Lewis Hamilton wins 2008 Australian Grand Prix
Topics: Australian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton
March 16, 2008
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton starting from pole wins the FIA Formula-1 2008 ING Australian Grand Prix on the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne.
Nick Heidfeld took second for BMW Sauber. Nico Rosberg scoring his first Formula One podium in third and a long-awaited for Williams team.
A thrilling race ended with only seven drivers met the chequered flag. It all started when Giancarlo Fisichella, a Force India experienced driver, was out upon the start. His younger teammate Adrian Sutil pitted a couple of laps later and left his car.
Fernando Alonso, who is back in Renault, drove stably although his car could not compete fully with McLaren's. Heikki Kovalainen overtook him on the last lap, but the Spaniard easily made a detour around McLaren and finished 4th.
Rubens Barrichello made a great deal for Honda with a 6th result. The last year decline appear to be nothing to worry about now for the team. Still Barrichello was disqualified a time after the race for leaving the pit-lane under red lights.
Kazuki Nakajima scored two additional points for Williams (three after disqualification of Barrichello).
The last point was grabbed by Sébastien Bourdais (two after disqualification of Barrichello) whose Toro Rosso-Ferrari engine burnt near the end of the race.
Neither Kimi Räikkönen, last year's champion and previous Australian race winner, nor his teammate Felipe Massa finished for Ferrari. Still, Kimi managed to get one point after the disqualification of Barrichello.
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It is not fuel, more of a boost , to increase the efficiency of the fission bomb part.
In terms of conventional bombs, HE would be too dangerous to carry around and store if it readily exploded so it is designed to be resistant to heat or damage.
Take some plastic explosive and hit it with a hammer or get a lighter and set it on fire and it wont explode... or it shouldn't... it will burn though...
To get it to explode you need another explosion, so for plastic explosive to blow up you need an explosion to make it explode.
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It is the same with a hydrogen bomb... hydrogen atoms wont fuse together except at extremely high temperatures and high pressures.... it only happens naturally inside a star. To create conditions like those inside a star heavy elements of Uranium or Plutonium are split in a runaway nuclear (not chemical) reaction. The issue with Fission is that you create an explosion by having enriched atoms of the material of a certain mass or volume. Once you have that much material there then boom the reaction becomes a runaway reaction and boom.
Obviously if you need 1.5kgs of heavy elements to reach critical mass then you can't store 1.5kgs of that material in one place or boom it will react.
If you want a bigger explosion you need more mass, but the critical mass remains the same you can't just scale it up.
The minimum bomb size assuming 1.5kgs is critical mass could be two 750 gramme chunks of the material that are slammed together to form critical mass of 1.5kgs and boom. You could scale such a design up by making each of the two chunks heavier... but as they get closer to critical mass they get hotter... two 1.2kg masses wont go boom because that it not critical mass but it might be enough mass to generate temperatures of thousands of degrees C that melts the nose cone of the missile and has liquid uranium or plutonium dribbling down through it.
The easiest solution is a huge ball that has wedges like a pizza except instead of a flat disc with 6 or 8 pizza slices it is a 3D sphere with perhaps 50 segments that can all be pushed from the outside of the sphere into the centre to form a solid sphere of the material... each piece might be 100 grammes each but the 50 pieces added together make up a sphere of 5,000 grammes of 5kgs which will definitely explode.
100 gramme sections wont be big enough for them to get too hot though many bombs had air conditioning systems to keep the elements cool so they didn't damage parts of the weapon.
The simplest nuke was called a gun barrel nuke and had a sphere of material with a section missing. That section was at the other end of the bomb and mounted inside a gun barrel pointed at the main mass of material with a HE charge behind it. When the bomb went off the HE charge blew the missing piece of the sphere down the barrel and into the sphere... its mass together with the mass of the ball created a sphere of critical mass and boom.
To make it bigger and more powerful they needed more pieces... but if the pieces got too big and heavy they would get too hot... if they got to hot they might damage the HE or mechanism to throw the pieces together which might fail and lead to the bomb not exploding properly... that is why they needed to test them.
Imagine a ball like the one I mention above split up into 50 pieces that when slammed together make a ball of 5kgs mass... if critical mass for the material is 1.5kgs then if half those segments are slow and 2.5kgs of the sphere reach each other first then they might blow up and just vapourise the other 2.5kgs of heavy metals so the boom will only be half as big as you thought it would be.
Another design could be to use HE to increase the pressure inside the warhead so it acts like it is critical mass even though it is not and boom but you get a smaller boom than you would if you put two pieces together that reached the correct weight.
In their experiments to create fusion reactors one of the problems scientists are coming up against is that inside a star it is hot but it is also under enormous pressure... so while fusion in our sun might be taking place at 5 million degrees C to do the same here on earth you might need temperatures of 15 or 20 million degrees because the pressure inside the reactor is nothing like the pressure inside a star.


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Child welfare experts, immigrant rights advocates, former immigrant detainees and even a woman born behind barbed wire in a Japanese internment camp are urging Texas not to license federal immigration lockups as “child care” centers.
Officials with the Texas Department of Family Services heard some three hours of testimony Wednesday from more than 40 witnesses deeply troubled by the agency’s plan to create a whole new child care licensing category for two facilities that primarily detain asylum-seeking women and children. The compounds, built in the tiny, geographically isolated South Texas towns of Karnes and Dilley, are run by the same private prison behemoths that have seen profits soar with the rise in immigration enforcement and detention.
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Immigrant rights advocates were appalled that Texas would try to save the distasteful practice of family detention. Child welfare experts, who contend the type of family detention employed by ICE is damaging to child development, were floored by the plan, saying Texas was lowering its child care standards to meet those of ICE.
Late last month, in response to a lawsuit filed by the Austin-based advocacy group Grassroots Leadership, a state district judged ruled no such “emergency” existed and that the state couldn’t bypass the normal process. DFPS was forced to hold a public comment period. [node:read-more:link]
A watchdog group is suing the agency charged with protecting the state’s most vulnerable Texans, alleging the department fast-tracked a policy change that might help the federal government convince a federal judge to reverse her order shutting down two immigration detention centers in Texas.
The lawsuit by Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit group opposed to for-profit prisons, filed in a Travis County state district court, claims that by adopting an emergency rule in September, the Texas Department of Family Protective Services can issue temporary licenses to privately run detention centers in Karnes City and Dilley without publicly detailing how it will ensure the safety and well-being of the immigrants. [node:read-more:link]
Immigration officials have started shifting longtime detainees from family holding centers in South Texas to one in Pennsylvania, part of what activists say is a scramble before Friday’s deadline to comply with a judge’s ruling governing the treatment of immigrant children in custody. [node:read-more:link]
filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Family Services, challenging its institution of the emergency rule without a full public-review process. Although allowing public comments might not have swayed the authorities, says Cristina Parker, the group’s director of immigration programs via email, “we certainly hope public outcry would have made a difference in their decision.”The civil-rights group Grassroots Leadership
The detained families are an even more muted part of the public outcry, walled off from the outside world, largely lacking any legal representation. But a group of mothers who were detained at Karnes for 11 months explained in an August letter to the president exactly what kinds of conditions their children required:
This nation for us is our refuge and protection. We do not ask more than that and we urge you to end all detention. We must forge in our children healthy minds that are free from violence without having them go through the nightmare of being locked up for months.
One of the three facilities that detains immigrant families in the United States will not be allowed to expand and could lose its license to operate from the state of Pennsylvania -- a major win for the advocacy groups aiming to shut down family detention.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services sent a letter on Thursday to the director of Berks County Residential Center denying a request to double its capacity from 96 to 192. That is because the facility is being used to hold "only refugee immigrant families" when its license is for "child resident facilities," Human Services Secretary Ted Dallas wrote.
If the facility continues to serve families rather than children, the department will not renew its license when it expires in February 2016, Dallas added.
In July, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the family detention policy violated the 1997 Flores settlement, which says that undocumented children must be held in the least restrictive setting and immigration authorities should generally favor a policy of releasing them. The settlement prohibits detaining children for more than a few days in centers that are not licensed child care facilities.
After hearing a government response, Gee ordered the Obama administration in August to quickly release the children -- and in some instances, the mothers -- locked in family detention. She gave U.S. officials until Oct. 23 to show compliance.
In order to comply with the ruling, the private companies that run the two family detention centers in Texas -- Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group -- have applied to license the centers as child care facilities. The Texas Department of Child Protective Services issued an emergency rule last month to start the licensing process, but the Austin-based group Grassroots Leadership, which opposes the private prison industry, filed a lawsuit aimed at stopping it. [node:read-more:link]
Last Thursday, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report admonishing government officials over the treatment of immigrants held at private prisons that contract with federal immigration authorities. Detailed in the report were a litany of alleged abuses at those detention centers, many of which are in Texas, from denying immigrants proper medical care to retaliation from prison staff and possible constitutional rights violations.
Yet on that very same day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a new multimillion-dollar contract with one of the companies accused of holding immigrants in “inhumane” conditions that are “inconsistent with American values.” Advocates and immigration attorneys say they fear the new contract, for a pilot program to test a probation-like system for immigrant families released from lockup, only further expands the private prison industry's reach in the U.S. immigration system.
Perhaps the Geo contract, while troubling to advocates, shouldn't be entirely unexpected. Federal immigration officials have before ignored calls for ICE to wean itself off private prison companies. For instance, this 2009 report, commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and written by a former director of the federal Office of Detention Policy and Planning, concluded that immigrant detainees — many of whom have never committed a crime (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, cases) — shouldn't be treated like criminals and that ICE, not private prison companies, should operate its own detention centers to safeguard against abuses and ensure greater oversight.
Yet six years later, private prison corporations now house nearly half of the nation's immigrant detainees.
"It speaks to the power of this industry," says Bob Libal with the Austin-based civil rights group Grassroots Leadership. "Now, ICE is just giving these companies another way to profit off immigrants." [node:read-more:link]
When I walked into my first day of work at Grassroots Leadership, Cristina had been there for at least an hour already working on the call-in campaign to get Sara and Nayely released from Karnes. She quickly explained to me what was going on and asked me to jump in where I felt comfortable. Just over a month later, we had planned the rally at Karnes and released the report on family detention. Even today, my last day, I feel like there is much to do and that this work will never be done. [node:read-more:link]
"A social worker formerly employed at a for-profit family immigrant detention center in Texas blew the whistle this week on the prison’s inhumane conditions—from solitary confinement to medical neglect—that she said amount to child abuse and torture.
The Karnes County Residential Center is operated by GEO Group—the second largest private prison company in the country that has faced numerous accusations of atrocities and civil rights violations. It is also the site of recent—and repeated—hunger strikes led by mothers incarcerated with their children, in protest of their conditions, detentions, and in many cases, their looming deportations.
Cristina Parker of Grassroots Leadership, a Texas-based organization that opposes prison profiteering, toldCommon Dreams that there are signs that the tide may be finally turning against these 'wrong, immoral, and traumatizing' prisons." [node:read-more:link]
"A federal court ruling against the U.S.’s family detention policy for undocumented immigrants could be the final blow to the Obama administration’s contentious practice after months of rising political pressure. But some of the advocates who pushed hard against family detention were hoping the heightened attention might provide a new opening to rally against conditions in the larger U.S. immigration detention system.
'The court ruling found detention illegal for women and children, but we hope that that will impact detention overall, and that people will start seeing there’s a systemic problem,' said Cristina Parker, immigration programs director for Grassroots Leadership, a Texas-based group that helped organize some of the high-profile protests against family detention in recent months.
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee’s ruling, issued late Friday, found the Obama administration failed to meet the legal requirements in a 1997 settlement for housing undocumented immigrant children, adding that mothers and children in family detention centers stayed in “deplorable” conditions. The 25-page ruling ordered the families to be released. The federal government was given until August 3 to respond to the order, either by laying out a plan for releasing the remaining 1,700 undocumented immigrants in three family detention facilities -- in Karnes County, Texas, Dilley, Texas and Leesport, Pennsylvania -- or by explaining why it should not have to comply with the order." [node:read-more:link]

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The Food and Drug Administration has rejected Hemispherx BioPharma’s new drug application for Ampligen, an experimental treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome that the biotechnology company has spent more than three decades developing and testing.
Hemispherx’s stock plunged more than 42 percent Wednesday morning to 68 cents a share from Tuesday’s close of $1.20 per share.
Late Tuesday, the FDA told Philadelphia-based Hemispherx (AMEX:HEB) that two primary clinical studies submitted by the company “did not provide credible evidence of efficacy of Ampligen.” The agency is recommending Hemispherx conduct at least one additional clinical study, involving a minimum of 300 patients taking the drug for six months, “which shows convincing effect and confirms safety in the target population.”
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The Spectator began its weekly observations of local society happenings, principally, and of theatrical and art matters, secondarily, on September 5, 1880. Captain W.R. Hodges' art criticisms and army reminiscences and an occasional editorial of J.R, Reavis - its editor during several years - were well worth reading. Miss Florence Hayward wrote stories, the irrepressible Colonel Pat Donan sometimes electrified its readers with a correspondence, and "Champe Carter" - Mrs. Fannie Porcher - occasionally contributed a good poem. The Spectator was sometimes illustrated with job cuts, and occasionally expressed literary opinions - but no one took them seriously; it was simply a light society paper. George I. Jones and Company, printers, were the original publishers; after passing through various hands and undergoing a couple of suspensions, The Spectator ended its career in the [eighteen] nineties.
(From the Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri by Alexander N. De Menil, 1901).
On the 18th of September, 1880, John R. Reavis founded The Spectator, a weekly paper, twenty pages in size, devoted to art, society, the drama, literature, and matters of general social interest. Upon the second issue, George I. Jones became associated with Mr. Reavis as publisher, and in April, 1882, a company was incorporated with thirty thousand dollars capital, George I. Jones being chosen president, and John R. Reavis, secretary. Journals of this class had not previously been successful in St. Louis; in fact, The Spectator is the only weekly that ever attained any permanent footing. It is believed that, with the exception of the San Francisco Argonaut, The Spectator is the most successful weekly paper of its kind in America, its circulation being large, and its advertising patronage handsome.
Mr. Reavis, who is still its editor, was born in Cooper County, Mo., in 1848; was educated at the Kentucky University; became part owner of the Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian in 1873; removed to St. Louis in 1875, and joined the staff of the Times, then under the charge of Stilson Hutchins, as a canvasser, and in 1878 was engaged on the Evening Post as a reporter, under John A. Dillon. He remained in that capacity until he founded The Spectator, in the management of which he has exhibited signal ability and tact. Mr. Reavis is a graceful and polished writer, and a frequent and valued contributor to the press of St. Louis.
Mr. Jones, the publisher, is a graduate of Harvard College, and while he devotes himself mainly to the business interests of the paper, often writes for its columns, and always in a logical and effective manner. Mr. Jones is also one of the largest and most enterprising book publishers in St. Louis, and the history of the St. Louis bridge, published by him, is the finest book that has ever issued from a St. Louis press. The success of The Spectator is largely due to his conservative judgment and excellent taste.
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It was a game that Juventus absolutely had to have.
Not something you usually say about this team when they’re faced up against a team that’s playing its first top flight season in two decades and is currently propping up the table. But after the week anyone remotely connected with Juventus has had, you can be forgiven for thinking that nothing was going to be a given.
After a pair of humiliating losses, injuries to significant players, and off-field issues that are getting significantly more worrisome — and after last season’s inability to handle these kinds of games (**coughBeneventocough**) — Juve absolutely needed this win, especially after Atalanta throttled Venezia earlier in the day on Tuesday, raising the prospect of falling nine or 10 points back of the top four and truly burying their chances of making the Champions League.
Fortunately, they managed to pull themselves through this time. It wasn’t easy. Juve took a 1-0 lead into the half that really ought to have been 2-0, but for some VAR shenanigans of the offside variety. With the game poised, as it so often is, on the edge of a knife, a lucky post strike was all that kept Juve from scrambling for a winner in the latter stages of the game. But a sneaky strike from one of the most maligned players on the team brought the needed closure, and Juve managed to slam through the finish line for a 2-0 victory that will hopefully be the beginning of the team getting back on track.
The news of the day as kickoff time approached was a long-awaited tactical switch from Massimiliano Allegri. With his depth limited due to injuries and the team needing a major kick in the pants, he finally switched from the 4-4-2 he’s been using this season to the 4-2-3-1 that the makeup of this team has been screaming for since Day 1. Wojciech Szczesny took the gloves, with Juan Cuadrado, Matthijs de Ligt, a returning Giorgio Chiellini, and Luca Pellegrini set up to protect him. Manuel Locatelli and Rodrigo Bentancur formed the double pivot, while Dejan Kulusevski, Paulo Dybala, and Federico Bernardeschi banked behind Moise Kean, who started in place of the out-of-form Alvaro Morata.
Salernitana are already on their second coach of the season, and Stefano Colantuono was taking no chances at home against the Turin giants. Vid Belic started in goal behind a 5-3-2 setup. Wajdi Kechrida, Frederic Veseli, Norbert Gyomber, Riccardo Gagliolo, and Luca Ranieri spread out across the back, with Leonardo Capezzi, Lassana Coulibaly, and Nadir Zortea in the midfield. The strike pair joined the forces of Federico Bonazzoli and Simy, who had come up with his fair share of goals against the Bianconeri in three Serie A seasons with Crotone.
Juve looked very much like they were still working their way into the new formation, but they also very much wanted to come out on the front foot against such an inferior team. Dybala tested Belic twice in the first 10 minutes of the game, albeit with easy shots right at the keeper, and Kulusevski came very close in the sixth minute when he took a Locatelli pass off of Kean’s foot and barely missed the far post with a first-time curler.
Juve kept the pressure up, and all the hosts could muster in the early going was a header that Simy zipped past the post with Szczesny scrambling to cover. As opposed to last week, Juve were at the very least putting shots on the frame, although there was still some indecision in front of goal. That indecision was wiped out in the 21st minute, when Dybala played a neat one-two with Kulusevski and unleashed a low rising shot from the penalty arc that powered past Belic and ripped into the net. It was one of the best goals the team has scored this season, and for the first time in a week Juventus wasn’t chasing a game.
Seven minutes later it looked like Juve had doubled their advantage when Chiellini slammed home the rebound after Belic’s excellent save on a wicked Cuadrado free kick. But referee Francesco Forneau was called to the monitor by VAR official Aleandro Di Paolo. At issue was the positioning of Kean, who was offside by several inches of flesh on his shoulder and, in Forneau’s opinion, became involved in the play as he and Bonazzoli first attacked the rebound. Kean’s positioning in no way gave him an advantage over his defender or the keeper, but the obsessive nature of the way VAR deals with offside calls meant that the goal was chalked off. It’s yet another data point in the case for the badly needed overhaul of the offside rule, as calls that marginal aren’t what the rule is meant to address.
The rest of the half saw Juve maintaining the ascendency but looking just out of sync. Players got into good positions for passing moves but they didn’t quite time their passes right. At one point late in the half Cuadrado wasted a really good passing move by executing a dummy when there was no one behind him to dummy to. Gyomber got away with raking Kean down the back of his heel without even being called for a foul, and at the very end of the period Kulusevski made an excellent diagonal run into the box but the pass to him bounced too high and didn’t come down in time for him to exploit his position.
The visitors looked to maintain the attack as they came out of the locker room and Dybala had a shot blocked in the first two minutes, but Salernitana suddenly made a push, and the half took on a back-and-forth rhythm that made Juve’s one-goal advantage far more tenuous that one would hope against a tiny provincial side. It nearly evaporated altogether in the 58th minute when a cross from Veseli bounced off of Chiellini and toward the back post. For some reason, Cuadrado pulled out of a challenge with substitute Andrea Schiavone to avoid bringing him down, leaving the ball for Ranieri to take a free run up and smash the ball across goal. Szczesny was completely stranded, but somehow Ranieri only managed to skip the ball off the far post, the rebound flashing across the empty goalmouth and over the end line.
It was an extreme let-off, and Salernitana smelled blood, pushing forward and bossing proceedings for the next few minutes while Juve regrouped. Ranieri again had a good opportunity as the ball bounced through the box in the 67th minute, this time putting the ball back across. De Ligt, who had collided with Milan Djuric in the box and was lying in a heap with the Bosnian striker on top of him, managed to stick a foot out and redirect the ball out of harm’s way. Play was briefly stopped as VAR decided to check for a penalty, which would’ve been ludicrous to call given the fact that the attacking player was lying on top of de Ligt, but fortunately for all concerned the check was brief.
Juventini blood pressure were rising by the second, but with 20 minute to go those hearts were calmed by the man whose head they had been calling for three days before.
Morata had been introduced just four minutes before, and his first couple of touches had been similar to what we’d been seeing throughout this cold streak he’s been enduring: just off and stalling the attack more than keeping it moving. But in the 70th minute he erased a lot of frustration with a ridiculously cheeky finish. It started with a switch of play from Dybala on the right to Bernardeschi, who came down to the end line and crossed for Morata at the near post. The ball deflected off Zortea and into Morata’s path. He lifted his leg and clipped a low volley with the outside of his foot, nutmegging Belic and finally giving Juve the insurance goal they needed.
Juve saw the result out without much in the way of incident. Dybala had a couple of opportunities to put an exclamation point on things in the closing minutes, first being put through by Morata only to fire his shot straight at Belic, then in the depths of stoppage time when Morata earned a penalty kick. He had to wait for a bit while Allegri went through the odd formality of introducing Matias Soule into the game solely to watch his countryman take the pen. Unfortunately, that went pear-shaped when the turf under him gave way, causing him to slip and sky the ball over the bar with the last kick of the game.
Fortunately, he and his teammates had made things academic long before.
WOJCIECH SZCZESNY - 7. Didn’t have to face a shot on target. The defense had left him completely stranded when Ranieri hit the post, there would’ve been no fault on him whatsoever. Was strong on crosses he could claim and while things got hectic every now and then, the fact that Salernitana only had four shots total is a testament to his organization from the back.
JUAN CUADRADO - 6.5. A really impressive day, hitting three key passes and being the only Juve player to complete a cross. He forced a fantastic save out of Belic on that free kick that led to the disallowed goal. He was strong defensively too, racking up two tackles and three clearances.
MATTHIJS DE LIGT - 7. A major step forward after a really bad week for the young Dutchman. Led the team with six clearances and didn’t make any of the mistakes in possession that plagued him in the last two contests, completing 96.4 percent of his 111 pass attempts.
GIORGIO CHIELLINI - 7.5. Really deserved the goal he scored, but turned in a big defensive day with three tackles, two interceptions, and four clearances, to go along with 90.2 pass completion, including seven of 11 long balls.
LUCA PELLEGRINI - 6. Tenacious in defense with three tackles, but he needs to iron out his passing, completing just 86.7 percent. Did put in a few good balls from the left, and his pugnacious attitude is a nice thing to see after a few years of wondering where the team’s grinta had gone.
MANUEL LOCATELLI - 6.5. Made a bunch of really good passes upfield, and completed 93.4 percent of his 121 pass attempts, including one key pass. He’s used to playing in a 4-2-3-1 after years of doing it under Roberto De Zerbi, and with the right partner he can fly in this formation.
RODRIGO BENTANCUR - 6.5. Completed 94.3 percent of 122 passes, including eight of nine long. He gave the ball away in the attacking third a bit too much, but his defense was typically pugnacious, racking up three tackles and two interceptions.
DEJAN KULUSEVSKI - 6. The attack still breaks down a lot at his feet, mostly due to the fact that he still doesn’t trust his right foot and is constantly trying to shift it onto his left, allowing defenders to corral him. However, his assist to Dybala was excellent, and he made three tackles in defense as well. Also led the team in dribbles.
PAULO DYBALA - 7. He understood that he had to take the team on his back — and did so Tuesday night, taking nine shots and hitting the target with four of them, including his peach of a goal. He also racked up two key passes and started the move for Morata’s goal with a nice switch. It’s a pity that the turf gave out on him on the final penalty.
FEDERICO BERNARDESCHI - 6. Unfortunate that the slight deflection on his cross deprived him of an assist on Morata’s goal. He worked hard up and down the left, but wasn’t as incisive as the other Wing of Fede, but he also worked hard defensively and recorded a pair of tackles.
MOISE KEAN - 5.5. The service to him wasn’t the best, but he also didn’t do all that much with the ball when he did get it. One of the pieces of his game that he needs to polish is holdup play against a team like Salernitana who will play deeper more often than not. He also needs to learn to just let fly — he didn’t register a shot in this game, although he did provide a key pass.
ALVARO MORATA - 7. Excellent finish after only four minutes, and his holdup play was generally better. Also deserved an assist with his late ball to Dybala but his teammate couldn’t convert.
ALEX SANDRO - 6. Competent defense on the left flank and didn’t put a pass wrong in 25.
ADRIEN RABIOT - 6. Added some defensive muscle as Allegri dropped back into a 4-4-2 to defend his lead once he got his second goal.
MATIAS SOULE - NR. Frankly, I’m mad about this one. A kid only has one debut, and he deserved to do more than walk onto the field and watch Dybala take a penalty.
That was my reaction when I realized that Max Allegri had finally decided to make the tactical shift that this team has been crying out for for months.
Granted, it’s not like the team was flying like the days of the old Five Star lineup. The players were clearly trying to figure out the new shape and how to interact with each other in the shape. But it also put each player on the field in their best position, with the possible exception of Cuadrado, who’s needed at the fullback spot in the absence of Danilo and Mattia De Sciglio. While there was still an element of disjointedness, there were also some good moves that just lacked a good finish, and they can only get better with more experience.
Allegri needs to keep this formation going. The roster is still a flawed one, but this 4-2-3-1 is the formation that fits it best, and it can only get better when Federico Chiesa and Weston McKennie return from their injuries and plug into it, to say nothing of the aforementioned full-backs freeing up Cuadrado to move forward to the wing.
We can only hope that this long-awaited tactical switch is a real step forward as opposed to a one-off. We can only wait to find out whether it remains in place on Sunday.
Juve next welcome Genoa to the Allianz Stadium before finishing the Champions League group stage against Malmo. That’s followed by consecutive road games against Venezia and Bologna. The string of lower tier opponents continues through Christmas, and Juve need the points from each of them.


Former Boxing Champ Vasiliy Lomachenko Pictured With Rifle After Enlisting In Ukrainian Army
Bellator welterweight champ Yaroslav Amosov also pledged to join Ukraine’s fight against invading Russian forces.
In the wake of former heavyweight boxing champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko taking up arms to defend Ukraine against invading Russian forces, more of the country’s top combat sports athletes have vowed to defend their homeland.
Vasiliy Lomachenko, a former three-division champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist, was pictured wearing fatigues with a rifle at his side in a viral photo posted to social media.
“The Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Territorial Defense Battalion has been formed and armed, the translated caption reads. “In the territorial defense, boxer Vasiliy Lomachenko.”
According to ESPN, the world’s current No. 8 pound-for-pound boxer was in Greece when the invasion began. After his return flight was delayed to grounding of air traffic, he flew into the Romanian capital of Bucharest and traveled through the country to reach his home and be with his family.
Yaroslav Amosov, Bellator MMA’s reigning welterweight champion, has also vowed to join fellow Ukrainian citizens in the fight. USA Today reports that the undefeated 26-0 fighter told fans he’d evacuated his family to a “safe zone” in a video posted to Instagram.
“Greetings, probably, many will think that I ran away, I’m hiding or something like that, but this is not so,” Amosov said in video released on his Instagram account, translated by Ringside24. “I took my family to the safe zone. Now I have returned and will defend this country as best I can, with what I can.”
“I love this country, our own. Russia came to our house and started a war here, many people are dying – innocents, women and children. We have to defend this country, and we succeed, friends. And we will succeed, because the truth is behind us.”
“I would like to address those who subscribed to me from Russia. What is shown to you on TV, you may not watch – this is not true. If I were you, I wouldn’t even watch your news. We are in a real war. I cannot understand those people who do not believe that Russian troops entered Ukraine. I see it with my own eyes, I hear it. Terrible things are happening here. We can do this.”
Vitali Klitschko, a former heavyweight boxing champion and mayor of Kyiv, spoke of a dire situation in an interview with the Associated Press on Sunday night.
“We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked,” he said when asked about an evacuation plan should Russians take Ukraine’s capital city.
“All ways are blocked and right now we are encircled — everywhere is Russians and we don’t have a way to evacuate the people. And everyone who had plans to evacuate himself already moved.”
More from AP:
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Thursday, the capital city of 2.8 million people initially reacted with concern but also a measure of self-possession. However, nerves started fraying when grocery stores began closing and the city’s famously deep subway system turned its stations into bomb shelters.
The mayor confirmed to the AP that nine civilians in Kyiv had been killed so far, including one child.
A Klitschko-ordered curfew began about sundown on Saturday and is to extend until at least 8 a.m. Monday. His order pointedly stated that any unauthorized person outside during this time could be considered a saboteur.
“We are hunting these people, and it will be much easier if nobody is on the street,” Klitschko explained, saying that six Russian saboteurs were killed Saturday night.
A spokesperson later said Klitschko had misspoken about Kyiv being surrounded, as the mayor–known as “Dr. Ironfist” during his distinguished boxing career– walked back the statement on his own Telegram channel.
“In the evening, Russian Internet publications spread information with reference to me that Kyiv is allegedly surrounded and evacuation of people is impossible. … Do not believe lies! Trust information only from official sources.”


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Death of a Friend
Last week we found out that Magie Alvarez Calleja aka Maddi/Maiuki was killed in an explosion in Yemen. She had been travelling the country and was to have remained there two months.
Magie was a fantastic spirit, a beautiful dancer, and a constant smile at UberParis. She was a good friend to many of us, and will be missed. We have many pictures to post and will do so shortly.
Much love to Ronan, who was very close to Magie.
We hope you are enjoying yourself, Magie.


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Wilma threatens Florida and Cancun
The gathering storm: tourists have been escaping the beach resort of Cancun where Wilma is due to hit Thursday.
Hurricane Wilma has blasted Caribbean coastlines and threatened to slam into Cancun and southern Florida.
Wilma yesterday became the fiercest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.
With 13 people already dead, alarmed officials began evacuations from Honduras to the Florida Keys.
Local officials ordered visitors out of the Keys yesterday even as thousands of others were evacuated from low-lying areas in a 1,000-kilometre swath covering Cuba, Belize, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Cayman Islands.
"We are closely monitoring what is an extremely dangerous storm," said Scott McClellan, spokesman for President George W Bush, who had been accused of a slow response to Hurricane Katrina. "People should take this hurricane very seriously."
At 11pm EDT (1300 AEST Thursday), Wilma's sustained winds fell slightly to 250kph, down from a peak of 282kph earlier in the day, but forecasters said it could strengthen again.
Wilma was centred 380 kilometres southeast of Mexico's Cozumel Island, and was moving west-northwest at 13kph.
Countries across the region prepared for the worst. Much of Central America was still recovering from Hurricane Stan, which left more than 1,500 people dead or missing.
Americans were still mourning 1,200 Gulf Coast victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Wilma was on a curving course that would carry it through the narrow channel between Cuba and Mexico tomorrow, possibly within a few kilometres of Cancun and Cozumel.
In the coastal state of Quintana Roo - which includes Cancun - officials ordered the evacuation of four low-lying islands, including the popular tourist destination of Isla Mujeres, offshore from Cancun. They also closed the popular cruise ship port on the island of Cozumel.
"This is getting very powerful, very threatening," President Vicente Fox said of the hurricane.
Hundreds of schools in Quintana Roo were ordered closed today and tomorrow, and many will be used as storm shelters. Storm surges of 2 to 3 metres were predicted for the coast if Wilma makes landfall there.
Predictions differed on where the hurricane would go and how strong it would be when it reaches US shores; though some weakening was expected by today, the "potential for large loss of life is with us," said Max Mayfield, director of the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida.
"This is one of those cases where we have a tremendous amount of uncertainty," said Mayfield.
Referring to Wilma's explosive two-day growth from tropical storm to a "potentially catastrophic" category five hurricane, Mayfield said "this is one of the most perplexing storms we have had to deal with" this year.
Yesterday, tourists packed Cancun's airport even though skies were still partly sunny, looking for flights home or to other resorts.
Heavy rain, high winds and rough seas pounded coastal areas of Honduras yesterday, knocking out power to some towns, forcing the evacuation of coastal villages and closure of two Caribbean ports.
Four fishermen were reported missing at sea and about 500 US and European tourists were moved to safe locations at hotels on the Bay Islands.
The head of Haiti's civil protection agency, Maria Alta Jean-Baptiste, said that at least 12 people had died in rain and landslides since Monday. At least 2,000 Haitian families had been forced from flooded homes.
Cuban authorities suspended classes in the threatened western province of Pinar del Rio and prepared to evacuate tourists from campgrounds and low-lying areas, according to Granma, the Communist Party daily.
Heavy rains in the island's eastern province of Granma forced the evacuations of more than 1,000 people.
Jamaica, where heavy rains have fallen since Sunday, closed almost all schools and 350 people were living in shelters. One man died Sunday in a rain-swollen river.

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“For Honor” is another fantasy game to look forward to courtesy of Ubisoft. The game is based on factions such as Vikings which hints at probably borrowing a thing or two from “Game of Thrones” fighting tactics.
Vince Ingenito of IGN was able to try out “For Honor” and based on his experience, this is a game that is not solely aimed at rendering bloodshed and defeating the game boss. Based on his shared experience of gameplay, “For Honor” is not solely about the clash of clans but also how attentive and timely a player is once he gets behind the game controllers.
Where does the “Game of Thrones” angle kick in? The fact that Vikings are one of the factions in the game is something that comes to mind. But above that, it is all about the logistics on how players are able to fend off enemies other than sheer power.
Vikings have been known to possess brute strength but as bared by Ingenito, surviving and reaching the ultimate goal (the boss) will take more than that.
He singles out that instance where he found himself in a “Game of Thrones”-style trial by combat scenario that forced him to face off with the climactic mini-boss. With his adversary obviously one that will be hard to conquer, it wasn’t about the big finishing kick that sunk in but more on how he earned the win over the game protagonist.
In short, playing “For Honor” is all about working your way in the game and earning those triumphs from battles the right way. Violence is a given for “For Honor” but right now, the logistics and the style of play will make the difference between victory and defeat as highlighted by Kotaku.

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I came up with this creation for a new foodie event, the Behind the Curtain Dessert Challenge, hosted by Sheryl at Lady Behind the Curtain. Two ingredients are chosen each month and shared on a set upon reveal day. This month the ingredients that were chosen were chocolate and cherries. Yum!
What I love about this event is that you aren’t required to post each and every month. If life gets busy and you have to skip out one month, no worries and no stress, just jump back in when you are able. I’m excited to see what everyone else comes up with and many thanks to Sheryl for hosting for us. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Chocolate & Cherry Coconut Macaroons
Makes about 12 large, 24 small
Note: Larger macaroons will require a longer baking time. The time listed below is for the smaller size.
- 4 ounces semi sweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 3 large egg whites
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted (regular or Dutch-processed)
- 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups sweetened dried coconut (shredded or flaked)
- 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, chopped
- Cherry drizzle: 1/2 cup cherry chips + 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
- White Chocolate drizzle: 1/2 cup white chocolate chips + 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1. In a heatproof bowl, placed over a saucepan of simmering water, melt the chocolate. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
2. Then, in a large bowl, lightly whisk the egg whites. Add the cocoa powder, sugar, salt, and vanilla extract and whisk to combine. Stir in the coconut, melted chocolate and chopped cherries, making sure the coconut is completely coated with the chocolate mixture. Cover and refrigerate for about one hour or until firm.
3. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
4. Place small mounds (a heaping tablespoons) of the batter on the parchment-lined baking sheet, spacing about two inches (5 cm) apart. Bake for about 13-15 minutes or until the macaroons are shiny and just set (If making larger macaroons add a few minutes baking time). Remove from oven and let cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes and then place on a wire rack to cool.
5. For garnish: Melt the chocolate or cherry chips with the vegetable oil in a heat proof bowl over a pot of simmering water, stirring constantly until melted. Transfer to a Ziploc bag and drizzle over macaroons.


Senior economists have warned that the Israel-Hamas war could plunge the world into its biggest recession since the 1930s.
Banking experts Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon claim the conflict on top of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could flatten global trade.
They believe the uncertainty sparked by the bloodshed would send energy prices and food costs soaring and consumer confidence plunging.
Mr Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, said the trouble has created “a whole new future”.
He added: “When the Russian invasion occurred in Ukraine, we said that the peace dividend is over.
“Geopolitical risk is a major component in shaping all our lives. We are having rising fear throughout the world, and less hope.
“Rising fear creates a withdrawal from consumption or spending more. So fear creates recessions in the long run,.
“If we continue to have rising fear, the probability of a European recession grows and the probability of a US recession grows.”
Mr Dimon, who chairs America’s biggest bank, JP Morgan, called the consequences of war in the Middle-East and Eastern Europe “quite scary and unpredictable”.
He added: “Here in the US we continue to have a strong economy. We still have a lot of fiscal and monetary stimulus in the system.
“But these geopolitical matters are very serious – arguably the most serious since 1938.
“What’s happening on the geopolitical front right now is the most important thing for the future of the world – freedom, democracy, food, energy, immigration.”
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At one end of Mariko-no-Sato nature walk in the outskirts of central Shizuoka city, Seigan-ji is a small, attractively unfussy Buddhist temple, a nice place to relax, catch your breath and collect your thoughts after completing the walk (or before starting it).
The temple was founded by Minamoto Yoritomo, first shogun of the Kamakura era, who ruled Japan from 1192 until 1199. It was then rebuilt in the 16th century by Takeda Shingen, a pre-eminent daimyo warlord of the time.
It's home to the grave of Katagiri Katsumoto who, like many other warlords, fell foul of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan for nearly 300 years. Katsumoto is well-known in Japan as the main character in Kiri-hitoha, one of the most popular modern kabuki plays.
The temple is in an attractive setting, surrounded by forested green hills, with plenty of greenery around. There are some charming Buddhist statues in the grounds, and the approach to the worship hall from the impressive gate is subtly imposing, if that's not a contradiction in terms.
You can reach the Mariko district by taking a bus from JR Shizuoka station on the Chubu-kokudo route. The nearest stop to Seigan-ji is called (deep breath) Niken-ya Odatara Fudoson Iriguchi.
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> I have a '99 bike that I'm trying to get running but have no spark. I shorted out the clutch switch at the big Yellow connector. I shorted out the side-stand cutout switch. I put a 100 ohm (NOT kilo-ohm) in-line at the red/yel-black/yel ignition wire that runs to the ECU since I have no ignition switch. What other stupid stuff do I need to bypass for the thing to send power pulses to the coils? I put a Ohm meter across the green-white leads from the AC-rotor and it registers 3 different values as it cranks. I presume that is correct but I don't know.
> I get no voltage on the coil driving wires (continuity test is good) so what other interlock is there that I don't know about? I swapped a known good ECU in and still the same problem. The starter fires and the motor cranks fine.
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Beloit city officials are warning residents against playing in puddles of flood water. "At the same time, we want to reassure citizens that our public water supply is safe," says Assistant city manager Steve Gregg. Beloit's total cost incurred from the flood Rock River is approximately $331,000 for both public and private properties. Janesville 's damage estimate is much higher — around $38.7 million. Gregg says buildings along the Rock River appear to be safe, and there are no homes under water within the city of Beloit , although some residential basements are flooded.
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The US Department of Agriculture’s International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) is part of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and is responsible for operationally publishing monthly production, area and yield estimates for 17 commodities in more than 150 countries. To carry out this mission, analysts from the USDA/FAS leverage a variety of decision-support systems, including Crop Explorer and the Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System (GADAS). Customers of USDA/FAS need rapid visualization of near-real time data (e.g. weather, soil moisture, disasters, or other crop conditions), whereas others need to conduct detailed satellite imagery investigations of in-season locations of specific crops in a country (or within a region). One example will briefly walk through monitoring options of Earth Observation data to check on current and historical crop conditions. Another example will demonstrate a powerful visualization and online analytical tool for assessing real-time crop conditions during and after a disaster event via GADAS. The third example highlights how we are exploring the use of Google Earth Engine for crop classifications from Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2A/B. As these examples will demonstrate, these decision-support systems support USDA/IPAD in leveraging Earth observation data to continuously monitor the latest conditions of key global grain, oilseed, and fiber crops.
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(click thumbnail)While the unit’s features are numerous and control could be complicated, Tieline has included a starting set of configuration profiles that serve nicely for most of the manual tasks.I was intrigued when a pair of Tieline Commander G3 field codecs arrived at my office.
I had heard that audio over IP was The Next Big Thing but hadn’t touched any actual field devices; and I imagined that sending audio over the public Internet was just begging for trouble. I was just sure that any broadcast-quality connection would die miserably when enough people consumed all the bandwidth by surfing and downloading YouTube videos exactly at the moment of the broadcast.
It was with this expectation that I plugged one Tieline Commander G3 into an outside-the-firewall spigot at work, pressed the WIZ button to guide me through a static IP setup and plugged a stereo audio source into the rear XLRs. I carried the other Tieline home in my briefcase.
Once at home, I bid the family a cheery hello, plugged the Tieline into a Verizon FiOS [high-speed Internet] spigot, and “dialed” the Tieline at work.
Almost immediately, the connection framed at 128 kilobits MP2 stereo. “Naw,” I thought, “It can’t be this easy.” So I disconnected and ratcheted up the bit rate to 384 kilobits. The two Tielines connected and framed again, quickly and easily.
I thought this must really be The Next Big Thing.
The Tieline Commander G3 series of codecs, of which the TLF300 field codec is a member, share sophisticated and complex features.
They include two side-panel pluggable module slots for any combination of X.21/ISDN/POTS/GSM Wireless modules, with an integral 11 x 6 audio router to switch audio from simultaneous connected sources to destinations; extensive remote control and softkey/GPI programming capability; a number of popular, robust coding algorithms from MP2 to a raw linear stream; and, of most interest here, integral audio over IP.
The whole package is in a small enclosure measuring 8.56 x 8.58 x 2.95 inches — and it doesn’t even need a cooling fan. The external 12VDC power supply plugs into a four-pin XLR on the rear panel.
The TLF300 controls on the sloping front are straightforward and easy to understand. Each mixer section of the two-channel mixer has an on/off key, rotary level control and a headphone level and send/return audio balance control.
The codec’s “Intelligent Gain Control” can be enabled to operate like a limiter to manage levels exceeding +14 dBu. The input channel’s on/off button flashes when IGC is actually working. The IGC stage is after the 24 bit A/D processing, and is managed by the onboard 32 bit digital signal processor.
An additional, monaural auxiliary line input and output is exposed on RCA connectors on the left side. The auxiliary input level is controllable remotely or through the Tieline’s audio setup menu. Also on the left side panel are the two stereo headphone jacks, and Phoenix connectors for the two CMOS solid-state relay inputs and outputs. Each relay’s action is configurable by the included Tieline Toolbox software.
Adjacent to the front-panel mixer section is a telephone keypad, with dedicated keys for Hangup, Clear, Enter-Dial, Memory, Store and Soft Keys F1 and F2. An amply-sized backlit LCD screen above four soft keys displays menus and status and virtual level metering. My favorite control is a comfortably large “soft” menu selector knob with a press-to-accept button action.
On the rear are the two analog outputs and two line/mic inputs, individually configurable from the audio menu, or by the Tieline Toolbox software. Phantom power also can be enabled on both input XLR connectors.
While the Tieline 300TLF’s features are numerous and control could be complicated, Tieline has included a starting set of configuration profiles that serve nicely for most of the manual tasks.
In those cases where the user wants to make the 300TLF even easier — “automatic,” if you will — up to 98 configuration profiles can be created, edited and saved, such that a user need only apply power and be guided to the desired configuration by prompts from the display.
The 300TLF will, with the press of a soft key, recall a complete snapshot that includes phone numbers, input settings, audio routing, ISDN setup, function buttons, talkback operation and other necessary settings. All of this is easily programmed using the Tieline Toolbox software, and the snapshots can be saved to your local computer for safekeeping.
There are more than 20 factory audio matrix routing configurations provided, and they provide the usual routing between mic, headphone, encoder and decoder, as well as the arcane routings such as those that route the phone module audio to other destinations for use as a talkback or cue.
There are too many factor routing configurations to discuss here; each Tieline can hold up to 160 routing configurations. For an additional fee, Tieline can enable the Matrix Editor for users to create and save their own unique routing configurations.
Tieline Commander 300TLF Field Codec
- Small, compact
- Extremely flexible
- Multiple, simultaneous connections
- Internal audio routing matrix
- Easy to use
- Pretty, “photo-virtual” remote control software included
- Comprehensive configuration software, the Tieline Toolbox, included
- Firmware upgrades easily made
- Well-written manual
- Two can remotely control each other, including audio gain.
- Some features programmed only by Toolbox software
- Some features available at additional charge
- For configuring complicated tasks, its complexity requires thoughtful setup
Commander field unit with wired IP and POTS: $3,025
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We had occasion to use the 300TLF on two remote broadcasts.
The first was for transmitting a music concert in New York City back to NPR, where the audio was passed to the NPR Digital Media Division for Web streaming.
The concert venue had exactly two POTS lines into the building (voice and fax, nowhere near the sound board) and no possibility for ISDN installation. It did, however, have high speed “public” Internet access.
Ignoring the POTS lines, we decided to ship up a 300TLF a few days before the gig and check the quality of Internet service. The producer decided that if the Tieline couldn’t make and hold a connection — the only hope for getting live audio out of the venue — the gig would not be streamed live.
I pre-configured the 300TLF, quickly setting up the IP connection for DHCP from the front panel, guessing that regardless of the Internet service provider, the connection would flow through the ISP’s router that would assign the Tieline an IP address and handle the data routing to the outside world.
I selected a modest bit rate with a robust algorithm — 128 kilobits MP2, J-Stereo as the coding algorithm — realizing the resulting audio would be further bit-rate reduced for Web streaming. I selected the factory profile “ManDflt Stereo,” which instantly configured the Tieline’s inputs and outputs for stereo. The two front-panel inputs become left and right IN, with stereo audio feeding the headphones and the stereo balanced outputs, as well as to the IP destination.
Because the remote site was assigned an arbitrary IP address through DHCP, the remote site had to “call” our rack-mounted Tieline TLR300B2, which uses a static IP address. All it had to do was turn the menu selector to highlight “IP,” touch the keypad to enter NPR’s Tieline IP address and press the menu selector to “dial” the IP.
The test went well, and on the night of the concert, the Tieline connected and stayed connected throughout. The producer was thrilled.
The second broadcast test was for the afternoon talk program’s live remote from Fairbanks, Alaska. Again, ISDN was simply not available, but Switched-56 service was, and we had to scrounge for the ancient equipment to use for the live broadcast remote.
It was almost as an afterthought that we included a 300TLF in the site survey kit, in the event that sufficient Internet bandwidth was available. We were pleasantly surprised that the Tieline had no problem holding a connection during the site survey, and included it in the remote equipment pool.
On the broadcast day, we were able to get one of the two Switched-56 lines to frame after much fussing, but the 300TLF connected easily to our rack-mounted 300TLB at 128 kilobits, MP2, J-Stereo. A numerical “signal strength” value on the display showed numbers ranging from 79 to 95, where 99 is the highest “strength.” The lower the number, the more likely a connection will experience dropouts or audible artifacts.
We compared the incoming audio arrival times of the Switched-56 and the Tieline (in quality, the Tieline was far superior), and noticed at first the Tieline lead the Switched-56 by some milliseconds, and over time the Tieline lagged behind the Switched-56.
This brought home the realization that the public Internet is not a guaranteed bit stream like a 64 kilobit ISDN channel; some IP packets will take longer to arrive than others, and there is a penalty if you try to run your intense laptop Web applications on the same Internet connection the Tieline uses.
We heard this during the broadcast as the Tieline had moments of slightly “watery” artifacts, and in an informal conversation with the technical director after the broadcast, she mentioned several remote production staff were remotely logged into NPR on the same hub, so they could write scripts and manage the call screener.
The latency, however, was low enough to still be “interactive,” as the phone calls were mixed into the program in Washington, but heard by the host in Alaska. When the remote Switched-56 codec’s output went dead during the broadcast, the Tieline was the only path to get backfeed audio to the site.
In using the Tieline 300TLF, it is apparent that we have barely exploited its features in our daily broadcast tasks; this review is but a bare outline of its many capabilities and operation. For those wishing to move audio from one remote place to another by any number of means, and the task at hand requires easy of use or simultaneous connections to a single codec, the Tieline Commander 300TLF is a fine investment.


News from Galatasaray concerning Nigerian international Henry Onyekuru seems very pleasant since his return to the club he won his first set of trophies, the league title, and the Turkish Cup.
AOIFootball.com’s findings indicate that the former Everton signing, who joined the Turkish champions on loan after a disastrous first season at French side, AS Monaco, immediately rediscovered his form.
Henry as he is fondly called made immediate impact scoring in his second start for Fatih Terim’s side and against the club’s biggest rivals, Fenerbahce away from home.
He was also instrumental in the club’s 3-0 win against Genclerbirligi last weekend, won the man of the match award against Fenerbahce, recorded 82 percent pass accuracy, 1 goal, 1 assist, and high rating of 7.5 all in just 303 minutes of football.
Speaking after the game against Fenerbahce, Coach Fatih Terim restated the former Anderlecht of Belgium wing wizard’s importance to the team, insisting Onyekuru returned the way he left.
“Each match has a different story. It is not the same as playing Fenerbahce here with any match you play at your stadium.
“Sometimes, what you think in theory may not be in practice. Sometimes we don’t think so; but we tried to get out of the blocks. We did this and we took many positions with Onyekuru. He has returned to us the same way he left with good impression,” he said.
Onyekuru enjoys the rave already in Turkey, with fans signing his name game after game and it was even reported last week that an unidentified fan of Galatasaray tattooed his name after the team’s historic 1-3 win over eternal rivals Fenerbahce.


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Big Sur, CA – After a few days of stormy weather, the Big Sur River is up and has turned a dark, chocolate brown. "In normal years, it would be like this maybe just during the rain and would clear up pretty fast, but what we're finding right now is the water is almost continuously like this, so there's a lot of sediment and silt that's coming down the river," said Hal Latta. He's standing atop a wooden bridge that connects his coastal neighborhood to Highway 1 in the Big Sur Valley.
"This is our major concern if this bridge gets taken out," said Latta, "The worst case would be like if a big Redwood tree or something like that came down the river and got lodged in here and jammed up in the bridge or something like that." This year the worst case scenarios can't be ignored because of last summer's Basin Complex Fire. In addition to destroying more than fifty buildings, the fire burned vegetation off steep mountain sides making Big Sur more prone to mud and rock slides.
So Latta helped organize a group called the Big Sur Community Emergency Response Team or CERT. "The way I envision it, CERT would be activated, if we have major slides where some portions of the road cut off from outside help, so these people would need to be self-sufficient for a prolonged period of time," said Latta. They're prepared to do everything from light search and rescue to making sure those in the isolated corners of Big Sur are taken care of until help arrives.
So far, the rain has caused some minor slides, easily cleaned up by CalTrans plows. Since the Fire, CalTrans completed about two dozen projects to keep major slides from reaching the road. Engineering Geologist John Duffy checks in on one of their largest debris flow barriers. It stretches across the canyon behind the Henry Miller Library. "The barrier itself consists of a, a system of steel rings, attached to steel cables, attached to steel posts and all founded on a system of ground anchors and foundations," said Duffy. It's designed to stretch under the pressure of literally tons of debris that could be brought down by rain water. "It's picking up rocks and trees and debris, creating this debris flow, if you will, and if you look up this drainage right now with these trees lying crisscross with some of them burnt and falling down they can all be scooped up in this mass and that's what's going to come tumbling down in these rings," said Duffy.
The barrier protects one of the 260 culverts that run under Highway 1 in the Big Sur area. Without it, locals know all to well what could happen. Cal Trans Major Damage Coordinator Steve Balaban recounts when a culvert clogged up after El Nino hit in 1998. "It was almost like a dam failure where the water came over the top of the roadway and scoured out the west embankment to the point where the road completely collapsed, and Big Sur was cut off for a period of months there until we could actually put the road back together, so that's the exact dynamic that were trying to prevent here," said Balaban.
In areas CalTrans didn't work, private property owners have taken their own precautions. Sandbags and concrete barriers surround the River Inn and Restaurant. General Manager Rick Aldinger said "There's a little bit more awareness this winter, but the main thing is that, it's winter time in Big Sur and that means things are unpredictable and you just need to be prepared." But Aldinger seems certain about one thing, this like all other Big Sur Winters will pass. "In the summer time we have our wooden lawn chairs that sit in the river and you can dip your toes in the water and have lunch. It's a great location, great place to be," he added.
Friday sunny skies are in the forecast for Big Sur, a chance of rain returns to the picture on Saturday.


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The newcomer series begins today. The new Kentucky Wildcats will be introduced to Big Blue Nation in the video series.
Up first is Tyrese Maxey:
— Kentucky Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) July 8, 2019
Maxey is currently projected to be the No. 12 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Most believe he will be the Kentucky Wildcats best player this season.
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Fund Britain's Waterways
Fund Britain's Waterways
Why this petition matters
Help us urge the Prime Minister not to stand by but to ensure his government takes action today to help safeguard Britain’s canals and rivers now and for future generations.
We, the undersigned, ask that the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, acknowledges the many social, economic and environmental benefits that Britain’s inland waterways provide and gives his assurance that the government will intervene, where necessary, to ensure our rivers and canals remain fully open, navigable, safe and accessible for all.
Who is affected?
Our canals and rivers are an integral part of Britain’s landscape and way of life. Millions of us, from urban and rural areas, visit them every year to fish, boat, walk the towpath, observe wildlife or simply soak up the views of our canals and navigable rivers. More than 8.5 million people (nearly 15 percent of the population) live on or within 1km of the waterways, and half of us live within 5km. In urban areas, the percentage is often much higher with many urban waterways running through heavily populated areas of deprivation and diversity, often with higher rates of ill-health and unemployment. Add to those figures the additional 10 million people who access the waterways for business, leisure, wellness or commuting, and it is clear that open, accessible and well-maintained waterways are vital for us all, and for Britain’s economy, ecology and wellbeing.
What’s at stake?
The combined annual economic and social value of the 2,000 miles of waterways managed by Canal & River Trust alone amounts to £6.1bn. This includes:
o £1.5bn annual economic value from water-based tourism and jobs.
o Annual social value of £4.6bn, including
o £1.1bn cost-saving to the NHS from active use of the waterways and their towpaths.
The overall figure is much higher – 5,000 miles of navigable waterways across England, Scotland and Wales form a vast national infrastructure network. Collectively they provide hugely important benefits to people, the environment and local communities, while also contributing significantly to the economy. Our canals and rivers create jobs and bring financial benefits through tourism and leisure. They offer opportunities to mitigate flooding, transfer drinking water and provide habitat corridors for wildlife and biodiversity. They can also contribute to the improved health and wellbeing of the whole population. These benefits can only be realised if they are well maintained and looked after. It is vital that the waterways in public ownership are funded by national or devolved government. Canals and navigable rivers were once allowed to deteriorate, and many fell into dereliction and were closed. Restoration efforts brought some of them back from the brink, but they could slip again into dereliction in future without sufficient funding in place. It costs significantly more to restore damaged waterways than to maintain them adequately.
Here is just a snapshot of the benefits of UK’s inland waterways:
Waterway projects can regenerate both rural and urban areas and improve the lives of millions of people.
Boat-based tourism and leisure activities contribute £2.5bn to the economy each year, with people on day trips, boat holidays and taking part in water-based activities spending even more in local pubs, cafés and shops.
Waterways are well placed to improve the health, wellbeing and longevity of the many people living near them, through increased physical activities and social prescribing.
Waterways are blue-green corridors that allow opportunities for reconnecting disparate habitats, biodiversity net gain and improvements for wildlife.
Thousands of tonnes of freight are moved every year on our canals and rivers. Transporting goods by water can mean lower carbon emissions whilst also removing hundreds of vehicles from the roads.
Why now is the time to act
All these benefits could be lost if funding for maintenance of the waterways and their associated structures is not increased in the future to address outstanding works required and future proof the network against increasingly frequent extreme weather.
Canal & River Trust (CRT) could be described as the “National Trust for our inland waterways”, with responsibility for maintaining over 2,000 miles of inland waterways, their tow paths and associated historical assets, such as bridges. Unlike the National Trust, CRT doesn’t charge the public for access but relies on central government grant funding to make up nearly a quarter of its income. The waterways need your support because unless the government rethinks its latest plan, the CRT will lose 40% of its grant funding from 2027, impacting maintenance and risking the closure of canals.
The government’s own Environment Agency also has responsibility for maintaining over 600 miles of inland waterways, including the River Thames, the Medway, the Wye and Anglian waterways. However, with very limited resources it is already struggling to maintain the network and its assets, having received less than half of the funding it sought to support its maintenance plans for this year.
Similarly Scottish Canals, the Scottish Government body responsible for managing 137 miles of inland waterways including the Lowland Canals as well as the Caledonian and Crinan Canals, has over £70m of maintenance work outstanding.
By signing this petition today, you will send a clear message through to the heart of government about what is at stake.
Please note: donations to Change.org do not reach Fund Britain's Waterways, they only go to the petition platform though they do help to expand and promote this petition. If you wish to donate to a restricted Fund Britain's Waterways campaign fund to help with the costs of our ongoing activities please visit www.fundbritainswaterways.org.uk


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“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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On Friday's Real Time show, HBO host Bill Maher not only complained about what he called "patriotic bulls***" at national sporting events, but he also lauded former Secretary of State John Kerry as someone who "told the truth" about the Vietnam War, and gave him a forum to take credit for the program that fights AIDS in Africa without noting that it was President George W. Bush who pushed for its creation.
At 10:10 p.m. Eastern, as he spoke with Kerry as a guest, the HBO host posed:
But when you talk about truth, I mean, it's so interesting. You're a truth teller. I mean, you're talking in glowing terms about the truth, but people don't really like truth-tellers. ... Because when you really tell the truth -- like you did about Vietnam -- that's what they really hated you for when they, in 2004, which was kind of the beginning of fake news, the campaign they ran against you, a true war hero, and Karl Rove said, 'By the end of this election, they won't know which side he was on,' right? I'm sure you remember that.
He soon added: "You told the truth when you got back from Vietnam, and it is never appreciated in its own time."
Kerry claimed that anti-war activists had saved lives by pushing for the U.S. to abandon the Vietnam War, but it was not mentioned the millions who were mass murdered by communists in Southeast Asia after the United States left.
A bit later, the former Obama administration member recalled the program to fight AIDS in Africa as if it were an Obama administration initiative without mentioning Bush's role.
During the panel segment at 10:43 p.m, Maher brought up talk of ending cheerleading at NFL events, and then began complaining about patriotism as he defended keeping cheerleaders:
Why don't they just take away the militarism? I kind of like the cheerleaders -- maybe that makes me a sexist. But why do we have to mix football, you know, the season just started, with so much of this patriotic bulls***? You know, the fly overs and the flag on the field and the singing?

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