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46 Wind tunnel measurements were carried out to measure airborne and fallout spray volumes for 10 different spray nozzles. Based on these measurements, drift potential reduction percentages (DPRP), expressing the percentage reduction of the drift potential compared with the reference spraying, were calculated following three different approaches (DPRPV1, DPRPV2 & DPRPH).
The results showed the expected fallout and airborne spray profiles and the effect of nozzle type and size on DPRP values was demonstrated. For the standard flat fan nozzles, DPRPV1 values were the highest followed by DPRPV2 and DPRPH while for the low-drift nozzles opposite results were found. For the air inclusion nozzles, there was a relatively good agreement between DPRPV1, DPRPV2 and DPRPH values. All of this is important in the interpretation of wind tunnel data for different nozzle types and sampling methodologies.
A comparison was made between the results obtained from the wind tunnel measurements and the results from direct field drift measurements. Results showed that in the wind tunnel, driftability experiments can be made with different spraying systems under directly comparable and repeatable conditions and this methodology is well suited to permit relative studies of drift risk. The wind tunnel approach, calculating the surface under the measured fallout deposit curve (DPRPH), was best suited to represent real near-field sedimenting drift characteristics.
|Titel||Proceedings III International scientific symposium farm machinery and process management in sustainable agriculture|
|Editors||B Huygehebaert, E Lorencowicz, J Uziak|
|ISBN van geprinte versie||978-2-87286-061-6|
|Publicatiestatus||Gepubliceerd - 2008|
|Evenement||III International scientific symposium farm machinery and process management in sustainable agriculture’ - Gembloux, België|
Duur: 12-nov.-2008 → 13-nov.-2008
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Autonomous (self-driving) vehicles are being increasingly tested on highways and city streets. But there is also a need for robots that can navigate through environments like sidewalks, buildings, and hallways. In these situations, the robots must interact and cooperate with pedestrians in a socially acceptable manner. The “rules of the road” no longer apply – there are no lanes or street signs, and pedestrians don’t use turn signals when cutting through crowds. The way people walk even changes from city to city.
Our first work presented a collision avoidance algorithm using Deep RL, where agents learn to avoid collisions with other dynamic agents by training in a simulated environment. This led to more natural behavior, agents reaching their goals faster, and a demonstration of the algorithm with real robots in our lab. This work was awarded as a Finalist for Best Paper in Multi-Robot Systems at ICRA 2017.
A continuation of this work extended the algorithm to learn social norms that pedestrians tend to follow, such as passing on the right side. The contributions included a Socially Aware collision avoidance algorithm and better handling of multi-agent scenarios. The algorithmic improvements enabled a robot to operate among pedestrians in a public environment (Building 32) for periods of over 20 mins without human intervention. This work was awarded Best Student Paper and Finalist for Best Paper in Cognitive Robotics at IROS 2017.
Our most recent paper further improved the handling of large numbers of nearby agents (n > 4) using LSTM and fewer assumptions about other agents’ behaviors. This work was presented at IROS 2018.
The robot is often tested in MIT’s Building 32 during peak traffic at lunchtime. Some applications of this technology could be in delivery of goods, mobility on demand (MOD) systems, and human assistance scenarios.
Software for a recent paper is published at Github.


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I saw the most spectacular rainbow earlier this year.
I should have been fully present in that moment (still working on that). However, I suddenly realised that, although have a physics PhD, I never really spent much time studying rainbows. I somehow managed to opt out of undergraduate optics classes which seems madness in hindsight. In my defense, I was doing a Maths & Physics course so something had to give 🤷♂.
After the usual “pot of gold” ⚱ jokes had been told and the spectacle faded into the clouds, I pondered on whether I could recreate this rainbow… inside my computer. In other words, could I simulate a rainbow?
The physics at play is well known - refraction, dispersion, total internal reflection - and we learnt about them all at school; so it should be simple right? I’ve made enough apps and simulations in my time to know it’s never simple…ever!
And so, this lovely rainbow idea was consigned to the “Someday” page of my notes… that is, until I was emboldened by my recent success using GPT4 to help me create a particle simulation. After that, I was convinced that the rainbow idea was not only doable, but would be super fun.
2.5 weeks later, GPT and I finished making the first iteration of the interactive Let’s make rainbows app. It allows you to explore the underlying physics of rainbow formation by shooting light rays at various shaped prisms and watching how the different colours bend and reflect. You can even make your own shapes and also challenge yourself to traverse a “prism maze”.
I think the app is fun, but of course it’s not really “simulating a rainbow”. It turns out the practical details are kind of complicated and so, as a first step, I decided to create something “simple” and not worry too much about the bits of physics that aren’t quite right. For example:
- Reflection - standard reflection is completely absent because each reflection spawns a new light ray to keep track of and I was not prepared to deal with an explosion of light rays in this version.
- Circular prism is not actually a circle - I opted for a prism with many faces to simplify the refraction calculation by pre-calculating the “normal” vectors to the prism.
- Exaggerated differences between the colours - Otherwise refraction would hardly be visible on screen.
- Proper colour mixing - more on that in a minute
Despite the imperfections, my hope is that through experimentation people will develop a intuition for how light behaves and gain a deeper appreciation for the beauty of rainbows 🌈.
Unlike my constrained particles simulation, which took me and GPT an afternoon to complete, “Let’s make rainbows” took 2.5 weeks to build. Most of that time was not actually spent implementing the core physics. It only took a few days to start producing cool looking rainbow patterns with semi-realistic physics, like this:
Instead, I spend a lot of time thinking about user expectations, their behaviour, differences between desktop and mobile experiences and testing. My past self was indeed correct “it’s never simple…ever”.
There is a huge gulf between making something work for you and making something work for other people. The process of taking an idea into “production” (even in a first iteration kind of way) requires you suspend all playfulness. You need (among other things) concrete “user journeys”, a robust user interface (UI) and you need to have anticipated the myriad ways in which your users might break all things 😣.
Now, don’t get me wrong, there is nothing bad about the productionising process and it’s rewarding to see an idea through to completion. However, every time I’ve made something “for production” I’ve always ended up feeling a bit flat afterwards. Perhaps this is just my way of working. I tend to treat everything as a sprint instead of a marathon and I have a habit of setting arbitrary deadlines and then beasting myself to meet them. By the end, I’m asking myself “Why am I doing this?” and “for fun” has kind of left the building by that point as I’m reduced to marvelling at my productivity/efficiency/agileness. For a project about 🌈 … let’s just say it’s the wrong vibe 😂.
As ever though, I learnt a TONNE! In particular, my knowledge of the canvas drawing library p5.js has gone 🚀. One of the biggest learnings was around colour blending. To give you a flavour:
- In the real world, all colours of light mix together to make white light
- In the real world, two overlapping beams of the same colour light just make a brighter version of that colour, e.g. two faint orange beams of light overlap to make brighter orange
- In p5, white light was easy to make, but brighter orange seems impossible
p5’s blendMode allows you to mix colours.
blendMode(ADD) literally adds the colour values of one colour to another. But what does that mean? Let’s take orange:
1// RGB colour is 3 numbers, Red, Green and Blue
2// Max for any colour is 255
3// Orange is a mixture of mostly red and some green apparently
4orange = [255, 165, 0]
6// blendMode adds the colour numbers but maxes out at 255
8orange + orange = [255, 255, 0]
Two orange colours does not make a brighter orange, it makes max red + max green… that’s yellow 😫 ! As you can see in the transcript with GPT, I spent a good chunk of time trying to find ways around this because
orange + orange = yellow did not seem like an acceptable compromise to me! Ultimately, I was unsuccessful, but I was able to minimise the horror by:
- Making sure light rays were not overlapping as they were being drawn. In the beginning, my light rays were actually just lots of circles drawn one after another…that wasn’t going to fly.
- Adding some transparency to the colours. I must confess this was mostly trial and error to find the right look.
Colour issues notwithstanding, I found the process of creating things with p5 to be really fun. As the p5 peeps say:
and i think it really lives up to that. You don’t have to worry about the usual web dev things like creating HTML elements, setting up events listeners etc. Most of the time you are just drawing pixels onto a canvas and p5 steps in to the event listener void with helpers like mouseIsPressed which behaves exactly as you expect… it automatically toggles between
false when the mouse is pressed or not 👏. In this sense, p5 allows your ideas to flow more easily from your brain to the page and that creates a very enjoyable experience (at least for me).
Buuuuut (you knew there was a but coming right 😉), I did find it a bit tricky adding a nice UI when I was getting the app ready for “prime time”. This is of course not what p5 was made for, but because p5 does actually allow you to make HTML buttons and sliders etc, I carried on coding in the p5 way for longer than I should have. The result, a code base that is… well let’s be honest… a bit of a mess. It works, but will I be able to add stuff to it in a few months time… not sure.
Reactive UI, data sharing across components etc, this is territory of React / Vue / Svelete / Angular. These libraries/frameworks require you to add additional dependencies and build tools to your process, but they also force you to adopt their design patterns which generally result in more robust and understandable code in the long run. I’ve made apps using these kind of tools before, e.g. Swipee and Flashee, Squidler, so I know all this… I guess I was just wishfully thinking this little app would be different. Silly Matthew with his head in the clouds 🌈.
Ok, enough about me. Let’s talk about the biggest enabler of this project.
Just like my last project, there is simply no way I would have been able to make this app in this timescale without the help of GPT4. GPTs knowledge, communication style and problem solving abilities are breathtaking. This project was a lot more sophisticated than my last one with a very solid knowledge of physics and geometry needed. For example, I decided to allow users to put prisms inside of prisms inside of prisms 🤯… this was was quite the challenge. My requirements were also shifting in real time as I was figuring out what it was I actually wanted to build. Yet, GPT was mostly able to roll with the punches and read in between the lines when my prompts were not totally clear and were riddled with typos.
The human mind is able to sort experience into categories: We (mostly) remember the important stuff and (mostly) forget the oceans of irrelevant information that wash over us each day. Large language models do not distinguish. They have no capacity for triage, no ability to distinguish garbage from gold. “A transformer keeps everything,” Dimakis told me. “It treats everything as important.” In that sense, the trouble isn’t that large language models can’t remember; it’s that they can’t figure out what to forget.
This suggests that collaborating on a larger project with GPT will work best when the project can be separated into lots of small modular pieces that don’t require a large shared context. One could then imagine several GPT conversations:
- Brainstorming → results in a well defined idea
- Planning → results in list of well defined “modules”
- For each module:
- Building → results in working code
The ChatGPT interface is not really geared up this kind of chat grouping, but I’m sure new interfaces like this will develop over time. Food for thought 🤔.
If you’re interested in more details, you can read the transcript between me and GPT.
At its core, “Let’s make rainbows” is just another particle code. The simulation only looks like rays of light because I display the history of where the particle has been. Considering that light can be thought of as photons, it’s not a terrible model. In addition, this approach has some advantages:
- Moving individual photons in straight lines is “straight forward”
- The user gets to see the dynamics of the light unfold - can be nice
- Although colour mixing of different “rays” is imperfect, it’s handled automatically by the p5’s blendMode
Another approach could be taken. Because we know that light moves in rays in straight lines (it doesn’t really but that’s is a rabbit hole that we won’t go down today), we don’t actually need to move the photons step by step. We just need to trace forwards to find where the photons hit the prisms and the boundaries and calculate the refraction and reflection angles accordingly. The main advantage of this approach is that users could manipulate the prisms shape/orientation and see how all the light rays alter without having to wait for a simulation to unfold.
Yet another approach could also be taken. Instead of treating the light as particles or rays, we could treat the light as a field (light can also be thought of as wave of the electromagnetic field so this has a physical basis). So far nothing controversial. But, how about 3 fields, the red, green and blue fields. Colour is then defined and evolved on every pixel, not just where our 6 beams of light have been. This way, we’d expect to see a continuous spectrum of refracting colours which is much more physical. It’s worth saying, I’ve actually never seen this way of thinking about light and I’m not 100% sure it makes sense 🤷♂. I do however have a hunch that there are some differential colour equations out there waiting to be written and I’m sure the resulting simulation would look beautiful.
I hope you enjoy playing with “Let’s make rainbows”. If you have any comments or suggestions please do feel free to reach out on email or social media.

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The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to impose sanctions against seven employees of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), who are allegedly involved in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This was announced by the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov during a briefing.
"Today, sanctions were introduced against the first people. Seven officials who were directly involved. FSB officers involved in the poisoning of Navalny. They came under sanctions," Danilov said.
As we reported earlier, Navalny returned to Russia on January 17. Officers of the search department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia detained him right after his plane landed in Moscow.
It is worth noting that he has been on the country's federal wanted list since December 29, 2020, for repeated violations of the probationary period - Navalny is currently sentenced to conditional punishment.
Prior to that, the politician stayed in Germany, being treated at the Charite clinic and recovering from the poisoning by Novichok nerve agent in August 2020. The Russian law enforcers prosecute Navalny for "evading control measures", as he is the defendant in the Yves-Rocher case (2014). Navalny himself calls the case trumped-up and politically motivated.
On February 2, the Moscow court sentenced Alexei Navalny to 3,5 years of imprisonment in the standard-regime penal colony. Thus, the suspended sentence in the "Yves Rocher" case became the jail time for the leading Russian opposition figure.


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New FIAL competiveness plan announced at AIFST Convention
MP Craig Laundy at AIFST 50th Anniversary Convention,. Image - Camera Creations - www.cameracreations.com.au
Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Craig Laundy, has announced the launch of Food Innovation Australia’s (FIAL) latest Sector Competitiveness Plan at the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology in Sydney this week.
The plan outlines a ten-year vision for the industry, revised annually to reflect market forces shaping the sector.
FIAL Chair, Peter Schutz, said he was excited to share the latest version of the plan.
“We are excited to present the latest version of our Sector Competitiveness Plan which focusses on a vision that the industry, by 2025, is working together to grow the share of Australian food in the global marketplace,” he said.
MP Laundy also used his speech at AIFST to announce the CSIRO’s Food and Agriculture Roadmap that seeks to assist Australian food and agribusinesses with the desire to pursue growth and new markets.
Importance of food innovation and entrepreneurship
Throughout his AIFST Convention speech, MP Laundy highlighted the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in driving economic growth in the Australian food and agribusiness industry.
“This convention is what innovation in the food industry is all about—bringing like-minded, entrepreneurial people together to explore the exciting frontiers of what can be achieved in one of Australia’s most competitive sectors,” he said.
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—A lack of offense down the stretch coupled with a scalding hot second half by Columbia doomed the Harvard men’s basketball team on Friday night as the Crimson fell to the Lions, 83-76, in New York City. Despite a career-high 31 points from sophomore forward Seth Towns and a 15-point first half lead, a post-intermission stretch that saw the Lions make nine straight field goals ultimately proved to be the difference. The loss was Harvard’s first in conference play and further muddled the Ivy League’s postseason picture.
Many of the same themes that have been present for the Crimson (9-11, 4-1 Ivy League) over its last several games were on display on Friday night—Harvard jumped out to a large lead early in the first half, allowed Columbia (5-13, 2-3) back into the contest before intermission, and offset offensive spells by going cold from the field for long stretches.
For the first time in conference play this season, however, the formula resulted in defeat for the Crimson. A week after not making a field goal in the game’s final 4:56 against Yale and still managing to win, converting just three in the final 7:09 of its matchup against the Lions proved to be too big of a hurdle for Harvard to overcome.
“I thought that Columbia played incredibly well, especially when we had a sizable lead there early and they really dug in and got back into it in the first half,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I thought that was a big key in that we weren’t able to sustain that march that we had early.”
While defense tends to be the Crimson’s calling card and three-point shooting the thorn in its side, the script was largely flipped on Friday evening. Harvard shot 43 percent from beyond the arc—nailing 16 triples in the process—but struggled to get stops for most of the contest. Towns followed up his career night from last Saturday against Brown with arguably a better performance in New York.
After attacking the rim and converting on midrange jumpers in dismantling the Bears, the sophomore showed off his three-point shooting touch for the 2,010 fans in attendance, making six of nine triple attempts. Towns only turned the ball over twice and had 26 of his the Crimson’s first 49 points. Through five Ivy League contests, the Columbus, Ohio native is averaging 22.8 points per game.
“I think we a good job generally sticking to our principles and how we play on offense,” Towns said. “I’m out there to do whatever we need to do to make a play and score. In terms of playing my game, I don’t think that their pace was disrupting that.”
After Towns helped his team establish an early lead that topped out at 15, Harvard struggled to maintain a torrid scoring pace that was characterized by sharing the basketball and hitting open jump shots. The Lions went on an 11-0 run and ended the first half riding a 22-13 burst that put its deficit at a mere six. After not committing a single turnover in the game’s first 11:32, the Crimson coughed the ball up four times over a 3:28 span late in the opening half.
Facing a Harvard team that prides itself on suffocating defense and slowing the pace on the other end, Columbia relished the opportunity to play offense in transition. The hosts turned the ball over just once and scored 22 points in the frame’s final 9:29 and held without a point for nearly four and a half minutes.
The second major power outage came not long after the first. After Towns pushed his point total to 23 (of the Crimson’s 46) less than two minutes into the second half, the Harvard offense went ice cold. Following Towns’ basket at the 18:34 mark, the Crimson would not score a single point again until 13:28 remained, missing all five of its field goal attempts in the process. Meanwhile, Columbia caught fire once again, shooting 6-of-11 from the field during a 17-5 run to start the frame. After recording just six assists in the entire first half, the Lions registered five on their first six made field goals of the second.
While senior guard Kyle Castlin largely kept the hosts in the game in the first half—12 points on four-of-four shooting off the bench—it was Columbia’s top two scorers who did the damage after the break.
Junior guard Quinton Adlesh made just one of his four first half field goal attempts but scored 13 of the Lions’ first 25 points after intermission and registered 17 points in a stretch that consumed less than eight minutes of game action. Columbia made nine consecutive field goals and saw its lead stand at nine with 9:18 to play. During the hot streak, sophomore guard Mike Smith also came alive, finishing the contest with 16 points after posting just two in the first half.
“We were trying to do different things to slow them down and they got into a nice rhythm running their offense and getting good shots,” Amaker said. “They made some against our zone, I thought they made some tough shots too. I thought a few of the shots we did all we could do, bodies there, hands up, and they still made some tough shots. We told our kids that we just need to keep our heads up.”
Columbia coach Jim Engles noted that Harvard sophomore forward Chris Lewis was the focal point of his team’s defensive gameplan entering the contest. While Lewis struggled with foul trouble last Saturday, he was largely the Crimson’s x-factor in its win over Yale a week ago. The sophomore is consistently a mismatch for Ivy League big men and is the main interior post presence in Amaker’s inside-out offense.

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Woodland coach Colman Roberts credited a more disciplined approach at the plate.
“We made some adjustments at the plate,” Roberts said of his team, which scored three runs in the first inning and 12 in the second. “We just [were] a little more patient than we usually are.”
Offensive contributors for the Lady ’Cats were Taylor Braselton, two walks, two runs, RBI; Kat Moreno, 1 for 2, run, RBI; Lacey Fritz, 2 for 3, two runs; Casey Bucy, 2 for 3, three runs; Sydney Flowers, 1 for 2, two runs, RBI; Bailey Roberts, 2 for 2, run, RBI; Jessie Michaels, 1 for 2, run, two RBIs; Cheyanne Burt, walk, hit by pitch (twice), two runs; and Darby Cagle, run.
Bucy, the winning pitcher, struck out three and gave up two walks and one hit in three innings.
Woodland had not won since Aug. 13 before Monday’s matchup. The Lady ’Cats had lost consecutive games to Calhoun, Sequoyah and Northwest Whitfield, the latter two games being Region 7-AAAA tilts.
“To get off that losing streak was a big thing,” Roberts admitted.
Woodland (5-3, 0-2) sets its sights on region win No. 1 today — as will its opponent — when it visits Rome (5-3, 0-1), which nearly rallied to beat Cass in Bartow County last Thursday before losing, 5-4.
“They played pretty good against Cass the other night,” Roberts said of the Lady Wolves, who beat Calhoun at the Model Lady Devil Fall Classic, 5-4, and also lost to the Lady ’Cats at the same tournament. “They’re a much-improved team. They definitely won’t lay down. … They got two pitchers that are pretty good. We just gotta get off the bus and take care of business.”
Woodland plays today at 5 p.m. and has another region battle Thursday against the Lady Colonels, a game that is slated for a 7:15 p.m. start. The Lady ’Cats conclude their week with games in the Allatoona Buccaneer Classic, including 6:45 and 8:30 p.m. games on Friday with Hillgrove and Ringgold, respectively.
Lady Colonels lose two in Buccaneer Bash
Cass lost a couple of softball games Monday in the Buccaneer Bash that was held at Allatoona High. The Lady Colonels fell, 7-3, to the host Lady Buccaneers before being shut out against South Paulding, 6-0.
“We weren’t there defensively, and we gotta do a better job at the plate,” Cass coach Greg Hight said. “We were aggressive the first game of the year and after that it’s left us.”
The Lady Colonels took an early lead against Allatoona after Allison Story’s base hit paved the way for Bethany Ballard’s two-run home run, which gave Cass a 2-0 lead in the first inning.
However, the Lady Bucs seized control of the game by scoring seven unanswered runs — two in the second, two in the third and three in the fifth.
Aleigha McDaniels’ RBI hit plated Cass’ final run in the seventh. McDaniels, Story, Ashlynn Russell and Halen Moore each had a hit for the Lady Colonels while Ballard led the way offensively with a 2-for-2, two-RBI night.
Courtney Bailey pitched three innings, and Story and Lyndsey Holifield also saw time inside the circle.
In Cass’ game with South Paulding, the Lady Colonels were held to four hits as the Lady Spartans kept them off the scoreboard.
Bailey, Ballard, Breanna Mahrt and Russell notched base knocks for Cass. Bailey also pitched for the Lady Colonels, relieving Holifield after three innings.
South Paulding put up five runs in the third and another one in the sixth.
After three straight losses — Cass lost 10-0 at Northwest Whitfield Saturday — Hight would like to see the Lady Colonels play up to their potential, regardless of their youth.
“We gotta cut down on the mistakes. Mistakes are what’s killing us right now,” he acknowledged. “I know we’re young. We gotta live with that. … We just need ’em to step up and play to their potential right now.”
Cass (2-3, 1-1 Region 7-AAAA) will get a chance to remedy its play of late Thursday when it welcomes cross-county rival Woodland (5-3, 0-2) to its stadium for a 7:15 p.m. contest, which doubles as a region 7-AAAA game in addition to its in-county appeal.

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Hodgman Government's scrapping of technology upgrade fund a 'false economy', TAS ICT director says
A multi-million-dollar technology fund aimed at improving the productivity of the public service has been axed in the state budget.
Despite making the cut, the Hodgman Government said it is committed to the technology and communications sector.
The previous government introduced the $28 million Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Fund last year.
Under the scheme, government departments and agencies would have been given money to upgrade IT systems if they could prove how productivity, efficiency and customer service would have been improved.
TAS ICT director Dean Winter says system upgrades would have led to long-term savings and efficiencies.
"There are millions of dollars to be saved by investing in the ICT fund," Mr Winter said.
"This decision represents a false economy and we think it's a very silly decision in the context of a budget where you're looking to find ways to get to a surplus as soon as possible."
He said the operating systems currently being used by government agencies are old and outdated.
"There's a lot of old legacy systems that have been around for a very long period of time," he said.
"Even if you look at the Service Tasmania model, it is very old and clunky in some respects.
"Tasmanian consumers are looking for more and more ways to engage with government online and I think government needs to be responsive to that, and that includes making the necessary investments to allow people to do that."

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Guardsmen, patrol officers rescued from floodway
Updated 1 p.m. with news of river closure to traffic.
The Missouri National Guard and Missouri State Highway Patrol have performed countless water rescues during the flood of 2011. But late Thursday and early Friday, many of the soldiers and officers found themselves in need of rescue.
Thirty-three soldiers and some patrol members in six boats became stuck in a low-water spot while patrolling near where the Birds Point levee was intentionally breached on Monday in southeast Missouri to relieve pressure on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
The Guard says no one was in in any significant danger. About half were rescued Thursday before dark. When darkness fell, provisions were dropped in so the others could stay overnight on the levee. They were rescued Friday morning.
The same flooding that prompted the Corps to blow the levee is also forcing the U.S. Coast Guard to close a section of the Mississippi River over fears that ship wakes could increase the flood risk at Caruthersville.
The river is expected to crest in the southeast Missouri town early Monday at 49.5 feet, just a half-foot below the top of the town's floodwall.
No boats will be allowed along a stretch of the Mississippi River from about two miles upstream of Caruthersville to about three miles downstream of the city until next Saturday.


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Tiffany's tightly sealed display cases are no longer the only place to shop Paloma Picasso's boldly colorful, iconic jewelry. On February 12 Tiffany.com will debut its revamped Paloma Picasso e-commerce boutique, a beautifully crafted space that showcases the designer's newest creations as well as her signature pieces. But expect more than just the newly added click-to-buy functionality (which, frankly, has our hearts fluttering): Her new digs are loaded with exclusive video interviews of Picasso discussing her childhood as the daughter of Pablo Picasso, her love of color, and her design influences. One of our favorite features: a flipbook of her sketches—a unique touch that gives shoppers an intimate glimpse into Picasso's creative process.
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ELECON Business Profile
Elecon Engineering Company (ELEENGCO) was established in the year 1951. The company is located at Gujarat. The company manufactures mechanical handling equipment. Currently, it operates in three areas; namely material handling plants, industrial gears, and windmills.
The company`s product range includes designing, engineering, manufacturing, supply, erection and commission of wagon tipplers, bucket wheel stacker or reclaimers, barrel-type blender reclaimers, fertilizer reclaiming scrapers, limestone pre-homegenizing and blending plants etc.
The company`s key customers are Reliance Energy, NTPC, SAIL, Indian Railways, Gujarat Ambuja and Neyveli Lignite. Majority of the company`s revenues come from mining, cement and power generation sectors.
Eimco Elecon (India), a joint venture with Environtech Corporation, USA is into manufacturing underground manufacturing machinery. Some of the company`s major clients are Coal India, Uranium Corporation of India, Bharat Gold Mines, Hindustan Copper, Hindustan Zinc, Larsen & Toubro etc.
In material handling, the company undertakes turnkey operations of equipment like conveyors, wagon tipplers, stackers and reclaimers, crushers, feeders, scrapers, cable reeling drums, wagon and ship loaders, foundry products and gears and couplings and is also engaged in executing turnkey contracts in coal handling plants. The gear division manufactures helical gears, worm gears, couplings, special gears and geared motors.
Elecon is the first company in India to have manufactured sophisticated equipment for bulk material handling.
The current market capitalization stands at Rs 334.43 crore. Elecon Engineering Company has reported a standalone sales turnover of Rs 120.63 crore and a net profit of Rs 8.83 crore for the quarter ended September 2013. Other income for the quarter was Rs 7.94 crore.
The company management includes Prayasvin B Patel - Chairman & Managing Director, Prashant C Amin - Executive Director, Pradip M Patel - Director, Chirayu R Amin - Director, Hasmukhlal S Parikh - Director, Jal R Patel - Director, Jai S Diwanji - Director.
The Registered office is at Anand -Sojitra Road , Vallab Vidyanagar,Gujarat - 388120.

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The present invention is an imaging plate for use in computed radiology. The imaging plate includes an identification on the active side of the imaging plate, wherein the identification is visible in each x-ray image using the imaging plate, but is of a sufficiently small size as to not interfere with diagnosis. The identification of the imaging plate is implemented as any of a set of alphanumeric characters, device characters or a bar code.
1. An imaging plate (IP plate) for use in computed radiography (CR imaging), said plate comprising an individual imaging plate identification being visible in an X-ray image to be taken of a radiographed object upon the examination thereof on the screen of a display device, said imaging plate identification further being marked visibly on the imaging plate, wherein the imaging plate identification is made on the IP plate's active side in a very small size, which does not interfere with the viewing of an X-ray image, when normal enlargements for diagnosis are in use, and which can be visualized by a larger enlargement of the X-ray image on the screen of a display device, and that the visible marking of imaging plate identification is made on the IP plate's reverse side.
The invention relates to an imaging plate for use in computed radiography.
An imaging plate (IP) used in computed radiography comprises a plate having its active side provided with crystals activated (excited) in response to X-radiation. Excitation brings about development of a latent image on the imaging plate. The state of excitation is discharged by means of a laser beam, the imaging plate releasing energy as photons. The photons are passed by way of a photomultiplier to an AD converter, in which light is converted to digital electric signals to be reconstructed on a computer screen for an image. After reading, the image data left on an imaging plate is deleted by means of powerful light for reusing the deleted imaging plate without noise caused by prior radiography operations. A computed radiography system comprises imaging plates, a reading apparatus for the imaging plates, and a workstation with its display unit. U.S. Pat. No. 6,528,813 discloses an imaging-plate employing system, wherein the imaging plate is held in a cassette case during radiography and its passage to the reading apparatus. An imaging plate has been described in publications U.S. Pat. No. 4,236,078 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,239,968, among others.
An imaging plate used in intraoral radiography is normally kept in a light and moisture resistant protective sleeve and placed in the mouth of a radiographed person for the duration of radiography. This is followed by removing the imaging plate from the protective sleeve and passing it to an image reading apparatus, which produces a digital image displayable e.g. on a computer screen. While in the mouth, the imaging plate runs a risk of becoming scratched or damaged on its active side, caused for example by a dental crown as a result of e.g. accidental biting. Scratches can be difficult to detect visually, yet are visible in a digital image and may interfere with diagnosis. A considerable number of imaging plates can be in service in one place, the search for a defective plate being highly tedious as scratches are not readily visible.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a solution that enables localizing a defective imaging plate in a relatively simple manner.
An imaging plate of the invention is characterized in that the plate comprises an individual imaging plate identification adapted to be visible in an X-ray image to be taken of a radiographed object upon the examination thereof on the screen of a display device, and further that the imaging plate identification is marked visibly on the imaging plate.
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
All reading apparatuses use the same basic technology, but move the plate around a little differently to scan. One system mounts the plates on a spinning drum and a laser is scanned across the drum. Another system uses rollers to move plates past a scanner laser port.


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Every cloak rolled in blood / James Lee Burke.Material type: TextPublication details: London : Orion Books, 2022.Description: 288 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
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Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honour her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight.Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbours some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next.

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Record label Dekmantel and Patta have come together once again to deliver a limited-edition five-piece capsule collection. The two Amsterdam natives have been working together since 2015, and for this season the duo look back to 2016 with its bold colors and patterns adorning pieces such as a football jersey.
Dekmantel and Patta will be releasing a long sleeve, a hoodie, football jersey, a safari cap and a waist bag, which each feature co-branding and graphics. The hero item is the aforementioned football jersey which is served in a criss-cross mix of white, blue and black with the duo’s signature dual-branding on the front and red under the arms for a hidden contrasting touch. It is finished with a black Jaguar emblem.
The record label-come-festival will also drop a limited-edition vinyl celebrating its collaboration with Patta. In this, six edits by Dekmantel label members Palms Trax, Bufiman and Jex Opolis, and Raphaël Top-Secret, Abel and Loud-E will provide Summer-ready sounds, which can only be picked up by the first 100 in-store customers who buy a football jersey or hoodie.
Dekmantel x Patta for Summer 2019 will be exclusively available at the Red Light Radio Shop (Oudezijds Achterburgwal 133) in Amsterdam on July 30 and on the festival site on August 2, 3 and 4. All pieces will also be available worldwide from July 31 through the Dekmantel and Patta websites at 12 p.m. CEST.
In other news, BAPE has dropped a colorful beach collection for Summer.
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This year’s drop consists of five pieces: a Long Sleeve, a Hoodie, Football Jersey, a Safari Cap and a Waist Bag, which include various graphic prints and co-branding from both parties. Furthermore, Dekmantel puts out a slab of red and blue marbled vinyl, including six edits by Dekmantel label members Palms Trax, Bufiman and Jex Opolis, and Raphaël Top-Secret, Abel and Loud-E, covering true summer vibes whilst all sharing their secret weapons for this limited record. The Patta x Dekmantel 2019 Collection will be available in Patta stores from Tuesday July 30th and online from Wednesday July 31st. Link in bio #PattaDekmantel
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Egberto Gismonti. Sheet Music and Tabs for Egberto Gismonti. Quaternaglia – Memorial para un Regreso. Aqua e Vinho composed by renowned sheet Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti composer Nikita Koshkin, Olga Kamornik , variation for 2 guitars by Russian guitarist , performed by Koshkin Guitar Duo Nikita' s wife Asya Selyutina. Print download in PDF MIDI Loro. SALA PRóB SALAVA, M SALEM SALES. 000 Guitar Bass Sheet Music tab songbook tablature sala acustic electric. Gismonti Egberto - sala sheet Palhaço - for guitar - Classical Music Sheet Download - pdf - 無料楽譜ダウンロード - Klassische Musik sheet Freie Notenpartitur. Azolla fronds Polythene sheet . One day the professor played a piece then gismonti placed the sheet music on the stand for Paulinho to play. He proceeded to execute it flawlessly sheet except for one detail, the sheet music was not the piece that the teacher had performed.
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What if instead of hauling every drug addict they encountered off to jail, police took them to a counseling center? What if officers were given permission to use their discretion—and their unique knowledge of their city and its regular offenders—to decide when to de-escalate a situation? And what if it saved thousands and thousands of dollars for taxpayers every year?
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Turns out, that’s what Seattle’s doing:
The basic idea behind the initiative — that counseling can be more effective than incarceration in converting drug addicts from criminals into responsible citizens — isn’t new. Yet in one respect, it’s revolutionary. Seattle is asking line officers to think about their work differently.
Unlike a typical drug court (which Seattle also has), the program makes the police responsible for decisions about cases, taking advantage of officers’ knowledge of the streets.
Often, they already know all the details of an offender’s biography. They know why an inveterate dealer is in the drug trade, and they might even know whether he has the capacity to change. On the other hand, few cops like thinking of themselves as emergency drug counselors. As some see it, their job is enforcing the law and punishing those who break it.
When a Seattle cop refers suspects to the program, though, they aren’t even charged. Instead, they receive therapy, along with housing and bus tickets if they need financial help. The assistance is unconditional. Offenders don’t lose it if they wind up back in handcuffs.
Understandably, many police officers were initially skeptical of this initiative. Some worried that it would be a soft-on-crime “hug a thug” project which would encourage drug use by removing the harsher consequences of the drug war.
But that’s not what happened. Though the counseling option hasn’t been implemented throughout the entire Seattle police force yet, initial results show that participants are “58 percent less likely to be arrested and 39 percent less likely to be charged with a felony over the long term.”
Each participant also spent an average of 39 fewer days in jail each year, and they were 87 percent less likely to end up in prison. As one addict and drug dealer who entered the program after he was caught selling crack said, “I don’t want to be high [anymore]. I want to be functional.” None of the 40 times he’s been arrested have happened in the last year.
But it gets even better: Not prosecuting people for drug use saves a lot of money:
The jails and the courts save $8,000 on each participant over the course of a year, compared to a person going through the usual criminal justice system. The cost of the program has averaged $10,787 a year so far—but now that the program is up and running, costs on a monthly basis have fallen sharply, and that figure includes some mental health services that will be paid for with federal dollars under the Affordable Care Act going forward.
There are other benefits, too, that aren’t easy to quantify: former addicts commit fewer thefts and make fewer visits to the emergency room. Some are getting real jobs and paying taxes.
With about 250 offenders participating to date, that’s a total savings of $2 million—less the $10,787 annual costs, of course.
Obviously this is still a relatively new approach to policing, but these results are immensely promising. For fiscal conservatives and criminal justice reformers alike, this seems like a no-brainer.

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Mount Union's Pensyl, Orewiler receive OAC's Clyde Lamb Award
Mount Union's Taylor Pensyl and Tyler Orewiler received the Ohio Athletic Conference's Clyde Lamb Award on Monday during the conference's awards dinner in Columbus.
The award is presented to the top male and female scholar athletes at each OAC institution.
Pensyl was a four-year letterwinner on the Mount Union women's lacrosse team that won three OAC regular season championships, three OAC tournament titles and made three NCAA Division III tournament appearances in the program's first four seasons. A three-time All-OAC and All-Great Lakes Region first team selection, she graduated with a 3.92 grade-point average and a degree in psychology and public health.
Orewiler has been part of a Mount Union track and field program that has won OAC indoor and outdoor team titles over the last four years. He is a two time All-American and OAC champion in the pole vault where he holds conference indoor and outdoor records. An Academic All-American, he graduated with a degree in biology and a 3.86 GPA.


At the turn of the 20th century and past the end of WWI, Paris was the bright and shining light of culture for the world. Everything happened in Paris – new music, new art, new dances, new everything. Cafés were the centre of everyone’s world and were the places to meet and be seen. In the café-concerts, music had a role and for the price of a coffee, the entertainment was free.
One of the most famous of the café-concerts was Le Chat Noir, in Montmartre, Paris. It was opened in 1881 by Rudolphe Salis and closed in 1897 at his death.
Music in Paris at the time incorporated all kinds of influences: jazz, exotic sounds from other places, traditional music, and the like. Composers such as Satie let their imagination run wild in creating their music. Other composers, such as Milhaud, brought back sounds from their international travels.
In Milhaud’s piano work, Tango des Fratellini, Milhaud pays tribute to the three Fratellini brothers, François, Albert, and Paul.
They started as a pair of clown pairs, until their older brother’s death when they formed a triple act. Each brother portrayed a particular character: François, was the elegant classical whiteface French clown; Albert was a comedic auguste – at the left in this photo; and Paul, the “contre-auguste”, half-way between them, sometimes taking one brother’s side, sometimes the other’s. They performed at the Cirque Medrano in Paris and in the 1920s were the focus of the Parisian intellectuals. They had been recruited by Jean Cocteau for the pantomime ballet Le boeuf sur le toit, which had its premiere in February 1920.
In this piano work, you’ll hear the original tune composed by Milhaud. In the entirety of Le boeuf sur le toit score, research has shown that Milhaud quoted more than 20 pieces by 14 different Brazilian composers in his 15-minute ballet. The opening melody, however, is pure Milhaud.
Darius Milhaud: Le Tango des Fratellini, Op. 58c (Dario Müller, piano)
This 2020 recording by Dario Müller focused on Parisian music between 1880 and the 1920s. Born in Lugano in 1946, Müller completed his piano studies in Zurich at the Musikhochschule. His recordings have included Beethoven’s variations on themes by Italian opera composers, three CDs of music by ‘American Indianists,’ i.e., American composers who took up native American themes and melodies, and a recording of the melodies used in music boxed for the piano.
Darius Milhaud: Le Tango des Fratellini, Op. 58c
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Tapping the Dream Tree
by Charles de Lint
Tor, 2002, ISBN 0-312-87401-4
A book review by Elisabeth Carey
This is a hefty collection of de Lint's Newford short stories, several of them published previously available only in limited edition chapbooks or collections, and one of them, "The Witching Hour," is original to this collection. There's a good mix here of the optimistic and the grim, familiar Newford characters and new faces. Jilly, Geordie, and Christy each have the lead in stories of their own, while others feature new characters or characters who have been minor figures in other Newford tales. There's some variety in the settings, as well, with Christy's story taking place during a book tour, and others set more in the hills around Newford than in the city itself.
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Abram, Lofton, Hefner earn 5A All-Region III status
Published 12:01 am Saturday, March 21, 2020
Two Memorial Titans and one Nederland Bulldog earned their places on the 5A All-Region III boys basketball team this week.
Sophomore guard Amaree Abram and senior post Kenneth Lofton Jr. represent Memorial on the 20-player roster, while Nederland senior inside-outside threat Hayden Hefner earned the nod as well. Both Memorial and Nederland tied for the District 21-5A championship, giving the Titans their fourth straight shared or outright crown and the Bulldogs a share of their first title in eight years.
Hefner is headed to play at Texas A&M, while Lofton is committed to Louisiana Tech.
Other All-Region members include: Rueben Fatheree II of Richmond Foster, Bryce Griggs of Fort Bend Hightower, P.J. Haggerty of Crosby, Chris Harris of Hightower, Jaylen Harrison of A&M Consolidated, Ronald Holmes of Houston Northside, Chris Marshall of Fort Bend Marshall, Tim Moore Jr. and Brian Myles of Houston Madison, Breion Powell of Pflugerville Connally, Pierre Sanders of Hutto, Jamal Shead of Manor, Pierce Spencer of Lake Creek, Jaylen Thompson of Leander Glenn, Ramon Walker of Shadow Creek, Jadarian White of Huntsville and Will Young of Shadow Creek.


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What do you do when life hands you leftover baked potatoes? You make baked potato soup, of course. This simple potato soup recipe is an easy family favorite.
Baked Potato Soup
When we were living with our friends, we made baked potatoes to go with our big Sunday dinner. We ended up having too many, so the next day I made this homemade potato soup recipe for everyone to enjoy. If you have leftover baked potatoes, you HAVE to make this soup! It will remind you of a loaded baked potato but in soup form! It is delicious and perfect comfort food!
I used a recipe from Cooking Light. It was very easy to follow and a little lighter than most loaded potato soup recipes. This recipe uses milk instead of heavy cream and reduced fat sour cream instead of full fat sour cream. You can also use plain Greek yogurt for the sour cream, if you wish.
If you don’t have leftover baked potatoes, you can bake potatoes in the oven just to make this soup. Making baked potatoes is easy and SO worth it for this soup!
We use shredded cheddar cheese. You can use sharp or medium cheddar cheese. You could even add in some white cheddar if you wish!
Loaded Baked Potato Soup
This potato soup recipe is meant to be loaded with ALL of the toppings. Garnish the soup with extra cheese, green onions, sour cream, and chopped bacon. You can also top your soup bowl with crackers or dip crusty bread into your bowl. Loaded Baked Potato Soup is the best! Don’t go skimpy on the toppings.
Josh highly recommends making bacon cheddar drop biscuits our our favorite Greek Yogurt Biscuits to go with this soup. He thinks they are meant to be together:)
The soup is thick, creamy, and comforting. It is the perfect meal for a cold day or when you are in the mood for some major comfort food!
If you like this easy Baked Potato Soup, you might also like:
- Chicken Pot Pie Soup
- Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup
- Easy Chicken and Rice Soup
- Easy Minestrone Soup
- Vegetable Soup
Baked Potato Soup
- 4 large baking potatoes or use leftover baked potatoes
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 cups 2% milk
- 3/4 cup cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- Toppings: Cheddar Cheese shredded, Green Onions, chopped, Bacon, cooked and crumbled
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Pierce potatoes with a fork; bake for one hour or until potatoes are tender. Let the potatoes cool. Peel potatoes and coarsely mash them in a small bowl. Set aside.
- In a large soup pot, add the flour. Gradually whisk in the milk, whisk until smooth. Cook over medium heat until thick, about 8 minutes. Add mashed potatoes, cheese, salt, and pepper. Stir until the cheese melts.
- Add in sour cream and green onions. Cook over low heat until thoroughly heated, do not boil the soup. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with toppings. Serve warm.
Have you tried this recipe?
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Delicious- it’s actually been chilly here lately. Ready for soup!
you said “when” we lived with our friends… does that mean the remodel is complete??
Carrie-we are home, but the remodel is not complete yet. We are close though! It’s nice to be home again.
Baked potato soup is a favorite around our house I’ll have to try this lighter version
My mom makes a version of this soup that is so great! It’s from Southern Living so it’s definitely not low-fat. Thanks so much for your lighter version! 🙂
Potato soup is one of my favorites. I can’t wait to try your recipe for baked potato soup! Love the lighter version recipe.
I love potato soup. This looks great, saving recipe!
Yum! This post has reminded me that I keep meaning to try Baked Potato Soup (I’ve never eaten it!!) – shall get on and try it this weekend 🙂
I could probably eat soup every day for lunch…and I definitely wouldn’t mind having some of this for tomorrow’s lunch! It looks so yummy!
That soup looks lovely! I have been craving some baked potato soup lately… I think I even have all of the ingredients on hand!
Perfect comfort food!
Just made this soup tonight for my husband. It got rave reviews though it did need a bit more salt and pepper in the end. I omitted green onions as hubby doesn’t like them and used regular fat sour cream but other than that stuck to the recipe. This will have a permanent spot in my recipe book. Thanks!
You are welcome!
Mmm baked potato soup is one of my favorites. I can never say no to creamy soups and this cool fall weather definitely has me craving soup.
I’m going to try this recipe. I love baked potato soup!
I love baked potato soup! I am SO trying this ASAP. Thanks for the awesome posts!
I’ve been meaning to make this recipe for the past few winters, but have never gotten to it. Thanks for the reminder, yours looks awesome!
I cant wait to try this just perfect for this time of year and love potato anything!
I made this tonight and it was great! Tastes like twice-baked potatoes! I used 1 percent milk and found that worked just fine. I also used gruyer cheese instead of cheddar. Definitely a keeper! Thanks for posting!
Oh, and I also threw the skins in, chopped up, since I love potato skins!
Made this last night for my family, I had to double the recipe as I have a large family. I found it pretty bland, I would definitely recommend more salt and pepper. I added some seasoning salt as well which helped.
Excellent recipe! I added some diced ham that I crisped up. This is my new potato soup recipe! Thanks.
I just got done making this soup and it’s probably the best baked potato soup I’ve ever had! I’m getting braces tomorrow and thought soup would be nice to have around. I love that it’s not too heavy – just fantastic! Thanks so much ;)!
I am so happy you loved the soup! Thanks for reminding me I need to make it again and soon:)
Just made this. The house smells AMAZING and can’t wait till hubby gets home from work so we can dig in and eat it all up.
thanks for posting it!!!!
You are welcome! Enjoy the soup!
I made this soup for lunch today. It’s positively divine! I’m so happy eating it. I will be featuring it on my blog next month. Thank you so much for my new favorite soup recipe.
It is one of our favorites too! Glad you liked the soup!
this soup is great! will make again soon, perfect for a rainy day 🙂
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Thanks for this baked potato soup recipe.
Such perfect fall comfort food! Who doesn’t love a good baked potato soup? And those biscuits with it? Heavenly!
This is SERIOUSLY, no kidding, THE BEST soup on the face of this earth!!!!
I made this tonight. Thick and delicious just how potato soup should be. Baked the potatoes and then baked the bacon. Then made the soup. All we needed to buy was the milk and additional sour cream. We already had everything else in the house. We had craisins muffins with it that I had made yesterday.
So good! Made it for the first time last night. Easy and tastes so good!
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There are two reactions from people when you tell them you’re going to see Pink. The muted one from those who know her songs and, you know, whatever, and then the sagely nod from those who have seen her live. …
There are two reactions from people when you tell them you’re going to see Pink. The muted one from those who know her songs and, you know, whatever, and then the sagely nod from those who have seen her live. Pink, a performer who if hardly spectacular in her artistry is nothing if consistent, forging out a far more resilient career as a touring machine whose songs come to life on the road. And that resilience has worked. You’d have to reckon that at the O2 last Friday a fair chunk of the sold out crowd had seen her before. Pink does return custom well. And like a tried and tested musical, punters will diligently keep coming back.
‘The Truth About Love’, her latest record, has once again been a smash, hitting number one in eight countries, and gone platinum here, in the US (with over a million sales), in the UK and elsewhere. And in Australia, where Pink’s fandom is unrivaled, it has gone SIX TIMES platinum. In Oz, Pink’s Funhouse tour remains the biggest tour in the history of the country. She decamped there for nearly 60 dates (compared to a paltry 12 in North America) grossing $80 million. She could be one of the pop industry’s last reliables. A decent record, a couple of radio hits, and boom, the sales soar over the million mark.
The highlight from that album, ‘Try’, is executed brilliantly in the O2, her choreography advancing significantly. As ever with Pink, it is all about the movements, her athleticism, a wow factor that makes Madonna’s taught and precise dance scenes on the MDNA tour seem desperately flat. So here’s the key: the reason Pink’s live show is one of the best in the world is her live USP, which is aerial athleticism. You can have all the pyro you want at a Rihanna show, and all the ridonkulous costume changes at a Gaga gig, but Pink can FLY. The sense of danger as she descends silks, clambers around a spinning steal globe cage, the Broadway bonanza of her zip-lining into the gods, that’s what makes Pink gigs next level. And man do the crowd appreciate it. Screaming women with identikit haircuts whoop her every flex and step. They know that nobody else can do a show like this. It’s Pink’s territory and hers alone. You can imagine your Keshas or Rita Oras or Charli XCX’s watching this show and just sighing in defeat. Pink’s first record came out thirteen years ago, and she has used over a decade on the road and in the studio to mould a show that will work for years. She didn’t arrive fully formed, her development has been hard fought, but the results squash any contemporaries. ‘Just Like A Pill’ – probably her best track – excels early on, ‘Who Knew’, ‘So What’ and ‘Sober’ go down a storm. Her introspective, and it has to be said, slightly homogenous sound, is bolstered by another live element that she rocks, her voice.
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