Nashville Predators can upgrade forward depth with cost-effectiveness by bringing in veteran journeyman.
Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau proved to be an A+ pickup for the Toronto Maple Leafs last offseason. Riding a 1-year ‘prove it’ contract that only cost the team $1.5 million, the winger led a rebuilding and talent starved franchise with 20 goals and tallied up the second most points on the club, marking 41 in 77 games.
The 33-year-old forward managed to break even in plus/minus on the league’s worst team, sparking Toronto’s desire to engage him in talks of extending his tenure as a Leaf. But if unsigned by July 1st, Parenteau will be in the open waters of free agency, and the Nashville Predators should be circling with their checkbook out.
What Does He Bring to Smashville?
Parenteau is a veteran offensive presence who has grown to harness top-tier possession metrics as indicated by this article at Editor in Leaf. He has marked seasons of 53 and 67 points in his career, as well as featured an incredible output of 43 points during the 48-game strike-shortened season.
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The right-handed shooter can play either wing and would be an upgrade over both Colin Wilson’s regular season form and an improving Calle Jarnkrok, who could be shifted to center with the acquisition if need be. Parenteau proved he can perform admirably as a true top-line winger last season, but at his age could benefit from taking the minutes of a second or third line role, rounding out a solid Nashville forward corps, and adding much needed scoring depth.
What Does He Cost?
The reason why P. A. Parenteau has necessitated an article is because he falls within the Predator’s price range if they wish to add a piece while retaining the core of their team- meaning the looming contract demands of Filip Forsberg, Ryan Johansen, and James Neal. He’s a realistic option, if we’re setting aside the lofty ambitions of acquiring a Milan Lucic, Kyle Okposo, or Steven Stamkos.
Parenteau is due to receive a raise over his $1.5 million contract last season, but he is still very much considered a cost-effective option after having issues with health and scratches during his most recent stint in Montreal. If looking to create a number for bringing in a veteran, look at the veteran contract estimates Nashville has constructed recently:
Eric Nystrom: $2.5 mil/year, Paul Gaustad: $3.25 mil/year, Mike Ribeiro: $3.5 mil/year. Look for a number somewhere around/between Nystrom and the Goose- both contracts Nashville will lose this offseason.
Should He/Would He/Could He?
If Parenteau can fill Eric Nystrom’s spot on the ice for around a similar cap hit- chalk it up as a big win for Smashville. A top-line forward and arguably an NHL team’s best performer for the cap void left by Paul Gaustad? Take it and run.
The scary thing about free agency is shelling out loads of money for a player whose previous team was unwilling (though sometimes unable) to create the cap space to bring them back. Toronto, however, wants Parenteau back- which tells us good things about his value to a club, and that Nashville should be interested should he hit free agency.
The Canadian’s name has come to be associated with risk, and may not necessarily inspire excitement around Nashville Predators water cooler talks- but staying healthy while being surrounded by a marked upgrade in talent could see the winger rise to a 50-point scorer once again at the price of a fourth-liner. That’s something to be excited about.
The veteran acquisition would add a needed piece at the wings while allowing the franchise to focus their salary on retaining the star players that took the Nashville Predators to the brink of the Western Conference Finals last season. This offseason Nashville needs to keep their priorities straight, and a Parenteau signing would improve the team while doing so.


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PlayStation Gamescom 2014 press convention spherical-up: Wild, Hellblade
After Microsoft rolled out an entire bunch of bulletins earlier at the moment, it was Sony’s flip to take the stage for its Gamescom 2014 press convention. We watched the stream, we adopted the liveblog and now it is time to recap all the occasion’s bulletins. Head previous the break to dive into our spherical-up.
- Sony kicked off the occasion by saying that it bought 10 million PS4 consoles so far.
- Thomas Was Alone developer Mike Bithell revealed that his subsequent recreation, Quantity, will attain PS4 and Vita in 2015.
- Q-Video games’ subsequent undertaking is a collaboration with SCEE Worldwide Studios generally known as The Tomorrow Youngsters.
- Ruffian Video games, developer of Crackdown 2, introduced a 4-participant co-op shooter referred to as Hollowpoint.
- Day Z will traipse its approach to PS4 with enhanced visuals because of an “completely new cross-platform renderer.”
- Ninja Principle has a brand new demonic recreation that with an ass-kicking feminine lead that is not a Heavenly Sword sequel, however quite it is Hellblade.
- PS4 house owners that decide up a replica of Far Cry four will obtain 10 keys that grant a two-hour trial for the sport, which they’re inspired handy off to buddies for a quick co-op romp.
- Bungie took the stage to disclose that the primary Future enlargement will launch in December, and in addition provided a brand new trailer for its Crucible multiplayer modes.
- Sony detailed a couple of enhancements coming to the PS4 itself by way of an replace this fall. Specifically, the system will obtain a Share Play function that permits PS Plus members to play any recreation cooperatively with associates that do not personal a replica themselves throughout the globe as if on a “digital sofa.”
- Metallic Gear Strong director Hideo Kojima hung out showcasing all of the belongings you may do with a cardboard field in Metallic Gear Strong 5: The Phantom Ache, all however confirming to us that he is half cat.
- These residing in PAL areas will be capable of decide up their very own PlayStation TVs beginning on November 14.
- Europe will achieve entry to the PlayStation Now recreation streaming service in 2015, the primary beta part of which can land within the UK.
- Sony unveiled a chilling first-individual horror recreation referred to as P.T. The “interactive teaser” is obtainable now on PSN.
- An enhanced model of Tearaway, Media Molecule’s 2013 Vita recreation, will unfold on PS4 subsequent yr.
- Resogun developer Housemarque introduced a brand new PS4-unique, quick-paced shooter, Alienation.
- The Astronauts introduced that its mysterious PC recreation The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is in improvement for PS4, and can arrive on the console subsequent yr.
- Rayman creator Michel Ancel revealed a PS4-solely, open-world recreation referred to as Wild to shut the press convention.

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ITPV takes a look at the changing data center environment, with the coming of open standards based data centers, potentially freeing data center operators and businesses from vendor lock-in.
In some sense, data centers are the last bastion of proprietary, or vendor locked-in technologies in enterprise IT. Concepts of agile IT, elasticity and open, turned from buzzwords to de-facto adoptions over the last decade on the applications front. Now these concepts are being taken to the hardware side, right down to the storage, networking, and compute boxes with the coming of open data centers.
Taking agility to the data center
With the mainstreaming of the now ubiquitous cloud, businesses saw the benefits of agility and pay-as-you go. These were delivered by the cloud providers, who in-turn benefited from economies of scale. However, the underlying hardware itself, being proprietary and offering little agility and interoperability, hadn’t changed much in the data centers. For example, an application developed for a storage box from vendor A would not work on vendor B’s, at least not without significant modification. This would lead to inefficiencies in deployment, maintenance and increase in overall cost of ownership of the data center. An irony that the very hardware that enables software to be agile, was itself rigid.
While vendor lock-ins worked to the commercial interests of those specific vendors, it was plainly obvious to data center owners – businesses and cloud providers alike – that proprietary or vendor locked-in hardware was suboptimal in many ways. There was the obvious impediment to growth and agility, and with these came high costs. Then there was the need to employ specialists for each technology.
The changing applications scenario made the conventional data center even less appealing. Applications moved from ‘records keeping and minimal processing’ (such as finance, HR and inventory applications) to more compute heavy BI and analytics. Today’s businesses are looking at near-real-time analytics to analyze and predict customer behavior. This new application landscape calls for quicker provisioning of data center resources, making virtualization and XaaS imperative.
It was only a matter of time before people started thinking, “what if we software-define the whole thing?”. After all, servers are defined by software with virtualization, so it seems like a logical step to software- define the data center itself–the storage, compute and networking blocks, using commodity hardware.
What’s an open data center?
Traditionally, data centers were designed to be able to accommodate technologies from multiple different vendors. Usually, these vendor specific products were not interoperable.
Open data centers, in contrast, are built and operated on open standards. These standards are developed and maintained by industry bodies or a consortium of stakeholders. One such consortium commonly recognized as a standards setter, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) explains on their website, “Open standards help ensure interoperability. Think of them as you would blue prints or specifications. These standards are not owned by any single entity, but rather groups of stakeholders. Like construction blueprints, open standards can be influenced, changed, and updated by stakeholders working together to reach agreement.”
Open standards can be achieved by ensuring interoperability, by say, making available open APIs. This allows anybody to write applications for that piece of hardware, or run the same software on hardware from two different manufacturers. It is important to note that open standards are not necessarily the same as open source – the underlying design and firmware of those devices need not necessarily be open source. What’s important is that the data center components are based on a standard that explicitly allows interoperability.
Data Center Trends 2017 –
Open is here to stay
All predictions for data center and IT infrastructure trends in 2017 include open data center as a major trend to watch. The seeds of what we today commonly call open data center were sown in 2010-11. Not just industry consortium, but even large individual Internet companies that badly needed a more optimized data center, too, worked on standards and published them. Notably, Facebook, with its Open Compute Project, and Google, with its Kubernetes, independently tried to define open data center standards. Then there’s the Open Data Center Alliance, a consortium, that has been actively promoting open standards for data center and cloud.
What more, the Chinese Internet companies, Alibaba and Baidu, along with others, have formed their own open standards project for data centers, called Project Scorpio.
These independent and joint efforts towards establishing open data centers are an indication that open standards is set to become de-facto.
Open source has become the key driver in the design, implementation and management of new generation data centers. With Facebook opening their designs for their server infrastructure, to Google open sourcing their Kubernetes container automation platform, there are several examples of how open source designs and technology are driving data center architectures today.
Neeraj Bhatia, Director – Partner, Alliances & Commercial Sales, Red Hat, says,“The use of open source to build and promote data centers is an increasing trend amongst organizations across the globe. As per a study by Statista, Open Source revenue is likely to grow to 57.3bn USD. More organizations today are deploying open solutions for data centers, to increase interoperability and ensure smooth, agile and efficient service delivery. With the increased use of cloud based infrastructure, there is even more demand for standardized applications and operating environments which are open source in nature.
Open data center benefits
The many benefits of an open data center versus a conventional closed, or vendor locked-in one, accrue from standardization. Multiple technologies that run on different non-re-deployable hardware have hindered scaling up. With standardization, data center owners now have agility not seen before in the history of IT.
The entire ecosystem of open source developers cannot be undermined. In the words of Neeraj, “With millions of developers contributing to bringing innovation and speed to operating environments, applications as well as the underlying infrastructure, open source also fosters collaboration within the community to help resolve issues and problems with speed. This increased innovation and speed helps drive simplicity of management within the data center with open tools that communicate on open standards that prevent a data center from being locked into any single vendor’s environment.”
“Businesses, for the longest time, had no choice but to run on vendor-locked technologies, as their application of choice required a particular platform. With the new cloud based approach for the creation and deployment of applications, that restriction no longer exists. This cost saving has fueled the revamp of their existing data centers to enable larger support of open, standardized infrastructure that is capable of supporting an agile, horizontally scaled application infrastructure that can now provide very high levels of availability without the huge costs associated with vendor-locked systems.”, adds Neeraj.
Standardization, lower cost of support, and increased choice all lead to lower cap-ex and op-ex with respect to data centers, thereby lowering the cost of IT.
With open data centers, especially in today’s cloud oriented world, organizations are now thinking in terms of standardized workloads running on open technologies. This has led to a standardization of the underlying infrastructure and the software required to manage it. This increase in overall efficiency has enabled the data center to now be able to support newer services to be provided to the business.
When asked to comment on which verticals are likely to benefit most with open data centers, Neeraj remarks, “An open environment benefits everybody! With more collaboration, reduced cost of management and faster innovation, open source is the way to go. Every single new-age company that is redefining new ways of doing business is using open source solutions to bring innovation to market faster.”
He goes on to elaborate that sectors that are driving the growth of open data centers are BFSI, telecom, IT, Social Media and e-Governance initiatives. “An open data center will free every single vertical from locked systems and high costs of deployment & management”, he adds.
Challenges for adoption
One of the biggest challenges in adoption of new technologies or frameworks has always been that of skilled employees. In the words of George Chacko, Principal Systems Engineer & Lead Technical Consultant, Brocade India, “Business must have IT to survive in a digitally enabled world. It is no surprise that the demand for IT talent is higher than ever. An apparent lack of IT talent is impeding the success of organizations that are currently expanding or wish to expand their onshore talent, or are new entrants to the domestic, onshore market. As a result of the IT shortage, organizations who are not using creative methods to attract and retain IT resources will be viewed as less competitive and their market growth will be inhibited.”
According to Red Hat, the primary challenge when it comes to open data centers is security. “It is important for organizations to fully develop an understanding of the data life cycle and measures that can provide them with proper data protection. While implementing an open data center, it is also important to have properly trained and skilled personnel handling the deployment. We have a Red Hat® Certified Architect (RHCA) with a data center concentration for providing employee skills with tasks common in an on-premise data center.”, says Neeraj (Red Hat).
Data center market in India
According to a recent study by IAMAI, the data center market in India is seeing good growth for the last few years due to the explosion of data through smartphones, social networking sites, ecommerce companies and government initiated projects. This has led to an increase in productivity, fewer outages and an agile data center infrastructure. This increase in overall efficiency has enabled the data center to now be able to support newer services to be provided to the business user to drive faster growth for the organization.
Neeraj says, “The data center market in India is poised to see exponential growth and as more organizations require to support such a fast moving environment. Therefore, the design considerations of openness, agility, efficiency and low cost for their IT infrastructure are imperative. We will see different sectors coming to the fore to reap the benefits of open data centers in India.”
New data centers don’t have legacy vendor locked-in issues or the question of RoI of investments already made (in conventional data centers), and therefore are best suited to implement open data center concepts.
Opportunities for channel partners
With cloud services becoming ever so common, the IT channel community should view themselves as, and act as, providers of services. A channels player should identify one’s strengths across horizontals, or in an industry vertical, and re-skill to package and deliver solutions tailored to a customer. This is a mindset and operational shift from the conventional reseller model, which is becoming quickly obsolete. Now, with the coming of open data centers, businesses will see a reduction in complexity around hardware, and the focus will increasingly shift to services. It is in this context that the channels will have to find niches that suit them and find relevance for themselves in a rapidly changing IT marketplace.
By Kailas Shastry


I have 5 working/funded/stable #openweb projects to push this winter to wider ordences.
Covering News, Social Media, Video and Search.
I have 5 working/funded/stable #openweb projects to push this winter to wider ordences.
Covering News, Social Media, Video and Search.
Rainbow gatherings happen far away from Babylon, this is understood.
Yet for the last 10 years they have been increasingly/largely organized on Facebook and its importent to state the obvuse that this is having an affect on the gatherings. Facebook being a #dotcon is full on strong Babylon energy and this energy is overflowing/washing over into the Rainbow Gatherings and the people that come to them.
For #rainbow to have most of its organizing and communication in/on #failbook has been a clear bringing Babylon into Rainbow disaster. You can see this in the illness/eco disaster’s at European gatherings over the last 5 years. The recent regional one I was at for 3 weeks in Serbia this summer strongly affected, I was almost the only expirenced rainbow persion there most of the time. The were no Serbions, the ones that came all left after a few days. It was organised (not foculised) by a Bosnion who had real issues with serbs that keept serficeing in uncuftable ways. most of my time there was spent worked hard on the ground in circles to heal this on going “mess”. Though it had good moments.
Ok, your reading this and saying this is not my problem, facebook works for me etc. it might not be your interest, but saying this is is a problem should not be #blocked on rainbow facebook pages. Talking about the issues after the Serbion gathering and disaster of the polish Europen Gathering, why am being #blocked and called a troll on #failbook rainbow pages? Were did this power to block and censer come from in our gtaherings? The tag #failbook (the are other tags) is not my point of view its mainstream https://mastodon.social/tags/failbook lots of links here on the #openweb that show this.
If you won’t to take Rainbow into Babylon that’s fine and good. But please don’t bring Babylon into Rainbow. Remember Rainbow is not Babylon. We build our gatherings away from Babylon, just as we need to foculise and tell our story’s away from Babylon. In this our use of #Failbook is a clear and urgent problem for #rainbow
Q. “From mass surveillance to the over-commercialization of the World Wide Web, the concept of a free and open Internet is continously threatened by corporate interests and over-reaching governments. Radical Networks is a festival and a conference, designed to foster critical discussions around these issues and to create opportunities to learn more about policy, DIY networking and the future of the Internet.”
Radical Networks 2018
October 19-21, 2018 in Berlin, Germany
A. #fashernista I used to go to these and always wondered why I was there… we need a clear step away from events like this… were to step to is the question? Ideas?
Q. why do you think is not good attend this kind of event?
A. as they are run by and for a “social class” that is largely irrelevant or “blocking” by taking up space and funding, not that I have much hope for the funding being used in a useful way the taking of the space is a problem.
Ideas? Are the events on the same subject? Would like to be involved as have been working in this area for a long time… and have a number of active projects.
Power politics is always full of stupidity as priorities and agendas are pushed as power games rather than human needs. Power politics brings out the worst in human community’s while pushing out, braking and destroying the best. Any structure with a higharcky will suffer from this.
While most people agree that such structures are useful for decision making, and that more horizontal structures are bad for fast moving community’s. The question has the be asked is the price of efficiency worth the cost of stupidity and squed agendas?
Horizontal structures can lead to a growth in stupidity in multiple smaller ways, but to an extent the smallness helps to mediate the big stupid paths and keeps humane agendas in focus
On balance, the second is better than the first, but how to communicate this to the efficiency focused modern world full of “power politics”.
A. Is this a good idea?
Q. It is certainly a better idea. Whether or not it is the best possible is another question …
Q. The thing is that any alternative needs a certain critical mass of people to adopt it before it will work. I just can’t see how the breakthrough can be made by any completely independent alternative. Anything that can take over from FB needs massive publicity.
A. The “fedvers/activertypub” network has over 2 million users and growing. What we need now is a push and keep pushing of this. The Labour party should be doing this… it will likely not due to #fashernista agendas… but am not inside to make a real judgement in this? Any one in the loop?
A. What would a state lead social network look like? A big centralized #failbook or a local run federated network?
When a rainbow gathering is “organized” rather than “foculised” you live through a more “dull” than “shiny” rainbow.
The Serbian gathering is 600m up in wooded mountains so we have both sun and regular strong thunder storms with torrential rain.
The kitchen was built before i came over a few dry days of flimsy plastic sheets on a dry stream bed surrounded by trees. We are in the mountains so when it inevitably rains/thunder for a week we have a river running over the kitchen leaving mud and rot. The was no energy or focus to build a new/stronger kitchen on dry ground.
The main fire was built by the “party crew” on a fine day in the drainage ditch running through the centre of the field. When it rained of course the whole fire was washed away and became a “sacred pool”.
This lack of awareness of living with nature and continuing “Babylon energy”, talking about fixing the “problem” of “unthinking” standing against nature and fighting against natural flows with the talk of dig more ditches to move the water away from were it wonted to go. Were the rainbow way is of course to live with the flows of nature, build “organic” structures in places in harmony with natural flows.
The gathering was looking like a fail, too hard-core daily existences for out reach or to stay in the low energy of the gathering. Leave or try to save it?
The building of the new kitchen took 5 days with lots of pushing. At a shiny rainbow it would have been built in 2 days with lots of joy. The pushing it self is a problem/not rainbow. Rearly the existing gathering was not rainbow. What to do?
The kitchen was built, circles happen, workshops start and the rainbow begins, this was rainbow 🙂
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’.
Undercurrents productions show what happens beyond the few seconds glimpsed on the mainstream TV news. We follow grandmothers (Lancashire Nanas) as they team up with younger activists (Reclaim the Power) to shut down Cuadrilla’s drilling sites. In Lancashire and Sussex trucks are occupied, drilling sites are blocked and supply chains are disrupted. Police are spending millions of pounds trying (and failing) to stop the daily protests. One man attempts to make a citizens arrest on the Prime Minister for allegedly misleading the public over this form of extreme energy extraction
The film widens the discussion to highlight the role of the media and lobby groups in shaping public perception of unconventional gas and oil exploration. We hear from energy experts, journalists and key politicians amongst the voices of local residents and councillors.
Interviews include (amongst others)
George Monbiot, Columnist and author
Caroline Lucas MP, Leader of Green Party
John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor (Labour)
Tamasin Cave, Spinwatch
Tina Louise Rothery, Lancashire Nanas
Anna & others, Reclaim the Power
Paul Mobbs, Ecological Futurologist
Dale Vince, Founder Ecotricity
Prof. Andrew R. Barron, Director Energy Safety Research Institute
Kevin Blowe, The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol)
Ruth Hayworth, Journalist Drill or Drop
Jamie Kelsey Fry, New Internationalist
John Vidal, Environment editor The Guardian
Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are too limited in there idea of what media could/should be in this the is either a naivety or a dishonesty . The most successful act and think they can be “big media” with out controlling the distribution of there content in any meaningful way. This is of course not unusual, the mainstream media is continually making this same mistake. All of them rely on the the #dotcons which nowadays is largely the Facebook algorithm for the there content distribution.
Our current grassroots/alt media have web sites so already have one foot in the openweb, but non of their sites prominently link in any meaningful way to each other. They do podcasts so anther foot in the open web, but all their effort for outreach is inside the #silos such as Apple itunes etc. it’s hard to directly blame them, though we should and will, for this sorry state.
On the other we have the suicidal embrace of #encryptionists complexity and parallel “standardisation” into a pointless/shrinking to nothingness alt-tech ghetto were our alt-geeks are and desire to stay. A liberal/libertarian main-streaming.
With these issues in mind I have been outreaching to these groups for the last year, and building real working openweb linking tech as part of the #OMN project. This currently is not been getting past the crews naivety/self interest/career focused thinking. Fair anufe if that is as far as there imagination/aspiration goes, but this is a clear problem for working alt/progressive/left media that urgently needs to be addressed.
So our current alt/grassroots media are irrelevant to rebooting a healthy society from a technical/social point of view. The is some good content but no realistic path for this media to be seen or spread in a way that can be affective for social change.
One simple and practical path to change this is a basic. To move on with alt/grassroots media producers linking to each other on the #openweb Currently they pointlessly do not do this, even though they have repeatedly stated they do over the last few years.
What action have I been taking over the last 10 years:
1) Keep private messaging them on steps they can take, this works to an extent, as last year I asked them to add more tags to their posts and they “broke” the User Interface on the #OMN software we are using by adding lots more – which is a good problem to have. A small step.
2) Publicly talk to them as a alt/grassroots media group in blog post and their social media – this currently has little affect.
3) Talk to them in public as producer groups – this has had a limited affect with some of the groups, will try this more.
4) Public talk to them as individual’s, this will generally get a private response and little/no action just words so far.
5) Name and shame them as groups who do not link/share with other groups in public, this might be needed for some of the groups, but this is a negative.
6) Name them as individuals within the producer groups and push for linking directly to them in public, name and point to the individual that this is a clear negative #fail a last stage.
Its a shame that this escalation is needed/not working – linking is a clear path to success on the web – the right-wing blogs/producers do this, its a simple #fail that the left/progressive do not now and generally never have link to each other.
“Make the world you wont to see” LINKING is the bases of the #openweb and a strong path to #rebooting the grassroots internet itself. Looking for helpful/happy people to crowed source the active conversation to make this happen, maybe we need a “new” alt-media content #reboot to pull the current ones onto a sustainable path, lead by example.
For this to be relevant we need working open media tech, the best example of this is mastodon/activertypub. The #OMN project uses this and is simple #4opens based on linking, its a “first step”.
Since we left London that we have been roughly marking on a map our overnight stops. It’s not graphically amazing but does give an idea on how far we got! Since we left London we’ve done 2750km on European Inland Waterways to Vienna on 8 different rivers and 17 canals throughout 3 countries. We’ve passed 498 locks, 5 lift bridges and 3 tunnels. We’ve moored at pirate moorings, free town walls or to other boats 70% of the times, in marinas 20% and at anchor 10% and we’ve filled up our diesel tank 3 times only! #themanwhoboughtalifeboat #boatinacrosseurope #boatingeurope #documentary #maps #journey #europeinlandwaterways #lifeboat #liveaboard #refurbished #compactliving #slowliving #travelgram #england 🇬🇧 #france🇫🇷 #germany🇩🇪 #austria🇦🇹 #thamesriver #englishchannel #frenchcanals #rhineriver #mainriver #maindonaukanal #danuberiver
*** this was a draft from a few years ago ***
Ideology right fear
The hoard of new boaters test them invite them to crusty boater events ask them for help etc. the ones that are happy to jump across the land water divide bring in. The ones that bulk and retreat push them out.
Publicize the resulting disaster tell each story so that media picks up on this bad vibe
Hide the good in (semi open) private groups
Use direct action on CRT (office occupations, blockaded etc.) with strong media pushing of actions.
Build DIY alts. This is hard one as most alts will push for encloses to profit – need a PGA statement to see which to support and which not.
Punish bad/crap/unsocial boater behaver both inside our community and as a last resort outside.
Do the who thing as lose affinity groups.


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Infrastructure refers to the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function (Frank, 2003). It typically characterizes technical structures such as housing, roads, bridges, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions. However, all these coupled together can bring about the provision of good and affordable housing (Nubi, 2003).
Housing infrastructural provision refers to the bringing into existence of the basic amenities and services which must be in place for a particular activity or pursuit. However, no nation can boast of significant development or an enhanced economy without providing the basic infrastructures for the citizens’ well-being (Otegbulu & Adewunmi, 2008).
Provision of adequate infrastructural facilities is not taken for granted in developed countries; however, it remains a major challenge in developing countries, especially in Nigeria (Ajanlekoko, 2001). According to Yomi (2003), the problem of housing provision has become an everyday discussion in all quarters of the public and private services of the developing countries of Africa including Nigeria. It has become increasingly glaring that most of the urban population live in dehumanizing housing environment while those that have access to average housing do so at abnormal and outrageous cost. Different definitions have been ascribed by several authors to the word infrastructure. Infrastructural development is the provision of basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society like industries, buildings, roads, bridges, health services, governance and so on (Amis & Kumar, 2000). It is the development of enterprise or the products, services and facilities necessary for an economy to function (Sulivan and Sheffrin, 2003).
Infrastructures can be described generally as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development (Donald, 1974). It is an important term for judging a country, region or state’s and individual’s developments/status. Infrastructural development typically refers to the provision by government or other authorities the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical national grids, telecommunications, and so forth (Fulmer, 2009). Amis and Kumar (2000) argued that infrastructure helps individuals cope with the different dimensions of poverty. It follows therefore, that whenever people are deprived of basic infrastructures, the result is impoverishment. It also follows that cities with the greatest number of poor people are those whose citizens lack infrastructure the most (Fox, 1994). Infrastructure development and housing provision are interwoven. Without infrastructures, housing cannot be provided and hence should be treated integrally (Otegbulu and Adewumi, 2008). An ideal neighbourhood should be provided with good roads, drainage networks, electricity and portable water supply, good waste management system and security which are all aimed to ensure conducive housing unit.
The condition of these services in Nigeria towns and cities contradicts the principle of sustainability in housing provision. A sustainable housing development would not only have environment friendly and energy efficient buildings, it would also have access to employment, schools, shops, places of entertainment, primary health care, and it would be accessible by public transport.
Adequate supply of housing has remained a mirage to all cadres of the society in Nigeria. Rapid growth in population creates demand pressure towards shelter and efficient supply and distribution of basic utilities and services for city dwellers. In most cities, the problem of housing is not only restricted to quantity but to the poor quality of available housing units. Hence, Infrastructural development play an invaluable role in housing; however things have gone from bad to worse especially in developing countries like Nigeria. Their arises a need thus for a research into the state of infrastructural provisions in housing provision, unraveling the present state of decline, its causalities and, the enactment of probable and sustainable solutions in the light of new technologies.
One major aspect of Nigeria’s problem with respect to housing is the poor state of the infrastructures (Ajanlekoko, 2001). A major challenge to providing adequate housing is the lack of primary infrastructure, as roads, water, electricity, social amenities etc, which accounts for about 30 percent of housing costs. In most cases developers have to provide the infrastructures which in most cases falls short of the standards in terms of quality and quantity — as a means of cutting costs.
Current finance for housing provision and infrastructural development is inadequate both in terms of capital resources and of lending policies and conditions compared with the types of income and borrowing capacity of the large majority of States in Nigeria.
Lack of funds alone is not a root cause of poor infrastructural development and services. It is a symptom of more fundamental problems. These include instability, lack of confidence, distorted economic policies, and difficulties of governance. The mobilization of public and private funds of infrastructural development depends, in the long run, on the alleviation of these problems.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Literature on housing provision have tend to focus more on issues of policy, finance, and economics of housing provision, issues such as infrastructures are treated en-passant. However as the demand for quality housing is on the increase researchers are on the outlook for ways to present housing from a comprehensive perspective. The role of infrastructural development in housing provision cannot be overemphasized and should not be treated as a last minute consideration. The study aims at evaluating the effect of infrastructural development on provision of housing in Nigeria with a view to provide policy makers and other stake holders the required information needed to evaluate and review the effectiveness of policies and delivery strategies and also provide a framework for enforcing enacted guidelines in view of achieving sustainable developments in the housing sector thereby ascertaining the sustainability of the housing environment.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the objectives of this study:
- To examine the effect of infrastructural development on the provision of housing.
- To examine the level of Nigeria government’s commitment towards infrastructural development in the country.
- To examine the relationship between infrastructural development and provision of housing.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What is the effect of infrastructural development on the provision of housing?
- What is the level of Nigeria government’s commitment towards infrastructural development in the country?
- What is the relationship between infrastructural development and provision of housing?
HO: There is no significant relationship between infrastructural development and provision of housing
HA: There is significant relationship between infrastructural development and provision of housing
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The following are the significance of this study:
- The outcome of this study will educate the government and policy makers in Nigeria on the level of infrastructural development and provision of housing with a view of formulating and implementing policies that will ensure good housing and infrastructural development.
- This research will be a contribution to the body of literature in the area of the effect of personality trait on student’s academic performance, thereby constituting the empirical literature for future research in the subject area.
1.7 SCOPE/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
This study will cover the level of infrastructural development in Nigeria and its subsequent effect on the provision of affordable and conducive housing environment.
Financial constraint- Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).
Time constraint- The researcher will simultaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This consequently will cut down on the time devoted for the research work.
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Amis, D. and Kumar (2000). Urban economic growth, infrastructure, and poverty in India: Lessons from Visakhapatnam, Environment and Urbanization. Vol. 12 (1).
Donald, C. S. (1974). Professional Education in Public Works / Environmental Engineering Administration 5th ed. Chicago. American Public works and Association. (July/August): 30–32.
Fox, W. F. (1994). “Strategic Options for Urban Infrastructure Management”. Urban Management Programme (UMP) Paper 17. The World Bank pp7.
Frank, I. (2003). The state of Urban Infrastructures in Nigeria. Atlantis Books, Ibadan. Nigeria
Sullivan, A. and Sheffrin, M. S. (2003). Economics: Principles in action. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Nubi, T.O (2003). ‘Procuring, Managing and Financing Urban Infrastructure: Towards an Integrated Approach Land Management and Property Tax Reform in Nigeria, in `Omirin et al(ed.) Department of Estate Management, University of Lagos, Akoka.
Otegbulu, A and Adewumi, Y. (2008). “Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Housing in Nigeria through Innovative Infrastructural Management”, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Vol. 2, No. 4, Pp. 334-346.
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Fighting for safety, Denver Sikhs bless Colfax Avenue as Congressmen don turbans
To battle ignorance Denver’s Sikh community has taken a rather cheerful, colorful approach.
This spring, Davinder Sandhu took his kids to a Rockies game. They sat in box seats and had a great time, he said, but things took a turn when they emerged onto 20th Street into a crowd of post-game fans. Sandhu is Sikh and was covering his long hair with a turban, a symbol of his religion that became a target in a rowdy crowd. A couple of guys tried to yank it off his head, he said: an “awkward” situation.
“Kids have a thousand questions,” he recalled wearily, “it’s hard to explain.”
Often mistaken for Muslims, Sikhs across the U.S. have been victims of more frequent hate crimes since the attacks of Sept. 11. Last year, as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign stoked old fears, a renewed sense of alienation brought Sikhs into public forums to stand for their community’s safety alongside Muslims and other immigrant groups with similar concerns.
“We are concerned about our kids,” said Gurpreet Juneja. But, she continued, she thinks most bullying is the result of ignorance rather than hatred.
To battle this ignorance, Denver’s Sikh community has taken a rather cheerful approach. On Sunday, hundreds of people clad in colorful turbans and shawls marched out of East High School and down Colfax in a second-annual parade, both to celebrate their holiday Vaisakhi and to rech out to others. Volunteers flanking the procession handed out informational flyers to passers-by that read, “Who are the Sikhs?”
This year, the parade’s public integration effort comes as community leaders are lobbying for institutional inclusion. Last month, a group attended a Colorado State Board of Education meeting to ask that Sikhism be added to the state’s academic standards. If kids are required to learn about Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism, proponents say, then Sikhism, the world’s fifth-largest religion, should also be included.
Juneja said her first-grade son Tejbir was getting bullied about his traditionally long hair at school. To deal with the problem, she said, Juneja led a presentation for his class in which she tied his hair and explained its significance to their religion. After that, she said, his classmates had a change of heart.
“What we learned is awareness is what you really need” and, she said, mandatory education could help set a baseline for everyone.
It seems their message has resonated with local officials. Among the attendees at East High was a collective of Colorado politicians from both parties and all levels who came to show support for the community’s efforts to be recognized. Speaking to the crowd under their own turbans, Republican Representative Mike Coffman and Democratic Representative Ed Perlmutter both pledged to join a bipartisan Sikh caucus in Washington.
Coffman, the only one who was given a ceremonial sword as thanks for attending, said he was helping to set up meetings between education officials and community leaders to add Sikhism to the curriculum. Adams County Commissioner Steve O’Dorisio, whose home turf includes the massive Colorado Singh Sabha temple, said he also wrote a letter of support backing the community’s education effort.
Around 1:30 Sunday afternoon, the massive procession left East High and made their way down Colfax. Dressed in vibrant garments and tee-shirts reading, “Sikhs ♥ America,” this Colorado community blessed the city as they made their presence known.


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I was in class V then. For the first time I heard about Cherrapunji. The place where it rained the most. Later the place changed and it is now Mawsynram. But the name stayed somewhere in my heart. And in 2019 March, the day came. We have started from Kolkata. In the previous part i shared my experience of Shillong. This time we were going to meet the small town in the lap of East Khasi hills, Cherrapunji. Local people used to call her as 'Sohra'. In Arbi or Urdu 'Sohra' means 'Beautiful'. Whether the christening of the city was done for this meaning or not, was not clear to me, but it was indeed a polite and beautiful hill station.
Dry and mundane yellow hills, rain-soaked hairpin bends guided us throughout our journey to our most comfortable shelter 'Coniferous Resort'.
The soft touch of the setting sun, the pleasant cool breeze, the tranquility of the hills and the warm welcome of the resort - what's more a person could even imagine!
'Sohra' wakes up too early in the morning. The colours of sunrise on the hills, the smiles of little school children, beautifully decorated single storeid buildings, those white curtains on the windows, colorful flowers in the balconies - everything was so soothing to the eyes, so much heart melting.
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I usually post videos in the DUmmie FUnnies on weekends or late at night. However, for this VIDEO I have to make an exception because it is probably the FUnniest video I have ever seen on YouTube. It shows a bunch of tree huggers who belong to the Earth First eco group in the North Carolina forest (most likely these are hippies who live in Asheville) mourning over trees. And they don't just shed a few tears. They are flat out bawling. Their Drama Queen antics are absolutely hilarious! And that hippie chick waxing poetic over a rock is a nice touch. This video has a big comedic finale with a fantastic emotional outburst for your entertainment.
"At least one tree sitter on Tuesday began throwing bags of human waste on the approaching arborists."
BERKELEY, Calif. (KCBS) -- One woman was arrested Tuesday as authorities removed some of the structures that have housed tree sitting protesters in an oak grove UC Berkeley wants to cut down to make way for a $125 million athletic facility.
The protester was taken into custody after she reportedly bit one of the workers removing her supplies, according to police. Officers cordoned off part of Piedmont Avenue near Memorial Grove and brought in arborists to remove the platforms and gear the tree sitters have used to maintain their perches since December 2006. A university official had earlier said the tree sitters themselves would not be removed yet.
One of the things were most concerned about is safety and security, of our police officers and the people in the trees. Thats the reason were not forcibly removing people from the trees today, said Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for UC Berkeley.
Tuesday was not the first time the university has removed scaffolding built by the protesters, but removing the people has proven more difficult. One witness told KCBS reporter Tim Ryan at the scene that some of the tree sitters threw urine they had collected in buckets at the police and arborists to discourage them from climbing.
...someone has to send this to Rush
The girl screaming at the end is sooo funny.
Are you sure that is not a parody?
Almost top 10!
I'm positive. Not a parody. The real deal. Plus you just can't fake those tears.
DH & sons cutting fire wood tomorrow for the wood stove. Love to see these idiots show up...see them run from a chainsaw. lol...
I also checked on the one hippie identified in this video, Syndee L’Ome Grace, and she is the real deal.
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After the Kings’ withdrawal from domestic competitions, captain JC Astle and promising loose forward Elrigh Louw are set to make their exits from the franchise.
This comes after the Kings board withdrew the team from participation in any planned domestic rugby competitions in 2020, a decision taken in the face of hard, financial realities of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Netwerk24 reports that Astle, who led the side during the 2019-20 PRO14 season, is preparing to join French second-division club Rouen Normandie as a medical joker, essentially a replacement for a contracted player who is out with a long-term injury.
The 29-year-old lock was reportedly awaiting a new contract from the Kings, as was experienced prop Schalk Ferreira and scrumhalf Stefan Ungerer.
Astle, who was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, was into his second stint with the Kings, having also played for the franchise in 2016.
However, he is not the only one leaving as it was confirmed on Thursday that Junior Springbok loose forward Elrigh Louw had joined the Vodacom Bulls, effective immediately.
The highly-rated 20-year-old had only signed for the Kings in 2019 and was playing in his debut first-class season.
Bulls director of rugby Jake White expressed his delight in Louw’s signing as the Bulls continued their preparation for the return of rugby in South Africa.
‘We are delighted that Elrigh has agreed to join the #BullsFamily as he is a young flanker with a bright future,’ White said.
‘He has proven in the Guinness PRO14 that he can compete against the some of world rugby’s finest players, and not only has he held his own but excelled while at it.’
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The Grid in Octopus
The fundamental element of Octopus is the real space grid, on which all quantities, such as wave functions, densities and potentials are defined.
In general, a grid consists of
- the mesh
- the simulation box
The mesh is based on an regular mesh in D dimensions, which can be distorted using so-called curvilinear coordinates.
The underlying internal structure is a mesh of integer coordinates and the important mapping arrays which
- map the index to the D integer coordinates
- map the integer coordinates to the index.
The grid is constructed in several steps:
- Generation of a regular mesh filling a rectangular volume enclosing the simulation box.
- Selecting inner points, enlargement points and ghost points.
- re-ordering the points and regeneration of the mapping arrays.
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Too often people tell me that they would love to go on a trip to Italy with me but that money, or lack of it, is an issue. Wishes won’t manifest travel dreams, of course. But I’m here to tell everyone that if travel is something one is serious about there is a simple exercise to do that could help you find hidden treasure in your bank account!
In a past life I was a financial planner and I always recommend a simple tool for finding hidden money in anyone’s budget. Simply spend 30 days jotting down each time you spend money on a daily basis. Don’t change your spending habits, just record what you normally spend for a month, no judgement. So, if you made an impulse buy at the register or swerved off the road at the last minute when you saw a Starbucks, just record it, don’t stop yourself from the purchase. At the end of the month add up all the expenses you recorded. Some banks or phone apps have programs to help you with this project.
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Wow! More than 1,000 people joined us today for the Capital MetroRail open house at the Leander Station. Visitors had the opportunity to tour the train, practice using the ticket vending machine and ask lots of great questions. With just a few weeks to go until the big grand opening event (Saturday, March 28– mark your calendar), it really was a amazing to see and hear how excited people are.
If you didn’t make it to today’s open house, we have more coming up this month. See Gerardo’s post for the complete schedule.
In addition to the MetroRail train, we also had an Express bus on display at today’s open house; and our friends at the Leander Fire Department showed off some of their trucks and equipment which were especially popular with the kids.


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Third Rome lineup puts emphasis on EuropeWith six Italian films in competition and a red carpet that one official said will be "less red than normal" — a reference to fewer Hollywood stars — the third Rome International Film Festival is turning its eyes toward Europe.
Fest organizers announced the bulk of the Oct. 22-31 event's lineup Wednesday, revealing a 20-film competition section heavy on European fare, especially Italian.
Highlights include "Easy Virtue," Stephan Elliott's examination of class struggle; Connie Walter's drama "Long Shadows"; and "The Artist," a dark comedy from documentary specialists Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn.
Notable local productions in competition include the France-Poland-Italy co-production "Resolution 819" — named for a U.N. resolution about the Balkan conflict — and Edoardo Winspeare's "Galantuomini," about a judge who returns to his hometown after several years away.
Two other Italians films have the country's film history in their DNA.
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"I was pleased to see these Italian titles in the program," festival president Gian Luigi Rondi said. "I never asked any of the artistic directors to favor particular films, but my mission has always been Italian film, and so this pleases me." (partialdiff)

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Hilton Park Golf Club History
According to the published history of Hilton Park Golf Club, James
Braid, "well-known Golf Professional and Architect" designed
the Club's first course.
A view of Hilton Park
My Dad, Thomas Manclark,
grew up in Scotland near Hilton Park where his father was the Club
Maker, Bartender and Professional. Fond memories included mowing
the fairways with a horse drawn swather and herding sheep through
The construction of the first course, now called
"Hilton," was entrusted to Messrs. Hawtree and J.H. Taylor
of London, to be laid out to the specification of James Braid and
under his supervision. This course, the work on which commenced
early in 1927, was rapidly completed in spite of very bad weather,
and was unofficially opened for play in June, 1928. (Source: The
Hilton Park Golf Club, published by The Golf Clubs Association,
Hilton Course playcard.
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Original Nazi Relics, WWII Japanese Militaria,
American Militaria, and German Militaria
Original Nazi 1935 "Ein Volk Bricht Ketten" Badge
This is an extremely fine and historic badge with the legend that translates to "One People Break Chains", referring to the Versailles Treaty after WWI that required Germany to pay war reparations. This badge has a nice even copper patina finish. The mounting pin is missing.
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Guilty Bystanders is Time Out New York and New York Times Critic’s Pick. Next show is June 20th at UCB Chelsea.
Guilty Bystanders by Jordan Klepper and Russ Armstrong. June 6th and 20th at UCB.
baddy bad cat
twenty four hour taco bell pizza hut
ryan says stay cool.
Improv scene from Whizbang at Magnet Theater (with Ed Herbstman!)
La Quinta commercial (with Bridget Moloney!)
NY Lotto with Andy Richter (& the wonderful Sasheer Zamata!)
EVERYONE VOTES - APT. #3 with ruby marez, kevin kiernan, alexis lambright, kyle levenick, bianca casusol and matt j weir.
EVERYONE VOTES - APT. #7 with willy appelman, branson reese, david zax and hayley swinburne.
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7 Must-Try Thanksgiving Recipes from Celebrity Chefs
Add one to your holiday repertoire this year.
Tradition seems to govern the Thanksgiving dinner celebration, with family members looking forward to their familiar favorites each year. Home cooks enjoy serving the well-received holiday dishes, but if you’re the Thanksgiving chef, we’ll bet you’d love to inject some of your creativity into the menu. Perhaps a different approach for roasting the turkey. Or maybe a new side dish or dessert that might join the list of annual favorites. How about a festive cocktail with the pre-feast appetizers?
Famous chefs have their own Thanksgiving traditions, and we’ve gathered a few for you to consider serving this year.


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Blizzard Entertainment has launched a new ‘pet pack’ charity bundle for World of Warcraft players, with all proceeds from sales going towards BlueCheck, a humanitarian charity working to provide support to Ukraine aid organisations. Actress Mila Kunis, an avid World of Warcraft player, has been chosen to be the spokesperson of the new bundle.
Those who purchase the Pet Pack for Ukraine will gain two special in-game pet companions – Sunny, and Flurky. Sunny is a golden retriever pet with yellow fur and blue accents, and can be used in World of Warcraft. Flurky is a baby murloc pet with a blue body and yellow spines, and can be used in Wrath of the Lich King Classic. As you’ll note, both represent the colours of the Ukraine flag.
Per Blizzard, Sunny and Flurky have their own unique behaviours, with each able to wander and perform tricks. ‘Sunny will occasionally chase her tail or take a nap in between adventures,’ Blizzard says. ‘Flurky the baby murloc carries a sunflower, the national flower of Ukraine, and leaves a colourful flower trail wherever he toddles by your side.’
You can see both pets in the reel trailer for the pack:
Those who wish to support BlueCheck without purchasing the Pet Pack for Ukraine are being encouraged to donate directly to BlueCheck Ukraine. Any digital World of Warcraft purchases made on the Battle.net store over the next two months will also contain an option to donate to BlueCheck at checkout.
The new World of Warcraft Pet Pack for Ukraine is now live, and will be available from the Battle.net Shop for USD $20.00 | AUD $27.00 until 29 August 2023.
Following the conclusion of this campaign, Blizzard Entertainment has pledged to ‘donate 100% of the purchase price of each “Pet Pack for Ukraine,” to BlueCheck, less any chargebacks, refunds, and Value Added Taxes (VAT), or other similar taxes paid.’


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Q Who does the voice for the cartoon character Kim Possible? My daughter loves the show and says it's someone she's heard before.
—Betty Houser, St. Louis, Mo.
Your daughter has a good ear. The crime-fighting heroine of the Disney Channel's popular Kim Possible series is voiced by Christy Carlson Romano, 22, who previously starred as Ren Stevens in the Disney series Even Stevens. The Milford, Conn., native also is a wonderful singer and dancer who's appeared on Broadway in Beauty and the Beast, Annie, Parade, The Will Rogers Follies and The Sound of Music, and last year published her first novel, Grace's Turn, about a small-town girl who dreams of becoming a star.


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Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring detective Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil. Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon, Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But undercover and cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him.
Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook.
Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.
The characters in Certain American States are continually coming to terms with their place in the world, and how to adapt to that place, before change inevitably returns. A woman leaves her dead husband’s clothing on the street, only for it to reappear on the body of a stranger; a man reads his ex-wife’s short story and neurotically contemplates whether it is about him; a young woman whose Texan mother insists on moving to New York City with her has her daily attempts to get over a family tragedy interrupted by a mute stranger showing her incoherent messages on his phone. These are stories of breakups, abandonment, and strained family ties; dead brothers and distant surrogate fathers; loneliness, happenstance, starting over, and learning to let go. Lacey’s elegiac and inspired prose is at its full power in this collection, further establishing her as one of the singular literary voices of her generation.
Julia Reed writes about her adventures through the highs & the lows of Southern life- taking us everywhere from dive bars & the Delta Hot Tamale Festival to an impromptu shindig on a Mississippi River sandbar & a coveted seat on a Mardi Gras float.

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Much of the state of California has been on fire for days as forest fires ravage the area, destroying homes, land and life. Forest fires are not uncommon in the western part of the United States, where much of the country is affected by prolonged drought. Colorado also had some major forest fires this year. Nothing is happening in Colorado on the scale of the California fires.
NASA’s Suomi nuclear power plant satellite captured images showing the winds changing in their direction on September 6, 2020. Changing winds pushed massive clouds of smoke from the California forest fires into the Pacific. By September 10, the cloud of smoke had traveled over 1,300 miles.
In total, the massive cloud of smoke covered 963,269 square miles. So far this year 3.1
It appears that much of the west coast is currently on fire. Strong winds in the west have fueled the fires and allowed them to spread quickly. Fires consumed more than half a million acres in less than two days. So far this year there have been 12 forest fire-related deaths.
This was the worst wildfire season in a long time. The severity has been attributed to the drought, excessive heat, and high winds. Some scientists predict that forest fire events will worsen with climate change. Some of the fires burned up to 100,000 acres in a single day.


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The overall goal for this project is to design a compact cryocooling device for fast, reproducible and reliable cryopreservation of protein and virus crystals for X-ray cryocrystallography. X-ray crystallography is the most powerful and widely used tool for determining the molecular structure of proteins, viruses, nucleic acids and biomolecular complexes. Flash-cooling crystals in liquid nitrogen and collecting data at T=100 K simplifies storage, transport and handling, and dramatically increases the amount of X-ray data that can be obtained from each crystal. However, the cooling process itself damages crystals. Many important targets including viruses, membrane proteins and biomolecular complexes can be very difficult to successfully cool. Moreover, current cooling methodologies, which are time-consuming and done by hand, lead to large variability in cooling outcomes and diffraction quality. The proposed device will provide reliable and reproducible cooling at rates up to 100 times greater than in current best practice. This will eliminate crystalline ice formation during cooling and dramatically reduce required cryoprotectant concentrations. This project will focus on designing the device, developing a commercial prototype, evaluating the performance of prototype.
This project will benefit public health by developing an improved method of conducting X-ray Cryocrystallography. This technique is vital for basic biomedical research and improving its accuracy and efficacy will have broad-scale impacts on developing new drugs and treatments for diseases.


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Montage of images taken at the London College of Fashion graduate exhibition at the Londonewcastle Project Space
Always curious and excited about emerging talent, we’ve been scouting and scouring the many graduate shows. 2013 has been exceptionally great. We look forward to showcasing a few of the people that caught our eyes for Volt Introduces, starting with the multi-talented Ryan Chappell.
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- Thank you! I will let you know when we receive it. Happy new year! 06.01.2018
- It arrived. Thank you again! 16.01.2018
George Thompson: The paintings of Svetlana Kurmaz are unmistakenly present, vitally vibrant with all the dignity and pathos that make us human. The U.N. should buy her work to adorn their hallowed halls -
The winsome majesty of ardor and magnificence, of innate goodness and innocence in your paintings never falters in awakening our highest aspirations and deepest devotions.
SHE HAS ARRIVED SAFELY, I am so happy to have received her TODAY. I had to go to America and she came the day I departed but I missed the delivery! However to cut a long story short she is safely here now!
Thank you so much for packing her so beautifully. I shall treasure her and my memories of meeting you in beautiful Prague.
I hope you are doing well!


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My memoir "Leaving Story Avenue: My journey from the projects to the front page" has been receiving great reader reviews since its release and a terrific read, according to many of the online reviewers.
It's a story about striving to become who you want to be and deals with the years I grew up in a Bronx housing project and how I made the leap to become a reporter at The New York Daily News when reporters were fun, full of life and sometime booze. It was a grand time. A memoir of a now lost era, the last days of the Front Page Era. I wrote it at least partly because I did not want this amazing era of newspaper men and women to pass without acknowledgment. They busted their butts to get the stories out and had fun while doing it. It's an ere that's gone for good.
I hope you'll read my book. The NY Times called it 'vivid and captivating' and you can read the reader reviews for yourself on Amazon. I couldn't have asked for more in terms of critical praise but, as this was put out by a small, boutique publisher, I wish it had better distribution. Please help me out by reading it and, if you like it, spread the word! Thanks.
Ken Auletta, a writer & author at the New Yorker Magazine said: "Paul LaRosa
has written a poignant and funny memoir that stretches in an unstraight line from mean Bronx streets to the newsroom of the Daily News. Along the way, in snappy prose, he sprinkles wisdom about New York, the pull of peers and of family, the ambition and pride that propels a working class kid to succeed, and a portrait of the zany New York Daily News newsroom that is one part exhilaration, and one part Front Page. At the end, readers will come to miss the engaging, self-deprecating author whose book reads as breezily as a delicious tabloid newspaper."
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, writing on myshelf.com, said: "This is a memoir most anyone will love."
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We are currently only accepting families into our Nicaragua program who are adopting a relative. As an alternative, please look over the information for our other programs listed to the right, and consider adopting from one of them. Thank you.
Despite the country’s natural beauty, a number of Nicaragua’s inhabitants live in extreme poverty. The lack of resources in Nicaragua lead to the need for international adoption.
Many Nicaraguan families cannot afford to feed and clothe their children, trusting that an orphanage can provide a better life for them. As such, the number of abandoned children has reached an all-time high. Additionally, as a predominately Catholic country, there is a strong stigma against unwed mothers, contributing to the number of abandoned children.
Nicaragua’s adoption program is unique in regards to its in-country stay: once families receive a referral, they travel to Nicaragua for a 12-20 week socialization trip, living and bonding with their referred child. In general, both parents will need to be in Nicaragua for the first few weeks, but only one parent needs to remain after that, and parents are able to take turns staying in Nicaragua, or invite extended family members to visit. Families will work closely with a Nicaraguan tour guide who assists our families with their needs while in-country.
We know that not all families can spend an extended period of time in another country, but families who choose to adopt from Nicaragua appreciate the chance to form a strong bond with their child in a relaxed, distraction-free setting. By the time the family travels home, they will have spent several months getting to know their child in a location where the child is already comfortable, and will have a new, deeper relationship with their child’s home country.
Children in Need of Families
- Age: infants to teens.
- Children reside in orphanages or foster care, and generally receive proper nutrition and medical care.
- Families who adopt from Nicaragua should expect that the child they are matched with will have experienced malnutrition at some point in his or her life. Children may also have additional known medical needs depending on what the family is open to.
- Children may be placed for adoption due to extreme poverty, a lack of acceptance towards unwed mothers, or an inability to meet a child’s medical needs.
- Married couples, where both spouses are over 25 and under 55 years old; Nicaragua may show a preference for younger couples adopting younger children.
- Upon consideration, Nicaragua may show flexibility (in age of parents) for children over the age of eight.
- Canadian residents may be eligible to adopt from Nicaragua subject to the approval of their home study agency and provincial authorities.
- Home Study and Dossier Preparation: approximately six months.
- Approximate Wait Time: Not available since it is a relative adoption.
- Travel: one trip to Nicaragua of approximately 3-6 months is required. Both parents must travel initially, but one parent may be allowed to travel home before the process is complete.
- Once the family is presented with a potential match of a child, they travel to Nicaragua and remain in country for an adaptation period, and then while the adoption is completed.
- Nicaragua is not a Hague Convention country.
To learn more about how to adopt from Nicaragua, contact us.
Country information is to be considered general information and subject to change. The information is based upon state, federal, foreign, and international law, as well as our own business policies.

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Should you visit Laos, one of many locations most often beneficial is Luang Prabang, Laos’s capital metropolis. This outdated metropolis is situated in northern central Laos along the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, and was beforehand the capital of the traditional kingdom Luang Prabang. Hi! I did an analogous kind of trip 2005-2006 after graduating undergrad. I deliberate to be gone for a 12 months, however ran out of money (and vitality) at 10 1/2 months. It was quite an adventure, and your hub was a nice reminder of all the wonderful experiences I had – particularly your pictures of New Zealand. They’re implausible! I’ve been to someplace around 30 international locations and NZ is still my completely happy place. Thanks for sharing!
Immersion water heaters are the type of in-automobile coffee maker or water heating ingredient which you place immediately into the cup to boil water or warmth up soups or other drinks. There are a number of different ones available on the market although the model and performance is pretty much the same wherever you select to look. The next has the very best opinions and is really helpful by its owners.
Now after I know I’m going to be staying in a resort for any cause in any respect I at all times pack my mini travel kettle first. I take advantage of it as a hotel espresso maker for me, as a tea maker for my spouse and both of us use it for boiling water for immediate soups or in her case, Ramen noodles for those moments when you’re hungry but don’t want to go away the room. It is a good convenience to have and travel kettles for accommodations don’t take up a whole lot of room in your baggage either. I later bought a 12V car kettle for heating up drinks on the street which got here in helpful on a tenting trip too. Automobile kettles take a while to warmth up, however they do the job admirably contemplating the small quantity of power a automotive batter provides.
Nice lens. Great recommendation. Simply be accountable. Probably make a listing of what to do before you go. So that you simply will not be having any worries whenever you’re on a trip. Hey! I like this style too. In fact I just noticed The Time Machine a couple of nights in the past and at the moment we’re watching reruns of Quantum Leap on TELEVISION (not a movie I do know).
Practical to use, straightforward to pack and light general, it is a great travel companion for getting comfortable on any flight where you need your head and neck to be upright and cozy throughout all the time. I just wished to share with you and your viewers two airways’ lists of pets that can’t go in the cargo section as extra baggage. It is because they’ve brief snouts and could die due to the circumstances.


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Tiptree's Annual Strawberry Race
Blue skies, lots of fruit and enthusiastic pickers came together for a very successful Tiptree Strawberry Race at Goldhanger on Thursday. Many of the pickers made a huge effort to dress as stars of Hollywood creating a fun atmosphere as they started the serious role of picking the tiny Little Scarlet strawberries that will be made into Tiptree conserve.
Chris Newenham, joint managing director of Wilkin & Sons, welcomed the visiting teams, including a group of Chefs in their whites who came from the London Marriott hotel. “The Tiptree Strawberry Race brings together pickers from the farm and other companies to raise funds for charity; this year we are supporting the Children’s Heart Federation, a national charity that does some amazing work for people we know.
Peter Wilkin, past chairman, presented the prizes and a special award was given to Paul Brightwell marking 40 years of service on Wilkin & Sons’ farm. The fastest picker was Ionut Ursu (from Romania) who picked 4.13k with the runner up Tsvetlu Mandalov (from Bulgaria) who picked 3.47k.
There were prizes for glamorous costumes and interesting hats representing the stars of Hollywood.
2,300 visitors take a ride to strawberry fields
Strawberries and sunshine encouraged more than 2,300 people to visit Open Farm Sunday at Tiptree when Wilkin & Sons opened the farm gates to visitors at the weekend. Trips to the strawberry fields on the farm trailer and Lodge’s period coaches were very popular; a great opportunity to learn about new growing systems and the range of fruit grown on the farm from the guides who gave a lively commentary.
Tasting was an important part of the activities with a chance to try different varieties of strawberries, a huge range of preserves, cakes from the Patisserie, fruit juices and even Fruit Gin Liqueur proved extremely popular. There were lots of photos of the piglets from Wicks Manor, a chance to talk to the local bee keeper and the farmers while the children were fascinated by an entertainer from Sainsbury’s.
“It was a great day for visitors to explore the farm and to talk food and farming,” said Chris Newenham joint managing director of Wilkin & Sons Ltd. “Open Farm Sunday which is organised by Linking the Environment And Farming (LEAF) has encouraged farmers across the UK to open their gates so that families can see where their food comes from and we are delighted to be part of LEAF’s scheme.”
Early visitors to the farm were Liana Bridges and Barry Lewis from the BBC Essex “Quest” programme as they started their challenge to find their next location at Tiptree.
Seeking the rising stars of the bread world!
Could you be the first-ever Tiptree Patisserie Trainee Baker 2017?
If you are an apprentice baker or studying to become a baker, this is your great chance to prove yourself at the Tiptree World Bread Awards with Brook Food 2017!
Tiptree Patisserie is sponsoring a new category especially for the young up and coming stars of the baking world. “We are really delighted to support this category,” says Daren McGrath, Managing Director of Tiptree Patisserie.
“At Tiptree Patisserie, we take the training of young people very seriously. I feel it’s really important the Tiptree World Bread Awards have a dedicated category to recognise the hard work and talent of the sector that sits between young enthusiasts and professional bakers.
“52,000 jars of Tiptree Plum Jam will make a difference to ‘Purple 4 Polio’
Wilkin and Sons are excited to be part of Rotary Great Britain and Ireland’s ‘Purple 4 Polio’ campaign to end polio across the world, which was launched in March 2017. We have supplied 52,000 jars of Tiptree Plum jam, each made with plums grown on our fruit farm at Tiptree. We trust that Rotarians the length and breadth of the British Isles will enjoy a spot of jam on toast, or even a cream tea, whilst raising funds for the charity.
The activity was instigated by local Rotarian Nigel Dyson, who knew that Wilkin & Sons had partnered with Rotary to help eradicate polio on two previous occasions. In 2003, Ian Thurgood, Wilkin and Sons Director, helped Rotarian Ray Burman raise $1million with a Spread & Save campaign, and in 2011 the company donated 50,000 bottles of Tomato Ketchup to Rotary International – there were lots of barbeques that year.”
National Toast Day - 23 February
Toast, a comfort food that can be enjoyed any time of the day or night, so there will be plenty of opportunities to mark National Toast Day on Thursday 23rd May.
The Tiptree World Bread Awards, in association with Brook Foods, have been joined by Kingsmill who are encouraging people to share their favourite toast ideas.
Hot buttered fingers of toast dipped in golden egg yolks, a great start to the day; or for those in a hurry toast and marmalade “on the go” made from a delicious wholemeal or rustic loaf cut into thick slices for toasting, a great “host” for a generous layer of butter and Tawny Marmalade.
More news on twitter - @WorldBreadAwards with #NationalToastDay.


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10 Best Road Trip Horror Movies
The most disturbing road trip horror movies! Jeepers Creepers, The Devil's Rejects & more!
10 Things You Didn't Know About Jeepers Creepers
Every 23rd Spring, for 23 days, it gets to... eat.
9 Horror Movies That Couldn't Live Up To Their Awesome Opening
These films start strong, but then limp across the finish line...

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Monthly Archives: March 2011
This past weekend the third VanDammage ranking battle went down at the VirtualDojo Vienna, which means we are now halfway through this season. As expected, the place was crowded with people eager on making some points in both Super Street … Continue reading
As announced in our previous episode, we traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland to visit the BeatBy Contest and record a special episode with footage directly from the tournament, featuring some of the worlds best players.


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