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Jane Lynch and other Glee alums have reacted to the death of Mark Salling.
Salling, who appeared on Glee as Noah "Puck" Puckerman between 2009 and 2015, died Tuesday at the age of 35 from an apparent suicide.
He was awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in October. He faced four to seven years in prison as part of a plea bargain.
The actor had recently been found guilty on charges of child pornography.
"Sad and very tragic," Lynch told TMZ when asked about Salling's death.
Lynch then said that she will remember him "as the guy who made that really sweet video at the beginning of Glee when he was so happy to be a part of this group."
Glee star Matthew Morrison on Instagram shared a photo of himself, Salling and and former co-star Corey Monteith, who died in 2013 of a drug overdose, alongside a caption that featured angel emojis.
Tim Davis, a producer on the show, discussed Salling on Twitter and how he still has compassion for the actor despite his crimes.
"Today we lost another #Glee cast member.Yes, he committed crimes against children.Yes, it's horrific. But #MarkSalling was a broken man, no doubt an abuse victim himself. I loved Mark, and am sad when I consider the devastation of his parents. PLEASE withhold your cruel comments," he said.
"Let me be clear. Having compassion for #MarkSalling in no way minimizes his crimes, nor does it minimize the pain and devastation of the victims of those crimes. I'm just saying stop adding to his family's pain. This was their son. If you're without sin, feel free to cast stones," Davis continued.
Iqbal Theba, who played Principal Figgins on Glee shared his condolences on Twitter. "His death is painful for me Some of u might know him for only his flaws but I also knew him as someone who was great to work with & was kind to my kids. I truly wish he'd fought his demons &atoned himself & came out a winner. May we all find solace in some of his gentler memories," he said.
By Wade Sheridan
Originally published in UPI Entertainment News.

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The History, Legends and Progress of Manchester’s Urban Ponds
Legacy and future of Queen City’s ponds celebrated in new exhibit
While the Lakes Region is a bit north of Manchester, the Queen City does have a number of its own locally-notable lakes and ponds that have played an important role in the area’s history.
Those sites – most of which carry with them fascinating histories and stories – are being celebrated in a new exhibit, “Manchester’s Urban Ponds: Past, Present and Future,” at the Millyard Museum’s State Theater gallery now through Nov. 28. (Note: Due to the coronavirus, the museum is requiring all visitors to wear masks and practice social distancing as well as capping the number of visitors at 30.)
“People are going to see a mixture of historic photographs and artifacts of all of the urban ponds in Manchester, as well as some new photographs and information on the Manchester Urban Pond Restoration Program, which is in its 20th anniversary,” says Jen Drociak, acting coordinator for the group. “We were able to combine historic aspects with recent endeavors.”
Since it was established in 2000, the the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program has led cleanup efforts to help return the city’s ponds to their historic uses.
“Our original goal was just that,” Drociak says. “That includes fishing, boating, swimming – these goals were from 20 years ago. It’s somewhat hard to achieve because some of these water bodies have been degrading for 50-60 years. We have made progress in mitigating storm water runoff, providing better recreational access and restoring or providing better biological integrity. We restored Black Brook, and now it’s free-flowing for the first time in 100 years from the mouth of the Merrimack River to Dunbarton.”
This exhibit looks at the history of several of Manchester’s urban ponds and celebrates the accomplishments of the Urban Ponds Restoration Program over the last 20 years.
A 21 acre body of water at Crystal Lake Park just off Bodwell Road and Corning Road. It hosted city-sponsored swim meets in the 1920s, and a bathhouse first constructed in 1942 – and refurbished in 1987 – still stands at the pond today.
Known previously as Mosquito Pond, it was also notably the home of Charles Alan Lambert – the Hermit of Mosquito Pond.
Legend says that Lambert came to Manchester in the 1840s after a series of heartbreaks. He lived in a secluded log home he built on 40 acres he owned at Mosquito Pond for more than 60 years.
Over his many years at Mosquito Pond/Crystal Lake, Lambert grew herbs, which he provided to local pharmacists, and became a bit of a local celebrity – receiving many visitors over the years despite his secluded lifestyle.
He passed away in 1914 and is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery with a plain white tombstone bearing only, “The Hermit.” (If you want to visit the Hermit of Mosquito Pond’s final resting place, it’s in the Old Cemetery, section 3A, lot 535 at the corner of St. Marcellus and St. Bridget.)
Located adjacent to Livingston Park in the city’s North End just off Route 3, this 25 acre pond is surrounded by the Dorrs Pond Nature Trail.
Drociak has arranged for an 8-minute video showing historical footage from Dorrs Pond to be on display at the exhibit.
“It’s footage from the 1950s that shows kids ice skating on the pond, an ice skating contest and tournament, and people jumping over barrels,” she says.
Created by the installation of a dam on Black Brook in 1900, Maxwell Pond was named for A.H. Maxwell, who owned Manchester Coal & Ice Company. Ice was harvested from the pond in the 1930s and 40s. When the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program helped to remove the dam there in 2009, a number of ice harvesting tools were recovered, and are now in display in the exhibit.
While it was a popular recreation spot through the years, upstream land uses have had an affect on it, according to the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program. Today its maximum depth is just four feet.
Known by several names before being renamed for a local circus performer – George Washington Morrison “Commodore” Nutt, the son of a farmer, who stood 29 inches tall. Nutt was discovered by P.T. Barnum, with whom he toured the world from 1869 to 1872. During those years, he met royalty and heads of state, including a White House meeting with Abraham Lincoln.
“We have some of Commodore Nutt’s regalia on display,” Drociak says. “We’ve got his pistola and boots and original paper dolls and a lifesize cutout. That’s probably my favorite, it’s such a cool story.”
Nutts Pond sits next to Precourt Park, along Driving Park Road off of South Willow Street.
Located east of Brown Avenue and abutting Manchester-Boston Regional Airport to the west, Pine Island Pond covers 42 acres and reaches a maximum depth of 15 feet. It was also home to a popular amusement park, Pine Island Park, which operated from 1902 to 1962. Drociak has secured artifacts from the amusement park, including old posters, tickets, postcards and photographs, and included them in the exhibit.
This 15 acre pond is just off of I-93 and Bridge Street has a maximum depth of 17 feet, and is part of Stevens Pond Park/Tom Padden Field.
“We thought it was important to have a three-dimensional component, so for Stevens Pond we have an original pair of Indian Head ice skates from the shoe manufacturer in Manchester,” Drociak says. “They’re pearl blue with fancy laces and we’ve got a hockey stick and gloves.”
Sponsored by City of Manchester, Department of Public Works, Environmental Protection Division, “Manchester’s Urban Ponds: Past, Present, and Future” will be on display in the Millyard Museum’s State Theater Gallery through November 28.
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Hydronic Application Software Receives Silver Dealer Design Award
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08.03.2023: Governor Ramesh Bais presided over the fifth 'Jan Aushadhi Diwas' organised as part of the Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Jan Aushadhi Yojana at Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan in Mumbai. The Governor also inaugurated through a digital platform an outlet of the 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendra' at Khune, Tq. Akkalkot in Solapur district. Union Minister of State for Public Health Dr. Bharati Pawar, Maharashtra's Public Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Tanaji Sawant, Principal Secretary Public Health Sanjay Khandare, Secretary Nawin Sona and ASHA workers were present. The Governor presented the 'Jan Aushadhi Jyoti', 'Jan Aushadhi Sarvashreshtha' and 'Jan Aushadhi Mitra' awards and felicitated women officers, staff and ASHA workers who did excellent work in health service on the occasion of International Women's Day. The programme was organised with the initiative of the Public Health Department of Government of Maharashtra.


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Dec 6 (Reuters) – Users of the Sackler relatives on Monday mentioned billions of pounds they gathered from Purdue Pharma prior to the company submitted for Chapter 11 was the result of additional money, not component of a “magic formula system” to abuse the personal bankruptcy process.
In court papers, legal professionals for the Sackler household customers, who managed Purdue, turned down U.S. District Decide Colleen McMahon’s recommendation that the additional than $10 billion Purdue paid out in the yrs major up to the 2019 individual bankruptcy could quantity to an abuse of the Chapter 11 procedure. About half of the money went to taxes or business enterprise investments, according to courtroom documents.
The Sacklers are alleged to have drained Purdue of income above a number of a long time. When it at some point filed for bankruptcy in the facial area of lawsuits over the epidemic, the business necessary Sacklers’ revenue to settle the billions of pounds of lawful claims. In return, the Sacklers were able to demand protection from the lawsuits.
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The Sacklers rejected the idea that there was any “plan” to “intentionally weaken Purdue so it could not reorganize without” their financial contribution.
There is no evidence to counsel the payments “were created as section of a magic formula plan” to abuse the individual bankruptcy technique, the Sackler lawyers explained. They identified as the idea “pure fiction.”
McMahon is looking at irrespective of whether to overturn a personal bankruptcy courtroom ruling that shields the Sacklers from legal responsibility above the opioid epidemic. If she finds that there is ample proof of abuse, she could send the make a difference back to the bankruptcy courtroom to rethink the shield.
Far more than 500,000 men and women have died from opioid overdoses due to the fact 1999, in accordance to the Facilities for Disease Command and Avoidance.
The payments, the Sacklers argued, had been created as company grew, which includes enhanced income subsequent the restoration of Purdue’s patent for OxyContin in 2008.
The Sacklers, who have denied wrongdoing and did not file for individual bankruptcy on their own, have contributed about $4.5 billion to a settlement of opioid-linked litigation in trade for defense against long term lawsuits.
Purdue argued in a independent filing on Monday that the protections are required since the enterprise cannot exit personal bankruptcy devoid of resolving opioid-connected statements against both equally Purdue and the Sacklers.
The U.S. Division of Justice’s individual bankruptcy watchdog, the U.S. Trustee, has extended opposed this variety of litigation defend and mentioned on Monday in court filings that the regulation gives no such protections for persons who have not filed for personal bankruptcy.
The U.S. Trustee accused the Sacklers of “piggybacking” off Purdue’s personal bankruptcy to protect by themselves.
“If this is not abuse of the personal bankruptcy process, it is unclear what is,” the trustee claimed.
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I don't know whether I'm peeved or impressed that the Lovely Sparrows' debut full-length doesn't include a lyrics sheet. Head Sparrow Shawn Jones is a brainy songwriter with a gift for wordplay, unexpected rhymes, and occasionally startling imagery, and he gingerly combines indie whimsy with a personal despondency without coming across as cute. He's soundtracking Chris Ware panels, not Wes Anderson movies (cough Noah cough Whale). So it seems admirably modest that he doesn't reprint his lyrics, but instead lets them remain purely musical and slightly mysterious, as if his songs were musical rather than literary endeavors.
Still, B**ury the Cynics almost demands to be digested with lyrics sheet in hand. The album's acoustic shuffle only sounds simple, but as on the Lovely Sparrows' previous EP, Pulling Up Floors, Pouring on (New) Paint, these arrangements twist and turn unexpectedly, exploring blind alleys and strange avenues as if mimicking Jones' lyrical approach. The music tends toward spare and folksy, favoring shaken sleighbells, demonstratively strummed acoustic guitars, soft-focus backing vocals, thrumming organs, and a Vince Guaraldi flute in the background that puts me in mind of Snoopy roaming the French countryside. More streamlined and subtle than those on the EP, these indie folk songs are inventive and ornate but neither busy nor showy, and even if there should be more drums to liven up some of the lulls, everything here sounds calibrated to frame Jones' sentiments in a diorama of emotional confusion. "Love me tender, love me true," he sings on opener "Wraith" as acoustic guitars shiver behind him. It's an obvious Elvis reference, but with a new ending: "and I'll make a wreck of you."
Although "Wraith" eventually contorts itself into such a state that the twin electric guitars sound perfectly appropriate, Bury the Cynics sounds more like a one-man show than a full-band album. The Lovely Sparrows, which offshot from the Austin band Larks & Owls, has clearly developed into a vehicle for Jones, which is just fine. Both his physical and his lyrical voices are particular enough to anchor these songs in his own creative space, to make them personal despite some obvious influences. He's wryer than Eef Barzelay, but less studious than Paul Simon. Which pretty much describes everyone in the world, but Jones takes enough from those and other artists to construct his own musical identity.
Occasionally, he sounds a bit too clever-- too in love with his own ideas on "Department of Forseeable (sic) Outcomes" and the impending-apocalyptic "Devil's in the Details" ("I've got a feeling that the horse and the rider are the same/ And if you whistle, they'll come running"). "Let's sign a new deal," he sings on the title track, "saying this one's for the cynics and this one's for you." A veteran of lower-level indie bands for nearly a decade, Jones knows how to navigate the minefields of the scene, but his braininess gets away from him. Still, he's bearable not simply because of the grain in his voice, but because he never sounds bitter, accusatory, or-- by extension-- self-righteous. His cleverness is a defense mechanism: hope in the face of cosmic indifference.


By Alan Franklin
The 10- and 11-year-old Western Albemarle Warriors captured the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Youth Football League (TJYFL) Championship for the Governors Division with a victory over the Orange County Hornets November 29. The Hornets were an outstanding football team coming into the championship game undefeated and having dominated all season long.
The Warriors finished the regular season with 8 wins and 2 losses, qualifying them as one of four playoff teams. Exhibiting great resilience and toughness, the Warrior team avenged both regular season losses. A first round was a 22-20 win over a very big and hard-hitting Louisa County Lions team. They followed this with a great team effort in the TJYFL Governors “Super Bowl” by beating the Hornets.
The Hornets entered the championship as defending champions and had a two-year undefeated streak on the line. The Hornet talent was immediately apparent as the Hornet quarterback scrambled untouched for a 50-yard score on the first play from scrimmage. That was the last defensive mistake by the Warriors. The point-after-touchdown kick was blocked by Warrior John Buetow, limiting the Hornets’ lead to 6-0. This would prove to be a crucial play.
The remainder of the first half was tightly contested. The half expired with the Hornets denying the Warriors a touchdown from inside the 5 yard line.
In the third quarter, big plays from Warrior quarterback Henry Meulenberg and slot back Joe Burch set up a 5-yard touchdown run by John Buetow to tie the game at six points apiece. The PAT by John Buetow was straight and true to give the Warriors an 8 to 6 edge entering the fourth quarter.
The Hornets threatened deep in Warrior territory throughout the final quarter, but each time were thwarted by outstanding Warrior defense, led by aggressive end and linebacker play. The Warriors were able run out the clock to seal the victory with a final display of terrific offensive line play and gutsy and powerful inside running by Buetow and Smith Callaghan. The play that sealed the victory was a screen pass from Meulenberg to Buetow on a fourth and long. Buetow scampered for a long run, giving the Warriors a fresh set of downs and a well-deserved championship victory.
“A terrific total-team win,” declared Warriors coach Jeff Buetow. “Other than the opening play, our defense shut down the highest scoring team in the league. It was an extraordinary effort by the entire unit. Offensively, we just play hardnosed football. We played our best football when we had to. Obviously, all of our players were fantastic, but hats off to all of the coaches as well in preparing the boys for the intensity that playoff football requires.”
In an uncanny coincidence, the trophy ceremony had a dramatic, perfectly timed flyover by F-18 fighter jets as they swooped overhead on their way to Scott Stadium for the UVA vs. Duke football game as the Warriors hoisted their trophy!


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As we enter our 24th Season of exceptional entertainment, Wavestage is very proud to support actors with productions that add vivid culture to our community. We are bursting with excitement for this season featuring three MainStage productions and one youth production throughout 2018/19. We aspire to create influential works of great magnitude that open doors for many performers, looking to stretch their wings. As always, we aim to create an environment in which our performers feel they have grown and have been artistically challenged from their experiences at Wavestage. With these productions and the stories they tell, we believe each performer will have the chance to touch the hearts of many audience members.
For our audiences, we seek an experience where they leave the theatre feeling their minds opened and their souls touched. After all, live theatre is not just intended to entertain, but to make us feel something powerful. This season asks our audiences to explore themes of moral responsibility, fearing the “other” and finding one’s purpose through love for one another - all topics of extreme importance in today’s global climate.
We begin this July 6-8, 2018 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto with The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The musical was written by two masters of musical theatre canon, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. Audiences and actors will be transported by an unspeakably gorgeous score, with its lush, emotionally rich songs augmented by a large choir. Audiences will be swept away by the beautiful telling of Victor Hugo’s story of love, aloneness, obsession and heroism. This production will begin rehearsals in Toronto on April 24th, 2018.
Next up, Wavestage Theatre presents the Tony Award Winning Broadway Masterpiece - HELLO DOLLY! from November 22-25, 2018 at Newmarket Theatre.
Feel the room swayin’, for the band’s playin’, one of your old fav’rite songs from way back when” - the grande dame musical of them all returns to Wavestage Theatre. Hello, Dolly! is the story of turn-of-the-century widowed matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, who, after cunningly negotiating marriages for others through a series of comic romantic entanglements, ultimately finds her own match. HELLO, DOLLY! is a magical piece of musical theatre filled with memorable songs such as 'Put On Your Sunday Clothes', 'Before the Parade Passes By', and 'It Only Takes A Moment.' Show-stopping dance numbers like 'Dancing' and 'The Waiter's Gallop' are combined with beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes to create a musical the whole family will enjoy! This production will begin rehearsals September 5, 2018 in Toronto.
West Side Story, one of the greatest love stories of all time, opens at Newmarket Theatre, April 11-14, 2019.
This timeless classic mesmerizes audiences of all ages from the first note to the final breath. The Bernstein and Sondheim score is considered to be one of Broadway’s finest and features beloved American musical theatre classics including “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “America,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere.” With spectacular dance numbers and an iconic score soaring throughout, theatre goers will experience the tragic love story between lead characters Maria, and Tony, each from different neighbourhoods in New York City. The strength of their love cannot overcome the hatred between warring street gangs the Sharks and the Jets. Rehearsals beginning January 2019. Auditions for this production will be held October 2018.
For participants in our youth programs, we will be producing a youth-only production of the classic story Seussical Jr. at Newmarket Theatre. This production will be rehearsed in Newmarket as part of our youth program beginning September 2018, ending with the production (Feb 8th). Registrations for our 24th Season youth programs will open in March.
We are very excited to produce shows that we know will become a part of our audiences' hearts and souls. Wavestage is very proud to be producing our 24th Season of entertaining, thought-provoking theatre. We invite you to join us for one of our most ambitious seasons yet!
Auditions will begin February 2018 for our first two productions. Please click the link below to learn more about our audition requirements and to book an audition.

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As previously reported, Jack White and Stephen Colbert hit the streets of New York City this morning to sell copies of their new 7" single on White's Third Man Records. Alongside the Third Man Rolling Record Store, which was parked at the Lot at the High Line in Manhattan, White and Colbert signed autographs and performed.
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New Delhi, Jan 4: Bollywood actress Sunny Leone and her husband Daniel Weber had a great beginning to their New Year in Dubai. The new parents were dressed to the nines to ring in the new year and took to Instagram to give fans a glimpse of their celebrations.
Sunny is wearing a beautiful black dress paired with high heels and side-parted hair that complemented her overall look. While Sunny looked bewitching in black, Daniel, on the other hand, looked dapper in a white shirt and black pants. Sunny captioned the image, "Lounging with a hottie! @dirrty99"
On the work front, Sunny Leone was last seen opposite Arbaaz Khan in 'Tera Intezaaar'.


There’s a reason why even in 2019 women feel unsafe when they’re going out.
The question is why. Just think of the word “predators” for a moment. Predators are patient individuals who watch for an opening to pounce. Predators are ubiquitous and oftentimes difficult to spot. They might be in the room with us right now and we wouldn’t even notice. They could be anyone from a casual acquaintance to a blood relative. However, we must not give them any leeway in the event that they try to steal from us.
Everyone is fair game for predators. Whether they’re female, male, or of any other gender. However, women and children are particularly vulnerable targets. We’ll be discussing women in a direct manner and telling you some fascinating tales today. But before we do that, let us all pledge to always put the safety of our loved ones and neighbours ahead of our own. Sure enough, you’ve spotted the correct translation.
Never hesitate to help a stranger who appears to be in trouble or a precarious situation. Don’t try to solve the problem on your own if you can help it. However, you should not idly stand by and do nothing. It’s impossible to know the other person’s true level of need until you extend a hand.
Look at these accounts of real people whose lives were saved by the generosity of a complete stranger at a time when they desperately needed it.
Alex Tyler, a Facebook user, posted hyperlinks to true accounts he found on Tumblr.
This restores my faith in humanity.
Though she didn’t need help, this gesture clearly inspired her to help others instead.
“Don’t wait for them (men) to do something if you can do it yourself.”
Had they not offered their help to this girl, it would be a completely different story today.
If you’re reading this, thank you, grandma!
Kudos to this lady! We need more people like her in this world.
Sometimes when you can’t outrun them, you have to outsmart them.
I repeat, look out for each other.
They are the heroes we don’t get to see on the news.
In this manner, if we all just keep looking out for each other maybe the world will be a better place to live.
Do you want to tell me a story? Simply share them with us by writing them in the comments section.
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A watercolour showing a view of a house from a river. The river is shown in the foreground, with trees shown on the banks behind. The house and a tower are shown rising up behind the trees in the background.
Verso: a pencil drawing showing a view of a cottage. Fields are shown in the foreground, with the cottage shown behind. A tree is shown to the right.
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A new world-beating engine, more equipment and a stylish new look – all at a lower price. The 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe looks too good to be true. But buyers looking for a big, efficient family car can stop pinching themselves, as Hyundai has affirmed the amazing news that its 2010 Santa Fe will actually be cheaper than the car it replaces, despite a raft of changes.
The headline news is the Santa Fe’s world-class new powertrain, offering an unique combination of performance and economy. It means that the Santa Fe is now comparable on price and emissions with MPVs and estate cars, and comfortably powers ahead of SUV rivals.
Revisions to the design of the Santa Fe are concentrated on the finer details. At the front, the black two bar grille is replaced by chrome-edged three bar version, while revised headlight clusters sit above a new, more sculpted bumper which also houses new fog lights in a black surround. The rear gains a new bumper that curves neatly into more distinctive light clusters, while trapezoidal exhaust pipes and new alloy wheel designs improve the car’s stance and presence on the road.
On the inside carbon black trim replaces the previous wood finishes to highlight the Santa Fe’s modern feel, and the standard single CD/RDS radio now comes with an AUX/USB link with full iPod control.
The range has been simplified, with a two-model range now comprising of entry-level Style and higher spec Premium. Style models are packed with standard equipment: 17-inch alloy wheels, reversing sensors, ESP and air conditioning are among the standard features while moving up to Premium adds 18-inch wheels, dual climate control, heated leather seats with electric adjustment for the driver and automated lights and wipers.
The Santa Fe retains its outstanding MPV-rivalling practicality, with the even more versatile seven-seat option available for a modest £750 on both Style and Premium models. In either version it offers a huge 969 liters of load space in a five-seat configuration – double that of some its rivals – rising to a van-like 2,247 with all the seats folded. This is an increase of 34 liters over the previous model. Seven-seat versions are also fitted with a self-leveling rear suspension set up and rear privacy glass as standard, while five-seat versions get a substantial under-floor storage area.
Powerful, slimmer and more elegant
At the heart of the rejuvenated Santa Fe is a new 2.2-liter direct injection ‘R’ diesel engine that demonstrates major improvements over the already-impressive outgoing version. This new all-aluminum 2,199cc powerplant offers up a class-leading 194bhp – more than the six-cylinder units offered in some rival vehicles – backed by a mighty 311lb.ft of torque (322lb.ft when specified with an automatic gearbox) which amounts to advances of 26% and 27% respectively on the previous engine.
These huge strides in power and efficiency give the Santa Fe an advantage over a wide range of competitors. With the six-speed manual transmission fitted, the Santa Fe can sprint to 62mph from rest in 9.8 seconds, giving it hot-hatch-like acceleration. Although final performance is not usually top of family 4x4 buyers’ priorities it is nice to know that it is the fastest seven-seat SUV you can buy for under £35,000.
That doesn’t come at the expense of economy however, as the combined cycle figure now breaks the 40mpg barrier and emissions have fallen significantly to 176g/km, moving it down on the Vehicle Excise Duty to Band I. These figures also put the Santa Fe ahead of the competition, with no seven-seat SUV or MPV coming close to its combination of economy and performance. In fact, the Santa Fe can even beat the economy figures of the entry-level Vauxhall Zafira and diesel Ford Galaxy while producing more torque than a Porsche 911!
These impressive figures are helped by a number of clever engineering developments, including the sophisticated six-speed manual and automatic gearboxes and an alternator management system that disengages when not required in order to save fuel. Drivers looking to maximize the efficiency benefits are helped by the ‘Eco-Drive Indicator’ on automatic versions to monitor fuel efficiency, while manual versions have an optimum gear shift point indicator built into the trip computer display.
Another advantage of the new engine is an increased towing capacity, with a maximum braked towing weight of 2,500kg, up 300kg on the outgoing model.
Santa Fe proves that exceptional performance and a high spec need not come at the expense of running costs or a sky-high purchase price. Despite the improvements in equipment levels and drivability, prices are actually lower compared with the outgoing model.
The entry-level five-seat manual 2.2 CRDi Santa Fe Style starts at £21,495 (at the higher 17.5% VAT rate).
Significant improvements in economy and emissions have pulled back running costs for the Santa Fe and service intervals have been doubled to 20,000 miles, helping to slash maintenance bills. Company car drivers with P11Ds to consider will find the lower price and CO2 levels reduces their contribution further still, with the Santa Fe dropping from 29% to 26% tax rates – saving company car drivers hundreds in tax every year. Indeed the Santa Fe is not just more efficient at tax avoidance than other 4x4 rivals; it can also now be a real alternative to MPVs and estate cars.
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Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.
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Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother’s approval and affection.
Two teenage boys secretly meet up in a cabin, bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen — and when you witness a horrible event, it changes everything.
Private detective Yoon San gets turned into a vampire one day while he was out on a duty. As he meets various clients and cracks cases for them, he also uncovers the mystery surrounding him as well as the secrets from his past.
Tahsin is head of the Korludag family, his wealth and great influence in society makes him feared and respected by everyone. There isn’t a place or person in town that he does not control. Tahsin has two children; his son Korhan is a big disappointment to his father, but Sühan, his smart and beautiful daughter, he loves dearly. Korhan’s wife is without success trying to get pregnant. As she fears that Sühan will deliver an heir to the family fortune before herself, she tries to kill her sister-in-law. However, her evil plans are spoiled when a handsome stranger enters the story, saving Sühan’s life, becoming her lover and taking his place as the son Tahsin always dreamt of. But what no one knows is that revenge runs in this stranger’s veins and it is no coincidence that he showed up when he did. Will his love for Sühan stop him going ahead with his plan to get vengeance on Tahsin or is it all part of his master plan…?
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Warren Buffett is one of the best investors of all time. But what is his strategy? Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy breaks down Buffett's 2-step strategy and compiles his best investing principles so that you can replicate his strategy when you invest in stocks. Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy will teach you when Buffett buys and sells, what he looks for when researching a stock, and the biggest mistakes that beginners make when trying to replicate his strategy.
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Danial Jiwani is the author of Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy. He believes that everyone who is learning about the stock market must understand Warren Buffett's investing principles. Writing the book required the accumulation of knowledge after years of watching the markets, learning what works, and understanding other investors' strategies. In fact, almost all of the principles in the book are derived from the best investors' strategies. Danial Jiwani is one of the youngest authors in the investing niche. He wrote (most of) Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy while he was finishing his senior year of high school at Glenbrook South High School.


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"On a journey“ by Kate Cregoe. An Original woodblock Print with 10 Edtions available. This piece was pressed through a wool press. Available framed in a solid light oak frame. An unframed print can be purchased to order.
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The 'Impressions' Collection tells a range of stories and convey impressions that have had significant meaning to me and my own felt experiences. These impressions are mostly sourced from nature or experiences I’ve shared with the people I love.
The story of how a wool press became printing press in rural Whanganui...
A functional tool that I grew up with in rural New Zealand and one that I've seen being used my whole life. One day while I was pressing wool, the thought of using it as a printing press came to me. After more thinking, and with the help of my partner Grahame, who refined the technical side, we managed to modify our woolpress into a fine art printing tool by essentially using the wool press’s pressure to transfer my large scale carved woodblocks onto paper. A moment I will always treasure.
The Carving Process is very physical and immersive. Each print’s process has significant meaning to the artwork. A bit like meditation, I slowly carve out patterns and forms each day, and I am very mindful of the process of creating, with moments of pause, reflection and dreaming. The printing stage is one of my highlights in the creation process, as it combines two of my passions - farming and creativity. It’s a magical moment, as at this point I have no idea how the artwork will appear once pressed in ink. I have to embrace the imperfect nature of mark-making and also the mirrored composition. Each print has its own character, as the application of ink and pressure creates unique marks and different textures every time.
Kate Cregoe is a multidisciplinary emerging artist, designer and farmer based in Mangamahu, Rural Whanganui. She holds a Visual Communications degree from Massey University and furthered her studies in Botanical drawing whilst travelling abroad.
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"With U2, I always try to put into words the feelings I have at any one time. But often, it's just vowel sounds filling my mouth which build into words or I might find a title or an idea to hold the music around. I don't have to have the testimony or the story when I listen to dance music."
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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is taking its music closer to the city’s streets.
The DSO will announce Wednesday during the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference what it is calling a social progress initiative to better integrate the symphony with the rebuilding of Detroit.
“This begins to give us a focus around the things we are doing and will be doing off the stage,” says Anne Parsons, chief executive of the DSO. “Our commitment to Detroit has been expanding. We see our role as an organization that promotes progress for the city and its people and help improve the quality of life for everyone, and to inspire others to do the same.
What does that look like?
Specifically, the DSO will get out of the Max M. Fisher Music Center and into Detroit’s neighborhoods. The thinking is that for many city residents, The Max may as well be situated in a faraway suburb, given their limited ability to access it.
That’s a transportation issue, Parsons says, but an emotional barrier as well for those not comfortable in such an intimidating environment.
“Not everyone feels entirely equipped to get there,” she says.
The first project under the initiative will be partnering with a still-to-be-named east side public school to offer music lessons to children. The DSO has an extensive music education program at The Max, but it does not broadly reach kids from Detroit’s neighborhoods. The new Allegro Ensemble will offer free lessons, funded by a grant from the Dresner Foundation, right in the school.
Recruitment for the DSO’s renowned Civic Youth Ensemble will expand to enlist more Detroit children.
The African-American Fellowship Program will expand to address the shortage of black orchestral professionals. Promising musicians will have the opportunity to play with and be mentored by DSO members.
Last fall, the symphony introduced the Detroit Community Orchestra, which allows adult amateur violinists, violists and bassists to rehearse and perform with the professionals.
There will be other outreach efforts as well, including performances before micro-audiences in the city.
“We have an opportunity and an obligation to drive social progress in our city,” says DSO Chairman Mark Davidoff, who is managing partner of Detroit-based Deloitte LLP.
The initiative grows out of the community commitment made to settle the 2010 musicians’ strike. In exchange for kicking in the money to fund a new contract, donors asked for a stronger presence by the orchestra outside of The Max. It spawned a series of community concerts in venues much smaller than The Max.
Both musicians and orchestra trustees were skeptical, fearing such concerts would cannibalize main stage performances.
“Just the opposite happened,” Davidoff says. “The community concerts are almost always sold out, and they have created a broader audience for the orchestra. Our subscription sales have climbed.
And that’s the side benefit of street-level outreach. Classical music can be a tough sell for younger audiences, regardless of income level.
Taking the music to where they live, showing a commitment to their neighborhoods, teaching them to play an instrument cultivates a bigger fan base, and a more diverse one.
“We’re playing offense instead of defense,” Davidoff says.


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Our PRO Peat Bog and Bog HELPR are respectively funded by the OARDC SEEDS Grant and the Ohio Water Resources Center. They aim to map and understand the current status of Ohio's peat bog ecosystems,
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and important roles in our natural environment. In addition to providing specialized habitat for a variety of unique and rare plants and animals (such as carnivorous pitcher plants or prothonotary warblers),
peat bogs provide a range of "ecosystem services" that benefit the State. Although they now cover relatively little of Ohio's land area, their services are disproportionate to their size. They
clean water, help control flooding during high rainfall events, and they store a large amount of below-ground carbon in their peat deposits. This carbon can be lost to the atmosphere as greenhouse gases when the
bogs are degraded (for example due drainage, fire or agricultural conversion). Adding their carbon to the atmosphere could help accelerate climate change potentially threatening these ecosystems even further.
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rate at which they are producing or storing greenhouse gases. Outcomes of these studies will include: i) updated status of historically-known Ohio peat bogs; ii) an understanding of how plants and
microbes influence interact to influence carbon storage in bogs; and iii) description of indicators of their restoration potential that could be used by managers assessing new sites.

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*Gloria Govan is denying rumors that say she is eyeing Vincent Herbert, the husband of reality star/singer, Tamar Braxton.
Blog site Bossip.com jumped on an opportunity to report the rumor that the former “Basketball Wives” star had eyes for the reality TV spouse just as a season that shows marital strife on “Tamar & Vince” unfolded.
But Govan was quick to refute the rumors, according to mouthtoears.com.
Recently separated from hubby Matt Barnes, Gloria reportedly told the site that she does not have eyes for Tamar’s man.
“My focus is on my sons and my business ventures. It is sad when the media does not know your business they will make anything up,” said Gloria who denies having even a friendly relationship with the music producer.
“I have never met that man nor do I know him in any other form,” she said.
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Blogger Sandra Rose has a rep for trying to start stuff. She aims for the jugular but with little to no substance behind her salacious headlines. It has been recognized that she takes pride in being messy.
She recently stated that no one cared about Solange Knowles‘ wedding (laughable), before making headlines herself when she claimed Tamar Braxton’s husband, Vincent Herbert, beats her.
Here’s what she tweeted.
The tweets went on for a while before Tamar recognized Sandra Rose as a troll and deleted the tweets she screen shot from her Instagram page. Still, you have to wonder, will Tamar go ahead with the lawsuit?
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The loss of “inner identity” has been spoken of enough in this blog and in many other books and web pages. But, there are two particular aspects of this topic that we should ponder on: a loss of a “true inner authority” and the fear towards every kind of authority and its representatives.
This tendency is all but rare, and we may say that almost every human being is subjected to this behaviour. Indeed, it may be noticed in every aspect of life: in the family circle, at work, in politics, in religion… and this denotes a singular condition of non-development of our being/essence.
Those who are involved in an inner work similar to which is followed on this blog page, know that we use the term “being” as a noun, and not a verb. For those who do not know the meaning of this term, apart from suggesting to them to read posts which could explain this term, we’ll ask them to imagine, for a moment, to consider the being (or essence) the real man or real woman – an individual. Such a being, in order to fulfill its experience in matter, needs an intellect and a physical body.
In a very small child these two means are not well-developed, but once they develop, he is pulled by the impulses of his essence/being to experience the world surrounding him in a direct way. And, this is the way the essence learns: in the first person – it “puts its nose” into everything, a behaviour that is well visible in children. So, the essence learns only through direct experience. Better said, it feeds itself from sensations and experimentation. The essence (being) “eats” impressions. What the child comes in touch with, impresses him, and his sensitivity grows in proportion to his possibilities of experimentation. The memory which permits him to associate the remembering of the various experiences allows the development of new, and gradually more complex concepts which will be validated with new concrete experiences. This is the development of the being, and denying the child the possibility to experience it directly, means to stop his development.
And, as seen in previous posts, the content which we won’t review at this time, this is what happens in our society: once the child begins to be indoctrinated through the usual schools, family’s and society’s education, the being stops its development, because this education denies the possibility of direct experimentation. Indeed, as has been said many times, education gives directives on what is good and what is bad, what is the worst to be known (and how), and what is not… a series of “do this.. don’t do that”. These vetoes become moral taboos, almost never followed by explanations, and is based on conditionings that are common to the age and society in which the child grows.
After this summary, we can enter in depth, the topic of this post. Indeed, the constant fear of authority in general, is related deeply with what is explained above. Firstly, every individual is induced, from an early age, to mechanically follow directives given by adults. During the first years of life, the directives given by the parents have not necessarily negative valences, because the child has to be directed in a clear way in order to be preserved from dangerous and harmful experiences.
Afterwards, the being stops to grow because of the impossibility to experience its life in a free way. This makes the unconscious field of every man and woman to remain substantially “childish”, thus, it is subjected to react passively to every form of authority. The intellectual center has mechanized the habit to accept every form of authority passively, and the emotional field reacts “instinctively” to the possibility of being “scolded” or punished. This situation determines the state of discomfort and fear that can be commonly noticed in every person when he gets in contact with any form of authority.
Of course, a true authority might not be determined by a social role or a position of supremacy towards others: this is not considered in terms of self-development a form of authority, but of violence towards others. A politician, a policeman, a teacher, or a priest, are not objectively authoritative only because of the role they have in this society. The same thing could be said for a famous character: indeed, the world is full of famous idiots, and this is well noticeable even through a superficial look at events in the world today.
A true authority is an inner fact: one who is really authoritative, nevermind which role he covers, possesses a nobility and a capacity for deep respect towards those that are subjected to him. The abuse of power, so common in today’s society, derives from the reason that many social positions are covered by people who do not possess such an inner authority, but only an egoic identification with the role he represents- a role achieved for – God only knows what reason.
Speaking on a grand scale, scientists, politicians, men and women of culture etc… should be represented by mature individuals who are aware of the fact that they are at the service of others, and not the opposite. These roles imply devotion and sacrifice, and not lucre and personal profit.

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Halsey has just dropped the first single and accompanying music video from her upcoming sophomore album, ‘Now Or Never’, following teasing its release last week - and we promise, it’s definitely worth the wait.
In it, she sings about a tumultuous relationship: “Been through the ups / Yeah the ups and the downs with me / Got a whole lot of love / But you don't wanna spread it 'round with me…”
The music video was directed by Sing J Lee & Halsey, and follows the ‘Romeo & Juliet’ inspiration for the concept album.
The album, ’Hopeless Fountain Kingdom’, is set for release on June 2nd. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, she revealed she’s worked with Greg Kurstin (!!!), Benny Blanco, and Ricky Reed (who's previously worked with her pals Twenty One Pilots).
She also said: “The whole reason you make a record is to figure stuff out about yourself. I had killed off a version of myself just so we could make our love work,” and: “I put the seal on that relationship and fully purged myself of the feelings for that person at the same time as I finished my record.”
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Thing 1 and Thing 2 have given birth to two reasonably successful loaves of bread. I used Rose Beranbaum's 2 day basic sourdough recipe from TBB. I made one loaf with each of the starters. The doughs were made from:
- 150 g. 50% starter
- 150 g. water
- 180 g. bread flour (my first experience with bread flour)
- 6 g. salt
Her recipe calls for mixing all ingredients, kneading for 5 minutes and then autolyzing for 20 min. After this, 5 more minutes of kneading and then a 1 hour rise. Following the first rise, the dough is folded twice and allowed to rise for another 4 hours. Then the loaves are shaped, put in a bowl lined with a floured towel and given a final 4 hour rise. I floured the towels with both AP flour and corn starch. I had a lot of flour left on Thing 2, so I think I used too much.
Dough slashed and ready for baking. Thing 2 is on the left, Thing 1 on the right
Thing 2 and Thing 1 after baking
Each of the loaves weighed just under 1 pound.
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The crumb looked pretty good to me, considering that I was using 2 new starters and bread flour for the first time. The tase was still pretty mild, but I expected that since the starters are young and I didn't do a long, cool rise. I tried to taste a difference in the flavor between the 2, but couldn't. The rest of the family devoured both loaves in about 45 minutes!
The biggest difference I noted was that Thing 1, the indoor starter did perform a bit larger and faster than Thing 2. It will be interesting to see if that trend continues over time. Now I just have to figure out how to justify keeping 2 more jars of starter.......


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Never underestimate the range and skills of Darlene Holloway, who founded the Alternative Health Center of Cary in 1992.
Lymphatic drainage massage is one of many therapies Darlene Holloway offers her clients.
She is known internationally for her skill and understanding of the colon therapy process, and in fact was tapped as the International Colon Therapist of the Year in 2009 by the International Association of Colon Hydrotherapy.
A graduate of the Florida Institute of Natural Health and the Florida School of Massage, she completed extensive studies in naturopathy over a five-year period at the Trinity School of Natural Health and has, over several decades, become expert in related therapies such as structural integration, reflexology, and a variety of massage specialties.
And so it is not surprising to find that she is vitally interested in the therapeutic power of food. For example, she is a source for raw cultured vegetables for many of her clients. Continue reading
Ms. Holloway and her colleagues are offering many clients rapid, long-lasting relief for a variety of pain issues with a high-tech neurology biofeedback device called BEST, an acronym for Biofeedback Electro-Stimulation Technology, at her Cary, NC office.
Countless numbers of patients make clear they consider time with Dr. Darlene Holloway, a naturopath, to be a healing balm.
“A critically important part of what we do here falls under the umbrella term ‘Letting go,’” she says. In fact, she brings an exceptional range of training and skills to her work in the Alternative Health Center of Cary, which she founded in 1992.
Dr. Darlene Holloway, a naturopath and founder of the Alternative Health Center of Cary, frequently serves as a healing guide for clients who are facing or recovering from surgery.
“I have been a partner in the pre- and post-surgical experience for about three decades,” she acknowledges, “and I have become keenly away that a client’s attitude about surgery has a profound impact on the outcome of the procedure. So I encourage my clients to gather information and connect with internal resources in a way that will truly serve their interests.”


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Who are Kokani Muslims? What's their cuisine? How's it different? These are some of the questions that are frequently popped to me. So I decided it’s time I did a simple series #DiaryOfAKokaniMuslim around our culture especially it's unique gastronomy and along the way also share practices prevalent in the community so that everyone gets to know us Kokani Muslims a little more.
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Risk Analysis and Control Measure of Gas Power Generation Enterprise
International Journal of Science and Qualitative Analysis
Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2017, Pages: 15-22
Received: Sep. 21, 2017;
Accepted: Oct. 23, 2017;
Published: Nov. 10, 2017
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Wang Qi-quan, Department of Safety Engineering, China University of Labor Relations, Beijing, China
Yan Xiang-dou, Department of Safety Engineering, China University of Labor Relations, Beijing, China
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In order to study the accident risk of gas power plant, and through the nearly ten years of statistical analysis of gas power plant accident, failure to get the presence of risk factors of gas power plant. Use explanation structure model, structural analysis of the identified risks, through expert for each system within the relationship between the risk factors of comparison, identify the gas leakage at the risk and risk factors, step by step under the top building structural relationships. Secondly, using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the risk factors quantitatively, the gas system is the main risk. Finally, the risk of the gas leakage accident is evaluated. Based on the case of the Jing Feng gas power plant, the safety countermeasures are put forward to provide guidance for gas generation enterprises.
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... as well as Gislaveds
that was the first true snow tire I owned - had them on a '75 Rabbit and they were awesome. I arrived at work one morning after the roads had been plowed and faced 1 foot of plowed snow about 8 feet wide at the entrance to our lot. With Gislaveds, I just plowed through it, leaving a track the shape of the ground clearance of the car. That convinced me that snows really are worth the trouble and money. And in any case, the extra cost of the snows is offset by extending the tread life of your summer tires (by sharing the wear.)
I would avoid at all cost the need to mount/unmount snows on the same rims every year. An extra set of wheels are the way to go and will take up no additional storage space.
An additional wrinkle with '06 and up vehicles is the TPM sensors. You can either buy another set or block the dash light in winter. I found another set and my tire dealer (Discount Tire
) will reprogram the truck twice a year at no extra charge. (Unfortunately Toyota does not use a self programming system so you need to have a scan tool that can do that. Most - if not all - tire dealers should have that.)
For wheels I have factory 16" steelies and for tires I use Hankook W300 Ice Bears. From some of the reviews I've seen, they sacrifice some ice and snow traction to provide better dry pavement handling. That suits me just fine as 95-98% of our winter driving (Chicago area) is on dry pavement, but for that 3-5% of the time when the roads are bad, the Hankooks give me a tremendous edge. I had Yokahama Guardex snows on our GTI. They provided better ice and snow traction but felt pretty squishy on drive pavement. They made lane changes at 70 mph ... interesting.


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Aviation technology during World War 1 (1914-1918) moved at lightning speed as both sides attempted to gain the advantage in the skies over Europe. This led to many variants and all-new aircraft designs being fielded, some lasting just a few short months at they became quickly outclassed by enemy designs. The French-originated Nieuport line of fighters ended as a deep family tree made up of various fighting aircraft with origins in the Nieuport 10 of 1914. This product advanced through popular forms like the Nieuport 1 "Bebe" and the larger, more powerful two-seat Nieuport 12 model (both detailed elsewhere on this site). The Nieuport 16 (Nie 16) was an offshoot of the line, appearing in January of 1916, and brought with it a reinforced structure and a new engine fit. It went on to operate with the air services of France, Britain, Belgium (limited), Russia (locally-produced by Dux) and Italy during its brief time in the air.
At its core, the Nieuport 16 was the Nieuport 11 aircraft modified to accept a new, more powerful engine installation in the Le Rhone 9J rotary of 110 horsepower. However, in both form and function its appearance and battlefield role changed very little and, as such, it retained much of the capability of the earlier design. This led to an aircraft with a heavy frontal section and deteriorated handling characteristics due to high wing loading. Lacking synchronized gear, a single Lewis Gun machine gun was set over the upper wing element to help clear the spinning propeller blades and this kept the weapon awkwardly far from the pilot's reach in the event of an ammunition misfeed. The biplane wings, retained from the Nie 11, were of equal span and braced by V-struts.
The Nie 16 was introduced on January 5th, 1916 and operated in the fighter / bomber escort / balloon-busting role. In the latter, the V-struts supported four Le Prieur rockets to each wing for added firepower. Once available in number, the Nie 16 quickly superseded Nie 10 and Nie 11 fighters in circulation and some of the stock were eventually given Alkan synchronization gear so machine guns could be fitted to the fuselage and fired through the spinning propeller blades. Of course this also meant that even more weight was added to the frontal section of the aircraft which further worsened the "heavy nose" attitude already exhibited by the aircraft.
The Nieuport 16 was eventually superseded itself by the Nieuport 17 model (detailed elsewhere on this site) which offered improvements in both performance and handling - leaving the Nie 16 as nothing more than a stepping stone design on the road to a more viable fighter type.
In its finalized form, the Nie 16 showcased a maximum speed of 103 miles per hour.


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Royal Thai Navy’s Naval Research and Development Office (NRDO) will also be participating in the programme that aims to create a Thai specific version of Elbit Systems’ precise and universal launching system (PULS) land based multi-purpose launcher.
The sole prototype of the system was on display at the show. The Elbit systems rocket and missile launcher is mounted on Czech Tatra multi-purpose truck.
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Automated indoor gardens in the Netherlands are an emerging trend that involves using technology to optimise plant growth and automate various gardening tasks. These indoor gardens typically use LED lights, automated watering systems, and sensors to monitor and regulate temperature, humidity, and nutrient levels.
Up until 2022, local consumers researched and prioritised growing new plants, both for food and aesthetics. However, over the forecast period, nurturing existing plants in their home gardens will be more of a priority.
The Netherlands has a temperate maritime climate, which means that the weather can be damp, grey, and cool for much of the year. This can make it difficult to grow plants outdoors, particularly during the winter months.
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In order to understand Barry Letts' three efforts as a Doctor Who novelist (The Ghosts of N-Space, Deadly Reunion, Island of Death), you first need to understand the period in which they were written. The Wilderness Years, as they've become known, was an era in which Doctor Who had no presence on television--the only way to experience the show was through an alternative medium such as books, comics or radio. However, there was still a large audience for Doctor Who stories.
More accurately, there were still two large audiences for Doctor Who stories. On the one hand, there were a large number of fans who felt like the series had been cancelled just as it was hitting its stride and reinventing itself, and they best loved those stories that pushed the boundaries of what Doctor Who had been doing over the last few years of its televised existence. (Doctor Who stories that fell into this category were usually called "rad".) On the other hand, there were a large number of fans who felt like the series had gotten too far away from its roots, and preferred stories that returned to a storytelling style more in keeping with the older episodes. (Doctor Who stories that fell into this category were called "trad".)
Barry Letts, as a former writer, producer and director for the show, was much beloved as an elder statesman figure by the fans who enjoyed "trad" Doctor Who. His heyday, the Jon Pertwee era, was to some the epitome of what the series did best. This audience was present in sufficient numbers to get Letts, along with Jon Pertwee and Lis Sladen, to reprise their roles for two radio plays on the BBC's radio network written and directed by Letts. As was generally the case, Virgin Books (who were starved for new material during the Wilderness Years) adapted the first one as a standalone novel, and the second one as part of their Missing Adventures series.
This second novel, 'The Ghosts of N-Space', proved to be something of a sticking point. Because although there were a lot of "rad" fans, and a lot of "trad" fans, they didn't necessarily congregate in the same places or look to the same sources for their Doctor Who enjoyment. And Virgin Books, with its New and Missing Adventures, was definitely the home at the time of "rad" Doctor Who. 'The Ghosts of N-Space' felt very out of place next to the New Adventures, and even somewhat out of place along the more overtly nostalgic Missing Adventures. Later, when he published 'Deadly Reunion' (with Terrance Dicks, his script editor during the Pertwee era) and 'Island of Death', the situation had in some ways gotten worse--"trad" fans had moved to the Big Finish audios, which featured the original actors reprising their parts, and Letts' novels were even less welcome. Because fundamentally, Barry Letts hadn't really changed anything about his style since the early 1970s.
His novels fell very much into the "Boy's Own" style of pulp adventures, with very thin and very straightforward plots driven by villains without much motivation beyond the desire for power for its own sake. His prose could best be described as similar to the Target novels of the 1970s, serving mainly to transcribe the events of the story with very little in the way of the stylistic flourishes that were in vogue at the time. Most of the characterization in his books came from recreating the actors' performances, although Letts did introduce a new companion in the form of Jeremy Fitzoliver. You could say that this was a radical thing to do, as Jeremy didn't fit into the mold of most companions; he wasn't very bright, or very brave, or very interesting, or even tolerable to be around for more than a few minutes. But the same qualities that made him somewhat experimental as a companion made him also pretty difficult to stomach reading about.
In short, Letts was primarily a producer and director who was asked to write, in order to please an audience that primarily wasn't paying attention to novels. As a result, the novel-reading audience that did pick up Letts' books was anything but charitable to his old-fashioned style. This isn't to say that his novels are terrible; in fact, divorced from the expectations that were placed upon them during the Wilderness Years, they're quite readable, if fairly forgettable, action-adventure novels. If they'd come out during the period they were set in, Barry Letts' tenure as producer of Doctor Who, they'd probably be quite fondly remembered. But Doctor Who had moved with the times, and it's hard not to feel as if Letts might not have been better off serving as a beloved elder statesman than as a modern author.

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Plot: After a night out of partying and left behind by her friends, Ava wakes up and sneaks back home only to find that she’s already safe in bed. But that’s not Ava – it’s someone who looks just like her. A time-traveling fugitive has stolen Ava’s body, her identity, and her life. What’s more — she’s not alone. There are others, hiding in the past, secretly living among us, plotting to alter the future. Without her body, Ava is a virtual ghost, silent and invisible to the world. And, so far as she knows, she’s the only one who can stop them and put the timeline back on course.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Banks are hoping to quicken the pace of unloading at least some of the billions of dollars of leveraged buyout debt that has been stuck on their balance sheets since last year, thanks to a further rise in bonds. U.S. junk after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s dovish-than-expected comments this week.
Banks have been selling small slices of LBO debt to some companies since early December, when optimism of easing inflation and a potential Fed pullback in rate hikes boosted demand for junk bonds .
This exercise now has more momentum on expectations that junk bond prices will continue to recover following Powell’s comments, which raised hopes of a slowdown in rate hikes and a so-called economic soft landing.
“Powell’s remarks gave the market more confidence in the possibility of a soft landing and opened the window for this rally to continue,” said Christina O’Hearn, head of leveraged loans and CLO. at Pretium Partners LLC.
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Junk bond spreads tightened by an average of 37 basis points on Thursday, the day after Powell’s remarks, from the day before, according to data from ICE BAML.(.MERH0A0).
The tightening “should make it easier for banks to sell paper at better prices,” said Jeremy Burton, portfolio manager, leveraged finance group, at PineBridge Investments.
There have been private transactions since December on the $2.5 billion term loan. Part of a $15 billion global debt financing that backed the private LBO of Citrix Systems, three sources familiar with the matter said.
In January, there was trading at 91 cents to the dollar, the sources said. That’s around September’s level when banks sold only about half of the total $15 billion in debt through a US dollar bond, leveraged loan and a loan denominated in euros. Private trades made in December were priced pennies lower, one of the sources said.
Reuters could not confirm the exact amount sold in these sales and the remaining LBO debt remains with the banks. Lead arrangers Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) and Goldman Sachs (GS.N) declined to comment.
Tens of billions of debt subscribed last year still weigh on banks’ balance sheets, including $13 billion financing the takeover of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk.
Banks could consider selling larger lots of LBO debt in primary bond markets where there has been an increase in the supply of new issues, the sources said.
In January, $20.35 billion in 25 new junk bonds were sold in the primary market, more than the $16.5 billion through 18 deals issued in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to data from Informa Markets.
“Given cheap valuations (especially for suspended debt), investors are likely to increase their demand for new paper,” said Chris Alwine, global head of credit at Vanguard. He added that demand was also outstripping supply for new issues and that would continue “until the full impact of Fed tightening increases the risk of a recession in late 2023.”
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Standing room only.
On the trip over we had some good views of Manx Shearwaters and several Harbour Porpoises (and several Common Dolphins on the trip back). I managed to get a couple of shots of the shearwaters although it was pretty tricky standing on a moving boat with lots of people standing in front of me as well! Still definitely the best shots I've ever managed of them...so far.
On arrival the boat did a circuit of the island so we could look at the seabird colonies on the Atlantic side of the island. We got good views of Guillimots, Razorbills and best of all about a dozen Puffins.
Lundy, looking from the northernmost point
Actually I've included this photo because if you look at the bird on the extreme left of the shot you might notice something a bit different. The Malvolio of the Lundy Guillemot colony? I didn't know a few Guillemots can have yellow legs, apparently they can, well obviously!
A real bonus bird just as we entered the landing bay was a Black Guillemot. It was a bit distant though.
As soon as we got off the boat Phil made a concerted effort to be first to arrive in Milcombe Valley and it certainly paid off as he saw two Turtle Doves and a Golden Oriole. I was miles behind though and due to my continuing heath problems by the time I'd made it up that very long hill to the Milcombe Valley area I was shattered. So while Phil and Bun ventured further afield I decided to remain in the Milcombe Valley area all day. It wasn't too bad though as I only missed out on a Short Toed Lark. I did see one Turtle Dove and a brief distant view of the female Golden Oriole. No photos of either though as they were definitely only in digiscoping range and I didn't take my scope along. The only other migrants in the valley apart from Swallows and House Martins were a couple of Spotted Flycatchers. The only things I got photos of though were...
These Sika Deer...
... This horrible baby Rabbit..
... and this gorgeous beast!
And some beautiful scenery of course, it makes all the difference on a fine day.
I also took a few plant photos, including the rare endemic...
... Lundy Cabbage

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