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Nepi v. LammotAnnotate this Case
156 A.2d 413 (1959)
Daniel A. NEPI, Petitioner now Appellant, v. Eugene LAMMOT, Mayor of the City of Wilmington, Stewart Lynch, City Solicitor of the City of Wilmington, Robert A. Mitchell, City Engineer of the City of Wilmington, Constituting the Board of Adjustment of The Mayor and Council of Wilmington, Respondents, now Appellees.
Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle.
October 29, 1959.
Thomas Herlihy, Jr., and Nathan P. Michlin, Esquire, Wilmington, for appellant.
Stewart Lynch, Wilmington, for the appellees.
*414 STOREY, Judge.
Petitioner applied to the City Building Inspector for a permit to make certain alterations in buildings belonging to the petitioner and located in the City of Wilmington. The Building Inspector denied the application and petitioner took an appeal to the Board of Adjustment. A hearing was held by the Board of Adjustment in which petitioner and several objectors appeared and testified. The Board of Adjustment sustained the ruling of the Building Inspector and the Board's decision, according to respondents, was filed in the office of the Secretary of the Board on July 9, 1958.
On August 7, 1958, Daniel A. Nepi filed his petition for a Writ of Certiorari, pursuant to 22 Del.C. § 328, and a Notice of Appeal, pursuant to Rule 72 of the Rules of this court, Del.C.Ann., with the Prothonotary, in and for New Castle County, Delaware. Attached to the petition was an order for the issuance of the Writ of Certiorari which the Prothonotary removed. On August 12, 1958, the respondents were served with citations in Certiorari and the Secretary of the Board was served with a Writ of Certiorari on August 12, 1958.
The respondents have moved to dismiss the petition on the following grounds:
1. That petitioner has not complied with the requirements of Title 22 Del.C. § 328, in that petitioner did not present the petition to the Superior Court within thirty days after the filing of the decision in the office of the Board of Adjustment; and in that there has been no order of the Superior Court allowing a writ of certiorari directed to the Board of Adjustment to review the decision referred to in the petition.
2. That petitioner has joined improper parties as defendants and has failed to join as parties defendant the protestants and objectors who appeared and opposed the appeal of the petitioner, which protestants and objectors, respondents claim, are indispensible parties and the only proper parties in a proceeding of this character.
Respondents further expand this second objection by claiming:
A. The Board of Adjustment is a Quasi-Judicial Tribunal and is not properly a defendant in a proceeding to review its own decision.
B. The Delaware doctrine of sovereign immunity prevents a suit against the Board of Adjustment.
Respondents' motion to dismiss the petition for a writ of certiorari has presented the following questions for consideration:
1. Did the petitioner comply with the requirements of 22 Del.C. § 328 as to the presentation of his petition to the Superior Court?
2. Was it necessary for petitioner to join as defendants those persons who appeared before the Board of Adjustment and who objected to petitioner's appeal from the action of the Building Inspector?
*415 3. Was it proper for petitioner to name the Board of Adjustment as defendant?
Title 22 Del.C. § 328 provides:"(a) Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the Board of Adjustment, or any taxpayer, or any officer, department, board, or bureau of the municipality, may present to the Superior Court a petition, duly verified, setting forth that such decision is illegal, in whole or in part, specifying the grounds of the illegality. Such petition shall be presented to the court within 30 days after the filing of the decision in the office of the board. "(b) Upon the presentation of the petition, the court may allow a writ of certiorari directed to the board to review such decision of the board and shall prescribe therein the time within which a return thereto must be made and served upon the relator's attorney, which shall not be less than 10 days and may be extended by the court. The allowance of the writ shall not stay proceedings upon the decision appealed from, but the court may, on application, on notice to the board and on due cause shown, grant a restraining order. "(c) The court may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the decision brought up for review."
I do not feel, as respondents contend, that this section requires that the aggrieved party must actually present his petition to the Superior Court. It would not be a reasonable construction of this statute to require that the person aggrieved must bring the petition to the court and personally hand the same to a judge. Petitioner's filing of the petition with the Prothonotary of this court was sufficient to satisfy the intent of the statute as to the necessity of presentation of his petition to this court. Barnes v. Osborne, 1941, 286 N.Y. 403, 36 N.E.2d 638.
Title 22 Del.C. § 328 is entitled "Appeal from board's decision." (Emphasis added). The word "certiorari" is mentioned only once in the entire section, and subsection (c) provides that this court "may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the decision brought up for review." This is an extension of the ordinary powers of reviewing courts in a common law writ of certiorari, which is limited ordinarily to the power to affirm or reverse a lower court's decision.
In view of the above, it seems obvious that it was the intent and purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this provision for a statutory certiorari, to grant, in effect, a form of appeal from decisions by the Board of Adjustment.
Having decided that this statutory certiorari is, in effect, in the nature of an appeal, petitioner's compliance with Rule 72(a) and Rule 72(b) is sufficient to give this court jurisdiction, without the necessity of a specific order issued by this court."This Rule shall apply to appeals to the Superior Court from all Commissions, Boards or Courts from which an appeal may at any time lie to the Superior Court to be tried or heard on the record made below." Rule 72(a). "When an appeal is permitted by law, and within the time prescribed, a party may appeal by filing a notice of appeal with the Prothonotary of the appropriate County." (Emphasis added). Rule 72(b).
There appears to be an additional reason why no order allowing a writ of certiorari need issue from this court. 10 Del.C. § 562 states:"The Superior Court may frame and issue all remedial writs, including writs of habeas corpus and certiorari, or other process, necessary for bringing the actions in that Court to trial and for carrying the judgments of the Court *416 into execution. All writs shall be granted of course and shall be in such form and returnable at such time as may be prescribed by the rules of the Court, or otherwise as the particular case may require." (Emphasis added).
This court also feels that it was not necessary for petitioner to join as defendants those persons who appeared before the Board and who objected to petitioner's appeal from the action of the Building Inspector. Such objectors were not indispensable parties. Consider the impracticality of naming as defendants hundreds of people who may appear personally or by petition at a hearing. In Auditorium v. Board of Adjustment, 1952, 8 Terry 373, 91 A.2d 528, the Supreme Court of Delaware mentions the fact that there were 126 persons who objected to the grant of the building permit. Yet the Court never intimated that the case was not properly before it because of the non-joinder of these objectors.
It was likewise proper for petitioner to name the Board as defendant. The nature of the action is an appeal from that Board which acts in a quasi-judicial capacity. The forms suggested by the Court for use in certiorari cases, 1 K and 1 L, provide for the use of the name of a defendant. The case of In re Auditorium, 7 Terry 430, 84 A.2d 598, on appeal to the Supreme Court, is reported as Auditorium v. Board of Adjustment, supra. Query: If the Board is not a proper defendant, who is?
Respondents claim that the doctrine of sovereign immunity is applicable to suits against the Board of Adjustment. However, it would seem that such is not the case herein. 22 Del.C. § 328, by reasonable implication, gives consent to such a suit by allowing it by way of certiorari. If immunity based on sovereignty were a good jurisdictional defense, it is to be assumed that the Supreme Court of Delaware would, of its own initiative, have refused to take jurisdiction in Auditorium v. Board of Adjustment, supra, and would have requested that the 126 objectors be named as defendants.
For the reasons hereinabove set forth, respondents' motion to dismiss is denied.
On presentation, order will be signed accordingly.NOTES
 Petitioner claims that such was not filed at that time, nor even as late as August 5, 1958. However, since the 30 day limitation was met, and for reasons herein, this conflict is moot.
 No other method of appeal or review is provided.


Settling into DJR Team Penske this year after working with Chaz Mostert for his 2014 Bathurst win, engineer Adam De Borre now teams with another up-and-coming star in Scott Pye.
While De Borre says the two drivers are very different personalities, he is confident Pye can take a win this season and deliver victory to the team that expanded to two cars for 2016.
“Thankfully I was able to spend some time with Scott in my customer support engineer position at PRA, so I have known him for a long time,” De Borre said.
“I am enjoying seeing Scott progress and becoming a consistent top performer and an established star in the championship.
“I’m really looking forward to helping him achieve a lot more success in the back half of the year and hopefully crack his and the team first win as DJR Team Penske.”
De Borre is thriving on the challenge of such a close season and the change of scene.
“With every car there is a learning process and it takes time to understand what we have,” he said.
“There are a few subtle differences between the car I ran last year and the car we are running now and they challenge you – which is what you want as an engineer. However, the game has changed and everyone has taken the championship to another level again and we are stepping up and going our path. It’s great to be part of it.”
De Borre explained the ins and outs of Queensland Raceway.
Affectionately known as the ‘paperclip’ because of its shape, 3.12km Queensland Raceway poses a significant challenge for engineers, according to De Borre.
“It rewards good setup,” he said.
“You can generally mask car flaws with new tyres however come race time any issue will be exposed and the cars that win are very well balanced and fast.”
While it is the test track for Queensland-based teams – including DJR Team Penske – that hasn’t always meant a home track advantage in the past.
“Having QR as our test track offers us some luxury that the drivers are familiar with the current grip conditions,” De Borre said.
“We have a solid base, but it’s really dialing the car into the condition you face on the day that’s important. Quite often you don’t do that in testing as you are trying different parts of theories on setup.”
He believes the DJR Team Penske cars will be suited to the track. Pye recorded one of his career best results, fourth, at the circuit with DJR in 2014.
“The balance our cars have in the high speed section should suit the current package as well as the ability to get the front into the tighter the corners,” De Borre said.
Watch out for the left front tyre on the Supercars.
“With the asymmetric nature of the track the left front is loaded for a very long time and because they are quite long corners you’re in the turn for reasonable amount of time,” De Borre said.
“Finding a balance is a constant issue at QR – turns 4 and 5 are the only left corners and are quite tricky as they are both have very different requirements to the rest of the lap.
“It almost makes these corners the most critical for getting a good time in Qualifying as you focus so hard on the majority of the lap, which are all turning right.
“If your car isn’t stable and sharp enough here you can find yourself a tenth of a second off, which can be the difference between five or six positions.”
Even though it is the team’s test track, conditions are changeable at Queensland Raceway, so getting Pye comfortable with the car and grip levels will be important.
“If we can have some entry confidence then it will make the rest reasonable straightforward.
“You want to do a lot of laps in practice so the driver can really dial into the track … if we have a solid platform we can then attack and hopefully be up the front.”
“Come in too soon and ask too much from tyre and you will go slow,” De Borre says, though he believes tyre allocation is good for this event and has been all year.
“Degradation is pretty medium at this event … I feel like it will be similar to what we see at Phillip Island. But that depends on car and when you pit for tyres.”
Teams have six sets of soft tyres to run, including the ‘hand-back’ set for practice.
“This will leave us two sets for Saturday and three sets for Sunday,” De Borre said.
“Generally you will run one new set on Friday afternoon to do a qualifying simulation and learn how the car reacts to new tyres.
“Then two sets of new tyres in qualifying on Saturday and three sets of new tyres on Sunday. You then take these tyres in to the races on each day.”
Teams also have tyres run at the not-for-points Australian Grand Prix earlier this year to utilise in the co-driver only session.
While the focus in the two hour-long sessions will be about Pye, the team is using co-driver Tony D’Alberto’s experience as well. De Borre engineered D’Alberto in 2011 and '12 when he was competing full-time in the category.
Co-drivers have an exclusive half-hour session tomorrow morning – the last allocated session before the Pirtek Enduro Cup, which kicks off in two events at Sandown in Melbourne.
“Any time you can get your co-driver in the car is a good thing,” De Borre said.
“Tony has a lot of experience and we are utilising his experience to develop our package. He’s doing a great job in the car and it’s good to work with him again.”
After the co-drivers kick off the day, focus will be on dialing the car in for the weekend’s racing.
“Practice as all about getting Scott confident with the platform and to make sure we are consistent and quick even when the tyres start degrading.”
De Borre’s tip for those following along at home tomorrow?
“Focus on not necessarily the fastest but the cars that keep getting faster as the session goes on. This shows that their tyre life is strong as they keep improving.”
While the last two events have run ARMOR ALL Top 10 Shootouts, the Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint reverts back to all in sessions, 15 minutes on Sunday and 20 minutes on Sunday.
“Qualifying is very important,” De Borre said.
“Like I said earlier, new tyres at this track can mask a few issues with the car so you need a confident driver to get a great lap at this place.
“Because of this you sometimes get a car that is slower qualify in front, which can cause all sorts of headaches because in the shorter race it’s hard to pass.”
Expect a few laps on new tyres in the sessions.
“Generally … we will warm the car up and then do two or three new tyre hits. Hopefully building on the previous run to get the best result at the end.”
SATURDAY'S 120KM RACE
Teams must stop once to change four tyres in the weekend’s shorter race, but don’t expect everyone to file into the lane as soon as the window opens when the leader starts lap five (given there’s no early safety car).
“This year we have a trend to a slightly longer first stint given we are all on soft tyres,” De Borre said.
“Because the trend is to push hard in every stint we see higher degradation than in 2015.
“The fuel required to do the 120km race is so minimal there is virtually no queue risk so don’t be surprised if you see team cars on the same strategy.”
SUNDAY'S 200KM RACE
“If you aren’t leading at the end of lap one you need to run this race as a time trial,” De Borre said.
“Fuel to find clean air, so you’re not battling and wearing your tyres out. This will yield you the biggest gain.
“You have to be careful going too long as gaps disappear very quickly and finding a spot after your first pit stop will dictate your race.”
The first 10 laps are crucial.
“I would expect to see the whole field pit if a Safety Car is deployed on lap one as you can get to the end with one stop to go.”
While the possibility is nowhere near as high as a street circuit like Townsville, never discount a Safety Car, which could change the complexion of the race early one.
“Safety cars are low risk given the walls are set far back and there is plenty of run off,” De Borre said.
“Usually they occur with start line incidents as opposed to events in the race. Having said that they can come at anytime.”


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Olivia Culpo turned heads in the Philipp Plein show during the Milan Fashion Week, not only because of her ever-gorgeous look but also with her heartwarming choice of attire.
This time, Culpo was wearing a purple and gold jersey with the number 24 on it. This is her way of honoring the late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant who passed away last month.
Honoring a Legend
The gorgeous model walked the runway for the Philipp Plein fall 2020 show on February 22. She was wearing a jersey that's very similar to that of Kobe's and paired it with PVC shorts in black and a pair of purple thigh high-heeled boots.
Though her jersey had Kobe's jersey number on the front, it had Philipp's last name "Plein" printed in front to feature the designer's name.
Philipp Plein’s Kobe Bryant Tribute at MFW Had Olivia Culpo in Thigh-Highs & Jada Pinkett Smith in Platforms - Footwear News https://t.co/jWt6f4rDSD pic.twitter.com/wEGp4yvkUe— URBANTIAN™ (@URBANTIAN) February 24, 2020
Apart from Olivia, there were other high-profile stars who also paid tribute to the memory of one of the great basketball superstars of the NBA. Jada Pinkett Smith, 48, and Tyga, 30, both hit the runway in bedazzled Lakers-style hoodies and jerseys to pay tribute to the late athlete.
Jada was spotted linking her hand around Philipp's arm at one point in the show. This was her way of showing off how proud she is to be wearing his pieces.
Philipp has his own way of showing his support for the Black Mamba. The designer has now put the Lakers-inspired pieces that the three celebrities wore during his show on sale. He opened the sales to the public with plans to donate all proceeds to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation.
Kobe's official foundation was renamed to include the nickname he gave his daughter Gigi, who died with him in the crash. The goal of the foundation is to help young kids improve their skills to hone them to become better athletes for the future.
The jerseys are on retail for $2,070 while the hoodies can be bought for $3,150.
A Tribute to Kobe
Philipp's tribute to Kobe Bryant is just one of the many that have been held since Kobe's death on January 26. The helicopter crash also killed seven other people apart from Kobe and his daughter Gigi. Some were young children who aspire to be great in basketball too, while some were parents who are also active supporters of Kobe and his desire to produce better athletes for the future.
From the touching tribute at the Staples Center during the Lakers' first home game since the tragedy to the homage during the Super Bowl, there has been an overflowing of love and support for Kobe and all those lives lost in the tragic accident.
Although no amount of crying or positive support could bring his life back, memories of him will continue to inspire young athletes to be better than they are today.
An official memorial for Kobe and Gianna has been scheduled for February 24 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It will be live-streamed for all his fans all over the world.

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Identification of potential gene switches for breast cancer. We analyzed the integrated dataset (E-TABM-185) that contains 5,896 samples from about 300 different conditions to search for bimodality in the gene expression profiles. Genes are ranked based on their ΔAIC calculations, which represent the significance of bimodality in their expression profiles. The top 10%, or about 2000 genes that have the highest ΔAIC values are selected to compute the separation D with respect to breast cancer, among which 17 genes are discovered to express at a distinctive state in breast cancer as compared with all other conditions. An independent dataset (GSE15852, the dotted rectangle box in the Figure) is then used to examine the expression profiles of this 17 genes. The dataset has 43 pairs of samples, each pair consists of a tumor tissue and its adjacent non-tumorous tissue from the same patient. 12 of the 17 genes show different distribution between the breast cancer samples and their paired normal samples. These 12 genes (ESR1, SPDEF, IRX5, ERBB3, ERBB2, CRABP2, RAB25, FXYD3, TACSTD2, DSP, AGR2, CDH1) fell into two types of expression patterns. One type of genes, Type 1, shows bimodality within the breast cancer samples, and they are differentially expressed in some but not all of the paired dataset of breast cancer and normal samples. In other words with Type 1, the normal samples are in the OFF mode while the breast cancer samples contain both ON and OFF states. The other type of gene switch, Type 2, shows predominantly one modality in the breast cancer samples (ON) vs. in normal samples (OFF), thus the genes are differentially expressed in almost all breast cancer/normal pairs.
Wu et al. BMC Genomics 2011 12:547 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-547

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Recall when Arsenal didn’t announce the signing of Granit Xhaka but someone in Arsenal social media world managed to get hold of the player’s photo shot with Arsenal and released the pictures to the social media as proof that Arsenal already completed the deal?
The club ended up joking about it all even when we sure do know that the club wasn’t happy with the situation. It appears the same situation is about to play out on the club as reports from the social media are claiming Arsenal will be announcing the deal to sign Jamie Vardy tomorrow and that the player is currently at London Colney to undergo his medical.
Arsenal try to as much as possible to delay announcement of signings because of the money to be made from PR but with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram around, it appears the club will have to look for another smart way to make money from PR. The social media is getting notorious and it is not looking like it will stop any time soon.
Jamie Vardy will reportedly be put on a £120,000 a week wage package which will make him the 5ft highest earner at Chelsea.

domain: sports


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French brasserie Les Halles — the restaurant best known for being Anthony Bourdain's former home — claimed that it closed its Park Avenue South location due to a rent hike issue, with owner Philippe Lajaunie saying they didn't renew the lease because of a 60 percent increase. "It's Manhattan's natural evolution," he initially wrote in an email to Eater. "I am amazed that we lasted so long." But according to court documents and interviews with former employees, the situation is not as simple.
The restaurant has been in eviction proceedings with the building's landlord since December, a case that ultimately resulted in the landlord's favor. Cashflow has also long been a problem — vendor and employee paychecks have been bouncing for weeks, prompting service staff to walk out during Friday night service earlier this month. "At 4 p.m. every Friday, you can stand outside Les Halles downtown and watch the staff race to TD Bank to get what little money is in the account," one former employee says. "It's a running joke." Another employee says only a handful of people would be able to get their money before the account ran out, and after she left, she never got her last paycheck.
But Lajaunie insists that none of this is unusual. Eviction court cases are "a very normal" part of the tenant-landlord negotiations, he says, and he still think it's a possibility for the restaurant to reopen at 411 Park Avenue South, where it had been for nearly 25 years. Lajaunie also confirms that paychecks have been bouncing, but he says that's happened on and off for years. "It could be two or three snowstorms in a row,' Lajaunie says. "It can be any kind of reason. It has happened, and it's unfortunate."
According to court records, Les Halles had been paying more than $43,000 in rent every month as part of a lease that ended in November. When the restaurant didn't leave the space after the lease ended, and the landlord, 2727 Realty LLC and 411-413 Park Ave. S. Management LLC, filed a petition to get it out. The restaurant had been negotiating to renew its lease for about two years, according to a filing from Lajaunie's attorney, talks that ended early in November. The landlord says it was asking for a new, $65,000-per-month rent, but Lajaunie says the ask sometimes went up to $80,000. The landlord and their attorneys did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
By the end of March, the landlord's attorneys asked to speed up the eviction process.
By February, the restaurant and the landlord reached a settlement that allowed Les Halles to stay open until the end of April for $52,000-per-month rent, plus more than $10,000 in monthly real estate taxes and water. But by the end of March, the landlord's attorneys asked to speed up the eviction process. The restaurant had failed to pay its March rent on time, and they wanted Les Halles out sooner. Lajaunie says the landlord was supposed to simply take the rent out of their more than $120,000 security deposit, but ultimately, the court ruled in the landlord's favor.
And although the negotiation and court battle went on for months, employees did not know the restaurant would be closing until the day it shut its doors. It's also not the first time the restaurant has been accused of not treating its employees properly. In 2012, more than 100 employees filed a class action lawsuit against Les Halles, saying that it had an illegal tip pool and was paying people less than minimum wage. And despite court orders for the restaurant to leave, Lajaunie says there was no reason to tell employees about the potential closure because he was never sure it was final. "Until the 31st, I could have gotten a note from the landlord to say, 'Hey, let's get together and work together,'" he says.
The FiDi location of Les Halles remains open, and Lajaunie is chipper about the restaurant's future. He even says he's planning to open another Les Halles location elsewhere. Meanwhile, some former employees are still trying to get their last paychecks and figure out what happened to owed tip money. "It got to a breaking point," one employee says. "After he withheld my last paycheck, I was like, this is too much. ...He'll do it to anybody."

domain: sociology


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Video Nasties: Draconian Days
Directed by Jake West
Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more by the sequel to the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon - the most extraordinary and scandalous era in the history of British film.
DRACONIAN DAYS follows up the definitive documentary on Video Nasties.
Cast: Sian Barber, Martin Barker, Graham Bright
Just as informative and fun to watch as it's predecessor. Highly recommended but also suggested that you watch the first Video Nasties doc before this one.
A small note: you're going to want to have seen the first Video Nasties documentary before watching this one. But trust me, it's worth it because part two forms the fall arc from the first film's rise to tell an interesting and complete story about a censorship system that crippled an entire industry in the UK and the community of fans who love the blood, the beasts, and the breasts. If you have any curiosity over how a movie became a video nasty, watch this and it's predecessor.
12:30 - So many Rambos.
Great! I love this stuff

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The Sand Explosion Toolkit. Ideal tool to create sand debri explosions and impacts which can be modified and changed easily according to your needs.
You can set the parameters of the impact point, the radius, the clumping, smoke, debri and many more parameters. Enjoy
The Sand Explosion asset also works with the newest Houdini 19.5 builds as we tested it recently.


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Former manager Harry Redknapp could be the man to get West Ham firing again, believes Joey Barton.
It is understood Slaven Bilic is facing the axe as Hammers boss following Saturday’s dreadful 4-1 home defeat to Liverpool, which left the club in the Premier League relegation zone.
Bilic is expected to learn whether he will remain boss on Monday and reports claim David Moyes is waiting in the wings, although those rumours have been met by fierce opposition from supporters.
Redknapp recently told talkSPORT he was ‘getting bored’ with life outside of football following his departure from Birmingham City and may consider a possible return to the game.
And Barton claims the 70-year-old’s return to east London could be just the thing to lift a team who look perilously short of confidence.
“I think they could do a lot worse than Harry Redknapp, it wouldn’t be the worst appointment,” Sports Breakfast co-host Barton said on Monday.
“He’s one of their own, he’s a former player and former manager, and he’d definitely get a few of the players on-side.
“One of Harry’s big things is to get good players and put them together and let them get on with business.
“I don’t think he’d be someone who would go in and change the shape and make the training regime any different.
“Maybe they just need an arm round their shoulder and a bit of a cuddle.”

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text: 14 October – 04 November 2014. SHCHUSEV STATE MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE and BELIEF FOUNDATION present a breathtaking new exhibition by legendary artist FUTURA. SHCHUSEV STATE MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE is to provide the backdrop for Russia’s first solo exhibition of the work by legendary New York artist FUTURA (LEONARD MCGURR). Exhibition will take place at the Museum’s “RUINA” wing: Vozdvizhenka str., 5/25. Exhibition halls are open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 20:00, on Thursday from 13:00 to 21:00.


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Rectangular cushion with two-colour cover with sea fisherman motifs
Size 40 x 60cm
Cushion made by our local workshops with a size of 40 x 60cm with quality linen fabrics.
These seaside fishermen are enhanced by our beautiful plain fabrics.
Linen fabric shrimp fishermen


We're currently working on updating the documentation for the Loco positioning system. Util the documentation is completed you can find the old early access documentation here.
The Loco Positioning system (LPS) project is a set of hardware and software designed to implement a local positioning system (LPS). Current hardware comprises one LPS Node and one LPS Deck. Both are based on the Decawave DWM1000 chip.
The local positioning system is based on the DecaWave DWM1000 module. The system consists of a number of anchors that are continuously pinged from the Crazyflie 2.0 deck that's based on the same module. The anchors are placed around the room at known positions.
The system supports a number of different modes:
This getting started documentation is intended to guide you from receiving your Loco Positioning Indoor Explorer Bundle to having an autonomous Crazyflie 2.0.
For working with the Loco positioning system there's a variety of tools available:
In order to illustrate how to set up a system we document a reference system and how we've set it up. The referance system is base on the Indoor explorer bundle which contains the following:
The Kalman filter used position Crazyflie in the LPS is not yet part of the default firmware so you need to compile the Crazyflie firmware with Kalman support activated. Clone or pull the latest version from Github and put the following lines in your tools/make/config.mk:
ESTIMATOR = kalman
Compile and flash the Crazyflie:
make clean make make cload
For “make cload” to work, you need to have the Crazyflie client cloned and installed in the same folder as the Crazyflie firmware.
Use the LPS configuration tool to update the firmware and set the addresses of the nodes from 0-5. Note the address on the nodes.
The nodes should be placed at least 15 cm away from walls or ceiling. In our reference set-up we accomplish this by using these 3D printed stands.
Power the anchors with 5V using either the micro-USB connector, the terminal or the DJ-jack.
Note; If you're not following our reference set-up for placing the nodes try to space them out at lest 2 meters apart and at different heights (see Dilution Of Precision).
The position in X/Y/Z of the anchor UWB antenna needs to be measured. To do so chose an origin (in a square/rectangular room one of the corners is a good choice), choose your axis to be a right-handed coordinates. Finally you can measure the X/Y/Z position of the anchors in this coordinate system. Using a corner as origin means that you can use a laser-ranger against the walls to get a direct reading of the coordinates.
In our reference setup we have placed 3 anchors above and 3 anchors bellow the flight area, shaped in inverse triangles. This allows to get good accuracy in X, Y and Z.
The Loco Positioning tab in the PC-client can be used to validate anchor positions and to verify that the estimated position is reasonable.
To validate the system we took a series of measurement from the reference system. You can see the results in the page Measurements of accuracy and precision of the Loco Positioning system.


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You can begin to develop a reliable inner refuge on your own by drawing on whatever in your past experience has helped you to feel a sense of connectedness and an increased sense of safety.
Any deep wound or loss can be transformed into fierce grace when we meet the pain with a caring presence. We can find grace in the immediacy of a frightening experience or in working with long-held trauma. No amount of violence can corrupt the timeless and pure presence that is the very ground of your being. Waves of fear or shame may possess us temporarily, but as we continue to entrust ourselves to loving presence, as we let ourselves feel loved, our lives become more and more an expression of who or what we are. This is the essence of grace- homecoming to who we are.
how spirit moves us is really about how open we are to our loved ways….
inquiry for today~ when there is nothing but the pink sky meeting the day’s end- we have a little more room to trust…..
This Present, in which we exist at each and every moment of our lives, happens to be the most advanced point of the most advanced age in humanity’s existence. Actually, this Present in which everything happens is always and permanently situated at this most advanced point. As one moment gives way to the next, it is replaced in turn with an infinite number of such endless present moments, all of which permanently reside at this forever recurring pinnacle of existence. Therefore, an equally amazing fact is that each and every human who has ever lived on this planet could also have thought of themselves as living at the pinnacle of evolution! Subsequently, every human who will exist in the future will again exist at their own present moment, which will also exist at the tip of Time’s arrow. The only constant substratum of everything in the universe is this Present at which everything is and is becoming. Generations upon generations of humans will come and go, but this Present will remain permanently immobile, “untouched by morning and untouched by noon.” Since each moment that passes by has no effect on this Present, it might be conceived as being eternal. Everything I write now, everything you read at this moment, is always being written and read in an Eternal Present. Our lives and existence in general may seem to reside and move in Time, but this Time is nowhere to be found. What can be found is the Present, but this Present, being immobile, permanent, and therefore eternal, cannot be conceived or understood by our finite intellect – although it may occasionally be experienced by another faculty of our being. And though it contains everything that was, is, or will be, it cannot itself be contained in Time nor located in Space. Still, one of its main “qualities,” if we may be pardoned for using such a word to describe the indescribable, is that it is always “situated” (again an imperfect word) at the pinnacle of Being.

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Migos released their most recent video “Narcos” two days ago. Turns out they filmed it in a luxurious house in Miami. Here they are posing in front of the Mediterranean style manse during the production.
Quavo posted the photo two days ago to coincide and it caught the eye of one particular former Miamian. Turns out Madonna was scrolling through her insta feed and saw her old digs and had to bring it to Quavo’s attention.
— YBF CHIC (@TheYBF) June 28, 2018
From her verified account, Madonna wrote “That’s my house in Miami! What are you doing there??”
Was your house, Madge. The mansion, located at 3029 Brickell Avenue near Vizcaya was the Material Girl’s Miami outpost in the ’90s until she unloaded it in 2000.
And to answer her question, Quavo was doing what Quavo always does: “Trappin'”
Check out the whole video here.


Bekaert Solaronics will supply Hangzhou Dongda Paper Co. Ltd with a 3-rows infrared GemDryer® and one Energy Recovery System (ERS) for coat drying on its PM2. This order comes just after the installation in 2016 of two GemDryer® and two ERS after-press and existing coater on the PM1 of Zhejiang Dongda Paper Co., Ltd. Dongda Paper manufactures coated recycled board.
Bekaert Solaronics has a long-lasting experience in the optimization of non-contact drying systems. The combination of the GemDryer® with the ERS will help to increase the machine speed-up after press and coating stations and realize significant energy savings by using directly the exhaust from the infrared dryers as an energy source for the air dryer.
Moreover, thanks to their compactness and coupled with the high performance Gem12+ emitters, the GemDryer® systems meet the customer needs in terms of high power density, drying flexibility and efficiency and ease of maintenance.
About Zhejiang Dongda Paper Co.,Ltd
Zhejiang Dongda Paper Co. Ltd is a major producer of coated white cartonboard and paper in Zhejiang Province. The company was founded in 1999, and its annual production capacity is 400,000 tons.
About Hangzhou Dongda Paper Co., Ltd
Founded in 2003, Hangzhou Dongda Paper Co., Ltd is a top-grade coating white paper board’s manufacturer located at Spring River Street, Fuyang City in China. The paper mill produces duplex board with white or grey back and coated duplex board. Covering an area of more than 70,000 square meters, the annual production capacity is more than 100,000 tons.
About Bekaert and Bekaert Solaronics
Bekaert is a world market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies. We pursue to be the preferred supplier for our steel wire products and solutions by continuously delivering superior value to our customers worldwide. Bekaert (Euronext Brussels: BEKB) is a global company with almost 30 000 employees worldwide, headquarters in Belgium and € 4.4 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1967, Bekaert Solaronics supplies customized drying and heating systems based on gas and electrical infrared technology to a wide range of industries. Today, more than 1 000 systems have been installed worldwide. The company also provides maintenance services and is available to assist on upgrades or improved energy efficiency of existing systems.


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Greenpeace Founder Slams Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez is a 'Pompous Little Twit'
Patrick Moore blasts AOC over climate resolution, says she'll 'bring about mass death'
Moore, who left the environmental organization after declaring it has been “hijacked by eco-fascists," weighed in on Ocasio-Cortez’s controversial plan, saying her ill-thought-out resolution "would bring about mass death" in America if put into action.
Mr. Moore, who co-founded Greenpeace in the early 1970s, has been campaigning for environmental issues for over 50 years and describes himself as a “sensible environmentalist.”
In 2006, he wrote to the Royal Society arguing there was "no scientific proof" that mankind was causing global climate change and believes that it "has a much better correlation with changes in solar activity than CO2 levels."
Last week, he reiterated this view on Climate Change, saying "nothing in today’s weather or climate is anywhere near out of the ordinary with the past 10,000 years.
"If you have an example, kindly share it," he added.
@AOC— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) March 3, 2019
Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death.
According to The Inquistr, despite Patrick Moore having a relatively modest social media following on Twitter, his acerbic words for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew nearly 7,000 likes in somewhat short order.
As IdeaCity details, Moore is no stranger to public controversy and debate, having departed from the organization which he co-founded — Greenpeace — because activists and other sensationalists had, in his view, hijacked the meaning and the motivations behind the environmental and scientific communities.
Upon being informed by a Twitter follower that it was regrettable that “AOC” would have her voice heard to a much greater magnitude than his, Moore replied in equally blunt fashion.
“It won’t be long until she is exposed for the pompous know-nothing she is. Then again, that may work in her favour!!”
At the risk of being repetitive, I repeat:— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) February 26, 2019
Nothing, nada, zilch, in today’s weather or climate is anywhere near out of the ordinary with the past 10,000 years.
If you have an example, kindly share it.
I left @Greenpeace 33 years ago because they were hijacked by eco-fascists. The entire history is in my book, along with my take on all the eco-issues today.— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) March 3, 2019
Available as Kindle or print: https://t.co/CAvAYD5ytH
In a biography posted on the Heartland Institute’s website, Moore’s long and distinguished career is detailed, including his work to fight Greenpeace’s misguided opposition to “Golden Rice,” an essential food to fight disease and death.
“In 2013 Dr. Moore, with his brother Michael and other family members, founded the Allow Golden Rice Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to seeing Golden Rice approved for commercial agriculture. 250 million children, mainly in tropical countries, are deficient in vitamin A and as a result, 2 million die each year.
"The Allow Golden Rice Now! campaign demands that Greenpeace and their allies discontinue their campaign of opposition to Golden Rice, which could eliminate vitamin A deficiency if cultivated and consumed.”
Moore is a policy adviser at the institute, a free-market think tank.
Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez has been branded a hypocrite after it was revealed her campaign spent a small fortune on car travel as opposed to public transport while touting her Green New Deal.
According to election filings, her campaign spent $29,365.70 on car services and only $8,335.41 on subway fares, despite her Queens headquarters being just a one-minute walk from the subway.
On Saturday night, Ocasio-Cortez hit back at the New York Post for highlighting the figures, claiming she is just "living in the world."
"I also fly and use A/C," she tweeted to her more than three million followers.
"Living in the world as it is isn't an argument against working towards a better future.
"The Green New Deal is about putting a LOT of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100% renewable energy."
She took another swing at the article on Sunday, implying that her hometown newspaper is trying to create controversy where there is none.
"The Post put the fact that I get into cars (while proposing a plan to invest in better car technology) on their front page," she tweeted.
"Pack it up folks, the Pulitzer's been decided. No one can rival this kind of hard-hitting journalism."
The Post put the fact that I get into cars (while proposing a plan to invest in better car technology) on their front page 😂— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 3, 2019
Pack it up folks, the Pulitzer’s been decided. No one can rival this kind of hard-hitting journalism https://t.co/007iOcpyz2
The freshman congresswoman, representing New York's 14th congressional district, says she has a goal of a "full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases" within 10 years, which includes eradicating petrol engines and air travel.
According to federal filings viewed by the Post, Ocasio-Cortez's campaign spent $29,365.70 on vehicles that spew the very emissions she wants to be rid of.
This is despite her headquarters in Elmhurst, Queens, being just a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
During her campaign, she also booked 66 airline trips at a cost of $25,174.54.


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Whether the setting be medieval Scotland, Regency England, frontier Montana, or modern-day Louisiana, her themes are consistent: family, loyalty and honor. Julie described her goals this way: “I want my readers to laugh and cry and fall in love.” And she would be right.
My favorite novel of Julie’s is Shadow Dance. It’s a contemporary that features Jordan Buchanan, the oldest daughter and Noah Clayborne, Nick Buchanan’s best friend and partner in the FBI. I immediately fell in love with both the plot and the characters. Jordan is a business savvy, smart and at times vulnerable woman. She doesn’t see herself as desirable and hasn’t really thought about dating or having any kind of a social life. After a dare from Noah at her brother’s wedding, she sets off for Texas to find some answers and gets caught up in a web of deceit, murder and romance. Noah is my favorite romance hero ever written. He’s a FBI agent that is as tough, sexy, smart and tender as a man can be. Jordan and Noah work well together on so many levels. They are smart, loyal to a fault and the compliment each other. If you want to read more about Noah Clayborne’s back story, please read the following: For The Roses, The Clayborne Brides and Come The Spring.
For more information on Julie and her books, please visit her website at www.juliegarwood.com.
**Bio and book information was found on Julie’s website.
What you can win here: $15 GC from either B&N or AmazonNumber of winners: 3Open to (INT, US or US/CAN): INTHow to enter: Just leave me a comment on your favorite book ever.
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My favorite book is The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Thank you for the giveaway!
Oohh, I have heard of her, but have not yet read anything by her. 🙂
I will have to check them out. I love Scottish tales.
My all time favorite book is Lasher by Anne Rice. I don't know what it is about that book, but I can re-read it and never get bored.
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
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My favorite is In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall.
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BDB Series by J R Ward. If you love vampires and romance then you will love these. Gale firstname.lastname@example.org
The Great Lenore by J.M. Tohline is my favorite! The writing is breathtakingly beautiful, and the story is one that stays with you and has you thinking about it for weeks…
Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
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Oh, there is no way that I could ever have a favorite book. I will share what is probably my favorite from so far this year though. I really loved LETHAL RIDER by Larissa Ione. Great world and characters, terrific stories from Ms. Ione 🙂
Thank you for the giveaway.
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I'll have to go with my favourite series, because so many of them are my “faves” that I cannot pick just one!! Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward! Simply fabulous! I liked the first one okay, but the 2nd – Lover Eternal – knocked my socks off! The series just keeps getting better and better!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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My ulitmate fav. book is The Thorn Birds. Read this book when I was 15 and it was my first romance book and the book that diverted me away from Dean Koontz and Stephen King. I love a good book on forbidden romance and this is the ultimate in forbidden romance
The first book that totally got me and I still think about to this day is called Olivia and Jai by Rebecca Ryman. It is based in India and the culture and setting totally drew me in.
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Thanks a lot for the giveaway!
Pride and prejudice and the harry potter series. Read these books in an important period of my life and they stuck with me ever since
Fave book ever might be Paradise by Judith McNaught! Love her books!
Thanks for the chance!
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My favorite book ever is Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka – a romance, with a bit of fantasy, set in 19th century Japan.
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My very favorite book ever? That's a hard one… I have favorites in all different categories… so, Paranormal Romance would be A Caress of Twilight (Merideth Gentry series)… favorite Sci Fi… Anything by Ray Bradbury oh, and Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Historical Fiction? Pompeii… I could go on…
THanks for the chance to win!!
My favorite book, Jane Eyre can't go wrong with the classics. Deb P 😉
My favorite book is Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
I've loved so many books that I've read. Choosing just one isn't easy, but I'm going to say Twilight. It means a lot to me because without those books, I wouldn't have a passion for reading like I do now. 🙂
Thank you for the giveaway.
I love the BDB series by JR Ward! It's my absolute favorite series. The Night Huntress series is a close second 🙂
I LOVE Julie Garwood – my mother got me started on her historicals, and I think I've read everything she's ever written 🙂 Hmm, I'm not sure I can pick one favorite book ever, but if I did, it would have to be Johanna Lindsey's Malory novels (of the series, I think Gentle Rogue & The Magic of You are my favorites).
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I have a lot favorite book, but for now my favorite was In death Series by JD Robb. Thanks for giveaway:)
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Aaarrgghh.. so many people asking me this question…I really confuse because I have a lot of Favorite books… but, I will say… all Julie James books will be My fave book all thetime…. ^^
Thank's for the Giveaway… ^^
I have a hard time narrowing it down to one book. How about one series? That would be hands down JR Wards BDB! Already counting down to March 2013 for Lover At Last!
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My favourite book is Sherrilyn kenyon fantasy lover
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Fave ever is really hard, but I do absolutely love Kelley Armstrong's Nadia Stafford series! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
my fav books :
1. in death series by jdrobb
2. night huntress series by jeaniene frost..
So many favorites but today it is Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McQuire.
It's hard to pick my very favorite. My favorite at the moment is Changing Worlds by Cari Z.
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Thank you so much for the great contest. My favorite book right now is a book called Who We Are by TJ Klune. It is the second book to one of my favorite books Bear, Otter and the Kid. I can’t wait to read the next installment!
I loved the books in The Hunger Games series. Thanks for offering!
I love Edgard and Trevor from Lorelie James Rough Riders Series book 5: Rough, Raw, and Ready! Chassie is one LUCKY girl!!!
Thanks for the contest.
For romance books my favourites are Once and Always by Judith Mcnaught and You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sarra Manning. Thanks!
I love Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder.
My bk. is Heartbreak Creek by Kaki Warner.
Shadow Dance is the first book I ever read by Julie Garwood and it was a wonderful read. One of my favorite book is Cover of Night by Linda Howard.
Well I love Julie Garwood and my fave is Ransom. It was the first book I read of hers and still remains my fave in the Highlander area hands down.
Lover Eternal by JR Ward! I love Rhage and how he interacts with the other characters!
thanks for the contest!!!
I'm another one who's favourite book is Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I LOVED this book. I'd been waiting since the first book in the Dark Hunter series to see Acheron's Happily-Ever-After and I adore him. It was a great book.
Thanks for the giveaway.
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Pride and Prejudice
My Favorite book ever is Jane Erye by emily Bronte
Naked in Death by JD Robb is at the top of my list.
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Ouch, that is so hard! I think my favorite are The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell!
Favorite book…Heart of Texas by RJ Scott.
I don't know about fav book ever since that would be kinda hard for me to answer, but for this year that would have to be Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
My favorite book is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. That's my go to book. It has my favorite character ever, Jamie Fraser. I named my son after him.
I have so many favorite books but since we have to pick one I'll say it's Bet Me by Jennifer Cruise. It's a story of friendship and love. Thanks for the giveaway.
Great giveaway. I could buy some more books. lol
I have been reading for over 60 yrs so I have read 1,000's of books and many were favs but the last book I read and it was awesome was Rare Earth by Davis Bunn and the one before it was Quest for the Nail Prints by Don Furr. I love Fern Michaels Sisterhood series and have 2 more to read (18 in series).
Thanks for the opportunity to enter giveaway.
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There are so many! I really enjoyed Nora Roberts Bride Quartet.
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There are so many pretty covers out there nowadays..its difficult to pick one..but I'll go with Gena Showalter's LOTU series.All those covers are amazing!
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My favorite book is the Harry Potter series 🙂
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Tropic of Hockey by Dave Bidini is a must-read, even if you're not a hockey fan (though I am)…it's a really great travelogue of how the game is a part of life in countries you wouldn't expect (Dubai, China), and has really great anecdotes throughout.
My favorite series is the Twilight series. Please enter me in contest. I would love to read this book. email@example.com
Oh I don't know if I could pick just one. I love the Beckets of Romney Marsh series by Kasey Michaels.
My favorite is Dark Desire in the Carpathian series written by Christine Feehan. I have read it over and over through the years.
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My favorite book ever is The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield
Thanks for the chance!
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One if my favorite books is Wedgie Tales and Panty Lines by Sandra Sookoo. I have not read any of Julie's books. Will have to give her a try. Thanks for the giveaway.
I really love this book by Garwood too. To be honest, I really love most of hers. And it's hard to pick my ultimate favorite because I have so many. Since it alternates, my favorite now would have to be The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie. 🙂
My favorite book is Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson,Ive re-read it lots of times:)
My all time favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. I was 13 when it was first published and my mother and I read it together (my first “book club”!). It blew me away. I remember talking to my parents about it and what we could do to eliminate racial hatred. To Kill a Mockingbird changed my world.
My all time favorite is the FBI series by Julie James! She's amazing! All her books are must-read!
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My all time favorite book is LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry. It is such a beautifully written epic. The characters are memorable. The scenery majestic & the villains wicked!!
Love Julie Garwood her book Ransom is one of my all time favs. I also love Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by julia quinn
Persuasion by Jane Austen. Thank you for the giveaway!
My favorite book ever is P&P Jane Austen also Twilight!!!
Easy, Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning. Love the Fever series, and I have read this book a handful of times and will mostly likely read it a handful more.
I have yet to pick up a book by Julie, I should really check her out.
My favorite book ever is Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon, I have read it twice now and still pulls out the same emotions I did the very first time, I cry (buckets), laugh(til my sides hurt) and got so angry. I threatened to throw the book across the room.
I can never get enough of this book and is my favorite character of all time too.
My favorite is Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. I never get tried of reading that book.
hum it's not easy to pick only one i could have said bilbot the hobbit but i will choose Moon called by Patricia Briggs.
I found my self in a very difficult time, i thought i couldn't continue and i found this book in a second hand shop. First i told myself ” again a paranormal book, always the same” but it was cheap and i was desesperate so i took it. It was wonderful yes it's a urban fantasy with in this first book just glimpse of romance but the heroïne is funny, strong and courageous while being still compasionate… i needed that hope and even now years later when i think of it i'm laughing and crying because Patricia briggs managed to paint realistic characters and strong emotions

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The interview that I did with Beading Times just came out. Follow the link to read all about my journey! Thanks so much to Beading Times for choosing me.
I have been super busy teaching 10-11 yr. old kids how to make glass beads this past week. It is defiantly a challenge.
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Last night, I had the chance to have dinner in the Arts District at Screen Door in One Arts Plaza, which was ok, but given the similar price without achieving similar flavors I would call it a poor man's Bar Americain. Afterwards, we went to the Winspear Opera House to catch the local swing of the Broadway production of Spring Awakening.
First, I would like to say that I found it impressive how many people we ran into that we knew. Also, how lifeless and almost awkward the landscape and the entry/exit experience is in general in the Arts District. The landscape is incredibly arbitrary and haphazard at best and a general nuisance at worst. It was almost surreal after the show to watch as everybody blocked the exits to wait for the elevator/escalator to take them into the subterranean garage where the mole people could finally be happy once again. I know it is pretty much common knowledge by now, and these were mistakes sewn decades ago, but the clustering of these facilities (and its associated parking) really dilutes the power and life-giving properties of any one of them.
As for the actual musical which the majority of this post will be about, you can find a more seasoned and expert review of it here at Pegasus News:
Spring Awakening is not the musical for the closed-minded, stuffy, old, stiff generations that cannot handle nudity and profanity. This is a musical that displays graphic honesty in showing how we all reacted when we were teens and dealing with sexuality, sex, love, religion, parents, and the restrictions that society imposed on us. Those are all the elements in Spring Awakening that make it such a preeminent piece of musical theater.Now I wouldn't go so far as to give it an A+ as the writer above did, but I don't have the musical background suitable for comparison. However, if I were to rate it within my own canonical criteria, I would give it a 2 out of 3 on the following scale:
3 out of 3 - Life Altering. You may come across a handful of movies, literature, music or other canon throughout the course of your life that truly and profoundly alters the way you think.What I did find incredibly interesting about the musical and the play it was based on, was that it was originally written (and subsequently set) in 1891 Germany, which is what I plan on exploring further. The review mentioned above alludes to the historical perspective I'm getting at:
2 out of 3 - Worth Experiencing. Good but not profound. This is where I slot the majority of the DVD's, books, itunes library that I own. As I stated, this is also where I put Spring Awakening.
1 out of 3 - These are things that might be guilty pleasures, are overtly simple in their construct, or chick flicks that your girlfriend dragged you to see (which in some cases could be all of the above), but all have elements or are constructed expertly enough to find something worthwhile.
0 out of 3 - Not on your life. If you happened to have seen them, you are worse off for it and you are forgiven for walking out of the theater, shutting off the dvd player, and scolding whoever provided the suggestion in the first place. Michael Bay and Zack Snyder movies go here [still can't get the stench of 300 out of my mind].
Now, I will admit I did miss the foreshadowing that resulted in the New York casting of "Hanschen." In the original, the actor was blonde and blue-eyed, giving him an aura of the future German "Aryan" race. This being 1890, and the boy who played "Ernst" looked slightly Jewish, it was harrowing foreshadowing of what was to come. Nonetheless Hager and Fankhauser were both outstanding in their performances here.I would like to use the serious statement above to outline my biggest annoyance with the production. Given the context of the play and its setting as well as the character names, I found it profoundly distracting when the production instantly jumped into time into a more contemporary forum.
The most egregious of which, is the song around the middle of the second act, where the full cast is involved, many on the stairs at the front of the stage performing a hyperactive en vogue-ish dance on a red bull and ritalin cocktail to happy hipster punk-like (or -light?) music. The reviewer above even paid special attention to the ballads which were quite moving and revelatory in terms of characterization.
It was so out of place that I couldn't help but have a Hot Fuzz "Love You, Love You" moment. Of course, this wasn't such an affront as to find it acceptable to behead those at fault and stage the most horrific traffic collision ever seen for the greater good.
In short, I think I would have preferred either a fully modernized/Americanized version or to remain more true to the source material. The hybridization was unnecessary for us to understand the potential parallels in history. In the end, the time warp was jarring, unnecessary, and distracting. We are smart people. We have read Twain and understand that history never repeats but often rhymes.
I think I find this one instance so irritable because of the historic background and time in which the play was written and set. 19th century Germany was a veritable cauldron of intellectual foment, but (and perhaps in reaction) it was also the protean stage of Nazism in Germany. It was written shortly after Wagner had died and Nietzsche had gone mad. While Neitzsche may have castigated Wagner's own bigotry, I'm the same guy who wrote a college paper blaming Neitzsche and his uber-man for the widespread belief in arian superiority.
I found the importance of the musical wasn't so much in the overt sexuality, but in the censorship and refutation by those incapable or uncomfortable with 'that of the other,' of individual expression and exploration, and essentially its documentation of the formative years of eventual Nazi party members. In the first act, before I knew any better it struck me as unhappy hipster tale as written and perceived by a GenX playwright. The fact that it wasn't, its setting, was the most fascinating element to me. The irony of the play itself being censored is enough for martyrdom.
Next time we think about what the wacko Texas School Board does or superficially attempt to build a City for the "Creative Class," we should keep in mind every little piece of minutiae we legislate, adding to the Rube Goldberg machine of Bureaucracy. See the Build a Better Block project and its subsequent shutting down by police. They knew what was going to happen, but they did it anyway in order to point out some of the unnecessary, antiquated, and suppressive nature of the current Dallas zoning code. The quote by cops that "roads are for cars" is telling about the inner conflict of a city that wants a creative city, but undermines it by constructing the entire city's genetic code around car movement.
But, back to Spring Awakening and censorship. In the age of the internet, an outlet for democratic expression, the best and only censorship is unpopularity. Fortunately, despite my personal annoyances, this musical had enough going for it (particularly the voice of whoever played Ilse) to make it quite popular and relevant. And worth seeing. 2/3.


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Community Care Review
For the first time, nationally consistent guidelines have been introduced for the home delivered and centre-based meals sector under the Commonwealth Home Support Program.
Regular exercise for people with dementia improves balance and functional independence with everyday activities such as bathing and dressing, a new study has found.
Researchers and policy analysts Patricia and Don Edgar have written a new book showcasing the active and valuable contributions made by older Australians and calling for a rethink on how society understands ageing.
Health and aged care provider Cabrini has launched a new website to support health professionals to have sensitive conversations about advance care planning with people from different religious and cultural backgrounds.
Putting co-production into practice; supporting best practice dementia care in the community, and training update on program reporting for CHSP.
Individuals and community groups in Western Australia are being encouraged to take part in a short film competition that turns the lens on the topic of ageing.
Community organisations can learn a lot about how to create enticing and engaging participation opportunities for older people by considering their motivations for getting involved. Here, Dr Amanda Krause takes a look at why people take up singing.
A reluctance among older consumers to change their care arrangements or ask for additional services, coupled with poor advocacy from providers, has hampered the impact of consumer directed care, a government evaluation shows.
The Commonwealth and Western Australian governments have finalised a bilateral agreement for the delivery of a locally-run National Disability Insurance Scheme in WA, to commence from July.
With just weeks to go before deregulation is introduced into home care, the Department of Health has released the findings of key research into the readiness of providers for the landmark reforms.
Despite some industry resistance, technology platforms have an important role to play in advancing the government’s agenda to hand back greater choice and control to older Australians, writes Peter Scutt.
In the face of a deregulated home care market, supporting and empowering the direct care workforce will be more important than ever, write Nicki Doyle and Roshani Manouchehri.
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A new study is the first to document how removing commission fees on trading platforms improves returns for the average trader.
The advent of no-fee trading on platforms such as Robinhood has helped fuel an explosion in retail investing—and raised concerns that novices would be tempted to trade too often and would lose more money.
New research co-authored by Berkeley Haas assistant professor Omri Even-Tov shows this fear may be exaggerated: While average investors trade more when fees are removed, they also earn more.
“There is a lot of debate about whether more activity among retail traders will harm their performance, and we show that portfolios don’t underperform just because of greater activity,” Even-Tov says. “In fact, net performance improves by about 11% annually, and this improvement is driven by savings from the removal of fees rather than changes in the returns of trades.”
In a new working paper, co-authored by Berkeley Haas doctoral student Kimberlyn George and professors Shimon Kogan from the University of Pennsylvania and Eric So from MIT, the researchers took advantage of a natural experiment by international trading platform eToro, which dropped fees on certain trades in different countries at different times over the past several years. The research also concluded that individuals craft more diverse portfolios when trading is free.
Boom in retail trading
The popularity of retail investor trading has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2020, more than 10 million Americans opened a new brokerage account. In the month of January 2021, six million more downloaded a financial trading app. There is, according to Deloitte, “an emerging class of individual retail investors” that now accounts for approximately 20% of all trading volume in U.S. stock and options.
A confluence of factors is behind these numbers, from accessibility through smartphones to stay-at-home orders during the pandemic. But central to this growth is the introduction of zero-commission trades, in which startups like Robinhood have done away with the longstanding convention of charging a fee for each trade.
“They’ve found other ways to support their operations, and now regulators are looking at whether or not these new methods need to be reined in,” says Berkeley Haas assistant professor Omri Even-Tov. “But what happens if we reintroduce commission fees? Nobody has an answer to that question.”
No fees means more trading and better performance
The trading platform eToro’s staggered removal of trading fees in different countries allowed the researchers to compare investors’ behavior before and after fees were gone. Even-Tov and his co-authors looked at these patterns for over 40,000 investors between October 2018 and November 2019.
The research design proved particularly powerful as it cut across three different dimensions of trading behavior. First, the researchers could look at how individuals changed their own behavior (if at all) when trading fees were removed. Second, they could compare trading behavior between individuals in countries with and without fees. And third, they could compare how individuals traded stocks that had no commission (non-leveraged trades) as opposed to those that continued to have a commission (leveraged and short sale trades).
Even-Tov and his colleagues found, first and most intuitively, that the removal of fees increased trading frequency by an average of about 30%. Having no fees also drew more people to the eToro platform: New users grew by 172% in countries without fees and only 18% in countries where fees remained in place. Interestingly, the removal of fees also led people to hold significantly more diverse portfolios. Most important, taking away fees improved net performance among traders.
The regulatory question
These results come at time when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering whether to regulate one of the main ways that retail brokerage firms make revenue outside of commission, a process called payment for order flow. Though the new study looked at markets outside the U.S., Even-Tov and his colleagues ran an analysis to demonstrate that the kind of retail trading conducted by the subjects of their research maps neatly onto the kind of trading taking place on American platforms.
As a result, one of the implications from this work is that while stricter scrutiny of payment for order flow may be important for several reasons, regulatory bodies should be wary of pushing online trading platforms back toward a commission model when putting new policies in place.
“There is a common belief in this idea that if people trade more they will lose more, and that getting rid of fees encourages all kinds of irresponsible trading behavior,” Even-Tov says. “In fact, we found that a reduction in fees resulted in net savings, among other positive outcomes. So the SEC should tread carefully when it looks to monitor how retail trading platforms charge their users.”
Read the paper:
Fee the People: Retail Investor Behavior and Trading Commission Fees
By Omri Even-Tov, Kimberlyn George, Shimon Kogan, and Eric C. So


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The American Gearing-class destroyers were an upgrade of the Allen M. Summer-class. Two of their most important features were a larger fuel tank, which gave the ships a greater radius of action, and improved air defenses. This made them better suited for combat in the Pacific theatre of war during World War II. The first of the 98 Gearing-class destroyers were commissioned in mid-1945, so they saw very limited, if any, wartime service. The ships of this class served in the US Navy until the 1970s. After that, many of them were transferred or sold to other navies, some of which were still in service until recently. Gearing class ships and their subclasses served in the Republic of China Navy or ROC (Taiwan) as the Yang class, in the Greek Navy, in the Republic of Korea Navy as the Chungbuk class, in the Spanish Navy as the Churruca class, in the Turkish Navy, in the Pakistani Navy, in the Argentine Navy, in the Brazilian Navy as the Marcilio Dias class, in the Mexican Navy, in the Ecuadorian Navy and in the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The model represents the USS „Glennon“, built by the Bath Iron Works in Maine and commissioned in October 1945. She spent most of her career in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Mediterranean. Between 1962 and 1963, she served as a recovery ship for Project Mercury, the first manned American space project. In 1963, she participated in the search for USS “Thresher”, the first nuclear submarine ever lost at sea. She took part in numerous missions during the Vietnam War and was finally decommissioned in 1976. USS „Glennon“ was sunk as a target ship off Puerto Rico in 1981.
Her 1:100 scale model is part of our Modern Naval Warfare exhibition on deck 5 of the museum.