The Davidson Wildcats (17-3, 7-1 A-10) are slight underdogs (by 3 points) to extend a nine-game road winning streak when they visit the Saint Bonaventure Bonnies (12-5, 4-2 A-10) on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 7:00 PM ET.
Saint Bonaventure vs. Davidson Predictions
Saint Bonaventure vs. Davidson Betting Odds
Saint Bonaventure vs. Davidson Last 10 Games
- Saint Bonaventure is 2-8-0 against the spread and 7-3 overall over its past 10 matchups.
- Saint Bonaventure’s last 10 outings saw six hit the over.
- Over their past 10 games, the Bonnies have a points-per-game average 0.1 points above their season-long scoring average.
- Davidson is 9-1 overall and 6-4-0 against the spread in its past 10 contests.
- Davidson and its opponents have hit the over in six of the past 10 games.
- During their past 10 games, the Wildcats have scored 1.9 more points per contest compared to their 76.9 PPG season-long scoring average.
Saint Bonaventure vs. Davidson Betting Trends
- Saint Bonaventure is 5-11-0 against the spread this season.
- In games they were favored in by 3 points or more so far this season, the Bonnies went 4-8 against the spread.
- Saint Bonaventure’s games have gone over the total eight times out of 16 chances this season.
- The Bonnies score only 3.8 more points per game (70.6) than the Wildcats allow (66.8).
- Saint Bonaventure has a 3-8 record against the spread and an 11-1 record overall when scoring more than 66.8 points.
- Davidson is 15-5-0 against the spread this season.
- The Wildcats have an ATS record of 3-0 when playing as at least 3-point underdogs.
- Games involving Davidson have hit the over 13 times this season.
- The Wildcats put up an average of 76.9 points per game, 9.2 more points than the 67.7 the Bonnies give up.
- When it scores more than 67.7 points, Davidson is 12-4 against the spread and 16-1 overall.
Saint Bonaventure Team Leaders
- Jaren Holmes: 15.5 PTS, 40.7 FG%, 29.4 3PT% (20-for-68)
- Osun Osunniyi: 10.6 PTS, 7.8 REB, 3 BLK, 56.8 FG%
- Jalen Adaway: 14.2 PTS, 49.5 FG%, 44.4 3PT% (20-for-45)
- Dominick Welch: 10.6 PTS, 1.2 STL, 36.3 FG%, 32 3PT% (40-for-125)
- Kyle Lofton: 12.1 PTS, 1.5 STL, 37.8 FG%, 30.9 3PT% (17-for-55)
Davidson Team Leaders
- Luka Brajkovic: 14.8 PTS, 7.1 REB, 1.1 BLK, 60.3 FG%, 42.9 3PT% (18-for-42)
- Hyunjung Lee: 15.9 PTS, 48.8 FG%, 39.2 3PT% (47-for-120)
- Foster Loyer: 15.4 PTS, 44.7 FG%, 46.3 3PT% (50-for-108)
- Mike Jones: 12.5 PTS, 1.2 STL, 49.7 FG%, 47.4 3PT% (45-for-95)
- Sam Mennenga: 7.2 PTS, 50.8 FG%, 33.3 3PT% (5-for-15)
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The prediction is that Bromley will be the winner of the match. According to our forecast, there are 79.37% chances that Bromley prevails. The probability of a draw is 18.18%.
Under – Over statistics, Predictions
National League - H2HMatches combined
OVER 2.5. The forecast is that the match will end with 3 goals or more. As of now the combined matches of Bromley and Dover Athletic ended 42 times with 2 goals or less and 41 times with more than 2 goals.
Throughout this competition, Bromley played 24 matches that finished with the teams scoring 2 goals or less in total (UNDER 2.5 -> 58.5%) and 17 matches that ended with more than 2 goals (OVER 2.5 – 41.5%).
When playing home, Bromley played 10 matches that ended with the teams scoring 2 goals or less in total (UNDER 2.5 -> 50.0%) and 10 matches that finished with more than 2 goals (OVER 2.5 -> 50.0%).
On the other side, Dover Athletic participated in 18 matches that ended with the teams scoring 2 goals or less in total (UNDER 2.5 -> 42.9%) and 24 matches that ended with the teams scoring more than 2 goals in total (OVER 2.5 -> 57.1%).
When playing away, Dover Athletic took part to 6 matches that ended with both teams scoring 2 goals or less in total (UNDER 2.5 -> 28.6%) and 15 matches that finished with the teams scoring more than 2 goals in total (OVER 2.5 -> 71.4%).
Where to watch – Broadcasters
The match will be broadcasted by Bilyoner.
Bromley – Performance
Bromley has accumulated 62 points to be in the 11th position in the National League. Bromley won 17 matches, lost 13 times, and drew 11 times.
Bromley has scored 54 goals in total. It tends to to score later in the match. 26 goals were scored in the first half (48.15%), 28 goals in the second (51.85%). Bromley has a positive goal difference (+6) after scoring 54 goals and conceding 48 goals.
The top scorer is M.Cheek who has scored 16 goals in 31 matches. He hasn’t scored any goal on a penalty.
Dover Athletic – Performance
Dover Athletic has accumulated 0 points and occupies the 23rd place in the National League. Dover Athletic won 2 matches, lost 34 times, and drew 6 times.
Dover Athletic has scored 34 goals in total. It has an inclination to score early. 18 goals were scored in the first half (52.94%), 16 goals in the second (47.06%). Dover Athletic has a negative goal difference (-63) after scoring 34 goals and conceding 97 goals.
The players who have scored most goals are A.Cosgrave and A.Pavey with 4 goals.
Dover Athletic lost the last 6 matches. The last time it won a match it was against Boreham Wood on the 15th of April and the outcome was 2-1.


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Golby readying to tell you a story about art
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2014 06:00 am
Presentation and discussion held in conjunction with Storytellers, a part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts’ Travelling Exhibition program
7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26
Location: Forsyth Hall, St. Albert Public Library
5 St. Anne Street (in St. Albert Place)
Attendance is free but pre-registration is advised as space is limited.
Please call 780-459-1682 or visit the second floor information desk by tomorrow to save your seat.
Visit www.sapl.ca for more details.
Who doesn’t love a good story? The St. Albert Public Library is a place filled with many a fine and artful tale so it’s the most appropriate venue for artist and art educator Shane Golby to talk about storytelling in art.
Golby is one of four managers and curators of the Travelling Exhibition (or TREX) program with the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He is set to make an educational in-service presentation next Tuesday at the St. Albert Public Library.
It’s a rare – and free – opportunity to meet and hear this very engaging and affable speaker, as he does not run the lecture circuit on a regular basis. Indeed, it’s something that the many members of this city’s visual arts community mustn’t miss.
“The aim is to actually go through the actual exhibition in place to see how artists construct a work, things that they consider in putting a work together and also what their ultimate message may be, all in an hour and a half,” he laughed.
It’s more than a simple tour of the show. It’s meant to delve into the very nature of art and what makes it so important to our lives. The talk, he explained, has several aims, not the least of which is to actually discuss the TREX exhibit that’s currently on display at the library as part of the summer ArtWalk series for August.
That exhibit is called Storytellers, a compilation of unique works from such diverse artists as Gerry Dotto, Roy Kiyooka, Jeff Burgess, Bernard Bloom, Mark Traficante, Jacques Rioux and Harry Savage. The show explores stories or narratives told by artists through their art.
These artists have created artworks that are excellent examples of the category of Narrative Art, in which stories are told either as frozen moments or in a number of image events that take place over a period of time.
Golby compiled the exhibit out of the larger and certainly more extensive collection of the foundation (also known as the AFA). It’s a veritable treasure trove that includes more than 8,000 pieces of art from 1,700 Alberta artists including some prominent current and former artists from St. Albert like Sharon Moore-Foster, Mitsu Ikemura and Heidi Alther, the city’s current visual arts co-ordinator (and former director at the Art Gallery of St. Albert), among others.
“These artworks in the collection are basically owned by the people of Alberta. The AFA’s primary aim is to get that art out to Albertans so that they can experience the visual culture that’s produced in this province.”
“With this program, they want to get the art out to Albertans but it also is primarily directed at people who live in smaller communities and may not have access to art exhibitions either in their own communities or have the ability to get into the larger centres like Edmonton and Calgary to see the exhibitions on a regular basis.”
It’s the main source of works that are used to compile each show. He has two mixed media works in the collection himself.
Golby has a wealth of experience as a secondary education classroom teacher in this province, Inuvik and overseas before he became an art educator and was previously in charge of art education programs at the AGA. He’s a visual artist in his own right with two pieces in the AFA’s collection as well.
The foundation invited the four TREX managers from across the province to put forth proposals for a special limited project. Because of his extensive background in education, he set forth a proposal to provide education in-services focused on the exhibitions that he developed.
“There’s a PowerPoint which basically uses artworks from the exhibition in place – Storytellers – to illustrate key points of my discussion on art and the nature of art and the nature of what artists do,” he elaborated. “Either artists are portrayed as suffering people and they’re dying of poverty or drug abuse or they’re portrayed as people that are just slapping paint around and having a joyous time and not really engaged in any serious activity.”
“My aim in my presentation is to is to counter those perceptions and say, ‘No, an artist really is a thinking person and they’re really trying to express something regardless of what their subject may be, whether it’s a flower painting or Picasso’s Guernica. Artists are talking about something.”
It’s a heady topic that could easily continue on for a much longer period of time.
“It’s the Wikipedia condensed version,” he exclaimed, heartily.
Storytellers is but one of two exhibits currently on display at the library, the other being A Gathering of Trees, a group project that features original handmade books made without any paper. It’s put on by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild.
The foundation and its outreach
The AFA exists to support Alberta artists and to manage the province’s art collection. Those 8,000 artworks in the collection, Golby explained, are basically owned by the people of Alberta.
“The AFA’s primary aim is to get that art out to Albertans so that they can experience the visual culture that’s produced in this province,” Golby emphasized.
“With this program, they want to get the art out to Albertans but it also is primarily directed at people who live in smaller communities and may not have access to art exhibitions either in their own communities or have the ability to get into the larger centres like Edmonton and Calgary to see the exhibitions on a regular basis. Even though we technically own these works as taxpayers, it’s impossible for everyone to see all of the works in person in their own homes.”
To facilitate this, the AFA contracts four art institutions or organizations from around the province to develop these exhibitions, one of which comes from the AFA’s own collection. Two or three other exhibits are derived from the collections of the institutions or from contemporary artists themselves.
Each exhibit travels for two years within its own region before it gets traded to other regions.
The AGA serves more than 60 venues in more than 30 communities in its designated zone. These exhibits travel to such diverse venues as schools, libraries, museums, health care facilities and other community centres. This isn’t the first time that the St. Albert library has hosted a TREX show.
Each exhibit comes with an educational interpretive guide that affords teachers the ability to use the exhibit in conjunction with their school’s curriculum.
The TREX program strives to ensure every Albertan is provided with an opportunity to enjoy fully developed exhibitions in schools, libraries, health care centres, and smaller rural institutions and galleries throughout the province.
The AFA reports that more than 300,000 visitors attend the approximately100 exhibitions in dozens upon dozens of communities across the province every year.
People can learn more about the TREX program and the AFA itself at www.affta.ab.ca/Art-Collection/TREX-Program.

domain: artistic


SmartPool is a connection-pooling component modeled on connection pooling
features provided by an Application Server. SmartPool makes an attempt to
solve critical issues like connection leaks, connection blocking, open JDBC
objects like Statements, PreparedStatements etc. Features of SmartPool include
support for multiple pools, automatic closing of associated JDBC objects,
detect connection leaks based on configurable time-outs, track connection
usage, wrap SmartPool to an existing pool, monitor run time status of the
pools apart from conventional pooling support.
Using the PoolManager:
PoolManager is an interface defining the behavior of the class that
manages each Pool. You can load SmartPool component by using the following:
PoolManager pm = new PoolManagerImpl("/home/ssshetty/pool-config.xml");
Once the PoolManger is instantiated you can call the methods on the
PoolManager interface with the following:
String poolName = "MyPool";
Connection conn = pm.getConnection(poolName);
For more details refer to Java Documentation of PoolManager Interface.
Note: You are creating an Instance of a PoolManager, which is not
Singleton by itself, and thus multiple PoolManager instances would
result in multiple pools.
SmartPoolFactory provides a Singleton access to SmartPool. This is a
Singleton Wrapper to the PoolManagerImpl. This is the recommended way
to load the Pool.
SmartPoolFactory smp = new SmartPoolFactory("/home/pool-config.xml");
This would create a Singleton object smp in the memory. Static methods on this
object can be invoked from any class loaded within the same JVM.
Connection con = SmartPoolFactory.getConnection();
Note: Static methods on SmartPoolFactory can only be used after it is
initialized with a configuration file as shown above. It is recommended to
load this SmartPoolFactory on your application start-up (like the
start-up servlet in a web application).
For more details refer to Java Documentation of SmartPoolFactory.
Accessing Connections from the
Connection can be accessed from the PoolManager/SmartPoolFactory
depending on the method you have used to load the pool. The following examples
are applicable when you use SmartPoolFactory.
You can draw connections from the pool is the following way:
Connection conn = SmartPoolFactory.getConnection();
This fetches a connection from the default pool, with owner set to N/A i.e.
Default Pool: Default pool is one where is set to default-pool="true"
in the configuration file. In a simple application where only one pool is
required and no ownership is to be tracked, developers need not provide the
pool name each time they take a connection from the pool. At most one pool can
be marked as a default pool.
Owner: Owner is the identity of the user/class drawing the connection
from the pool. Ownership is used for debugging while detecting connection
leaks to exactly identify the owners of connections. Preferably this should be
a combination of the class and method that is drawing the connection since
this would directly help in attacking and solving the problem of Connection
Anonymous Connection: A connection drawn from the pool without
specifying the owner name is an anonymous connection. It is not possible to
keep track of ownerships if anonymous connections are allowed.
To disallow anonymous connections set allow-anonymous-connections="false" in
the configuration file.
Other methods to get Connections are:
Connection conn = SmartPoolFactory.getConnection("poolName");
Here poolName is the pool name.
Connection conn = SmartPoolFactory.getConnection("poolName", “TestSmartPool:getMyConnection”);
Here TestSmartPool:getMyConnection is the owner name.
Releasing Connection to the pool:
To release connection to the Pool just call close on the method.
Connection conn = SmartPoolFactory.getConnection("poolName")
This will return the connections to the pool.
Following points are worth noting when a connection is released.
1. If auto-commit is set to false for the connection, SmartPool will call
rollback on that method and set auto-commit to true. This is to destroy the
existing state of the connection before it is made available to others.
2. If auto-close="true" in the configuration file, all the associated
Statements, PreparedStatements, and CallableStatements will be closed when the
connection is released to the pool.
Leak detection is time-out based.
To set a time-interval of 100 seconds for which a class can hold the
connection without being considered as leak set leak-time-out="100".
A Connection Leak is said to have occurred when a class is holding on
to a connection for more than leak-time-out.
A leak detector thread will poll all used connections every 100 seconds.
As soon as the leak detector Poll thread finds out a Connection leak, it will
notify all the registered connection leak listeners.
Connection leak listener is a class implementing the ConnectionLeakListener
interface. Connection leak listener class receives a notification of a leak
through the following call back method:
public void connectionTimeOut(ConnectionLeakEvent cle)
Where ConnectionLeakEvent is the class encapsulating the information
about the leak.
See Java documentation of ConnectionLeakEvent,
ConnectionLeakListener for more info.
You can register a ConnectionLeakLister by calling the following method
You can also provide a default listener in the configuration file. For e.g.:
PoolManager will load this listener on load and it will be able to
listen to leaks right from the instance PoolManager object is created.
NOTE: The connection leak event will also provide you with access to the
actual Connection object which you can be returned back to the pool by calling
close() in it, however be sure of what you are doing, because this may result
in functionality bugs which would be very difficult to debug.
Monitoring Pool Status
Monitoring Interfaces allows you to keep track how the connections are being
used, who is blocking up the connections, detect leaks if any, thus helping in
identifying and attacking problems when the application/system crashes because
of excessive connections or tables get locked etc.
To monitor the Pools you can use the Following method:
PoolMonitor pm = SmartPoolFactory.getPoolMonitor("Sachin");
PoolMonitor is the interface defining methods to monitor the current
status of the pool.
To get the Configuration of the pool, use the following method:
ConfigMonitor cm = pm.getConfigMonitor();
ConfigMonitor provides access to pool configuration.
To get information on the Connections being used:
Vector v = pm.getConnectionsInUse();
This will return a vector of ConnectionMonitor providing all the
information about the connection in use.
For more information see Java Documentation of PoolMonitor,
Automatic closing of associated Statements, PreparedStatements, and
If auto-close="true" in the configuration file then all the
Statements, PreparedStatements, and CallableStatements associated with the
connection will be closed when the connection is released back to the pool.
Wrapping SmartPool to an
Wrapping SmartPool to an existing pool implies that SmartPool will not draw
raw connections to the database; it would rather draw connections from another
connection pool, for e.g. DataSource of an Application Server.
In this case SmartPool does not maintain any pool, it simply delegates the
connection requests to the parent pool. SmartPool however keeps a track of
connections in use, and thus can be used for leak detecting, automatic closing
of associated Statements, PreparedStatements, CallableStatements objects.
SmartPool can be wrapped to an existing pool with the help of the interface
ConnectionProvider. ConnectionProvider provides two methods:
public Connection getConnection() throws Exception
This method should return a connection from the pool to which SmartPool is
public void returnConnection(Connection conn) throws Exception
This method should return the connection conn back to the parent pool.
For more information see Java Documentation of ConnectionProvider.
To wrap smart pool to an existing pool, you need to write an implementation of
ConnectionProvider and provide the fully qualified class name in the
For e.g. If the class implementing ConnectionProvider is
com.your_company.your_project.SampleConnectionProviderImpl, then in the
configuration file, you will have to put the following entry:
Forced recovery of recently used connections
The above specifies the maximum amount of time for which a consumer can
hold on to a connection, without using it. hence if the poll thread finds any
connections that have not been used for more than 100 seconds, it will
take the connection back, and any attempt to use the connection
afterwards will result in StaleConnectionException.
DTD for configuration file
Sample configuration file
Consumer: Consumer is a class/component that draws connections from the
Default Pool: Default pool is the pool where you have said
default-pool="true" in the configuration file. Thus in a simple application
where only one pool is required and no ownership is to be tracked, developers
need not provide the pool name each time they take a connection from the pool.
Only one pool can be marked as a default pool at the most.
Owner: Owner is an identity of the user/class drawing the connection
from the pool. This is used for debugging while detecting connection leaks so
as to exactly identify who is blocking the connections. Preferably this should
be a combination of the class and method that is drawing the connection as
this would directly help in attacking and solving the problem of Connection
Anonymous Connection: An anonymous connection is a connection drawn
from the pool without specifying the owner name. Hence not possible to keep
track of where the connection is being blocked.
When allow-anonymous-connections="false" in the configuration file, anonymous
connections are not allowed.
Connection Leak: When a Consumer holds on to a connection for more than
the time specified in leak-time-out in configuration file, a connection leak
is said to have occurred and the Consumer is the owner of the connection and
is responsible for the connection leak.


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Emma Sanders, founding member of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, dies at 91
Published 10:37 pm Saturday, July 11, 2020
Emma Sanders, a founding member of the Freedom Democratic Party and mother-in-law to Adams County Sixth District Circuit Court Judge Lillie B. Sanders, died June 24 in Brandon at age 91.
The New York Times reported that Emma had been one of the few surviving members in a slate of Black Mississippians who challenged the all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention to bring an end to the lack of representation for minority groups.
She was a founding member of Mississippi’s Freedom Democratic Party who attended the August 1964 convention in Atlantic City under the name Freedom Democrats to challenge the state’s all-white leadership.
Her son, Everett Sanders of Natchez, said he recalled being at home with his father during the convention.
“After some negotiations back and forth, they offered the Freedom Democrats two delegate seats at the convention,” Everett Sanders said, which the Freedom Democrats refused to accept. “It felt like it was a token offer.”
During the convention, Everett said he and his brothers and father, William Sanders, were at home and watched as his mother was interviewed live on television from Atlantic City.
“They put up her name on the screen and that she was from Jackson and so forth,” Everett Sanders said. “… We starting getting telephone calls and I listened to one of them. It sounded like a younger white male who called. The caller said, ‘This is the Atlantic City Funeral Home. We have the body of Emma Sanders. Where do you want us to ship it to?’ … We knew nothing had happened because we were watching her on TV where she had just gotten off of a live interview.”
Everett said shortly after the phone call, his father armed himself and alerted all of the neighbors of what had happened.
“There wasn’t a single person walking down our street,” he said. “We didn’t know what was going to happen or if someone was going to come shoot at our house.”
Everett said his mother was smart — having come from a family of educators — and was very strong-willed and committed to gaining respect and equal rights for all people.
Emma was born on Sept. 24, 1928, as Emma Ruby Lee Dunbar and grew up in Claiborne County.
She graduated from Alcorn State University in Lorman, then called Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Her first job after undergrad school was teaching in the Jefferson County public school system and operating family restaurant near the Alcorn campus, Everett Sanders said.
She continued her restaurant and teaching career in Jackson.
Unable to attend segregated Mississippi universities, Everett said his mother worked toward her master’s degree in business at Indiana University in Bloomington and he would spend summers there.
Everett said his parents’ civil rights involvement began when he was in high school in the summer of 1963.
He and other students participated in a civil rights demonstration in Jackson, where they met up at a church and began marching downtown.
Everett said he and hundreds of other students were arrested during the demonstration and were carried in garbage trucks to the Jackson fairgrounds because there was no room for them in the county jail.
Two or three days later, Everett said he remembers his mother being asked to sign a statement that he wouldn’t participate in any other demonstrations before they would release him and she fought to have him released without signing it.
The Sanders family became active in a movement to take down Jim Crow-era barriers that reduced the number of registered Black voters to about 7% of those eligible.
They housed and fed volunteers in their Jackson home, drove them to and from meetings and helped register Black voters, Everett said.
Everett said he became acquainted with college students who came to stay in their home who were mostly white and some of them pursuing law degrees.
The family faced some racial hostility due to their involvement in the movement, Everett said.
“There were times that I was more uncomfortable than others. The support that my mom and dad provided and the strength and to see that they were committed to the same things I was made me feel more comfortable.”
Emma lived to see great progress in the Civil Rights movement and toward the desegregation of elected officials.
Everett said he was in college at the time his mother and a handful of other Blacks sued to allow Black names on the Mississippi ballots in 1966. When they won the suit, Emma ran for Congress as an independent against John Bell Williams and lost.
“At the time the court order came down allowing her to be on the ballot, my political science chair was very excited about it and he had got all of the members of the class to be involved in her campaign,” Everett said. “… She was quite a person, and we will miss her very much.”

domain: sociology


New York City
Cult legend Raymond Scott’s music comes alive once again in the hit show "Don’t Beat Your Wife (every night)". In this insane piece of music theatre the Mean Ensemble, stuck somewhere in an early 60s television studio, becomes gradually possessed by Scott’s cartoon and commercial universe.
Raymond Scott was a prolific American composer in the late 30s through the 40s, 50s and 60s. Much of his music he dubbed "descriptive jazz", as it was a tightly orchestrated take on the swing and jazz genres, and relied little on improvisation. His music is best known through Warner Brothers Looney Toons and other cartoons, but also through his legendary Raymond Scott Quintet, which was one of TV’s first house orchestras (Your Hit Parade, 1950-57). He also composed commercial jingles and pioneered the use of electronic sounds in music.
One Night Only: January 7, 2024


Aamir Khan is back but this time sadly not with a bang. The film promises you a suspense thriller and it lives up to it’s promise but somewhere the makers forgot that audience ha not yet forgotten old Hindi Movies. They made an attempt to make an olden type of film in a brand new way for a new generation audience and they succeeded partially.
The films starts with nice song Muskaanein Jhoothi Hai with the opening credits rolling with it. It starts band on by showing an accident. Then inspector Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) starts investing the case. It is superstar Armaan Kapoor who met with an accident. Then Rosie(Kareena Kapoor) a call girl comes to help the inspector in this case. Meanwhile inspector and his wife Roshni (Rani Mukerji) are sad about their son’s death, they live like strangers under one roof. Mr. Shekhawat is busy with the case and spends night with Rosie so that he can come to a conclusion in the case. Roshni at night goes to her neighbour’s house so that she can talk to her son which is made possible by her neighbour Frenny (Shernaz Patel). Meanwhile Themur(Nawazuddin Siddhique) who has little idea what exacly is happening with Armaan Kapoor’s case and he also being selfish takes the full advantage of this situation and plans to blackmail Armaan’s friend and earn money. Will inspector Shekhawat succeeded in his mission? Will he and his wife live happily ever after?? Why was Rosie helping the inspector?? how was she connected to this case? Find out in TALAASH.
Aamir back on big screen after Dhobi Ghat and 3 idiots. His performance was usual, ordinary. There was nothing exceptional he did as a police inspector. He did it in his very own style. Both the ladies Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor were outstanding in the film. Even though Aamir was dominating and with comparatively less screen time both the ladies proved that they are goddess of acting. Rani played housewife in many films but in this one she is just outstanding. Kareena also played callgirl in her earlier film but in this one she is very different. Very calm,no abuses, very sophisticated. She has also looked very good in the film. Her scenes with Aamir were just brilliant. There she prves her acting capabilities. Rest all the characters Raj Kumar Yadav, Nawazuddin Siddhique, Shernaz Patel were perfect in their respective roles.
Reema Kagti back on directors seat after HONEYMOON TRAVELS PVT. LTD. has managed to keep her audiences glued to their seats till the end of the film. She has managed to keep the suspense quite well, but sadly the suspense is old style and bit difficult to believe in today’s cinema, but since it’s a film one can believe this fact. The story and screenplay of the film is good and gripping,good work by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar. Cinematography is very good. Many scenes in the film start by showing some unwanted but good visuals. The dialogues of the film are to the point and quite nicely connected with the story of the film. The editing could have been better, the film drops it’s pace many times.
Music of the film is by Ram Sampath after some good films Ram has done a good job in this one also. All the songs are being played in the background. In fact if there would have been no songs in the film it would have not affected the film at all. All the songs Muskanein Jhoothi Hai, Jeele Zara, Jiya Lage Na, Hona Hai Kya are good to hear but when they are playing in the background in the film it hardly matters. My personal favourites are Mukanein Jhoothi Hai and Jiya Lage Na. The album is good but it does not matter or affect the film in anyways.
The film’s tagline is Answer Lies Within but the film leaves you with question like What had the kid’s death to do with the actor’s murder case. Why was that part of the film being given so much importance. If Rosie is aware of everything then why is she waiting for the climax to come to unveil the mystery. In spite of these questions being unanswered TALAASH deserves to be watched once just for the brilliant performance by Kareena Kapoor, and amazing direction of Reema Kagti. This one is recommended.
My Verdict: 3.5/5


The Rockettes might be one of the world’s most renowned dance groups and to join the squad takes a combination of mettle, beauty, and athleticism. So, it’s not often that you’ll see a 92-year-old show up ready to do the famous leg kicks the group has become known for.
But that’s what happened when Mary Silvestri of Connecticut arrived at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
People reported that during her visit to Radio City Music Hall, Silvestri revealed that she tried to audition for the dance company decades prior, but was unable to find a way to N.Y.C.
“I was supposed to be here doing what you’re doing today and I couldn’t make it,” she said, as seen in footage shared by the world-famous dance company on social media.
“I couldn’t get to New York alone and no one could take me,” she explained. “So here I am today, to see you ladies and hope you all make it.”
Rockette Amarisa LeBar tells PEOPLE that Silvestri’s family shared her story with the dance company prior to the audition, adding, “We knew we had to be involved.”
“We always love making someone’s dream come true,” LeBar said.
Mary finally got her chance to show off her stuff. Upworthy noted, “The dancers also taught Silvestri to pose for pictures doing the Rockettes’ “iconic” bevel. “To see the joy on her face throughout this experience was something that really touched my heart,” LeBar said. “I was so happy to be a part of it. We were honored to create this magical moment with her.”
Videos from an event that happened last week show Silvestri attempting kicks as she wore a bib that had the number “183” printed on it. After the auditions, Silvestri also offered some advice to the Rockettes. “Just keep moving, keep going, and keep going to dancing school,” she said. “Do your routine and enjoy it. You have to enjoy what you’re doing.”
LeBar also shared that meeting Silvestri served as a reminder of how “lucky and grateful” she is to be a Rockette. Seeing the senior’s dream come to fruition, LeBar said, ‘is something that meant as much to us as it did to her. I loved making Mary’s dream come true. It’s always an honor to see the impact we have on people all over the world.'”
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Broadcast journalists Kay and Shipman (Womenomics) address the self-confidence gap between women and men, consulting a range of experts to determine what female confidence looks like and how it can be achieved. Their sources include WNBA players, successful entrepreneurs, and senior U.S. military, all of whom admit to facing crises in confidence. They visit a neuropsychologist studying rhesus monkeys to explore nature vs. nurture theories on anxiety and the brain’s neurotransmitters that enhance or inhibit confidence. The authors discuss obstacles to self-assurance women face like “negative habitual thought,” internalized pressure to conform to feminine stereotypes, and a “hormonal tendency to avoid risk.” Studies cited suggest women are more critical of their own scientific skills and spatial reasoning, and speak up less in a group setting. Kay and Shipman provide a great blueprint for raising daughters by discouraging perfectionism, noting that perfectionism smothers achievement and is the enemy of confidence. For readers themselves, the authors include techniques for eliminating “negative automatic thoughts” with self-compassion and recommend “quick fixes” like meditation, correct posture, and healthy habits. All of this research, as well as the authors’ own recounting of experiences with doubt in their professional lives, effectively builds into a comprehensive set of ingredients for the confident woman. (Apr.)
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POLICE in Mutoko have arrested a 19-year-old woman who allegedly killed her two-year-old daughter by throwing her into a pool at Nyaitenga Bridge before she later threatened to commit suicide accusing her parents of ill-treating her.
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Last week, Hear Music & Concord Music Group announced a new Fleetwood Mac tribute album called Just Tell Me That You Want Me: Tribute To Fleetwood Mac, a record featuring an all-star lineup — folks like MGMT, New Pornographers, St. Vincent, and Best Coast — covering the beloved rock band. Today, Best Coast’s contribution, a clear-headed take on 'Rhiannon' surfaced (check the video below)
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Author explores Dakota length of U.S. 83 in book
Stew Magnuson could have started writing his latest book when he was in grade school. Maybe he did and just didn’t know it.
Born and raised in Omaha, he has affectionate memories of U.S. Highway 83 — his grandparents lived along a stretch of the road in Stapleton, Neb., where his dad grew up — and Magnuson remembers his visits with them.
“Every time I rode my bike, my grandmother would say, ‘Look out! That highway runs from Canada to Mexico.’ ”
“I guess she was warning me to be on the lookout for Canadian kidnappers,” says Magnuson during a phone interview from his home in Arlington, Va. His latest book is, “A Journal Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas,” a nonfiction travel-history book that’s the first in a series uncovering stories from north to south.
U.S. Highway 83 bisects the United States, running 1,885 miles from Westhope, N.D., to Brownsville, Texas. It is one of the oldest and longest federal highways that hasn’t been replaced by an interstate. It runs down the middle of South Dakota.
Magnuson has traveled the length of the highway two different times for two weeks at a time gathering research. He found a lot of interesting stories — but no kidnappers.
“The scenery is beautiful, but it was the people I met that made this a fascinating journey. Everyone and every town had a story to tell.”
When Magnuson started the book, the logistics seemed confounding. How could he see it all, research it, write about it and present historical information, too?
To make the job more manageable, he broke the project into three chronicles. The first comes out this month and follows the stretch of highway that runs from North Dakota to Nebraska. The next installment, due out in 2015, covers the highway from Nebraska to Kansas. The final portion of the book documents the road from Oklahoma to Texas and comes out in 2016.
To help Magnuson’s research, he had two ironclad rules: “To see it all in the daylight and stop in every town to at least take pictures.” Those stops often included an encounter with a colorful local and a stop at the town library.
The stories are written in narrative style.
Magnuson probably has been working up to this book since he was in elementary school riding his bike along the road, knowing there were engaging stories just waiting to be told. “The book is a love poem to the natural beauty of the prairie and the fascinating people — both past and present — found along the road.”
In the first book, he includes stories of Chief Spotted Tail, Lawrence Welk, Casey Tibbs, Lewis and Clark and Pierre de la Verendrye.
Other books by Stew Magnuson• “The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns”• “Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding”“The Song of Sarin”
About the series• “A Journal Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas,” a nonfiction travel-history book by Stew Magnuson, is available at Amazon.com in paperback and eBook formats. • Magnuson will speak at the Dakota Conference from 11:10-11:40 a.m. and sign books from 12:20-1 p.m. April 26 at the Center for Western Studies Fantle Building on the Augustana College campus. Before that, he’ll be on a book tour on Highway 83, starting April 19.• Magnuson maintains a Facebook page and blogs about his Highway 83 chronicles. He also set up a U.S. Route 83 Travel page which gives tips to those who are interested in a taking a road trip. Visit www. facebook.com/stew.magnuson or ushighway 83.blogspot .com/2014/02/new-book-traces-history-of-dakotas. html.

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|Vandal men take WAC crown|
MOSCOW, Idaho – It was a championship kind of year for University of Idaho men’s track and field.
Idaho men’s track and field claimed its first outdoor team title since 2001 with a score of 219.5, while the Vandal women took second in an incredible effort with 133.5 points, despite competing without several of its top individuals because of injuries.
“It’s just amazing,” Idaho director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps said. “I thought we were a better outdoor team than we were an indoor one, but we ended up battling through some adversity early in the season and I didn’t know if that was going to actually come to fruition.
“Everybody stepped up and the more they performed well, the more they believed we could win.”
Senior Andrew Blaser scored a school-record 44 points, earned First-Team All-Western Athletic Conference honors in six different events and earned High Point Award and WAC Field Performer of the Year accolades.
“Things aren’t always going to go the way you want, but adversity makes champions. It’s been the emphasis on our team, just picking each other up and working together for what we want,” Blaser said of the week. “Everyone from the freshmen through the senior class came out here and did exactly what we needed to do. We worked so hard together, day in and day out, and it’s just the best feeling ever.”
Blaser won the decathlon on Wednesday with 6,782 points, won the 110m hurdles on Friday with a career-best, wind-legal time of 13.98, took third in the 400m hurdles in 52.52 – a three-second career best – and finished third in the high jump (6-4), pole vault (16-0.75) and long jump (22-9) during the week.
His 110m hurdles time ranks third all-time at Idaho, while his 400m hurdles time is seventh-best in school history.
“It was unbelievable. How do you top that?” Phipps said of Blaser. “Field Athlete of the Year indoor and outdoor, High Point Award indoor and outdoor – and the thing that is just baffling to me is that I know he gets tired, but it never seems to affect him. Some of his best performances are in his 15th or 16th events of the week. He’s a coach’s dream.”
Freshman Johanna Hocketstaller was named WAC Freshman of the Year after her outstanding week that included two All-WAC honors and points in four different events.
“It was one of the best competitions I’ve ever had,” Hocketstaller said of her week. “I’m really happy and really glad to compete for the Vandals. It was an amazing week – I’m really tired, but I’m really happy to be able to celebrate now.”
Idaho director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps was voted WAC co-Coach of the Year at the end of the meet.
While the men’s team’s 19-point victory left little drama overall at the end, there was plenty to go around on the meet’s final day.
Senior James Clark was cleared for competition early this week after struggling with kidney problems all season and he won one of the tightest races in WAC history in the 800m when he out-leaned three other competitors for the gold.
“It was kind of a last-minute decision for me to compete, but once I stepped out on the track – that’s why I fell in love with this sport – I just went out and left it all on the line,” Clark said.
In a true photo finish, the difference between first and fourth in that event was 0.11 seconds and Clark edged Louisiana Tech’s Alwayne Green by .003 seconds for the victory in the final race of his Idaho career.
“He’s been through so much, and I think anyone else would have quit by now,” Phipps said. “It was only a couple days ago that we decided it was okay for him to run and the text I got from him was, ‘I want to score some points for the team.’”
“Nobody deserves that victory more than James Clark.”
Freshman Ben Ayesu-Attah dropped more than a full second off his career best in the 400m with an upset victory in the event in 46.86 – the ninth-fastest time in Idaho history. He needed to do come up big after teammate Andrew Bloom was unable to start with a hamstring pull.
“I saw the empty lane and realized that Bloom wasn’t in there, and then I saw Ben running right up with the Fresno State guy,” Phipps said. “I hoped he could stick with him and maybe get second place and we’d only lose a couple points from going in seeded in third and fourth. I just couldn’t believe that Ben was so strong in the finish. It was an amazing performance.”
From a historical perspective, Phipps said he’s very excited about the fact that Ayesu-Attah jumped into a top-10 list that features several Olympians, All-Americans and conference champions.
“When I first got here under coach Mike Keller, we had world-class sprinters and that dated back to the 1980s,” Phipps said. “Our 400-meter list rivals a lot of the major programs in the nation, so for a freshman to break into that list is just incredible.”
On the women’s side, there were many standout performances, but none greater than senior Erica Digby, who doubled up with victories in the 1500m (4:29.92) and 5000m (17:14.44) and added a fifth-place finish in the 800m in career-best time of 2:13.21.
After already running the 800m and 1500m finals on Friday, Phipps said Digby wasn’t even sure if she’d be running in the 5k until about 15 minutes before the race.
“It was amazing and very unexpected,” Digby said. “I wasn’t even expecting to be in the 5k in the first place, let alone win it. I haven’t done a lot of 5k training, but I knew I had the speed to finish it, so I just kicked it with all I had.”
Phipps wasn’t shy about the fact that the Vandal women, competing without indoor All-American Hannah Kiser, WAC Championship meet record holder Lauren Schaffer, defending 400m hurdles champion Liga Velvere, and a handful of other strong performers, by far exceeded all expectation.
“The guys overshadowed the women with their win, but to be honest, our women out-performed our men,” Phipps said. “The men kind of did what they were supposed to do coming in on paper, but we were projected to score 90 points and could have finished anywhere from fifth to seventh and we scored 133 points and finished second with such a small group. It really is amazing how well they competed this week.”
Junior Mike Marshall started Idaho’s day with a win, as he and sophomore Ugis Svazs took the top two spots in the men’s javelin at 218-10 and 218-0, respectively. In the men’s pole vault, sophomore Dylan Watts, freshman Matt Sullivan and Blaser all cleared 16-0.75 (4.90m) and Watts claimed his first career individual crown based on fewest misses.
In the men’s shot put, top-seeded Andrey Levkiv, a sophomore, won his first career WAC crown with a toss of 56-5.75 (17.21m).
In all, the Vandal men claimed eight individual titles, 22 First-Team All-WAC honors and 17 Second-Team All-WAC honors. On the women’s side, Idaho had two individual titles, 11 First-Team All-WAC honors and six Second-Team All-WAC awards.
While the team portion of the season is over, several Vandals will still continue on at the NCAA West Preliminary. The list of accepted entries will be posted this weekend.


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Alex Link has diverse areas of interest with a current primary focus on the analysis and history of comics and graphic novels. He has also co-authored several titles for Image Comics. Alex also researches popular genre literature such as science fiction, detective fiction, and the gothic, with a particular emphasis on theories of spatiality. Additional interests include American prose fiction of any era and the British eighteenth century.
PhD York University, MA University of Toronto, BA York University
Selected Professional Activity:
“Is the Dark Knight Deep? Flatness, Depth and Framing in The Dark Knight Returns.” Comics Forum 2017. Leeds, U.K. 22 Sep 2017.
“Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder’s Animated, Amorous Ink.” Congreso Internacional de Estudios Interdisciplinares sobre Cómic. Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. 4 April 2017.
“The Consolations of Conspiracy in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell.” Comics Forum 2015. Leeds, U.K. 12 Nov 2015.
“Scales of Violence, Scales of Justice, and Nate Powell’s Any Empire.” Comics Forum 2014. Leeds, U.K. 13 Nov 2014.
“Love Lust and Lucre in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn.” Popular Culture Association of Canada Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 10 May 2014.
“Revisiting Comics’ ‘Funny Animals.’” “Why Do Animal Studies?” Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago. 4 April 2014.
“Fun Home’s Icarian Games.” First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. Universidad de Alcalá Alcalá de Henares, Spain. 11 Nov 2011.
“The Politics and Poetics of Alterity in Hines’ Duncan the Wonder Dog.” Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives. Ed. David Herman. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2017. Print.
“Psychogeography’s Legacy in From Hell and Watchmen.” Fine Arts and Comics. Ed. Hugo Frey. Spec. Issue of European Comic Art 9.2 (2016): 79-99. Print.
“Funny? Animals? The Problem of We3.” Comics Forum. Web. 31 May 2015. comicsforum.org/2015/05/30/funny-animals-the-problem-of-we3-by-alex-link/
“Tulips and Roses in a Global Garden: Speaking Local Identities in Persepolis and Tekkon Kinkreet.” Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels. Eds. Ian Hague and Carolene Ayaka. London: Routledge. 2014. Print.
“The Secret of Supergirl’s Success.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 46.6 (2013): 1177-1197. Print.
“Laughing Androids, Weeping Zombies, and Edgar Allan Poe.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. 58.3 (2012): 257-93. Print.
“Pierre Menard with a Pipette: VAS and the Body of Text.” Fictions Present thread of Electronic Book Review. n. pag. Web. 28 June 2012.
“Rabbit at the Riverside: Names and Impossible Crossings in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The Hemingway Review. 27.1 (2009): 134-39. Print.
“The Mysteries of Postmodernism, or, Frederic Jameson’s Gothic Plots.” Theorising the Gothic. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle and Andrew Smith. Spec. Issue of Gothic Studies. 11.1 (2009): 70-85. Print.
“Global War, Global Capital, and the Work of Art in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition.” Contemporary Literature. 49 (2008): 208-30. Print.
“Means, Meaning and Mediated Space in ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find.’” The Southern Quarterly. 44.4 (2007): 125-38. Print.
“City Limits: Fixing New York in Caleb Carr’s The Alienist.” CLUES: A Journal of Detection. 23.3 (2005): 31-41. Print.
“‘The Capitol of Darknesse:’ Gothic Spatialities in the London of Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor.” Contemporary Literature. 45 (2004): 516-537. Print.
“Staking Every Thing on It: A Stylistic Analysis of Linguistic Patterns in ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’” The Hemingway Review. 23.2 (2004): 66-74. Print.
With Riley Rossmo. Art by Riley Rossmo. Drumhellar Volume 2: Dogs and Gods. [collects issues 6-10] Berkeley: Image Comics. 2014. Print.
With Riley Rossmo. Art by Riley Rossmo. Drumhellar Volume 1: Badlands and Bad Trips. [collects issues 1-5] Berkeley: Image Comics. 2014. Print.
“Dead But Dreaming.” Art by Riley Rossmo. Dia De Los Muertos. Berkeley: Image Comics, 2013. 1-12. Print.
With Riley Rossmo. Art by Riley Rossmo. Rebel Blood. Berkeley: Image Comics, 2012. Print.
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Chemical equilibrium in a liquid phase: determination of the equilibrium constant for an and ester) at equilibrium. The equilibrium constant provides a ma t h e - experiment overview these solutions contain unknown concentrations of f e s c n 2 + ions at equilibr i u m. Calculating equilibrium constants we need to know two things in order to calculate the numeric value of the equilibrium constant: the balanced equation for the reaction system, including the physical states of each species. Synthesis, isolation, and purification of an ester in this experiment the ester ethyl acetate shifts the equilibrium to the products side by removing the.
3-1 experiment 3 measurement of an equilibrium constant introduction: most chemical reactions (eg, the “generic” a + b→ 2c) are reversible, meaning they have a forward reaction (a + b forming 2c) and a backward reaction (2c. View notes - manual from chem 143 at ucsd experiment vi fischer esterification of a carboxylic acid and identification of the product by gc, micro-boiling point and ir spectroscopy. •equilibrium constant experiment overview the purpose of this experiment is to measure the pka value for ionization of two determination of ka of weak acids. In this experiment we will use the method of titration to determine the acid equilibrium constant ka and molar mass determination of an unknown organic.
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I summary in this experiment weigh the sample of methyl benzoate and determine calculate a value for the equilibrium constant k eq based. Martin novick group 14, chemical engineering laboratory submitted to prof david b henthorn september 25, 2012 summary the goal of this project was to determine the pre-exponential factor, k o , the activation energy, e, and the reaction rate constants, k, of the saponification process of ethyl acetate using sodium hydroxide (naoh) at 5 temperature between 15 and 25 degrees celsius. Advanced chemistry with vernier provides a variety of experiments select an experiment below to view an overview the determination of an equilibrium constant.
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”They’re just thinking of grandma’s quilt on a bed,” she said. “I guess it’s just because most quilts are functional. Most quilters stay in the quilt world and don’t go into the art world. I find sometimes I’m the only textile piece entered into a show.”
For the past three years, Loveless has entered quilts in ArtPrize, the annual international art contest that blankets Grand Rapids with works of art and gives away $560,000 in cash prizes. Many of the prizes given away during the contest are decided, but the biggest award comes from public voting.
This year, Loveless’ quilt “Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore” grabbed public attention and enough of the 446,000 votes cast during the event to take home the top prize.
”I’m like the quilter’s hero now,” she said. “People are looking at quilts differently — as a piece of art.”
Last year, Loveless’ entry, a 13-foot wide quilt depicting a wooded landscape, landed in the top 25 out of more than 1,400 entries.
This year she decided to go big.
She began planning her entry early in the year. The project maxed out her tools and the capacity of the van she uses to transport her artwork.
In all, the five panels of quilt measured 20 feet wide and five feet tall. It took 400 hours to complete during work sessions spread over five months.
The win helped turn a couple of negatives into positives, she said.
It confirmed that she made the right choice when she walked away from working with clothing to save her hands. And it confirmed that quilts can be art, just like painting or sculpting.
Sure Loveless still faces plenty of critics who don’t respect quilting for what it is like the one who “said my piece was too pretty,” she said.

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Spotlight falls on energy
THE southern North Sea remains a treasure chest for the energy needs of the UK. It will soon be home to the world's largest offshore wind farm and the remaining reserves of gas take on a new significance following the recent Russian posturing over international supplies.
THE southern North Sea remains a treasure chest for the energy needs of the UK.
It will soon be home to the world's largest offshore wind farm and the remaining reserves of gas take on a new significance following the recent Russian posturing over international supplies.
Advancing technology and subsea expertise allow much smaller pockets to be opened up for commercial use.
All of which means the Southern North Sea Conference, SNS 09, staged in Norwich next month by the East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) will be more in the spotlight than ever.
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With the region's gas industry focused on Great Yarmouth and the rapidly emerging wind farm world looking to centre on Lowestoft, the energy industry is vital to the East of England and its 1,200 or so companies in the supply chain.
"The energy industry has been thriving in the southern North Sea for more than four decades and every year that someone tries to play down its importance, it bounces back with even more vigour," said John Best, EEEGR chief executive.
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"Anyone with doubts should come to hear our speakers at the conference. There are some staggering stories to be told which will confirm the undoubted value to our industry of the Southern North Sea now and many years into the future."
Rob Hastings, director of Marine Estates for the Crown Estate, will outline how natural resources like wind and wave will become as important as North Sea gas and oil.
Steve Rose, offshore operations manager for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm - to be built off the Suffolk coast - will update the progress of what will become the world's largest wind farm of its kind.
Alistair Birnie, chief executive officer of Subsea UK, will look at how investment can be encouraged for further gas production while Blair Ainslie, managing director of Seajacks UK, will highlight the Yarmouth-based company's multi-million pound initiative to launch a new range of powered jack-up vessels into the North Sea.
Other speakers will look at the way the region can use and enhance its assets and how European countries are working together to ensure that the SNS becomes a global centre of excellence in offshore wind energy.
SNS 09 is at the Holiday Inn, Norwich International Airport, on February 5 from 9am.


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A new quilt exhibit is now on display at the Mitchell County Historical Society Museum, located at the Cedar River Complex.
The quilts come under the talents and tutelage of Jean Arndt of Osage.
Two quilts were created by Arndt, while others have sentimental significance; others were created under her direction.
One quilt, “Poinsettias” was sewn by Jean’s sister, Linda Viani. The quilt fascinates, with its detailed applique work and hand sewing.
Another quilt, which Arndt entitled, “Push Your Limits Quilt,” was designed by Arndt for fellow members of the Cedar Valley Quilt Guild, so they would “push their limits” and talents.
“I used patterns from different sources incorporating curves, needle turned appliqué, machine appliqué and paper piecing,” Arndt said in the quilt’s description. I gave members the instructions for three patterns every month starting in November of 2009 and finishing up September of 2010. It was quilted by Mindy Prohaski of Nora Springs.
Another quilt was created by sampler blocks made through a class at The Fabric Shoppe in St. Ansgar, in 2004, and then sewn by Arndt. The quilt was machine-quilted by Marian Enabnit of Clear Lake.
“This class was called a $5-A-Block-Class. The first month you would pay your $5 and in return I would receive the directions and the fabric for one block. The directions and fabric for the next month’s block would be free if I attended the next month session with finished block from the previous month.
“This all sounds very simple and a real bargain but with Iowa winters like they are these blocks ended up costing me much more than $5. But it is still a fun way to make a quilt.”
Also in the collection is a quilt created by Arndt’s 8-year-old-granddaughter, Jaelyn, and another fashioned by Jenna Plotzke, Arndt’s 4-H student.


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Singletracks Canterbury Secondary Schools 2024 Race Series. Open to secondary school students the race series has two aims: getting kids out on their bikes and having fun; along with providing a competitive series for the top riders. Race base is the Halswell Quarry Reserve. There are limited spaces available for intermediate age students that are keen and competitive XC racers.
The series consists of 4 races finishing with the Canterbury Championships

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With Dreadbox, IK Multimedia, Dave Smith Instruments and others keeping the synth community enthralled at Superbooth18 with their new synths and machines, there was no surprise when Behringer made this announcement!
The rumors of a Roland TR-808 clone have proved to be well-founded indeed. Welcome to the world of the RD-808.
The Rhythm Designer RD-808 from Behringer is 100% analog. The filter is based upon Mr Moffatt, who also designed the filter for the semi-modular Neutron.
It looks like a really flexible drum synth machine with some interesting assignment options, e.g. “you can assign multiple tracks to the buss compressor”… although recorded via the onboard camera microphone the sounds of the RD-808 sounds promising.
It will include 5-pin MIDI as well as MIDI via USB. And it comes with individual audio outputs for every drum channel.


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Mooy Antwerp is literally a sanctuary for people who love food and makeup! Located in Lombardenvest, this pink paradise is a jewel in the city!
Yana Ramon, a 24-year-old make artist came up with the idea of this restaurant. That is a compound of food and cosmetics. Hence, a perfect spot to eat and shop!
The Pink Paradise in the City of Diamonds!
This restaurant/shop is a must-visit for the cosmetics freaks out there. Delicious food and amazing products! Who does not like natural skincare products and fancy food? This establishment is providing both under the same roof! So makeup & food lovers fasten your seatbelts because Mooy takes you on a ride like none other. Either they are original products or tasty delicious food you probably will not find a restaurant like Mooy.
The boutique has a café where guests can enjoy “beauty food” made by hand which is nutritional to your body. Find yourself beautifying yourself both from the inside and the outside. And cosmetic freaks love this!
Mooy Antwerp is A Lethal Duo of Food & Cosmetics!
This is surely what you call feasting in style. The teas are amazing and the aroma rising from the cup smells awesome. The drinks are creatively colorful. They are made with so much care and the presentation is so alluring that you can barely take your eyes off the table!
So why not take some time out and pay them a visit. Let them bring a smile to that pretty face. Sip your tea on the open terrace, eat macarons and enjoy the beauty of every moment. Pamper yourself or bring all your squad over. You will surely enjoy the Mooy experience.
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3 Advantages Of Using Digital X-Ray
22 August 2018
With x-rays being the most common form of imaging tests for a wide array of conditions, it only makes find ways to improve accuracy and streamline the imaging process. Digital x-rays are worth the investment because they are clearly superior to using traditional x-rays.
One of the major advantages of using digital x-rays is they are convenient to use and take less time to process. Digital x-rays are frequently used in acute situations where medical professionals need information quickly and to make a diagnosis in real-time.
Working With Hazardous Drugs: How To Ensure Safe Handling
8 April 2018
When it comes to working in the nursing field, you have to expect some risks, especially when it comes to exposure to certain illnesses and drugs. You might not realize this going into the field, but there are quite a few drugs that are quite toxic for a healthy person to come in contact with, including those used in chemotherapy.
Because of this toxicity, it's crucial that you use specific safety techniques when working with these drugs.
Essential Supplies To Stock In Your School Nurse's Office
16 January 2018
Keeping your school nurse's office stocked with essential supplies can help students in the event of an illness and medical emergency. Take an inventory of the supplies you already have on-hand, and consider the following options to help ensure this office is stocked with the equipment your school's nurse needs to do his or her job.
Emergency Medicine Cabinets
Whether your school has students who need epinephrine injections due to severe allergies or inhalers to treat asthma attacks, you want to make sure these prescriptions are securely stored yet easily accessible.
Running A Medical Treatment And Imaging Center In An Old Building? Different Concerns And Changes To Make
20 November 2017
If you have opened a medical treatment or scanning and imaging facility in an older building, and you want to do some renovations, there are some things that you want to consider. You want to make sure that you are doing all of the renovations safely, and that you aren't at risk because of the services or treatments that you are offering. Here are some of the things to look into before you start the project, to protect yourself and everyone else.

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|Carbon Framework. By using this material in the frames we give more rigidity and durability to the frame and the blade in general.
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Low density HR2 rubber core. Thanks to its lightness it is always used in shovels in which it seeks that the ball enters a little more in core and to feel it softer.
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Eli Da Vincii [formerly known as Eli Makaveli] was born in the birthplace of hip-hop.
Eli grew up listening to the greats; Lauryn Hill, Tupac, Biggie and Mary J Blige. They inspired him to write, but being shy, he kept his craft close to his heart.
That was until his teenage years when he began to come out of his shell, putting out his freestyles and gaining social media attention.
A few months later, Eli began to release his music professionally.
Da Vincii (his name inspired by famous artist Leonardo Da Vincii) says his music has “twists.” In one interview he said, “I’m not afraid to be different or sound different.”
He says his recently released EP “Celestial: Experimental Tapes” is his greatest work yet.
“There is so much versatility and rawness” he says.
It is that rawness that his fans continue to relate to. No doubt that Eli Da Vincii is a rapper on the rise.
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This enchanting documentary follows New York City public school children as they add ballroom dancing to their education and learn more than how to dazzle on the the dance floor. Their life lessons come courtesy of an unusual program, established by dance instructor Pierre Dulaine, in which 6000 middle-schoolers learn to trip the light fantastic in several New York boroughs. The film focuses on the progress of three schools prepping students for a city-wide competition: competitors: PS 115, in impoverished Washington Heights), PS 150 in trendy Tribeca, and PS 112 in working class Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Documentarian Marilyn Agrelo cannily provides thumbnail sketches of each neighborhood, allowing viewers can put the schools' ethnic and economic diversities into perspective. In mastering fox trot, merengue, mambo, waltz, tango and swing moves, the students apply themselves with the diligence of exchange students enrolled in a crash language course, and what might seem like a glorified Physical Education project reveals itself to be much more, particularly for the underprivileged kids. In addition to the rules of ballroom dancing, the youngsters also learn about good manners, dress codes and the pleasure of working with a partner in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation. Though every child is transformed by the experience, it's hard not to pick favorites: Starstruck Tara, philosophical John, graceful Winston, preternaturally serious Jonathan they're all charmers. Throughout the process of tryouts and competing in semi-finals, the collaboration between teachers and pupils comes into sharper focus. Fiercely ambitious instructor Yomairo Reynoso, for example, worries about the sadly proscribed futures that await many of her Latino students, while tearful Allison Sheniak can't bear to see any child get eliminated. But as heartbreaking as it is to see the also-rans dissolve into tears, it's also uplifting to see them reinvent themselves as cheerleaders for their classmates. By the time the finalists compete at their recital, all the participants have won viewers' hearts. Agrelo makes the case for the discipline of dance study as an instrument of self-esteem on every level, and it's truly exhilarating to see the youngsters step outside themselves and their environments; in the end it's almost impossible not to fall in love with her crowd-pleasing documentary.
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It's that time of year again. Evangelical Christians and conservative pundits get their collective panties in a bunch over cups used by a major coffeehouse chain and greetings offered by the cashiers at retail outlets. They call it "The War on Christmas."
If there's a war on Christmas, Christmas is winning. It's not even close. There is no shortage of Christmas displays to be seen between Halloween and The Big Day (Oops. I think I just threw a grenade over the fence.)
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Latest Annelid Stories
Paleontologists from the University of Extremadura have discovered a new species, Cloudina carinata, the fossil of which has preserved its tridimensional shape.
The large group of segmented worms known as annelids, which includes earthworms, leeches and bristle worms, evolved millions of years ago and can be found in every corner of the world.
Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animalâ€™s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs, according to a paper in Nature.
The nightcrawler (Lumbricus terrestris), also known as the lob worm or the common earthworm in Britain and the dew worm in Canada, is a species of earthworm that is classified within the Annelida phylum. It is native to Europe, but has been introduced into other areas around the world. Although the species is not as abundant as other worms in its range, it is a widely known species in gardens of temperate habitats, where it moves about on the surface of the soil. The nightcrawler can reach...
The red earthworm (Lumbricus rubellus) is a species of earthworm that is classified within the Annelida phylum. It is native to the British Isles and Europe, but has traveled across the world to areas with appropriate habitats. This worm prefers to reside in soil that contains high organic matter content, like feces, but it needs loose soils in order to move about and feed. The sustainability of a habitat depends upon factors such as the PH balance of the soil, moisture levels, temperature,...
The Common Clam Worm (Alitta succinea) is a species of marine annelid of the Nereididae family of ragworms or sandworms. It is found throughout the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, especially in the Gulf of Maine; it is also found off the coast of South Africa. This species can reach a length of 6 inches, but most specimens are smaller. It is brown in color at the rear, and reddish-brown on the rest of the body. The head has four eyes, two sensory feelers and numerous tentacles. The body consists...
- A handkerchief.
- Specifically— The legendary sweat-cloth; the handkerchief of St. Veronica, according to tradition miraculously impressed with the mask of Christ; also, the napkin about Christ's head (Johu xx. 7).
- In general, any miraculous portrait of Christ.

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Description This was taken at Caudan Waterfront, Port Louis, Mauritius. The yachts and catamarans were harboured in the main marina and at the back I saw these colourful boats tied to one side. This is a late afternoon shot, which is why the light is so good. And all the while that I was there in Port Louis, the sky remained either a dark blue or ominously charcoal gray, but never rained.
Arkamitra Roy, Kolkata, West Bengal Member Since March 2010 Artist Statement Photography gives me a high like nothing else. The process of capturing the inherent beauty of things, at times even searching for the beautiful in the ugly and the mundane, and then transforming that into an artwork that gives pleasure to viewers and myself, is definitely a wondrous thing. Sometimes, the camera does not capture what the eye sees and sometimes it exceeds. The exhilaration that I feel when I see my photographs capturing reality and mood perfectly is unmatched by anything else.
I am by profession an art researcher and as a photographer I am completely self taught. Even though most of my images are not heavily photoshopped, and some completely untouched, I am fascinated by the transformation that happens when photoshop is creatively used to enhance rather than alter the reality. Most of my photographs belong to the travel and nature genres.


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'Never be forgotten': Fallen officers honored during Milwaukee Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Hundreds gathered for the Greater Milwaukee Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony to honor those killed in the line of duty.
This years’ service was especially difficult after the loss of three MPD officers.
"We have three recent officers that have died in the line of duty, and I can tell the families they will never be forgotten," said Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales.
The memorial ceremony was hosted by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee County Law Enforcement Executives Association, as part of National Police Week. Law enforcement from around the city, county and state were in attendance.
Family members of the fallen officers were also present and honored with wreaths.
Officers Irvine Jr. and Michalski will have their names added to the National Police Wall in Washington D.C., next week. About 175 MPD officers will be going on the memorial trip to pay their respects.