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Main cast Walter Matthau; Lee Grant; Barbara Harris; Maureen Stapleton; Louise Sorel
Genres Comedy, Drama, Romance
Description Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Set in a five star Tokyo hotel on New Year's Eve, the film follows the misadventures of various hotel staff and guests in the run-up to midnight. The plot involves numerous characters, the different problems or situations they face in the run-up to midnight, and the ways that these different storylines interact and are resolved. The film is reminiscent of the Hollywood screwball comedies of 1930s and 1940s, and explicitly references the 1932 film Grand Hotel, whose plot also followed the interlinked lives of various characters in a fictional hotel over a short period.
Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch up. Over the course of twelve years, we see four additional nights that depict how the two men grow and how their friendship changes.
Break Up Club (Chinese: åæèªªæä½ ) is a 2010 Hong Kong romance film starring Jaycee Chan and Fiona Sit. This film revolves around a website that allows users to win back lost loves, so long as they agree to break up another happy couple.
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate. And it all happens in the opulent, grandiose New York landmark hotel as a sort of tongue-in-cheek take-off on the classic movie Grand Hotel.
Mladen (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Montenegrin Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, Sonja (40), who is married to Metod (50) the chief sales manager who learns about his wife's infidelity. He assigns Mladen the toughest client - Omer, a Bosnian war veteran, who doesn't try to hide his aversion to Mladen. Everything becomes hopeless when Omer's three year old son Svendy falls over the edge of the hotel terrace and ends up in a hospital. Grim mood that prevails among the potential buyers is about to ruin the sales. Sonja and Metod blackmail Mladen to continue the sales at the hospital while Omer and his wife are waiting for their son's operation.
This erotically charged drama from Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator) traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress.
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Barb has the perfect life, or so she's been told. Somewhere down the road, she's gained a husband, kids and a career, but lost her freedom and passion for life. In an attempt to recapture the innocence of her carefree days, Barb calls her high school pals Patti, Karen and Liz together for a weekend reunion. Loosening up with a few bottles of wine, each shares their secrets and dreams. But they soon discover that they share much more - burden, responsibility and a deep dissatisfaction for where their decisions have taken them. The best friends reach out to one another for collective wisdom and guidance. But, is it enough to save these four friends and set them back on their chosen paths? A Touch of Grey is a bittersweet comedy. A poignant, soul-searching journey that explores the question, can we have it all and still be truly happy?
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Twisted, apocalyptic satire, THIS IS NOT A MOVIE envisions the end of the world through the bi-polar mind of a strung-out pop-culture addict. Starring Edward Furlong and Peter Coyote, with a jagged, atmospheric score from Slash.
The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room. The hotel room undergoes minor changes through the century, but the employees of the hotel remain unchanged, never ageing.
Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock Alley, of Stoddard Channing, she wastes no time.
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop. When she resolves to turn her back on the bloodsucking band of sisters, Louise fury knows no bounds. Lena will have to choose between immortal love and immortal life.
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although sheâs married, and heâs seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments â some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate â we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marries the sweet but naive Catherine. Even though Noelle has found a new lover, an affluent Greek named Constantin, and has started a great career as an actress, she vows revenge on her onetime lover. But once her plan is in motion, she and Larry fall in love and plot Catherine's death.
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, VICTORY stars Willem Dafoe as Axel Heyst, an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra. When the owner of a hotel offers the girl, Alma, to him for a price, Heyst agrees. Soon, Alma has convinced Heyst to take her away from the villainous Germans, and the two run to a nearly deserted island where their passionate affair blooms into a romance. However, their idyll is shattered when the German hotel owner directs a treasure seeking bandit named Mr. Jones and his assistant, Martin Ricardo (Sewell) to their hideaway, insinuating that Heyst possesses a large fortune.
Awarapan is the story of man called Shivam (Emraan Hashmi) who searched for joy but found nothing but pain and loneliness. It is the journey of a godless heartbroken lover who in order to escape from the ghosts of his tragic past dedicates himself to serve his gangster boss Malik who runs a chain of hotels in Hong Kong.
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their "time" difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?
10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Rock Hudson and Doris Day are together again! Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each otherâs methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery productâs scientist to switch to her firm.
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's father is a Rear Admiral...
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan -the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
When millionaire wheeler-dealer Edward Lewis enters a business contract with Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain in this charming romantic comedy. After Edward hires Vivian as his date for a week and gives her a Cinderella makeover, she returns the favor by mellowing the hardnosed tycoon's outlook. Can the poor prostitute and the rich capitalist live happily ever after?
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.
Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But the kids have to do some quick thinking to keep the cops off their tails.
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Question about Baumatic F60 Stainless Steel Kitchen Hood
This is a white baumatic QF6CW 60 hood and in nearly 2 years old. One of the lights blew and they are standard screw in candle bulbs. When this happened the fan then stopped working. I just wondered does anybody know if there is a fuse or something as now both lights dont work with new bulbs nor does the fan. Thanks
Take out switch assemby and check if the track of the pcb is blown - caused by the bulb goiung. you can often repair by soldering in wire links. bet you have 12a fuse in system - should be 3a. track has blown instead of the fuse
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We dimmed the lights for the 150 education students in the lecture hall, I paused for a few moments to get myself out of the day-to-day and into the storytelling space, and then I began.
Once upon a time, a strong and powerful Tzar ruled in a country far away. And among his servants was a young archer, and this archer had a horse – a horse of power, a great horse with a broad chest, eyes like fire, and hoofs of iron.
Well, one day long ago, in the green time of the year, the young archer rode through the forest on his horse of power. The trees were green; there were little blue flowers on the ground under the trees; the squirrels ran in the branches, and the hares in the undergrowth; but no birds sang.
The young archer rode along the forest path and listened for the singing of the birds, but there was no singing. The forest was silent, and the only noises in it were the scratching of tiny four-footed beasts, the dropping of fir cones, and the heavy stamping of the horse of power on the soft path.
“What has come of the birds?” said the young archer.
He had scarcely said this before he saw a big curving feather lying in the path before him. The feather was larger than a swan’s, larger than an eagle’s. It lay in the path, glittering like a flame, for the sun was on it, and it was a feather of pure gold.
Then he knew why there was no singing in the forest. He knew that the firebird had flown that way, and that the feather in the path before him was a feather from its burning breast.
The firebird, the horse of power, the Princess Vasilissa
For the next 30 minutes or so, I told the story that I had been learning pretty much off by heart. After it had finished and I got back to my room, I found that a colleague who had been present at the lecture had sent me an email.
You broke all the rules, you know. Academics don’t begin a year’s course like that. It was uncomfortable, unsettling, and I watched as, at the beginning, a number of the students in the lecture hall reached for their mobile phones, or swapped puzzled looks. I was uneasy myself, and found myself struggling with my own cynicism and impatience. At first I wanted the story to move faster. Yet I found that your story-telling put me in a different time and place. I’m not sure it’s my time and place, but once I let my resistances loose from their moorings, once I dropped my cynicism and doubt, I did notice that I’d entered the dreaming realm, where connections are made and many things are possible.
In the week that followed (last week), I listened to the students as they talked and wrote about their reactions. A couple were incensed by the implicit sexism or questionable political and moral messages.
… it did irk me that the archer got an entirely happy ending and did not seem to learn any particular moral lesson – he did the wrong thing initially picking up the feather, then he captured a beautiful innocent bird, then he kidnapped a girl, whilst the Horse of Power solved all of his problems for him and the archer triumphed and reaped all of the rewards in the end.
Others were impatient with all the repetitions, and talked about how, in today’s world, stories are told quite differently, not just with words but with sound and fast-moving images.
My response to the story was less about what the story could mean and more to do with my own feelings while listening to the story. I found it hard to settle into listening mode and felt myself more interested in the responses of the people sitting around me. Some people were concentrating on Steve and you could tell that they were listening intently. Others around me were fidgeting and seemed to be looking to others for reassurance. It was a strange situation for the majority of the lecture. For most of us, storytelling without accompanying images or sound is uncommon.
Some enjoyed the ‘time and place’ created by the story and found themselves thinking about it afterwards.
… it seemed to reflect one of the assumptions that I bring to the course and that I had been thinking about, that (in my opinion) some of the real learning that I have done has been facilitated by something that was stressful – whether it was a test, exam, trying something new, getting out of my comfort zone, being wholly responsible for something – and this is both in education and in employment.
Finally, many wondered why I had told it, and what was the moral of the story. This is a common reaction, an offshoot (I believe) of our living in a society that values the instrumental above the mythopoetic. We are taught (partly through the stories we are told when we’re young) that every story has a moral, that the purpose of storytelling is to teach children the rational rules of living together. We have lost touch with the other function of stories (and dreams), which is to put us in touch with the mythopoetic. This is less to do with how we ought to live and more to do with how life (even the life of the invisible and unconscious) actually is. Stories are like dreams. They reflect (often in weirdly wonderful ways) hidden realities about life.
At the beginning of the story, the Horse of Power tells the young archer ‘Don’t pick up the feather. If you pick up the feather, you will know the meaning of trouble.’ The archer picks up the feather, and the Horse of Power then guides the young archer through all the trials that comes his way. This is enormously confusing if you’re looking for the moral of the story. Should we listen to advice, or ignore it? Should the archer have been punished for picking up the feather, or rewarded?
But if we approach the story in a quite different (mythopoetic) frame of mind, it’s not confusing at all. If we think about the characters in a story as if they are all different aspects of the one consciousness (different parts of ourselves, if you like), then the fact that we have a voice inside us that tells us ‘don’t take risks’ and another that says ‘live life to the fullest, even if that means a less secure existence’, makes perfect sense.
One of the reasons I told this story at the beginning of a teacher education unit is that my students arrive with a cacophony of competing voices in their heads, a mixture of yearnings and doubts about what a university course can give them, of hopes and fears about what this choice to become a teacher might involve. One of the students put it this way:
Perhaps also when we have suspended belief in the real world logic and science, we have left space in our minds for the content of the story to move in, often bringing with it useful knowledge or behaviours. I don’t think it is Steve’s intent to pass on a moral message with this story, perhaps he merely wants us to be left thinking of as many reasons this story could be relevant as possible.

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Can You Be Restricted from Owning a Firearm as a Result of an Order of Protection in Arizona?
Firearm Ownership Restricted Due to an Order of Protection
Some people have asked us the question can you be restricted from owning a firearm as a result of an Order of Protection in Arizona.
The short answer is yes.
A judge may order a defendant to turn over his or her firearms if the judge finds the defendant poses a credible threat to the plaintiff or other protected persons.
The person subject to such an order must surrender his or her firearms to a local law enforcement agency.
You may, however, request the return of your firearms after the protective order expires or may seek a hearing to overturn the Order of Protection before that order expires to allow you to obtain the return of your firearms.
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Jeremy Zhao, who was only 19 years old when he ran for mayor in the last municipal election, set up a parody City of Calgary webpage where he announced he was running in the upcoming election for Ward 15. There are only 14 wards in Calgary, but Zhao's intention was to raise awareness about the municipal election and increase the turnout.
"Before I begin this post, I have to stress that there is no ward 15," Zhao said on his website politicalgary.blogspot.com (Cats, Chopsticks and Rainbows). "It kind of depresses me that I have to state that because most people probably don't know how many wards there are in Calgary."
Zhao said he was given a cease and desist order from the City of Calgary because his parody webpage was regarded as tampering.
Due to personal issues, Zhao cannot fight the City's order, though he would like to.
"I am terribly disappointed that I can't fight this because I truly don't believe my parody site of the City of Calgary ever violated anything," he said. "I wish I could give you a David versus Goliath story, but not today. Today free speech in this city took a step for the worse. However, I hope one day I will help bring it back."
Other parody accounts have surfaced on Twitter but none were taken as seriously as Zhao's. The man behind the FakeRicMcIver Twitter account, who wished to remain anonymous, shared his campaign slogan with CJSW.
"Don't vote for me because I'm beautiful," he said. "Vote for me because I have the second-best moustache on city council."
FakeRicMcIver said his satire is more entertaining than malicious, but he hopes he does get people involved in city politics and to take a closer look at candidates for themselves.
Voter turnout in the last municipal election was 19 per cent.
Mayoral candidate Ric McIver realizes that satire and parody goes with the territory of being a public figure and said that he often finds FakeRicMcIver's Tweets entertaining.

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§ Mr. Hammersley
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the agreement in principle which has been reached for the distribution through the Vatican for relief to British civilian internees in the Far East includes civilian internees in Hong Kong.
§ Mr. Eden
I presume that my hon. Friend is referring to the arrangement mentioned in my right hon. Friend the Minister of State's reply to the hon. Member for West Leyton (Mr. Sorensen) on 14th March. That arrangement does not apply to Hong Kong, where, however, £15,000 per month is being provided from British funds through the International Red Cross Committee for the relief of prisoners of war and civilian internees.


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1581 Visitors from God Clan
Ye Futian knew very well that the old couple, because their cultivation had been destroyed, had relied on their daughter to take care of them all these years. Furthermore, Ping’an needed to seek medicine frequently in order to preserve their vitality. The incident yesterday was the result.Ye Futian knew very well that the old couple, because their cultivation had been destroyed, had relied on their daughter to take care of them all these years. Furthermore, Ping’an needed to seek medicine frequently in order to preserve their vitality. The incident yesterday was the result.
They didn’t want to keep dragging Ping’an down, so they decided to depart this world peacefully. No matter what happened in the future, with Ping’an following the Great Elder, even if there was a dangerous situation, she would be far safer than she would with them.
What happened yesterday was the reason for their choice.
Ye Futian brought the bodies of the old couple back to the mountain for burial. The old man had always regarded himself as a disciple of the Sky River Great Elder, and he believed this deeply. Although Ye Futian had not personally had these experiences, he could deduce and draw many conclusions from the dialogues he heard and things that had happened.
Ping’an’s grandfather, the elder senior brother of the master, the eldest disciple of Sky River Great Elder, the Gentleman Sword Emperor, must have been admired by all.
But he and his descendants ended like this.
There was an additional tomb now on an area of the mountain. Aside from Ye Futian and Ping’an, Sky River Great Elder was also present. He stood there quietly, and his ancient face appeared exceptionally calm.
But he knew everything in his heart.
“This was the place where your grandfather cultivated, but it was abandoned later. Burying Haoran and his wife here is the only thing I can do for them,” Sky River Great Elder whispered. “Ping’an, let the dead rest in peace and don’t be too sad. Your parents must have suffered all these years, so they decided to leave this world in peace.”
“Mmm.” Ping’an knelt in front of the graves. Her tears seemed to have run dry, but her eyes conveyed a firm resolution. She would live well, not for herself, but for her parents and for her grandfather, because she was the only one who would carry on the bloodline.
“From now on, you will follow me to cultivate. If you have any questions regarding cultivation, you can always ask your Uncle-Master. Of course, you will address him as Uncle-Master while on the mountain, but in the outside world, you have to address him as Grand Uncle-Master,” Sky River Great Elder advised.
Ping’an nodded. When Grand Uncle-Master deliberately asked her to bring the message to separate his relationship with Uncle-Master and that they were never to acknowledge one another whenever they met again, she understood the meaning behind it and how she should act.
“Futian, you should also remember your master’s words,” Sky River Great Elder added.
Ye Futian turned to look at the Great Elder, then nodded seriously. He knew that some things might happen in the future, but for the master, it was an unbearable weight. There were some things the master needed to face himself.
It was just that some things required him to make a choice, no matter the price. Just as the grandmaster respected the choice of the master, he would respect it too.
In the Realm Palace, where Duan Qing resided, someone came with a message.
“Are you saying that someone killed the person who went to the Xu residence to pick a fight, and then Xu Haoran and his wife committed suicide?” Duan Qing looked at the messenger.
“Mmm.” The messenger nodded, and Duan Qing looked up into the distance, revealing a touch of sadness. Xu Haoran was considered his nephew in cultivation, someone whom many of their brothers watched growing up. After his cultivation was destroyed, there was, in fact, not much point to his life. Now that it was finally over, perhaps it was a relief of some sort.
“May you have a safe journey,” Duan Qing whispered. His oldest senior brother was unrivaled and full of righteousness, but because of it, he lost his life. His stubbornness had spelled the misery for his entire family. It was so unnecessarily painful.
There was no need for many to die.
“Do you know who killed those people?” Duan Qing asked.
The man shook his head. “He left soon after the killing. It’s been so many years, and we did not really follow Xu Haoran much anymore.”
“Indeed, it’s been so many years. But somehow, I had a feeling that something was going happen,” Duan Qing mumbled to himself. First, it was that his master had appointed a successor, and then it was the suicide of Xu Haoran and his wife, and then their daughter was sent to the mountain to cultivate.
Although these seemed to be common, trivial matters, the deaths of those unremarkable people made Duan Qing feel a little uneasy.
Who was the mysterious man that had killed them?
“Investigate carefully to see if there are any clues,” Duan Qing commanded.
“Yes, Your Highness.” The man nodded, then bowed and left.
Duan Qing was still standing there, looking thoughtful. Although things had passed for a long time, as long as the master was still alive, it would be a hidden danger concerning the Realm Palace.
The master’s strength was too powerful, as the premier person in the Tianhe Realm. Therefore, even though everything had passed by many years, they had always been watching the mountain.
As soon as there was the slightest movement, they would know immediately and report to the top.
He knew very well that the reason why his master did not die at the time was that someone above him was also protecting him. After all, he was the son-in-law of the God Clan, and maybe it was all set up for the return of that descendant.
Therefore, after the news that Sky River Great Elder had taken a successor, he decided to report to the top.
Several days later, in the land above the Realm Palace, a bright ray of light suddenly fell from the sky dome.
The entire Realm Palace was in shock, and countless eyes looked at the void above. Some frowned. Who dared to be so bold and appear directly above the Realm Palace?
Some also faintly realized something. Their pupils contracted slightly, and they vaguely guessed what had happened.
The divine light directly fell into the Realm Palace as if the entire palace was covered with a sacred glow. A group of people appeared directly above everyone.
All of them were going in that one direction.
Naturally, Duan Qing was there too, leading everyone to the ground below that group of people. He raised his head slightly, looking at those figures that descended from the sky. The proud Renhuang of Realm Palace was now slightly bowing to pay their respects.
Not only him, but many people in the Realm Palace were also paying homage at the same time. Their action alarmed those who did not quite realize it before, but finally, they understood just where these people were coming from.
Supreme Realm, the God Clan.
Although the Tianhe Realm was regarded as a very powerful realm with many Renhuang existences, also in close proximity to the area of Supreme Realm and belonging to the extended interface of the Supreme Realm in front of the behemoth that was the God Clan of the Supreme Realm, it was still not worth mentioning. Once upon a time, when the God Clan had passed down its judgment, that vast and endless the Tianhe Realm had faced the danger of extinction.
It was on account of the mediation done by the Realm Palace and having chosen the right path that the Tianhe Realm was able to continue standing until now. Otherwise, after that war, the Realm Palace of the Tianhe Realm would very possibly cease to exist.
Those who came were bathed in divine glory. The man who headed the delegation looked to be about 30 or 40 years of age. He was also a Renhuang existence with astonishing authority and power. Standing beside him was a young man with deep-set eyes that seemed to contain terrible divine aurora. When the two were standing together, they looked somewhat alike as father and son.
On both sides of them, there were several elders, but the light emitted from them was far more restrained, and their breath was hardly detectable. However, Duan Qing felt that these were actually the stronger characters, especially the old man standing in the very back. When his eyes glanced at Duan Qing, it made Duan Qing feel a sense of imminent danger.
He was a Renhuang existence, which just accentuated how terrifying the old man’s realm was.
Clearly, this time, the delegation that was dispatched to come down to the bottom was very strong.
Any matter concerning the Sky River Great Elder, no matter how great or small, would not be taken lightly by the God Clan.
At this time, in the direction of the highest hall inside the Realm Palace, an old man came through the void. The old man was wearing a golden royal robe, and he was extremely majestic. Many people bowed down to worship, as the person who had arrived was the master of the Realm Palace of the Tianhe RealmEmperor of the Tianhe Realm.
“Everyone came from the Upper Worlds. You must be tired. I have ordered a feast for you,” the Realm Emperor said. Many were shocked to hear that the Realm Emperor had personally greeted these guests, and only those from the Upper Worlds could enjoy this treatment.
“The Realm Emperor is too kind; there is really no need. Let’s get to business first,” said the person who headed the delegation of the Upper Worlds, his eyes surveying the crowd. He asked, “Respectfully, Realm Emperor, who do we talk to regarding this business matter?”
“Duan Qing.” The Realm Emperor looked at Duan Qing just as Duan Qing took a step forward.
“Tell us everything in detail,” the man said to Duan Qing. Duan Qing nodded and gave a detailed account of the recent events. The other looked calm after hearing it, and it was hard to tell how they felt.
“Uncle has not had any visitors in a long time. Let’s visit uncle since it’s been many years.” As the man spoke, he turned and walked directly toward the mountains where the Sky River Great Elder was cultivating.
Many people in the Realm Palace heard this appellation. With a quiver in their hearts, they thought that the Sky River Great Elder was indeed powerful. He was accepted by the God Clan. If he did not walk the wrong path, he would definitely be at the top of the Supreme Realm.
Even for those prominent men from the God Clan, when they saw him, they still had to call him uncle. Conversely, those at the Realm Palace trembled and shivered when they saw the people from the Upper Worlds.
“You, go and see,” the Emperor of Tianhe Realm said to Duan Qing. Duan Qing nodded and followed along, walking in that direction.
On the mountain, before they even arrived, Sky River Great Elder had already sensed it.
At this time, he and Ye Futian were standing in front of the mountain while Xu Ping’an stood quietly at the back, gazing into the distance.
“They are here,” Sky River Great Elder whispered. Ye Futian did not ask. He would know who was coming when he saw them.
Sure enough, shortly after, radiant divine light descended, and a group of people seemed to cross the void and appear directly in front of the mountain, standing above the void.
They stopped there, with Duan Qing behind. When he saw this, Ye Futian knew who was coming.
The people of the Upper Worlds had arrived!

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More than 35 million Americans suffer from Hashimoto’s—the country’s fastest-growing autoimmune disease, which affects the thyroid gland and causes the body to attack its own cells. Symptoms can include weight gain, fatigue, hair loss, persistent pain, chronic cough, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, and brain fog. And many individuals who suffer the symptoms of this debilitating disease may not even be aware that they have it.
On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru, talks to Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP, an internationally acclaimed thyroid specialist and licensed pharmacist who has dedicated her career to addressing the root causes of autoimmune thyroid disease after being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in 2009. Dr. Wentz is the author of two New York Times best selling books Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause and Hashimoto’s Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back. She recently released her third book, Hashimoto’s Food Pharmacology.
In this episode, Dhru and Izabella talk about the standard care of treating Hashimoto’s versus her approach of treating the root cause, as well as the importance of proper testing for an accurate diagnosis. They discuss what nutrients are required for thyroid function and what foods are especially beneficial to those with Hashimoto’s. They also talk about creating healthy habits to help revitalize the immune system and the importance of community in the process of healing.
In this episode, we dive into:
- What is Hashimoto’s and what are the common symptoms (4:03)
- Izabella shares her story of being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s (6:00)
- How Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism affect the brain (9:30)
- How environmental toxins impact the thyroid (18:19)
- Why food plays such an important role in Hashimoto’s (24:21)
- The importance of removing gluten and dairy if you have Hashimoto’s (25:55)
- How to determine if you have a food allergy or food sensitivity (32:04)
- The benefits of doing an elimination diet (33:55)
- Histamines and how they can cause symptoms of Hashimoto’s (38:42)
- The link between iodized salt and autoimmune disease (42:41)
- How fluoride suppresses thyroid function (48:54)
- Izabella’s perspective on using medication for Hashimoto’s (52:24)
- How chronic infections affect the thyroid (61:19)
- Supplements for Hashimoto’s (63:38)
- Izabella shares what she eats on a daily basis (66:45)
- Learn more about Izabella and her work (76:41)
I know you’ll love this episode of The Broken Brain Podcast as much as I did.
Wishing you health and happiness,
Mark Hyman, MD
PS – For more on Dr. Izabella Wentz, be sure to follow her on Instagram @izabellawentzpharmd, and on Facebook @thyroidlifestyle. Check out her website https://thyroidpharmacist.com. You can find her books, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause, Hashimoto’s Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back, and her newly released book, Hashimoto’s Food Pharmacology: Nutrition Protocols and Healing Recipes to Take Charge of Your Thyroid Health, right here.

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Taft, CA – According to KBAK, the bicyclist victim of a hit-and-run crash found near Gardner Field Road on the morning of Sunday, February 4, 2024, has been identified by the Kern County Coroner’s Office as 56-year-old Alfred Allen Arguelles of Taft.
While the time of the accident is unknown, emergency responders found Arguelles in the vicinity of Gardner Field Road, west of Commerce Way in Taft, just after 7 AM. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigations continue into the vehicle that killed him and those responsible.
Hit-And-Run Bicycle Accidents
Cyclists are owed a “duty of care” from drivers no matter where they meet. Motorists are legally obligated to monitor the roads ahead, and all mirrors and blind spots, for any rider who may be nearby. Drivers must hit the brakes to avoid any chance of a collision. This legal responsibility stems from the fact that cyclists travel with little to no protection when alongside heavier and faster cars, trucks, and SUVs.
Drivers must also stop once a collision has occurred to get medical attention for a cyclist as fast as possible. Remaining on the scene, turning on hazard lights, and blocking off traffic also reduce the chances of the victim being struck by approaching motorists who may not be able to see an injured cyclist down in the street.


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Dr. Udaya Ballal
Dr. Udaya, Orthopedics specialist working at Aster Clinic Bur Dubai (AJMC)
He has completed his MBBS in the year 1980 from University of Mysore and MS Orthopedics in the year 1986 from Karnataka University, Dharwad. He is having around 24 years of experience in various hospitals. For the past 20 years he is associated with DM Healthcare. He joined DM Healthcare as G P Orthopaedics specialist in the year September 1996. Now Dr. Udaya is working as a Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon at Aster Clinic, Bur Dubai (Aster Jubilee Medical complex)Education
- 1980 – MBBS – University of Mysore.
- 1986 – MS. (Ortho) – Karnataka University, Dharwad.
- Trauma surgeon – Sanjay Gandhi Accident Centre, Bangalore.
- General trauma
- Sports Medicine
English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tulu.

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It's official since July 2018 !
La Romieu among the most beautiful Village of France.
The commune of Romieu has just been enthroned in the very selective circle of 160 "Most Beautiful Villages of France".
Since June 29, 2018, the quality commission of the prestigious association has retained the request of the Village "La Romieu".
Because of its exceptional heritage, it is therefore among the French villages to visit during your holidays in the Gers.

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Guest essay by Leo Goldstein
The Left implemented a novel technique of the Big Lie that I will call a Flooding Fake here. This technique was especially widely used by climate alarmism. This is what it looks like:
- An important figure or organization on the Left is caught doing something wrong, saying something outrageous, or blatantly lying.
- The Left injects into public discourse an absolutely fake, but believable, account of this action and immediately “debunks” this account.
- The fake narrative is accepted by the public as truth because the public knows that something similar has happened. The immediate debunking is rejected as a cover-up attempt.
- Later, when people accuse the original wrongdoer they use elements of the fake narrative. This is when “fact checkers” jump on them. Fake news networks accuse honest statesmen and commentators of spreading fake news. The liberals’ conviction that the conservatives are stupid and uninformed gets deeper. Google buries honest pieces far from public sight. Facebook tries to prevent their sharing. Leftist politicians cry that they lost elections because of fake news.
An example is a global cooling scare of the 70s. In 1977, Time magazine published an issue under the following cover:
That cover is a seriously inconvenient truth for climate alarmists and their media accessories. So, Time attempted to re-write a history. It published a forged version of its own cover, the left one on the following picture (the “Time-2013-version-of-1977”):
…and then easily debunked it as a photoshopped version of its April 2007 cover (3). As I will explain below, Time magazine knew it was launching a hoax. The rest of the liberal media popularized it, although it could have easily recognized it. Snopes adopted it (4), invented additional details that were not present in the Time article, and angrily condemned “climate deniers.” Quotes from Snopes:
A rhetorical technique commonly employed by anthropogenic climate change deniers to diminish climate science is to reference fears some scientists had over the prospect of global cooling in the 1970s.
One commonly shared pairing, floating around the internet since at least 2013, purports to show two covers of Time Magazine: A 1977 issue … As noted by Time itself in 2013, the 2006 image on the right is an authentic cover, but the 1977 image is a doctored version of an 9 April 2007 issue which actually featured an article titled “The Global Warming Survival Guide”
I don’t know when Snopes published that, because Snopes had its history erased from archive.org. Archive.org (that calls itself the Wayback Machine) is an Amazon-owned service that stores copies of web pages and sites for posterity. Some pages and sites are not stored because they are not popular, are forbidden to crawlers, or are hard to save. But Snopes.com “has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.” Snopes.com is the first website I encounter that has been excluded. That means it has forbidden archive.org to crawl its site and demanded to take down already saved data. That makes sense. Snopes is a fact checker – it checks facts to ensure they match the party line. In such cases, the party line is usually thin and changes frequently, so Snopes does not want 3rd parties to keep the history of changes. Think Orwell, 1984.
But everyone who lived through the 70’s knows that any climate worries at the time were about cooling, and many know that one 1977 Time issue reflected these worries. Some climate realists googled the cover of that issue, and what they found was a fabrication. Not aware of that, they fell into the trap and posted this fabricated picture as a proof. Even the website of Dr. Roy Spencer fell a victim. Then, climate alarmists had a joyful and profitable time “debunking” the forgery they and/or their accomplices had created. This trick has been repeated multiple times with other arguments, convincing the majority of onlookers that climate realists are liars or simply ignorant.
After Snopes finally established this Flooding Fake narrative, the fake-stream media have been giving it the megaphone. Google and, probably, Facebook use it to “fact check” news and ordinary search results. This is how this looks in Google:
The first Google search result says that Donald Trump is behind the hoax, created by the Time magazine four years ago, and links to a fresh Time article (6), repeating and amplifying the hoax. A Wikipedia entry (7) is the second result, and Snopes comes third. Snopes result is “fact-checked” by Snopes itself. Thus, Google simply cons a user with its “fact check.” This is a recurrent occurrence, not an exception. Google knows that Snopes is untrustworthy from the fact that Snopes has expunged its history form archive.org. Snopes is also known to be hyper-partisan, but so is Google, and it might be excused for taking their political alignment as an evidence of objectivity by Snopes. Google also knows that it is a search engine, and fact checking is none of its business.
Of course, this fact-checking by Google and some “social media” websites is nothing but a political censorship. Google is a monopoly created by the Obama administration through failure to enforce anti-trust laws, and then through subjecting the Internet use of 300 million citizens to the Title II regulation for the benefit of Google and other content providers. I dare to say that through Google, Facebook, and some other hand-picked corporate favorites, the Obama administration attempts to control our speech from the grave.
I guess that climate alarmists launched this specific misinformation operation in response to the Global Cooling Compilation article, published by Anthony in March 2013. The WUWT article featured the correct 1977 Time cover.
Notorious Greg Laden published an article with the forged Time-2013-version-of-1977 picture in ScienceBlogs on June 4, 2013 (5). The article was allegedly penned by some David Kirtley. In the article, Kirtley explained the origin of the picture as “A few days ago a facebook friend of mine posted the following image“. Two days later, Time magazine published its own piece, which has launched the forged Time-2013-version-of-1977 picture into mass circulation. The piece but gave a nod to Kirtley and ScienceBlogs. Time magazine claimed that the forged picture was found on a page of a linked page on a conservative site called UncommonDescent.com. I cannot say whether that picture was on that site at any time. But by the time the Time article was published, that page on UncommonDescent.com had not a picture, but this text:
It turns out the Time magazine cover “How to Survive the Coming Ice Age” is a photoshopped fake. However, while the cover is a fake, Time was in fact printing stories about fears of global cooling in the 70’s. See here. And so was Newsweek. See here. And the National Science Board. See here. And Science. See here. And several other sources summarized here. We regret the error of putting the fake Time cover up. However, the point we were trying to make remains valid.
The post is still there and contains links. It’s impossible to say from the text whether the photoshopped cover was the same as the one published later by Time. Most important: the post was dated by April 12, 2012 – more than a year before Time magazine published its Time-2013-version-of-1977 forgery. It is easy to verify the page on UncommonDescent.com has been saved in archive.org on April 19, 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120419223508/https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/time-cover-fake-1970s-global-cooling-fears-not/.
The “original source” of the fake cover is hard to trace. It is almost certainly somebody in the climate alarmism camp: the real cover from 1977 was very clearly making a point against climate alarmism. But the point of entry of the forgery into mass circulation was Time magazine, June 6 of 2013. Good job, motherf*ckers.
This is not an outlier, but a repeating pattern. The most damaging case is “uncertainties” in the predictions of complex climate models. Of course, real scientists, physicists and mathematicians, used to say that there were “uncertainties” in the predictions of climate models, but only out of politeness. They really meant that those models were bullsh*t.
I could not believe such things would gain traction in a free society on such scale, and I still don’t believe. It might be that the U.S. was not a free society in the second term of the Obama administration, and that the remnants of the Obama regime have been in #resistance since the unexpected defeat in the elections.
In the next two days, a Google lawyer will speak to the Senate Intelligence Committee and will attempt to steer its attention to a non-existent “Russian collusion”. He or she will lie and present cherry-picked or outright fabricated “evidence.” If the government wants to know the truth about extent to which Google aided foreign powers to interfere in the US elections and politics, it should not listen to Google representatives, but to send FBI to physically enter Google’s premises, to copy all of its code and data, and to start interrogating executives and sysadmins (after obtaining an appropriate court order, of course).
In this example, multiple entities are involved: Google, Snopes, Time magazine, and ScienceBlogs. They are independent entities, but each of them knowingly plays its own well-defined role in the chain of injection, amplification, propagation, and utilization of a lie. Thus, they might be referred to as a single body.
The Flooding Fake is different from a strawman fallacy. The Flooding Fake is a political operation, rather than a fallacy. Accordingly, in a strawman fallacy, the strawman is not disseminated outside of the original debate, and does not convince the opponent. The Flooding Fake is disseminated very broadly and eventually takes over some opponents.
The Flooding Fake is related to two other PR techniques of the left: fake opponents (like “fossil fuels interests”), and fake debate subject.
Another example of the Flooding Fake at work is the funny meme Al Gore – the inventor of the Internet. In fact, Al Gore pretended to be much more, almost a Creator of the Internet [link]. I did not check who was the first to utter that meme. It might have been a misspeaking analyst or politician on the right. But the “first source” does not matter because it is not broadly read or viewed, if at all. What matter is who injected the fake meme into the broad circulation.


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Mitochondria in age-related disease: the importance of heteroplasmy
Each cell contains numerous energy-producing structures called mitochondria, each with its own mitochondrial genome (mtDNA). As a result, a single cell can contain mitochondria with different genetic variants at the same locations in their individual mtDNA — a phenomenon known as mitochondrial heteroplasmy. While rare mtDNA mutations can lead to a variety of extremely uncommon but severe clinical disorders, mitochondrial genetic variation is also thought to contribute to common age-related cardiometabolic diseases, but the role of heteroplasmy in age-related disease has not been established.
IRP researchers led by Daniel Levy, M.D., sequenced the mtDNA of 356 Framingham Heart Study participants, ultimately identifying 2,880 unique mutations, as well as 11 ‘hot spots’ in the mitochondrial genome where genetic mutations were more common in older individuals. Four of those mutations were predicted to result in the creation of altered mitochondrial proteins, which may directly impact cellular energy production and would likely lead to severe disease if they were present across cellular mitochondria.
This research extended previous findings that healthy individuals carry many low-frequency mitochondrial heteroplasmy mutations with potentially detrimental effects to uncover specific age-related heteroplasmic mutations that are likely to be harmful. While the effect of a single deleterious mtDNA mutation may be minimal, the aggregate effects of many such mutations may cause changes in mitochondrial function that contribute to age-related diseases. The identification of age-related mtDNA mutations is an important step toward understanding the genetic architecture of age-related diseases and may lead to development of novel therapeutic targets for such diseases.
Liu C, Fetterman JL, Liu P, Luo Y, Larson MG, Vasan RS, Zhu J, Levy D. Deep sequencing of the mitochondrial genome reveals common heteroplasmic sites in NADH dehydrogenase genes. (2018). Hum Genet. 137(3):203-213.
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Electric Vehicles (EVs) have been around over a century and have been very popular and practical in some areas. In other areas, not so much. They are perfect for forklifts, golf cars and neighborhood vehicles. Even delivery vehicles with a fixed, predictable route.
Electric automobiles were tried early on and their usefulness was limited. The same goes today, but they are becoming more practical. Good thing, because the government seems Hell bent on forcing everybody to get one.
There are a problems with everybody getting one. They can’t build them fast enough. There isn’t enough copper and rare earth materials for the motors. We don’t have enough lithium and cobalt for the batteries. Not everybody can afford one. Not everybody wants one. On the other hand, nobody wants to pay $4-5 a gallon, or more, for gas.
Hurry up and wait! Standard government procedure. We have the materials in this country, but the government won’t let the miners mine. There needs to be a coordinated effort to get this done if we are going to do it.
Then there is the other problem. How do we find enough electricity to charge the cars when many parts of the US and other countries can barely keep the lights on? They shut down the coal plants, knock down the hydroelectric dams and turn off the nukes. How’s that going to help? I guess we’ll just have to do it ourselves. I do.
I own 4 electric vehicles, with more on the way. No electric road cars, mind you. My most-used road vehicle only has 280,000 miles on it and it just got a new fan belt, so it’ll be a while before I need a new car. I figure if they get a Supercharger station at every Interstate rest area and Cracker Barrel restaurant, a 400 mile battery car will be ready for prime time. They exist, but they cost more than I am willing to pay.
In the meantime, my farm and recreational EV fleet is charged by solar…very carefully.
There are the two electric trucklets, proof that someone with idle time and a torch should not be left unsupervised. The gray one, is based on a Yamaha G19 golf car (not cart) and the other (red) is based on a Zone NEV. Previously I had full sized pickups for farm chores and these jalopies are actually better than the pickups. These have been fitted with a forklift plug. They can plug into a standard 48v charger, running from the main solar power system’s inverter, or they can plug directly into the solar power system’s battery stack. If not in use, the buggies can each contribute another 10kwh of storage to the system.
The ZERO electric motorcycle would be great in town. Out where I live, with a limited range of maybe 50 miles, I can go the 32 mile round trip to the bank or the barber. I guess that’s fine. It has to plug into AC from the solar power system.
Then there is Sun King, the electric launch. It is solar powered, so it pretty much takes care of itself. I have traveled thousands of miles in this boat! When stored in the shed, there are three panels outside and a dedicated charge controller to keep it fresh. Sun King can serve as a backup power source, with 7.5kwh battery and 5kw inverter aboard. Maybe I should charge the Zero with the launch!
The bike and the buggies are my main concern and there are special considerations with my present system capacity.
First, the plug-in golf car charger and the motorcycle both have something in common with your new Tesla’s 120v charge plug. They connect to a standard outlet and they pretty much suck out as much power as it can give. That means you can’t do much else with that circuit when a vehicle is charging. I have the motorcycle charger on a different circuit from the buggies so they can charge at the same time and only one charger for two buggies. I only have two 120 circuits in the shop, so forget using the air compressor or other big load.
Then there is the capacity of my solar source. Because the motorcycle never completely turns off, I leave it plugged in all the time. However, I have it on a timer, plain old appliance timer, so that it charges only during the day when there is usually plenty of power. But there are cloudy days and, for some reason, that’s when the wife likes to run the clothes dryer. You get the central air, Man Cave a/c and the clothes dryer going on a cloudy day and you may not get the battery bank topped up if charging buggies. So I charge buggies when the sun is out and the dryer is idle.
Another buggy and an electric aircraft are in the works, as is a solar-powered yacht. The yacht project has languished, but when the airplane is finally delivered it will need to be charged. My plan is to park the yacht next to the hangar and get started on the yacht’s power plant. Two birds with one stone. Shared resources. I can’t use both of them at the same time, ya know.
Now what if I broke down and bought an EV or PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid)? Yeah, I’ve thought about that. For MY driving, I’d use the 120v cord. For near errands I would just as soon go on the ebike or the big Honda. My wife, on the other hand, is a goer, but there is a good chance she could get by with the 120 cord. The power rate of the 120 cord would not require major system upgrades, though a few extra panels to help out on cloudy days would be desirable.
If I were still working, I’d have a commute of around 100 miles, daily. I think now we are talking PHEV or going to a faster 240v charger. That’s where it gets tricky, because all of this power is coming from solar panels, batteries and inverters. Either that or there’d be a heckuva power bill.
First, I’d need more power source. As it happens, I am in talks with John Kimball about getting another pallet of solar panels. Batteries? As long as I could charge in the daytime I’d be okay, but most people work day jobs! The extra panels could be arranged to maximize early morning and late afternoon charging and, if I had a 400 mile car it would work out, at least in the summer. In winter, a trip to the Supercharger station might be needed once or twice per week.
Then there is the matter of inverter capacity. As it happens, I have a backup inverter that could supply the 50 amps of 240v to a fast charger. The fast charger would use more power than the house! What does an extra 10-12kw inverter cost? It adds up.
So, yes, I am using solar for vehicle charging and making expansions for the future. As far as a new car goes, I think I will opt for a PHEV. It may be the best of both worlds. A Ford Escape (ugly little car), for example, could make it to Walmart without the engine starting. It would run the engine most of the way home. A trip to the bank or barber would run 100% on sunshine.


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nspired by by the resetting of their 2015 production of La Traviata, director Paul Curran and set/costume designer Gary McCann team up again to bring CARMEN to a nearer past, set in a beautiful Havana-esque 1950’s.
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2.1 Define the terra solution. How many types of solutions are formed? Write briefly about each type with an example.
2.2 Give an example of a solid solution in which the solute is a gas.
2.3 Define the following terms:
2.4 Concentrated nitric acid used in laboratory work is 68% nitric acid by mass in aqueous solution. What should be the molarity of such a sample of the acid if the density of the solution is 1.504 g mL-1?
2.5 A solution of glucose in water is labelled as 10% w/w, what would be the molality and mole fraction of each component in the solution? If the density of solution is 1 .2 g m L-1, then what shall be the molarity of the solution?
2.6 How many mL of 0.1 M HCl are required to react completely with 1 g mixture of Na2C03 and NaHCO3 containing equimolar amounts of both?
2.7 A solution is obtained by mixing 300 g of 25% solution and 400 g of 40% solution by mass. Calculate the mass percentage of the resulting solution.
2.8 An antifreeze solution is prepared from 222.6 g of ethylene glycol, (C2 H6O2 ) and200 g of water. Calculate the molality of the solution. If the density of the solution is 1.072 g mL-1, then what shall be the molarity of the solution?
2.9 A sample of drinking water was found to be severely contaminated with chloroform (CHCl3), supposed to be a carcinogen. The level of contamination was 15 ppm (by mass).
2.10 What role does the molecular interaction play in a solution of alcohol and water?
2.11 Why do gases always tend to be less soluble in liquids as the temperature is raised?
2.12 State Henry’s law and mention some important applications.
2.13 The partial pressure of ethane over a solution containing 6.56 × 10-3 g of ethane is 1 bar. If the solution contains 5.00 × 10-2 g of ethane, then what shall be the partial pressure of the gas?
2.14 What is meant by positive and negative deviations from Raoult’s law and how is the sign of AmixH related to positive and negative deviations from Raoult’s law?
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2.18 Calculate the mass of a non-volatile solute (molar mass 40 g mol-1) which should be dissolved in 114 g octane to reduce its vapour pressure to 80%.
2.19 A solution containing 30g of non-volatile solute exactly in 90 g of water has a vapour pressure of 2.8 kPa at 298 K. Further, 18g of water is then added to the solution and the new of vapour pressure becomes 2.9 kPa at 298 K. Calculate
2.20 A 5% solution (by mass) of cane sugar in water has freezing point of 271 K. Calculate the freezing point of 5% glucose in water if freezing point of pure water is 273.15 K.
2.21 Two elements A and B form compounds having formula AB2 and AB4. When dissolved in 20g of benzene (C6H6), 1 g of AB2 lowers the freezing point by 2.3 K whereas 1.0 g of AB4 lowers it by 1.3 K. The molar depression constant for benzene is 5.1 K kg mol-1. Calculate atomic masses of A and B.
2.22 At 300 K, 36g of glucose present in a litre of its solution has an osmotic pressure of 4.08 bar. If the osmotic pressure of the solution is 1.52 bars at the same temperature, what would be its concentration?
2.23 Suggest the most important type of intermolecular attractive interaction in the following pairs:
2.24 Based on solute-solvent interactions, arrange the following in order of increasing solubility in n-octanc and explain.
2.25 Amongst the following compounds, identify which are insoluble, partially soluble and highly soluble in water?
2.26 If the density of some lake water is 1.25 g mL-1 and contains 92g of Na+ ions per kg of water, calculate the molality of Na+ ions in the lake.
2.27 If the solubility product of CuS is 6 x 10-16, calculate the maximum molarity of CuS in aqueous solution.

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AL.com NFL mock draft: Who will be QB1?
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Scarbinsky: There’s good news in the bad end to Alabama’s great season
Nate Oats and the Crimson Tide returned home from Louisville not to a raucous celebration but a massive contradiction. It’s a place no college basketball program wants to be and every college basketball program hopes to reach. Call me crazy, but hear me out. Getting knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by San Diego State made a powerful point. Alabama basketball has arrived.
AJ McCarron completes 19 consecutive passes in Battlehawks’ victory
St. Louis defeated Vegas 29-6 on Saturday night.
Nick Saban has words for ESPN’s Jay Bilas about NCAA tournament bracket
Alabama football coach was not impressed with ESPN personalities' take on March Madness.
Levi Wallace played for Steelers after being stricken by Bell’s palsy
The former Alabama cornerback said: “I know that God was never going to give me more than what I could handle.”
Jarran Reed comes ‘home’ in NFL free agency
The former Alabama defensive tackle is happy to have returned to his original team after two years away.
Nick Saban looking for ‘quick impact’ from Alabama’s mid-year enrollees
Crimson Tide added 22 freshmen, 2 JUCO transfers, 2 Division I transfers for spring
AJ McCarron applies Game of the Century anecdote
The Battlehawks quarterback advises his teammates to keep things in perspective and have fun playing as they chase an XFL playoff berth.
Bryce Young on pro day; Carolina’s Steve Smith gushes over Alabama QB, says he should be first pick
Former Carolina Panthers star did nothing but praise Bryce Young.
What they are saying about Bryce Young’s pro day at Alabama: ‘He processes at another level’
Bryce Young's throwing performance drew immediate reviews on Thursday.
Watch Bryce Young throw at Alabama pro day; Nick Saban has great reply to height concerns
Bryce Young made the most of his chance at pro day in Tuscaloosa.
Alabama’s Nick Saban reveals his biggest nemesis in college, NFL
Alabama coach meets with media during Tide's pro day in Tuscaloosa on Thursday.

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Romelu Lukaku has no plans to return to Chelsea after his loan spell ends with Inter Milan, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.
Lukaku re-joined the Serie A side for a season-long loan only one year after his club-record £97.5m move to Chelsea.
The Belgium striker fell out with former manager Thomas Tuchel after scoring just eight Premier League goals in 2021/2022.
It had been expected that Lukaku could get a fresh chance at Stamford Bridge after Graham Potter replaced Tuchel.
However, it is now understood that Lukaku still does not want a return to the Blues.
Inter don’t have a purchase option and will look to loan the 29-year-old once again for the 2023/2024 season.


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Everyone in Europe who had come across Gotthold Kröger during his early years as a classics scholar knew he was destined for greatness—no one, though, could have predicted the extraordinary nature of his eventual achievement. Gotthold Kröger, the continent’s leading scholar of ancient Greek and Latin literature, had by the age of thirty become world-renowned for his brilliant commentaries upon the greatest works of the ancient Mediterranean literary world, but even into his seventies his greatest goal—the discovery of an ancient manuscript that would forever alter humanity’s picture of the world of antiquity—had still eluded him. He had labored tirelessly for five decades in countless libraries across the continent in search of such a prized finding: in Athens, Acre, and Cairo, he had sifted through a near-infinite number of papyrus fragments; in Istanbul, Damascus, and Thessaloniki, he had scrutinized innumerable vellum parchment scrolls; in Rome, Paris, London, and Berlin, he had poured through a myriad of paper-bound codices, but all his efforts had been for naught. He had not found a single scrap of text that would secure his place in the annals of archaeology nor a single manuscript that would transform humankind’s conception of itself.
And so, at the age of seventy-seven, the celibate scholar Gotthold Kröger travelled to Italy and arrived at the Laurentian Library, the great library of the Medicis in Florence.
He had told his colleagues that this would be his final sojourn at a library in search of the kind of world-shattering manuscript he had been looking for, and had said that if he didn’t find anything there, he would return to his native Hamburg and retire, content that he had given the quest his all, but disappointed that he had not accomplished what he had set out to do all those years ago.
Those who saw the old, gaunt, white-haired scholar in his tailored gray suit and black derby hat walking with a cane to the Piazza San Lorenzo each morning at dawn and limping back to his hotel on Borgo Pinti after midnight each night were at first startled to see such a worn-down-looking old man enfeebling himself even further with his excessively arduous research work, but upon learning something of the nature of the man and his world-renowned scholarly pursuits, they decided to simply wonder in perplexity and amazement at what it was that he may have been up to inside the library rather than attempting to get him to ease up on his work for the sake of his health.
“Doktor Kröger,” said Piero Rossi, Gotthold’s old colleague from the University of Bologna, while chancing upon Gotthold returning from the library one night with a bundle of books in one arm and his cane in the other, “I fear if you keep this up, you’re going to kill yourself.”
“Professor Rossi,” responded Gotthold, pushing his round wire-framed glasses up his long, angular nose, “if I don’t succeed in finding what I am looking for, then I will have lived a wasted life and might as well be dead.”
And so Gotthold Kröger labored unremittingly day and night, combing through the endless stacks of the Laurentian Library’s ancient volumes and scouring the secret vaults of the Medici Family, stopping only at midday for two slices of focaccia bread and a bowl of olives before returning to his fruitless, interminable, mysterious work. After five months of ceaseless searching, about ready to give up his quest and head back to Hamburg, Gotthold, in unspeakable frustration over his immense failure, dropped his pile of ancient books upon one of the library’s old carved wooden desks, accidentally puncturing a hole in the priceless piece of Renaissance-era furniture. While stretching his hand into the hole in the desk and trying to pull out one of the books which had fallen into the cleft, he felt a crisp, slightly creased piece of parchment. He pulled it out, pushed his glasses up to the bridge of his nose, and gazed with astonished steel-blue eyes at the well-preserved manuscript he was clutching in his bony, withered hands. “Propter eos qui perspicuae veritatis luce delectantur,” read the hand-written title page. “For those whose delight is the clear light of truth,” whispered Gotthold, translating the ancient Roman script to himself.
“Good Lord,” he gasped, holding the manuscript in front of his deeply lined, clean-shaven, waxen face. “It is the Veritatis Luce…the long-lost, most prized manuscript in the history of ancient civilization…here it is, the Veritatis Luce, in my very own hands…and it is mine, all mine…”
Shiftily darting his eyes around the Mannerist, Michelangelo-designed terra cotta-paneled reading room to make sure no one was looking, he quickly tucked the manuscript inside his jacket, left his stack of sewn-bound books on the shattered wooden desk, and inched soundlessly out of the library and into the strong, pure light of Florence at midday. Making his way as quickly as he could to the trattoria on Via del Sole where he was sure he would find Piero Rossi working on a manuscript of his own, Gotthold inwardly exulted, jubilant with the thought that his lifelong devotion to classical learning, and his decision to forgo a family life for the sake of the world-changing contributions he always knew he would eventually make to human knowledge, had finally, at long last, so dazzlingly paid off.
“What is it, Gotthold?” asked Piero upon seeing his old friend amble up to his small table at the back of the restaurant.
“It is true, Piero,” said Gotthold, lowering his voice and quickly gazing around the restaurant’s Roman-arched walls to make sure no one was listening to them.
“What is, Gotthold?”
“The legend of the Veritatis Luce…”
“The Mithraic manuscript that scholars for centuries have claimed to be hidden somewhere in Europe but has still never been found?”
“It is no legend, Piero…”
“What are you saying, Gotthold?”
“Piero…” whispered Gotthold, leaning forward and unearthing the manuscript from inside the folds of his jacket, “I…” he continued, his voice quavering as he placed the manuscript on the white linen tablecloth, “have found…the Veritatis Luce…”
“Good heavens, Gotthold!” he exclaimed, his eyes widening and his voice rattling. “…The Veritatis Luce…the ancient knowledge, passed down orally for generations upon generations from the beginning of time until it was eventually transcribed by a member of the Cult of Mithras in the first century A.D. but was soon lost and has still never been found….the most valuable manuscript known to humankind, rumored to contain the most secret teachings of civilization and a guide for those who wish to acquire the scientia deorum, the knowledge of the gods…it has always been rumored to have existed, but I never believed it actually did…”
“Neither did I, Piero…but it does…and here,” he said, running his hand over the yellowed parchment, “is the proof…”
The two old men gazed in silence for a several minutes at the mysterious manuscript, the mythical holy grail of classics scholarship that they both now knew was no longer a mere myth.
“Incredible,” said Piero, his sharp jaw quivering. “We must let the world know about this at once, Gotthold…we…you, the greatest elucidator in the world of ancient texts, must let the world know of its contents.”
“Yes, Piero. Of course…all my life I have been waiting for this kind of opportunity, and now it has finally arrived…I will return to my hotel room and immediately begin translating, transcribing, and elucidating the Veritatis Luce…and then we will return it to the Laurentian, to be on permanent display for all the world to see…but first,” concluded Gotthold, slowly rising from his seat and folding the manuscript back inside his jacket, “to work…”
“This is your moment, Gotthold. This is what you were put on Earth to do. And I know you will do it brilliantly. The world awaits the results of your work the way it has never awaited the results of anything else before…Godspeed, my dear friend.”
Gotthold Kröger, treading gingerly but quickly, made his way back to Borgo Pinti, locked himself inside his hotel room, and set about upon the most important scholarly task of his illustrious career. Day and night he labored, filling reams of notebooks with his copious, learned notes on the ancient Mithraic text.
After one week had passed without Piero having seen Gotthold, Piero made the short trek from Via del Sole to Borgo Pinti and knocked on Gotthold’s hotel room door.
“What do you want?!” Gotthold bellowed at Piero upon opening the door.
“I…” Piero stammered. “I merely wanted to check on your progress, and—”
“Out!” screamed Gotthold, the veins in his forehead throbbing. “Get out at once!”
“My…Gotthold, why, in all these years I have never seen you like this, are you alright?”
“Out!!!” shrieked Gotthold again, slamming the door and bolting it shut.
“Poor fellow,” thought Piero upon departing the hotel, shaking his head and rubbing his right cheek. “He’s never worked this hard in his life…I can only imagine how quickly and expertly he wants to get his translation and commentary of the Veritatis Luce out there…understandable, I suppose, why he’d want absolutely no disturbances, not even from his closest friend and most trusted colleague…”
Piero Rossi, a tall, thin, lifelong bachelor, continued working distractedly upon his Etruscan manuscript every day at the back of the trattoria on Via Del Sole while keeping his eyes expectantly open for a visit from Gotthold. When another week passed without a sign of Gotthold, Piero strode back to Borgo Pinti, ambled up the four flights of stairs that led to his friend’s hotel room, and knocked on Gotthold’s door.
The door slowly opened, and Gotthold Kröger was standing behind it—wearing a torn white shirt and covered in sweat, his eyelids inflamed and his knees shaking.
“Well?” asked Piero, inclining his head forward and trying to steal a view of Gotthold’s paper-laden desk. “How is it coming along, my dear friend? When will the Veritatis Luce at last see the light of day?”
Gotthold, his eyes expressionless and face unmoving, stared back at Piero as if he were complete stranger to him.
“Gotthold? It’s me, Piero…are you alright? Can I get you some water, perhaps? Something to eat? You look terrible.”
Gotthold’s mouth was open, but no words came out.
“Oh, dear, Gotthold…” muttered Piero, shaking his head. “You’re working too hard, I know it…how about joining me tonight at the trattoria? Take your mind off the Veritatis Luce for at least one night?”
Gotthold gazed at Piero as if he were speaking in tongues.
“Well, Gotthold? Can’t you at least tell me something about it? I’m dying to hear what’s in it…all these years, all these centuries of rumors, legends, fables about the Veritatis Luce, and now we have finally discovered it…oh, Gotthold, please, can’t you just tell me about the contents of one paragraph—one line, even—of the Veritatis Luce?”
Gotthold’s frozen expression had still not changed, and his opened mouth was still silent.
“Well, my friend,” said Piero, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders, “I don’t know what’s come over you, but please do remember to take care of yourself, yes? If you need anything you know where to find me. Buona notte, Herr Doktor.”
After yet another week passed without a trace of Gotthold, Piero marched back to Borgo Pinti, hastened up the four flights of stairs, and knocked on Gotthold’s door. Piero, his heart beginning to pace, waited for two minutes; when the door did not open, Piero knocked again.
“Gotthold?” Piero called out, placing his mouth up against the door panel. “Gotthold? Please open up, Gott…what—what is that?…that smell…smoke?…is that smoke?!…oh no…Gotthold!”
Piero, mustering up all the strength that his seventy-five-year-old body possessed, rammed against the door with his right shoulder until it came off the hinges and fell to the floor with a dull thud.
“Gotthold! Dear lord!” cried Piero, raising his arms to his temples. “How could you?! How could you have done this?!”
The world’s only copy of the Veritatis Luce, along with all of Gotthold’s notes upon the Mithraic text, was burning inside a small fire in the large ashtray next to the desk. And beside the desk lay Gotthold Kröger, his bulging eyes glazed over, his face frozen, and a single piece of paper lying upon his emaciated chest. Piero knelt down, grasped Gotthold’s cold left wrist, and could not feel a pulse. A sinking feeling came over him.
“Oh, Gotthold…Gotthold,” he cried, tears staining his deathly pale cheeks. “What have you done…the Veritatis Luce…destroyed!…gone!…why?!…”
Piero picked up the piece of paper that was resting on Gotthold’s chest, and instantly recognized Gotthold’s distinctive curlicued handwriting upon it. It was written in a messy, hurried scrawl, as if Gotthold Kröger had been in a race with time to put his final words onto paper before his life ebbed away.
“It,” read the note, referring to the Veritatis Luce, “is monstrous…and should never be read…by any living person…”

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