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John Scheid and Jesper Svenbro, The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. viii + 226. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-17549-2.
Reviewed by Simon Goldhill, King's College, Cambridge, email@example.com.
Revealing Antiquity, a series edited by Glen Bowersock for Harvard University Press, is winning a distinctive niche for itself in the world of classical studies. The initial blurb for the series promised -- in a rather gungho or even Star Trek spirit -- "to look where scholars never looked before" and to use "new methods of interpretation" and an "avalanche of new material" in order to present aspects of antiquity, central to current academic interest, for "a broad public in a post-modern age". The series as a whole has set (nonetheless) high standards for provocative and beautifully produced books, which deploy stimulating and complex material, the product of both innovative methodological insight, and a flair for refocusing on the previously marginalized. What is more, each is intelligently framed to make its arguments accessible to a wide audience and to interests outside classics: one might cite as exemplary Giullia Sissa's Greek Virginity, Bracht Branham's Unruly Eloquence, or Shadi Bartsch's Actors in the Audience. John Scheid's and Jesper Svenbro's The Craft of Zeus is similarly an attractively and thoughtfully produced volume, with a distinctive methodological concern and an eye for the misplaced margin and the surprising connection.
This particularly suits the subject of the book -- weaving -- and the authors constantly play with the idea of warp and weft, of crossing threads, of the text as woven, as they pursue what they call "the myths of weaving and fabric". They aim not at an exhaustive coverage of the language, images and tales of weaving, but at a more essayistic approach that sets out to exemplify not merely the pervasiveness of the idea of weaving in classical culture but also a particular sense of what might be meant by a myth of weaving. For Scheid and Svenbro, a myth is a shared or collective figure of thought (hence it goes beyond the metaphor); a figure of thought which can expand to a story but which is also part of -- and capable of generating -- ritual, imagery, ideological messages as well as stories. Thus, as with the olive tree according to Detienne's analysis, weaving, whatever its basis in physical objects and processes, must be viewed under the rubric of "generative" mythology, and the authors combine the language of dramatic texts, rituals of the city, political philosophy, lyric poetry, to explore how "weaving" functions as such a "myth" throughout a culture. It is not the aim of the book to produce another theory of myth, nor is there any attempt to fit the material on weaving into a predetermined model. Rather, as the authors assert in the introduction, the development of this notion of "generative mythology" was a response to the varied types of material available and relevant to their project. Their contribution to an understanding of how "myth" moves beyond the handbook of tales is all the more suggestive and pleasing for this lightness of methodological touch.
The book is simply structured. After a brief introduction, there are three sections of two chapters each. Each section focuses on one aspect of the myth of weaving -- broadly, politics, erotics, aesthetics -- and each section has two chapters, one concentrating on Greek material, one on Roman. (The reader will immediately perceive the opportunities for the language of warp and weft, and interweaving of threads such a structure encourages.) The first section, entitled "Peplos", looks at how weaving functions as a political expression: the fabric of the state. The first chapter, on Greek material, focuses on Plato's Politicus (with Aristophanes" Lysistrata), texts which are persuasively linked to the ceremonies of producing a peplos and presenting it to a goddess. The readings offered of each work are very brief (and certainly too brief on the Politicus to exhaust the problem of how weaving interrelates with ideas of unity and division in this dialogue); but the claim that the political imagery and politicized ritual draws its strength from the mythic associations of "weaving" is well made, and the argument neatly combines ritual and political philosophy and the event of drama in a way few scholars attempt. The second chapter is more strained. It looks at Roman imagery of political weaving by concentrating on the Troiae Lusus and Vergil's account of its origins, where mounted youth "weave" patterns of military engagement. It is, significantly, a very short chapter and the range of material which makes the Greek chapter compelling is simply not adduced. It might have been worth asking what the lack of political "weaving" in Latin, if there is one, suggests about Roman conceptualizations of politics and the State with regard to the family and gender.
The second section, entitled "Chlaina", looks at weaving and erotics. Since cloaks double as bed-clothes, and since marriage can be described as the weaving together (sumploke) of a man and a woman (or of families), domestic desire finds an importantly normative "myth" in weaving -- which is closely related to the political processes of the first section: "Between civic and nuptial fabrics there is in reality a relationship of the deepest sort". Here, the Roman chapter which focuses on Catullus 64 is the more consistently persuasive. It draws out complex and well articulated parallels between the skein that Ariadne uses to lead Theseus to safety, the sail with which Theseus fails to announce his safety to Aegeus, and the thread of the Parcae, all placed on the coverlet which is both a nuptial blanket (and thus a metaphor or symbol of marriage) and an image that itself says something of marriage. The general argument about weaving as a normative, generative myth is particularly well linked here to the specifics of a particular poem. The Greek chapter, however, while its general point is clear enough, spends a good deal of space on the philological glossing of the first word of Sappho's first fragment. Against the standard editions, Scheid and Svenbro argue that poikilothronos should be understood as "dressed in a cloak with flowered designs" (from throna rather than thronos, as it is usually taken). They look at a string of -thronos compounds arguing in each case for a meaning to do with flowered dresses rather than thrones. This becomes rather strained. Thus when Hera retires to bed with Zeus at the end of Iliad 1, she is called chrusothronos: after noting that Hera's "epithet is ... more indicative of the goddess's status than of the presence of a throne in her bed" (an interpretation which I do not suppose has much worried commentators), they add "we have good reason to believe that the goddess's status is expressed by mention not of her throne but of her garment". It is hard to see any developed argument for such a belief. So, too, Dawn is said to be euthronos because she is krokopeplos. It could just as easily be asserted that the two adjectives express different aspects of the goddess's authority and attributes.
The third section is concerned with the aesthetics of weaving and how weaving becomes an expression of the creative act. Here there is a strong contrast between the Greek and Roman cases. For the authors are loathe to see a full-scale expression of composition in the language of weaving in Homer. The "weaving" of wiles that Odysseus famously practices, and the "weaving" of speeches that Menelaus and Odysseus are said to practice before the Trojans, are claimed here to refer to an interlacing of positions in the work of persuasion, and not to a speech or "text" in itself. Thus, Scheid and Svenbro argue against seeing Helen's weaving of the story of Troy as an image for the poet's composition as Lynn-George and Frontisi-Ducroux have developed. The lyric poets, however, do utilize the notion of the "web" of song, and this leads finally to full expression in Latin with the vocabulary of "textus" and "texere" where composition is inherently and "naturally" (by which one means in a culturally significant sense) "weaving". Indeed, they conclude the book by asserting that the prevalence of the language of "texere" is because of "the presence of the letter x in the middle of the word ... The truth is that no letter more precisely suggests the myth of weaving better than the x, the crossing of opposing threads. In other words, we are suggesting that the fascination right up to the modern period with the word textus, in its various forms, can be attributed to its ideogrammatic nature". They add: "Are we serious in asserting this? Absolutely." (Tennis fans might be tempted to reply with the immortal words of John McEnroe: You can NOT be serious".)
The book's special qualities are completely interwoven with its faults. The questioning of the boundaries of what constitutes a myth, and the development, via Barthes' sense of myth, of a nuanced sense of how the ideological formulation of a sense of "weaving" functions across classical discourse, seems to me to be an interesting and important step. But at the same time, the desire to see "myth" as a shared and "common" cultural resource means that the particularities of its use are often underplayed. Surely it is central to the use of weaving in the Lysistrata that its political sense is expressed by the representation of women trying to take over the political life of the polis -- yet the comedy of reversal is quite ignored, as is the context of performance. There remains an unresolved tension in the book between the claim for a general sense for weaving on the one hand and, on the other, its specific use in specific texts -- which the briefness of their readings of ancient works compounds. The relationship between the common resource and the manipulation of textual citation needs more careful articulation if the claims for "generative" myth are to be adequately explored. Secondly, the willingness to see weaving as involved with politics, erotics, and aesthetics, and to see these areas as interconnected at an ideological and normative level shows an acute sense of the interrelations of areas of culture all too often left separate by scholars. But at the same time, the authors surprisingly give very little time to the sense of trickery with which weaving becomes associated -- and which comes to engage self-reflexively with the very normativity of the message of weaving. From Calypso, Circe and Penelope in the Odyssey, through the robes in which Agamemnon and Heracles die, to the weaving of plots in male spheres of activity, "the web" develops a negative sense of deception and subtlety that constantly threatens to undermine its normative and positive value. Aphrodite's nets are there to trap you, not just to symbolize marriage. The pursuit of the normative range of weaving has led the authors to underestimate the association of the warp and web, from the earliest, with the untrustworthy. (A good example might be, say, Xenophon Memorabilia 3.11, where the body of a dangerously attractive courtesan is described by Socrates as a "closely woven net".) Thirdly, the essayistic nature of the account offered makes for attractive and easy reading, and is well-suited to the suggestive style adopted. The downside, inevitably, is not just a certain restriction of scope, but also a sense of arbitrariness: while there is little doubt that Vergil is a central author, that his brief description of the Troiae Lusus forms the centre piece on the chapter on weaving as a political image in Rome leaves too many questions unanswered. So too there is a certain restriction of engagement with the secondary sources.
In sum, the somewhat surprising coupling of the vast solidity of Scheid's work on the Arval Brethren with the more mercurial leptotes of Svenbro produces a stimulating brief set of interconnected essays, whose general frame encourages a deeper awareness of the normative depth of every use of the vocabulary, imagery or tales of weaving and fabrics. E.J.W. Barber's monumental Prehistoric Weaving. which changed for me at least the understanding of the technical and social aspects of weaving, is usefully supplemented here by a work which takes the meaning of weaving seriously across a range of times and institutions (although it avoids all jokes about the world-wide web ...). It has several gaps in the fabric and some wild flights of fancy, but, as Vivienne Westwood would say, that's how sexy and fashionable things should be designed.


SAN BRUNO, Calif. - The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) announced its list of 2015 NWSL Awards finalist for the Most Valuable Player, Defender of the Year presented by Coppertone® from Bayer HealthCare, Goalkeeper of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year and Best XI.
In the Final Round, owners, general managers, coaches, players, media and fans will vote from now to Sept. 11 at 5 p.m. ET to determine the individual award winners and Best XI.
Two West Coast Conference soccer alumni are listed among candidates for major awards. Current Chicago Red Stars and former Santa Clara teammates Sofia Huerta and 2016 FIFA Women’s World Cup star Julie Johnston are finalists for Rookie and Defender of the Year respectively. Johnston captured Rookie of the Year honors last season. Both Huerta and Johnston captured WCC Player of the Year honors.
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Sofia Huerta – Chicago Red Stars (From NWSL)
The Santa Clara product had a strong start to her rookie season with the Chicago Red Stars. Huerta started her scoring streak against Boston in early May with two goals and an assist; this also marked the first goal of her professional career. From there the rookie went on to score four more goals over the next five games and assist on two others to finish the season with six goals and three assists. The forward was the first player in NWSL history to earn Player of the Week in two consecutive weeks in May. She subsequently won Player of the Month for May. When she wasn’t scoring, Huerta’s well-timed runs and speed made her a dangerous attacker that challenged defenders league-wide throughout the entire season.
DEFENDER OF THE YEAR
Julie Johnston – Chicago Red Stars (From NWSL)
The 2014 NWSL Rookie of the year continued to build on her achievement and dominance on the field this season. Only appearing in 11 games for the Chicago Red Stars due to her success at the Women’s World Cup, Johnston’s consistency and composure was critical for the Red Stars back line. Despite her height of 5’7”, the central defender is dominant in the air in protecting the Red Stars goal. Showing off her versatility as a player, Johnston has been a contributor to the Red Stars attack. She has provided two assists in her 11 games this season, but also been the catalyst for Chicago’s attack, finding critical passes forward to her teammates.


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The Doctors: How Fast Food Affects Your Liver
Dr. Karent Sierra is a cosmetic dentist and star of The Real Housewives of Miami on Bravo. Dr Sierra joined The Doctors for a very important show that detailed some pretty shocking hidden fast food dangers.
Like Dr. Sierra, is fast food “a guilty pleasure” for you, or is it a more substantial part of your diet? If you answered the latter, then you’ll want to pay close attention. Dr. Travis Stork discussed a study that showed how damaging fast food can be to your liver. Over the course of four weeks with two fast food meals per day, the fatty deposit buildup on the liver was staggering. “That’s why fast food addiction is the cause of long term problems,” Dr Travis said.
If possible, Dr. Lisa Masterson’s find could be even worse. It’s been proven that fast food customers will ingest 12 hairs – from places other than your head – each year.
The Drs: How Soda Affects Teeth
Dr Sierra then explained how soda affects teeth. The popular fast food beverage contains high amounts of phosphoric acid, which dissolves calcium in the enamel and causes tooth decay. Like Dr Travis, Dr Sierra suggested sipping on water throughout the day instead.
The Doctors: Sugar and Anti-Freeze Ingredient In Fast Food
And the hits just keep on coming! Dr. Jim Sears revealed that fast food salads – which are mistakenly thought of as a healthier fast food choice – actually contain an ingredient that’s also found in Anti-Freeze. While Anti-Freeze is completely toxic, this ingredient has been classified as “generally” safe, which doesn’t sound so convincing if you ask me.
Plus, there could be high amounts of sugar in those delicious, golden brown french fries. In addition to salt and fat, many french fries are fried with sugar to make them crispy and golden in color.
Dr Travis: Fast Food Increases Risk Of Asthma In Children
Dr Travis also shared a study that proved 13-14-year-olds were 40% more likely, while and 6-7-year-olds were 20% more likely likely to suffer from asthma if they ate fast food regularly. When a child is obese, he is twice as likely to suffer from asthma. If these reasons aren’t enough to make you skip the drive-thru dinner, I don’t know what will.


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|Fuel tank capacity||14.5 litres (3.8 US gal.; 3.2 Imp. gal)|
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|Engine type||Four-stroke, air-cooled, inline|
|Displacement||0.8 L, 816 cm2, (49.8 cu·in)|
|Bore and stroke||83.0 mm X 76.0 mm (3.27 in X 2.99 in)|
|Horsepower||19.7 PS (14.5 kW; 19.5 HP) at 3,600 rpm|
|Oil capacity:||3.3 L (3.5 US. qt, 2.9 Imp. qt.)|
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|Front tires||Ag: 4.00×12
|Rear tires||Ag: 8×16
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It’s not easy to disclose an eating disorder, much less discuss in detail where you feel its origins are and how you coped with addressing it. Doing this as a public figure—and a political one at that—is even more difficult. As someone who researches eating disorders, I have to say, I was both proud of and moved by Christine Quinn’s recent interview in The New York Times in which she discussed her battle with and eventual overcoming of bulimia, and how it shaped who she is today.
For those who don’t know, Christine Quinn is the Speaker of the New York City Council. She is also the first openly gay person to hold this position, which has given her admittedly more popular attention than Speakers in the past have gotten, and has made her no stranger to unnecessary controversy.
Previously, she has also gotten the kind of attention that many powerful women in the media get — that is, negative in tone with the insinuation that she is pushy, too aggressive, and even vindictive. Let’s not even get into the fact that those words can define virtually anyone in politics.
But this profile of her was a bit more personal as it touched upon, for the first time, her attempts as a teenager to control an uncontrollable family situation—her mother’s illness and eventual premature death from cancer—by bingeing and purging.
I liked that she specifically addressed the issue of isolation and loneliness that went hand-in-hand with her bulimia—a couple of the reasons it can be so difficult for those struggling with eating disorders to reach out for help.
She also beautifully articulated her initial justifications for her developing bulimia (thinking that if she was the “perfect daughter” she could save her mother), as well as the feeling from purging that many bulimics underscore when overcoming their disorder: “For a brief moment, you’ve kind of expelled from your being the things that are making you feel bad,” she said.
Here’s why I think this matters: Quinn is right that eating disorders can be intensely lonely and isolating, and one of the big issues many survivors face is recognizing that others have felt this way and dealt with these issues in the past.
As a woman in a powerful, high-profile position, Quinn has given people who may be struggling with an eating disorder a picture of recovery that is very different than the narratives of more well-known celebrities who can be more difficult to relate to.
I also love that she states she doesn’t want to be seen as a victim and says one reason for wanting to talk about this openly and publicly is because, “I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through.”
Positively coming out the other side, while acknowledging the reality of struggle and pain, is the picture of reality for many survivors, one that I think is both inspiring and relatable.
Larkin Callaghan is an epidemiology and health communication fellow at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where she also received her doctorate in Health Behavior and Education. She blogs regularly at her own site, I’m Not Tired Yet, about women’s and adolescent health issues.

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Tokyo Electron Plugging $300M R&D Center into Albany, N.Y.by JACK LYNE, Site SelectionExecutive Editor of Interactive Publishing ALBANY, N.Y. As expected, Sematech is proving to be a potent semicolon not a period in the high-tech expansion that's unfolding in New York's Capital Region:
Tokyo Electron Limited (www.telusa.com), the world's second-largest maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, has announced that it will site a US$300-million R&D center in Albany, N.Y. - and in the same complex that Austin, Texas-based International Sematech selected last summer for its new $403-million R&D center. (See "Upstate New York Gets Nod for Sematech's $403M R&D Center," our Blockbuster Deal for the week of July 22.)
"Without Sematech, I don't know whether or not this would have happened," Gov. George Pataki (R) said in announcing the project in the rotunda of Albany State University of New York's (www.albany.edu) Center for Environmental Science and Technology Management. The announcement was delivered at the same site at which Sematech's northward expansion was unveiled five months earlier.
"Sematech had a huge impact on Tokyo Electron and other companies taking a very serious look at what we're doing here in upstate," Pataki said of the anticipated spin-off tsunami.
Tokyo Electron, a Sematech supplier, will hire 300 highly paid employees for its Albany operation; workers' annual salaries will average around $100,000, Tokyo Electron officials said.
The Albany facility is the first R&D center that Tokyo Electron has located outside of Japan. Japanese sites were considered for the expansion, Tokyo Electron officials said. But Albany's final short-list competitors had narrowed down to two U.S. locations: Austin - also home to Tokyo Electron's North American headquarters - and an undisclosed location in California's Silicon Valley.
The Albany site's selection could also have further location ramifications: The R&D project could possibly prompt Tokyo Electron to position some of its manufacturing plants in the Capital Region, state officials said.
Site Cuts Costs, Product Development TimeThe Tokyo Electron project's announcement appropriately coincided with the groundbreaking for a $200-million, 220,000-sq.-ft. (20,438-sq.-m.) facility at the Albany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (www.albanynanotech.org). The new building will house a 300-mm.-wafer R&D, incubator and work-force training center - the only 300-mm. (12-inch) operation currently located on a university campus.
That groundbreaking underscored another major location factor for Tokyo Electron, whose products are used in many chip-making processes, including circuit etching and wafer cleaning. Locating in the Albany Nanoelectronics Center will accelerate its development of products for next-generation wafer fabrication.
"By participating in this center, we will significantly enhance our internal development efforts, ultimately allowing us to shorten the time required to bring critical technology from the research lab to the production floor," Tokyo Electron President and Chief Executive Tetsuro Higashi said in Albany. "I was extremely impressed with the potential of this facility."
Cost efficiencies were also part of the Nanoelectronics Center's appeal. When the center's 300-mm. facility is completed (adjoining an existing 200-mm. facility), it will house a fully integrated line for next-generation chip fabrication - including two 300-mm. clean rooms. That, in turn, will allow Tokyo Electron to cost-effectively road test its product prototypes in a state-of-the-art environment.
Project Getting $200 Million in AssistanceThe Albany location also means considerable financial assistance for Tokyo Electron. The company is committed to only $100 million of the estimated $300 million in total capital expenditures involved in setting up its Albany R&D center.
The state has committed to provide $100 million for Tokyo Electron's project. That $100 million will be invested primarily in capital construction, equipment and specialized research tools, state officials said. New York provided $210 million in state assistance for the Sematech project.
Another $100 million for Tokyo Electron's project will come from undisclosed partners with the Albany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics, according to university officials. More than 100 corporations are currently partnering with the Nanoelectronics Center in chip design, including advanced device fabricators, primary equipment suppliers, component suppliers, and material or chemical suppliers.
Landing the Tokyo Electron's first non-Japanese R&D center may be even more significant for the area than Sematech, some observers contended.
"Believe me, this will send global ripples throughout the semiconductor world and the high-tech world," Pataki said. "This is a huge step toward making Albany and upstate New York truly the high-tech center of the 21st century."
The sizable project is also a huge step for Tokyo Electron, given the chip industry's sharp slump. The company, though, sees the downturn as an ideal investment window. The Albany project, Higashi said, will solidly position Tokyo Electron to snare market share when the semiconductor industry rebounds.
Manufacturing to Follow?The project could also position the Capital Region for further high-tech growth - at least if Tokyo Electron decides to locate some of its manufacturing operations in the area.
"We are actively working on the next phase, which is to bring manufacturing jobs to upstate New York as well," Pataki said.
The state has reportedly offered the company a $50-million incentive package if Tokyo Electron moves all of its U.S. manufacturing operations to Albany. The company's current U.S. plants are located in Austin; Beverly, Mass.; and Gilbert, Ariz.
"As a rule, the manufacturing facilities are located within a reasonable proximity of the R&D facilities," Pataki noted.
State officials, however, declined to comment on the incentive offer, preferring instead to bask in the area's latest high-tech coup.
"I had no doubt that when we announced Sematech, there'd be days like this," said Pataki. "There will be more."
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- (1930- )painter and sculptorRecognized for her brightly colored and fanciful sculptures, as well as for her performance art, Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint-Phalle, or Niki de Saint-Phalle, as she is known, was born in Paris. She staged her first performance art in 1961 with "tableaux surprises," in which participants were invited to shoot mixed-media constructions at her, releasing bursts of color in expressionist patterns. In 1963, she was invited to join the group of Nouveaux Reâlistes artists (yves klein, Christo, and others), and, in 1964, she sculpted the first of her Nanas, large female figures—the largest being the Hon figure (1966) and, after 1969, her "maisons-sculptures" and the "sculptures-jeux" (Golem, for Rabinovitch Park in Jerusalem, 1972; Nana-piscine, in Saint-Tropez, 1973). Niki de Saint-Phalle created a fantasy garden in Tuscany (Giardino dei Tarrochi, 1980), then in 1983, in collaboration with her husband, Jean Tinguey, the Fontaine Stravinsky near the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Her works are often considered as feminist statements against what was once the male-dominated art movement.
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Only one match today, but it is an important one: Portugal vs. Czech Republic in the first quarter-final game. Portugal survived the toughest Group in the first stage, losing to Germany but then beating Denmark and the Netherlands to advance. Cristiano Ronaldo looked a little off-kilter for the first two matches, but then scored twice in the third and really shredded the Dutch defense. But the whole Portugal offense was dangerous - they looked good from set pieces and kept the pressure up for most of the game in 2 of their 3 matches.
Portugal's defense can be beaten, though. They allowed 4 goals in 3 games and left some space open in the "between the back line and the midfield" area. If the Czechs can win a few loose balls and control the middle of the field, they will definitely be able to create chances.
Czech Republic got somewhat lucky in winning Group A, as they looked awful in the first match. The only time in the tournament they looked really dangerous was in the first 30 minutes of the Greece match; and even in that match, they had to hang on by their fingernails for a 2-1 win. But, with Petr Cech, Tomas Rosicky, Michal Kadlec, and Vaclav Pilar, they have enough talent to win a match like this. I imagine Czech Republic would be happy to go into the half with a 0-0 scoreline, and then look to grab one in the 2nd. If Portugal gets an early goal and the Czechs have to push forward, it could be over after 45 minutes.
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We have been listening to rumors concerning the Samsung Galaxy Alpha for some time now, and in response to a current report, the handset might be launching subsequent week.
Samsung will apparently make the brand new Samsung Galaxy Alpha official on the 4th of August, the system is rumored to return with a metallic body, like we just lately noticed in some leaked pictures.
So far we’ve heard that the brand new Galaxy Alpha will function a A.H inch show that may have a HD decision of 1280 x 720 pixels, the handset is claimed to be powered by a quad core processor, probably a Snapdragon 800 processor.
Other rumored specification on the Galaxy Alpha will embrace 2GB of RAM and 32GB of inbuilt storage, sadly this cannot be expanded as there shall be no microSD card slot.
It seems to be like Samsung will launch a few variations of the handset as we’ve got seen photographs of various backs of the handset, one with an LTE-A emblem, which can in all probability launch in South Korea.
As quickly as we get some extra particulars on the brand new Samsung Galaxy Alpha, embrace full specs on the handset, and a few respectable pictures of the system, we’ll allow you to guys know.


This week Disappeared examines the case of Zoe Campos, who seemingly vanished one winter evening.
Lubbock, Texas, on November 17, 2013 and a 2 am message was the last that anyone heard from the 18-year-old.
Campos had sent the text to her mom advising her that she was on the way to pick her up from work, but she never appeared.
The next day the family reported Campos missing and on November 21 a member of her family spotted her car being driven by someone else. They tailed them to an apartment block where the hoodie wearing driver fled the scene on foot.
Detectives are pretty sure that Campos did not disappear voluntarily as it is unusual to leave everything behind. They suspect she was either taken against her will or that she has been murdered. They did initially get a lead through her Facebook account, where they found she had been arranging to meet a guy the night she went missing.
Since her disappearance there has been activity either on Campos’s phone or her Facebook account. Police have had lots of tips but nothing that has led to anything concrete. They also say people are often leaving information on Facebook and this leads to it reaching them indirectly, often becoming muddled.
Police are still looking for and they encourage anyone with information to contact them directly or text to 274637, there is a $1,000 reward for information that leads to locating Zoe Campos.Watch the Latest on our YouTube Channel
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Death on the Nile movie review - Aussieboyreviews
IS DEATH ON THE NILE AN ENTERTAINING WHODUNNIT SEQUEL?
With a new cast, a cruise setting and an entertaining whodunnit lead by Hercule Poirot, this sequel beats its predecessor. Similar to the first film, Death on the Nile’s mystery is very effective and unique.
When the infamous detective Hercule Poirot enjoys a cruise on the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found dead. But will he be able to identify the culprit before they reach port?
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Simon MacCorkindale, Bette Davis, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, Angela Lansbury
Writer: Anthony Shaffer
Release Date (Australia): 25 October 2017
Runtime: 140 minutes/2h 20m
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Language: English, French
CONTENT GUIDE (warning: May contain spoilers)
The film contains thematic elements relating to murder, as well as depictions of multiple murders and a suicide.
The film contains a throat slitting and multiple depictions of shooting murders that are often accompanied by blood detail and bloody pooling.
The film contains infrequent coarse language, including a single use of the word “bitch” and uses of “damn” and “hell”.
A group of young boys’ buttocks are briefly viewed as they pull their pants down and flash a woman.
There are mild verbal sex references throughout the film.
PG (for an unknown reasoning)
Aussie boy's thoughts
This 70s adapted sequel of Agatha Christie’s whodunnit book takes a solid amount of time to forward into the actual murders and mysteries, but it’s always entertaining and on the edge of the seat. Again and obviously, the author deserves all the credit for the concept and unexpected twists she designed with inventive thought in her writing. Many say the book is usually better than the motion picture.
Death on the Nile follows the same famous detective, Hercule Poirot, but staged by a new actor and stranded on a boat out on the water. This time, he deals with a series of murders and tries to match the possibilities with the culprits of the crime. Peter Ustinov’s execution of this character is honestly kind of bland to begin with, but he is just exquisite during his detective-mode scenes. He’s a nearly perfect Hercule Poirot.
This film is also extremely entertaining. Especially considering the very long runtime, there’s never any slow sequences or sections that feel unnecessary, maybe other than some prolonged shots. Anthony Shaffer’s screenwriting features some truly epic dialogue. The shocking moments are done very well and fairly violently, too.
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38Palestine0000 38Brunei Darussalam0000 38Guinea0000 23Guinea-Bissau1012 23Mozambique1012 6Algeria7121837 35Malaysia0011 7Morocco751426 26Pakistan0257 38Sierra Leone0000 8Indonesia6292055 29United Arab Emirates0134 14Iraq24410 12Jordan311115 11Kyrgyzstan34714 3Iran23253280 23Benin1012 1Azerbaijan653928132 38Niger0000 16Syrian Arab Republic22610 2Turkey645747168 18Tunisia12811 30Guyana0123 13Turkmenistan24612 21Gambia1102 38Yemen0000 20Senegal1113 Nakaayi gives chase in the final 100m. She settled for a silver behind Morocco’s Malika Akkaoui (R) at the Baku 2017 4th Islamic Solidarity Games at the Olympic Stadium in Baku on May 17, 2017.Uganda’s Nakaayi wins 800m silver medal, Jebet wins gold in SteeplechaseBaku, Azerbaijan | AFP-Services (text stories) | Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi has won a silver medal in the women’s 800-metre final on the second day of athletics at the fourth Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku.The 22-year-old Ugandan Olympian, was beaten by Morocco’s Malika Akkaoui. Akkaoui outlasted Nakaayi by just over half a second to win in 2 minutes 01.04 seconds as Morocco secured their second athletics gold of the Games on Wednesday. (see video and table standings below)Nakaayi’s silver is only Uganda’s second medal at an Islamic Solidarity Games, while Noelie Yarigo picked up bronze for Benin, their first-ever medal in these Games. Uganda’s only other medal came at the inaugural Islamic Games in 2005.Nakaayi and Shida were expected back on track Thursday for the 400m heats, while Salim Mayanja will run the 800 and 1500m Thursday, Friday and Saturday.The Islamic Solidarity Games comprise 10 days of sporting competition by athletes from over 50 ISSF nations, in 21 sports with 270 medal events.Uganda is represented at the games by an athletics, swimming, tennis , weightlifting team and the sport of Zurkhaneh. Zurkhaneh ritual is a traditional heroic sport that has its roots in Iran. It combines martial arts, calisthenics, strength training and music. 35Lebanon0011 35Afghanistan0011 15Kazakhstan23914 RankCountry 28Nigeria0213 38Somalia0000 32Djibouti0112 33Uganda0101 34Côte d’Ivoire0044 4Uzbekistan15153060 30Suriname0123 38Tajikistan0000 38Albania0000 Uganda fielded two in tennis, Duncan Mugabe and Oringa in the singles and doubles. The were knocked out of the doubles contest but Mugabe won his singles opening game, beating Pakistan’s Khan 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(4).There are three athletes; Nakaayi was scheduled to run the 400m and 800m, Leni Shida the women’s 200m and 400m, and Salim Mayanja the men’s 800m and 1500.There were also three weightlifters, Hakim Ssempereza and Semei Kasumba in the 69kg division, then Kalidi Batuusain the 94 kg. Ssempereza and Kasumba were 12th and 13th overall out of 14 weightlifters. while Batuusain came 13th out of 13.In swimming, Uganda fielded Daisuke Ssegwanyi and Avice Michal Kakayi while Zurkhaneh has six, Robert Kizito, Okrah Stephen Kurikayo, Michael Kushemererwe, Kizza Lubega, MUGWISA Jonathan Mugwisa and Ivan Ssenyondo.Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi (L), Morocco’s Malika Akkaoui (C) and Benin’s Noelie Yarigo (R) pose on the podium of the Women’s 800m of the Athletics events at the Baku 2017 4th Islamic Solidarity Games at the Olympic Stadium in Baku on May 17, 2017. AFP PHOTO Countries with medals out of 56 nations competing 16Qatar22610 38Chad0000 38Burkina Faso0000 38Gabon0000 27Oman0235 38Maldives0000 38Mali0000 10Saudi Arabia41611 5Bahrain115420 38Comoros0000 19Cameroon1258 9Egypt64717 21Bangladesh1102 38Togo0000 38Mauritania0000 Share on: WhatsApp Pages: 1 2
The Colonels (14-9, 8-2 SLC) sit in the driver’s seat and control their own destiny in chasing a Southland Conference championship with no other two-loss teams remaining. Nicholls battles Abilene Christian (14-10, 6-5 SLC) tonight at 7 p.m. CT on the road before Houston Baptist visits Thibodeaux, La., on Saturday at 3 p.m. FRISCO, Texas – Nicholls enters week seven of Southland Conference men’s basketball play in sole possession of first place, coming off an 81-64 win over New Orleans on Saturday. New Orleans (12-11, 9-3 SLC), Sam Houston State (14-10, 8-3 SLC), Southeastern Louisiana (14-10, 8-3 SLC) and Stephen F. Austin (18-5, 7-3 SLC) are within reach of the Colonels. Additional Storylines: The Privateers’ lone game of the week is at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (8-12, 5-5 SLC) on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Bearkats get a chance at stopping the hottest team in the league, the Islanders, hosting them tonight at 6:30 p.m. Corpus Christi is currently on a four-game win streak after starting the league season 1-5. Sam Houston also competes at home Saturday against Lamar (14-10, 6-5 SLC) at 6:15 p.m. All three games will be available on ESPN3. The Lions hit the road with games against UIW tonight at 7 p.m. and McNeese on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The Lumberjacks, who fell in Beaumont 76-54 on Saturday, contest the Cowboys in Lake Charles, La., on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. and return home to take on Northwestern State (3-19, 0-11 SLC) on Saturday at 6 p.m. • Standing Alone: Nicholls reclaimed the top spot in conference on Saturday with an 81-64 victory at home over defending conference champion New Orleans (12-11, 9-3 Southland). The Colonels are now the only two-loss conference team.• I’ll Take That: Stephen F. Austin, Nicholls and Lamar rank in the top eight nationally for three key defensive categories: Steals per game, total steals and turnovers forced. The Lumberjacks are second in steals per game and total steals and first in turnovers forced. The Colonels are fourth, sixth and seventh for the same three categories, respectively. The Cardinals are seventh in steals per game and total steals and eighth in turnovers forced.• Island of Their Own: After beginning Southland play 1-5, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi has strung together four consecutive wins to move to .500 in league action. The Islanders visit Sam Houston State on Wednesday, who they lost to earlier this season, 82-50.• Oh Home, Let Me Come Home: SFA is one of 27 teams that are undefeated at home this season. The Lumberjacks are 12-0 at Johnson Coliseum this season and hold a tie for the 11th best home win streak nationally (14 games).• Bear With Me: Central Arkansas senior guard Jordan Howard ranks third in the nation for points per game (25.5 ppg). Teammate Hayden Koval is 10th in NCAA Division I for blocked shots per game (2.87).
Atlético de Madrid has announced the return of Yannick Carrasco, who will play on loan until the end of the season after passing through the Dalian Yifang of the Chinese Super League. The Belgian, who left in 2018, returns to the rojiblanca discipline to help give air to a squad very depleted by injuries. The Belgian arrives on loan from Dalian Yifang after leaving in 2018 The end, skilled, with a good shot and with the ability to play with both legs, arrived at Atlético de Madrid in the summer of 2015. The Belgian played 124 games with the red and white elastic, with which he scored a total of 23 goals. After leaving in the Chinese winter market of the 17/18 course with Nico Gaitán, Carrasco left for a Dalian Yifang in which he has been a key player, scoring 24 goals in the 54 games he has played.
The gala will include the club’s skaters from Precanskate to senior groups performing their individual solos and group numbers.Also from 4-5 p.m. St. Nick himself will take to the ice, allowing those in attendance the opportunity to skate with him.The event will also be selling hot chocolate and popcorn to help raise money for the club, and admission into the event is by donation.- Advertisement –
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0Shares0000Marcos Rojo celebrated his late winner with Lionel Messi on his back but the striker had carried his team for most of the game. Photo/REUTERSSAINT PETERSBURG, Russia, June 26 – Marcus Rojo’s stunning finish four minutes from time kept Lionel Messi and Argentina’s World Cup hopes alive to see off Nigeria 2-1 on Tuesday and set up a last 16 meeting with France.Messi’s first goal of the tournament got the two-time winners off to a perfect start in Saint Petersburg, but Victor Moses’s 51st minute penalty had Jorge Sampaoli’s men headed for a humiliating group stage exit until Rojo’s late intervention. The Manchester United defender, who had escaped conceding a second Nigerian penalty moments earlier after a controversial VAR review, thundered home Gabriel Mercado’s cross to send the under-fire Sampaoli running down the sidelines amid wild scenes of celebration.Messi missed a penalty in a 1-1 draw with Iceland and was largely bypassed in a 3-0 thrashing by Croatia that saw calls for Sampaoli to be sacked before their final group game.However, Argentina avoided the abyss by the skin of their teeth to fight another day against the highly-fancied French in Kazan on Saturday.Sampaoli made five changes from the Croatia game, with veterans of the Albiceleste’s run to the final four years ago Gonzalo Higuain and Angel di Maria returning, but it was the recall of Ever Banega in midfield that provided the launchpad for Messi.The Sevilla playmaker was restored to bring some order to an Argentine midfield overrun by Croatia’s Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric and proved his worth inside 15 minutes.Banega’s brilliant pass over the top of the Nigerian defence picked out Messi’s run perfectly and, after cushioning the ball on his thigh, the five-time world player of the year erased the frustrations of his World Cup so far with an arrowed right-foot finish into the far corner.Modric claimed Croatia “cut off Messi” in Nizhny Novgorod five nights ago, but he was back to close to his Barcelona best at the heart of all Argentina’s best moves in a positive first 45 minutes.Relief: Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the 2018 World Cup to give Argentina the lead against Nigeria© AFP Kirill KUDRYAVTSEVHiguain just couldn’t flick the ball beyond the onrushing Francis Uzoho from a defence splitting pass before Uzoho then tipped a Messi free-kick onto the post.Argentina escaped just before the break when no penalty was given for Rojo’s high challenge on Kelechi Iheanacho.Nigeria felt that injustice was rectified just five minutes after the break, though, when this time Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir did point to the spot when Javier Mascherano tangled with Oghenekaro Etebo at a corner.Moses confidently stepped up to send Franco Armani the wrong way on his international debut and Argentina back to square one.Messi produced a magical performance in Argentina’s final qualifier with a hat-trick in Ecuador just to get his country to Russia.But he couldn’t recreate those heroics as Nigerian defenders swarmed around him everytime he was hopefully shovelled the ball by Argentine team-mates.There was further VAR controversy when Nigeria were denied a second penalty when Rojo headed onto his own arm before substitute Odion Ighalo fired wide.Ighalo missed another glorious chance when he shot too close to Armani and Nigeria were made to pay for their profligacy from the most unlikely source.Sergio Aguero had been thrown on from the bench to join Messi and Higuain in attack, but it was Rojo who produced a striker’s finish on his weaker right foot to spark delirious scenes of celebration among the tens of thousands of Argentines in the stands.Chief among them was legendary 1986 World Cup winning captain Diego Maradona who reacted by raising the middle finger of both hands in just his latest controversial moment as a spectator in Russia.0Shares0000(Visited 2 times, 1 visits today)
JOB VACANCIES: One of Donegal’s most popular service stations are on the lookout for new staff to join their innovative, dynamic and hardworking team. Tobin’s Service Station, has won multiple awards nationally for their outstanding business – which excels in providing top-class customer service and fantastic food.Cashier/ Shop AssistantDuties will include receiving payments from customers and forecourt staff. Flexibility is essential as working hours will include evenings and weekends ( approx 32 hours per week). You will also be required to stock shelves and maintain a clean and tidy environment in the store.Previous retail customer service experience is desirable. Deli Assistant Previous experience in food service is desirable. Approx 32 hours per week. Deli opening hours are Mon-Sat 7am – 4.30pm Closed Bank HolidaysApplicants must be reliable with a mature attitude and demonstrate: A passion for the delivery of excellent customer serviceEnjoy working as part of a high performance teamAn ability to learn quicklyAn ability to work under pressure in a fast moving environmentA flexible attitude to working hours.Applicants MUST be over 18 years of age. Applications will be treated in the strictest of confidence.Please forward an up to date CV and cover letter stating which position you are applying for to:Manager, Tobin’s Service Station, Port Road, LetterkennyOr email firstname.lastname@example.orgClosing date for applications is 5.30pm Friday 11th Aug 2017 Job Vacancies: Tobin’s Service Station seek shop assistant & deli assistant was last modified: August 3rd, 2017 by Chris McNultyShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:jobsTobin’s Service Station
5 March 2008South African state company Eskom has signed an agreement with French development agency Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) for a €100-million loan over 20 years to help finance a new wind farm project.“The 100-megawatt wind farm will be built on the West Coast near the town of Koekenaap, east of Vredendal in the Western Cape and will be operational in early 2010,” the electricity company said in a statement this week.The two companies concluded the deal last week during an official visit to South Africa by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.French companies have taken a keen interest in South Africa’s plans to upgrade its electricity infrastructure, with Alstom recently being awarded a €1.3-billion contract to supply turbines and related infrastructure for a new coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga province, and Areva bidding to build the country’s next generation of nuclear power stations.The state-owned utility spent time evaluating various wind technologies available, as well as issues such as storage systems, costs and performance data at its wind energy demonstration facility near Klipheuwel outside Cape Town.“This project is a first step in applying the information gained from this pilot facility, and forms part of Eskom’s overall renewable energy strategy,” Eskom said.“The signing of the financing framework will initiate what Eskom believes will be a long term partnership between Eskom and the AFD that will support Eskom’s broad climate change strategy and capacity expansion programme.”Darling Wind FarmThe Koekenaap facility will be South Africa’s second commercial wind farm. The first one is busy being established near Darling, a small town north-west of Cape Town.The Darling project is a public-private partnership between the Central Energy Fund, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Darling Independent Power Producing Company and the South African and Danish Governments.The farm will use four 1.3-megawatt wind turbines to generate an expected annual 13.2-gigawatt hours of “green electricity”.This will be injected into Eskom’s national grid, transferred to Cape Town’s electricity network and sold onward to buyers prepared to pay a surcharge of around 25c per killowatt-hour for electricity generated through renewable sources.The City of Cape Town agreed in August 2006 to be the first such buyer/supplier, and will purchase electricity from Darling Wind Farm over a period of 20 years.SAinfo reporter Want to use this article in your publication or on your website?See: Using SAinfo material
Tags:#social networks#web Those are some of our favorite lists. Have you spotted (or built) any red-hot lists we should be sure to know about as well? Let us know in comments. Listorious is a directory of lists, but isn’t it more fun to see lists of lists from people you know and trust? Both have their place – hopefully this is just the beginning of a new period of Twitter fun. Related Posts Facebook is Becoming Less Personal and More Pro… Twitter Lists have rolled out to a majority of users on the site now and the uptake has been remarkable. Things will get truly interesting when lists can by turned into columns in 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic (one small client says it’s shipped list support already and Tweetdeck says it’s coming soon), when you can share items with particular lists exclusively (like you can on Facebook) and when you can search inside particular lists. Anyone who’s worked with OPML files before is likely to find Twitter lists frustrating so far.Let’s operate under the assumption that Twitter’s own implementation of lists will be overshadowed by more useful implementations of the lists API. In order to help you get ready for that future, here are ten lists we think particularly worth following.Twitter Lists are exciting because curation of dynamic sources is exciting. This is a particularly accessible way to do what syndication geeks have been thrilled by for years.Here are some of our favorite curated lists we’ve found so far. We offer some description of these lists based on what we know about their creators and the short titles the lists have been given. The fact that Twitter doesn’t offer a field to describe lists makes me wonder who they talked to when building the feature. (Turns out this is coming next week.) A lot of things make me wonder that, in fact. We’ve said before that groups are the secret weapon of the social web and we’re excited to see this feature go live. Hopefully it will become more awesome with time.Here are 10 cool lists we suggest you follow. We found most of these lists by thinking of awesome people on Twitter, then seeing what lists they are on. Patrick LaForge’s “Linkers” LaForge is an Editor at the New York Times and finds great links to share all the time. These are some of the people he finds them from. Josh Elman’s Awesome SocialJosh Elman recently jumped ship from working at Facebook to working at Twitter. Silicon Valley super-geeks took notice, because Elman is a smart and connected guy. Here’s a nice big list of people he created that you should know if you’re interested in the social web.Robert Scoble’s FoundersYou want to see curation taken seriously? Watch Robert Scoble, any day of the week. Scoble has built out more great lists than you can shake a stick at and this one is a favorite of ours. It’s a list of company founders on Twitter. Strange beasts, these are, but good to pay attention to.Rebecca Leaman’s Nonprofit GeeksRebecca Leaman works at WildApricot and she’s created a great list of geeks focused on social good, nonprofit tech folks. These people should be on your radar.Chris Grayson’s Augmented Reality PeepsWe like Augmented Reality and so does Chris Grayson, a New York City mobile marketing consultant. He’s put together a nice long list of people working in AR. If you get to know these people now, you’ll probably be glad you did later.Mike Taylor’s XMPP ListMike Taylor, also known as Bear, does XMPP work at Seesmic. His XMPP list is a nice collection of real-time web developers, without bandwagon-jumping marketing types. Looking for early hints about where the real-time web is going? This list is one place we’re watching.Raven Zachary’s iPhone ListRaven Zachary is the founder of Small Society, an absurdly hot iPhone dev shop in Portland, Oregon. Raven is curating a giant list of all the people working on the iPhone that he can find. We’d love to see his list of just must-read iPhone folks, but this list is pretty cool too.Christina Braden’s Disability ListChristina Braden goes by the handle @advocate4all and her bio reads: “There will never be justice in the world until those who are not harmed are as indignant as those who are.” Hell, yeah. If you want to read biting, insightful critiques of social injustices, a list of disability rights activists is a great place to find them.Ben Turner’s Anthropology ListBen Turner is a renaissance man with a pretentious Twitter handle (@xeus) but his Anthropology list is an awesome collection of people studying digital culture.The ReadWriteWeb Team ListCharming, intelligent, attractive and humble – the ReadWriteWeb team is a great source of news and analysis about bleeding edge trends and developments online. We’d love it if you’d follow us on Twitter and engage with us in conversation. A Comprehensive Guide to a Content Audit marshall kirkpatrick The Dos and Don’ts of Brand Awareness Videos Guide to Performing Bulk Email Verification
Not yet a member of GBA Pro? Sign up now!To enjoy all of the benefits of GBA Pro membership, subscribe to GBA Pro today. More information on the scheduled sessionsWednesday December 5 is “Spray Foam Day” with Joseph Lstiburek. Dr. Lstiburek will present a full-day session on spray foam issues and solutions using information based on field experience and laboratory research. Throughout the day, Joe will call in other industry experts for special cameo appearances and invite other BSC researchers to report on recent work.Thursday December 6 will feature John Straube, who will cover “HVAC for Low-Load Buildings.” Dr. Straube will define low-load and ultra-low-load buildings, and will discuss the enclosures that are needed to get there. Next, the implications of these low load enclosures on heating, ventilation, hot water, and other building systems will be explored. Fossil-fueled, electric, solar and biomass will all be addressed. This session is intended for designers and builders of ultra efficient residential (i.e., Passive House, DOE Challenge Home, and similar) and smaller commercial buildings. A summary of the December 5 sessionTo read a summary of the December 5 presentations, see Allison Bailes’ latest blog: Highlights from Joe Lstiburek’s 2012 Experts’ Session on Spray Foam. GBA has made arrangements to provide live video streaming of an educational seminar by two renowned building science experts, Joseph Lstiburek and John Straube. Dubbed the Building Science Experts’ Session, the seminar is being held on Wednesday December 5 and Thursday December 6, 2012, in Westford, Massachusetts. Sessions begin each morning at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.The video stream will be available at no charge to all GBA Pro members. A link to the live video stream will be added to this page on the morning of December 5, 2012.


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Acer has announced a smaller version of its creator-focused transforming ConceptD laptop following the launch of the ConceptD 9 last year. The new ConceptD 7 Ezel features a smaller 15.6-inch 4K display (down from 17.3 inches in the previous model), which can be rotated into five different configurations, including a floating mode that sees the display hover above the laptop’s keyboard. Alternatively, you can fold the touchscreen down, and sketch on it using the included Wacom EMR pen. Acer has also announced the ConceptD 700 desktop, which features powerful internals packed into a chassis with a minimalist design.
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APPROVAL ALERT AT PRESS TIME:
FiveThirtyEight Poll: 43.3% — same as last week
Rasmussen Poll: 49% — same as last week
Welcome to Trumplandia, a place where with a bit of wit and snark, we keep the world caught up on all of the tasty Nuggets-O-Trump you may have heard about but were too busy to care. Because most of this minutia occurs just below the massive headlines about the POTUS, it’s in a land of its own. Here, an infusion of social media, video clips and print media meld with our outdated political views to make more delicious “Fake News” about our Commander-in-Chief.
So just like the president, we start it all with a little tweet like this:
Roger and Me
The week of our Trump — Feb. 15, 2020: Our beloved democracy continued the traipse to autocracy this week when King Donald Dumbass not only falsely named himself the law of the land, but also appeared to put his tiny orange thumb on the scales of justice in the case of one of his political cronies.
In case you aren’t a political junkie, federal judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Trumpian bag man Roger Stone to 40 months in prison this week for lying to Congress and threatening a witness in relation to his ties to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Russian hacking and WikiLeaks.
Trump caused a stir last week when he — in an unprecedented move — criticized Stone’s recommended sentencing of 7 to 10 years. In a blatant abuse of power, Trump attempted to interfere with the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law. Trump said his old pal had been “treated very badly” by federal prosecutors, who backed the sentencing guidelines.
Shortly after his comments, U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a second memo from the Department of Justice that called the initial federal sentencing guidelines “excessive and unwarranted” and suggested Stone get less time in jail. Barr’s stance appeared in lockstep with our autocrat-in-chief despite denials of any discussion between him and the president.
The four prosecutors who brought the case against Stone withdrew from the case in protest of Barr’s stance. Identified as Aaron Zelinsky, Johnathan Kravis, Adam Jed and Mike Marando, the four were commended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- Ca.), but drubbed by the president and not supported by their boss, Barr.
Trump, for his part, denied pressuring Barr to issue his revised memo on Stone’s sentencing, but after being categorized by his spokesperson as having the legal authority to do so, the president turned his sights to the prosecutors he characterized as “rogue” and “corrupt.”
The president also attacked the judge and members of the jury.
During the sentencing on Feb. 20, Jackson settled on more than three years for the 67-year-old Stone because he lied to Congress and the House Intelligence Committee in 2017. The Judge said Stone “wasn’t prosecuted for standing up for the president. He was prosecuted for covering up for the president.”
During Trump’s campaign for the presidency, Stone reached into his bag of dirty political tricks and launched smear campaigns against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. He bragged about his alleged ties to renegade media outlet WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Stone bragged he could get material for Trump’s campaign while simultaneously denying to have the same ties he admitted having to WikiLeaks.
He was indicted in January 2019 and convicted on all seven counts in November, including lying to Congress, obstructing Congress from reviewing relevant documents while being questioned as part of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. During the trial, Stone tweeted out sensitive information, posted a picture of Judge Jackson in the crosshairs of a rifle, and threatened former Trump campaign official Randy Credico, who testified against Stone.
Jackson later issued a gag order against Stone and threatened to hold him in contempt if he continued to discuss court proceedings in the public domain while he was on trial.
Stone has pushed for a new trial, but the entire matter has caused what some have termed a civil war in the U.S. Department of Justice. More the 1,100 former DOJ employees came out this week and signed a letter urging Barr to resign over the handling of the Stone sentencing. The letter stated:
“Mr. Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. Those actions, and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, require Mr. Barr to resign.”
Signatures were gathered for the letter by Protect Democracy, a group that has been critical of Barr’s lying about the report on Russia’s meddling in our elections by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
This week, more shallow rumors circulated that Barr is considering resigning. He has said publicly that Trump’s tweets made his job difficult and further urged him to stop posting to social media about ongoing DOJ matters. The president this week continued to defy the AG’s requests.
Trump this week pardoned and commuted the sentences of 11 people, including some with political ties, but stated at his rally in Las Vegas on Feb. 20 that he would not rule out pardoning the newly sentenced Stone:
“I’m not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president of the United States. I want the process to play out. I think that’s the best thing to do. Because I would love to see Roger (Stone) exonerated and I’d love to see it happen because I personally think he was treated very unfairly.”
Wiki, Wiki, Wiki
What a difference a presidential term makes.
Way back in 2016 President Trump proclaimed his love for the former WikiLeaks website and its proclivity for releasing secret, hard-to-find documents.
Directly confessing his love for WikiLeaks after Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal e-mail had been mysteriously hacked, we have since learned the breach was not accidental, almost certainly was part of a coordinated effort involving people tied to Russia and the Trump campaign.
On July 22, 2016, just before the Democratic National Convention was set to begin, WikiLeaks posted the DNC e-mail archive of about 20,000 stolen emails and other sensitive documents. The leaks were exploited and led to a Russian disinformation campaign against Clinton and the Democrats, and at least appeared to help Trump win the White House.
Trump has denied the Kremlin played any role in his big, beautiful presidential victory. This despite all U.S. intelligence agencies verifying Russian interference. Even at the end of the Mueller investigation, Trump denied any knowledge of Russian hacking and deemed himself exonerated of any wrongdoing despite Mueller’s finding at least 10 occasions that Trump had obstructed justice to torpedo the investigation.
This week, Assange who was arrested on spying charges and is being held in a British prison while fighting extradition to the U.S., spoke about 2016. During a preliminary hearing, Assange acknowledged an open tie between himself, Trump and Russian hacking of the election. Assange’s attorney, Edward Fitzgerald, also said that former Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Ca.) visited him in 2017 as Assange was seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and had this to say:
“Mr. Rohrabacher going to see Mr. Assange and saying on instruction from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr. Assange said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks.”
The statement seemed to confirm a tie between Trump and the Russian hacks he has denied.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham deemed Fitzgerald’s statement “completely false” and further stated that Trump “barely knows Rohrabacher.”
Assange, who is awaiting extradition hearings and due in court next week, has been charged by U.S. officials with espionage. If convicted, he could face as much as 175 years in prison. Seen as an avenging journalist to the anarchist class, Assange argues the leaks should be protected by the First Amendment.
In an interview with Newsweek, Rohrabacher this week seemed to corroborate Assange’s story. He said he offered Assange a pardon, if he could prove Russia did not hack the DNC in 2016. Rohrabacher ssaid he met with Assange in 2017 and offered the possibility of a pardon:
“He knew I could get to the president,” Rohrabacher said, stating he floated the idea to then Chief of Staff John Kelly. Rohrabacher said he was not aware if Kelly discussed his idea with Trump.
Since Assange’s claim, no additional comment has come from the White House on the alleged pardon offer.
If you thought pardoning 11 baddies and firing his enemies should be exhilarating enough for our impeached commander-in-chief, you’d be wrong.
Donnie paid homage to his many followers who had come to watch the 62nd Annual Daytona 500 on Sunday by not only serving as grand marshal for the event, but also taking an in-your-face victory lap around the historic Florida racetrack in his plus-size, bullet-proof presidential limo – “The Beast.”
Just weeks after being acquitted in his Senate trial for impeachment, Trump first gave the opening command of “Gentleman, start your engines,” before hopping into the presidential limousine and playing race car driver in front of roughly 100,000 cheering fans.
Trump is only the second U.S. president to appear at the NASCAR event. President George W. Bush appeared there in 2004.
Cheese-o-rificly cheesy in his over-the-top patriotic tropes during interviews after the event, a jubilant Trump reveled in the glow of his cult-like supporters. Trump 2020 flags filled the infield, with some race fans wearing the signs as capes in the garage area. All 12 drivers were treated to a personal meet-and-greet with the 45th president and FLOTUS.
“A legendary display of roaring engines, soaring spirits and the American skill, speed and power that we’ve been hearing about for so many years. The tens of thousands of patriots here today have come for the fast cars and the world-class motorsports. But NASCAR fans never forget that no matter who wins the race, what matters most is God, family and country.”

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Kiyanly, October 18 - Neftegaz.RU. Turkmenistan inaugurated on October 17th a $3.4 billion petrochemical plant. This investment increases the country’s petrochemical capacity from 160 ktpa to over 600 ktpa.
President Berdimuhamedov Gurbanguly, who participated in the opening of the facility, said it is part of the country's «extensive plans to diversify the Turkmen energy complex, to increase the economy's export potential by launching production of gas and chemical products that are in demand on the global markets.»
The chemicals produced at the plant will be exported to China, India, Turkey, Europe and other Central Asian countries via a new naval port. At full run rates the complex will process 5 billion m3 of natural gas per year and produce over 450 ktpa of olefins.
The Kiyanly complex includes Turkmenistan’s 1st steam cracking unit and significantly increases Turkmenistan’s domestic olefins production capabilities. The feedstock for the steam cracker will be approximately 50% LPG/Condensate and 50% Ethane and will be used to produce 386 ktpa of polyethylene and 80 ktpa of polypropylene.
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By Associated Press in Lviv, Ukraine(China Daily)
The sleek stadium, built six years ago and home of soccer team Shakhtar Donetsk sits in the middle of Donetsk, a war zone controlled by militias battling Ukrainian troops.
The $425 million Donbass Arena now serves as a depot and distribution point for supplies of humanitarian aid, stacked in corridors beneath its 52,000 orange-and-black seats.
The soccer team hasn't played at the stadium since May 2. The fighting in eastern Ukraine has forced the team to temporarily relocate, playing its home games in the far western city of Lviv, near the border with Poland, more than 1,000 kilometers away.
Players like Ivan Ordets originally packed light for what they thought would be a short stay, living in Kiev and traveling by bus to the games in Lviv.
Nine months later, with the war dragging on through failed cease-fires and nearly 5,800 people killed, the players have rented apartments and are building new lives in Kiev, but their thoughts never stray far from the conflict.
"It's the first time in my life that I haven't been home for a long time," the 22-year-old Ordets said, tears welling in his eyes. Although his mother has moved with him to Kiev, other relatives remained behind.
"My uncle, my aunt, my dad - they've stayed in the east of Ukraine," he added. "In that way, it's hard and I'm worried for them."
Ordets, a defender, is one of the few Ukrainians on Shakhtar Donetsk, a team that includes 13 Brazilians, more than half its roster. He comes from Volnovakha, a small town near Donetsk, but on the Ukrainian government side of the lines.
Last month, a passenger bus in Volnovakha was hit by a shell, killing 13 people. The Ukrainian government accused the militias, who denied responsibility.
"They're shooting and it's not a calm situation in the town. There's a lot of troops in the town," Ordets said, speaking in a luxury hotel in Kiev that serves as the team's temporary base.
Some neighborhoods of Donetsk have been wrecked by indiscriminate shelling, and its airport - refurbished and modernized for the 2012 European soccer championships - is in ruins.
The Donbass Arena has suffered some exterior damage from the fighting. Security-camera video from Oct 20 showed a person was nearly hit by falling glass from the top of the stadium caused by a shock wave from a nearby explosion.
An elderly woman walks across the remains of a bridge that collapsed on the road to the airport on Sunday. It has been a scene of heavy fighting in Donetsk, Ukraine. Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press
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Under the agreement, Endesa will make part of the building available to the town hall - a total of 5,600 square metres, 2,000 square metres of which will be free of charge for a twenty-year period and will be reserved for the renewable energy technology centre and other areas of the energy transition hub that the town hall intends to develop. The other 3,600 square metres of rental space will be for business activities related to the Nou Llevant Innovation District.
Endesa will retain ownership of the building and will have the site of the current Emaya municipal services agency building and a developable area on the second line (away from the sea) of some 58,000 square metres. The frontline will be a green area - 21,500 square metres of park. Endesa will participate in the Nou Llevant Innovation District project, a building for which has already been developed - the town hall will use this for its digital hub.
The plenary session of the town hall will definitively approve the agreement next month. Key to it is that Endesa has agreed to withdraw its legal claims against the town hall for compensation brought about by planning reorganisation.
Mayor José Hila says that the town hall's main objective has been to ensure that there wouldn't be development on the frontline. "It had to be a park and not a block of buildings. It will be a green area and will bring the sea a little closer to Palma."
The councillor for the model of the city, Neus Truyol, says that the agreement is the result of "intense and fruitful negotiations that have allowed us to resolve a legally entrenched conflict". "We are committed to guaranteeing free public space on the frontline and to a future of the city with new economic models based on innovation."


If you haven’t been on a New York subway in a minute, take it from us: this whole one-word name inscribed in sans-serif lower-case letters over a minimalist backdrop thing has officially gone off the deep end.
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Roman has been in the erectile dysfunction game for a bit now, but this pivot is gender-inclusive, as exemplified by the brand’s new name. (They’ve changed it to Ro, dropping the “man.”) You can still get your monthly ED pills from Roman, as discreet as ever, but now it’s a sub-brand, along with Zero.
As for Zero, the new venture is riding an $88M investment wave from nine different investors (headed by FirstMark Capital) and seems a logical next step for Ro. Erectile dysfunction is directly related to unhealthy practices, smoking being one of the most pernicious. And for a staggering market (70% of smokers want to quit) with no clear solution (3% are successful), an effective product in the space is a win for everyone involved.
How does it work? Head here and answer a bunch of questions on your personal health and smoking history. Zero will hook you up with a physician (online or via phone) a couple hours later, who will write you a prescription. You can then order a month of the Quit Kit — normally $129, but only $79 for your first month — which includes prescription medication to fight nicotine cravings and boxes of nicotine replacement gum.
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Good burgers – Nestors is def. a cool little greasy spoon in the middleof NT. The ppl there are always nice and the food is great too, but some of the menu items that are cheaper other places are a little more than "greasy spoon" price. I also miss them being open 24 hrs. I would go there any day though! Good fries, burgers, sandwiches, etc. Yum!
best value in WNY!!! – the restaurant is great for families and anyone who wants a bite to eat late at night. insomniacs or those looking for the very late or early burger or breakfast will not ever be disappointed. simply the best price/value ratio in WNY!
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I tested positive for Lyme disease but was told it was rare and so I couldn't possibly have it by an infectious diseases consultant - then a second different test came back positive so I was given two weeks of antibotics. No change if anything I felt worse.
So how ill was I? Well over five years I got gradually worse and by 2009 I was bedridden could hardly walk more than a couple of steps - the initial diagnosis had been ME - I had so many different symptoms life really wasn't worth living. Despite being told there was nothing I could do - I persevered when I had a bit of energy I would look for information to help me.
As I read this book and one by James Schaller (a paragraph at a time as my brain was so fogged) I realised it was very likely I had Babesia as a co-infection as well as chronic Lyme disease. The symptoms just fitted so closely. After trying artemisinin unsuccessfully I found the web forums for an up to date treatment protocol for Babesia and took four months of cryptolepsis which allowed my blood cells to all be replaced without re-infection. I am now able to function a million times better than I could - I can drive for two hours - have energy to do things - and each day my stamina is increasing. So many symptoms are just resolving themselves. It has been like a miracle cure for me.
I still have to deal with the chronic lyme disease - and will be following a herbal treatment protocol again once my improvement plateaus from dealing with the Babesia. But now I have hope and a life waiting for me - which means so much - so many thanks to the author!
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