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Gas phase emission samples of carbonyl compounds (CCs) were collected from a research ship diesel engine at Rostock University, Germany. The ship engine was operated using two different types of fuels, heavy fuel oil (HFO) and diesel fuel (DF). Sampling of CCs was performed from diluted exhaust using cartridges and impingers. Both sampling methods involved the derivatization of CCs with 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH). The CCs-hydrazone derivatives were analyzed by two analytical techniques: High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Diode Array Detector (HPLC-DAD) and Gas Chromatography-Selective Ion Monitoring-Mass Spectrometry (GC-SIM-MS). Analysis of DNPH cartridges by GC-SIM-MS method has resulted in the identification of 19 CCs in both fuel operations. These CCs include ten aliphatic aldehydes (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, propanal, isobutanal, butanal, isopentanal, pentanal, hexanal, octanal, nonanal), three unsaturated aldehydes (acrolein, methacrolein, crotonaldehyde), three aromatic aldehyde (benzaldehyde, p-tolualdehyde, m,o-molualdehyde), two ketones (acetone, butanone) and one heterocyclic aldehyde (furfural). In general, all CCs under investigation were detected with higher emission factors in HFO than DF. The total carbonyl emission factor was determined and found to be 6700 and 2300 μg kWh-1 for the operation with HFO and DF respectively. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were found to be the dominant carbonyls in the gas phase of ship engine emission. Formaldehyde emissions factor varied from 3870 μg kWh-1 in HFO operation to 1540 μg kWh-1 in DF operation, which is 4-30 times higher than those of other carbonyls. Emission profile contribution of CCs showed also a different pattern between HFO and DF operation. The contribution of formaldehyde was found to be 58% of the emission profile of HFO and about 67% of the emission profile of DF. Acetaldehyde showed opposite behavior with higher contribution of 16% in HFO compared to 11% for DF. Heavier carbonyls (more than two carbon atoms) showed also more contribution in the emission profile of the HFO fuel (26%) than in DF (22%). © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Kohse K.,Helmholtz Center Munich |
Orasche J.,Helmholtz Center Munich |
Reda A.,Helmholtz Center Munich |
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Clinical Science | Year: 2014
COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is caused by exposure to toxic gases and particles, most often CS (cigarette smoke), leading to emphysema, chronic bronchitis, mucus production and a subsequent decline in lung function. The disease pathogenesis is related to an abnormal CS-induced inflammatory response of the lungs. Similar to active (mainstream) smoking, second hand (sidestream) smoke exposure severely affects respiratory health. These processes can be studied in vivo in models of CS exposure of mice. We compared the acute inflammatory response of female C57BL/6 mice exposed to two concentrations [250 and 500mg/m3 TPM (total particulate matter)] of sidestream and mainstream CS for 3 days and interpreted the biological effects based on physico-chemical differences in the gas and particulate phase composition of CS. BAL (bronchoalveolar lavage fluid) was obtained to perform differential cell counts and to measure cytokine release. Lung tissue was used to determine mRNA and protein expression of proinflammatory genes and to assess tissue inflammation. A strong acute inflammatory response characterized by neutrophilic influx, increased cytokine secretion [KC (keratinocyte chemoattractant), TNF-α (tumour necrosis factor α), MIP-2 (macrophage inflammatory protein 2), MIP-1α and MCP-1 (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1)], pro-inflammatory gene expression [KC, MIP-2 and MMP12 (matrix metalloproteinase 12)] and up-regulated GM-CSF (granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor) production was observed in the mainstream model. After sidestream exposure there was a dampened inflammatory reaction consisting only of macrophages and diminished GM-CSF levels, most likely caused by elevated CO concentrations. These results demonstrate that the composition of CS determines the dynamics of inflammatory cell recruitment in COPD mouse models. Different initial inflammatory processes might contribute to COPD pathogenesis in significantly varying ways, thereby determining the outcome of the studies. © The Authors Journal compilation © 2014 Biochemical Society.

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Happy Friday everyone! I am popping on today to share a quick little project I made. Here it is:
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Jaitley to take up exchange rate issue with FM
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SC admits cell operators' pleas against Tribunal order
NEW DELHI, NOV. 10. The Supreme Court today admitted the appeals filed by cellular operators against an order of the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) upholding the Government's decision to permit basic operators to offer WLL ...
Crisil puts growth at 7.1 p.c.
NEW DELHI, NOV. 10.The Credit Rating Information Services of India (Crisil) today forecast that the Indian economy would grow by 7.1 per cent this fiscal after the excellent monsoon although the fiscal deficit may overshoot the target. "The ...
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- Form a disk approximately 2 cm wide, wrap with a plastic food wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Grind the dough into crumbs, put in the freezer for 10 minutes. Bake at 180 °C (355 °F) for 10-15 minutes. Cool, grind into crumbs with a blender, mix with slightly melted butter, form a base with sides of 5-6 cm high, put in the refrigerator for at least 10 minutes.
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Ever try an online dating service? What if the police called and said your interactions with another member of the website were actually with a minor and illegal? You'd probably be shocked. Maybe panicked. Maybe enough to fall for an extortion scam.
That's what police say is happening in Virginia Beach.
Several recent police reports indicate an elaborate scheme behind an extortion scam. This is how police say the scam works:
- The victim is contacted through the dating website by another member who expresses interest in exchanging inappropriate photos.
- After the photos are exchanged, the victim gets a call from someone pretending to be police.
- The police impersonator claims the dating website user that the victim traded photos with is actually a minor and that his or her parents want to press charges.
- The victim believes the police impersonator and complies with a request to contact the parents of the minor.
- When the victim calls the supposed parents, they tell the victim they won’t press charges in exchange for money.
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Back in early February, there was a report in British media about BMW Group’s intention to build electric vehicles at the MINI plant in Oxford. However, it’s only now the automotive conglomerate is confirming the plan. More than £600 million (about $727M or €692M at current exchange rates) will be spent to make it happen. The EVs confirmed to go into production are the 3-Door hatchback and the upcoming Aceman small crossover. It’s worth noting that some of the funds will be directed to the body-pressing facility in Swindon.
The BMW Group says this major investment will be partially supported by the UK government, but without going into details about how much money each party will spend. Meanwhile, the two cars are going to be assembled in China by Spotlight Automotive, a 50:50 joint venture with Great Wall Motor. The 3-Door electric hatch will be the first to hit the assembly line at the factory in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, with the Aceman to follow next year after its confirmed world premiere in April 2024.
As a refresher, the previous-generation Cooper SE had the “Made in UK” label and it will regain it in roughly three years from now. The conventionally powered hatchback with three and five doors will remain in production in Oxford where a next-gen convertible will also be made. Assembly of the previous droptop model was externalized to the VDL Nedcar automotive manufacturing factory in Born, The Netherlands.
By planning to build two EVs and bring production of the convertible in-house, MINI says the Oxford plant will reach an annual output of about 200,000 vehicles in the medium term. In the long run, the factory will assemble only electric vehicles as the objective is to end production of ICE cars no later than 2030.
Speaking of internalizing production, the new Countryman will also be built in-house, specifically at BMW’s Leipzig plant in Germany where both ICE and EV versions of the compact crossovers will roll off the assembly line.
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Security forces bust LeT module, arrest 3 in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora
Incriminating material, arms and ammunition, including a pistol, fake SIM cards, forged documents, among other things were recovered from their possession, a spokesman said.
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Srinagar: Security forces busted a terror module of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit by arresting three terrorist associates in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday. A terror module of proscribed terror outfit LeT was busted by arresting three terrorist associates and recovering incriminating material, including arms and ammunition from their possession, a police spokesman said. He identified the arrested as Suhaib Ahmad Malik alias Asif and Aejaz Ahmad Najar — both residents of Gundpora, and Touseef Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Chittay Banday, Bandipora. Incriminating material, arms and ammunition, including a pistol, fake SIM cards, forged documents, among other things were recovered from their possession, the spokesman said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that they were involved in providing logistics and other support like providing fake SIM cards to the active terrorists of the LeT, he said.
The trio was also in contact with active LeT terrorists across the border, including operational commander Babar who had tasked them to monitor the movement of police, security forces and political functionaries in the area, the spokesman said.
He said Babar had also promised the trio for the supply of three AK rifles in the coming days so that they could formally join the terrorist ranks.
The three were further tasked to carry out weapon snatching till the consignment of weapons could be smuggled in and delivered, he added.
A case has been registered, and investigation into the matter initiated, the spokesman said.
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- WWE will return to Boston at the TD Garden on Monday, November 14th for RAW.
- Josh Barnett defeated Bobby Lashley by submission in a feature match for WWE Hall of Famer Antonio Inoki’s IGF wrestling promotion in Japan on Saturday.
- ESPN’s E:60 show will reportedly film a piece on Scott Hall once Hall is released from jail. The filming will take place at an I Believe In Wrestling independent show on July 16th in Orlando, Florida. Hall will be managing Santana and Lince Dorado in a mixed tag team match.
- CM Punk’s merchandise was reportedly sold out at multiple stands at the TD Garden in Boston on Monday night during RAW.
- Shawn Michaels is reportedly talking with networks about another reality TV show to be shot this fall.
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Jean Baptiste van Loo
Flemish Painter, 1684-1745
was a French subject and portrait painter. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo, son of Jacob van Loo. Having at an early age executed several pictures for the decoration of the church and public buildings at Aix, he was employed on similar work at Toulon, which he was obliged to leave during the siege of 1707. He was patronized by the prince of Carignan, who sent him to Rome, where he studied under Benedetto Luti. Here he was much employed on church pictures, and in particular executed a greatly praised Scourging of Christ for St Maria in Monticelli. At Turin he painted Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy and several members of his court. Then, moving to Paris, where he was elected a member of the Acad??mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, he executed various altar-pieces and restored the works of Francesco Primaticcio at Fontainebleau. In 1737 he went to England, where he attracted attention by his portrait of Colley Cibber and of Owen McSwiny, the theatrical manager; the latter, like many other of van Loo's works, was engraved in mezzotint by John Faber Junior. He also painted Sir Robert Walpole, whose portrait by van Loo in his robes as chancellor of the exchequer is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the prince and princess of Wales. He did not, however, practise long in England, for his health failing he retired to Paris in 1742, and afterwards to Aix, where he died on 19 December 1745. Related Paintings of Jean Baptiste van Loo :. | Augusta van Saksen Gotha | Portrait of Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha | Portrait of Louis XV of France | Portrait of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux | Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha |
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(1904 - 1931) was an Armenian-American painter. He was the oldest of three children born to a Christian Armenian family in Constantinople. As a teenager, he survived the Armenian Genocide. Manookian immigrated to the United States in 1920, at the age of 16, and studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. He also took classes at the Art Students League of New York before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps in 1923. While serving in the U. S. Marine Corps he was assigned as a clerk to the author and historian, Major Edwin North McClellan. In 1925, McClellan and Manookian were transferred to Pearl Harbor. The latter supplied illustrations for Leatherneck Magazine and produced about 75 ink drawings for McClellanes history of the United States Marine Corps, which was never published. These drawings are now in the collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
In 1927, Manookian was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, but remained in Hawaii. He worked for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and for Paradise of the Pacific.
His paintings are rare and highly valued due to his early death, by suicide, in 1931, and fewer than 30 are in existence. The Honolulu Academy of Arts held a memorial exhibition shortly after Manookianes death and a retrospective exhibition titled Meaning in Color/Expression in Line: Arman Manookianes Modernism Nov. 4, 2010 through April 24, 2011. The Bishop Museum and the Honolulu Academy of Arts are among the public collections holding works by Arman T. Manookian. According to the State of Hawaii's House of Representatives, he is "known as Hawaii's Van Gogh".
In early 2010 a group of seven Manookian paintings owned by the Hotel Hana-Maui were removed from public display. They were the only Manookian oil paintings known to be on public display anywhere in the world. Two of the murals, Red Sails and Hawaiian Boy and Girl, are now on long-term loan to the Honolulu Academy of Arts.


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LOS ANGELES – Ultra-right Republican plans to seize control of this state ran into a roadblock when an appeals court Sept. 15 ordered postponement of California’s recall election. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that punch card ballots used in six counties, including Los Angeles, would deny voters the equal right to have their votes counted, in violation of the “equal protection” clause of the U.S. Constitution.
An enraged Ted Costa, head of Rescue California, the main committee seeking to recall Gov. Gray Davis, announced that his group will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the ruling.
“This is a victory for democracy and for California,” said Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of California branches of the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles, and the Southwest Voters Project. “The message is clear,” Rosenbaum said. “We must not sacrifice political equality in favor of political expediency.”
Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California AFL-CIO, said, “Everyone deserves to have their vote counted. There are serious defects in the voting system that will lead to disenfranchisement of voters, so we support the 9th Circuit’s decision.” In the 2000 presidential election, Pulaski added, “the Supreme Court violated the right to vote, and they owe us on this one. But because we can’t count on the Supreme Court to do the right thing, our campaign against the recall is going forward. Full steam ahead.”
Even if reversed, the ruling by Judges Harry Pregerson, Sidney R. Thomas, and Richard Paez has presented in stark terms the threat to democracy posed by the attempt to remove Davis, who was re-elected last November with 3.5 million votes. Many here have branded the recall a “bloodless coup,” comparable to George W. Bush’s theft of the 2000 presidential election in Florida.
The court’s 66-page ruling warned that the votes of 40,000 or more voters are certain to be thrown out because of dimples or hanging chads on their punch card ballots. The judges pointed out that the system of punch card balloting is “so flawed that the secretary of state has officially deemed it unacceptable, and banned its use in all future elections.” All of the antiquated punch card machines are to be replaced by next March.
The judges also warned that a quarter of the state’s polling places will not be operational because election officials have insufficient time and staff to get them ready by Oct. 7. Furthermore, men and women in the U.S. armed forces will be disenfranchised, they charged, “because they did not expect to be overseas for this length of time” and therefore did not apply for absentee ballots.
Avoiding an election “that promises to dilute the votes of any particular community – let alone communities with disproportionately high concentrations of minority voters – firmly promotes the public interest in a fair election,” the judges wrote. “The public interest strongly favors holding the recall election during the general election in March 2004 to avoid any equal protection violation.”
The judges argued that the anti-recall plaintiffs “equal protection claims mirrors the one recently analyzed by the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore in which the justices ruled that the state ‘may not by arbitrary and disparate treatment value one person’s vote over another.’” It was seen as a shrewd line of argument that will be difficult for the Supreme Court to rebut without eating their own words.
The labor-led anti-recall effort is surging here in this battleground city which is crucial to defeating the recall. This reporter visited the the headquarters of the L.A. County Federation of Labor where volunteers from a dozen unions were phone-banking, in both English and Spanish, in a room with 50 computer phone stations. Freddy Harris, a member of Service Employees Local 99 told this reporter, “People tell me, ‘Where is the democracy when 1.6 million people sign a recall petition and it throws out an election where eight million people voted?’”
At a special Democratic Party convention Sept. 13, Gov. Davis drew strong applause as he shook hands with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante while the 600 delegates chanted, “Recall No! Bustamante Si.” The next day, the Rev. Cecil Murray welcomed Davis and former President Bill Clinton to the First AME Church in South Central Los Angeles. The crowd overflowed the sanctuary and packed the basement to watch on a big screen as Murray urged the crowd to turn out a huge vote against the recall.
Robin Harris, a Los Angeles schoolteacher, stood in the church basement. “This is bigger than Gray Davis,” she told the World. “It’s big money, big business, removing from office somebody the people have voted for.”
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Helen Hayes, 92, whose onstage versatility and offstage generosity earned her the title “First Lady of the American Theater,” died yesterday in the New York suburb of Nyack.
Hayes was hospitalized at Nyack Hospital with congestive heart failure and an irregular heartbeat early last week. She died in her sleep with her family in attendance. At the request of her son, actor James MacArthur, no other details were provided.
Hayes won two Tony Awards, two Oscars and an Emmy in a career that spanned more than 70 years.
She undoubtedly would have won more Tonys had her early stage triumphs not predated those awards by more than a decade. Her performance in Anita Loos’ “Happy Birthday” inaugurated the best actress Tony award in 1947 (and was shared with Ingrid Bergman).
She won her first Oscar, for best actress, in “The Sins of Madelon Claudet,” in 1931 and became a major Broadway star in the mid-1930s with consecutive appearances in the title roles of Maxwell Anderson’s “Mary of Scotland” (1933) and Laurence Houseman’s “Victoria Regina” (1935).
In 1952 Hayes won the best-actress Emmy for “Not a Chance,” a Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars presentation. Her second best-actress Tony came in 1958 for Jean Anouilh’s “Time Remembered”; she won her second Oscar, for best supporting actress, for 1970’s “Airport.”
In 1980, she was selected as one of 10 American artists to be commemorated on a gold medallion issued by the Treasury Dept. The next year, she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement.
Hayes also did regular turns on radio in the 1930s and ’40s, winning the Best Radio Actress award in 1940 for the “Helen Hayes Theater” program.
The unlikeliest of her awards was a recording-industry Grammy in 1977 for a record on which she read the Bill of Rights.
But Hayes was primarily a theater figure, a leading lady whose contemporaries and equals were Katharine Cornell and Lynn Fontanne.
Like them, she married a man of the theater and was devoted to the theater world. However, Hayes was a different kind of star than Cornell and Fontanne, for she preferred cloaking herself in character roles to bringing her own force of personality to bear on a part.
She was born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington on Oct. 10, 1900, to a traveling salesman and a sometime stock-company actress. Hayes made her professional debut at age 5, playing Prince Charles in “The Royal Family” at the National Theater.
Her Broadway debut came four years later, as Little Mimi in Lew Fields’ production of “Old Dutch.” As a child and young woman, she toured relentlessly, performing one-night stands in trivia like “Pollyana.”
Throughout her teens and 20s, Hayes had great success in lighter roles and was frequently cast as a flapper. Her most notable performances were in Booth Tarkington’s “Clarence” (1919), “To the Ladies” (1922) and “Dancing Mothers” ( 1925).
While playing in the Theater Guild’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleopatra” in 1925, she met writer Charles MacArthur, who proposed to her on the opening night of his collaboration with Ben Hecht, “The Front Page ,” in 1928.
The couple bought a house in the Hudson River town of Nyack, N.Y., which became as important a part of their lives as Genesee Depot, Wis., was to the Lunts; they lived there when MacArthur died in 1956, and she lived there still at the time of her death.
Hayes reached the second pinnacle of her career in the mid-’30s, playing Mary , Queen of Scots, in the Maxwell Anderson play “Mary of Scotland,” and Queen Victoria (to Vincent Price’s Albert) in the Lawrence Housman play “Victoria Regina.” The latter role required her to age from girlish innocence into genteel widowhood. Variety reported of the play, “With Helen Hayes on the stage it is engrossing and the fineness of her acting makes ‘Regina’ a standout.”
Loos’ “Happy Birthday” not only won her her first Tony (for playing an elderly, teetotaling librarian who gets soused); it also marked her singing debut. Though the show wasn’t not a musical, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II — who produced the comedy — wrote “I Haven’t Got a Worry in the World” for her to sing.
Hayes made her West End debut in 1948, playing Amanda in the London premiere of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” She then played Lucy Andree Ransdell, Joshua Logan’s Americanized Madame Ranevskaya, in “The Wisteria Trees” (1950); and Mrs. Howard V. Larue II in “Mrs. McThing” (1952).
Two more memorable portrayals followed in that decade: A duchess who hires a milliner to impersonate her nephew’s dead sweetheart in “Time Remembered,” with Richard Burton and Susan Strasberg; and Norah Melody, the wrecked wife of a wrecked innkeeper in Eugene O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet.”
“Poet” opened in 1958 and marked Hayes’ first appearance in the theater that was named for her.
In the later part of her career, she played mostly in revivals, notably “The Show Off” (1967) and “Harvey” (1970).
She also committed herself to a number of charitable causes, particularly the Actors’ Home.
Among her namesakes are Washington, D.C.’s annual theater awards. And when the first Helen Hayes Theater was destroyed (along with the Morosco and the Bijou) to make way for the Marriott Marquis Hotel, the Little Theater was rechristened for her.
Hayes’ valedictory appearance, in 1971, was as Mary Tyrone in a Catholic University production of O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
She remained in front of the cameras many years more, appearing as late as 1983 in a TV adaptation of an Agatha Christie mystery.
Hayes appeared in several of the leading dramatic television series of the ‘ 50s, including “Robert Montgomery Presents,” for which she reprised “Victoria Regina” in 1950.
Her autobiography, “On Reflection,” was published in 1968.
She is survived by her son. A daughter, Mary MacArthur, died from polio when she was just 19, in 1949.
Her funeral will be private, but a memorial service will be held later, said John Springer, the actress’ spokesman.

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This Book was supplied to me by Harvest House Publishers through NetGalley for a review in return.
Attend the wedding of Teresa, the young Englisha girl who has come home with Susan Hostetler to learn the ways of the Amish---and in fact to become Amish herself.
But Teresa is not the only young woman to find romance in these pages. Susan, long estranged from Thomas Stoll, the young man she had intended to marry from her childhood, reunites with him..just as another man appears on the scene with designs on her heart. Which man is the one Da Hah has chosen for her?
This Book is the third and final book in Fields of Home Series by Jerry Eicher. Jerry is one of the best Amish authors I have ever read. I know that Jerry grew up Amish but never dreamed he could capture the hearts of the women like he does.
This book starts up where Book 2 left off. Teresa is in the process of getting things going for her marriage to James. They get married and Susan Hostetler, who is her close friend, breaks up with Thomas. He is not very thoughtful in my opinion. He breaks up with Susan on the night of Teresa’s wedding. As the book goes on, there are other things that happen to the Hostetlers, but will not say anymore because I don’t want to spoil the book for you.
I just want to say this is one of those books that once you start reading it, you definitely can’t put it down. It will grab you from the start to the end. I loved this whole series, thank you Jerry Eicher for giving us readers such a GREAT series and this book is just GREAT. I didn’t’ want it to end. But I know it has to.
Thank you Harvest House for giving me the chance to read and review on this book. It was such a Good Book that I would most definitely suggest this book to my friends and family.


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Some very important and wonderful things happened to John Rossi in 1964.
He completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania, which helped secure a promotion at the college where he was teaching, and he met his wife, Frances.
They almost helped him recover from one of Philadelphia’s greatest sports tragedies: the collapse of the 1964 Phillies. The team was in first place by 6.5 games with only 12 games left in the season. World Series tickets were printed and sent to season ticket holders. Then the unthinkable happened: the team lost 10 straight games, and the pennant. (Some people kept the World Series tickets as a rueful reminder. A friend of mine and Philadelphia native, Irv Slifkin, said “I remember a bar … near where I grew up had Phillie pictures and a row of those tickets in the window.”)
About 40 years later, Rossi tried to make sense of what happened by writing “The 1964 Phillies: The Story of Baseball’s Most Memorable Collapse.”
Last year, the book’s publisher asked Rossi for a second edition, which will be available this month or March. “I think (the publisher) saw the popularity of the Phillies and decided to capitalize on it,” he said. “This year is the 60thanniversary of the collapse.”
The publishers also know Philadelphia fans love to suffer their losses more than rejoice in the few championships they’ve won.
Rossi said the trauma of ’64 created “Negadelphia,” which means Philly sport fans expect the worst.
“I don’t remember that negative attitude about Philadelphia sports before ’64. Other city sports teams did not have the broad following of Phillies baseball. Even the Eagles winning was minor compared to a baseball championship. Same for basketball,” he said.
“Any fan who lived through that season and the collapse will never forget it. As soon as I mention I wrote a book about 64 to older fans, they begin reminiscing about it. What games they saw, who were their favorite players, which games of the collapse they remember,” said Rossi.
Angelo Cataldi came to Philadelphia to cover the Eagles for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1990, he switched media and became a hugely popular host on the city’s all-sports station.
“It’s safe to say 1964 left a scar that has outlasted most of the fans who experienced it first-hand. It is still present in the minds of every true Philadelphia sports fan, whether they were here for it or not,” said Cataldi.
“More than once, I even sensed a tiny bit of pride over it. The attitude seems to be: Well, if we’re going to suffer a calamity, it may as well be the worst calamity in sports history. If we can’t be the best, Philly fans have often preferred to be the worst. The worst crime a sports team can commit in Philly is mediocrity,” said Cataldi.
(I believe that if the Phils had won the pennant some of the more famous acts committed by Philadelphia fans – throwing snowballs at Santa Claus or cheering when Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin while he was carried off the field on a stretcher – would not have happened.)
A friend, Chuck Darrow, a huge Phillies fan, has this take on that collapse: “Asking Philadelphia to forget 1964 is like asking Chicago to forget Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.”
Recently, football fans and sportscasters were moaning about the Philadelphia Eagles collapse and comparing it to (and even believing it exceeded) the 1964 Phillies But for Rossi what happened to that squad is the granddaddy of failures: “That one stands alone. There is no comparison that is apt to 1964,” he said.
Richie Allen of the Philadelphia Phillies warms up during the 1964 season. (Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Cataldi said 1964 came up recently during “the demise of the 2023 Eagles, who lost six of their last seven games. Again, all I could think of was 1964 as the final games unraveled. I did a bunch of interviews in the final weeks of the season, referencing many times the best example I could think of, the 1964 Phillies.”
“From my first day in Philly in 1983 — 19 years after the epic collapse — it was a point of reference for every bad loss any Philly sports team experienced,” he said.
The beginning of the end for the 1964 Phillies was a 1-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds when Chico Ruiz stole home — with Frank Robinson at the plate.
“The steal of home by Chico Ruiz was mentioned every single year I was on the air in Philadelphia (1990-2023), often more times than would seem logical,” said Cataldi. The best example, he said, was the NFL Conference Championship game in 2002 against Tampa Bay. The Eagles were favored, but the game turned when receiver “Joe Jurevicius of Tampa ruined the last Eagles game at Veterans Stadium by running free for a 72-yard gain that symbolized the Eagles’ futility that day. (That loss sent Tampa to the Super Bowl and the Eagles home.) Jurevicius became Chico Ruiz. So did many of our other athletes who failed in the big moments brought back memories of Ruiz.”
“Actually, I was very much engrossed in the drama in 1964, as a 13-year-old in Providence,” recalls Cataldi. “I can remember sitting in an eye doctor’s office — I had a bad infection that required daily visits for a couple of weeks — and reading the newspaper every day to see if the Phillies would survive. It was the first time I rooted for the Phillies, but hardly the last.”
Rossi believes the losing streak was a matter of percentages. Every team, every year, said Rossi, has a slump. For the Phillies, he said, the slump happened at the worst possible time.
Writing the book, says Rossi, was “definitely was an act of catharsis. I had been talking about the collapse ever since it happened partly because that team meant so much to me. It was a favorite of mine because they played the kind of inside baseball I liked and I really admired the manager, Gene Mauch.”
“I got sidetracked (finishing the Ph.D. thesis) because the season was so exciting,” he said. “Nothing like that had happened since 1950 when the Phillies beat the great Brooklyn Dodgers team on the final day of the season to win the pennant, but then lost the World Series to the New York Yankees in four games,” he said.
Manager Gene Mauch #4 of Philadelphia Phillies looks on from the dugout during an Major League Baseball game circa 1964. Mauch managed the Phillies from 1960-68. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
The Phillies slump almost cost Rossi professionally. He was a full-time “instructor” at then La Salle College (now university). “I was trying to finish the dissertation because if I did before January I would get a raise and be promoted to assistant professor (and that) meant the school was interested in keeping you around,” he said.
“I just couldn’t concentrate and lost two weeks of writing. When I started back to work I was still haunted by ‘How could that have happened?’ I really didn’t get back on the thesis for about a month,” said Rossi. “I just made the deadline by a couple of days.”
Rossi went on to teach a baseball history course at La Salle and authored four books on baseball.
“The country grew up with baseball, and baseball grew up with the country,” says Rossi. “Almost everything that happened in American history is reflected in baseball from one time or another. Baseball was also a way for immigrants to assimilate in society: first were the Irish, then the Germans, by the end of the 19th century the Poles and even American Indians were playing.”
The years from 1946 to ’60 — which were the basis of his first book, A Whole New Game — were crucial for the sport, as owners and players dealt with issues the country was facing: integration, westward expansion, television.
His passion for baseball, however, did not have a promising start. His uncle took him to Philadelphia’s Shibe Park to see the Phillies when he was 8, and Rossi asked to leave early. The same scenario happened when he was 9. But in 1946, when he was 10, his attitude changed.
“It was overcast, and we didn’t know if the game would be played, and it was very humid. My uncle and I got there early, and [the weather] started to clear, and something clicked,” Rossi says. “It was a doubleheader, and I think the Phillies won both games. Maybe it was seeing the homers the Phillies hit. After that, we went to ballgames all the time,” recalled Rossi.
(Rossi also collected autographs of many ballplayers, included two signed photographs of Joe DiMaggio. His grandfather inadvertently threw both out.)
Fittingly, Rossi remembers when he met Frances by recalling a baseball game played that day.
“I met Frances at a wedding reception on August 28 (when) the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Joe Gibbon beat Jim Bunning 4-2,” said Rossi. “I used to tease her by asking when we met and when she dawdled, I would spring the date and game information on her. She said I remembered more about the Phillies collapse than our first dates which by the way isn’t true. As soon as I met her I knew I wouldn’t let her get away. We were married January 22, 1966 and lived happily ever after.”
(Rossi dedicated the first edition of the book to his daughter and son-in-law who had recently married. He dedicated the second edition to his wife, who died last year. The dedication reads, “To Frances Quinn Rossi. Fifty-Six Years wasn’t enough.”)
But for Rossi, after 60 years and seeing the Phillies win its first World Series in 1980 and a second in 2008, does that September swoon still hurt?
“Hell, yeah!” he says.


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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 28-29 October 2019
The National Research and Development Center for Sustainable Agriculture “Estidamah” participated in the First AFA Mena Soil Fertility & Fertilizer Industries Seminar, organized by the Arab Fertilizer Association (AFA), at the Emirates Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 28 to 29th October 2019.
For the first time, agricultural experts, agriculture institutions, scientific and research institutions, chemical engineers, specialized farmers, policymakers, decision-makers and fertilizer producers were brought together to identify future needs in the shade of the different challenges facing the sustainable agriculture sector.
The Seminar provided participants with an enabling opportunity to capitalize on existing experiences, make use of distinctive expertise and develop a regional strategy for fertilizer practices, management and industry. As well, delegations had face-to-face interactions with key stakeholders and foreign experts. Estidamah gave a presentation on "Customize fertilization to prevent salinity build-up in the growing media."
The highly interactive event prompted participants to reflect on their current practices and knowledge. The two-days Seminar elaborated on several key topics, including plant nutrition and nutrients management, soil fertility advanced agriculture technology, climate change impact, soil threat and fertilizer recommendations.

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Wrestlers get solid win at Lewiston,
make good showing in Hayfield tourney
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:02 AM
Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland downed a solid Lewiston/Rushford-Peterson team in a dual wrestling meet Friday and then took fourth place in a 10-team tournament at Hayfield the next day.
In the 38-30 win at Lewiston, the team "only had nine healthy bodies to fill out the 14 weights," said coach Bill Simpkins. "Due to some empty weights that have been a problem all year our margin for error is thin. LARP was 8-3 so far this year, winning nine of seven matches we had wrestlers at, and not giving up a pin (first time this year) we were able to knock off a pretty good team."
Results against L-A/R-P. 106: Brenn Olson, GMLO, pinned Xavier Riser, LARP, 1:13. 113: Justin Mueller, LARP, forf. . 120: double forfeit. 126: McCoy Tekautz, LARP, maj. dec. Stephen Kassel, GMLO, 15-5. 132: Sam Riebel, LARP, forf. . 138: Jace Bunne, GMLO, dec. Clay Johnson, LARP, 8-2. 145: Parker Hale, GMLO, pinned Justin Grindland, LARP, 5:31. 152: Blake Olson, GMLO, forf. . 160: Jackson Riebel , LARP, maj. dec. Sam Roe, GMLO, 15-6. 170: Brandon Turner, GMLO, dec. Cody Rain, LARP, 4-0. 182: Andrew Knapczyk , LARP, forf. . 195: Wyatt Richardson, GMLO, pinned Cody Nahrgang , LARP, 5:35. 220: John Heim , LARP, forf. . 285: Blake Benson, GMLO, pinned Jordan Bergan, LARP, 1:32.
In the Hayfield tourney, Parker Hale, after some early jitters in the first round, dominated his last two opponents at 145 lbs. with a major decision in the semifinals and a fall in the championship, noted Simpkins.
Unseeded Brandon Turner at 171 lbs. lost his first round match to the eventual runner-up, but strung together three very solid matches to take third, added Simpkins, while 285 lbs. Broc Fiegel won his first two career matches, and got himself into the finals, taking second place.
Also placing for the Bulldogs were Brenn Olson, third place with a 3-1 record at 106 lbs., Jace Bunne at 138 lbs. with a 2-2 record for fourth place, Wyatt Richardson with a 1-1 record for second place at 195 lbs., and Blake Benson with a 1-1 record for second place at 220 lbs. 4th 2-2.
Wrestlers of the week
Blake Benson, a ninth grader, was moved up from 220 to 285 lbs. in the varsity dual against LARP, and his fall secured the win for the team. He also placed second at the Hayfield Tournament
For junior varsity, eighth grader John Barber, in his second year out, has shown improvement from week to week. His hard work in the practice room is paying off dividends, said Simpkins and he will be seeing some varsity action before the year ends.
GMLOK is at the Riceville tournament Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. Next Monday, the Bulldogs take on Fillmore Central/Lanesboro/Mabel-Canton in Harmony.


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