It has been loosely speculated that Russians do not live very long. After discovering that they still use leaded fuel and have very few regulations on harmful emissions produced by industry. The epicenters of this pollution are, not surprisingly but unfortunately, the metropolises with the most dense population such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and numerous others. These cities all are considered to have unsafe air. As of 1993, industrial emissions accounted for over half of the 43.8 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air, cars accounted for another 19 million tons It is estimated that only 15 percent of Russian citizens breathe safe air.
This problem does not seem to be improving. In the 1990s when Russian transportation was largely commercial, it accounted for one third of the air pollution in industrial areas; this was mainly caused by shipping trucks. With increasing private ownership of vehicles, it seems only to be worsening. Even today Russian vehicles still operate on leaded fuel. This problem needs to be stopped. There needs to be a stronger system of regulation to ensure better air quality. At the rate that Russia is going it could very well be the most polluted country in the world.


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Ashley Obrest resigned as the Eagles head coach after eight seasons heading the program, Martin Jarmond announced in a press release Tuesday. The BC graduate led the team to five winning seasons during her tenure.
Despite rain cancelling one of their three scheduled games, the Eagles played twice and split against East Carolina and No. 18 James Madison.
In the third edition of our weekly roundup, lacrosse blows out BU to start the season, while men’s and women’s basketball both suffer winless weeks and softball leaves the Texas Classic with an 0-4 record.
The Eagles started the season inauspiciously, losing all four of their contests at the Texas Classic and allowing eight or more runs in each of their games.
Allyson Frei—who ranks in the top six of BC history in wins, strikeouts, batting average against, starts, and ERA—has decided to swap divisions and spend her last year of eligibility in Charlottesville, Va.
Notre Dame hit three home runs in the opening 40 minutes of play, and Alexis Holloway shut down the Eagles’ offense, as the Irish eliminated BC from the ACC Tournament for the third time in the past five years.
Even though the Eagles were shut out in the frontend of Saturday’s doubleheader, they bounced back to defeat the Yellow Jackets in Game Two, claiming the final series of the regular season.

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On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 20:20 -0400, Roby wrote:
> Default User wrote:
> > Okay, I am stumped.
> > Using Ubuntu 7.04 (no special or exotic setup), I can connect
> > automatically to my DSL modem/router if the "network name" (aka SSID,
> > aka ESSID) is broadcast, whether encryption is on or off.
> > But if the network name, for example 93PRINCETON97 is NOT broadcast,
> > Network Manager will not connect, whether encryption is on or off.
> > Clicking the Network Manager Icon shows the signal bar graph for the
> > router, with a sufficient signal, but a blank space where the network
> > name would be if broadcast.
> > I have tried cicking the blank name bar graph, clicking the Network Name
> > icon and entering in the dialog box the network name in uppercase and
> > lowercase, with and without single and double parentheses, with
> > parentheses and blank spaces, and even left it completely blank, etc.
> > Each time, Network Manager "searches" for about 30 seconds and then
> > gives up.
> > I could just leave the network name set to always broadcast by default,
> > but for security reasons I do not want to broadcast it at all, and
> > should not have to.
> > Does anyone know why the only way to connect is to broadcast the network
> > name?
> I don't know why Network Manager is doing such a sensible thing. If it
> allowed you to run with ssid broadcast off, you would have a much better
> chance of having a neighbor set up shop on "your" channel ... causing you
> both to have network difficulties.
> Broadcasting your ssid is a GOOD IDEA: it lessens the chance of accidental
> doubling up on a channel.
> Not broadcasting ssid offers pitifully little security. Readily available
> tools like Kismet aren't fooled.
Roby, thanks for the reply.
I thought that not broadcasting the network name would be more secure in
that a use would have to know and enter (or guess or crack) the network
name in order to connect. The router manufacturer's configuration
utility (web page internal to the router) states:
"Enables the wireless network name to be broadcast publicly to any
wireless users within wireless range of your network. Disabling the SSID
broadcast makes the network name private and provides enhanced security
by requiring wireless users to enter the network name manually when
creating a wireless network profile on their computer."
Granted, anyone with the right knowledge and tools can connect whether
the network name is broadcast or not. But if the setup is encrypted,
doesn't it help a little to keep the "honest people honest", as my
neighbor could not just blindly connect unless he has the encryption
And does that mean that I can not connect to a network, even if it is an
open and unencrypted access point, unless the network name is being
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Bill Gaston A Forest Path
I have just read Bill Gaston'e A Forest Path from his book of short stories Mount Appetite.
"A Forest Path" has no time. The illegitimate, unrecognized and self-righteous son of Malcolm Lowry, and a teetotaler, he carefully rectifies the drunken inaccuracies in his father's prose, putting a new spin on his story "A Forest Path to the Spring" wherein a crouching cougar turns out to symbolize more and less than what Lowry and his readers might have imagined. Amazon CA
Bill Gaston (born 1953) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer.
Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia.
His story collection Mount Appetite (2002) was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Gaston received a second Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize nomination for his novel Sointula (2004). He was the recipient of the inaugural Timothy Findley Award in 2003.
Gaston currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He previously served as director of the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick, and as editor of The Fiddlehead. Read more on Wikipedia

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It’s a tough time to be a PC builder or gamer. Graphics-card prices are astronomical, RAM sits in a similar celestial orbit, and HTC’s new Vive Pro VR headset will set you back $1,200 if you don’t have an existing set of sensors and accessories for HT's previous-generation headset. If you want to play on the leading edge, or anywhere close to it, it will cost you.
Indeed, from the PC-component perspective, about the only thing working in favor of increased performance and affordability at the moment is the CPU market.
The Lay of the CPU Land
The launch of AMD’s Ryzen chips last year, which brought eight-core CPUs into the mainstream for the first time, was followed later by Intel’s six-core Core i7-8700K. All of a sudden, the number of cores and threads available for your computing dollar was never better.
And that ratio may get better still—AMD’s next-generation Ryzen chips are expected to arrive in April. Leaked reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600 seem to indicate that they are a decent upgrade over the initial Ryzen chips from 2017—especially when it comes to the latency issues that plagued last year’s Ryzen chips in some games.
What’s Intel’s Next CPU Step?
With new Ryzen processors about to roll out, our interest--of course--turns to what Intel will offer up as a response, and as a replacement for chips like the Core i7-8700K. (That key "mainstream flagship" CPU debuted just about six months ago, in early October of 2017.) Let’s take a look at what we know (or at least what we think we know) about the putative Core i7-9700K, and what it will need to compete with AMD’s increasingly tough competition.
Multiple rumors and leaks strongly indicate that the ostensible Core i7-9700K will sport eight CPU cores and 16 threads, in contrast to the six cores and 12 threads on the Core i7-8700K. If this turns out to be true, it will be a first for Intel on a mainstream-grade CPU platform—as opposed to the enthusiast-targeted Core X-Series platform, which goes all the way up to 18 cores (if you can afford to drop a couple of grand on a CPU). But the eight cores on the Core i7-9700K, if that turns out to be accurate, only just matches what AMD has to offer in terms of cores and threads on its mainstream Ryzen CPUs; it doesn’t surpass the competition.
10 Nanometer (or Not)?
Of course, a shift to the long-promised 10nm process node would help Intel move further ahead of AMD without necessarily adding more cores. But that’s looking increasingly unlikely with Intel’s next round of desktop chips. Intel’s Gregory Bryant (senior vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group) proclaimed at CES 2018, back in January, that 10nm chips were shipping to customers. But documents released weeks later seem to confirm that those 10nm “Cannon Lake” parts that shipped in 2017 were low-power, dual-core parts without integrated graphics. These aren’t the Cannon Lake chips that enthusiasts and gamers are looking for.
In fact, it’s looking likely that the Core i7-9700K will be a so-called “Coffee Lake Refresh” chip built around Intel’s 14nm++ process. Why do we say that? For starters, we have heard persistent rumors and leaks around an upcoming Z390 chipset. Most recently, a listing for "motherboard-specific sensor info for MSI B360/H310/H370/Z390-Series," showed up in a recent AIDA64 update. (AIDA64 is a benchmark and diagnostic suite often used to test pre-release hardware.)
What a Chipset Tells Us
We now know that the other 300-series chipsets mentioned above are real—in fact, we’ve tested a few motherboards based on them. So there’s no reason to think that a Z390 chipset won’t arrive soon—at Computex 2018 in July, perhaps.
Now, the “3” in the Z390 name almost certainly indicates that the chipset is aimed at Coffee Lake CPUs, just like the other 300-series chipsets. What does that tell us? If Intel knew it was going to have 10nm "Cannon Lake" desktop chips ready sometime in 2018, it seems extremely unlikely—though certainly not out of the question—that the company would be launching yet another high-end chipset for its current-generation processors halfway through the year.
If we were placing bets, we’d put our chips (pun intended) on the likelihood that Z390 was designed specifically for a line of Coffee Lake Refresh chips, which would include the Core i7-9700K. Alternately, the Core i7-9700K could be a limited stop-gap between chip generations, just like the pair of "Devil’s Canyon" chips were back in 2014.
Can Intel Push Coffee Lake Higher?
Of course, even assuming all the above leaks and assumptions are true, there is quite a lot we still don’t know about Intel’s future mainstream flagship chip. This wikichip page has a fairly detailed spec list based on existing leaks and rumors. It may prove to be accurate, but it doesn’t say anything about clock speed—base clocks or turbo-boost rates. And if the Core i7-9700K is indeed a Coffee Lake chip that doesn't end up featuring architecture or major process-node changes, clock speed (plus core count) would tell us most of what we’d need to know about the performance of this upcoming chip.
That said, the Core i7-8700K already has a top Turbo Frequency (at stock settings) of 4.7GHz. It seems likely that, for Intel to set the new chip apart from its predecessor, the stock Turbo clocks would have to hit 5GHz or higher. If Intel can do that, while pushing up the base frequency to about 4GHz and keeping thermal demands in the same 95-watt range of the Core i7-8700K, that indeed would be impressive.
A Lot Comes Down to Pricing
Of course, we don’t know what Intel or AMD will charge yet for their next-generation CPUs. AMD has been extremely price-aggressive since the launch of Ryzen last year, often undercutting Intel’s comparable parts by a significant amount. With its finances now solidly in positive territory for the first time in years, AMD may continue to pressure Intel on chip prices. After all, the CPU underdog is making money and gaining market share with this strategy. So why change it?
But CPU prices aside, Intel also faces problems of affordability when it comes to the platform as a whole. AMD’s AM4 boards have been out for a year, and the company says that new CPUs will be backward-compatible with existing AM4 boards (after a BIOS update, of course). Intel’s chips, meanwhile, have not been backward-compatible with previous-generation boards in recent years. And on top of that, Team Blue only just released its lesser 300-series chipsets, after six months of essentially forcing consumers interested in 8th-Generation Core processors to overspend on motherboards—particularly upgraders and builders who don’t care about overclocking, Optane storage, or multiple-graphics-card setups.
Intel Has Options
So, where does Intel stand in the desktop CPU space with next-generation chips like the Core i7-9700K, and what does it need to do to gain ground on its newly resurgent competitor?
Offering more cores for less money would be a good start. That seems unlikely in the short term. Offering up more-affordable motherboards that work with more than one processor generation wouldn’t hurt, either. Both tactics seem to be working for AMD, and Intel clearly has the coffers to cut its margins thinner than AMD can.
Another interesting option for Intel to compete in today’s world of ever-overpriced graphics cards would be a socketed version of the "Kaby Lake-G" CPU that we just tested in the Intel NUC 8 VR. A custom build around a Kaby Lake-G chip would allow many users to game without the added expense of a graphics card, as well as making truly compact mainstream gaming systems more viable than they have been in the past. Given the rise of titles like Fortnite and Overwatch—which aren’t that graphically demanding—the market could be ripe for just that kind of system. And Intel clearly has some kind of designs on the GPU market, as evidenced by the company’s hire of AMD’s Raja Koduri late last year.
But while Koduri is certainly an interesting hire, a socketed Kaby Lake-G is extremely unlikely, given that AMD makes the Vega graphics in those chips. It was surprising to see AMD selling Intel its graphics silicon for comparatively low-volume products such as the new Intel NUC and high-end convertibles like the Dell XPS 15 Convertible. But we highly doubt that AMD is desperate enough to cut into its own core desktop-CPU and graphics businesses by helping Intel compete against itself and its own socketed graphics-equipped products, like the "Raven Ridge" AMD Ryzen 5 2400G.
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AMD is going 7nm at the end of the year... Intel is in a bad position actually.Reply
It seems the competition from AMD has caused Intel to scramble to rush as many CPUs and chipsets to market as possible. Unfortunately, I don't think that has inspired many real changes or improvements beyond "now we can fit more of the exact same cores in the same amount of space"... which they were already doing on high-end CPUs, they've just brought it down to the consumer level. The problem is that they haven't really improved their performance-per-watt, so more cores just ends up lowering the clock rate, which they try to mask by aggressively overclocking their turbo boost. Turbo boost doesn't do much good to an someone buying a k-series chip to overclock it regardless, though.Reply
At least performance-per-dollar is coming down overall, even though their biggest hail mary (core i-9) is really the biggest example of the problems I'm talking about: to try and sell more cores at a premium, they end up rushing out inefficient, overpriced, overheating chips with disappointing (albeit high) performance and a new more-expensive chipset and socket that doesn't really add anything interesting, yet will still somehow go obsolete in less than a year.
I hope Intel gets it together and finally releases their 10nm chips and improve their efficiency... But with how Intel has been acting lately I expect yet-another 14nm iteration of the current design with a minor clock bump (increasing power draw), and an additional ~%5 improvement in overall performance over chips patched for spectre (putting them back at pre-spectre levels). And for some reason they will say that required them to put out a new LGA 1151 socket and another price increase to the chipset.
I think a socketed Kaby Lake-G would be interesting, but Intel's current NUC pricing gives me the impression Kaby Lake-G was more of a niche publicity-stunt and they have no actual intention of to bring that product to a wider audience.
Sounds like Intel has overslept riding on the money wave. They should get their act together and pump out those 10nm chips or AMD will have the last laugh.Reply
there so called rush releases where likly a contingency as they may of known this would one day happen them getting stiff compatition in the end just have to see what the future holdsReply
Intel, just start by using proper paste or other compound for the die and the cpu will go past 5 ghz easy. Is there an embargo on this? The cpu prices are pretty high right now, the compound won't make much different on pricing.Reply
Competition breeds innovation and can only be advantageous to consumers. As a long time AMD user, I'm happy to see that the success they had with the Zen architecture has driven Intel into a state of frenzy to catch up to what's been done to their market share. While I'm hopeful this new release by AMD continues to push the envelope, there's no telling at this point just how far that push will go.Reply
I'm still perfectly happy with my FX8350 though it's getting a wee long in the tooth. I had thought about upgrading but seeing the new series is about to release and offer a decent bump in performance over the last gen, I may as well wait just a bit longer before pulling the trigger on a new build. This is a good time for CPUs... but a terrible time for RAM and GPUs as has been mentioned. Good thing I got my 1080 back before prices got stupid.
"AMD is going 7nm at the end of the year... Intel is in a bad position actually."Reply
I don't think that silicon feature sizes like "10nm" and "7nm" are directly comparable. Yes a nano-meter is a unit of measure, but AMD and Intel have different transistor constructions which probably has an impact on the transistor density.
I don't even want to get into the arguments about process node naming conventions and how they aren't really a direct measurement. Time and time again GloFo and TSMC have been compared to Intel process nodes and shown that what they call 14nm and 12nm isn't really when you do a direct comparison 14nm.Reply
One man's turbo boost is another mans XFR, no real difference there. Just that Intel has more wiggle room at the top end because of the more mature process node. AMD will eventually get there, but by then Intel will be on their next node.
As for the paste, K class chips, yes, probably a little more attention to be paid there. But that isn't the bulk of Intel's sales, so they aren't going to cater to the smallest market.
i9 is just a rebranding(amongst many). I would more point fingers at the terrible idea of making Kabylake-X at all.
Just means more options for everyone. So hopefully Intel and AMD keep up the rapid pace.
I want Intel's Vega NUC, just not at that price. I can get a fully featured laptop for that. Just not competitive. I kind of want STX to become common place as I really like the idea of a build without front panel I/O wiring.
The only way Intel will be competitive with AMD's Ryzen Pinnacle is to match their prices, step-for-step. That's just not going to happen as Intel is too greedy.Reply
Intel needs to make Turbo Boost a manual option. Then we can bring back the turbo button on the front of the case.Reply
I loved that in the old 80x86 days. I had no idea at the time what the purpose was. Just clicked it from 8 to 33 on my 486. The 286 my dad had was even more official. It had a tumbler lock and key with three positions. I think they were 8, 12 and 16 Mhz.


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“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:”
God is a “blessing-God” and He always loves to bless people. The Bible says, “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro upon the earth to show Himself strong on behalf of them whose hearts are perfect toward Him (2 Chronicles 16:9). In other words, He’s constantly looking out to bless someone. But to do this, He won’t come down from heaven; He needs someone in the earth to bless another person. That’s why He trains us by teaching us to give, to be caring and concerned about the needs of others.
When you realize that whatever is in your charge is not yours but God’s, it becomes easy for you to give. I’ve always had to remind myself of this truth, that’s why through the years I’ve found it easy to give to God and to people around me. I’ve made it a conscious lifestyle to be God’s blessing to my world. Abraham was a blessed man. He was prosperous in all things, for God had blessed him abundantly. The Bible tells us that by associating with him, his nephew, Lot, also became very prosperous. That’s the way it ought to be.
You’re the symbol of God’s blessing; therefore those around you ought to experience prosperity because of you. Understand that God loves to bless others through you. You’re not the one trying to get blessed, for He’s already blessed you (Ephesians 1:3) and has made you a blessing (1 Peter 3:9). So not only are you blessed, your life is overflowing with blessings.
God has made you the channel of distribution of His blessing to the world. Therefore never hold back when He tells you to give, for you’re His agent of blessing to your world. God’s unusual blessings are reserved for givers. Therefore always be quick to release; always be prompt to give for it is more blessed to give than to receive.
thank you for blessing me with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You’ve made me the symbol of your blessings to my world, therefore I ask that you lead me today to recognize those you’ve ordained to bless through me, that they may experience your love and goodness,
in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
1 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 34:26; Zechariah 8:13
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1Therefore1I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to 2present your bodies a living and holysacrifice, aacceptable to God, which is your bspiritualservice of worship.
And do not 3be conformed to 4thiscworld, but be transformed by the 5renewing of your mind, so that you may d6provewhat the will of God is, that which is good and eacceptable and perfect.
For through7the gracegiven to me I say to everyoneamong you 8not to thinkmorehighly of himself than he ought to think; but to thinkso as to havesoundjudgment, as God has allotted to 9each a measure of faith.
For 10just as we havemanymembers in onebody and all the members do not have the samefunction,
5so we, 11who are many, are 12onebody in Christ, and individuallymembersone of another.
Since we havegifts that 13differaccording to the gracegiven to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if14prophecy, faccording to the proportion of his faith;
7ifg15service, in his serving; or he who 16teaches, in his teaching;
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I wanted to go to the greener areas of the city , one of my stops took me to the New York high line, a revitalised train line of lush green floating through the heights of the tower blocks. Timber floors gave way to grassy bushes, architectural shaped shrubs and intersections of sculptures. The linearity of the walk allowed for a short cut through the city, sudden beautiful views across the Hudson River in the open gaps between imposing brick warehouses. It was busy, the weather was good, people lined the walkway with timber loungers and seating so pedestrians could relax and chat – a welcome repose for those who didn’t have their own piece of green.
I liked the sense of a backlash of the foliage breaking up the built up nature of the city. For once a structure that puts pedestrians first in a car-filled city – it is a welcome and restful surprise.


Continental ProContact GX Tire Review & Rating
Built for use as original equipment on a variety of sport coupes and sedans, the Continental ProContact GX is also sold as a replacement tire as well. It’s designed to deliver touring all-season drivability, to go with reduced road noise, improved ride comfort, and enhanced fuel efficiency.
The tread pattern on the GX features a multi directional design which helps maintain grip on wet and dry road conditions. Four deep circumferential grooves help in evacuating water and reducing the chances of hydroplaning on wet roads. As an all-season tire, it is also appropriate for use in light snow, although this is certainly not a strength for this model.
For drivers seeking to maintain their consistency in replacement tires and driving performance, these tires are the exact factory replacement for many vehicles.
This tire is available in sizes ranging from 17-19 inches in either T or H-speed ratings. Continental also includes a limited warranty.
- Fuel efficient
- Reasonably priced in a wide range of sizes
- Lower the road noise
- Rapid tread wear
All-season factory tires are generally considered just “OK” by most drivers. They aren’t horrible under ideal driving scenarios, but they aren’t anything special either, particularly in winter driving conditions. Unfortunately, the ProContact GX doesn’t break this mold. It is an average-at-best OE tire.
While the tire is reasonably priced, there just aren’t any features and benefits that really make it stand out when compared to other tires in its class. Grip in wet and dry conditions is adequate, but you won’t feel any standout performance when it comes to handling, steering response or cornering power.
The biggest knock on the GX is its poor tread life. Far too many drivers have complained about getting fewer miles out of the tread than expected. If your goal is to replace the stock tires which came on your vehicle-either because you’re on a budget or because you’re planning on selling the vehicle soon-these tires may be a reasonable choice. But if you’re keeping your vehicle and just looking at replacing them, there are other higher performing tires to look at.
What Vehicles Will The ContinentalProContact GX Fit?
(This is not a complete list of ALL vehicles this tire will fit)
- Audi A4, A5, A6
- Buick Rendezvous, Terraza
- Chevrolet Uplander
- Ford Crown Victoria
- Jaguar XJ
- Lincoln Town Car
- Nissan Rogue
- Subaru Outback
- Toyota Sienna
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225/45R18 XL 95H BSW
245/40R18 XL 97H BSW
245/40R19 XL 98H BSW
Continental ProContact GX prices range from approximately $135 and up. You may also find occasional rebates, discount prices, coupons and special offers on this tire.
Continental provides a 6-year or 65,000 mile tread warranty on S and T-speed rated sizes, a 55,000 mile warranty on V-speed rated sizes, and a 40,000 mile warranty on W-speed rated models. Mileage is reduced by half if different sizes are used on rear than in front. Tire uniformity is guaranteed for one-year or the first 2/32 inch of wear.
Materials and workmanship are warranted for 6-years and include free replacement during the first year or first 2/32 inch of wear. A prorated amount is then given for the remaining time period or down to the final 2/32 inch of tread depth.
A one-year or first 2/32 inch of wear road hazard warranty is also given on this tire, and a 30-day customer satisfaction trial period is provided as well. If you are not completely satisfied you can exchange the tires for another Continental tire.
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ANNAN’S drum major came third in the World Pipe Band Championships on Saturday.
Gibb Fraser has been playing with the Royal Burgh of Annan Pipe Band for 14 years and has already seen varying degrees of success with six major championships to his name.
His current awards have all been for the juvenile categories, three for Scotland, two for World Championships and one for European Championships.
But after a two-year break from covid and turning old enough to participate in the adult categories, Gibb faced his toughest challenge yet on Saturday.
He said: “Juvenile is one thing, but playing with adults is another challenge.
“With missing two years from covid it felt good to get back to it this year, getting together again with everyone again seeing the band and the friends that I made through this as well.
“This has been built up on years of practice and to go up into adults in only my second year there and to be placing at these big contests is good for me and good for the band.”
Collectively, the band end the 2022 season with a fourth place finish in Grade Two at the World Pipe Band Championships.
A spokesman for the band said: “We have had an incredible season, picking up prizes at every Championship this year and winning the European Championship.
“The hard work will soon begin over this winter to ensure the band stays at the top of Grade Two for the coming 2023 season.
“Thank you to everyone that has supported the band throughout the year.”


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In Pharoah’s Army -4/5
The second memoir by Tobias Wolff (known for A Boy’s Life too) but covering his time in Vietnam. This memoir reads a lot like a Vietnam novel — faint with memories, covering topics, and episodic. It’s hard not to compare it to Tim O’Brien’s The Things they Carried (a “novel”) and If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship me Home (a memoir). In those two books Tim O’Brien likes to hide. There’s a few moments where his character comes out of hiding, but it’s his narrative voice that creates his character more than anything else.
Here Tobias Wolff is front and center throughout. The biggest element that permeates this book is that like Vietnam itself, Wolff has no real clue what he’s doing there. He got drafted and couldn’t avoid it, but he also seemed to want to go (he’s older and went fairly early, so narratives shifted) and he even goes to officer training school. His father left him when he was a boy, and that gap and his attempts to be a man get the best of him here. When he arrives, one of the prevailing themes is just how not a good officer he is. How many novels and memoirs present us with common soldiers gaping at the stupidity of the officer class? Countless. How many gives us an officer admitting as much? This is the one that primarily comes to mind for me.
Wolff is such a strong and tender writer, hilarious at times, and devastating throughout.
Bullet Train – 2/5
This is a novel where several assassins on a train in Japan slowly become aware of each other and learn the ways in which their various missions seems inextricably tied together. I have to admit I didn’t really enjoy this book very much. I couldn’t parse out the difference between all the characters and some of the characters’ quirks were annoying and silly to me. It’s also oddly long for a book that is meant to be fast-paced (which it’s not really).
The new movie that will star Brad Pitt and I have to imagine the main discussion will be the whitewashing that happens here. It’s especially odd because the movie will take place on a bullet train in Japan, just like the novel, but the movie will star several (non Japanese-) American actors playing characters written as Japanese in the novel. The irony of course is that the by adding American actors the movie becomes more “diverse” but at the cost of Japanese roles, and what reads as a Japanese story. It will seem like a very avoidable mistake, which of course it is. But I bet I will like the movie more than the book.
A Good Man is Hard to Find – 5/5
I reread Everything that Rises Must Converge recently and I had forgotten how many of those stories are just absolute bangers. This is also a near perfect story collection, but the famous ones here are relatively limited compared to the other collection. This is a first collection so two of the stories are slight retreads of each other, and many of the stories are more subtle and almost hidden than they need to be.
The famous ones here are “A Good Man is Hard to Find” “The Life you Save May Be Your Own” “Good Country People” and if you know it “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” — all of which I have read multiple times in anthologies.
My coming to this collection again (and it’s a book I will likely keep rereading throughout my life) is to look at which stories I might read with students. Sometimes O’Connor, because of her subject manner and his context dives into race questions in very interesting ways, but also in ways that make her hard to teach in high school. The same goes with disabilities too.
The most curious thing for me is that I do not believe she every wrote a story or novel in the first person, which is also something I was looking for. Ultimately, the hardest part about reading her in high school classes is that a lot of her stories are quite long.
The Missing of the Somme – 5/5
This is a kind of companion piece to Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory, in which Fussell, an American, covers the literary, historical, personal, and pictorial, and other forms of representation of WWI in literary criticism. It’s a truly great book and probably one of the most accessible and satisfying books you could read. Dyer’s book is a little different, but similar enough. This book is very short (and not that Fussell’s is terribly long). And the beginning incident into his own personal investigation into the idea of the war begins when he relates a story about his grandfather being told he’s too young for the war, lying about his age, and joining at a different post. This is an oft-told story, but it also turns out not to be true as his grandfather would have been about 20 in 1914. So this begins the investigation in to a war complete defined by its undefinable qualities.
For Dyer, the book that absolutely nails the war is All Quiet on the Western Front, and part of this is because it’s not a British work, but German. All others are chasing it. So while there’s some description of the war, so much of it is about waiting, not doing things, thinking, spending time, suffering etc. Think about how many other war books cover that same kind of ground. That’s the reading experience of Vietnam too, so far as I am concerned.
Anyway, this book then jumps around from topic to topic, not in the way that Fussell’s covers different topic critically, but in more of a reactionary and reflective way of living in the topic for a little bit, and then moving on.
Shadow of the Torturer – 4/5
My re-read of the series is based on the audiobooks, which I found cheaply and wanted to give a listen to because of how sludgy I sometimes found my first read.
One of the things that really comes through in this reread is that a lot more time passes in the novel than I really reckoned with initially. There’s about 10 years of training that is represented early in the novel as he’s in the guild.
The other thing that stands out here is that there’s a lot more people in the world than I realized. The town he goes to, which I would have put at like 100 people when I first read it, is described in tens of thousands.
“The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous) shelter hundreds of small animals and birds. The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle. When I think of my own death, or the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters.”
The Crystal Cave – 3/5
The first book in the Mary Stewart Merlin books. My experiences reading King Arthur stories comes primarily from TH White’s amazing books – The Once and Future King. For Merlin, (while White does have a Merlin book, it’s a little ancillary and extra to the main story), I think about the movies, and even CS Lewis’s book That Hideous Strength, in which Merlin plays a mythopoeic role. I guess the same is true with the Mark Twain version of Merlin in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
So this book is more of Merlin by way of Hilary Mantel. This is the story of Merlin as a bastard son of a probable lord, but whose origins are just hazy enough to keep him from having status. He becomes connected to Uther late in the book and is involved in the intrigues of kingship, politics, and warfare, but always as adviser and consultant. An idea man, cementing his lifetime role. I am curious where the later books go with this story. It’s a lot of a book, written in that very British, very fantasy 1960s/1970s style.
“A robin lighted on a blackthorn at my elbow, and began to sing. The sound came high and sweet and uncaring through all the noise of battle. To this day, whenever I think of the battle for Kaerconan, it brings to mind a robin’s song, mingled with the croaking of the ravens.”
“I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men like Belasius wait for them. But I believe there must be one who is God Himself, like the great sea, and all the rest of us, small gods and men and all, like rivers, we all come to Him in the end.”
Candide – 5/5
You kind of expect this novel to not be a jaunty, flowing hilarious work, but it is. There’s an extraordinary amount of shocking cruelty that inhabits the novel, but our main character is such a moral “innocent” about everything that he cannot quite conceive of truly how wretched everything is. Candide is raised in court and taught about the world by the philosopher Pangloss, who repeats ad nauseum that this is the “best of all worlds” —- hmmm, who else said that? Anyway, this plagues and haunts Candide because the tension in that philosophy is whether or not the “best” is actually any good at all, or only is this the best we can hope for. But Candide keeps persevering, kind of, and looks for ways to confirm the worldview his teacher showed him. He can’t quite seem to figure out that if this is the best of all worlds, why was Pangloss tortured and executed, but no bother.
Candide then goes on adventures. The novel, by the way, is a kind of Don Quixote story, replete with sidekick for bouncing ideas off of. Candide falls in love with a noble woman and promises to marry her. He persists in this promise even after she is brutalized and “made ugly” and even after he accidentally kills her brother, an act of murder that ends up saving his life. He travels to the New World in search of treasure, and finds it, but also finds that he doesn’t really want to live out in the world so much after all. Despite the cruelty and oppression he helps to support in the world, all he wants is a quiet little garden all his own to cultivate.
Breece Pancake Stores – 5/5
Still a brilliant collection of stories that is both preceded and followed by a collection of introductions, forewords, and afterwords by more famous writers: James Alan McPherson, John Casey, and Andre Dubus III. The Andre Dubus narrowly avoids the irony of saying this inspired him to write, given that his father is one of the most lauded American short story writers of the 20th century. But instead of seeing it as inspiration, there’s the kind of earnest frustration that someone about your same age did it better than you and how empty this makes your own work look. John Casey and James Alan McPherson write from the perspective of teachers seeing promise in a student turn into the transformation into peership.
The stories themselves are mostly very good. He’s at his very best when he seems less like he’s trying to do something and more like he’s showing us something, rendering something. There’s very little by way of gimmick in these stories and when one does pop up in the middle of the collection it’s forgivable by way of its singularity.
Child of God – 4/5
Every line of this book is delivered with a mouth full of mud. Or at least it feels that way. If you haven’t read the early few novels of Cormac Mccarthy, you can really feel the difference from the later western novels like All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian, and even the two late novels The Road and No Country for Old Men. The difference mostly is space. The characters have the space to move around and it usually ends up being too much space, as those wide open spaces are wild in their own right. But in the early novels we are trapped in small narratives, and the characters are trapped in small towns (or mountain hollers) and trapped within small, ugly lives.
Lester Ballard is a man of pure id. He’s violent, he’s petty, and he’s brutal. This novel makes you ask the question about what exact kind of violation is it, when the body is already dead. Desecration at the very least, but it feels worse. Lester is on a tear. He’s only 27, but things have begun to ramp up in recent weeks and the more he encounters the cruelty and brutality of the world, the more it seems to energize him. We’re all lucky and the valley in Tennessee where he lives is lucky that he’s so limited in his capacity to commit the large evils that inhabit him.
On Animals – 3/5
If you’ve read enough Susan Orlean, and obviously especially Rin Tin Tin, you know that she’s obsesed with animals. She’s written about it many times, but here is the first real deep look into how it plays into her life. This book is not a memoir, but a combination of collected animal journalism, the kinds of Susan Orlean profile pieces you’d expect, and then memoir pieces with it. Most of the writing says as much about the people involved as the animals, but the focus is at least balanced, or more often tilted toward the animal.
The memoir pieces are the glue here. Learning about Susan Orlean’s getting tricked into getting guinea fowl, having been told that they would rid her yard of ticks (they didn’t), and then having them take over the enclosure built for turkeys who wouldn’t take to it is fun and charming. It’s not so fun when a predator finds its way into the pen. This is the vicissitudes animal owning, being aware of how fragile they are.
The journalism pieces run the gamut from breeding dogs to performing orcas to the history (recent history) of mules in the army and beyond as well as a pre-Tiger King, Tiger Queen (it’s a type apparently) give plenty of other joy as well.
The book lacks connective tissue and an overall idea, but the parts are greater than the whole.
A Shropshire Lad – 4/5
This early collection of Housman poems marks the division in a lot of ways between 19th and 20th century English poetry. In the US we might say the say of something like Edwin Eugene Arlington’s poetry or Spoon River. Anyway, the poems are of a different class, both lyrical, and like lyrics and melodic. They’re also so clearly pre-WWI.
Here’s the most typical and best:
To an Athlete Dying Young
BY A. E. HOUSMAN
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
The Facts – 3/5
A series of longish memoir essays that cover a few topics broadly in the biography of Philip Roth. This book begins with a long story about his father working for Met Life, finding limits within the company because he lacked college education and because he was Jewish, and then almost destroying the family with a failed business adventure. The collection of essays here also include a long essay about Philip Roth going to college, joining a mostly gentile fraternity, being a man of letters in a college of would be lawyers and doctors, and then leaving to try out a PhD. There’s an essay about meeting the woman of his dreams (at the time, obviously). There’s an essay about the betrayal members of his family and community felt from the publication of two of his early stories “Defender of the Faith” and “The Conversion of the Jews” and if you’ve read those stories, you can understand why a local rabbi might be upset. Lastly, there’s a long letter written to Roth by Nathan Zuckerman, Roth literary alter ego, about the manuscript. This last section is a little silly, but fitting given how much of Zuckerman is Roth, Roth Zuckerman. It’s also interesting because if you’ve read the first four Zuckerman novels that came before this memoir, Zuckerman Unbound, The Counterlife, The Prague Orgy, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Ghost Writer, you already know a lot of these stories, or versions of them, and especially you know the emotions that are on display here, even if their content is shifted. Those books are better though.


Since being diagnosed with PCOD last summer, I’ve been trying to shed some extra pounds, which is supposed to help ease some of the discomfort from the cysts. Anyways, the main problem I’ve been running into, is I often eat when I’m bored and eat without really realizing what I’m doing.
However, my interest in knitting was rekindled this fall, largely thanks to finally gettting onto Ravelry. I’ve noticed that since this renewed interest in knitting, I’ve found that I’ve been dropping pounds a little easier.
It seems to work out because knitting can keep both my mind and hands busy. Unlike some of my other hobbies, knitting makes it impossible to eat while working. Also, if I’m bored and think that I’m getting hungry, I sit down and knit a couple of rows and see how I feel after that. My renewed enthusiasm for knitting has helped me to cut down on my snacking. Pretty nifty.


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Carol has been back on the PA blog this week teasing us with a tag book which you can see here. It looked too complicated for me, so I just stuck to making a tag (no surprise there then!!) and she even managed to talk me into a bit of bling - bottom of the stamped tassels!!
I loved the look of tags 3 and 4, so I sort of did a bit of a combo!!
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Koi are a type of carp that are popular in ponds and aquariums. They are known for their brightly colored scales and their ability to grow to a large size.
Koi are not native to North America, but they have been introduced to many ponds and lakes in the United States.
Koi are not known to overpopulate ponds. In fact, they are often used to control the populations of other fish, such as goldfish.
However, koi can reproduce quickly and their populations can increase rapidly if there are no other fish present to compete for food and space.
How many koi can I put in my pond?
It depends on the size and shape of the pond as well as the type of Koi you are adding. Generally, however, a pond that is 10-12 feet wide by 30-40 feet long should accommodate up to 80-100 Koi.
Do koi multiply?
Koi are a type of fish that can reproduce through a process called spawning. Koi spawn when they are ready to produce eggs and the male deposits the eggs in the female’s stomach.
The eggs hatch and the fry swim around until they find a place to settle. The fry will then start to eat and grow.
When they are big enough, the fry will swim away from the parent fish and start their own family.
Are koi fish good for farm ponds?
it depends on a variety of factors, including the size, color, and species of the koi fish you are considering for purchase, the type of pond you are planning to add them to, and the environment and lifestyle of the animals that will be living in the pond with the koi.
Generally speaking, however, koi fish are considered good fish for farm ponds because they are hardy and peaceful fish that are not known to cause significant environmental damage. They are also relatively easy to care for, and they are relatively low-maintenance animals, requiring little in the way of feed, water, or cleaning.
Overall, koi fish are a good option for those who are looking for a fish that is easy to care for and is not known to cause significant environmental damage.
Do koi like big ponds?
Yes, many koi do enjoy big ponds as they provide plenty of space to swim and explore. Big ponds also tend to be more stable and provide a calmer environment than smaller ponds, which can be more stimulating.
Is 2 feet deep enough for koi pond?
Yes, a 2-foot depth is typically sufficient for a koi pond.
How many koi can be in a 75 gallon pond?
A 75 gallon pond can hold up to about 120 adult koi. However, the average pond holds around 60-70 koi.
Koi are tropical fish and like warm water temperatures, so if your pond doesn’t have a heater, the temperature may drop below the optimal range and the fish will begin to die off.
What does koi spawning look like?
Koi spawning can be seen as a dramatic event in the aquarium world. The appearance of thousands of small, brightly colored eggs in the water column is a stunning sight.
After a few weeks, the eggs will hatch and the delicate new koi will begin to swim around.
Can goldfish breed with koi?
Goldfish and koi can breed but it is not always successful. The two fish species are very different in size, color, and temperament.
While goldfish are typically smaller, koi are typically larger and have a more active temperament. Additionally, goldfish are typically a bright gold color while koi can be a variety of colors, including blue, green, and black.
The biggest hurdle to breeding goldfish and koi is their size difference. Goldfish are typically smaller than koi and may not be able to fit inside the koi’s reproductive organs.
Additionally, the two fish species have different mating rituals. Goldfish typically swim around and inspect the koi’s body while koi typically sink their head and neck underwater to initiate mating.
Despite the challenges, occasional successful goldfish-koi breeding is reported. In general, it is recommended that Goldfish and koi be kept in separate aquariums if breeding is desired.
Why are my koi fish chasing each other?
A common issue with koi fish is that they become aggressively territorial. When a fish feels threatened, it will typically pursue and attack other nearby fish.
This behavior is often seen in koi fish that are kept in small, crowded tanks. The aggressive behavior can also be seen in wild fish that live in close proximity to other fish.
Are koi ponds unethical?
Koi ponds can be seen as unethical if they are not managed properly. Koi ponds can become breeding grounds for disease if the water is not clean.
Additionally, koi ponds can be a nuisance if they are too close to homes or businesses.
Is a koi pond hard to maintain?
Koi ponds can be difficult to maintain, as they require regular water changes and frequent fertilization. Koi ponds can also be susceptible to algae growth, which can be difficult to remove.
Can bass and koi fish live together?
There is some debate on whether or not bass and koi fish can live together peacefully. Some fishkeepers believe that the two fish species can peacefully coexist as long as they are kept in separate tanks and the bass is not overpopulated.
Others believe that the bass and koi fish cannot peacefully coexist and that they will eventually conflict. There is no right or wrong answer, as each fishkeeper will have to decide for themselves whether or not they believe the two fish species can peacefully coexist.
No, koi will not overpopulate a pond. If the pond is properly maintained and the population of koi is monitored, they will not overpopulate it.

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And though Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald is quite familiar to voters in these parts, the Democratic candidate for governor is trying to rally support elsewhere in the state.
Meanwhile, incumbent Gov. John Kasich is getting called out by a good-government group.
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Beck facing criminal charges
Beck’s attorney says the former Mason mayor will mount a “vigorous defense” against any charges, reports Sheila McLaughlin of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The charges, if they stick, could help Democrats neutralize GOP attacks regarding two of their own: Carlton Weddington and Clayton Luckie, two former state representatives who received prison sentences after being convicted of corruption-related charges.
1 more seat: New FitzGerald rally cry?
FitzGerald, meanwhile, is lowering Democratic expectations when it comes to adding Ohio House seats next year.
Joe Vardon of the Columbus Dispatch reports that the gubernatorial hopeful, in a speech last weekend to the Fairfield County Democrats, promised “an enormous showdown” between his office and Republican lawmakers if he’s elected next year.
But FitzGerald also added that there’s only a “very small chance” that the party will pick up the one seat it would need to keep the GOP from overriding his vetoes.
Speaking of FitzGerald, a key initiative of his first term as county executive is now on ice. The Plain Dealer’s Laura Johnston reports on how his push for four East Side suburbs to merge wasn’t garnering much support from residents in those communities.
Kasich, Cordray, Obamacare and more
As for the man FitzGerald hopes to unseat, Kasich has been dinged by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The Dispatch’s Vardon explains why this is not surprising.
In Washington, Vice President Joe Biden swore in former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the nation’s consumer watchdog. The Plain Dealer’s Stephen Koff notes that Cordray has long been on the job, but now it comes with some security.
Koff also has a conversation-starter on Obamacare and the savings the White House says Ohio already is seeing from the president’s signature – but polarizing – health care law.
Closer to home, Plain Dealer columnist Mark Naymik continues the drip-drip on Beachwood Mayor Merle Gorden, who received campaign gifts from Southeast Harley Davidson dealer several months after the city purchased motorcycles from the dealer.
And, finally, a link for those who keeping tabs on the Rex Elsass saga. The Ohio-based political consultant’s new right-hand man tells The Plain Dealer that Elsass never sent a “female pleasure machine” to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. Former colleagues embroiled in an ugly dispute with Elsass have suggested otherwise.


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International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
Software Defined Radio is an emerging technology in the field of communication. In this paper, two applications based on SDR are discussed. First, the authors discuss the weather satellite image decoding using a SDR receiver, FUNCube Dongle (FCD). Second, Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID)are studied with Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Gnu radio framework using VLF signal captured from Indian Navy Station VTX3 that transmits at 18.2 kHz. Both these applications require very less hardware and hence they are very much cost effective.


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More than 100 years after the invention of the first electric car, Fullerton is home to a first-of-its-kind alternative energy fuel station. The Propel Clean Mobility Center, located at 1124 E. Chapman Ave., opened last Wednesday and is partially funded by grants from the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Energy Department. The Los Angeles Times is reporting this is the first of 200 clean mobility centers slated for the state.
Featuring a self-service bicycle repair station, free air and water, as well as maps of local trail systems, the pumps distribute B5 Biodiesel Fuel as well as so called Flexfuel 85. For those less environmentally conscious folks, Flexfuel is used by cars capable of accepting a blend of standard petro combined with 85 percent ethanol. Some appreciate ethanol because it releases less C02 into the atmosphere, however cars using the mixture experience reduced fuel economy.


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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Get ready for action, set thrills to Maximan!
From a very American superhero last week to more my cup of tea and a very British take on a superhero. Back in 1987 the weekly UK science fiction comic, 2000AD, was producing a wide range of different stories and encouraging a lot of new talent. One of the stand out strips from that time was Zenith, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by new comer Steve Yeowell. I remember being very taken by Steve's artwork, so much so that I sat and copied the second page from the story line for line (I found it the other day and its pretty close to the original).
The start of Zenith shows the very end of a battle between two super soldiers, Maximan from the UK and Masterman (boo hiss) from Germany. In the first page of the story you see a newsreel picture of Maximan lifting a Tiger tank and that image has always stuck with me.
Zenith ran occasionally in 2000AD over the years and has built up something of a cult following especially as legal wrangling has held off any further reprints of the series. It's a shame really, more for Steve than I'd have thought for Grant but I could be wrong about that? The only reprints outside of 2000ADs own 'Best Of' comic are those by Titan books (some are finishing on Ebay this very day) but even they didn't reprint the final story. I hope sometime in the near future that there will be a resolution to the problems as I know that my bookshelves could happily include a new edition of this great story.
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I was thinking that looked like a Steel Wheeled later model Tiger's road wheels.I always read the old 2000AD's but for the life of me could not remember the Zenith strip.Do you remember offhand what prog it started in?
Cheers Atom, Zenith started in prog 535. That issue is the prologue to the story which features Maximan.ReplyDelete
The prog itself is fun to see as it feature loads of well known artists that are sadly missing from the pages of 2Ad now or where just starting off then and showing a few rough edges.
That episode is still one of my favourite morrison comics even after all these years it doesn't seem like 20 years have passed it still stands up. great Maximan by the wayReplyDelete

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Great opportunities and signiﬁcant challenges are ahead. The goals of the City Commission are to:
- Encourage, promote, and welcome expanding residential and business growth and development;
- Provide safe, secure, family-oriented communities;
- Inﬂuence, foster, and maintain the interest of safety;
- Protect and preserve well-known historic sites and memorabilia; and
- Provide a healthy business and economic atmosphere.
It is our belief that each resident and business is of the utmost importance and deserves the very best that taxpayer dollars can provide in order to develop and maintain a city that is ﬁnancially secure and one in which we can all be proud.
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The City’s 2014 Comprehensive Master Plan is Richmond’s guidebook to specify policy, program and project initiatives for the City and surrounding planning areas. It reflects Richmond’s values and traditions while exploring opportunities and best practices for growth, redevelopment and enhancement for the next 20 years. Citizens can find the 2014 Plan on the City’s website under Government tab\City Manager’s page.
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For its continued relevance, The 2014 Plan is being updated after 5 years. The 2014 Plan has been under evaluation and based on subsequent discussions with the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Commission, staff will present recommendations for an update to the 2014 Plan by June 2020.
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Strike a pose with Nonno and Nonna Pagliai and you could win a free pizza
Pizza is delicious. But free pizza is divine.
And Pagliai’s Pizza in Johnston wants to celebrate their family's 61-year legacy with free pizza by honoring their Northern Italian grandparents, Nonno and Nonna Pagliai.
Pagliai’s will give away a free pizza per week through Thanksgiving.
Here’s how it works
Hungry diners who visit Pagliai’s Pizza at 5312 Merle Hay Road in Johnston can snap a photograph of themselves with a life-size cutout of Nonno and Nonna Pagliai. If they text that photo to (515) 689-9266, they will be entered in a drawing for a free pizza.
Pagliai’s was founded in 1957 in Ames by Nonna and Nonno's sons, Sam, Armond and Aldo. They used recipes that were developed by Nonno and Nonna in Northern Italy. The three Pagliai brothers introduced their pizza to central Iowa when they began serving it at their neighborhood bar.
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These round, doughy “tomato tarts” were considered an exotic oddity by the locals, and the word spread until Pagliai’s Pizza eventually became the first pizza joint in town, eventually moving to the Des Moines area.
Sixty-one years later, Pagliai's is celebrating its success.
According to the Pizza Marketplace, 60 percent of restaurants go out of business in the first three years. But Pagliai's is now in its seventh decade, serving thousands of pizzas a week. In fact, Pagliai's goes through 12,000 pounds of cheese, 9,000 pounds of flour, and 1,000 gallons of tomato sauce every month.
Location: 5312 Merle Hay Road, Johnston
Hours: 4 to 9 p.m., Monday through Sunday

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Could Russia’s strength in Ukraine be waning? According to US intelligence, Russia isn’t having the easiest time recruiting soldiers. And with a major series of Western economic sanctions against Russia, the country’s supply lines are finally seeing effects. Basically, Western sanctions have limited Russia’s ability to buy weapons and equipment for making weapons, which is kind of a crucial part of any military strategy. While Russia initially wanted China to help supply it with this stuff, Beijing doesn’t seem to want to get involved in all that. Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe has stated that China has not provided any weapons or similar material to Russia since it invaded Ukraine.
This week, reports have surfaced of Russia trying to get its hands on weapons and ammunition from North Korea and Iran. The Russian ambassador to the UN has already denied these claims, calling the report “fake," but the White House says otherwise. So, what weapons could DPRK hand over? Well, the country still has stockpiles of Soviet-era artillery shells and rockets. Any arms sales to Russia by North Korea would be a violation of UN resolutions banning the country from exporting or importing weapons.
“It does demonstrate and is indicative of the situation that Russia finds itself in, in terms of its logistics and sustainment capabilities as it relates to Ukraine," Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder told reporters on Tuesday. “We assess that things are not going well on that front for Russia."
“It is just another indication of how desperate" President Vladimir Putin has become and “an indication of how much his defense-industrial establishment is suffering as a result," said US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
“The North Koreans do have tremendous stockpiles of relatively primitive artillery and rocket systems some of which are of a similar type and caliber used by the Russians to shell Ukrainian cities and towns," said Hugh Griffiths, a former coordinator for a UN panel that monitors sanctions on North Korea.
“I haven’t heard it, and I think that’s another fake being circulated around," Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, responded.


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Experience always brings something special to the table. Toshiba rings loud in the industry of manufacturing over decades. The rich heritage of company dates back to 19th century when the brand played a major role in the industrialisation of Japan. Toshiba is an exceptional success story of vision and grit.
The manufacturing giant has a wide range of products under its belt, from semiconductors to electronic appliances. These products have been changing people’s lives all over the world. The historic journey of Toshiba began in 1873, when the Ministry of Engineering recognised the need to modernise Japan and provided Hisashige Tanaka with the capital required to produce telegraphic equipment. He established Tanaka Engineering Works (which was later renamed as Shibaura Engineering Works).

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There are not many things that you have to use for a Learning management system, which is always plus. You will need a laptop, PC or other device like that. That device has to possess a modern browser. From an apple device to a regular PC, everything is possible! Chrome, Firefox, Safari; it doesn’t matter which explorer you use. As long as you’re connected with Internet, it’s possible to use an LMS!
To take the a course, exam, quiz or assessment, we have even less requirements. You can take the it on almost any device with an internet connection and a browser. Be it a mobile phone, tablet, laptop or pc, that's fine with us. As long as you don't use your smart fridge with touchscreen and internet connection :-)
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What is juvenile plantar dermatosis?
Juvenile plantar dermatosis is a common and chronic, dry-skin condition of the feet that mainly affects pre-adolescent children.
Juvenile plantar dermatosis is also known as atopic winter feet and forefoot dermatitis.
Juvenile plantar dermatosis
Who gets juvenile plantar dermatosis?
Juvenile plantar dermatosis commonly affects children between the age of 3 and 14 years, with an average age of 8. It occurs slightly more frequent in boys than girls. Juvenile plantar dermatosis is rarely seen in adults.
Although an association has been suggested with atopic dermatitis, asthma, or hay fever, this has not been confirmed in case control studies.
What causes juvenile plantar dermatosis?
Juvenile plantar dermatosis may be caused by:
- Repetitive frictional movements, as the foot moves up and down in a shoe
- The occlusive effect of covered footwear, especially synthetic shoes (eg, nylon or vinyl)
- Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), which when followed by rapid drying leads to cracking and fissuring
- Genetic sensitivity of the skin
- Climatic changes: with worsening during the summer months due to heat and sweating, and in colder months due to the wearing of winter boots. Hence there is no consistent seasonal variation.
What are the clinical features of juvenile plantar dermatosis?
Juvenile plantar dermatosis involves the weight-bearing areas of the soles of the feet presenting as itchy or sore, shiny, red skin with a glazed appearance and loss of the epidermal ridge pattern.
- It usually affects both feet symmetrically.
- Painful fissures, cracking, and scaling occur.
- The plantar aspect of the great toes (ball of the big toes) is the commonest site of involvement and is the usual initial site.
- Common involvement of the ball of the foot (forefoot) and in some cases the heel; toe-webs and instep are usually spared, helping to distinguish this from tinea pedis.
- It can rarely affect the palms and fingertips.
What are the complications of juvenile plantar dermatosis?
- The most common complication of juvenile plantar dermatosis is painful cracks and fissures. These may take many weeks or months to heal.
- Secondary bacterial skin infection is rare.
How is juvenile plantar dermatosis diagnosed?
The diagnosis of juvenile plantar dermatosis is based on the clinical findings.
Skin biopsy is rarely required. Histology shows epidermal spongiosis and dermal inflammation centred around the sweat ducts.
What is the differential diagnosis for juvenile plantar dermatosis?
Juvenile plantar dermatosis is sometimes difficult to distinguish from:
- Atopic eczema
- Keratolysis exfoliativa (focal peeling)
- Plantar psoriasis
- Tinea pedis
- Allergic contact dermatitis to shoe material, such as rubber accelerant, an adhesive such as paratertiary butylphenol formaldehyde (PTBF) resin, or chromate used as a leather tanning agent.
What is the treatment for juvenile plantar dermatosis?
There is no consistently useful treatment. General recommendations include the following without supporting studies to show benefit.
- Wear well fitting shoes, preferably leather, to minimise friction.
- Wearing two or more pairs of cotton or woollen socks can also help reduce friction.
- Avoid wearing shoes and socks made of synthetic materials.
- Change socks regularly.
Lubricate the dry skin
- Apply moisturising cream containing urea or petrolatum, after bath and before bed.
- Barrier cream (containing dimeticone) are easier to wear during the day and should be applied every 4 hours.
Have a rest daily
- Schedule quiet times with little or no walking to allow fissures to heal.
- Fissures heal faster when occluded. Adhesive plasters are usually satisfactory.
- Spray or liquid acrylate glue can be applied to the fissures to relieve pain.
When applied once or twice daily for courses of up to 4 weeks, these rarely prove more effective than simple emollients.
What is the outcome for juvenile plantar dermatosis?
Juvenile plantar dermatosis usually clears spontaneously in adolescence, but can persist into adult life.

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Small bin overflowing (for about a week); large bins blocking pathway ( seem to have been moved recently) and overflowing with rubbish.
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A beaming President Fidel Castro and hundreds of screaming children greeted the victorious Cuban baseball team as it returned home today after beating the Orioles in Baltimore.
Amid the festivities there was no hint that at least one of the delegation members -- a well-known retired pitcher known for his curveball -- had reportedly stayed behind in Baltimore and requested political asylum in the United States.
''This was a truly historic event,'' Castro said during a lengthy speech recognizing the athletes on the steps of the University of Havana. ''For a long time we have wanted to measure the advances in our sport, to know what would happen if such a game was held.''
What Cubans saw, he said, were first-class baseball players ''with the spirits of lions, of tigers.''
Thousands of baseball fans crammed the streets leading into the university to greet the hometown heroes as they arrived from the airport in open Jeeps, waving at the crowd. The players dressed identically in light cotton shirts and ties, slacks and beige jackets.Continue reading the main story
''Cuba! Cuba!'' the fans chanted.
At the university, first baseman Omar Linares thanked Castro for his support for the game, a rematch after the Orioles defeated the Cuban players in Havana, 3-2, on March 28.
''Dear commander in chief, the mission you gave us has been completed,'' said a smiling Linares before hugging the leader. ''Socialism or death! Patriotism or death! We will overcome!''
Earlier at the airport, the Cuban leader personally greeted Linares and the Cuban umpire Cesar Valdes, who tackled an anti-Castro protester who ran onto the field with a political banner during the game.
During a speech that stretched over three hours today, Castro criticized sports agents who attempt to persuade Cuban athletes to defect and blasted the focus on money in American sports.
But he gave no indication that any of the more than 300 members of the Cuban delegation had stayed behind, even though the Baltimore police said that Rigoberto Herrera, a member of the Cuban delegation that attended the game, walked into a police station today and requested asylum. The man's name was also given by others as Rigoberto Herrera Betancourt.
Castro did not mention the former pitcher, but criticized sports agents who make a living out of getting Cuban athletes to defect.
The Cuban leader claimed that Linares had been offered $40 million to join the major leagues, but turned it down. He did not say when the offer was made and did not provide any other details.Continue reading the main story

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Everyone loves a little good music. Am I right? Or am I right? Well! Let me tell you a little something. My friends are some of the most talented musicians you will ever come across and I can prove it!
Tonight was the CD release party of Shady Groves latest project “Step Inside Here”. If you remember, I had a post not too long ago for another CD they release by Stevan Parra, and if you haven’t checked that out…you should!
Not only was tonight one of the best nights of worship I have had in a long time, but I was just blown back by how blessed my friends are with the gift of worship and music skills. There were some of those moments where your mind just turns off and you feel speechless. Some of those moments where all your heart and soul can do is soak it in…those happened tonight. This CD is such an incredible testimony to the power of worship and the gifting the Lord has laid on these incredible people. I had the great honor to do back ground vocals for the album 🙂 and feel so blessed to play a small part in such a great and worthy opportunity! So I urge you, I beckon you, I beg you…go check this out. Even if it’s just to prove me wrong. You will not be disappointed!
All of the songs are wonderful but I feel the urge to give a shout out to my favorites (in no particular order):
1. Rain Down (performed by my wonderful friend and worship leading partner on sundays) – Austin Benjamin just sounds so great on this one.
2. Beautiful is He (written by Stevan Parra) – This song is powerful. Prepare yourself. And…Christina Smith just sings it like an angel.
3. Step Inside Here – This song just rocks. Thats all.
4. Your Love is Better (performed by the one and only Lauren Dunn and written by the incredible Grayson Belvin) – Be ready to fall in love. Beautifully written, performed and orchestrated. The words are so true.
Buy it on itunes NOW! I will even give you a link…here ya go! 🙂
And as if the night couldn’t get any better… Doug Burr performed at the after party. This guy is awesome!!! If you haven’t ever heard him…you need to. Like now. He is such a talented writer, and his music is so soothing! Love his style so much. You will too!
Oh! AND! There was a button maker there…so naturally…Michael and I had one made! Unfortunately, my natural smile is large on its own, which doesn’t bode well for fake smile pictures and such. Sorry I can’t do cool cheesy faces Michael. (please excuse my hair. thank you.)


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Nick Carter, fictional character, a detective who was created by John Russell Coryell in the story “The Old Detective’s Pupil,” published in 1886 in the New York Weekly. The character was further developed by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, who from 1892 (The Piano Box Mystery) to 1913 (The Spider’s Parlor) wrote some 500 novellas featuring Carter. Many other authors, among them Johnston McCulley (creator of the character Zorro) and Martin Cruz Smith (author of Gorky Park), wrote Nick Carter stories and novellas, publishing them anonymously. The magazines Nick Carter Detective Library and Nick Carter Weekly chronicled the character’s exploits.
In the early stories, Carter was all-American, youthful, idealistic, and a master of disguise. By the late 1960s the writers of the Nick Carter stories had drastically revised the character. Carter became identified as an author and was also the tough, violent protagonist (known as the “Killmaster”) of a series of lurid paperback novels that included The China Doll (1964), The Inca Death Squad (1972), Pleasure Island (1981), and The Caribbean Coup (1984). In addition to appearing in comic strips, comic books, and a variety of films, the character was the focus of a long-running radio drama, Nick Carter, Master Detective (1943–55; originally titled The Return of Nick Carter).


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- Warning: after an emergency park evacuation, this attraction will be full of Ramone impersonators.
- Minimum height 43".
- Pregnant rockets may use the restroom first.
- Guests in wheelchairs probably should be doing something else.
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- Adhesions are a common problem following hysterectomy.
- After gynecological surgeries such as a hysterectomy, dilatation and curettage, therapy for endometriosis, and other similar procedures, adhesions are a common complication.
- Discomfort in the pelvic, infertility, blockage of the small bowel, and pain experienced during sexual activity are just few of the usual symptoms of adhesions that can develop following a hysterectomy.
- Chronic abdominal discomfort is a common symptom of ARD, which can last for months or even years.
- The typical formation of adhesions occurs within the first few days following surgery; nevertheless, symptoms may last for months or even years.
- The symptoms may be concentrated in one region of the abdomen more than others, although they are frequently widespread, indistinct, crampy, and hard to pin down.
Are adhesions painful after surgery?
- The vast majority of adhesions are completely painless and do not result in any consequences.
- On the other hand, adhesions are considered to be a contributing factor in the development of persistent pelvic discomfort and are responsible for around sixty percent of all small bowel blockages in adults.
- Typically, adhesions begin to form during the first few days following surgery; however, symptoms may not manifest for months or even years after the initial injury.
What are the symptoms of adhesions?
- In most cases, adhesions do not manifest any symptoms and so are not detected.
- The majority of the time, pain is caused by adhesions because of the straining on nerves that can occur either within an organ that is being held in place by an adhesion or within the adhesion itself.
- If you have adhesions over the liver, you may experience pain when you take deep breaths.
- Pain during exercise or stretching may be caused by intestinal adhesions if the adhesions restrict the intestines.
How do you know if you have adhesions in your colon?
- When it happens, it feels as when you are trying to bend down or take up something that is heavier than you are accustomed to, and you get a sudden pang in the area.
- If it has grown up near the colon, then you may have pain there when you have a bowel movement.
- This discomfort is caused by the adhesion tugging on or tearing away from whatever it is adhered to.
- If it has formed up near the colon, then it may have developed up near the colon.
Are adhesions common after hysterectomy?
After gynecologic surgery for benign conditions without hysterectomy, the incidence of adhesion-related intestinal obstruction is approximately 0.3 percent. However, this percentage rises to between 2 and 3 percent among patients who undergo hysterectomy, and it can reach as high as 5 percent if a radical hysterectomy is performed.
How do you know if you have abdominal adhesions?
- The presence of abdominal adhesions is not always accompanied by the manifestation of symptoms.
- If they do induce symptoms, persistent abdominal discomfort is the one that people report experiencing the most frequently.
- It’s possible that abdominal adhesions might lead to intestinal blockage, which is a potentially fatal condition.
- Seek immediate medical attention if you experience any of the symptoms associated with intestinal blockage.
Can scar tissue from a hysterectomy cause pain?
Hysterectomy Results in the Formation of Scar Tissue Scar tissue can cause pain if it presses on nerves or restricts the movement of adjacent tissues. This can happen when the scar tissue is sticky. Discomfort in the lower back, pain near or within the incision, pain during sexual activity, pain in the bladder, and digestive and bladder difficulties are among the most common symptoms.
What does pain from abdominal adhesions feel like?
According to Dr. Johnson, the majority of abdominal adhesions do not cause any symptoms; but, if they do, crampy gas pains are typically the first sign to occur. The presence of bloating, nausea, vomiting, and constipation are some other warning signals that may hint to a bowel blockage.
Do adhesions show on ultrasound?
Unfortunately, determining whether or not a patient has pelvic adhesions can be challenging. An examining physician cannot feel them during a pelvic exam, and testing such as ultrasounds, MRI scans, and CT scans do not discover them very often. The only exception to this is when the symptoms are quite severe.
What does pelvic adhesion pain feel like?
The pain that is associated with adhesions is described by those who have them as being more like an internal stabbing than the dull and chronic throbbing that is associated with endometriosis. Adhesion symptoms might be triggered by your regular motions as well as digesting. This might result in an uncomfortable sensation that seems like something is pulling at you from the inside.
Do adhesions hurt when pressed?
The vast majority of adhesions are completely painless and do not result in any consequences. On the other hand, adhesions are considered to be a contributing factor in the development of persistent pelvic discomfort and are responsible for around sixty percent of all small bowel blockages in adults.
What does painful scar tissue feel like?
When touched or stretched, scar tissue might generate a localized region of pain, or it can produce referred pain that feels like the pain of a nerve, which is a persistent, irritating burn that periodically gets intense.
Can you see abdominal adhesions on CT scan?
However, CT has proved to be a useful diagnostic method in the identification of adhesion-related problems, such as bowel obstruction or intestinal ischemia. Although abdominal adhesions are seldom evident on CT, CT has proven to be a beneficial diagnostic modality.
What does scar tissue in uterus feel like?
- The condition known as Asherman Syndrome is characterized by uterine scarring that results in symptoms.
- The terms ″hypomenorrhea″ and ″amenorrhea″ refer to lighter periods and the absence of periods, respectively.
- Because menstrual blood can become trapped in the uterus when scar tissue is present, cyclic pelvic discomfort can result.
- In addition to this, it may result in repeated miscarriages or an inability to conceive at all.
Can you see scar tissue on ultrasound?
Imaging using ultrasound enables minimum scar development to be visualized, as well as the early diagnosis of myositis ossificans and cysts and the dynamic examination of minor muscle hernias.
How do you know if something is wrong after a hysterectomy?
If you have had any form of hysterectomy and are experiencing any of the following symptoms, you should seek medical attention immediately: Symptoms of fever or chills. Heavy bleeding or unusual vaginal discharge. Extreme discomfort.
What is the best pain relief for abdominal adhesions?
It is also possible for adhesions to develop following infections in the intestine, such as diverticulitis. According to a research conducted by Henry Ford Hospital, pregabalin, which is licensed by the FDA for the treatment of neuropathic pain (pain caused by shingles and peripheral neuropathy), successfully decreased stomach discomfort and improved sleep in women who had adhesions.
Do abdominal adhesions cause bloating?
It is typical for adhesions to develop in the abdominal cavity during intra-abdominal surgery, radiation treatment, or inflammatory processes. Adhesions are responsible for bothersome symptoms such abdominal discomfort, bloating, and bowel obstruction in a subgroup of people. These symptoms can be caused by adhesions.
Do adhesions get worse over time?
- A competent surgical approach can assist to lessen the risk of new adhesions forming following surgery, but they cannot completely eliminate the possibility.
- Unfortunately, new adhesions can arise after any operation.
- Following surgical intervention, a patient’s symptoms may improve, remain the same, or even worsen; nevertheless, some people require many procedures, which results in long-term difficulties.