Alisson, Fabinho and Firmino star as Liverpool cruise to a 3-1 victory over Arsenal
Liverpool came from a goal down to beat Arsenal 3-1 at Anfield on Monday night to maintain their perfect start to the season.
Premier League champions Liverpool made it three wins from three so far
with a convincing 3-1 victory over Arsenal on Monday.
The Gunners had defeated Liverpool twice over the past two months and, like their hosts, entered this fixture with a perfect start. However, Mikel Arteta’s men were unable to build on a lead gifted to them by Robertson 25 minutes in.
The left-back set up Alexandre Lacazette to score for the visitors completely against the run of play. The lead didn’t last long though as Sadio Mane to equalize 147 seconds later.
Robertson then completed the swift turnaround by putting Liverpool in front before the end of the first half.
Liverpool resumed the second half in the same way they ended the first. The Reds continued to dominate the Gunners with a good amount of possession on the ball.
Arsenal will rue a missed chance by Alexandre Lacazette when he fired straight at Alisson after going clear on goal.
New Liverpool signing Diogo Jota capped off a beautiful debut for the Reds as he sealed things late on with a brilliant strike from the edge of the box. Bernd Leno was helpless.
The victory sees the Reds continue their dominance at Anfield and it’s now up to three-and-a-half years since they tasted defat at home.


Magneti Marelli motorsport director Roberto Dalla believes technology within the FIA Formula E championship could help achieve the return of 1000 horsepower turbo-engine cars in Formula 1, as was seen previously in the 1980s.
With experience in the area through their plans of building motors for teams in next year’s season of the all-electric championship, Dalla believes Formula 1 could use technology within Formula E to increase the cars horsepower in the future.
“The challenge we are taking onboard with Formula E is to develop a high-tech race solution of a 300kw electric motor,” said Dalla to Autosport.
“In the future, Formula 1 could have the need to have a bigger motor, a bigger ERS, not only 120kw as today but eventually 300kw if you want to have 1000 horsepower engines.”
Dalla revealed that with the introduction of Formula E technology, the ‘electrical architecture’ of the car has been redefined, and should this be added to Formula 1, it could be to the benefit a championship that has seen many criticisms about its engine culture during the past twelve months.
“Considering that we maintain our approach to Formula E to develop the best we could have done from the technical point of view in a sustainable environment, the two areas are not too far,” said Dalla. “We believe tomorrow, this kind of solution will be used in Formula E and help the future direction of Formula 1.
“Formula E, more than Formula 1, will give us the possibility to redefine the electrical architecture of a car – the voltage, the device, etc. I’m sure Formula 1 will use this kind of experience and I’m pretty sure sooner or later hydraulics will disappear from a F1 car.
“So what we are learning from Formula E can be used not only for the motor but in general for the electric architecture of the car.”


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Disclaimer: I love all my friends and associates and y’all know I’m a realist.
“I just wanna be your favorite.” - Jeremiah
I saw an interesting tweet on IG where the girl said “Friend favoritism is definitely real, that’s why I stay by myself.” The term favoritism can be defined as the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another. From the tweet and comments I understand why she said favoritism is a thing and according to the definition she wasn’t wrong. Some friends purposely exclude other friends from different activities and some friends become fake or phony when their other friends are around. Both examples are valid but let’s first address red flags and some things to consider when it comes to establishing a friendship.
First off everybody’s definition of a friend is different and your definition of a friend will likely change as you get older. My circle of friends has drastically changed from the college days to now simply because I outgrew those people. Yes, outgrowing people is a thing and you shouldn’t feel bad about it. My previous circle stopped pursuing a higher education and spent too much time in drama. Being away from that environment and focusing on other things made us drift apart. It’s cool that they didn’t want to be in school but the reality is our mindsets were different and participating in those friendships no longer benefited me. As you go through life and experience different things you should anticipate that the dynamics of some friendships will change which brings to my second point.
What is your friendship based on? The foundation of certain friendships wasn’t built to last long term. Befriending somebody because they’re pretty vs. becoming friends because y’all are studying the same major is two different things. One friendship is shallow and won’t last the minute looks change and the other friendship has substance. Ask yourself what was this friendship built on.
Another factor is how old were you when you developed some of these friendships? I read a post that explained you’ll lose and gain a lot of friends, and most friendships don’t survive past your early 20’s. I definitely agree with this statement because the 20’s are challenging, people change, real shit exposes fake people, and who you are at 20/21 isn’t who you’re going to be in your late 20’s or early 30’s.
Also, keep in mind that some people come into your life for a season not a lifetime. I really struggled with this concept during my early 20’s. I felt like everybody who was in my life would be here forever and letting go of people, especially friends would make me cry. I read a quote that changed my perspective on friendships and just relationships in general. Lauren London said “We’re not allowed to possess people. We are only allowed to experience them. It’s a gift not a right.” Learn to enjoy your time and experience with a person and accept when your experience with them is over.
Third, if you're experiencing hate, fakeness, and anything other than love and positive vibes that’s not your friend sis. A lot of bitches are lowkey haters, they’ll befriend or keep you as a friend to only be shady or use the information you share with them against you.
Fourth, there’s a difference between best friends, friends, and associates. Categorize your friends correctly. Some people treat everybody like a bestie and everybody isn’t a bestie material. Some people are cool and just an associate. How you handle a friendship with your bff isn’t going to mirror the relationship you have with an associate. We’ll discuss the levels of friendship for a different post.
Lastly, after a certain age it’s a red flag to befriend somebody who vocalizes that they don’t have or never had any real friends. Unless this person just moved to a new city I don’t understand being 25+ and confidently saying I don’t have any friends. Every time I’ve tried to befriend a female who’s never had any friends it’s never ended well. Some people don't know how to be a friend and unless you're in the business of “building a friend” I’d avoid those types of bitches.
Now let’s get into the favoritism aspect of friendships.
Here’s two real truths about favoritism or being labeled a favorite.1) Favoritism happens everywhere whether it’s a friendship, family, job, etc. Personally, not being somebody’s favorite doesn’t bother me because 9 times out of 10 they’re not one of my favorites either (shoulder shrug). 2) Some bonds and vibes are stronger than others, hence where the term favorite came from. The word favorite literally means preferred before all others of the same kind or particularly well liked by someone. Stop tripping over the terminology and accept the role you have in that person’s life or leave the friendship, it’s that simple.
Personally, I believe in favorites and yes I have my favorite friends. However my favorites are based on two things, which is whether or not you're getting on my nerves and if you can relate to me and my current circumstances at that time.
Yes, my friends get on my nerves and there’s been times that I take a timeout from them. I get that some people feel like real friends never fall out or real friends don’t get tired of each other but I get annoyed easily and my friends know that. I’m notorious for taking an unannounced break from a friend (some people disagree) and when I can deal with them again I’ll reach out to them. People are a lot and truthfully some friends can be a lot too.
When I was going through heartbreak I was closer to one of my bff who was going through the same thing. When I was hustling to get out of credit card debit my friends who had credit cards understood more than other friends. When I’m in my feelings I depend on certain friends more because they understand in a way that other friends may not. When it comes to writing I gravitate towards the friends who write or read urban books. Friends that don’t read or understand that writing is a creative process wouldn’t be helpful when I’m ready to say fuck this blogging shit. Basically I gravitate, communicate, and attempt to see whichever friend is the most understanding at the time. & yes some of my friends are all purpose friends meaning no matter what’s going on at the time they’ll understand. Once again knowing how to categorize your friends will stop you from having unrealistic expectations from a friend.
Honestly, I don’t think anybody intentionally seeks out to make somebody their favorite, it just happens over time. I get that not being a favorite can be hurtful but you need to address your friend or come to terms with the reality of the friendship. For example, some shit has happened between me and one of my bff and we made the decision to remain friends and work through our issues. However over time we’ve both gravitated towards our other bffs more, and the reality is shit happens and people change. Overcoming your 20’s is rough and learning to navigate and build healthy friendships is challenging but it’s doable.
If you love your friends, tell them.
If y'all aren’t as close anymore or the vibes don’t hit the same, talk to them.
If you don’t feel like a favorite or you feel like you're not being included in their life, talk to them.
A lot of situations are misunderstandings and uncommunicated feelings.
To wrap it up, some people felt like this tweet was childish and gave high school vibes and to a point that’s true. But I also understand that some people struggle with feeling important and some people value friendship more than others. Finding a loyal and dependable tribe is hard but it’s not impossible. I’m thankful for my crew and I’m finally at that age in life where I can say that the friends I have now will be here forever.
“It’s all about who’s going to be at your Sunday BBQ kicking it on your back porch in ten years.”

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HISID eyes major well repair costs
HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Holiday Island is looking at a possible $85,000 in repairs at Well #5, commissioners learned at a special meeting Wednesday.
Water/Wastewater Superintendent Dan Schrader said there was a noticeable decrease in flow in Well #5, located at the bottom of Country Club and Wild Turkey drives, in April. Where it had been pumping 500 gpm (gallons per minute), it had dropped to 390 gpm and was getting worse.
Well #5 is the main well servicing the mainland in Holiday Island, Schrader said, assisted by Well #4.
"The well shaft is vibrating so badly it is causing continuous damage," he said. He said the vibration at the base of the pump is also affecting the motor shaft, but the district has a replacement motor in stock if needed.
He said the well runs 24 hours a day.
Earl Carter of Mathis, Carter & Associates was on hand to give additional information.
The district is looking at $14,000 to $16,000 just to pull the pump and see what is going on, he said. This estimate was provided by the Layne Christensen Co. of Kansas City, Mo., who installed the well.
Carter said repair estimates are from $80,000 to $85,000. He said the well would be out of commission for a week, but the entire inspection and repair process, from the Notice to Proceed, could take four to six weeks.
In the meantime, Well #2, which has been shut down for several years, would be brought back online to assist Well #4. Well #2 had been shut down for consistent over-limit radon readings, but in recent years readings have stayed within Health Department acceptable limits.
Cost to bring that well back online, which involves upgrading telemetry and reconnecting a 10-foot pipe to the main distribution system and the Summit Avenue tank, could be from $20,000 to $25,000, which is included in the $85,000 estimate.
Well #2 would be brought online before Well #5 is taken down, he said. It will assist Well #4, but cannot replace Well #5.
"Well #5 is the workhorse," Schrader said. Well #4 is only backup.
"We're trying to recover 400 gallons per minute," he said, "but you may want to tell residents to conserve water."
Carter said the Well #5 pump had lasted 10.5 years, as the water is very clean in Holiday Island, making it fortunate, as other locations have to pull theirs every five years, he added.
Commissioner Ken Brown asked whether the district's 80-percent finished water loss makes the Well #5 pump have to work harder, as it's pumping 24 hours a day.
"It's designed to run and pump 500 gallons per minute," Schrader said. "It doesn't matter whether that's during the day or at night."
Brown said he would vote to approve the project, but wanted to know whether there are other pumps the district should be looking at "so we don't have to have a special meeting and spend $85,000?"
Schrader said yes, there are other pumps and lift stations that should be looked at with an eye to planning for future repairs and replacements, which falls under normal maintenance, and that can be brought up with the board.
The board approved the repair of Well #5, with its associated costs, not to exceed $85,000. Funds will come from undesignated reserves.
The board then went into a short executive session to consider applicants for the district manager position. It returned to open meeting and took no action.


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This is second week of a month-long promotion for Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself, a book about taming your inner critic that features 40 stories from Tiny Buddha contributors.
Over the next month, you’ll have a chance to meet some of them contributors through daily interviews here on the blog.
Today’s featured contributor is Jeanine Nicole Cerundolo, a yoga instructor and bliss coach who’s on a mission to nurture a world in which we are each more self-affirming through an abundance of self-love, more confident in the power of our dreams, and more fulfilled in the process of reaching them.
Her contribution for the book explores the benefits of embracing both positive and negative emotions instead of assuming we need to always be happy.
A little more about Jeanine…
1. Tell us a little about yourself and your self-love journey.
As a sensitive soul and highly emotional being, I have been very attuned to both the delights and the darkness of life, simply in feeling each deeply.
My self-love journey has been a path to first, knowing myself; second, accepting myself; and third, letting myself be and allowing the richness of life to flow, without trying to control it with pre-conceived notions, concepts, or desires.
As I continue to delve into transformational work and immerse myself in such communities, I’m gaining traction in terms of my growing self-confidence, self-assurance, and self-actualization. I’m becoming all that I dreamed of by simply owning that I have always been what I’ve been seeking.
It is the recognition of my gifts and gratitude for them that make up the embodiment of self-love. Through this, I know that my life is a gift not through what I do, but in who and how I am in the world.
2. Have you ever felt there’s “something wrong with you”? If so, why, and what’s helped you change your perception?
I don’t often feel there is “something wrong with me,” but I definitely am very hard on myself and tend to put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself to achieve, succeed, and blossom.
I am often impatient with my “flaws” or my “shadow side,” and the resistance to these parts of myself only magnifies their power.
Tools that help me shift from self-doubt and self-loathing to self-love include breath work (just breathe!), writing a gratitude journal, reminding myself that this too will pass and is simply part of the process, and reaching out for help when necessary.
As the saying goes: “Joy shared is doubled, and grief shared is halved.”
I also collect nice things people share about what they value in me and read it when I’m feeling blue, for a little pick-me-up.
3. Have you ever thought something was a flaw only to realize that other people actually appreciate that about you? What was the “flaw”?
I am often very self-expressed and can feel that this is a flaw when I share in an over-the-top way, talk too fast in my excitement, or come on too strong.
I think that this exuberance does have its drawbacks when expressed in excess, but that my enthusiasm for life and the topics that get me jazzed can actually become contagious, and are even admirable.
I think the key here is to reign myself in a bit by exercising a balanced approach, thinking before speaking, and sharing for the sake of contributing to others, not just because I feel like it.
4. What was your biggest mistake (that you’re willing to share), and what helped you forgive yourself?
My biggest mistakes are always when I think that the “truth” or my “happiness” resides outside myself.
When I admire another to the point of being jealous or insecure, or when I want something (an opportunity or a relationship) so badly that I miss out on the joy and wholeness of the present moment, that is when I am robbing myself of the truth that I am already complete.
There is a spiritual teaching that says, “Everything hurt shall be healed again, everything lost shall be found again.”
The process of trusting myself and reminding myself to go within for the answers and the peace that I seek allows me to feel relief from the grasping or desperation that feeds the myth that I am “not enough.” Lately, prayer and meditation have really helped center me in that knowing.
5. Complete this sentence: When other people don’t like me, I…
…curl up in a ball and get sad.
6. What are some areas in your life where you’ve compared yourself to other people, and what’s helped you let go of these comparisons?
I compare myself to others in the area of doing-what-you-love. Because writing, yoga, coaching, and entrepreneurship are so important to me, those are the areas where I am hard on myself or become jealous of others.
If someone is a nuclear physicist, I think, “Hey, more power to you.” It doesn’t trigger me because it is not in me by any means to by a nuclear physicist.
But if someone is a “better” yoga teacher, published author, or seemingly experiencing more success than I am in the zones that I am working on, then that actually highlights the places where my potential is unrealized and itching to be fulfilled.
I can become uncomfortable in those moments, but in the end, returning to the knowing that I am on the path, and then feeling grateful for these opportunities to see where I can still grow—and becoming inspired by those people who are already in the game—are ways I can shed the destructive comparisons and replace them with affirmations.
7. What’s one thing you would tell your younger self about looking to other people to complete you?
I would tell my younger self that it is important to neither be dependent nor independent, but to be interdependent.
It is vital to be and feel whole and complete for who you are and to love yourself, and it is also vital to feed that soulfulness through nourishing interactions with others and in a loving community.
Not looking to others to complete you doesn’t mean to become an island, it just means not feeling like you are missing something or that your worth is contingent on what others think about you.
8. Have you ever felt afraid to show people your “real” self? Why—and what’s helped you move beyond that?
I have to admit that I am rarely afraid to show my true colors. I wear my heart on my sleeve, and my work is actually to contain myself a bit more and practice restraint since I’m so eager to be open and vulnerable; but then sometimes feel like I spilled the beans too much and then worry about how my sharing will come across.
Usually, it’s not as bad as I imagine, so it helps to remember that fear grows with the time and energy that you spend feeding it!
9. What are the top three things you personally need to do to take good of yourself, mentally and emotionally?
The top things I need to do to take good care of myself, both mentally and emotionally, are:
- Daily morning practice of meditation, yoga, journaling, and reading inspirational texts
- Breathwork and healthy habits regarding nutrition and exercise
- Practicing gratitude, especially blessing food before eating
- Being gentle with myself, treating myself as I would a good friend
10. What’s something you do regularly that makes you feel proud of the difference you’re making in the world?
When I engage in the pursuits I love most—working in yoga, life coaching, and writing—I become the highest version of myself and feel most generous, gracious, and giving.
Agapi Stassinopoulos says, “Be a go-giver, not a go-getter” and I think these words are beyond wise! When you do what you love and you aim to serve, and for your work to be a contribution to others and to the world, that alignment is true bliss!
*Note: I edited this post to remove info about the pre-order promotion, which ended on October 8, 2013. You can learn more about Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself here.

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DISPATCHES FROM UKRAINE: Medical Angels, Russian Corpses, The Actor Who Took Up Arms to Guard Presidential Buildings and the Tragic Besieging of Kyiv
“The president can't change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.”
ON THE FRONT LINES WITH UKRAINE’S ‘MEDICAL ANGELS’
They are Ukraine’s “medical angels,’’ a roving band of bright yellow ambulances with blue and khaki signage that rush to the front lines at the first hint of something amiss.
As daylight pierces through the snowy skies Monday, a call comes in for the medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, whose new temporary home is in the heart of downtown Kyiv.
Their male and female workers — many of whom sleep sitting up with their shoes on, ready to run — throw on their flak jackets and helmets and hop into their emergency vehicles, ripping through Kyiv’s barren streets, snaking around chunks of concrete, sirens blaring.
“Some sort of shooting, some sort of attack at a checkpoint,” says PFVMH co-founder and lawyer-turned-medic Gennadiy Druzenko, 49, calmly through a walkie-talkie. “Our people will be there.”
Two PFVMH vehicles soar 30 miles to the northwest edges of Kyiv, where hundreds of shocked and saddened faces idle in the freezing cold with small suitcases.
PFVMH ambulances make only a momentary stop and then high-tail it down one of Ukraine’s deadliest strips toward a dangerous hub of Russian aggression.
Often times, you can smell the war before you can see it: gunpower, smoldering ruins, trash and tires burning somewhere in the nearby plains. The cell service drops out, and bombed and blistered buildings remain on either side of the dusty road, past the “Bucha District” sign and into the Kyiv suburb of Irpin.
Just a few days ago, around 60,000 Ukrainians lived in the town. Now, it’s impossible to know how many are still there, having survived Russia’s persistent aerial bombardment.
Streams of Ukraine’s most vulnerable residents hobble across the ashes of the city’s broken bridge: tiny babies wrapped in blankets, the elderly in wheelchairs and barely able to shuffle with a cane, a sick child engulfed in necklaces of pearl-white medical tubes. They are families without fathers, since the men of the house are mandated to stay and join the fight while their loved ones are trembling and ashen with shock.
A mother and her young daughter, teen son and their family dog climb into the back of our car, shaking so much they cannot speak, cry or pull their stares away from the searing scene.
Another young woman named Elizabeth speaks with wide-open eyes as she mimics the way she and her grandmother ran into the bunker with hands over their heads like something akin to an action movie.
“My babushka and I see this, all this shelling,” she says.
The civilians struggle through their homeland’s ruins, almost oblivious to the scattered shell casings, blown windows and burnt buildings all around. Even with the rumbles of warplanes above, the panic seems to have given way to absolute exhaustion and disbelief.
Each face that passes by seems a mosaic of trauma, heaviness and an anguished hope to make it through. Many residents have gone days without running water, food or electricity as the local death toll mounts.
Irpin is an embodiment of war — in which the innocent always suffer. It is hard to imagine how ordinary people could ever go about their lives in an ordinary way again. The once-sleepy working town has, overnight, been transformed into a jungle of hollowed homes and shattered dreams, of lives that will never be the same again.
UKRAINE OFFICIAL SAYS RUSSIA WON’T COLLECT SOLDIER CORPSES, BURNING THE ONES IT HAS
As the war in Ukraine escalates and proliferates across much of the embattled country, the number of civilians caught in the crossfire is mounting – along with the number of dead Russian troops.
According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, some 9,000 enemy combatants – an average of 900 per day – have been killed in action since the full-scale invasion ignited some ten days ago. Despite being vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Ukraine forces have put up an unexpected but extraordinary defense.
And many of those Russian corpses remain unaccounted for, a Ukrainian official said Saturday.
“We have asked (Russians) to take the dead bodies, and they have refused to do it,” Volodymyr Goy, Deputy Chief of the Cabinet of the Head of the Presidential Office, noted. “Ukrainian medics are just having to bring those dead bodies to the morgue.’
Goy claimed that the Russians have started to bring in “mobile crematoriums” to dispose of the corpses that they do recover from areas of intense fighting.
“They are most probably just going to say that those people have disappeared, that they don’t know where they are, to avoid paying their families,” he continued. “Because if somebody is officially killed in the war, they (the government) have to pay some remittance to the family. So, to avoid that, they would probably say that he has been lost in some unknown location.”
And, of course, Moscow’s modus operand is to pretend that there is no conflict at all.
While accurate figures of the dead are impossible to come by, in a rare move last week, the Russian Defense Ministry – which has barely reported on its “special liberation military operation” – reluctantly acknowledged that 500 men had died and more than 1500 were wounded. Unconfirmed reports this past week suggested that leaders of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, still under the thumb of the Moscow Patriarchate, offered to assist in the return of the dead, although it isn’t evident that such an appeal has been put into play.
Moreover, Kyiv’s top-brass are releasing names and frightened faces of the killed and captured as part of its overall “Look for Your Own” strategy to blunt the Kremlin’s skewed propaganda and force the Russian population to address the true nature of their leadership’s operation.
Last week, the Ukrainian government launched the grim https://200rf.com website featuring graphic photos and footage of Russians – dead and alive – along with a search bar for anyone to look up the name of a loved one who may have disappeared into the dark void of the war theater.
“This site was created by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. On it, you will find information about captured and killed Russian soldiers in Ukraine since the beginning of the occupation. Here we will promptly post photos and videos that we receive from the battlefield,” reads the opening message. “If your relatives or friends are in Ukraine and participate in the war against our people – here you can get information about their fate. Unfortunately, it is difficult to identify a lot of those killed. We deliberately post these photos and videos; you may recognize someone by indirect signs. Information is updated constantly.”
UKRAINIAN ACTOR WHO PLAYED SOLDIER TAKES UP ARMS VS. RUSSIANS
For Roman Matsiyta, life went from reel to real in the dark hours between dusk and dawn one day last month.
The 45-year-old Ukrainian actor-musician was preparing to celebrate the release of his latest film, “The Narrow Bridge,” a critically acclaimed drama on Amazon Prime that centers on a talented artist named Kiril. The main character, played by Matsiyta, has his life turned upside down when invaders attack his beloved country, compelling him to swap a paintbrush for a rifle.
Little did Matsiyta know that, while filming in and around Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv a couple of years ago, life would soon jarringly imitate art.
“I have acted in the movies many times, in war movies as a soldier, a character in the wars. But I never thought I would be acting like this in real life,” Matsiya recently said, cradling his gun next to sandbags piled in the frozen air outside of the presidential buildings in the heart of Kyiv. “But our military needs all of us.”
The actor said that unlike his Kiril character, it was not an eternal struggle for him to abandon his flute for a firearm to fight a real enemy.
“I woke up to the sound of explosions, and everyone knew it had begun, and I was ready to fight,” Matsiyta said of the Russian invasion of his country. “Immediately, I went out to find out how I could sign up to fight.
“There were many people like myself trying to be useful somehow or somewhere. After several days, we were accepted into the Territorial Defenses. We received our weapons and went forth to support however we could.”
The Territorial Defense Forces was founded in 2014 after Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution, which saw President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, topple. The revolution was followed by Russia retaliating with the annexation of Crimea and backing pro-Russian separatists to invade eastern Ukraine.
In the TD’s early years, tens of thousands of volunteers signed on to the light-infantry, military defense outfit. The number ascended in recent months as tensions with Moscow burgeoned amid a troop buildup around Ukraine’s border. But in the nearly two weeks since the Russian takeover, the number of recruits has soared to up to 2 million.
THE FATE OF KYIV IN BALANCE AS MILITARY GOVERNOR WARNS SUBURBS UNDER ATTACK AMID BURGEONING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Mothers wrap their small children in blankets, their lives reduced to plastic bags overstuffed with clothes and documents. For some 15,000 residents, home is a subterranean subway station scattered around Kyiv. Above ground, the city once flushed with three million people is reduced to a shell of its former self, speckled mostly with gun-toting guards, heavy cement chunks to serve as barriers and checkpoints every few blocks along the road.
Occasionally, older women trudge alone up the cobblestone hills, carrying heavy bags of supplies as warnings to stock up and hunker down increase.
The rumble of shells booming in the distance and of air-raid sirens screeching has become jarringly familiar as the full-scale Russian invasion enters its tenth day. But some Kyiv officials claim the worst is yet to come as the push to the capital intensifies.
“From the very first hours of this invasion, the Russian invaders crossed from the (Belarus) border to the Chernobyl site, entering Kyiv province and heading toward Kyiv (the capital),” Oleksii Kuleba, the Head of Military Administration of Kyiv Province, which is separate to the governing administration of the country’s capital, said on Friday afternoon. “So, from the very first minute of this war, we have been under a big risk that the Russians will quickly reach the capital. This is their key goal to take it over. It is only due to our forces stopping the fast movements of their leading units as to why they have not entered.”
Nonetheless, the oblast has already suffered a barrage of Russian rockets and missiles, laying waste to critical infrastructure and civilian dwellings as the Russian Armed Forces expand their foothold in pockets of the province. Notably, Russians seized the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 60 miles north of the capital last week, sending a shudder through Ukrainians and much of the international community, given its nuclear power infrastructure.
While steadfastly determined to keep repelling the enemy back, it remains unclear how long the vastly outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian resistance can hold the line.
“From Chernobyl, and from the Russian side, we are seeing more and more units moving in every day. This is everything from new units, armored personnel carriers, vehicles, tanks and foot soldiers,” Kuleba continued. “This has resulted in some very grave, very serious battles taking place in the Zhytomyr highway across Kyiv.”
This week, the bridge Stoyanka – poised on the central route west out of the capital – was hit, severing the supply line and stopping civilians from easily leaving the conflict-ravaged region. Kuleba also lamented that several of the oblast’s most quaint tourist and recreational attraction towns had been bombed in recent days.
For one, the 19th century-crafted town of Irpin has been caught in the crossfire of attacks aimed at choking the capital, with scores of civilian homes in the northwest enclave decimated. In addition to Irpen, Russians have been aggressing into neighboring Kyiv suburbs of Buch, Vorzel, Hostomel and Borodianka. This week, a kindergarten in Vorzel – where 50 children were sheltering – was struck by enemy fire, Ukrainian officials claim. Periodic shells rain down in Hostomel, and Borodianka infrastructure and housing were severely damaged in a string of poundings from the air.
“These towns have become targets of the attack aimed at the capital of Ukraine,” he said, almost pleadingly. “These towns have been seriously ruined, many homes destroyed.”
All this has induced something of a humanitarian crisis, officials noted.
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Saturday, November 9, 2013
On my middle and ring finger I used three coats of Different Dimension It Rubs The Lotion On It's Skin (Halloween 2013 Collection), a blackened jelly base filled with lots and lots of small orange and gold glitters, that give the polish a orangey-brown look. The name is, of course, inspired by the movie Silence Of The Lambs. I used one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top topcoat for a smooth finish, but as my fellow swiss blogger Christine (Polished Marvels) suspected, this one tends to get "thirsty" after some time and kind of drinks up the topcoat. After my usual 24h of wearing the mani, the surface was still pretty smooth, but not completely. So one coat of topcoat is absolutely enough for one day, if you want to wear it longer, you might need to add another coat after a day or two.
On my other fingers I applied two medium coats of Kleancolor Coffee Addict, a polish that reminds me more of olives than of coffe. It's a brown/gold/green shimmer. As I already mentioned the last time I used a Kleancolor polish, the formula is not the best. The polish stinks and dries very slowly, and the formula is on the thick side. This time the brush was pretty wonky, too, so I had a hard time to apply Coffee Addict.
On my thumb and pinkie, I added a stamping with Messy Mansion plate MM16 and Essence Steel-Ing The Scene (Metal Glam Trend Edition), a copper metallic polish that looks more gold than copper over Coffee Addict. I used one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top on all the other nails as well.
Different Dimension polishes can be found on Etsy, at Mei Mei's Signatures or at Llarowe. I bought mine at Llarowe.
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Du hast immer so schöne Stampings!ReplyDelete
Vielen Dank, ich stampe auch gerne, da das eine der wenigen Techniken ist, die auch bei mir gut rauskommt ;-)Delete
Ce skittlette est absolument magnifique.
Merci beaucoup, Catherine :-)Delete
Oh this is one darn pretty polish for sure - if only the name wouldn't be so endless……. and thank you for your kind reference. "Oh je" - one of those always hungry polishes - it would have been so nice if I would have been wrong ;-P. And love your stamping <3ReplyDelete
Thank you, Christine. The topcoat hunger of irtlois (what a short name :-P) isn't too bad, it feels a little like a textured polish after one day (and I rarely wear polishes for longer than a day, so I didn't really mind)Delete
Very pretty :).ReplyDelete
Thank you, Deborah <3Delete

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Honda’s Electric Race Car
Honda’s Electric Racing Car and What it Might Mean
Honda has big news that could potentially make Tesla a little nervous.
Honda said on Monday that it is entering a battery-electric concept car into this year’s Pike’s Peak Hill Climb.
This is an event where competitors race for the fastest time up a steep and winding mountain road in Colorado.
Honda’s electric, the Acura EV Concept, is based on the hybrid Acura NSX.
The concept builds on technology that Honda used in another experimental race car last year.
But it could be that this competition is not just going to be on a road in Colorado.
It can be inferred that Honda is planning to make a statement in the electric car market, as well, which is currently being dominated by Tesla.
This is big because Honda is not what necessarily comes to mind when you think electric car.
But with the advancements the company is making, it could be.
And that’s good for future investors.
Though Honda has dabbled with “green” technology in the past, this would be the company’s first attempt at a battery-powered car.
Honda’s electric technology uses a system of four electric motors, one for each wheel.
This system allows the car’s computer to “vector torque”.
That means that the car is able to fine-tune the power applied to each wheel, making the handling more precise than traditional gas-powered cars and is sure to give Tesla a run for its money.
Honda is clearly making big steps to clean up their ecological footprint.
CEO Takahiro Hachigo has taken big steps to reorient the company toward the emerging electric future, but nothing has been announced yet in terms of specifics.
What has been said is that a large portion of the budget is going to be spent on plug-in hybrids.
Also, battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles are said to make up about 15% of the company’s total global sales by 2030 and a majority by 2050.
The race in Colorado is only an indication of what Honda has planned.
But it’s pretty clear that the company has green intentions that will be coming into play in a big way.


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File: Jack Lang during his interview with Extra News channel.
CAIRO - 16 May 2021: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi visited the French Capital on Sunday to attend the Paris Conference for Supporting Sudan's Transitional Period and the Funding African Economies Summit held on May 17-18, respectively.
The Egyptian president is attending upon an invitation by his French counterpart Emanuel Macron in alignment with the close ties between both countries, and the vital Egyptian role in backing the transitional phase in neighboring Sudan on both the international and regional scales.
That is in addition to the heavy weight of Egypt on the African continent, which reinforces international initiatives aimed at supporting African states.
On the sidelines of President Sisi visit, Egyptian TV channel Extra News performed an interview with former French minister of culture Jack Lang who said that the Egyptian-French cultural relation is strong and active and that the French people strongly love Egyptians and their contemporary history.
Lang added that the Egypt did a great job pertaining to increasing the size of Suez Canal which is considered a massive achievement that makes him so proud of the Egyptian government and people.
Commenting on the role France plays in the archeology sector in Egypt, Lang assured that the French archeology laboratories in Egypt play significant role, adding that French people are strongly passionate about the Egyptian Civilization and that there is a big pavilion in Louvre Museum that houses Egyptian artifacts.
During the interview Lang praised the role played by Institut Francais d’Egypte ( The French Institution In Egypt) saying that it houses a number of experienced cadres and that the institution presents high quality knowledge that increase the educational level of all those who graduated from the French Institution in Egypt.
Lang added that 2019 was the year of French culture in Egypt and in this year a number of successful culture events and exhibitions took place, but the former French minister of culture recounted that the Egyptian-French cultural cooperation is always strong and active and not limited to only one year.
As the head of l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Lang said that the institution presents a number of services to the Egyptian community in France and organized a number of exhibitions.
Lang added that from three years the institution organized an exhibition for Suez Canal and another exhibition for Christians in the Middle East, this exhibition witnessed the participation of a number of Egyptian Christians who are living in France.
Also the institution organized an artistic exhibition tailor made to honor a number of Arab icons such as Fayrouz, Warda and Asmahan.
Lang added he met with President Sisi during an official dinner performed on the sidelines of the previous Egyptian-French summit that took place in December, 2020.
President Sisi said to Lang that Dalida is one of the worldwide acclaimed icons and that Egyptian people love her a lot.
Lang added that the whole world was dazzled by the Pharaohs Golden Parade that took place on April 3 where Egypt transferred 22 royal mummies from Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
It is worth mentioning that France hosted King Ramses II mummy in 1976.


Watch Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2021 virtual announcement HERE on 6th May
April 29th, 2021
One week in advance of the announcement of Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2021, sponsored by Perrier, bars voted between 51st and 100th have been revealed for the first time. With the aim of recognising a greater number of establishments as they seek to emerge from restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the 51-100 list of Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2021 features venues from 22 cities across 12 countries in Asia, including locations as varied as Nara, Japan; Hiriketiya, Sri Lanka; and Nha Trang, Vietnam.
The list of Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2021 will be announced at a virtual ceremony on May 6th.
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Donna blends the key elements of creativity, design and commitment with quality that makes La Luce a unique dining experience.
Donna Scala and two members of her extraordinary team, Dannilo and Shirley.
Chef Alberto, Dannilo and David share an undeniable passion for cooking innovative Italian dishes to perfection, each and every night.
Shirley adds a zest of fresh Parmesan.
Joe and Candice work together to take care of each guest and to create an unforgettable Italian fine-dining experience.
Jason prepares the fresh toppings for La Luce’s famous homemade pizza.
Donna shows Dannilo and Alberto how it’s done.
Assistant Manager Rachel and Tamara prepare garnishes and infusions before an exciting evening at La Luce Bar.
Executive Chef Alberto fires up another one of his Italian masterpieces behind the line in La Luce’s kitchen.
Tony blends crisp cocktails and refreshing wines, along with La Luce’s spirited atmosphere, to create a memorable evening for all guests.Cheers!
Megan whisks a delicious combination of rich sauce and good cheer into everything she prepares for La Luce guests.
Jason seasons and spices with a smile in preparation for another lively dinner service inside the La Luce kitchen.
General Manager Rabie, Stefan and Rusty prepare linens and cutlery as dinner prep unfolds at La Luce.
Megan and Executive Chef Alberto mix culinary expertise with teamwork while creating the finest in Italian dishes for their La Luce guests.
Rachel and Vicki show friendly competition as they ensure every last detail is polished to perfection.
General Manager, Rabie, pauses to express his pride for his team and all who visit La Luce to experience the finest Italian dining in a whole new light.

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Leigh Swann, Head Greenkeeper at Trentham Park Golf Club, Staffordshire, had become accustomed to a persistent problem with Fusarium Patch making a regular and unwelcome appearance on his tees and greens over the winter.
But this March and April the anticipated post-winter Fusarium scars were either absent or considerably reduced. So what had changed?
"Last year I decided we needed to adopt a different approach and try some different products to tackle the problem," explained Leigh. "I talked to a number of suppliers but Nia Lisseter of Headland Amenity came up with the best advice.
Nia said prevention was better than cure, and I agreed with that. She then went on to suggest a range of turf nutrient products that could help strengthen our greens and tees and therefore improve their resistance to fungal infection."
Headland 20:20:30 mix was applied in September and combines three products into one - Turfite, Liquid Turf Hardener and Seamac Pro Turf. The combination of these specialised products applies successfully trialled forms of calcium, iron and phosphite, ensuring a broad system of preventative care is made available in a single autumn application.
Leigh again, "I applied the 20:20:30 concept at the recommended dosage (20L, 20L and 30L respectively per hectare) and we sat back and waited to see if the treatment had a positive impact.
When the greens emerged from winter they were in far better shape than I could have hoped for. The Fusarium scarring I had grown used to was absent and even club members commented on just how well the greens played."
The use of 20:20:30 and other Headland products, resulted in a far more resilient sward at Trentham Park. Their need, therefore, to treat fungal attacks with fungicides this year, has been radically improved.
"If you were to look at our spraying records from previous years you would see regular fungicide application was routine. This year I have sprayed just twice. This is a massive improvement." Leigh said.
Ensuring the sward is kept healthy and vigorous, to help defend itself against disease, not only gets the job right but it also cuts costs. Fungicide bills can be reduced along with the time needed to apply it.
One last thought from Leigh, "I am impressed with the Headland products we have used; it's as simple as that. Their products offer good value for money allowing our chemical and fertiliser costs to be reduced when compared to previous years.
They do what they claim to do. Now I will have time to tackle the thatch problem we have on some of our greens and look at overseeding with some higher performance grass varieties - the list goes on!"
A range of Headland Products can be seen in the Pitchcare Store.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 597834 - Fax: +44 (0)1223 598052 - www.headlandamenity.com

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September 2, 2008 |
NEW DELHI : The government on Tuesday said it would provide broadband connectivity -- high speed Internet services -- to remaining 5,000 rural blocks with the financial support from the Universal Service Obligation Fund soon after the allocation of spectrum through the e-auction process. The Department of Telecom in a statement said today that it would connect 5,000 rural blocks in the country by wireless broadband soon after the spectrum allocation process to cover all villages that come within a radius of 10 kilometres of the Taluka/Block headquarters.
August 10, 2006 |
NEW YORK: Communications company Sprint Nextel said it was investing up to $3bn in what it claimed would be the United States' first nation-wide 4G high-speed wireless broadband network. Sprint said the network would rely on WiMAX technology and offer coverage to 100m people by '08. The company said that it was teaming up with Intel, Motorola and Samsung to develop the network. Sprint said it would work with the other companies to also develop "mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets that will support advanced wireless broadband services for computing, portable multimedia and other consumer electronic devices.
October 24, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: In a move that will intensify competition, RIL-owned Infotel Broadband Services has informed the Telecom Ministry that it is ready for trial runs of a technology that would enable voice calls service on its wireless broadband network . Against expectations, Infotel Broadband Services (IBSL) did not apply for making bids for the spectrum auction, freed after cancellation of 122 telecom licences on the order of the Supreme Court. The company has developed a technology in preparation of a unified licensing regime recommended by the regulator TRAI under which consumers will be able to get voice, messaging and video using a single device, the source said.
June 12, 2010 |
In the next few months, you may see a slew of product launches of wireless broadband devices from phones and laptops to netbooks and iPad look-alikes. Industry analysts say the auction of basic wireless spectrum is set to open up a new market for wireless broadband devices and services, aimed at making your home and office, always connected. 3G operators are also expected to use both Long Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMax to support their network for voice as well data services.
August 2, 2010 |
NEW DELHI: India's defence forces will soon have a pan-India wireless broadband network. This was decided in a meeting on July 20 between the telecom and defence ministries, officials with direct knowledge of the development told ET The telecom ministry has accepted the armed forces demand that one slot of pan-India wireless broadband airwaves be reserved for it. In the recently concluded auctions, Reliance Industries...
February 26, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has told telecom department that it plans to utilise the 700 MHz airwaves band for mobile TV services, a move that may thwart the communication ministry's plans to sell these airwaves to private telecom companies for providing wireless broadband services. The I&B ministry said that it may require about 96 units of airwaves in the 700 MHz band for mobile TV services in the country. It plans to follow telecom regulator Trai's recommendations and finalise the policy soon for this service.
August 6, 2007 |
NEW DELHI: WIMAX services in India will be restricted to only existing telecom operators if the Department of Telecom (DoT) has its way. In fact, the DoT has also decided to exclude internet service providers (ISPs) from its meetings on spectrum and policy related issues with regard to WiMAX. On the other hand, ISPs claim that they have equal rights to offer this service, a stance that is supported by Trai in its recommendations to the government on 3G spectrum-related issues. ISPs have now demanded that they be made part of the working group constituted by the DoT (which has members from the Cellular Operators Association of India and the Global WiMAX Forum's India office)
April 10, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday become the first company in India to offer high-speed Internet services using fourth-generation (4G) telecommunications technology. The company said high-speed wireless broadband "has the potential to transform India" and to provide a platform for "building the country's digital economy. " What's new in 4G technology ? 4G, known as the ultra-broadband allows mobile phone users to surf the Internet, video conference and download music, video and other content at a rate several times faster than 3G services that are still being rolled out across the country.
April 18, 2013 |
The government has initiated a policy rethink on how to allocate telecom spectrum to various claimants. The options being considered include, reportedly, administrative allocation of the kind that was followed till the 2010 auction of 3G and wireless broadband spectrum. Such a rethink is both welcome and overdue. It marks, it is to be hoped, the process of the government reclaiming the policy-making space that rightfully belongs to it but had been appropriated by the courts and the CAG. The Indian authorities have been forced to rethink auctions because recently conducted auctions failed to produce either revenue or even bidders in many circles.
March 24, 2003
Sify plans to invest up to Rs 20 crore into building infrastructure in 50 cities across the country over the next six months. Most of these investments would be for setting up Sify's branded cyber cafes, iWays. According to a report in a business newspaper, the new cities on Sify's list include Ahmedabad, Baroda, Surat, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Patna, Jamshedpur, Mangalore and Mysore. The company has presence in major cities like Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Cochin, Pune, Bangalore and Trichy.


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Grand Jury: No Charges In Non-Fatal Troy Police Shooting
There will be no charges in the non-fatal police shooting of Dahmeek McDonald in Troy last summer.
According to Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney, the assigned special prosecutor in the case, a Rensselaer County Grand Jury determined that the August 2017 shooting of Dahmeek McDonald by Troy Police Officer Jarrod Iler was justified.
On August 15th, 2017, the 22-year-old, wanted for absconding from parole on a drug charge, was shot in the shoulder and grazed in the head during an encounter with police after a traffic stop. No weapon was found at the scene but police said McDonald used his vehicle as a deadly weapon.
The shooting took place after Officer Iler approached McDonald’s car.
Dozens of people demonstrated outside Troy City Hall the following day. Leading the group at the megaphone was a man who identified himself as McDonald’s uncle. "Hopefully the mayor takes note. If he don't, we need to shut down his city."
Mayor Patrick Madden urged restraint. "I would just ask for some patience while we work through this." Tensions were spared from boiling over. Later, Madden said both sides had sat down and reached "an understanding."
An initial investigation of the case by Troy Police and Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove eventually landed in the hands of Schenectady County DA Carney, who was appointed as special prosecutor after Abelove recused himself.
Carney said he wouldn’t comment on the case in Monday’s announcement, which said FBI analysis largely corroborated Iler’s account that McDonald drove his car directly at the officer, who fired four shots in all.
According to the DA, the Rensselaer County Grand Jury that heard case handed up a No True Bill on July 13th to Rensselaer County Court Judge Jennifer Sober. The panel had met in separate sessions on 11 days and heard from 47 witnesses, 29 of whom were civilians. The Grand Jury also examined more than 80 exhibits, one of which was a multimedia device containing numerous videos and hundreds of photographs.
Troy City Councilman Mark McGrath says the ruling wasn't surprising. "...considering that Office Iler has a spotless record and the fact is that Dahmeek McDonald has in the past put peoples' lives in danger, absconded from parole and was trying to get away, trying to run the officer over. So it does not surprise me one bit."
Troy Police Chief Brian Owens, sworn in in February, was not immediately available for comment. Mayor Madden issued a statement, which says “District Attorney Carney’s statement speaks for itself, outlining the thorough and independent review of the facts undertaken by the grand jury and special prosecutor’s office during the nearly 11-month investigation. It was of utmost importance that a full and independent review of this incident was conducted, and we are grateful for the assistance from local law enforcement agencies and district attorney’s office for their diligence, professionalism and the thoroughness with which they approached this task. We express our thanks to the Schenectady County District Attorney’s office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York State Police, Albany Police Department, the grand jurors and all those who came forward to testify.”
The jury found that Iler was legally justified in discharging his weapon and injuring McDonald.

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Posted by Tasha Weiss on May 13, 2013 at 5:41 PM.
The final sections of the 408-ft steel spire for One World Trade Center were lifted to the top of the building earlier this month and installed this past Friday. The skyscraper now stands at a symbolic 1,776 ft high, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the third tallest in the world.
Eighteen barrel-shaped sections of steel make up the spire, which weighs nearly 760 tons and will function as world-class broadcast antenna.
You can view videos and photos of welders installing the spire at WABC-TV’s website.
The steel for the building topped out last August when the last of the spandrel beams were installed between the parapet columns. The 104-story high-rise will open in 2014 on the northwest corner of NYC’s World Trade Center site — overlooking the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island — with 3 million sq. ft of office space.
More information on WTC’s construction progress can be found at www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress.


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Address: Jl. Stasiun Ambarawa 1, Ambarawa, Semarang, Indonesia
Phone: (0298) 591 035
GPS Coordinate: S7°15'56.2" E110°24'7.7" (view map)
Museum Kereta Api Ambarawa has witnessed that in the past the train had triumphed. In addition to store a collection of train history in Indonesia, here too, there are old train locomotives that are still powerful.
A well-known fortune teller in Kediri Kingdom, Jayabaya, once said "ana yen ana ramening jaman, Tanah Jawa bakal sabukan wesi" (a time when the world was crowded, the Land of Jawa would be iron-belted). In the middle of 19th century, the prediction proved correct. The railway started being built for the first time in Java in the year of 1864 and continued to be built along the island so it became the belt that united Java. Train as the mean of public transportation has given space for people in West, Central, and East Java to get to know each other and greet each other. At that time the existence of the train was much more popular than horse carts, or cars. Station after station was built to facilitate travel. Since during the time of the Dutch East Indies, Ambarawa region was a military area, the Netherlands Indische Spoorweg Maatscappij (Dutch Train Bureau) built a the train station in Ambarawa with the name of Willem 1 Train Station for transporting troops to Semarang. In 1976, the station was converted into Museum Kereta Api Ambarawa with the main collection of 21 steam locomotives placed in an open area, spread out under the thick trees. Some old locomotives have historical value. C28 locomotive made "in Germany was the locomotive that helped the escape of President Sukarno from Jakarta to Yogyakarta in 1946. While the locomotive D5106 served in Hedjaz Railway lines and transported the pilgrims as well as the Turkish army logistics.
When YogYES arrived at Museum Kereta Api Ambarawa, the atmosphere was not so crowded because the day was growing late. The building resembling the old locomotives and train cars that were used to function as the station's office to welcome anyone who comes. Today the building fungtions as a showroom, a place to store some collections of the museum such as the old-fashioned telephones, typewriters, adding machines, telegraph machines, ticket stamp, up to a variety of hats machinist. In addition, there are photographs about the history of railways in Indonesia. On left and right sides of the building, a comfortable wooden chair lined up used for enjoying the fresh evening breeze. Bunch of boy seemed to be playing ball in between the rails, an old locomotive, and touring lorry. In the holiday season, weekend, or when many tourists visit, train tour lorries with a capacity of 15-20 passengers will be run along the rails Ambarawa - Tuntang. Unfortunately when YogYES visited, the touring lorry was not operating.
Next to the lorry there is a green steam train carriages with yellow ornaments. Usually the car capacity of 80 people was pulled by a locomotive B5202 or B5203 which is an old locomotives made "Maschinenfabriek Esslingen, Germany. Although is old, the only locomotive left in three places in the world, it is still able to pull the train cars and climb mountains to Bedono Station. The fares are very expensive for a departure, but it is comparable with the experience gained while riding the steam train this jagged. Along the way, your eyes will be spoiled with the charming landscape of rice paddies and fields with the background of Mount Merbabu and Mount Ungaran, and Rawa Pening (Swamp Pening) in the distance. Not just a mere sightseeing train, the journey is both a flashback of railway tracks in Indonesia.
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I have held back until now to see which way the wind blows and despite the best efforts of people trying to put this forth as a ‘fix the roads’ bill, they seem to be losing almost roughly 3 to one if the latest polls are to believed. As much as we Michigan people would like our roads fixed, there is a large amount of BS in this bill that people have sensed. Mostly because the way this is presented you would think it is simply raising the sales tax to pay for roads. That however is not how it is worded. The full text:
A proposal to amend the State Constitution to increase the sales/use tax from 6% to 7% to replace and supplement reduced revenue to the School Aid Fund and local units of government caused by the elimination of the sales/use tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for vehicles operating on public roads, and to give effect to laws that provide additional money for roads and other transportation purposes by increasing the gas tax and vehicle registration fees. The proposed constitutional amendment would:
Eliminate sales / use taxes on gasoline / diesel fuel for vehicles on public roads.Increase portion of use tax dedicated to School Aid Fund (SAF).
Expand use of SAF to community colleges and career / technical education, and prohibit use for 4-year colleges / universities.
Give effect to laws, including those that:
Increase sales / use tax to 7%, as authorized by constitutional amendment.
Increase gasoline / diesel fuel tax and adjust annually for inflation, increase vehicle registration fees, and dedicate revenue for roads and other transportation purposes.
Expand competitive bidding and warranties for road projects.
Increase earned income tax credit.
I always get nervous when a ballot proposal is longer than a short paragraph.
OK, the first thing you notice is the change in sales tax but the first thing mentioned is School Aid Fund not roads. The idea of this bill is to create new taxes, abolish other ones and absolutely ties the fixing of roads and the School Aid Fund together. Now you will probably understand why the most humorous ad on TV to me was claiming this was not a shell game with tax money. Holy Cow is this a shell game in and of itself and unless you’re deleting things from the Michigan constitution that actually gives me more freedom, that is going to make me nervous as well.
Now you have to go back a little here to understand why the School Aid Fund and the Roads in Michigan are a mess. Firstly we need to understand that the way money is appropriated to road commissions in Michigan is based on a law form the 1970s and actually involves a dollar amount that is fixed. That’s right folks nothing has changed in five decades as far as how the money is given out.
Secondly in more recent history when Granholm was still in power, one of the ways the legislature balanced he budget was to ‘borrow’ the money from the School aid fund promising to return it the next year. The problem is then the Republicans won the governor’s mansion the next year and conveniently forgot they had done this. The money was never returned.
Thirdly, they got creative and decided proposal A from back in the 1990s which increased the sales tax from 4% to 6% for the specific purpose of funding education didn’t mean that is all they could fund with it. I remember this proposal because I was one of the few that opposed it because it involved an increase in taxes which I am always opposed to for the most part. The problem is that when Snyder took power he wanted to create a situation in which public schools would be in trouble. He wanted to hold teachers more accountable, but if the School Aid fund at the time had been all given to K-12 there would have been no need to lay off anyone because at the time it would have actually provided an increase per student. So how do you create a crisis that creates layoff? Give some of the monies to state universities and community colleges, that’s how.
What was practically created was universities swimming in cash with huge fund balances while K-12 school struggled and had to make cuts. I know I was on my local board when these cuts were made and schools everywhere were struggling to stay solvent and actually keep a fund balance. It created a perfect storm in which defunding combined with new laws on how teachers and administrators were to be evaluated based on merit instead of tenure resulted in layoffs. Good or bad it did get rid of some teachers that were less than effective but it was clearly in my mind manufactured.
The point I am trying to make is that the School Aid fund was depleted by a ‘loan’ that was never repaid and a clever loophole found in Proposal A from the 90s to basically defund the schools on purpose for another end. That is why the School Aid Fund is in trouble not that it does not make enough money. It was a shell game played already from the same people who now want to tell me that this proposal will stop the shell game.
The other thing Snyder did that exasperated the problem, was spending a large amount of time trying to build a bridge between Detroit and Canada. My personal opinion at the time was that it might help the economy and I could see the argument for it. The problem for me as a libertarian is that the people who it would directly benefit from the bridge should build it and not all the taxpayers. The other problem I began to have was the roads were so bad even back then that no one was going to be able to get to it if the roads didn’t get fixed first.
The bad roads in Michigan are a prime example of the many ways government screws things up. The road problems are not new like they just appeared yesterday, they always exist. This problem is always with us because of the weather being four seasons and you can wet, cold and warm all in the same Winter. When Snyder took office they were a problem and it was what some used in their campaign against him this last time running. The fact is the notion that things have suddenly got so bad we need to do something now is fear mongering. This should have been dealt with this a long time ago but once again I feel like this is manufactured crisis through deliberate neglect to try to pass Proposal One in May which is without a doubt the most deliberate shell game of law changes I have seen in a while. No thank you.
I have a more novel solution. How about you do what your supposed to do as government with regard to the roads? You fix them and if you need to change how money is appropriated, you change that first. Don’t tell me the only solution is raising taxes when you just eliminated tons of debt without doing so. Live within you means and fix the roads. You dug these holes through neglect and poor planning, fill them in yourself and don’t put that on the shoulders of the Michigan people. If that means trimming the fat and entitlements – DO SO! I will not notice your absence if government leaves an area of responsibility. You messed it up, you fix it and let me keep my money in my pocket.

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Some advice needed on what to do about my mom and my older sister. They don’t get along at all in the first place but their enmity was recently exacerbated by an incident last year in which both parties were wrong but neither will admit fault.
My mom was the more wrong of the two but she claims she has no idea what she did wrong. After countless attempts to explain it to her, I’ve given up as has my younger sister who also agrees that my mom was the one mostly at fault.
The incident basically broke what was already a relationship on fragile ground. My mother is convinced that my older sister hates her and doesn’t want her around no matter what she does. My older sister is frankly confused about why my mom won’t just let it go and behave normally. Older sister has decided that my mom just hates her for no reason and she’s dealing with my mom for the time being because she’s living near her to watch her new baby.
They’ve both reached Bitch Eating Crackers level.
That would be enough of an issue without them constantly coming to me and my younger sister with their whining and bitching about each other.
I constantly get texts and calls from them enumerating various minor petty complaints about each other. I usually don’t say much back other than, ‘I understand that you need to vent, blah blah whatever’. But I’m sick of it.
It’s mostly my mom too. She’s constantly on the warpath about my older sister and I’m really really tired of hearing it. She should be better than this. I’m 30 years younger than her and I wouldn’t dream of holding grudges against family members but my mother doesn’t trust anyone, even us.
Older sister will sometimes say things to me but she’s really busy with school and the baby so its not nearly as often as my mom. I feel like all my mom does all day (even when she’s watching the baby) is think about the various ways my older sister has allegedly wronged her.
Is there anything I can do to get them to stop treating me like the dumping ground for their petty nonsense?


England launches 'cosmic census' to combat light pollution
February 11, 2019, 1:29 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
English star count hopes to engage stargazers and draw attention to the threat of light pollution.
Chinese city plans to launch an 'artificial moon' to replace streetlights
October 18, 2018, 10:18 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
The wild plan involves a reflective satellite that would beam down a 'dusk-like glow' within city limits.
Watch storms and stars sail over the Colorado River
March 16, 2018, 12:06 p.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
The latest from the SKYGLOW project looks at the sky from the river level of the Grand Canyon.
The first dark sky reserve in the U.S. is a stargazer's paradise
December 29, 2017, 2:23 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
Located in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, it's the third largest reserve in the world.
Watch an ocean of dreamy clouds roll through the Grand Canyon
December 17, 2017, 6:49 p.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
The latest from the SKYGLOW project captures the Grand Canyon during a full cloud inversion.
Meet the cecropia moth, the largest moth in North America
June 23, 2017, 4:10 p.m. by Russell McLendon
If you think it looks cool, wait till you see its caterpillars.
Mesmerizing time-lapse captures rare cloud phenomenon in Grand Canyon
May 16, 2017, 11:40 a.m. by Angela Nelson
Filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović show us a full cloud inversion at Grand Canyon National Park.
Stunning photo project explores our complex relationship with the night sky
April 21, 2017, 8:21 a.m. by Angela Nelson
Time-lapse artists and filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović use their talents to show the impact of light pollution in North America.
NASA's 'Black Marble' shows Earth's nighttime glow
April 19, 2017, 5:46 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
New global map of Earth at night shows the growing impact of light pollution across the globe.
Interactive map plots your address over 750 million years of Earth's history
9 of the world's largest dog breeds
The brightest star in the night sky will go dark
'Signing Day' recognizes high school seniors starting jobs, not college
Is there a reason toothpaste has to be in a box?
Golf courses across U.S. step up to save monarch butterflies


text: Turbinado is a “raw” large-crystal sugar, which is to say it’s made and packed at a sugar mill close to the point of harvest, not at a refinery. It’s a product of the first crystallization that occurs at at mill. Like all crystal sugars it’s spun in a centrifuge to (mostly) rid it of molasses, but it’s the only sugar that I’m aware of that actually takes its name from the machinery (a centrifuge is also called a “turbine”). The processing removes nearly all of the original molasses (turbinado sugar is 98-99% sucrose) but it still has a more interesting flavor than white sugar since that original molasses often contains fresh grassy aromas and flavors from the cane plant. Because turbindo sugar has hints molasses flavor but is still mostly sucrose, it’s frequently used to top crème brûlée where it forms a flavorful — yet still quire hard — crust.


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I know, just the other day I said that bit part actors were few and far between in romantic movies. Then I watched Sleepless in Seattle again. Maybe I was wrong.
Of course, I love Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. Put them together and they really click. I believe they were in three films together, Joe vs. the Volcano, Sleepless and You've Got Mail. Joe wasn't great but the other two were, and I think Sleepless in Seattle is destined to become a classic.
Who else was in it? Rob Reiner had a relatively small role as one of Tom Hanks' friends. I would consider it a bit part, but of course, Reiner is no bit actor. He divides his time between acting, writing, producing and directing. I wonder how he keeps track of what he is doing in each project?
The two young stars in the film are interesting to watch as they develop. Jonah was played by Ross Malinger and Jessica was Gaby Hoffman. It is usually very hard to break out of child acting roles, and many have failed, becoming depressed later in life. I hate seeing some very good young entertainers wreck their lives by resorting to an alternative, or even destructive lifestyle in an effort to get some publicity.
Hoffman's career was off to a good start with Field of Dreams starring Kevin Kostner when she was seven. She made Sleepless when she was eleven, and later was in Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones at the age of fifteen. She worked with a lot of great stars and I wish her well.
Malinger was nine when he made Sleepless and since then has spent most of his time on TV and doing voice overs for animation.
An interesting portrayal of a babysitter was presented by Amanda Maher as Clarise. She had maybe two words in the film and looked pretty spaced out every time you see her. Her part was so obvious and noticeable, that I had to look her up. This was her only film. I wonder why?

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EPA Sued for Abandoning Critical Factory Farm Rule Under Clean Water Act
A coalition of community, animal welfare and environmental organizations is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the agency’s withdrawal of a proposed rule that would have allowed the EPA to collect basic information, like locations and animal population sizes, from factory farms.
The Center for Food Safety, Environmental Integrity Project, Food & Water Watch, The Humane Society of the United States and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing that the agency’s withdrawal of the proposed rule lacks the rational basis required by law. The information at issue is critical to the EPA’s ability to protect waterways from pollutants produced by factory farms, one of the country’s largest sources of water pollution.
The EPA's Failure to Track Factory Farms
“While power plants, waste treatment facilities and manufacturers have had to comply with the protective standards of the Clean Water Act, the factory farming industry has managed to evade any meaningful regulation," said Hugh Espey, executive director at Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. "After over three decades, there is no rational reason for why EPA won’t enact the types of Clean Water Act approaches with factory farms that have worked well with all of our other polluting industries.”
“The animal agriculture industry has benefited from EPA’s lack of information for decades, and has successfully opposed efforts to increase transparency," explained Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation at The Humane Society. "This certainly is not good for animals, humans or the environment; it is only good for massive industrialized farms.”
Factory farms are industrial facilities that confine thousands of animals in limited land areas for meat, dairy and egg production. The operations that would have been subject to this rule are the factory farms falling within the “CAFO” point source category under the Clean Water Act, a category that consists of the nation’s largest and dirtiest operations.
“With the withdrawal, EPA continues to pursue a [concentrated animal feeding operations] CAFO pollution control policy that can only be described as willful ignorance," said George Kimbrell, senior attorney for the Center for Food Safety."As long as EPA continues to turn an unlawfully blind eye towards this industry, our waterways and communities will never be safe.”
The EPA estimates there are 20,000 CAFOs in the U.S. producing three times as much waste as humans. Although this waste contains pathogens, heavy metals, antibiotics and hormones, EPA does not require all factory farms to meet waste management and treatment requirements.
The Columbia University School of Law Environmental Law Clinic is providing legal representation in the case.
In 1972, the clear water pollution threat posed by CAFOs’ staggering waste stream led Congress to mandate that EPA must regulate CAFOs pursuant to the Clean Water Act. Despite this 40-year-old mandate, EPA continues to lack basic data about factory farms, including accurate and consistent information on their size, location and waste management practices.
Under the abandoned rule, known as CWA Section 308 Rule, the agency was to begin gathering this basic information. The proposed CWA Section 308 Rule made a strong case for the need for information collection based on inadequate existing data. Following strong industry opposition, the EPA withdrew the rule. In its rule withdrawal, the EPA radically shifted its position without justification.
The agency now claims that instead of using its authority under the Clean Water Act to gather information directly from CAFO owners and operators, it will seek to gather existing information about CAFOs from various state and federal agencies. This approach contradicts recent government reports, which confirm that state agency CAFO data is “inconsistent and inaccurate and does not provide the EPA with the reliable data it needs…” and that “no federal agency collects accurate and consistent data on the number, size, and location of CAFOs.” This legal action asserts the EPA’s change in position is arbitrary because alternative courses of action cannot provide the crucial information.
In the fall of 2012, several environmental organizations filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the EPA for all of the state-generated data gathered by the agency. After industry browbeating, the agency attempted to recall some of the records that it originally produced. Nevertheless, Food & Water Watch retained and reviewed all of the original records.
“Our review of these records confirms what EPA has already admitted in its preamble to the 308 Rule," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director at Food & Water Watch. "The data from the states is inconsistent, incomplete and ultimately, will not allow the agency to finally begin the process of properly regulating these highly polluting facilities.”
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When Europeans first arrived in North America, Atlantic puffins were common on islands in the Gulf of Maine. But hunters killed many of the birds for food or for feathers to adorn ladies' hats. By the 1800s, the population in Maine had plummeted.
- Experts Recommend Halving Global Fishing for Crucial Prey Species ›
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A "major" natural gas explosion killed two people and seriously injured at least seven in Baltimore, Maryland Monday morning.
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Nearly 900 people across the U.S. and Canada have been sickened by salmonella linked to onions distributed by Thomson International, the The New York Times reported.
- Meat Producers Issue Massive Recalls after Salmonella, Listeria ... ›
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In the coming days, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to use its power to roll back yet another Obama-era environmental protection meant to curb air pollution and slow the climate crisis.
- Permian Basin Methane Emissions Found to Be More Than 2x ... ›
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By Alex Kirby
The temperature of the Arctic matters to the entire world: it helps to keep the global climate fairly cool. Scientists now say that by 2035 there could be an end to Arctic sea ice.
Melt Ponds Crucial
"The prospect of loss of sea ice by 2035 should really be focusing all our minds on achieving a low-carbon world as soon as humanly feasible."

Dr. David Schroeder from the University of Reading, UK, who co-led the implementation of the melt pond scheme in the climate model, says, "This shows just how important sea ice processes like melt ponds are in the Arctic, and why it is crucial that they are incorporated into climate models."

The extent of the areas sea ice covers varies between summer and winter. If more solar energy is absorbed at the surface, and temperatures rise further, a cycle of warming and melting occurs during summer months.

When the ice forms, the ocean water beneath becomes saltier and denser than the surrounding ocean. Saltier water sinks and moves along the ocean bottom towards the equator, while warm water from mid-depths to the surface travels from the equator towards the poles.

Scientists refer to this process as the ocean's global "conveyor-belt." Changes to the volume of sea ice can disrupt normal ocean circulation, with consequences for global climate.

- Strongest, Oldest Arctic Sea Ice Breaks Up for First Time on Record ... ›
- Arctic Sea Ice Levels Hit Record Low After Unusually Warm January ... ›
- Why California Droughts Could Increase Due to Arctic Sea Ice Loss ... ›
Russia's Health Ministry has given regulatory approval for the world's first COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
Putin's Daughter Among Vaccinated
The Russian leader also said that one of his daughters has already been inoculated and is feeling well.

"One of my daughters got vaccinated, so in this sense, she took part in the testing," Putin said.

After the first vaccine shot, his daughter experienced a slight fever, 38 degrees Celsius (100.4°F). Her temperature came down to just slightly above normal the next day.

"After the second shot, she had a slight fever again, and then everything was fine. She is feeling well and has a high antibody count," Putin said.

He didn't specify which of his two daughters, Maria or Katerina, received the vaccine.

Russian health authorities have said that medical workers, teachers and other risk groups will be the first to receive shots of the vaccine.

Years of Work Reduced to Weeks
Russia is the first country to register a COVID-19 vaccine. As countries worldwide race to produce the first vaccine, health experts warn that speed and national pride could compromise safety.

Scientists in Russia and abroad have questioned Moscow's decision to register the vaccine before Phase 3 trials that normally last for months and involve thousands of people, but Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary trials and that vaccination will be voluntary.

Russian officials have said that large-scale production of the vaccine will begin in September, and mass vaccination may start as early as October.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, meanwhile, has lauded Russia's efforts in developing the vaccine and said that the Philippines is ready to work with Moscow on vaccine trials, supply and production. Duterte volunteered to "be the first they can experiment on."

"I will tell President Putin that I have huge trust in your studies in combating COVID and I believe that the vaccine that you have produced is really good for humanity," Duterte said, adding that he thinks Russia's vaccine will be ready for the Philippines by December.

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A powerful series of thunderstorms roared across the Midwest on Monday, downing trees, damaging structures and knocking out power to more than a million people.


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Located in Sao Carlos, Atlantis Inn Residence is convenient to Paroquia Nossa Senhora de Fatima and Paroquia Sao Sebastiao. This aparthotel is within close proximity of Dr. Perdigao Municipal Theater and Sao Carlos Cathedral.
Make yourself at home in one of the 35 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with refrigerators and ovens. 29-inch LED televisions are provided, with cable programming available.
A complimentary breakfast is included on weekdays from 6:30 AM to 9 AM and on weekends from 7 AM to 9:30 AM.
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Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk and multilingual staff. Free self parking is available onsite.


We do not start today with great news. The NY Times reports on the sudden death of Joseph Traub, a professor I once had in college. He was basically a legend in the academic world, and it is a shame to see him go. In other news, Google Cloud Platform announced the general availability of… Read More Geek Reading August 27, 2015
Leading today we have some interesting news and some that has been long expected. First, Windows 10 was released! The reviews are coming in and VentureBeat has a decent article on that. VentureBeat also reported on a new marketplace for startups, with Amazon partnering with Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. This is definitely an interesting… Read More Geek Reading July 30, 2015
We have seen that YCombinator officially moved to Silicon Valley, and TechStars opened an office in Boston. Both areas are technology hubs. Why does this matter? I have heard the arguments about the proximity of excellent universities, but this does not really explain why those two areas are considered so much hotter than others. New… Read More Does Location Really Matter?


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Nanotechnology Research – Universities
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The Nano science program focuses on scientific phenomena that occur at sizes around a nanometer. The first two years of the program give the student a solid foundation in basic sciences. A strong emphasis on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics will provide students with a unique and versatile set of theoretical skills. During the last two years students can choose one of four concentrations, namely; nano-medicine, bio-nanotechnology, nano chemistry or nanophysics.
Zewail City of Science and Technology - B.Sc. in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics Engineering (Egypt)
The Nanotechnology Engineering program is an interdisciplinary program sharing a common foundation with all programs delivered at University of Science and Technology during the first year. Nanotechnology Engineering students are also introduced to Materials Science. Starting from the third year the students focus on specific areas of nano-technology: nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanosystems and nanoconstruction.
Zurich University of Applied Sciences - Center for Functional Materials and Nanotechnology (Switzerland)
The focus of the Center of Functional Materials and Nanotechnology are the modification and analysis of surfaces and the development of applications in the following areas of chemistry and biology: Functional- and biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Surface analysis; Filtration technology in industrial chemistry.

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Fallball Lacrosse Check-In: Denver Pioneers
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By Scott Bondy
Since he arrived in the Mile High City just a few months ago, Bill Tierney knew he had to do something that sent a message to his players. He wanted them to know that he believed in them. He did just that—and fast. Denver will travel to the Carrier Dome to take on last year’s NCAA champions, the Syracuse Orange, for their first game of the 2010 season.
“Right off the bat the game against Syracuse is going to be a tone-setter for the year,” says senior Charley Dickenson. “We couldn’t be more excited about it.”
That’s the kind of thing that Tierney is expected to bring to the Denver program—excitement but also national prominence. First he’ll have to assemble his crew of guys that finished 7-8 in the Great Western Lacrosse League. And it all starts with fall ball.
What they’ve been up to?
“I asked the guys to close their eyes and forget everything they’ve learned about lacrosse. I want them to believe in us and not doubt what we’re going to be doing. We all need to get on the same page,” Tierney says.
That meant getting down to the basics. Throwing and catching, ground balls, clears, etc. The players need to get used to Tierney and the coach needs to see what he’ll be working with. So far, so good. Tierney points out things have been as he thought they would be, if not better.
The guys started their fall training a little over a week ago to some horrendous weather. Heavy rain and even some snow in the area had some thinking that Tierney must have brought that East Coast weather with him. It didn’t put a damper on the mood one bit though. From the senior leaders to the freshmen, only in their second week of college, everyone seemed excited to hit the field. Tierney actually had to blow the whistle on his own team in the first practice because the guys were going too fast and too hard.
What the team will look like?
Sixteen freshman and a few other transfers will have the opportunity to contribute right away. Since there’s a new coach and new system the slate is clean.
“There’s a handful that will be expected to be out there right away,” says Tierney. “A guy like Chase Carraro could become one of the best face-off guys in the country.”
Carraro, a freshman, was named All-American and State MVP (Kentucky) in 2009 and lead his team to championship titles his junior and senior years.
Then you have the core nucleus from a season ago. Guys like defenseman Dillon Roy, who was named first-team all-GWLL for two consecutive years. He’ll no doubt anchor the defense and has been tabbed by Tierney as a “phenomenal leader.”
While Bill Tierney will be calling all the shots, he certainly will have some impressive help. His son Trevor has joined the staff after serving as the defensive coordinator of the Denver Outlaws pro team for the past two seasons. His resume speaks for itself but as the only goalie ever to have won an NCAA Championship, and International Lacrosse Federation World Championship and a major League Lacrosse title, he brings some extra wisdom. The elder Tierney believes that Trevor will have a great grip on the defense and the goalies. Other than that he also relates well to the players. Trevor recently taught the team some yoga to help get some of the guys in shape.
Former DU Pioneer and current Denver Outlaw Matt Brown is a holdover from the Jamie Munro era and will work primarily with the offense.
New addition Kevin Unterstein will serve as a volunteer assistant after making the move from Princeton. He’ll be asked to help Trevor Tierney with the defense but where he’ll be most valuable is working with the face-off men. Unterstein was a short-stick midfielder at Hofstra.
Question of the Year: How fast can Tierney turn it around in Denver?
That kind of depends on the schedule. Opening with a team like Syracuse certainly makes an early statement but also adds a good deal of pressure. It’ll be interesting to see how the team responds. Coach Tierney knows what he’s doing though and the early message to his guys will help develop trust and a tight bond. When he decided to take the job in Denver he said he was looking to go somewhere that will challenge him. This year should be a challenge as any new head coaching job would be. He might not have the overall high level of talent but he does have a lot of skill at each position. The Pioneers should improve upon their 7-8 record this year and could wind up back in the tourney come May.


Bonfire explosion injures four people in Burnaby
Four people are being treated for serious burns this morning after a bonfire explosion in the backyard of a Burnaby home.
It happened around ten last night at a home on 12th Avenue.
Two men and two women were sitting around the fire when an accelerant was tossed into the flames.
Fire crews believe the blast was an accident and all four are listed in stable condition.


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From the Accura Print-MIS website…
We are pleased to announce the recent appointment of Idealsolution as main distributor for the Accura Print-MIS product range across Australia. Idealsolution, who are based in Castle Hill near Sydney have a long history of providing pre-press solutions to the printing industry. Their areas of expertise include resellers and VARs for Apple Macinstosh equipment, colour managment and workflow software, as well as being a master distributor for Kodak solutions.
Alan Potter, Sales Director for Acura Print-MIS said: “The appointment of Idealsolution is great news for us, AND our Australian clients as it ensures the continued growth and success of Accura Print-MIS in Australia and will offer our 26 Australian sites with reassurance about our commitment to the market, and provide of a local team of dedicated professionals for installation, training and support”.
Andy Molnar, Managing Director at Idealsolution commented: “Me and my team are very excited about taking on the Accura Print-MIS product, which we know has a proven pedigree in the UK and here in Australia. We are very keen to work with them to quickly provide a complete infrastructure around the product”.
Whilst intiially there is an existing client-base to service, Idealsolution have already converted orders for several new sales prospects, which will be installed shortly, and have shown their commitment to Accura Print-MIS by signing up for a stand at the Printex 2011 show in Sydney this May.