machines and products. Contact us to learn more.


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A relatively young press, Autumn Hill Books is one of those impressive indie presses that gets nowhere near the attention it deserves.
Autumn Hill Books is a nonprofit based in Iowa and is closely linked to the writing programs at the University of Iowa, especially the International Writing Program. (Which is no surprise, since AHB’s founder, Russell Valentino is an Associate Professor of Russian, Cinema and Comparative Literature, at the University of Iowa.)
The mission of the press is noble: “Autumn Hill Books is an Iowa non-profit corporation whose emphasis is on making fine translations of primarily contemporary literature from around the world more widely available in English.”
I just received three of their recent publications in the mail: Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh by Slobodan Novak, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth; The Death of the Little Match Girl by Zoran Feric, translated from the Croatian by Tomislav Kuzmanovic; and Anima Mundi by Susanna Tamaro, translated from the Italian by Cinzia Sartini Blum and Russell Scott Valentino. Each of these books looks really interesting and are representative of the unique, exciting fiction coming out from indie presses these days.
Feric’s The Death of the Little Match Girl is the one that I’d like to read first, due in part to Michael Orthofer’s review and this bit from the description:
It is a world unto itself loaded with creepy settings, biazarre exchanges, and dark, sardonic humor. The novel ends up being not so much a murder mystery as a bizarre, uncomfortable fusion of detective story, crime novel, political thriller, and raw, grotesque fiction. In short—Balkan krimic.
Overall, this is one of those presses that more people should know about, and their forthcoming title Laundry by Suzane Adam sounds intriguing.
Pedro Zarraluki’s The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza García) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: “This is the story of how. . .
There are plenty of reasons you can fail to find the rhythm of a book. Sometimes it’s a matter of discarding initial assumptions or impressions, sometimes of resetting oneself. Zigmunds Skujiņš’s Flesh-Coloured Dominoes was a defining experience in the necessity. . .
In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I’ve long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I’ve suggested. . .
I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years, Claudio Viberti, is just that—a shy internist who lives in. . .
The last five days of the eleventh-century Icelandic politician, writer of sagas, and famous murder victim Snorri Sturleleson (the Norwegian spelling, Snorre, is preserved in the book) make up Thorvald Steen’s most recently translated historical fiction, The Little Horse. Murdered. . .
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-Élysées. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre’s novel, Guys Like Me, we’re shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying. . .
One hundred pages into Birth of a Bridge, the prize-winning novel from French writer Maylis de Kerangal, the narrator describes how starting in November, birds come to nest in the wetlands of the fictional city of Coca, California, for three. . .
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map. . .
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin. . .
Marie NDiaye has created a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green. In it she explores how our private fears and insecurities can distort what we believe to be real and can cause us to sabotage our intimate relationships.. . .

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Persian MS 47 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
While this manuscript lacks an explicit title, Michael Kearney correctly identified it as the Salīm-Shāhnāmah in his Handlist, p. 109. However, subsequent electronic records employed another title, Tārīkh-i Mawlā-yi Mulūk al-‘Arab, mistakenly derived from the dedication to Sultan Selim I on folio 4b. For a complete descriptions of the contents, see Rieu, Catalogue Vol. I, pp. 218–219 [British Library Add. 24960] and Markiewicz.
Written in 1–2 columns with 25 lines per page. Ruled with a miṣṭārah
Primarily written in nasta‘liq (Ottoman: talīḳ) script in black ink, with subheadings in gold, blue, and red riqā‘ (Ottoman: rıḳā‘) script.
- Folio 1b: headpiece.
- Throughout: subheadings and gilt marginal ruling.
- Folio 4a: illuminated roundel dedicated to Sultan Selim II, written in rayhani script in white outlined in thin black against a gold ground and set within floral scrollwork, and surrounded by radiating lines:
قد وقع توقيع هذا التاريخ برسم خزانهٔ مولى ملوك العرب والعجم السلطان بن السلطان ابو الفتح سلطان سليمشاه خان بن سليمان شاه بن سلطان سليم خان خلد الله ملكه
Folio 1a and left flyleaf: Sy 325, from de Sacy's library.
Folio 4a, top: brief inscriptions in Persian in nasta‘liq:
خط همايون ('Imperial Script') and كتاب تواريخ فارسي ('Book of Persian Histories').
- Folio 4a, bottom: Four Arabic couplets in nasta‘liq, signed underneath by one Ebū's-Su‘ūd:
سفر جليل مثل بحر زاخر * ابوابه اصداف درّ فاخر
نظمت فرائده و من بقعره * عجبا لصنع عبقري نادر
ما إن رأه ولا رواه حكاية * احد علي مر الزمان الغابر
طوي لصانعه من الحبر الذي * ورث الفضائل كابرا عن كابر
Left flyleaf: Bibliotheca Lindesiana with shelfmark F/4, and Bland MSS No. 57.
Resewn at four unsupported stations, without endbands. Originally covered in full, possibly in two-piece, tight-backed smooth dark red goatskin leather with fore-edge flap (type II binding per Déroche), but the spine was later rebacked in maroon goatskin and a new envelope flap added in the same. The exterior features sunken onlays of smooth, dark green leather, with relief areas of the deeply pressure-moulded scalloped mandorlas, attached pendants, and corners embellished and perimeters outlined in gold ink. Interior doublures lined with the same red goatskin leather as the exterior, but with pressure-moulded recessed scalloped mandorlas with gilt grounds. The fore-edge flap bears five cartouches with central knotwork designs, with ruling, all in gold, with the surrounding wide rule ruling stamped with a chain design. The replaced envelope flap exterior has blind fillet lines around the perimeter and blind European fleur-de-lis impression by the point.
306 × 206 × 33 mm.
Provenance and Acquisition
Later acquired by French orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, (1758–1838), as per his bookplate on the right paste-down and notation on the second to last left flyleaf, verso, whose library was sold in 1843, (see de La Grange, Bibliothèque... Vol. III, Appendix no. 325).
Later acquired by scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803–1865), after whose death his oriental manuscripts were sold by Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899) in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880).
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913).
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands in 1908 to the John Rylands Library.
Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993, derived from a manuscript handlist by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s and his Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Hand-list of Oriental Manuscripts: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, 1898. Emended and enhanced by Jake Benson in 2021 with reference to the manuscript.
Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation and The John Rylands Research Institute


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BLOOD LOSS (THE CHRONICLE OF RAEL)
Within these pages you shall find the tale of Dahken Rael – a warrior who struggles to find purpose and meaning. With no small amount of blood shed from both he and his enemies, Rael plods across the world to find his people or even an inkling as to what his life should be about.
Within these pages you shall find exploration and adventure, battle and death, villains and heroes to love and hate. And in the end, you will find the Chronicle of a warrior who loses all he could ever be to his destiny.


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As an author and devoted traveler, I closed my long-time New Mexico practice of clinical and forensic psychology in 2008 to devote more time to writing, and beachcombing. My husband, a former attorney, and I divide our time between Santa Fe and West Palm Beach where our two adult sons visit us regularly (but not often enough).
Wow! This writing (and beachcombing) is really fun! I recommend it to all of you who have ever thought about starting that memoir or novel or article. Smashwords makes publishing incredibly easy, and who knows, you might even sell a couple of hundred thousand copies (I haven't yet)!
After years of living in Roswell with its sometimes offbeat attractions and history--the Roswell Incident, for example--writing "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" (available in paperback and as an ebook) gave me the chance to share these interests with visitors to the Land of Enchantment. I have also published a shorter selection from it, "Roswell, NM: The Ten Best Free Things To Do," as an ebook.
Next I wrote a book about a distinctly different region, one I have loved since my childhood spent knee-deep in the marshes and saltwater creeks of the South Carolina coast. "Tales from Brookgreen: Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales in the South Carolina Lowcountry" (paperback and ebook) recounts stories from Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina's popular tourist attraction just south of Myrtle Beach. I am happy to see that the three shorter collections of stories from this longer work are quite popular: "Lowcountry Ghosts," "Gullah Ghosts," and "Crab Boy's Ghost." I hope to get back to work on more lowcountry ghost stories soon.
Did you know that Herman Melville, of "Moby-Dick" fame, wrote a series of articles describing the Galapagos Islands? Neither did I until recently. My latest project has been to put Melville's articles together with wonderful photographs taken by my son Moses in the Galapagos Islands, and writing introductory material to create a book for the modern visitor to the place Melville called "The Encantadas." We call the book "In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville" (paperback and book) and hope this glimpse into the "Enchanted Isles," written over 150 years ago, will enrich the visits of today's travelers. I've also published two short portions of it as ebooks that feature even more of Moses' great photos: "Galapagos Islands Birds" and "Galapagos Islands Landscapes."
Recently I've gotten interested in researching the famous New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, especially the time he spent in Santa Fe. Did you know that more movies have been made about him over the years than about ANY OTHER individual? I have already completed one short ebook, "Billy the Kid's Jail," with more to come. It's hard not to write more about Santa Fe in the 1870s and 1880s than about Billy. I get lost in reading Santa Fe newspapers from that era. So many fascinating details!
Where to find Lynn Michelsohn online
Lowcountry Ghosts: Stories of Alice Flagg, Confederate Blockade Runners, and Haunted Beads
(3.73 from 11 reviews)
What ghosts haunt ancient rice fields and mysterious marshes along the South Carolina Coast near Myrtle Beach? . . . lovely Alice Flagg? Confederate blockade runners? long-forgotten Wachesaw braves?
vengeful pirates? Find history, mystery, and romance in these three gentle ghost stories (10,000 words, 9 illustrations, 94 pages in paperback) from the longer collection, "Tales from Brookgreen."
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Yes, Facebook has admitted sharing user data again with third-party apps- by mistake. That’s one huge mistake that they have made, no doubt.
Facebook and user data scandal seems to have an everlasting relationship with one another. After trying so hard to gain back users’ trust, it has messed things up again.
The company has violated its own policy by mistakenly giving the user data access to over 5,000 unauthorized developers.
Yes, it’s a step towards trust that Facebook has admitted sharing data itself before it was exposed through another scandal.
Violates its own policy
The social media giant says it was a mistake and of course, we are wondering why a mistake with user data?
Couldn’t the lapse target something easier to understand and overlook like user interface? But no, the bug targetted user data.
They said that due to an issue with the system, data of users who have been inactive for over 90 days has been compromised.
This is a huge lapse in security and it violates Facebook’s own policy regarding user data. The company’s data policy says the following:
We don’t sell any of your information to anyone, and we never will. We also impose strict restrictions on how our partners can use and disclose the data we provide.
If this is so, then how did the lapse occur and what was it about exactly?
What was the mistake?
The mistake is rooted in the violation of its user data policy. In 2018, the company announced that it would prevent the apps using Facebook Login from acquiring the user data.
Of course, that will happen if the user has been inactive for over 90 days. Facebook Login is a feature that most of the apps use in case the user doesn’t want to make another account.
But due to some bug in the system, even the users who have been inactive on the platform for over 90 days were losing their data to the third-party developers.
About 5,000 developers continued to receive data about users who have been inactive on Facebook for over 90 days.
Facebook admitted to the lapse in a post and said that they have sorted the problem the very next day.
VP of Platform Partnerships at Facebook, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, said that 5,000 third party apps continued getting information regarding language setting or user gender.
He also said that the information-sharing was not inconsistent with the permissions people gave when they logged in using Facebook.
Facebook explained, “this could happen if someone used a fitness app to invite their friends from their hometown to a workout, but we (Facebook) didn’t recognize that some of their friends had been inactive for many months.”
Facebook has said that they fixed this issue immediately, but did not reveal how many people it affected.
This is not the first time that Facebook has compromised user data. The infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal had completely shaken user trust in the platform.
Facebook has since been trying hard to build the trust back with its users.


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Employer: My Hair Clinic
Industry: Health and Medical
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Two Presentable and responsible Females needed for Medical Clinic in Islamabad.
Age 20-27 years, 15,000-25,000 PKR/month, 15 day month, spoken English and Computer Skills preferred.
Health Care of Medical experience not required.
Training will be provided.
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A trip to Las Vegas is a great opportunity to explore the many upscale golf courses located around the city, and it’s also an excellent opportunity to try out that new set of clubs you’re considering upgrading to.
Renting golf clubs in Las Vegas is convenient and can often be cheaper than you think, with good-quality rental clubs starting from $30 per set for the first day. Of course, you need to know where to rent from because prices and specifications vary drastically.
Leave your golf clubs at home and avoid the hassle of damaged, missing, or overpriced luggage fees, using this handy Las Vegas golf club rental guide.
(This article may contain affiliate links, which means we might earn a small commission if you click and make a purchase. Thank you!)
Can You Rent Golf Clubs in Vegas?
Yes, you can easily rent golf clubs in Las Vegas. Golf club rentals are available at most golf courses in town. You also have the option to rent clubs from a local golf rental shop or online and have a rental set of golf clubs delivered to your hotel.
Vegas has more than its fair share of quality golf courses, and most clubhouses or course shops will be able to offer a selection of good-quality clubs for men or women who play either left or right-handed.
Most of the time, rental clubs will come with a golf bag and stand, although some golf clubs are offered with a trolley bag if you’re not planning on renting a golf cart.
How Much to Rent Golf Clubs in Las Vegas?
Golf clubs in Las Vegas can be rented for between $30 and $80 a day on average. You can save on the cost of a rental set of clubs by renting them for multiple days at a time through a local Vegas golf store or online. Multi-day club rentals will drop the daily cost to between $20 and $60 per day.
Similar to the wide variety of quality golf courses in Las Vegas, there are rental clubs available for every budget. From the prestigious elite golfers attracted to places like Shadow Creek Golf Course to more affordable public golf courses, there’s a wide range of pricing options available.
The price for golf club rentals in Las Vegas will depend on the quality of the clubs and where you choose to rent them.
Where Can I Rent Golf Clubs in Las Vegas?
Let’s look at four popular Las Vegas golf courses and their club rental options. Then, in the next section, we will review specialist club reservation services that can be booked easily online.
Las Vegas National Golf Club
With a history that spans over 50 years, the Las Vegas National Golf Club offers hassle-free golf club rentals and features the hottest Taylor clubs available. With many club rental sets available, they offer regular, stiff, and senior flex shafts, and they also carry ladies and left-handed clubs. Most notably, they offer one of the cheapest golf club rental options in and around Las Vegas.
Receiving rental clubs is easy and can be booked when scheduling your tee time by calling them directly at (702) 889-1000.
Rental golf club pricing at Las Vegas National Golf Club:
- Taylor Made M6 family of irons and woods $49 per set.
- The twilight club rental rate after 12:00pm is $39.
Desert Pines Golf Club
With more than 60 rental sets available, Desert Pines Golf Club has a great range of rental clubs in a variety of combinations. Choose from top branded golf clubs such as Versa Putters, Rogue Hybrids, Callaway Rogue Irons, Rogue Drivers, Rogue Hybrids, and Mack Daddy 2 Chrome (60 degree).
Rental golf club pricing at Desert Pine:
- Rental Package (Premium) $80 – Includes two sleeves of golf balls and a glove.
- Rental Package (Standard) $65 – Includes two sleeves of golf balls.
Royal Links Golf Club
With views of the famous Las Vegas Strip, Royal Links Golf Club is a popular course offering golfers a great experience not far from Las Vegas Blvd. and has been crowned by multiple golfing publications as the best golf course in Las Vegas.
Royal Links offers excellent quality Callaway Golf rental sets, including the award-winning Epic Flash Driver, Rogue irons, and Exo Putters.
Rental golf club pricing at Royal Links:
- Rental golf clubs are $65 per set.
TPC Las Vegas
Offering a wide range of the latest clubs in a variety of configurations, TPC Las Vegas provides golf club rentals from their club shop and can be reserved when booking your tee-off time.
Depending on the time you are planning to play, TPC Las Vegas has five different brands of golf clubs available for rental, and all rental golf club sets include six golf balls.
Rental golf club brands available:
- Taylormade: M5/M6 Driver, woods, and irons (regular/stiff flex), Milled Grind 56 degree wedge, Spider Tour Red putter.
- Titleist: TST Driver, TS2 3 wood, 818H2 Hybrid club, 718 APH1 Irons, Vokey SM7 Wedge, Scotty Cameron GOLO 3 Putter.
- Callaway: Epic Flash driver and 3 wood, Rouge 3H hybrid, Rouge Irons, Mac Daddy 4 56 wedge, Odyssey O-Works Red putter.
- Cobra: 0811XF/0341X Driver, King F7 Fairway Black 3 wood, 0317X Hybrid, 0311XF/0311P irons (regular and stiff flex options), King Pur wedge, Cobra putter.
- Ping: G3 Driver (regular and stiff), G fairway 3 wood, G hybrid club, G Irons 4-LW (regular) or i200 4-UW (stiff), Glide 2.0 wedge, Sigma G Anser/Darby putter.
Rental golf club pricing:
- Rental sets are $80 during peak season.
- $60 per set out of season (June, July, August).
Specialist Golf Club Rentals in Las Vegas NV
Using a specialist club rental service is a great way to rent golf clubs over several days while on vacation in Las Vegas. This also provides the advantage of allowing you to get a good amount of fairway time using the same set of clubs on different golf courses, and many of these services offer convenient delivery (and pick-up) to any local golf course or hotel.
ClubHub Las Vegas
ClubHub offers a range of TaylorMade M4 as well as Kalea club sets for males and females. They will deliver their premium rental clubs to any golf course, hotel, or staffed business premises, and the clubs will arrive in their own shipping container, making them easy to return once you are finished with them.
While this isn’t the most affordable option for one day of golf, they do offer some great multi-day discounts that are very affordable if you’re planning a more extended stay in Las Vegas.
Rental golf club pricing at ClubHub:
- Daily rental prices for their full TaylorMade golf club set and custom ClubHub golf stand bag start at $75 per day and are $20 per additional day thereafter. This also includes free ground shipping.
- Weekly golf club rentals of $194, including free ground shipping.
- 14-31 day golf club rental of $329 (fixed rate) including free ground shipping.
VIP Golf Services
With over 15 years of experience, VIP Golf Services offers a wide range of rental services from golf shoes to accessories, and of course, golf clubs. They will also book tee times and offer various golf packages as well as other golf equipment and services.
All of their rental clubs will be delivered to your hotel desk and will be picked up again when you are finished with them, so no shipping is required.
They offer one of the largest selection of rental golf clubs in Las Vegas, with 24 men’s models and 8 ladies models available, featuring premium brands such as Callaway, Taylormade, Adams, Ping, Titleist, and PXG.
Rental golf club pricing:
- Prices vary depending on the model and start at $30 for the first day, with each additional day costing $25.
- The most premium golf clubs they have available for rent are $75 for the first day and $60 per day for each additional day.
If you’re a golfer and the thought of dragging your own clubs through the airport and paying extra baggage fees sounds like a hassle, now you know that renting clubs in Las Vegas can be easy and affordable.
Las Vegas is home to dozens of fun and challenging golf courses and it’s good to know that you can rent a quality set of clubs locally.
Plus, you may even have the chance to try out the premium set of clubs you’ve been dreaming of!
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As we all know, the PlayStation 5 (PS5) was released in late 2020 and has been the hottest gaming console since then. The console offers gamers a range of features, including a powerful processor, stunning graphics, and advanced gaming experiences. However, the console is still quite new and, as such, there are some upgrades that can be made to make it even better.
What Are the Best PS5 Upgrades?
When it comes to upgrading your PS5, there are a few different options available to you depending on your budget and the type of gaming experience you are looking for. Some of the best free PS5 upgrades include downloadable content, extra controllers, and improved gaming performance. Let’s take a look at each one in a little more detail.
One of the best free PS5 upgrades you can make is to download additional content for your console. There are a wide variety of downloadable games, expansions, and DLC packs available for the PS5. These can be purchased directly from the PlayStation store or from third-party retailers. By downloading new content, you can add extra depth and variety to your gaming experience.
Another great free upgrade for the PS5 is to add extra controllers to your system. The PS5 supports up to four controllers, so having a few extras on hand can be very helpful. This is especially useful for multiplayer games, as you can easily add more players without having to buy extra controllers. You can also use the extra controllers to give your friends a chance to join in on your gaming sessions.
One of the most important aspects of gaming is performance, and the PS5 has plenty of potential for this. You can upgrade your console’s performance with a variety of free options. This includes installing additional RAM, upgrading your SSD or hard drive, and tweaking your settings to get the best performance out of your console.
These are just a few of the best free PS5 upgrades you can make in 2023. With a little bit of effort, you can make your console even better than it already is. Whether you want to improve your gaming performance, add more controllers, or just explore new content, these upgrades will help you get the most out of your PS5.


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Geography departments express 'deep concern' over removal of core Junior Cert subject
Leading Irish academics have warned that demoting geography in the Junior Cert will have a detrimental impact on young people and the country.
In a letter published in today's Sunday Independent, the heads of six university geography departments expressed deep concern at the removal of geography as a core subject in the Junior Cert.
They said geography was key to solving global problems such as climate change and poverty, and in proposing solutions to issues such as the housing crisis.
It is vital that students have a geographical training so they can become "active participants in tackling national and global issues", they said.
Geography and history were removed as core subjects from the Junior Cert last year, making them optional. The dropping of history as a core subject is currently being reviewed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA).
The academics said it was vitally important geography be reinstated, citing its contributions to climate change, rural diversification and marine spatial planning, while geographers are increasingly being sought as experts on a myriad of emerging global issues, such as microplastics, forced migration, globalisation and sustainable consumption.
"Geography plays an essential role in the evolution of societies, their ideas, places and environments and this geographical training is vital for Irish students in an ever-changing Europe," the letter said. Undermining the importance of the subject in the curriculum may "compromise" this in the future.